Starting as a Mechanical Hunter

Chapter 827: Chapter 351: New Box

Gao Gong once again immersed himself in the sea.

Data signals and seawater rose and fell in his vision, alternating with each other, forming a unique sensory experience.

It’s said that before a baby is born, what they perceive is amniotic fluid and electrical signals, two fundamental materials that constitute life.

And this strange scene can only be found in the ’Divine Land’. Gao Gong even saw a digital life flashing by in the seawater.

Soon, Gao Gong arrived at the ’Undersea Great Wall’, a boundless ’Metal Wall’. The wall wasn’t barren, but instead resembled a beehive, with numerous hibernation pods embedded in its surface.

In the digital realm, the physical body cannot enter.

However, when Gao Gong activated Divine Knowledge, everywhere he looked, each hibernation pod was infested with a multitude of worm eggs, these millions of hibernation pods cultivating an innumerable number of worm eggs.

These worm eggs would provide ample nutrition to the Memory Mother.

Without a doubt, the ’Divine Land’ has become an insect nest.

With a single thought, a flash of purple electricity passed, and a thin layer of transparent armor automatically covered Gao Gong’s body. The memory worms wandering over in the seawater changed direction upon being illuminated by the radiance of the Space Armor.

Although Gao Gong couldn’t solve the problem of the memory worms, he could reverse space.

Thus, he entered the interior of the Divine Land.

The interior of the Divine Land was even more severe than the Undersea Great Wall. Here, not only had the worm eggs hatched into worms, but on the ground, giant python-like worms slithered, devouring smaller worms like big fish eating little fish, continuously swelling themselves.

A shadow flashed overhead, and Gao Gong looked up to see a memory worm as large as a dragon passing over his head.

Just a glance increased the number of worm eggs on Gao Gong’s body by a thousand.

There was a hint of doubt in his eyes.

If this place had already become the nest of memory worms, then did the person he was looking for still exist?

Even Guu Yitong, this ministerial-level strong figure, had his body hollowed out by the memory worms, becoming a puppet.

But a green light suddenly shot out from the seabed, like a searchlight, guiding Gao Gong.

Gao Gong felt a familiar aura from the other party.

Sixth Destruction Form - Spirit of Ecology

When Gao Gong absorbed the sixth form, it was this feeling.

And following the green light forward, soon, a warm sensation enveloped him. This feeling was not the ’sinking sensation’ of connecting online, but a sense of returning to the mother body, a feeling of comfort, worry-free, peaceful, and serene.

And on the system panel—

[Your Biological Computer version 6.0 is updating automatically, 1%, 2%, 3%, 4%...]

Even when Gao Gong landed, he still didn’t come to his senses for a while, exclaiming, ”So that’s how it is.”

It wasn’t that the hardware was sufficient but the software hadn’t been improved.

Rather, the evolution of the Biological Computer required a level-up in life tier.

”I really have to thank you for this.”

Gao Gong looked at the other party.

In a place resembling a tea pavilion, an old man dozed off.

Just like Gao Gong, he appeared in the flesh.

Unlike Gao Gong, his body was covered in various worms, the largest as thick as a forearm, crawling from his leg into both ankle joints, then boring into the knee joint, finally draping its head on his neck.

Curiously, although the quantity of worms on him was extensive, even comparable to the previous Machine Prophet, he didn’t give off a feeling of evil or chaos.

Because the worms on his body were all in a state of dormancy.

The old man’s hand rested on the head of the last worm, as if petting a pet.

”Can you see it, Luca the Sage?”

Luca the Sage opened his eyes, empty sockets filled only with scattered worm eggs.

”Just like you, I have the same eyesight.”

”I also sense other energies from you.”

”Are you referring to this?”

The Venerable Luca extended his hand, and soon, threads of ruinous aura appeared, then began to change—Destiny Weaving Machine, Purple Energy Strings, Spirit of Ecology, Soul Armor, Destructive Intelligence...and even three more ancient auras.

Deep Net, War, Turing.

”You’ve mastered Destruction?”

”To be precise, I’ve only grasped a little bit of ’Luca’s’ evolution, which is negligible compared to the true core of Destruction.”

”What exactly is Luca?”

”You can understand it as the contents inside a ’Box’.”

Luca the Sage extended a hand, and Gao Gong followed suit, a ’Box’ appearing in each of their hands the next moment.

However, Gao Gong’s box was square and smooth, while Luca the Sage’s box was composed of various ruinous energies.

A planet, with tens or hundreds of billions of intelligent species, might have one or two geniuses among geniuses, capable of not only seeing apples on the technology tree but even part of the functioning law of a Cosmic Relic.

”What exactly is the relationship between the Earth Net Group and Memory Worms?” Gao Gong asked.

