Chapter 616 You Don’t Need It Anyway (1/2)

Infirmary.

Jiang Xuezhou's eyes widened with dark circles, his face turned red, and he stared at the barking guy.

In order to build a more powerful body for this guy, she spent a third of her G-point savings!

As a result, the first thing this guy did after waking up was not "holding her thighs gratefully, crying and shouting that he would spend the rest of his life repaying Miss Jiang Xuezhou's kindness", but an inexplicable "Gaia".

She couldn't understand what he was shouting, but looking at his expression, she knew that this guy disliked his masterpiece.

When she thought of this, her fists became harder, and veins almost popped out on her forehead.

At this moment, Ye Shi, who was standing next to the cryo-sleep cabin, knew nothing about Jiang Xuezhou's psychological activities. He was staring at the body in the mirror and didn't know whether to cry or laugh.

In order to cure his "hemiplegia", a D-level researcher from a certain college first planned to replace his spine. Later, he found that just replacing the spine was useless. His organs had basically failed, so he replaced him with a bionic heart. , kidneys, digestive organs.

In fact, so far, he has been able to get off the "ICU", but the D-class researcher who strives for excellence is still not satisfied with his work.

Although he is able to move, his body coordination is still lacking.

So, in order not to affect his daily life, she made a small change and installed a bionic chip with a built-in motion enhancement plug-in for his cerebellum.

The bionic wafers were all arranged, and it would be a waste of extra computing power not to equip them with weapons, so she had an idea and installed a weapon control plug-in on the bionic wafers, and then she gritted her teeth and ordered it with G points. A set of high-power capacitors and a hand-mounted high-power current generator.

This is a really good thing.

She was not even willing to put it on Xiao Wang.

Coupled with the computing power of bionic crystals, he can not only use his hands to control strange and changeable currents, fire arcs that can penetrate the air at close range, but he can also use his arms as magnetic rails to eject electromagnetic projectiles that are as powerful as conventional rifle bullets!

The energy consumed by this device is obviously not something that bioelectricity can supply.

So she built him a solid-state hydrogen battery built into his waist that could be slowly replenished with bioelectric current, and could also be connected to an external inflatable interface.

In this way, even with his bare hands and without using any weapons, he can still have half of the combat power of "Xiao Wang".

The only flaw is its defense.

After all, even after so many modifications, this guy's body so far can still be regarded as human.

But can a talented D-class researcher tolerate flaws in his masterpiece?

The answer is obviously no.

Without spending much time struggling, Jiang Xuezhou, who had already opened his mind, chopped off his hands again without hesitation, replacing almost all of his bones with stronger titanium alloys. The joints were equipped with electric-driven motors, and some parts of the organs were surrounded. His flesh and blood were replaced with polymeric substances that could absorb kinetic energy damage.

In this way, even if he behaves like he did the night before, he doesn't have to worry about being paralyzed from a high position.

By the way, the original skin feels too rough, so I might as well replace it with bionic skin.

Since he would feel more secure if he was taller, she took the initiative and added 3 centimeters to his height, which was exactly 178cm, no more, no less.

Then change it...

That's what it is now.

Ye Shi felt as if he had turned into an android, and it was the one customized according to the personal preferences of a certain NPC.

Except for the "boyish and handsome" face that still belongs to me, there are not many original parts left in this body.

In fact, this is nothing.

Game characters are not real bodies, so there is nothing wrong with playing with another skin.

What really made him collapse was when he opened his eyes and found to his horror that his little brother was missing!

The entire digestive system and excretory organs are integrated in the back eye, and the dry and wet parts are separated and stored in two different areas.

Good guy.

He is just like the garbage man!

"Condolences, brother."

"I think it's actually nothing and you won't need it anyway."

"+1"

"Ha ha ha ha!"

Lao Bai, Fang Chang, Kuang Feng and other friends who were standing aside were still holding back their laughter, while Jiu Jiu was already squatting in the corner with her stomach in her hands.

Looking at Jiang Xuezhou whose face turned as red as a monkey's ass, Ye Shi thought that she had been helping him repair his body these days, but after all, she still didn't have the nerve to be picky, and said with a grimace.

"……Thanks!"

Jiang Xuezhou clicked his tongue and said with a cold face.

