Mechanical and Biological Augmentation (Part Two)
Du Zhaodi thought for a moment, still somewhat unwilling. "At the very least, let's find the traitor."
"Traitor? There's no traitor here. Or rather, everyone here, except me, could be a traitor."
Du Zhaodi glared at the senior engineer.
"Haha, don't look at me like that. Let me put it this way, if Cyber Hacker were to infiltrate one of your minds, who among you could stop them?"
In the senior engineer's view, data leakage was inevitable. After all, this was not a machine city where technology patents could not be applied for, so the security team had a million ways to obtain the modified data.
In fact, even in the relatively well-established patent system of the machinery industry, the espionage battles between giant companies have never stopped. If you steal my R&D data through hacking, I will send spies to modify the memory chips of your core technical personnel and lead your "product development" astray.
It's worth noting that many players only realize, "Damn, I was actually controlled by an NPC!" after they've "died."
No wonder they're grinding away at a pointless, unprofitable task.
I treated you like an NPC, but you treated me like a wage earner!?
Are we each going our own way here?
"Let's go scavenge and see if there's anything good among these biological organs."
Du Zhaodi wrinkled her nose, took a step closer to him, and turned her fair face to the other side. The engineer immediately understood and took her hand with his fingers interlaced.
A newly opened large warehouse
Between two rows of huge and bizarre biological organs, Gao Gong and Du Zhaodi strolled through the "commercial street" like a couple deeply in love.
"You'll be going to the battlefield in a couple of days, so be careful."
"Kindness."
"If you can't beat them, run! I'm the mechanical engineering committee member now, I can protect you."
"Of course."
The senior engineer glanced out the window and could vaguely hear a series of explosions. It was the mechanical birds laying eggs. Each mechanical bird egg, the size of a basketball, was as powerful as a 100kg napalm bomb, with an blast radius close to that of a football field.
The reason it's so powerful is that the life inside the egg produces low-level energy reactions during the gestation process; a bird egg is equivalent to an energy bomb.
To bring those B-class mechanical birds in, we need to temporarily relinquish 'air superiority,' which is also part of the plan.
As a result, most of the factory's equipment has been moved to an abandoned underground garage, including this biological warehouse.
Back in the Hunter's Graveyard, the senior engineer obtained seven blueprints: [Tree Scythe], [Bone Radiation Corpse Armor], [Demon Ram Horn], [Gasoline Flame Whip], [Electronic Bee Eye], [Bio Gun], and [Jet Pliers].
The biological materials required for these biological blueprints, including their substitutes, were all absent from the biological materials delivered.
The majority of the bodies were made up of mechanical bio-beasts.
According to Professor Han, although the older generation of biological implants included both radioactive beasts and mechanical bio-beasts, the "mechanical components" in the mechanical bio-beasts could cause both "biological rejection" and "mechanical rejection" during the implantation process, resulting in a very high failure rate.
Therefore, biological materials are used more often for irradiated beasts.
Then the security force delivered a bunch of mechanical beast corpses.
It seems that Zhao Xie's group has made good progress in biological modification, otherwise they wouldn't be so smug. They're clearly setting themselves up for failure.
The senior engineer clicked his tongue twice and turned his gaze to the three 'spider's' not far away.
"Huh, the three mutated spiders are all here?"
The three corpses in front of them were all mutated spiders, and of different types: the turbine spider from the "Engine Department", the electronic node spider from the "Electric Grid Department", and the skinning spider from the "Mutant Radiation Department".
All three types of spiders are Class C beasts, and each is about the height of a two-story building.
The Turbo Spider's "turbo fan" gives it the ability to levitate for a short period of time.
The electronic node spider's densely packed "electronic spider eyes" not only provide 360-degree coverage but can also generate "electromagnetic pulses" in a short time, paralyzing nearby small mechanical prey.
The skin-peeling spider is a rare humanoid form, half spider and half human, with a prominent bust and buttocks, and spider silk hanging from its head to its waist, looking very much like a spider girl—a skin-peeled version.
The bloody appearance extends from the human body to the spider's body, with blood-filled eyeballs, bright red upper and lower jaw muscles, and bloody reproductive organs.
Even the usually calm girl with the ponytail almost threw up when she saw this thing, so the senior engineer could only take her back to rest.
Among all the grotesque radioactive beasts, the "Mutant Radioactive Beasts" are considered a rather terrifying species, with extremely high radiation levels, making them purely distorted life forms.
Other radiated beasts still retain some resemblance to native creatures, but this type of radiated beast is a complete mutation.
It's worth mentioning that the newly emerged A-rank monster, "Fission Duke," is a member of the Mutation Department.
Of course, after countless twisted growths, it has mutated to the point that even its mother can no longer recognize it.
