Starting as a Mechanical Hunter

Chapter 328: Chapter 101: Star System Express Station

”Roast Turkey, help me out a bit, save this child.”

Gao Gong pointed with his hand, and the phantom of ’Xiao Yu’ appeared.

”...Roast Turkey,” the Paradise Bird repeated with a strange tone.

”The nickname Paradise Bird is so ominous, like it’s going to die at any moment. Roast Turkey is a much better name, fragrant and delicious.”

”...”

Deciding to overlook this minor offense due to the Rich Lady Love Prototype’s looks, the Paradise Bird remained silent.

Violent Flame Code erupted from Gao Gong’s head, directly burning through the glass in front of him, shooting into the earth’s core magma. The code dissolved code, magma roiled furiously, and with a bird’s cry, a level 60 ’Super Phoenix’ flapped its thousand-meter-long wings and soared upwards.

This vision left the surrounding researchers dumbfounded, their expressions like they had seen a ghost.

”It does look like a roast chicken, indeed.”

Gao Gong shrugged, the code on his body shifted, and a researcher’s white coat appeared. With a flick of his hand, the code transformed into a pair of gentlemen’s beast-like glasses, instantly becoming a genius research youngster.

Ever since Xiao Yu mentioned ’Planetary Engine,’ Gao Gong had been curious about what technological path this civilization architecture the Empire built was following. Now that he saw it, wasn’t this just a ’Dyson Sphere’?

The ’Dyson Sphere’ is a Level 3 Civilization Architecture, and its principle is simple: by covering the surface of a fixed star with an energy absorption system, it obtains nearly infinite energy.

Simply put, this thing is used to absorb solar radiation.

Once this technology is realized, a Level 3 Civilization basically won’t have to worry about energy shortages anymore.

But saying it is easy, doing it is devilishly difficult.

To create a mesh system with a diameter of 1.392×10⁶ km, in the 6000-degree environment of a stellar surface, the manpower, materials, and financial resources required are astronomical.

Gao Gong could affirm that the Empire’s scientists surely referenced this civilization architecture to build the Earth Crust Engine.

Though in both scope and density, the Earth Core is not as exaggerated as the sun, for a Level 2 Civilization, building such a superstructure still consumes an astronomical amount.

Just looking at this dense and boundless ’engine network’ would tell you.

Giant cones repeatedly pierced into the earth’s core magma, heat energy was converted by the engine and dispersed throughout the network, becoming electrical and magnetic energy.

These ’Super Thermometers’ were inserted one by one, and each time the high temperature reached its red line, it would be pulled out and cooled down through a special process. Billowing white smoke occasionally covered a section of the ’engine line,’ like an old-fashioned train.

And under each ’engine line,’ there were thousands of these ’Super Thermometers.’

Intersecting ’engine lines’ numbered about ten thousand.

’Heat Extraction Technology,’ ’Magnetic Suspension Technology,’ ’Arc Furnace,’ ’Asteroid Logistics System,’ ’Energy Factory.’

Gao Gong glanced over, immediately spotting the super technology categories contained in the engine, and each of these super technologies was almost invariably synthesized by ’Professional Knowledge Chains.’

Relying solely on gambling with blueprints is absolutely impossible to achieve this kind of high-end sophistication.

’It couldn’t have been done by the Empire alone, a joint effort of three, perhaps even with alien influences.’

Gao Gong strolled casually, the researchers around him completely ignored his presence.

If it weren’t for the Bionic Research Institute being occupied by aliens, Professor Han might have been involved too.

”Feeling lucky!”

Originally, an ancient database couldn’t contain much good stuff.

Ancient times can’t match modern times, modern times can’t match the future, that’s the common worldview of civilizations.

After all, how could a Nokia outperform a smartphone?

But if it’s an ancient database from a super project like this, even a single ’super technology’ would outweigh hundreds of Level 2 Civilization blueprints.

This would be equivalent to the futuristic technology version of the ’Manhattan Project,’ ’Apollo Plan,’ ’2 Bombs and One Satellite.’

And Gao Gong’s hacker job transfer mission could be completed on the side.

[Job Transfer Task: Hacker Invasion]

Task Contents:

1. Hack into a medium-sized company’s data center, obtain sufficient sensory code, and establish your own database

2. Create your own Artificial Intelligence

After all, an ancient database is still a database.

”Little A.”

”Master, Little A is here.”

”Crack the defense code of this data, take over the authority of this database.”

”Okay, Master.”

In the next moment, Little A sprang into action. Although the underlying framework wasn’t completely established yet, as an AI crafted by a Level 6 Civilization veteran driver, Little A was quite formidable.

On the data level, with Little A’s move, it instantly controlled one-third of the data.

Alarms blared loudly.

A row of guards rushed over, surrounding Gao Gong, and looked at him warily.

”Which research station are you from? Show your ID immediately!”

These guards were Caucasian, with no modifications on their surface, but Gao Gong sensed a strong life energy from them.

