Starting as a Mechanical Hunter

’According to our company’s report, the mysterious female billionaire Ms. Rose completed the merger of two super corporations after expending a massive sum following her acquisition of the Electronic Grid half a year ago.’

’Ms. Rose has a background in the famous Assassination Alliance, and according to exclusive clues we have, the reason this powerful woman can come up with so much money to gain control of two super corporations seems to be due to the support of the Cloud Nobility.’

’...So we have reason to suspect that there’s someone else behind the scenes, and Ms. Rose is merely the lover pushed to the forefront by a mysterious billionaire.’

’According to Bionic Ethics Expert Mr. Billton, the managers of all Bionic Corporations must be bionic people, as stated in the Bionic Human Bill. However, he currently does not know what model of bionic person Ms. Rose is, nor does he know what impact she will have on the bionic society after taking power. After all, the background of each manager will determine the status of that model of bionic person.’

’The promoters of the Bionic Human Bill, the Advanced Bionic Federation from the Mother City, expressed respect and blessings, while also offering a friendly reminder for Ms. Rose to respect the objective development rules of the bionic community and to protect the hard-won rights of bionics.’

’The remaining four bionic corporations issued a joint statement, declaring that the bionic society will not allow the emergence of a super dictator. Therefore, the four high-level managements jointly decided to increase their shareholding ratios and engage in cross-holdings to prevent another ”black swan” event. In other words, Ms. Rose’s super acquisition stops here.’

’Rumor has it that Ms. Rose is currently single, and her bionic model is female, so bionic male escorts, romance AIs, and modified human idols in the Free Realm have all mobilized in an attempt to court this super rich lady.’

Originally, Gao Gong was watching the news with a milk bottle in his mouth, excited, but when he saw this, he was instantly furious.

”What do you mean by single lady? Having young men around, how can that be called single? That’s clearly called a dog lover!”

Then he glanced at his own split pants and couldn’t help but say sourly:

”Boys from the village gang bully me, a weakling. How can I, with patience, face the theft of rich ladies? Damn! Wait until I recover, I’ll beat them to death!”

Before he could finish speaking, his cheek tightened, and as he turned his head, he saw Valkyrie looking at him curiously, with one hand pinching her cheek.

”What are you doing?”

”How are you here?”

Valkyrie wasn’t mute; she just rarely spoke. In front of Gao Gong, due to their blood relation, she would speak a few words.

”Sneaking to watch gossip, you know. By the way, don’t tell Director Du about this; she has a bad temper.”

”Mm,” Valkyrie nodded in agreement.

Although both are rich ladies, it’s very clear that financial rich ladies make money faster, while industrial rich ladies, who handcraft screws, have long-term potential but low short-term status.

”By the way, what did you want me for?”

”The person you’re expecting is here,” Valkyrie said word by word.

Gao Gong’s spirits lifted, thinking that finally, they had arrived!

Although Aramaki had doubts, Gao Gong assured him that he could regain his strength and catch up to ’Cybertron’ within three days, but Aramaki remained half-skeptical.

Gao Gong dared to boast not because he was so amazing, but because there are truly capable people in the world.

At that moment, two figures appeared at the fringes of the industrial zone.

On this planet, as long as you wanted to climb the technology tree or, as a corporation, exhibited certain potential, you would receive extremely comfortable welfare benefits.

The comfort level was even more exaggerated than the support from some developing countries.

This is why, despite the severe devastation of this planet’s civilization, leaving nine out of ten rooms empty, its population recovered so quickly, birthing so many trusts and disruptors.

For instance, in this 7th District, the land under Du Gao Technology, the content of energy ore veins is ten times higher than in the Iron Sand Desert, and they were simply given to them.

Also given were a large number of supporting facilities, various factories, excavation equipment, and exploration robots, turning the place into a colossal entity comparable to a ’factory’ almost overnight.

Du Gao Group Headquarters!

”I don’t like the atmosphere here.”

Two people, one tall and one short, appeared on the outskirts of the Du Gao Group, among whom a tall woman frowned and said.

