Starting as a Mechanical Hunter

Since the boss personally came, the subordinates naturally had to come and pay their respects.

Sunx Tu, Daisila, Huang Wen, the pilot, and Clamp, they were all old acquaintances and first-rate hunters equipped with ’Hunter Module’. To be blunt, Gao Gong was more familiar with their bodies than they were themselves.

Seeing the crack on Sunx Tu’s body, Gao Gong raised his eyebrows, ”That injury of yours looks pretty serious.”

Sunx Tu nonchalantly replied, ”No worries, I’ll just get a new one later.”

Being 100% Mechanical Body, those words were spoken with arrogance.

But then, with a change in tone, Sunx Tu sheepishly flattered, ”But if you, boss, could personally take a hand and help me replace it, that would be even better.”

”We’ll see about that later,” Gao Gong was noncommittal, then looked to the other side, ”What’s her problem?”

At this moment, Matsushima Keiko was looking teary-eyed and kept twitching, while Daisila was comforting her.

Upon hearing this, Daisila helplessly said, ”Her Red Cherry Blossom broke.”

”Oh? That’s quite unusual,” Gao Gong raised his eyebrows, taking the Intelligent Tachi from the other party’s hand and drew it out. The blade was like a red warm jade but was broken in half.

The Intelligent Blade was ’excellent’ grade equipment, and the famous blade Red Cherry Blossom was the Matsushima Family’s heirloom, an ancient famous blade from the Civilization Era, able to seamlessly match the Combat Chip ’Chaotic Cherry Blossom Frenzy’.

No wonder Matsushima Keiko was crying so miserably over the broken heirloom.

Gao Gong gently patted the other’s head.

”I’ll help you fix it after some time.”

”You can fix it?” Keiko’s eyes lit up, staring intently at him with eyes like in a Japanese anime.

”Not now, it’ll take some time.”

This kind of Intelligent Blade is itself a type of low-level artificial intelligence. To repair it, not only does the blade need to be reforged, but the ’Sword Spirit’ must also be restored.

Only a ’Cyber Cowboy’ can fix artificial intelligence like this.

He needed to make a transition at the Mechanical City for it.

Gao Gong then walked toward the heavily damaged ’God’, where the half-mechanical monster ’Gilbert’ was licking the bloodstains on the ground.

Gao Gong waved, and the giant beast affectionately nuzzled up to him.

The others’ eyes changed when they saw this scene.

The strong presence emanating from this monster was not much different from that of the God.

”How do you feel, huh? Are you sure?”

Gao Gong communicated with the mechanical white panther through a special method, his expression gradually turning to surprise.

According to ’Gilbert’, the bloodstain gave it a very familiar feeling.

In other words, the so-called ’God’ might also be a Genetic Fusion.

”Interesting, there actually exists an advanced artificial life in this desolate place.”

”Let’s go, and see other places.”

The group first went to console the injured, then went to where the spoils were piled up, and sure enough, they found many bizarre things.

”They bring guitars to battle?”

At this time, Gao Gong was holding an electronic guitar, looking surprised.

Name: Frenzied Firestarter

Category: Mechanical Guitar

Quality: Whiteboard+

Weight: 5.5kg

Basic Attributes: None

Additional Attributes: Ignite, Frenzied

Ignite: By playing specific electronic tones, can increase Flame Boy’s basic attributes by 6%~10%.

Frenzied: High-pitched electronic music can arouse Flame Boy’s fighting spirit, making them more fearless.

Note: This is a crazily euphoric guitar

”This is really—bizarre.”

A Whiteboard weapon actually has two additional attributes, and the attributes are not bad.

Unfortunately, it can only be used by Flame Boys.

What’s the principle behind this?

There are a total of fifty-three of these electronic guitars, enough to organize a music festival.

In addition, Gao Gong also saw flaming guitars, motorcycles filled with steel spikes, towers made of loudspeakers, and a type of handheld grenade spear, all Whiteboard, but with an assortment of additional attributes, ranging from Critical Strike Rate to hormones, everything was included.

Not that they’re useless, but they sure feel ridiculous.

The aesthetics of this Flame Realm—

What intrigued Gao Gong the most were those five ’Human-Headed Oil Tankers’.

Equipment: Modified Exploration Vehicle

Model: Empire Industries Alien Exploration Vehicle ’Order’ Type III

Durability: 75%

Armor: 12530

Mobile Module: Mechanical Tires, Mechanical Foot Cluster (damaged), Climbing Mode (damaged)

Energy Module: Diesel Engine (replaced)

Weapon Module: Human-Head Jet System

Operation Mode: Low-level Neural Network

Survey Module: Alien Material Extractor

Note: A punk-style combat vehicle combining low-level and high-end technology

Gao Gong finally somewhat understood why mecha weapons couldn’t penetrate it—this thing’s prototype was an exploration vehicle from an alien base, designed with armor thick enough to withstand harsh environments on other planets.

On the other side, Sunx Tu looked with disgust at the Crawler:

”Crawler old man, can you stop pointing your head at me? It’s unsettling to look at.”