"There's no need to force it so hard."

Ye Shi said dumbfounded.

"No...I don't mean to force it. Thank you so much. It's just...why...don't have that."

"What?"

Jiang Xuezhou looked at him and folded his arms in dissatisfaction, "I don't have that, I have installed everything for you. Do you have any dissatisfaction?"

Ye Shi looked at her guiltily.

"No, no, no... there is one more, you may have forgotten, it's that one, that one... ahhh! I'm going to blanch it!"

He usually talks too much and can't think of any elegant expressions. He held it in for a long time without saying anything, and covered his face in discomfort.

Jiang Xuezhou stared at him confused, his eyebrows wrinkled again and again, his face full of question marks.

This guy is talking about something stupid.

If you have any dissatisfaction, speak up!

"In short... no matter whether you are satisfied or not, I have installed everything I can for you. After all, you did it to save me. If you were to sacrifice like this, your parents and sister would be sad, right? ?”

Glancing at Jiujiu, who was facing the corner with twitching shoulders and squatting on the ground constantly wiping the corners of his eyes, Jiang Xuezhou's lips stretched into a satisfied smile.

Let those tears of sadness turn into tears of excitement...

It seems that my efforts were not in vain.

She hadn't slept much in the past few days, and the circles under her eyes were as dark as smeared with soot. She needed to catch up on her sleep soon.

"What are you talking about? I did it for... wuwu——"

Ye Shi was about to refute that he was mainly taking action to save the plane, but in the middle of his words, his mouth was covered by a big hand stretched out from the side.

Skillfully catching the boy's restless mouth, Fang Chang looked at Jiang Xuezhou, coughed lightly, and said with a hint of apology.

"Well, my brother was kicked in the head by a donkey when he was a child. Sometimes he talks without thinking, please bear with me. I would like to say thank you to you on his behalf. This guy is actually very excited. I won't know how much he will be after some time. Dese, I’m just embarrassed to express it.”

"Uh--! (What the hell did I get?)"

Ye Shi was still protesting with his eyes, while Jiujiu, who was squatting in the corner and had had enough laughter, gave Fang Chang a thumbs up with shining eyes.

Well done!

"You're welcome, you're welcome, but I was the one holding you back... and caused you trouble." Not good at handling such solemn thanks, Jiang Xuezhou scratched his cheek in embarrassment.

Fang Chang politely continued to speak for Ye Shi.

"There are areas where we are not good at anything. There will be more opportunities to trouble each other in the future. In addition, although this guy talks without thinking, he is actually a good person... I will leave it to you from now on."

"Yes!" Jiang Xuezhou nodded confidently and said with a red face, "Put it on me!"

The replacement and maintenance of parts is nothing more than a piece of cake for her, and she will definitely not ignore it after repairing it.

Ye Shi, whose mouth was covered, couldn't help shouting a few more times.

He always felt like he was being sold.

Based on his understanding of the other party, this guy is definitely thinking about smuggling high-tech equipment from the Wandering Swamp!

Listening to the commotion in the infirmary, Chu Guang, who was standing at the door, smiled like an aunt, turned around and walked in the direction of the captain's room with confidence.

Looking at the clear earth and the rising sun floating on a sea of ​​pure clouds outside the window, he narrowed his eyes slightly and smiled in a good mood.

"It's nice to be young."

At this time, Xiao Qi's voice floated into his ears.

"The master is also very young."

Chu Guang laughed.

"That's natural! By the way, the time is almost up. Inform the crew to set off immediately. It's time for us to go home!"

Xiaoqi replied enthusiastically.

"receive!"

At twelve o'clock at noon, the Heart of Steel sounded the whistle, and the aircrew busily tied up the things on the deck, and then slowly put away the anchor chain hanging in the pod.

Although the war between the Alliance and the Torch Church has not ended, the military operations targeting the Jinhe City area have officially come to an end, and subsequent work in the area will focus on construction.

After dealing with the wave, the Alliance will continue to move south until the Church of the Torch is completely removed from this land.

By then, Singularity City will serve as a logistics and transportation hub from Dawn City to the front line. A rail railway with a total length of nearly 800 kilometers has already departed from Qingquan City.

