"Adjutant, find Big Pepper's current location."
Su Ming quickly turned his attention away from the Nanite Swarm, because the conclusion was that its power fell short of his own Stitched Monster Virus.
Not only were Nanomachines expensive, but after capturing humans and modifying them, these half-mechanical puppets looked like products straight off an assembly line, every one of them identical.
That was both an advantage and a disadvantage. The advantage was stable quality control: regardless of height, weight, age, or gender, they could all display roughly the same combat strength after modification.
The weakness was that there would be no special infected individuals—no exceptionally powerful ones.
Sometimes, ten thousand minions were less useful than a single elite unit, so Su Ming had little interest in this new thing that spread through nanites.
After all, if you did not need surprises, wouldn't pure robots be better?
Just as he was thinking that, a huge swarm of Ultron robots flew in from the horizon. They merged into mixed formations with the half-human, half-mechanical corpse puppets and began attacking the surrounding area, accelerating the spread of the nanite plague.
Well, it seemed Machine Head really had prepared for this long ago. The Ultrons he had created were indeed carrying something suspicious and were part of the plan.
If Lorna had been here, dealing with these metal things would definitely have been the kind of work she liked.
"The target did not go far after being evacuated from the building. She is currently shopping near Times Square, but the people there have already seen the news and panic has broken out. She appears to be contacting people to prepare for evacuation."
Adjutant provided the answer, along with live surveillance footage of Big Pepper standing outside a fashion store and making a call. As for