Because of the vigorous nuclear fission reaction within its body, the "mutant radiation beast" also has a nickname: nuclear fission creature.
After seeing Du Zhaodi off, the senior engineer wandered back alone, staring thoughtfully at the three types of spiders.
Mechanical bio-beasts are not suitable for biological implantation.
The same applies to the radiated beasts of the "Mutant Division".
The senior engineer had no intention of doing so.
He raised his arm, and in the next instant, countless 'blood threads' grew out of the pores of his arm, growing longer and longer until they spanned two meters and pierced into the turbine spider's body.
The next moment, the spider's eyes, like searchlights, suddenly lit up!
Activated Neural Bundles (Bio-modification): The power of the mutated brain in the vat is used to activate the nervous systems of other organisms through the external implantation of neural bundles, thereby achieving the purpose of manipulation.
The Turbo Spider's head began to rotate, its searchlights flashed wildly, and the two turbines on its back began to spin wildly. Amidst the loud fan noise, the giant mechanical spider slowly flew into the air.
It can indeed fly.
The senior engineer remained expressionless, but his eyes turned bloodshot. Upon closer inspection, it was revealed that countless blood vessels were rotating within his pupils.
The optic nerve is also part of the nervous system.
Time passed slowly, and the system panel would occasionally display one or two 'biological data' entries.
[You understand the structure of a radioactive biological eye]
[You understand the structure of the biological turbine]
[You have grasped the arthroscopic movement system]
[You've grasped the design blueprints for the limb-mounted device]
The reason why Mechanical Hunter is a class with shortcomings, besides the well-worn issues like undeveloped tech trees, biological/mechanical incompatibility, and overly personalized hunting modifications, is that there's another key factor—
This profession lacks a "solution integrator".
Mobile phones can be upgraded, computers can be upgraded, and so can combat robots.
In theory, the "Mechanical Hunter" can also be iterated, integrating all the "Mechanical Hunting Modifications" into a single Mechanical Hunter module. Problems can be solved when they arise, and the system can be upgraded or patched when there are no issues.
This is the foundation for solving all the above problems.
Such high-tech talents do exist, but most of them are concentrated in large enterprises.
Moreover, the resources and technology required for the "integration solution" are astronomical.
Behind every new version of the combat robot, there are inevitably dozens of "failed development versions" and tens of thousands of technical detail adjustments.
This is not something that those country bumpkins, the Mechanical Hunters, can solve.
But they can't, while senior engineers can, or more precisely, "nature" can.
These mechanical and bio-engineered beasts, as well as radioactive beasts, are all "excellent integration solutions" that have undergone countless rounds of "survival of the fittest".
The only difference is that these solutions are not designed for humans.
Then the problem becomes simple: since it's not made for humans, then we shouldn't be 'human' at all.
Senior engineers have always maintained an open attitude towards "mechanical abnormalities," or rather, "Mechanical transformations."
"Turning waste into treasure" can replace some special biological materials with industrial materials.
"Enhancement and modification" allows for the transformation of "mechanical bodies".
In addition, there's the integration solution provided by the mechanical bio-beasts.
The three-in-one module is the "Mechanical Hunter Exclusive Module".
The three spiders generated over thirty different 'partial modification plans' for the senior engineer. The only hiccup in the process was when the nerve bundle was inserted into the skinning spider, the senior engineer ended up stabbing himself with three 'enhanced radiation needles'.
The other person's body was terrifyingly "hot".
After the data was compiled, the senior engineer approached Professor Han to work with him on the development of the first version of the "Spider Hunter Module".
During a break in development, the senior engineer took another look at several "old biological weapons" in the "nutrient tank".
The "giant blood vessel" has grown to eight meters long.
The 'Blade Wolf Guillotine' has regained its luster as a giant biological blade.
The severed hand of the weapon was rotating flexibly.
The "motorcycle" made a "buzzing" sound in the water.
These old guys are regaining their former glory.
"Yesterday, Lao Qian came to me and asked if there was any work to do."
"These old guys actually feel ashamed?"
Professor Han silently observed the senior engineer, who coughed lightly and said, "What's the rush? Old Han, have you ever heard of 'training a hawk'?"
"They are very old."
"Then let's train the eagle."
Seeing that Professor Han wanted to say something more, the senior engineer didn't tease him and directly handed him a "technical solution".
"Old Han, did you know that biological rejection actually has one advantage?"
"What are the benefits?"
"That means the rejection has reached a threshold and can't go any higher," the senior engineer paused, "And they didn't explode, which means their bodies have already reached 'fixed hemimorphism'."
"What's the point of this—"
Professor Han glanced at the 'technical solution' and his eye twitched violently.
Nuclear fission humanoid bio-engineering program