Since most of the alliance's railway construction workers are building the western line across the Lion Kingdom and Honey Badger Kingdom directly to Bicester Town in Luoxia Province, the construction workers on this railway are mainly workers from Boulder City, with a total number of nearly 3000.

According to the assessment of Boulder City engineers, with the support of KV series exoskeletons and logistics trucks, the construction speed is expected to average between 10 and 15 kilometers per day. If the situation is optimistic, the entire construction period can be completed in June.

The 2,000-man team under the First Corps will be responsible for ensuring the safety of these workers. At the same time, more than a thousand players with levels between 10 and 15 will be guided to this area by the mission system to participate in the activities along the railway. Patrol and clear out alien nests and predator camps along the way.

The order established by the alliance would spread further along the ever-extending railroad.

Although the budget for this project is probably not a small amount according to the evaluation of the Ministry of Finance and other departments, from a long-term perspective, the investment is definitely worth it.

Moreover, the demand for steel generated by this infrastructure order will also help the steel plant in Dawn City Industrial Zone complete the transformation from the military to the infrastructure field, and help the Industrial Zone in Boulder City get out of the haze of bankruptcy not long ago.

This will be another major infrastructure project planned by the alliance after the housing improvement projects in Shuguang City and Boulder City.

As for the resulting fiscal deficit, Chu Guang is not worried at all.

Isn’t it just the beginning of the year?

How can we worry about deficits at the beginning of the new year?

It’s still early for the end of the year!

…

An ideal city.

Kangmao Group Building.

Sun Eclipse, who rushed back to Ideal City from thousands of kilometers away, gave Kang Le a complete report on Han Shuang's appointment as the acting city lord of Singularity City.

After patiently listening to Sun Eclipse's report, Kang Le, who was sitting behind the desk, suddenly laughed out loud.

"Did that guy Hanshuang really say that?"

Eclipse nodded.

"That's what it says."

Eclipse was opposed to that guy's arbitrarily meddling in regional affairs.

After all, Singularity City is too far away from the company and is obviously a burden. As a representative of Kangmao Group and the company, it can't see any benefit in serving as the acting city owner.

Even if there are benefits, they are from the alliance.

Seeing that Kang Le was in an unexpectedly good mood, Sun Eclipse couldn't help but suspect that his value judgment system was malfunctioning, so he asked confusedly.

"Do you think this is okay?"

"Is there any problem? I think this is a progressive attempt by AI to manage settlements. Even if it is a little radical and immature, it is worth encouraging."

Getting up from the desk, Kang Le walked to the floor-to-ceiling window.

Looking out the window at the infinitely prosperous city, he narrowed his eyes slightly, his vision slightly lost in thought.

"...It's a pity that we can't do similar things in Ideal City. Just letting androids participate in public affairs has cost us a lot of effort."

To be honest, he was a little envious of the manager.

All his decisions can be implemented smoothly in the alliance, but some of his ideas face considerable resistance even within the group.

Let alone on the council.

Eclipse looked at him confused.

“But the council ultimately passed the resolution.”

Kang Le nodded and spoke concisely.

"Yes, but that's not the crux of the problem. You should be able to notice that the council is not really opposed to bionic people participating in public affairs. What they object to is just that our family is dominant. In their view, this is even more important than giving bionic people the power to participate in public affairs." People’s civil rights are more dangerous.”

He knows those guys well.

Because Kangmao Group itself is like this.

Their subsidiaries will go to the wasteland to shoot predators wearing miner exoskeletons and carrying G9 assault rifles, and present evidence to the board of directors that bad guys are using their technology to do evil, in order to put pressure on the Changge Group and restrict The business scope of those arms dealers.

This is not because they are pacifists, nor because they are worried about the company's technology leakage. It is just to prevent Changge Group from becoming a dominant player in Ideal City and turning the five major groups into one big group, so that everyone will be The arms dealers are leading the way.

As for weakening the power of predators, increasing the armament of civilized forces in the wasteland, reducing the intensity of regional conflicts within their sphere of influence, continuing the company's advantages in key technologies, etc... these are all just interests that arise incidentally from the game. That’s all.

