My Players Are So Fierce

It is said that Professor Old Bach invented the Calculating Pearl initially because he was tired of the barbaric and cruel traditions.

His attempts were finally realized through simulation with the psychic differential machine, and after the emergence of the Calculating Pearl, wetware got phased out; at least openly at Charldo Harbor, further production of wetware has been banned.

But from the magical Steam Doll Technique passed down by Old Flywheel, it can be seen that half-body mechanics have been privately researching wetware all along!

Old Flywheel also clearly stated that the Steam Doll Technique was a secret technique researched by his teacher in his later years, which also implies a frightening possibility: even the inventor of the Calculating Pearl, Professor Old Bach, might have been privately researching and enhancing wetware.

After all, the Calculating Pearl can accomplish many things, but it is limited to the technical and spiritual mysteries’ development, while wetware is made from living brains, and theoretically, what humans can do, machinery equipped with wetware can do as well.

Therefore, in terms of potential, wetware has much to be discovered.

It is said that the members of the Church of the Machine Spirit are all masters of this “forbidden” technology; though they do not reject the use of the Calculating Pearl, they evidently believe more in the potential of the human brain.

“What the hell is this thing! It requires wetware to drive it; it’s clearly an evil machine!”

Little Sheron, upon recognizing the wetware brain, immediately suspected Dragoon No. 1’s purpose.

She considered herself to be an innocent good kid and felt she should stay away from such dangerous things.

However, just as she landed and flapped her wings, the door to a closed room on the other side of the workshop suddenly opened, and Ruyi, who was holding an instrument for editing the Spiritual Energy Factors Formula for the Calculating Pearl, came out muttering under her breath.

“Oh! Half-body warrior!”

Ellen immediately recognized Ruyi’s true identity and exclaimed:

“During my absence, does Transylvania have its own half-body people? Wow, little one, your hair is so beautiful.”

“Huh huh huh? Who are you? I thought only the young lady and the disgraceful Little Wei Ming were the Little Potatoes of the Blood Vulture Clan, didn’t expect other experts?”

Ruyi was startled.

Recently, this hacker lady, who had been studying ‘psychic programming’ with Old Flywheel, pushed up her engineering glasses and tilted her head to scrutinize Little Sheron, saying maliciously with a teasing tone:

“Wow, your height is even more exaggerated; you’re shorter than the young lady!”

“Shut up, I have the blood of Half-body, okay? It’s natural to not grow tall, but I also have the blood of the Mountain People! So although I’m short, I’ve got strength!”

Little Sheron waved her fist and threatened:

“I can turn a small potato like you into a meat patty!”

“Ugh~ repeated words, yuck yuck.”

Ruyi, who is best at provoking others, quickly enraged Little Sheron, but then Sheron noticed the special instrument in Ruyi’s hand and blinked, saying:

“Are you learning to program the Spiritual Energy Factors for the Calculating Pearl? It’s a subject only Master Mechanics can understand, can you comprehend it?”

“Pfft, stupid little potato, you don’t even know what I’m doing, ha, let me open your eyes.”

Ruyi flipped her cool long hair down to her waist, casually touched her own Calculating Pearl, and tapped on it with a mischievous smile towards Sheron. A few seconds later, under Sheron’s astonished gaze, the third-generation half-calculating pearl in her hand voluntarily turned off.

Upon rebooting, no matter how it was manipulated, it only displayed a string of gibberish.

Meanwhile, Ruyi was chanting over her own Calculating Pearl, mentioning:

“The last heir of the Xikemeier Family, the new head of the Glendale Family, the full representative of the Blood Vulture Clan, and created for herself a very embarrassing ‘Crimson Claw’ faction, but so far, this faction promoting engineering philosophy has only you.

Indeed, everyone feels a little potato elder is too disgraceful.

Hmm, Loyal Brother and several researchers at the arsenal are your apprentices, not bad, barely counts as an important NPC, let me see your private diary… there is even a password? Seems like there’s a lot of explosive stuff in there.

Oh, give me five seconds, and I can unlock it.”

“No peeking!”

Sheron suddenly panicked, lunged, and snatched Ruyi’s Calculating Pearl, then discovered that this little Bean warrior used a special spiritual energy factor coding program she had never seen before to invade her pearl and extract much crucial information.

“How did you do it?”

Sheron, being a mechanic, was fully aware of how difficult achieving such a feat was.

Although the Half-body people were not very mindful of information security in the Spirit Energy Pearls, there were basic security measures in place, and previously there had been no incidents of using Spirit Energy Pearls to spy on someone else’s info, but this peculiar player managed it.

Facing Sheron’s amazement, Ruyi snorted, crossed her arms in a portrayal of being a ‘big expert’, and said mockingly:

“Your lousy thing doesn’t even have a basic firewall, using ‘Otherworld Trojan’ to exploit your security breaches is easier than snatching lollipops from kids, truly think that because Half-body created Calculating Pearls, you can rest easy on the laurels of the predecessors, right?