Starting as a Mechanical Hunter

Chapter 306: Chapter 79: Urban Spy Lady

The aberration brought by biological transformation is normal.

In the eyes of the mutant masseuse, aberration equals evolution.

However, not every kind of biological bloodline can ’evolve.’ The next three bloodlines, ’Sulfur Giant Whale,’ ’Fanged Shark,’ and ’Stygian Jellyfish,’ only brought three talents to Gao Gong, without any skills.

They are ’Corrosive Liquid Immunity,’ ’Wisdom Tooth Overgrowth,’ and ’Stygian Perception.’

Except for the first being useful in some sprayed scenarios, the latter two are unreliable. The former accelerates wisdom tooth growth, turning you into a similar shark person, while the latter allows you to capture hidden information in certain special marine areas. This talent is not useful to Gao Gong but is quite useful to the Pirate King.

These three bloodlines each provided Gao Gong 2,000 points of Biological Energy and 1 point of transformation rate for the Digestive System, Sports System, and Neural System.

Adding in the Volcanic Fungus Species with 6,000 Biological Energy, King Squid’s 2,000 Biological Energy, and the implantation of Five-Tube Gene Extraction Liquid, a total of 14,000 points of Biological Energy was increased, bringing Gao Gong’s Biological Energy to 22,210 points.

This increase is quite terrifying.

This is the benefit of becoming an alliance leader—the entire alliance’s power is at your service.

If it were a normal player, even with Gao Gong’s combat power, acquiring any single bloodline would take all last month’s effort.

Only with thousands of professional hunters diving in to work for you can you obtain so many matching high-level bloodlines.

In this sense, the title of Sea King is well-deserved.

However, in one day, implanting five high-level bloodlines, Gao Gong was almost at his limit.

Forcing more implants would either cause rebellion from high-level bloodlines or rebellion from the Crimson Empress.

After all, this top-notch biological plugin is just activated and hasn’t fully merged with him yet.

Even so, the entire room was filled with a terrifying pressure, like facing a beast tide. A few players who came to solve small bugs got black eyes as soon as they walked in, almost ’disconnecting.’

”Damn, the game balance is getting worse and worse,” complained the Red Flower Demon.

”Who’s asking for it to have no beta test?”

”Come on, if there were really a beta test, you’d probably complain about not grabbing a trial account again,” Baozi retorted.

”Wooooo—”

The last speaker, the tied-up PP Boss, was fortunate it was the Outer City District where robbery and murder weren’t illegal. Otherwise, such broad-daylight kidnapping would warrant some questioning by Peacekeepers.

”Boss, we’re here.”

”This Prosthetic Doctor’s transformation room isn’t very big,” Sister Ji walked in last, scanning around with some disdain before her gaze fixed on Gao Gong.

”It’s you! The Handsome Beast!!!”

The next moment, a current spread from Sister Ji’s heart throughout her body, her little heart fluttered, eyes had hearts, her face flushed, and her tentacles twisted into pretzels.

Gao Gong gave her a slight smile, and the Sea King bloodline instantly maxed out her adrenaline.

”I told you, we would meet again.”

Sister Ji’s legs went weak, and she fell to the ground with a thud.

”Sis, I-I can’t take it. My heart’s racing too fast, I need to log off and watch a couple of action movies to calm down. Keep doing the mission without me.”

With that, this sister rolled her eyes and literally passed away, no, logged off.

”Holy crap, Sister Ji, what kind of plane are you flying!” Big Muscle Dominator yelled in surprise.

Plane gave Big Muscle Dominator a cold look: ”I’ve already entered a void state, please don’t use the word ’fly’ with me.”

Hastily, they dragged Sister Ji onto the sofa, and Baozi wiped his sweat, forcefully explaining: ”Boss, she had heat stroke; she’ll be fine after resting a bit.”

Gao Gong nodded indifferently, saying, ”You brought the person, is it her?”

”Yes, it’s her.”

They hurriedly pressed the tied-up PP Boss onto the operating table. Gao Gong glanced at her, activated the Hacker Chip’s ’Electromagnetic Short Circuit,’ and with a snap, her sunglasses completely shut down.

Under her glasses were panda-like eye circles, distinctly black and white.

”My God, how long has PP been grinding, really going all out?”

Gao Gong lifted her hair, revealing the ’suture’ mark, then tore off the tape over her mouth.

”Corporate Survival Rule Five: Short-term passion is worthless. Only long-term passion is profitable. Release me, I need to get back to working overtime!!”

”Ah~ Hello there, handsome guy, are you testosterone?”

Seeing Gao Gong, PP Boss’s ’addiction to confess’ instinct triggered, but it was quickly replaced by the zeal for work.

”I’ll be honest with you! Even if you had two peerlessly handsome guys doing a kissing scene in front of me, I wouldn’t be interested! Let me go back to overtime; the company needs me!!!”

Without another word, Gao Gong blocked her mouth again.

”You guys head out first. I’ll perform a surgery to take out her Brain Skull Chip.”

”Okay, Boss, we’ll wait outside then.”

Though Baozi was a bit regretful for not being able to watch the surgery, the old friend’s brain was more important.

The group knowingly stepped outside.

”Boss Hui, just now, how come—oh, my! Why are you sweating so much on your body? Did you wet your pants?!”

A remark from Red Flower Demon brought everyone’s eyes to Eldest Brother Hui. Only then did they notice that, apart from the pacifier, Boss Hui of the infant template was drenched in sweat.

