Humanity's Anchor

Starting with Mechanical Hunter, Chapter 323: The Anchor of Humanity: "Captain Motoko is a good person."

In the empty office, the senior engineer suddenly spoke.

"Yes, from any perspective, she is a good person, and a person with a strong will. I have only seen this kind of determination in Minister Aramaki," Ms. Ke said.

"Unwavering will, able to face any adversity, highly skilled, capable of carrying out various dangerous missions, with keen intuition, even sensing our plans, and remaining calm even when facing a certain death."

The senior engineer was lavish in his praise, then changed the subject, saying:

"How did you manage to create such excellent executors?"

"I don't understand," Miss Shell said.

"If you really didn't understand, you wouldn't have given me the highest level of access to Ghost in the Shell Mobile Division. I was wondering how old man Aramaki knew so much about the android giant from the beginning, and even reached a cooperation agreement with Rose. It turns out he had already been involved in the android human experiments."

Using the minister's access privileges, the senior engineer opened a series of encrypted files, the last one named—

The Motoko Yagami Manufacturing Project.

Various kinds of human nature experiments.

A test of willpower between life and death.

Modify, experiment, modify again, experiment again.

One by one, Motoko Yagami was killed, dismantled, and the best parts were kept.

Finally, the experiment was completed on number 1314.

This is the best Motoko Yagami, and also the Motoko Yagami of today.

"The world is a collection of flowing information. You can read, manipulate, and change it. If you can understand this principle, it's no wonder that Aramaki was able to discover monsters in the starry sky."

"He has the same type of monstrous mindset."

"To lose humanity is to lose a lot; to lose animality is to lose everything. These were the last words the previous minister left me."

"Do you think that even after knowing this, Motoko Yagami will still continue to defend humanity and human nature as before?"

"I don't know, but I want to remind you that when Minister Aramaki was carrying out the 'Kusanagi Project,' the 'Android Act' had not yet been enacted, so legally speaking, we did not harm any lives."

"Old man Aramaki has really left me with a tricky problem."

For most people, the "memory wave" will cause memory loss, but for Motoko Yagami, "memory recovery" is highly likely.

Then she will realize that all of Aragaki's schemes, his so-called "free will," and his so-called humanity were just tools for carrying out the plan. Whether this woman will turn evil or not, no one knows.

Araki was unsure, so he passed this thorny issue on to the senior engineer.

The senior engineer also wanted to shift the blame, but unfortunately there was no good scapegoat for the time being.

In a sense, Captain Motoko is quite similar to Rose, as they both had similar childhood experiences.

It's just that a natural human being was forced to become a cyborg.

The other is a cyborg, an experimental subject, who is brainwashed by the old man Aramaki into being a natural human and instilled with so-called humanity.

From another perspective, Captain Motoko is quite similar to his senior engineer.

When Gao Gong first transmigrated into the game world, he naturally assumed it was a randomly selected group transmigration.

If he still believes there's no mastermind behind the second time travel, then he's truly out of his mind.

The mastermind behind this might not even have the same purpose in sending him through time as the old man Aramaki, since the old man had the noble and righteous reason of protecting the world.

However, the senior engineer himself did not feel that he had any cognitive problems.

"Let me think about how I resolved self-awareness and confirmed my human anchor points. Oh, right, I figured it out while in the arms of a rich woman. With a rich woman fawning over me, I can maintain my humanity."

The senior engineer stroked his chin, deep in thought:

"How about we introduce her to a few high-quality, wealthy women?"

Minister Gao left, taking with him his noble spirit of helping mature women find rich husbands.

He reappeared in Gao Yuanyuan's encrypted node.

As soon as the senior engineer appeared, streams of nerve light flashed, and figures crackling with electricity blocked his way.

"Is this a neural flow soldier?"

The senior engineer let out a soft exclamation and casually used a probe to reveal the other party's attributes.

Name: Neural Flow Warrior

Race: Information Life

Level: 45

Information capacity: 550000

Skills: Stasis Sword, Nerve Flow Charge Kill, Mind Shock, Data Penetration

Note: A mass-produced information defender that is more dangerous than ordinary antivirus software.

"Interesting, has this thing been made yet?"

Watching these figures flashing with electricity, the Rich Lady Aiai Prototype became very interested and swung out his walking stick.

In the blink of an eye, the foremost Nerve Stream warrior appeared before him, the lightning in his hand transforming into a longsword, which he slashed down mercilessly.

"Can it teleport?"

In the nick of time, the senior engineer's cane blocked the opponent's attack.

Then, with a raised eyebrow, he flicked his walking stick between his fingers, sending out shadows in all directions to deflect the sword tip that had pierced through the data layer.

In an instant, the senior engineer seemed to transform into Ip Man, dodging everything with precognition, whether it was a swift slash, an assassination as elusive as a viper, or even a sudden, unexpected mental shock.

The reason they performed so skillfully is mainly due to their talent.

Advanced information virus sensory organ: Viruses in the deep sea of information are ubiquitous, including data viruses, neural signal viruses, personality viruses, and even human signal viruses. But as an advanced information monitor, you can always be one step ahead and discover these viruses, no matter how deeply they are hidden.

