Starting as a Mechanical Hunter

Chapter 998: Chapter 104: Evolution 4

3rd Stellar Vortex Peripheral Region, Ice Planet

This is a non-habitable planet, the entire surface of which is covered in ice, with a normal temperature ranging from -50 degrees to -100 degrees. In some cold radiation areas, the temperature is even more extreme, reaching absolute zero, which is minus 273.15 degrees Celsius.

At such temperatures, not to mention life, most bacteria would stop reproducing.

According to the Civilization Council standards, this is a standard low-temperature star body, not uncommon in the cosmos.

The only rare aspect is that its previous form was a habitable planet.

Across any star system in the universe, habitable planets are the minority, while non-habitable planets are the majority, with extreme survival environments being mainstream.

However, this ice planet was once a habitable planet, modified through artificial ’ice radiation’ to create an extreme survival environment. Its main purpose is to experiment with ’absolute zero species,’ a type of lifeform that cannot exist naturally.

This is precisely the cyber experiment’s testing target!

On the Star Destroyer, over a hundred exploration members are making preliminary preparations, ready to teleport onto the planet at any moment.

Teleportation, exploration, recording, finding peers, completing main quests.

This process is very familiar to the players.

However, this time’s exploration includes certain non-Mechanical Split Star players.

Rakish Knight, Gravity Volcano, Sea Wave, Jia Hei, Mermaid, Chaotic World Little Immortal, Queen of Broken Hands...

These Immortal Energy Star players are also eager to face the planet beneath their feet, their expressions carrying a hint of superiority.

Finally, they have upgraded from being planetary natives to space players, able to look down disdainfully from beyond the atmosphere.

Previously, they thought their companions’ behavior of pretending to be aliens on the planet forum was childish, but when they become one themselves, they are surprised to find that the foolish act of ’pretending to be aliens’ is really so damn fun!

They post threads with odd laughter, completely oblivious to the gazes of others.

This group of outer space ’newbies,’ equipped poorly and lacking plugins, even their ’skins’ are messy wasteland style. Yet, many players look at them with envy, jealousy, and hate.

This broken game is messing with value inflation!

Who would have thought, this generation’s Version’s Son is not the Hunter stream but the Zombie stream!

With millions of Immortal Energy Star players, one’s Star Destroyer naturally can’t hold them all. Similar to Mechanical Split Star, the Immortal Energy Star players on the Star Destroyer now are City Lord level high-end players.

Which is fine, as you are high-end players, I am also high-end players.

But what’s unfair is that this group of newcomers immediately received the treatment they had been dreaming of upon entering the ship—everyone switched to the ’hidden profession’.

And this hidden profession is naturally the descendant of the Gao Family Ancestral Hall—those whose names can be listed on electronic spirit tablets.

Although they are only in their early 40 levels, with attribute enhancement through breathing techniques and ’Mechanical Zombie Transformation’ brought by organic body coffins.

Once the attributes of 40-plus levels are transformed into ’Mechanical Zombies,’ they can even compete with players of 50-plus levels.

Where the hell can anyone reason with this!

I can talk, I can be a cyber son, I can be an electronic grandson, I can burn yellow paper for Mr. G during festivals!

Why can’t I have the chance to enter the Ancestral Hall!?

Players following the Mechanical Stream are relatively better off, as the previous ’Intelligent Mechanization Transformation’ has already strengthened them once.

Those truly heartbroken are actually the Bio Stream players.

Thinking they were the Version’s Son, only to find out they were the version’s trash.

Thinking they were in biological mode, only to realize it’s a biochemical mode.

What’s so great about zombies, do they have anything hanging!

Everyone is clearly organic organisms, why is it that the enhancements are all inorganic versions!

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Gao Gong naturally doesn’t know the players’ thoughts, but even if he did, he wouldn’t care.

Who asked for these Immortal Energy Star players’ ’profession’ to match the ’Advanced Ancestral Hall’ naturally.

Moreover, the addition of these players also brought two Tier 2 professions to the camp, namely the Highway Killer and Zombie Warrior.

Added to the previous Biomechanical Knight, Biological Hunter, Mechanical Hunter, Neural Editor, Tier 2 Mecha Manipulator, Elite Species - Imperial Guard, Interstellar Mercenary, there are no less than nine Tier 2 professions in the camp.

Even in Level 3 civilization, professions are but this many.

When the Mechanician Civilization is developed later, professions will increase further.

This is the true foundation of a camp, and also what attracts players most.

Gao Gong just glanced at the ice planet below, then once again entered ’calculation mode.’

Earlier on the Immortal Energy Star, Gao Gong gained dozens of breathing techniques at once; these techniques were created by players, based on mutual transformation within a human body system.

Increasing attributes by brushing transformation rates.

This is an exclusive enhancement method for Immortal Energy Star.

And now that they’ve obtained the body of zombie progenitor ’Zero Zombie,’ naturally Gao Gong would make use of it.

Although the creators of these breathing techniques are elites among the million players, big shots of the custom mode.

In Gao Gong’s view, their master techniques are indeed too crude.

So, he plans to use the deduction capabilities of the ’biological computer’ to refine these breathing techniques, extracting their essence and discarding the dross, with Zero Zombie, creating an unprecedented ’attribute points brushing skill.’

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At this moment, in the small screen world shaped by the biological computer, one virtual human body after another appeared. As a certain system of the body began to evolve and mutate, arms transformed like ’Tyrant,’ or mouths grew like ’Alien Form.’ Each successful zombification would be preserved, while failures would be decomposed.

Even not only the organism, but even the ’mechanical body’ began zombification.

After all, Gao Gong’s mechanical body has too many Bionic Man plugins, which was a reward from a previous Rich Lady.

Soon, with a ’ding,’ the system prompt sounded.

[You developed ’SS+ Level Breathing Technique,’ please customize a name]

[Your reputation (Robert Star System) +1000]

Gao Gong thought for a moment, and said: ”Since it’s the zombie progenitor, let’s call it Corpse Tiger, Corpse Tiger Breathing Skill.”

”The heck with Corpse Tiger, why not call it General?”

The ’Zero Zombie’ opposite him complained.

”Stop the nonsense and hurry up to cooperate with my training. I want to see how many attribute points my SS-level breathing technique can actually brush.”

Compared to players, who can only enhance once by consuming transformation rates.

Gao Gong controls ’Zero Zombie,’ enabling both the zombification of humans and the humanization of zombies.

Though highly unlikely to achieve a ’Zombie Perpetual Motion Machine,’ the attributes gained through mutual transformation are absolutely abundant.

Even he is curious, about what the upper limit of this ’transformation’ is.

’Zombie Gao Gong’ looked dissatisfiedly at Gao Gong, but being two bodies and one person, he said no more nonsense, his body instantly diving into the other, embarking on the first ’brushing of points.’

Soon, Gao Gong’s skin started to become transparent, appearing as if a conglomerate of flesh and energy, and upon this conglomerate, strands of Life Energy were inspired.

On the system panel—

[You consumed 1 point of Sports System Transformation Rate, gaining 2 points of Endurance]

[You consumed 1 point of Neural System Transformation Rate, gaining 1 point of Agility]

[You consumed 1 point of Endocrine System Transformation Rate, gaining 1 point of Perception]

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The five basic attributes, Power, Agility, Endurance, Intelligence, Perception, all began to increase little by little.

Even Personality started to drop little by little.

It seems he has decided not to be a person anymore, as Personality drops faster than anyone else’s.