Starting as a Mechanical Hunter

My name is Ah Q, and now I’ve been kidnapped by an NPC. If you Venmo me 50, I’ll take you for a round of ’Giant Corporation Conquest’.

Ah Q, with a troubled expression, dialed the signal station and connected the pulled-out communication cable to the wrist socket. In an instant, the sensory signal covered his whole body, and the leave request info was passed through the signal station directly into the company database.

’Your leave request has been approved.’

This kind of signal station looks like an old street phone booth, and there are many in Liangzhou City. Basically, every street has three or four such devices.

This type of signal station can handle all activities related to information processing, even eating and mating.

At this time, the signal station user beside him had a flushed and excited look on their face, surely doing something not suitable for children with the help of the signal station.

Ah Q had considered calling the police, which means notifying Liangzhou City’s ’Peacekeepers’, but the attribute bar full of red question marks dispelled his idea.

Name: ??

Race: ??

Profession: ???

Total Level: ??

Blood Volume: ???

Note: A highly dangerous advanced NPC, capable of killing you in seconds. You could try dealing with them, and maybe you’ll gain something unexpected.

Gain, system, are you kidding me?

As everyone knows, when an NPC’s attribute bar has one or two question marks, you can still try to fight them, but when even the name is a question mark, you only have two choices: either stick close to them or run as far as possible.

Slowly and hesitantly, he walked opposite the other party. As an Armament Engineer, the other party gave him the feeling of a very dangerous Mechanical Life.

Super Robot?

Gao Gong picked up his coffee and drank a cup, gesturing to the other party, and Ah Q finally sat opposite him.

”Have something to drink; it’s on me,” Gao Gong said casually.

”You... really are an NPC?”

Although the NPCs in this game are quite perverse, an NPC that can break the Fourth Wall shouldn’t exist, right?

Or is it a little Easter egg made by the planners?

Seeing the expression on the other party’s face, Gao Gong knew what they were thinking after all, in the Cyber Realm, which is claimed to be completely virtual and totally cyber, anything is possible.

For example, AI taking over a player’s body, this kind of thing has already happened quite a few times.

All players can do is rally people on the forum.

”Ah Q, I reached an agreement with another part of you, releasing him from the corporate prison; he told me, if you don’t agree, just say it, and from your expression, ’knock you down to Level 0’ is some kind of special password, isn’t it?”

Ah Q finally breathed a sigh of relief, turns out it’s another part of himself causing trouble.

He tentatively said, ”Well, since it’s you who signed the agreement with me, theoretically I can cancel it, right?”

Gao Gong looked at him with a smirk, ”What do you think?”

Under the gaze of the other party, Ah Q felt like he was standing there naked.

That was the look of a seasoned driver.

”Alright,” Gao Gong said, finishing his coffee in one gulp, ”since you’ve successfully taken leave, keep me company while I take a good stroll.”

Like Nightless City, Liangzhou City is also a Mechanical City, and it’s much more developed than Nightless City. Here, there’s no distinction between Old Town District and Outer City District. All the buildings are printed with ’4D Printing Technology’.

The so-called ’4D Printing Technology’ adds the ’material’ option on the basis of length, width, and height.

In other words, it can synthesize materials like iron and steel from the molecular level, and some special aerospace materials too.

Moreover, ’4D Printing Technology’ is also the basis for interstellar navigation, because most cosmic environments are vacuum regions, dark matter areas where you can’t find any materials for repairs. Therefore, mastering the technology of synthesis from the molecular level is crucial.

Owning ’4D Printing Technology’ provides guarantees for hundred-year and thousand-year voyages.

This is also one of the top technologies of a Level 2 Civilization, as a Level 2 Civilization is equivalent to the first stage of Interstellar Civilization, getting out of the planet is of utmost importance.

But using ’4D Technology’ to build houses is really—luxurious.

Gao Gong squinted his eyes, touched the high-tech material wall, activated the ’Data Brain’, and visually observed the flow of ’signals’.

As expected, all buildings are equivalent to a ’signal tower’, and in this Liangzhou City, the flow of signals is ten times that of the outside world.

’Architectural optical cable? A signal-side technology experiment, huh.’

Gao Gong shook his head and walked into a nearby prosthetic body shop, and an automated service-type Bionic Man approached.

”Sir, what do you need?”

”Show me the latest models of prosthetic bodies.”

”Sure, sir, the latest models here include five options. There’s the Advanced Signal Implant, a plug-in that can double your work efficiency. Also, there’s the Balance Technology-Biodynamic Fury Type 4, very suitable for prosthetic body Strong individuals, making your cells ignite like an explosion...”

These five prosthetic bodies, two are Tier 2-Whiteboard, two are Tier 2-Fine, and one is actually Tier 2-Fine+.

Name: Biological Lander

Level: Tier 2-Fine+

Equipment Part: Sports System-Ankle

Equipment Requirement: Biological Energy 10000, Sports System Transformation Rate 30%

Attributes: Agility +10, Endurance +10, Power +5, Additional Skill: High-altitude Landing

High-altitude Landing: Also known as Heroic Landing, descending from greater than 100 meters in height, during this process stimulating bioelectricity, creating a large biological electromagnetic field, range 10*10 meters, for every additional 100 meters, the electromagnetic field diameter increases by 1 meter, while fall damage -50%