”If you’re not from the Empire, are you from the Federation?”

The Empire, the Alliance, the Federation, the three ancient civilizations once stood in a three-way balance on this planet.

The Empire was the ’Transformer Civilization’, proficient in overlord production, body modifications, piloting mecha, and operating excavators.

The Alliance was the ’Virtual World Civilization’, focused on virtual networks and virtual personalities, and Cyber Space actually should have been a product of this civilization.

The Federation was the ’Brain Domain Civilization’, excelling in drug usage, biochemical crises, and specializing in superpower development.

Since these guards are superpower users, they should be soldiers of the Federation.

Of course, in this ’incomplete database’, superpowers are just another form of data transformation.

Blood-red lines covered Gao Gong’s body, and both sides acted simultaneously, but the flesh blanket transformed by Gao Gong instantly engulfed five people.

[You killed Firewall No. 21, experience +500]

[You killed Firewall No. 23, experience +500]

[You killed Firewall No. 26, experience +500]

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”Electronic Defense Walls are about to be replaced by virtual defense barriers, and you’re still using old firewalls to block me?”

Gao Gong shook his head, slaughtering as he went past.

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While things were going smoothly for Gao Gong, it was a completely different story for Xiao Yu. The Dragon Scale Greatsword churned up turbulent water, and each slash with mixed gun force could send a dozen robots flying, most of which would be paralyzed after falling, their internal electronic components shattered.

But there were just too many robots!

Front, back, left, right, densely packed, Xiao Yu finally realized that beneath this Fucheng Island, relying on this ’engine remnant’, several robot factories had been built at some point, and large numbers of robots were spewing out of the pipes.

This feeling is very much like the style of the Mother City.

It’s well known that Little Angel is the king of one-on-one fights, yet a dwarf when it comes to brawls. Her single-target attacks are overwhelmingly powerful, sometimes dealing over ten thousand damage, but she almost has no AOE.

She and the Mechanical Armor Soldier fought from the seabed to the shore, with hundreds of robots dying under her hand, but the numbers kept growing, not decreasing.

Little Angel was truly enraged, activating both ’Battle Angel’ and ’Mechanical Witch’ modes at once.

Battle Angel: Entering Battle Angel mode, you gain the combat instincts of a higher-level lifeform.

Mechanical Witch: You can temporarily enhance the performance of your mechanical body, increasing your attack, defense, and chain damage by 30~60%.

She wanted to follow her usual brute approach, beheading the enemy’s general, the ultimate reckless tactic.

However, the Mechanical Armored Soldier stopped her, speaking seriously: ”Where is the enemy’s main general? Where is the weak point of the Mechanical System? Is there any backup? After you kill it, what do you plan to do next? Haven’t thought of all these, how can you just want to go on a killing spree?”

Xiao Yu was full of shame after the reprimand, she indeed had not thought about anything, just subconsciously wanted to unleash a big move.

Seeing this, the Mechanical Armored Soldier softened his tone, ”Besides, your reinforcements have arrived, there’s no need for you to risk your life.”

At some point, walls of fire rose from the sea, when robots rushed into them, they scrambled like headless flies.

And as the number of walls of fire reached a thousand, a gigantic flaming data maze took form, covering the sea visible to the naked eye.

In a flash of flame, a phantom-like figure emerged from the space, the firebird fire mark on her right cheek particularly noticeable. She glanced at Xiao Yu and smiled.

”Little girl, the robot corps is controlled by artificial intelligence, even if you kill them all, it’s useless if you can’t find the artificial intelligence.”

”Artificial intelligence?” Xiao Yu was stunned for a moment and hurriedly asked, ”Has the ancient computation program evolved?”

Paradise Bird shook her head, somewhat puzzled: ”With the sensory signal intensity here, it’s impossible to generate an advanced AI, and this feeling—”

It feels very much like the Mother City!!

But not the Deep Net, rather Cybertron.

Sure enough, as Paradise Bird’s data maze disrupted the robot army’s ’perception signals’, transparent data jellyfish emerged from the sea, these ’Mechanical Mothers’ spinning several times in mid-air before shooting towards Paradise Bird.

”Not an advanced AI,” Paradise Bird raised her eyebrows, ”but it doesn’t seem to be a super AI either.”

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”Master, I’ve recompiled 70% of the database code, should we proceed with reorganization?”

”Do it.”

As Gao Gong moved, the ’engine network’ transformed into massive data, then recomposed into a new network, sweeping away old debris and decay.

After all, Gao Gong has witnessed a real ’Dyson Sphere’, and naturally, Little A’s imitation looked like a real Dyson Sphere, the ’Super Thermometer’ disappeared, replaced by a covering energy inlet resembling an energy jet, thermal energy almost ceaselessly absorbed into it.

Meanwhile, the entire ’Earth Crust Engine’ started to rotate rapidly.

After players enter the universe in the mid-game, a Dyson Sphere has another title in their mouths—Star System Express Station.