With a flick of his wrist, the walking stick pierced the head of a neurotic warrior.

The other party's information can be cleared instantly.

Virtual life forms don't have health points; they can cause trouble as long as they have information energy. Once their information energy is depleted, they naturally die.

However, this time was a bit of an exception. As powerful mental energy emanated from the void, countless nerve nodes lit up in the shattered head. Soon, new neural circuits began to form, and the opponent's information was once again replenished.

The greatest advantage of this type of information warfare unit is its indestructibility.

"What about this one?"

The senior engineer activated the "encryption killer" mode with his right hand, instantly teleporting and piercing through the back.

The other party's information not only did not decrease, but actually increased by 50,000 points.

However, sparse snowflakes appeared on its body surface and quickly covered its entire body.

"Encryption is twice as slow as antivirus software; after all, the encryption difficulty differs between different pieces of information and data."

With a thought, the senior engineer entered the "Lone Ranger" state, and this time, the neural flow warriors were completely stumped.

The senior engineer also determined the other party's skill level.

Its close-combat ability far surpasses that of the Blackwing Killer, and may even reach the level of the Redwing Killer.

But when it comes to transformation, it can't even compare to the lowest-level cyber killer.

It can be very effective against certain AI, virtual personalities, and digital life forms, but against seasoned Cyber Hacker hackers who employ a variety of tactics, it's easy to be outmaneuvered, like this—

The senior engineer immediately entered "neuro-wanderer" mode, and then with a neural jump, he appeared in front of Gao Yuanyuan.

"You need to protect yourself well, otherwise hackers can easily follow the clues and hack into your brain," the senior engineer said, patting the other person's head.

"I won't be hacked so easily. It was only because I sensed my brother that I was allowed to pass," Gao Yuanyuan said, a little unconvinced.

The senior engineer thought to himself that this person was indeed a master of imaginative thinking.

"You guys are here too," the senior engineer said, glancing at the two figures beside him. "I knew it was someone who instigated my sister to get the neurotic warriors to do it."

"Hehe, just kidding, boss," Ah Hong said with a wink. "I made a bet with my senior sister about how long it will take you to get in here."

The senior engineer didn't ask about the outcome, but instead looked at the bird of paradise, "Do you need something from my sister?"

"Yes, we're going to Virus Database 0 next. I'd like to ask Yuanyuan for some information about the virus."

"Perfect, take this with you." The senior engineer tossed a small black box into the other person's palm.

"This is--"

"You asked me for your old man's electronic ashes, so I just happened to bring them with me."

Bird of Paradise and Ah Hong immediately showed excited expressions.

The data from failed electron ascensions is more dangerous than the most dangerous viruses, so it is collected by a special team and sealed in the Ghost in the Shell Mobile Unit.

Theoretically speaking, these two would never be able to retrieve their master's ashes before they died, because the place where the ashes were placed was the core of the Earth's crust.

Let alone third-order hackers, even fourth-order hackers are helpless.

But for the senior engineer, it was just a matter of course.

After dealing with the two hackers, the senior engineer nodded to Gao Yuanyuan. Gao Yuanyuan stretched out her small hand and gently wiped it, and the white wall opposite quickly disappeared, replaced by a pool of viruses.

One-third of the 'Golden Avalanche' on Gaokesi's body has disappeared, which means that she has digested one-third of it in less than a month.

Looking at Gaokesi, who was fast asleep but still looked defiant, the engineer clicked his tongue and dragged out another box.

"Brother, I sense a very dangerous aura emanating from this box."

"Yes, this is the corpse of a member of a punk family, called 'The Biter'."

"Does brother want to give it to Gaokesi?" Gao Yuanyuan asked with a worried look. "But Gaokesi is already processing that 'Golden Avalanche'."

Just as the senior engineer was about to speak, a punk girl's voice suddenly rang out, "You don't know anything! It's all about mixing and matching! Hey bro, hurry up and eat! The more you eat, the stronger I become!!"

The two turned their heads and found that Gaokesi had opened his eyes at some point, his red eyes glancing sideways at Engineer Gao.

"You're awake? Why didn't you tell me?" Gao Yuanyuan said in surprise.

"What's there to talk about with you?" Gaokesi rolled his eyes. "I'm much more interested in chatting with my underlings."

"That's my brother," Gao Yuanyuan said with a serious expression.

"It's my younger brother."

"It's my older brother."

"It's my little brother!"

"Hey, Sister Gaokesi, and little sister, stop arguing," Engineer Gax said, rubbing his ears. "Since you agree, I'll begin."

With a gentle kick, the box sank into the pool. The box opened, and a dark shadow flashed by. Gaokesi's eyes bulged, and countless bright red mouths appeared on her body, from the soles of her feet upwards, onto her calves, thighs, abdomen, chest, face, eyes, and forehead.

Most of their mouths were gnawing inwards, tearing flesh and blood, with bone fragments floating to the surface.

Gao Yuanyuan covered her mouth, but before she could say anything, Gaokesi opened his mouth and let out a sharp laugh.

"Hahaha, that's awesome!!"