On the human-headed oil tanker, over twenty Crawler heads were gibbering at Sunx Tu with weird laughter.

”Grandson, grandson.”

”Ape, ape.”

”No willy, no willy.”

Sunx Tu’s eye twitched, tempted to pull out a machine gun and give them a shot.

”Alright, stop fooling around, open up the vehicle, let me see the internal structure.”

”Got it.”

With a thought from the Crawler, the head on the cockpit swayed, and the heavy door slowly lifted amid the hissing of the air pump.

Daisila looked at the full load of Crawler heads and couldn’t help but quip, ”Old man, how does it feel having so many heads?”

”How does it feel having so many hands?” The Crawler rolled his eyes.

As the only Biological Hunter above level 20, the Crawler recently enjoyed a wave of good fortune.

The reason Biological Hunters could rival high-level Mechanical Hunters is largely because they could use body modification to transplant bug-level abilities of certain species onto themselves.

The Crawler accidentally acquired ’Transformation.’

Based on ’Transformation,’ Gao Gong implanted ’Rotting Cells’ into him, a product of biotechnology.

’Rotting Cells’ aren’t the cell structures of a specific Radiation Beast but are extracted from modern weapons, like fighter jets and armored vehicles, which became contaminated with Beast Tide Energy, transforming into Rotten Fighter Jets and Rotten Combat Vehicles, turning against their own side.

What was extracted from those weapons were ’Rotting Cells.’

By incorporating ’Rotting Cells,’ the Crawler could transform any advanced weapon into ’one of their own,’ a truly terrifying ability.

As the hatch opened, everyone saw the internal structure of the tanker.

The inside of the ’tanker’ wasn’t filled with oil but countless black pipelines, with the ends of those pipelines connected to human heads.

With the Crawler’s manipulation, the pipelines extended one by one like split snake balls, looking like countless head-snakes dancing wildly.

”Cloning technology, alien exploration technology, and an old-fashioned diesel engine—what a show.”

Even someone as knowledgeable as Gao Gong couldn’t help but marvel at the sight. Punk is truly punk, and bizarre is indeed bizarre.

Who would have thought an alien exploration vehicle would become the ’mount’ of a ’god.’

They had captured a total of five such ’mounts.’

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Half an hour later, Gao Gong sat in the main seat of the temporary command post, listening to Huang Wen’s report.

”In this battle, we killed 5,341 members of the Flame Motorcycle Faction and captured 85 of them.”

”We lost 36 Mechanical Hunters, had 43 lightly wounded, and 56 mechas experienced issues.”

Although this loss ratio was exaggerated, it wasn’t surprising. The new-type mechas already belonged to the tier of a Level 2 Civilization, so using Level 2 civilization’s standard equipment to deal with Industrial Era weapons and achieving a crushing victory was normal.

”Have Helli and the Mechanic group quickly gather information about the mecha issues to ensure these problems are resolved before mass production.”

”Also, take care of the families of the dead Hunters; don’t be afraid to spend money in this regard,” Gao Gong paused, ”As for those without family, according to their wills, if they wish to be made into Thought Boxes, they will be placed in the Hunter’s Tomb, where they will receive annual worship from incoming newcomers.”

”Um.”

Besides the ’Weapon Transformation Hall,’ the ’Warrior’s Tomb’ was also a necessary building.

It could enhance the cohesion of an organization or force.

”And why are there so few captives? Did you kill the prisoners?”

”No, the Flame Boys were mentally insane, seemingly completely brainwashed, so few surrendered.”

Huang Wen had someone bring over a corpse, lifted the back of the head, and sure enough, there was a shoddy brain-machine interface, made from plastic no less.

In the not-so-distant future, any intelligent being would essentially have one.

”This Brain-Machine Technology isn’t something these aboriginals could develop; it’s likely discarded goods from some big corporation repurposed into brainwashing devices.”

”That’s what I thought too.”

”Didn’t you say you captured a High Priest as well? Bring him over for a look.”

Huang Wen nodded, and soon a two-headed man was brought in.

This High Priest had also been implanted with a brain-machine interface, but the issue was—he had two heads.

In fact, one head fawned flatteringly:

”Greetings to the supreme Godslayer, you have initiated the Twilight of the Gods, launched the Punishment of Gods War, and your fame will shock the entire Flame Realm!”

The other head spewed curses:

”Traitor, vile person, destined to be a maggot-filled demon.”

Soon, the brainwashed head was silenced.

Gao Gong chuckled, ”Let’s get to the point—you want to survive, fine, that depends on how much of the ’gods’ secrets you reveal, such as the origins of these Flame Boys.”

”The Flame Boys are born in the Great Hall of Fertility, which is guarded by General Quel, the strongest female warrior of the ’gods.’”

”After General Quel was imprisoned, the new Guardian of the Divine Hall is the Hellhound, a monster traded by gods with foreign deities.”

”The Great Hall of Fertility is an ancient temple, existing long before we occupied the Divine Domain, possessing knowledge beyond our comprehension.”

”In addition, the gods reside in the Palace of the Sky, where Sky City has beautiful flowers, pure springs, and a throne igniting the divine flame...”