Later, other groups made concessions on issues related to the participation of bionic people in public affairs, not because the risks they had previously worried about suddenly disappeared, but because they got enough benefits from the exchange and game of interests to be able to achieve what they expected. The equilibrium continues to be maintained.

Kang Le agrees with the existing game mechanism of the Board of Directors, which helps companies find the "relatively optimal solution" when seeking overall interests.

A complete ban on arms exports will affect the economic benefits of enterprises and even weaken their armaments in the long term, but completely lifting restrictions is asking for trouble.

So they set up a white list that stipulates what can be sold to whom and how much each item can be sold for. This white list is the product of gaming.

The problem is, this takes too much time!

So far, the existing game mechanism has become an obstacle.

In order to balance interests, the board of directors has become increasingly conservative in decision-making, and its attitude towards new things has changed from encouragement to hindrance.

The ideal city is transitioning from an upward spiral to a downward spiral.

Even though this trend has not yet been reflected in intuitive data, as a member of the council, he has already sensed such signs.

That’s it in one sentence.

Their efficiency is so low!

Threats range from the Legion to the Church of the Torch.

If their allies hadn't dispatched troops immediately, the plague spread by the Torch Church might have caused the fall of Jinchuan Province... In fact, according to the feedback from the front line, the biological soldiers of the Torch Church once boarded the Heart of Steel. .

Because of the council's slow response, they almost lost their interests in the central region, and those lunatics who should have gone to hell a hundred and fifty years ago almost succeeded!

"I have been committed to promoting the participation of bionic people in public affairs, but other groups have always been wary of our expansion, so it will be extremely difficult for us to take even one step forward... It is not that Ideal City does not have the ability to breed new technologies. We The academics are not inferior to the academy, both in quality and quantity.”

After a pause, Kang Le turned his back to Sun Eclipse and continued.

"...But just like the academy laughed at us, we have been dilly-dallying in place for too long. If you look closely, you will find that there is actually no difference between the prosperity a century ago and the prosperity today. The production methods of the past are still used today. . I have reason to believe that even if it is recycled for another century, the Pioneer is just a short-lived miracle. What is sad is that the legend of Vault 0 has passed with the wind, and now even the dream that leads us forward is gone. it's over."

"Our citizens do not lack adventurous and pioneering spirit, and the Pioneer is the best proof. It is not a product of the council, even if it is the council that wipes its butt in the end... But this just illustrates the problem, ideal The citizens of the city are not afraid to sacrifice for their ideals. What hinders our progress is not our own conservatism, but the rules of the council that naturally create a conservative atmosphere, which limits our progress. "

Eclipse looked at him incomprehensively.

"And what did you expect?"

"I hope that a radical change will take the ideal city to a new dimension, just like we moved from the old era to the prosperous era in the past. The opportunity for technology has actually appeared, and the only obstacle is the council..."

Kang Le was talking vividly when he suddenly thought of something and coughed slightly and stopped talking.

"It's too early to say this now. I plan to start with the theoretical part and experiment bit by bit... For example, Singularity City is a good sociological experimental field."

"I'm looking forward to the results of Frost Frost. If its results are amazing enough, we can promote it on a small scale in the Cloud Province, and then let this new wind blow into our city-state."

He didn't intend to say exactly what he had in mind.

After all, no tool can be called absolutely reliable, even an AI that theoretically will never betray its master.

After scribbling to end the topic, Kang Le turned to look at Eclipse.

"I already understand the situation in Singularity City. I will explain it to Hanshuang on the council's behalf. You can take the nearest flight and go back as soon as possible. I'm not worried about that guy staying there alone. In order to avoid messing up the matter, you Keep an eye on it."

"As ordered." Sun Eclipse shook his head slightly, turned and walked towards the door.

It knew its mission very well, but there was one thing it couldn't figure out.

Hanshuang's AI core was designed by this adult himself. Unlike the one born on the assembly line, it was not a system generated from a template.

Generally speaking, AI will more or less inherit some of the characteristics of the designer, just like a child will inherit some of the characteristics of its parents.

It is no exaggeration to say that Hanshuang should be like a right-hand man to Mr. Kang Le.

That being the case, why should he be worried about it?

After pressing the elevator button, Sun Eclipse looked at the crack in the door that was gradually closing and shook his head.

Humanity……

It's really hard to understand.