Starting as a Mechanical Hunter

Chapter 111: Chapter 99: Civilization Core

As the saying goes, it’s easier to get things done with someone above you. It’s precisely because of this subordinate position that Gao Gong learned about the ’Scorched Earth Plan’.

He caressed the bottle in his hand for a moment, then Gao Gong looked up with a confident smile.

”I won’t give them that chance.”

”As long as you’ve thought it through yourself,” Sister Rose remained as magnanimous as ever. The gale blew, her red curls swaying gently, her eyes distant, as if she were lost in thought.

However, Little Finger had a different opinion.

”Hey, are you crazy? That’s a nuclear bomb, who could escape from an explosion of that magnitude? Or take down the Demon Mountain, are you dreaming?”

”Leave early, get free sooner, and just in time to help us out here, we’re missing——”

Little Finger seemed to want to say something, but his virtual projection was turned off by Sister Rose.

”Sister Rose, where are you now?” Gao Gong casually asked, ”The night on your side seems exceptionally beautiful.”

Not just beautiful. Behind the woman dressed to the nines, he saw the bright night sky, a sky full of stars, and two moons.

That’s right, as a planet, Mechanical Split Star has two moons: one natural, the other an interstellar project from the Civilization Era with an old satellite base above it.

In the last life, when the Cyber Tide erupted, Mechanical Split Star was destroyed by a black hole weapon. The only way to escape was to snag a ticket for Noah’s Ark, destined for a satellite named ’Asakusa’.

’Asakusa Ghost Wife’ is a myth from this planet, with a storyline similar to Chang’e Flying to the Moon, except Asakusa isn’t Chang’e, nor is she the Jade Rabbit, but rather a white-furred fox. Like most stories of the ’Liaozhai type’, the female demon rises to become a human demon and, due to racial persecution by religious figures, has no choice but to emigrate to an alien planet. However, due to inadequate interstellar navigation technology, she had to settle on the moon. That’s more or less the story.

The story isn’t important; what’s important is that Sister Rose doesn’t seem to be within the atmosphere?

”Are you meddling in my affairs?” Black Rose’s tone carried a hint of mature woman’s coldness.

”I wouldn’t dare,” Gao Gong immediately backed down.

”Get up,” she said suddenly, looking at Gao Gong soaking in the pool.

”Okay.”

Gao Gong immediately stood up, revealing his tall frame, strong muscles, and a pair of spectacular elephant brand triangle underwear, the elephant lifelike.

”Turn around once.”

”Okay, should I take off my pants?”

But for Gao Gong’s rapidly growing physique, Sister Rose seemed dissatisfied and rudely ordered, ”Before I come back, slim down to your previous size. I don’t like this build you have now.”

Young wolf dogs are the darling of rich women, but when a young wolf dog turns into a big tiger, it can only follow the path of the elderly rich woman.

Sister Rose’s aesthetics don’t seem so old-fashioned.

”Losing weight isn’t a problem,” Gao Gong looked down, troubled, ”But not every part can be reduced.”

At this, Black Rose finally curved her lips, ”Then reduce what you can. When I return, you must satisfy me.”

”Absolutely,” Gao Gong affirmed solemnly, even more serious than when dealing with Demon Mountain.

This is called loving one’s work, striving to do one’s job well.

Dedicated to the point of dying on the job!

Black Rose turned off the projection watch on her wrist, and Little Finger’s complaining voice came through.

”Since he’s so strong, isn’t it just right to bring him over here?”

”He’s not for that kind of use.”

Black Rose finished her drink in one gulp, then lightly tossed the wine glass. In the Sky Garden, constructed on the basis of anti-gravity technology, the glass traced a beautiful arc and fell into the giant pool decorated as a beach with VR technology. Wealthy individuals, entrepreneurs, well-dressed people, flamboyantly dressed artificial stars, and multisensory simulated music filled the surroundings.

Who would have thought this is the base of the Public Security Corps, on a sky battleship rated as a Level 7 Flying Device of a Mother City.

And the direction of the sky battleship is the nearest space elevator.

These high society figures will engage in even more thrilling pleasures there.

”Lady Chariz.”

Guests came and went, greeting Black Rose, who also retracted her edge, her smile charming and radiant, seamlessly blending into the social butterfly of the upper class.

A noblewoman descended from space realm nobility.

”I still prefer the home-use virtual experience machines. The body sensation terminals here are too potent. I’m afraid if I play a few more days, I might need a kidney replacement again.”

Little Finger hurriedly caught up to Black Rose, complaining.

”Is this what you’re here for!” Sister Rose reprimanded between maintaining her graceful demeanor.

Little Finger shrugged, his face reflecting the attitude of taking life easy and enjoying the moment.

”For such a dangerous task, why don’t you ask your little wolf dog? Why me?”

The sky battleship travels toward the space elevator to pick someone up, the owner of the sky battleship, the founder of the Public Security Corps, the Vice Admiral.

Almost no one knows that aside from being the white glove of the Cloud Nobility, this Vice Admiral holds many more identities.

The former governor of the Asteroid Belt, suppressor of the alien colony bionic man rebellion, executioner of the old conglomerates with blood on his hands, and the one the Rebel Army leader most desires to eliminate.

And their assassination target is precisely this dangerous Vice Admiral.

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”Sister Rose is calmer than I imagined.”

Hanging up the virtual call, Gao Gong muttered to himself. He was quite willing to see an astonished expression on Sister Rose.

Or perhaps they have a more troublesome target, and the Demon Mountain he’s dealt with is insignificant?

Though Sister Rose concealed it well, as a man long under a rich woman, he could always observe issues from a unique angle.

For instance, although Sister Rose disguised well, she wasn’t in a good mood. More importantly, he sensed a faint killing intent from her.