”So these beings are called Memory Worms, truly indescribably terrifying monsters,” Venerable Luca said. ”I sensed an irreversible crisis looming over this planet’s future. I attempted to resolve it in my own way, but unfortunately, I failed. Neither the Earth Net Group nor the Divine Land could suppress such an existence, and it even allowed this presence to pollute the undersea world.”

”Have you seen Aramaki?” Gao Gong asked.

”I have seen him. He once visited me to inquire about the evolution of ’Luca Energy.’ He is very clever and learned a lot from me, surpassing me in some respects, although I don’t think it’s entirely his own intelligence and wisdom.”

”Then what is the purpose of your seeking me out?”

”I’m about to die,” Venerable Luca said frankly. ”I once thought of synthesizing that ’Modifier’ using Luca Energy, but the Planet Host is likely unwilling. The synthesized ’Modifier’ has its own consciousness.”

”Yet I still don’t want the ’Modifier’ to be destroyed by this terrifying force, so I want to give you a helping hand.”

Venerable Luca flipped his palm, and the ’Box’ disassembled into various extraordinary energies, which were injected into Gao Gong’s box.

Gao Gong immediately fell into a state of sudden enlightenment, and in a trance, the evolution of stars, the growth of plants, and even microbial evolution all appeared before his eyes.

Evolution is irreversible, but it is controllable.

Nevertheless, Gao Gong’s Divine Knowledge remained fully alert, staring intently at the opponent.

And this alertness was evidently very effective.

Because the ’Transparent Giant Serpent’ on the opponent’s neck suddenly opened its eyes.

Almost instantly, Gao Gong entered ’Great Serpent Mode.’ Spatial energy manifested into a rift between the two, and five ’Spatial Cuttings’ mercilessly sliced onto the opponent, triggering a spatial storm.

Gao Gong’s figure instantly appeared at the edge of the spatial storm, while Venerable Luca, in the core of the storm, had Memory Worm Eggs squeezing out of every pore, quickly transforming into ’Insect Serpents.’

”Give it to me, give it to me! I am the real Luca; I am the true Destruction Form!!”

Venerable Luca’s face turned sinister and malicious, staring fiercely at Gao Gong, with blood tears dripping from his covetous eyes until his entire body was thoroughly destroyed by the spatial storm.

[You killed the Alliance Leader Venerable Luca, experience +10 million, specialization points +50, randomly received five Earth Net Group blueprints, randomly acquired one enemy skill]

”Not surprising.”

Gao Gong murmured to himself.

When parasitized by ’Information Monsters,’ many people naively think they’re unaffected, that they can suppress it, or even truly suppress the ’symptoms’ to their initial stages.

The reality proves, however, that the ’Memory Mother’ is merely dormant, borrowing others’ emotions for distortion and corruption.

”Luckily, the old hand is still steady.”

Had Gao Gong not been steady, he might have been deceived by the enemy’s guise of a learned sage.

”But it’s surprising that Aramaki actually came to learn from Venerable Luca, seems the old fox didn’t get fooled either.”

Gao Gong pondered and extracted the ’skill’ first.

[You acquired the skill ’Life Origin (Tier 3)’]

Life Origin (Tier 3): In a normal ecological environment, no matter how severe the injury, the user can use this move to achieve a 100% recovery at the life level.

Not bad, a second life technique.

Now, whether it’s a mechanical body or an organism, both have at least two lives.

The only condition is a normal ecological environment.

It’s hard to say if a Radiation Planet counts as a normal ecosystem, but the ’Cyber Tide’ stage definitely does not belong to this category.

”Nevertheless, that’s not the biggest benefit.”

With a thought, Gao Gong summoned the box again. Once it was enlarged enough, Gao Gong stepped inside directly.

The box disappeared once more.

...

The box wasn’t large, and Gao Gong used Destructive Energy to construct an ancient hall within, with twelve high chairs.

Currently, five people were scatteredly seated on these chairs.

The carrier of the Destiny Weaving Machine, Player Sister Ji

The carrier of Soul Armor, Xiao Yu

The carrier of Spirit of Ecology, Fake Aramaki

The carrier of Destructive Intelligence, Ymir

The carrier of the Rewind System, Gao Yuanyuan

Among them, the ’Metabolism Queen,’ also known as Sister Rose, was completing her divine feats, while Gox was outside capturing hackers, forming a new Punk Clan.

Once Gao Gong entered the box, the ’Worm Eggs’ inside him fell into dormancy.

Apart from the Information Security House, this was probably the only place where he wasn’t worried about being spied on by the Memory Mother.

Unfortunately, Gao Gong couldn’t stay here long term.

”Brother, I feel like this box is somewhat different from before?”

Gao Gong nodded, and in the next instant, the destructive aura in his hand overflowed, forming a ’Chromosome Box,’ and immediately, all the Destruction Forms began to emit similar auras.