The game’s temperature wasn’t high, and this wasn’t reality either.

Eldest Brother Hui snapped his fingers with difficulty, and soon a Mafia underling handed over a refreshing milk drink. Boss Hui chugged it like alcohol, burped milk, looking scared:

”That Boss, he’s terrifying.”

”What’s wrong with our Boss?” Baozi was puzzled as he had never seen Boss Hui with this expression before.

”You all ’disconnected’ just now, right,” Eldest Brother Hui surveyed the group, seeing them all confirm, he rubbed his rosy cheeks, ”Isn’t it possible that you weren’t disconnected? You might have been so overwhelmed by that one’s aura that your consciousness blurred?”

Everyone was stunned, and after a while, Big Muscle Dominator couldn’t help but say:

”Boss Hui, what you’re saying is too exaggerated. If that’s the case, what level is this boss? The ceiling of power on our planet?”

Baozi pondered for a moment and said, ”Brother Umbrella has the most say in this matter. If I remember correctly, the boss gave him special training for a while. Hey, Brother Umbrella, why didn’t you go up?”

Rainy Night with a Knife and No Umbrella sighed, ”The task isn’t completed, I’m too embarrassed to show my face.”

’Weren’t you quite open on the TV show?’ Red Flower Demon muttered in her heart, but feared being chopped by Brother Umbrella, she didn’t say it out loud.

Brother Umbrella thought for a moment and said:

”During special training, in training mode, I couldn’t withstand three moves, and in a serious state, I couldn’t withstand even one.”

”So fierce!?” Baozi was stunned, although they guessed the boss was strong, they didn’t expect him to be this strong.

”There’s a rumor in the underworld that this Mr. G is the behind-the-scenes boss.”

Big Muscle Dominator looked at Baozi and seriously said, ”Are you guys hiring at your store? No other intentions, just want to train myself.”

”I feel like this person is stronger than the old man at my house!” Eldest Brother Hui said with conviction.

Several small players made wild guesses for a while until the door reopened. They climbed back in, their attitudes greatly changed, looking as though they could bow at any moment.

And on the operating table, PP was sitting, holding his head with a peculiar expression, shock, lingering fear, grievance, and a hint of anger mixed within.

Sister Ji, who had already woken up, was comforting him.

”PP, are you okay?”

”Alright, I just feel like a bit of an idiot.”

”You just installed a chip, and now your personality has changed so much?” Up till now, Red Flower Demon still found it incredible.

”It’s not just the chip; according to the company’s requirements, I had to recite the Corporate Rules once a day to motivate myself.”

A flicker of lingering fear passed in PP Boss’s eyes.

”Then, I saw the Corporate Will!”

”What is the Corporate Will?”

”You could understand it as a kind of collective consciousness, or rather, a super AI,” Gao Gong said while wiping his hands, without turning back.

”Can it be defeated?” Big Muscle Dominator asked.

”Unless you can destroy this company, otherwise, no.”

”Beautiful Interconnection recently spent a billion, signing three top security companies,” PP Boss said gloomily, ”As far as I know, any one of these security companies can field hundreds of fully mechanical transformers, those at level 30.”

Big Muscle Dominator immediately felt weak, ”Then let’s just join another faction, after all, this game isn’t the only one.”

”Companies in Nightless City are harsher than gangs; basically, everyone signs life labor contracts,” Eldest Brother Hui shook his head.

”What’s a life labor contract?”

”It means that before you die, all your labor must be devoted to the company, unless the company collapses, and you are auctioned off as company assets.”

”If PP were to defect, he would probably be ’company asset reclaiming’, put simply, hunted by NPCs.”

”Damn, isn’t this slavery?”

”Postmodern slavery.”

Baozi and others were stumped, unless they changed maps, there didn’t seem to be any solutions, but if PP Boss changed maps, meeting would become difficult in the future.

This game doesn’t have teleportation points.

Sister Ji glanced at Gao Gong and said coyly, ”Boss, do you have any advice?”

Gao Gong turned around, showing a dizzying smile to her.

”Perhaps, you could work for me,” Gao Gong smiled subtly, ”Do you want revenge?”

PP Boss hesitated slightly, ”You mean, become a business spy?”

With a ’ding’, PP Boss received a task.

[City Spy Girl]

Difficulty: Difficult

Task Brief: You want to take revenge on Beautiful Interconnection, and this mysterious Mr. G wants first-hand business intelligence. The two hit it off immediately.

Task Objective: Obtain the business intelligence Mr. G wants

Task Rewards: Experience +4000, one exclusive transformation, one chip implant.

Note: What’s more interesting than toppling a regional corporate monopoly in a cyber society?

However, PP Boss didn’t immediately accept it, having a bit of PTSD toward such temporary tasks now.

”Then what about my ’Workaholic’ chip, reinstall it?”

”I’ll install a backdoor on the chip for you; your consciousness can remain somewhat clear, allowing you to stop the chip’s operation at any time.”

PP asked everyone’s opinion in the group.

’What are you waiting for, accept it, PP, this is a hidden task!’ Baozi

’Yeah, more importantly, the boss is so handsome, if you accept, I can interact more with the boss often.’ Sister Ji sent a string of heart emojis.

Ultimately, Eldest Brother Hui’s words persuaded her.

’A regional monopolistic enterprise can’t be taken down in just a few moves, so this should be a long-term task.’

’PP, if you want to stay in the first tier of players, accepting this task has only upsides.’