Beep!
Thankfully, the Mechanical Centipede Spine was at least not the kind of mechanical augmentation that required surgical implantation.
After crouching beside Kirkclough's corpse and studying it for quite a while, Xia Xu finally found a control button hidden beneath a metal cover at the end of the Mechanical Centipede Spine.
When he lifted the cover and pressed the button, the metal spine, which already looked remarkably like a mechanical centipede, seemed to come alive. It withdrew its centipede-leg probes from Kirkclough's back one by one, wriggled and crawled for a while, then finally curled into a ball.
"You're planning to use it yourself?"
Luo Hongyun, who had regained his mobility and could just about stand and walk, watched from the side without trying to stop him.
Only after Xia Xu figured it out and removed the Mechanical Centipede Spine did he offer a reminder. "I don't know much about this thing, but you'd better have a professional examine it first. Electronic devices like this could very well have backdoors for remote control."
"Right. Thanks for the reminder, Uncle Luo. I understand."
Xia Xu had never intended to court death by putting it on straightaway anyway.
His thinking was actually the same as Luo Hongyun's. As an electronic device, it would be far too easy to leave some means of remote control in this thing. He was better off not using it until he understood it, and having an expert in computer software and hardware take a look when he had the chance.
No matter how much Black Technology went into the Mechanical Centipede Spine's manufacturing techniques and underlying principles, any backdoor it contained would still fall within modern software and hardware technology. An expert in the field would surely be able to crack it.
Or he could wait until