Starting as a Mechanical Hunter

Gao said what he meant—if he wasn’t going to help you with the transformation, he simply wouldn’t do it.

Whether it was due to his own master’s status or Manager Zhang’s connections, Han Tong found it hard to act against him.

What if the other party gets provoked, joins the corporate headquarters, and counters you instead?

And when Jin Ba’s combat data came out, with an energy release efficiency reaching an astonishing 200%, it was even more exasperating.

This indicated that the fusion of the biological exoskeleton not only had no issues but reached a perfected level.

At this moment, inside the specially designed training center, countless combat phantoms were besieging Jin Ba. As soon as one phantom hit, the training would end.

However, Jin Ba had changed his previous wide-open combat style, deftly evading the phantoms, as if his fingers, the soles of his feet, his abdominal muscles, and back muscles all possessed their own consciousness, always managing to dodge before an attack landed.

As a top-tier corporate warrior, Jin Ba survived through a near-death reconstruction, with talent no lesser than any other.

Now, with the blessing of the biological exoskeleton, this talent can finally be brought to 100% fruition.

Gao Gong sat calmly at the edge of the training field, studying the system panel.

The three major modules: personal panel, alliance panel, civilization panel.

On the personal panel, there was no change except for the absence of the biological system.

On the civilization panel were five fully lit knowledge chains, along with some scattered crumbs of professional knowledge across different civilization systems.

Brain Domain Civilization, Transformer Civilization, Artificial Data Space.

The civilization system with the most lit knowledge points was the Brain Domain Civilization.

This civilization system has six professional knowledge chains, with five of them already lit, amongst which three are fully complete.

They are Virtual Personality, Mechanical Brain, and Life Technology.

These three knowledge chains were either derived from max-level vice-professions merged or unlocked from tasks.

Switching to the alliance panel, even with previous consumption, the alliance experience again broke 100 million, reaching 150 million.

Alliance points also increased by 80,000, reaching 180,000 points.

This 80,000-point increase was partly due to the blueprints Gao Gong brought back, the allies he secured, and of course, the rewards from Du Gao Technology’s global expansion.

Raising an alliance is very difficult. However, once scaled to a certain extent, it can be self-sustaining and, conversely, feed back into the alliance leader.

Reaching this point is incredibly gratifying.

According to the alliance panel, once the points reach 500,000, the points shop can be opened. Besides the usual blueprints and equipment, even civilization architectures can be sold in the shop.

For 500,000 points, if Director Du can get the Earth Element Breakthrough Machine, the Continent Plate Impact Device, and the Mechanical Hub operational, and Du Gao Technology enters the realm of first-rate military groups, then it won’t be far off.

To reach this stage, local region destruction-level force and global troop delivery capability are essential.

However, the means of delivering soldiers currently remain a shortcoming of Du Gao Technology.

Having scanned through all three panels, Gao Gong thought a moment, then checked the task rewards.

The series of task rewards earlier allowed him to save a staggering 92 specialization points, with skill points reaching 328 points.

With so many points, it was more than enough to upgrade four skills to max.

Apart from these, the unopened random blueprints also reached an exaggerated 103 sheets.

Specialization points and skill points are good things that won’t expire if stored, whereas the blueprints are better opened quickly—after all, you can’t eat them while they’re stored.

[You obtained Level 3 Mechanical Blueprint: Reinforced Skull]

[You obtained Level 2 Mechanical Blueprint: Basic Biochemical Muscle]

[You obtained Level 3 Electronic Blueprint: White Cat Network Access Chamber]

[You obtained Level 4 Biological Blueprint: High-level Nutritional Paste]

[You obtained Level 3 Blueprint...]

Trash, trash, junk, just okay, trash, trash, rubbish, especially useless, small treasure...

It’s not that Gao Gong’s standards are high; it’s that the system output is mostly trash, which has almost become a rule.

One has to bet on blueprints by themselves to be more reliable.

With these random blueprints, if one out of ten is usable, it’s already not bad.

What disappointed Gao Gong most was the previous killing of the A-level Jellyfish Queen, which dropped a dozen Tier-2 biological blueprints and ended up with nothing but darkness—either completely unusable trash blueprints or semi-finished products, something incomplete, some fraction thereof, unfinished items, or experimental failures.

The downward spiral made Gao Gong’s forehead veins bulge and corners of his mouth twitch.

Hey! This is too exaggerated! Being an NPC system, how can your drop rate be lower than a player-based one? This is completely unreasonable.

The final destination for these trash blueprints might only be to throw them into the alliance and see if they can be repurposed.

As for the remaining dozen or so blueprints, Gao Gong wasn’t holding out much hope.

[You obtained Level 6 Biological Blueprint: Sartian’s Butt]

What? Alien Butt Enhancement Surgery? Trash!

[You obtained Level 4 Mechanical Blueprint: Human Gasoline Pipeline System]

In the age of cyberpunk almost fading, and you’re giving me dieselpunk? Trash!

[You obtained Level 8 Mechanical Blueprint: Construction: Scythe Dance (Upper Arm)]

Another piece of junk missing arms and legs.

[You obtained Level 6 Mechanical Blueprint: Construction: Moon Defect (Forearm)]

Hmm?

[You obtained...]

Trash.

[You obtained Level 7 Mechanical Blueprint: Construction: Finger Nuo Dance (Fingers)]

[You obtained Level 9 Mechanical Blueprint: Construction: Möbius Ring (Spine)]

Hmm, hmm, hmm?

[You obtained...]

Trash.

[You obtained Level 8 Mechanical Blueprint: Construction: Divine Flower (Calf)]

Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm?

The last dozen blueprints amazingly included a good proportion related to constructs; it seemed like he had stumbled upon a construct’s hidden lair.

Gao Gong was both surprised and delighted; after betting on over a hundred blueprints, the last dozen provided him with a mini-treasure trove.

Moreover, these mini-treasures were all constructs, making it a joy within a joy.

Constructs, also known as human combat constructs, are nicknamed by the martial world’s people as: Worm Cleaners, Execution Bodies, and Mad Transformers; in Mechanical Civilization, they are a significant danger, especially adept at dealing with carbon-based creatures.

In the universe, there are many extinction governments, those extreme xenophobic civilization regimes that often order a batch of constructs, going from planet to planet conducting ’species cleansing operations.’

As a species-cleansing machine, the efficiency of constructs is exceptionally high.

The biggest difference between constructs and prosthetic bodies is that they are purely designed for killing. They not only don’t increase mechanical energy, but they also dramatically consume it.

Furthermore, the more constructs modified, the more stress it puts on the mechanical body itself.

There are frequent cases where mechanical lives got consumed by constructs, turning into indiscriminate species cleansers.

Rumor has it that the technology of constructs can trace back to a failed ascension of a mechanical civilization, where members turned into civilization disasters during ascension, slaughtering one star system after another.

Later, the disaster was suppressed, and from it, the technology of constructs was extracted.

Even in the cold Mechanical Civilization, constructs require a cautious approach—not only because of high demands on the mechanical body but also due to difficult-to-control consequences.

It’s like the demonic arts in martial hero novels—the more you practice, the more sinister it gets, and the more sinister it gets, the more you practice.

So Gao Gong decided, this is it!

Kidding, he’s even practiced the cosmic-level Sunflower Manual—fusion ascension.

Would he be afraid of this!?