This older sister often gave him a sense of unfathomability, of course, not in bed, but in terms of her deep and immeasurable strength.

At least stronger than the Demon Mountain!

Gao Gong quickly put aside these worries. Firstly, he had confidence in Sister Rose. This sister, like him, is someone who only acts after meticulously planning. Secondly, he had more confidence in himself. After all, water doesn’t have to be deep to be spiritual if there are dragons. As long as he advances in strength quickly enough, many problems won’t be problems.

After a fierce battle, Gao Gong didn’t plan to throw himself into new work right away, considering that his current physical state wasn’t the best.

Besides, if the boss is always so busy, what’s the point of having employees?

He pondered whether to try out the ’virtual body sensory club’ on the ship, as he had an archaeological interest in this planet’s outdated entertainment methods.

But on second thought, he decided against it. Although one rich lady was far away, another was right in front of him, and it was best not to cause trouble.

After getting out of the swimming pool, Gao Gong continued to laze on the beach chair, casually drinking while squinting at the scenery.

In reality, there wasn’t much scenery to admire. Sulfuric Acid River had eroded enough life to turn its waters quite murky, not the kind of murkiness where sediment settles at the bottom, but an unhealthy white turbidity. Sometimes sulfuric gas would burst from the riverbed, bubbling up to the surface.

It looked very dangerous.

The occasionally operating cross-river conveyor belt was barely considered ’scenery’.

This cross-river conveyor belt was somewhat like a mechanical version of a cross-river bridge. The biggest difference was that it could extend and retract, unfolding section by section when needed to transport goods, and retracting into the bridge foundations on either side when unused, with the metal decks collapsing back into place.

This design was to prevent the sulfuric gas from corroding the bridge and to stop some oceanic behemoths from crossing and simply knocking the bridge down.

Scenes like these often played out in disaster movies.

This couldn’t be called a giant structure, nor any kind of interstellar engineering; at most, it was planetary architecture, even a relatively low-level one compared to space elevators, super signal towers, and high-orbit space stations.

However, these thousands of mechanical blueprint mechanisms weren’t something players could easily gather.

To create such structures, what you needed was a ’professional knowledge chain’, also known as ’system knowledge’.

A player, before reaching full level on a side profession, elevates all ’professional knowledge’ to full level, thereby gaining a chance to merge all full-level knowledge into a ’professional knowledge chain’.

The gambling of blueprints between ’professional knowledge chains’ could yield ’large construction blueprints’.

Under a civilization’s framework, there are at least seven to eight ’knowledge chains’.

These seven to eight ’knowledge chains’ must merge to build a ’civilization core’.

This ’civilization core’ is the key for a civilization to advance to the next level.

In ordinary civilizations, this is top secret, unlikely to be shared with outsiders.

But the Cyber Test Field is different; such ’top secrets’ are merely experimental materials of civilization for advanced civilizations, indicating that their confidentiality isn’t that strong.

In fact, this is the most precious thing about the Cyber Test Field, this ’Newbie Village’.

Unfortunately, players only realize this upon entering the interstellar, by which time it’s too late to regret.

A high-level character and a civilization leader are entirely different concepts.

Even the strongest of the former is at most akin to a ’soldier king returning to the city’, turning into the bodyguard of some female entrepreneur, opting for a civilian route.

However, the latter can engage in friendly negotiations with other civilization leaders in serious and dignified settings, eventually signing some sort of agreement.

The prestige drastically rises.

Beginnings are always tough; had he not wasted so much time in the early to mid stages, Gao Gong wouldn’t just be a Leader of Level 6 Civilization.

Still, among players, he was already top of the tier.

On the Mechanical Split Star, there are three Level 2 Civilization Systems, and aside from stopping the Cyber Tide, Gao Gong’s objective was at least to assemble one ’civilization core’.

He wanted to enter the interstellar as a civilization leader.

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Leisure time always passes quickly, a simple drifting and it was already afternoon.

During the period, Du Zhaodi visited once, but was too shy to be pulled down into the water by Gao Gong.

Little Woman wanted to swim, but unfortunately, there were no children’s swimsuits on the ship.

Finally, just as Gao Gong was drinking and felt the urge to pee, Professor Han came up from the fourth floor.

Gao Gong’s eyes lit up, ”Are the things ready?”

Professor Han nodded, gesturing at two vials in his hands.

One blue like the vast ocean, the other green resembling the Hulk.

This phenomenon indicated that the cells of the Seven-Colored Winged Dragon and the Iron-Backed Flying Dragon had perfectly integrated into the reagent.

The Level 5 Biological Transformation Blueprint [Umbrella Virus], a reagent capable of acquiring advanced biological antibodies.

As they say, original soup neutralizes original food, within five steps, there must be an antidote.

To reduce rejection, nothing is more useful than the antibody of the same species.

”Let’s begin.”

[You injected the Umbrella Virus (Seven-Colored Bird Dragon), Intelligence +5, Perception +5]

[You acquired biological ability - Junior Energy Immunity]

[You acquired biological ability - Radiation Invisibility]

[Your circulatory system transformation rate (biological) +2%]

[Your implanted cells neutralize with antibodies, Mechanical Rejection -400, Biological Rejection -400]

[Your biological energy +1000]

[You injected the Umbrella Virus (Iron-Backed Flying Dragon), Power +5, Endurance +4]

[You acquired biological ability - Iron-Backed Azure Dragon Spine]

[You acquired biological ability - Dragon Gate Flying Armor]

[Your sports system transformation rate (biological) +3%]

[Your implanted cells neutralize with antibodies, Mechanical Rejection -450, Biological Rejection -300]

[Your biological energy +1000]