It wasn’t surprising she said this, as the dense smoke, dust, carbon dioxide concentration, and even the radiation levels were off the charts here.

As she spoke, tree-patterned green lines began to spread across the surface of her skin, and for some reason, these lines had a certain greasy quality unique to seaweed.

Once this ’skin oil’ appeared, it directly blocked out all pollution.

”Really? Personally, I quite like it. There’s a certain mechanical vitality,” the shorter person said.

”You like machinery?” The tall woman raised an eyebrow.

”Mechanical life is still life. Don’t forget, half of my offspring are Mechanical Bio-Beasts. They’re very outstanding, just a bit slow to reproduce.”

The shorter person removed her hood, revealing the face of a Little Woman, but her eyes were crystal clear, and just by glancing over, transparent ripples appeared in the space.

This was a sign of spiritual materialization, and within her eyes, a whole world reflected—a world made up of various Radiation Beasts.

Although her face was that of a Little Woman, it was unmistakable that this was the Brain-in-a-Vat, the Great Brain of the Iron Sand Desert.

Previously, if her range of activity was limited to the desert, now, on this planet, wherever there were Radiation Beasts, there were her eyes.

’Little Lady No. 2’ took a deep breath, and the radiation rays in the air were swiftly inhaled into her nostrils, making her skin visibly transparent, while simultaneously emitting tremendous spiritual power.

Suddenly, alarm sounds rang out everywhere.

The next moment, mechanical silhouettes sliced through the air, while around the factory perimeter, ’mechanical boxes’ opened, revealing Super Mechas as tall as three, four, or five stories high. Under the operators’ control, these machines emitted heavy mechanical sounds from their steps, their energy cannons lighting up as they advanced toward the two.

Mechanical Hunters and Biological Hunters patrolling the surroundings also centered on the two, forming a siege.

”So bright!”

’Little Lady No. 2’ exclaimed. The reason was simple; the sky in front seemed to dim suddenly, replaced by ’stars twinkling,’ each ’little star’ being a navigation system-equipped energy weapon.

Director Du was a genius, capable of rising in the harsh factory system without anyone’s sponsorship, an extraordinary Mechanical Engineer.

Whether it be mechas or civilization weapons, they were all her resources. After amassing sufficient superweapon design experience, Director Du had far surpassed her predecessors. Although she hadn’t developed a civilization-grade weapon yet, she had devised a large-scale defensive weapon—the first-generation Heaven Net.

For some reason, this name gave Gao Gong a strong sense of déjà vu.

And this ’Heaven Net System,’ could cover every corner of the 7th District. Keep in mind, this wasn’t a missile system, but pure energy strikes, making it impossible to intercept.

This meant that if the other side wished, they could initiate a small-scale energy war at any time, a scene similar to ’Star Wars,’ with a sky full of light and rain, causing damage by the tens of thousands.

This was the benefit of operating a faction.

Even if Gao Gong didn’t take action, even if all the players besieged the Du Gao Group, they wouldn’t withstand this first wave of attacks.

After all, everyone was civilized; who’d waste time dueling with you?

In future corporate wars, in most cases, these super weapons would volley; there wouldn’t be an option for human-wave tactics. Individuals played a negligible role in such high-level wars—unless you were a bug like Bionic A.

So, facing such an attack, even two monsters couldn’t help but worry, especially the tall woman. With her strong perception, she clearly felt that the other party possessed more than just one kind of superweapon.

If they truly attacked, they might even destroy her main body.

That’s right, this tall woman was the King of Deep Sea Leeches: Keramos, similar to the Brain-in-a-Vat—another type of large symbiote.

Under her assistance, Gao Gong had transformed organisms into biological computers.

She herself was also a type of large-scale biological computer.

With these two, Gao Gong felt confident enough to claim he could recover his strength in a short time.

While Keramos was tense, a rift suddenly appeared in space, and a familiar voice rang out from it.

”Hahaha, you two beauties, you’re finally here.”