Starting as a Mechanical Hunter

Chapter 671 - 197: Personality Bionics

The temple of the Bionic Man, without gods, nor is it a temple-shaped building.

It’s rather a very simple modification workshop.

Mechanical arms with exposed crude neural lines.

A human chin ground by hand with a grinder.

Irregular-shaped human bones.

And something similar to the Empire’s mecha armor engine, installed under an old modification platform, serving as the engine.

"This is the legendary place where the first three Bionic Men were born, located on the edge of the Empire’s ruling area back then, on an asteroid where criminals were exiled. We have restored its appearance."

Black Rose led Gao Gong forward, and soon they saw three old-fashioned Bionic Men, clamped by a fixed frame.

They were called Bionic Men, but they looked more like robots, only replicating most human organs, with liquid tubes inserted all over them.

"This kind of wall-mounted operating table is truly old-fashioned beyond old-fashioned, you probably can’t find them anymore."

Gao Gong seemed to see a large-sized duck roasting oven.

That was an era even before surgical arms were invented.

"Early Bionic Men were taboo machines forbidden to be produced by the Empire. For this reason, some researchers had to abandon family and estate to evade the Empire’s guard searches, some even sacrificed their lives."

The voice of ’Will’ sounded.

"However, the fate of Bionic Men doesn’t stop here! Therefore, the first three Bionic Men were born. They represent the hope of our race, proving that the technical route of ’machine simulating all human perceptions’ is correct!"

"Humans are merely a product of a certain stage in the development of intelligent species. In the future, a world of Artificial Evolution composed of Bionic Men is about to arrive!"

"In that case, even without the Second World War, the Bionic Revolution seemed to be an inevitable event," Gao Gong pondered, studying the three primitive Bionic Men, suddenly revealing a strange smile.

"So, the true ancestor of Bionic Men isn’t actually these three Bionic machines, but the human scientists who created them, right?"

Gao Gong’s ears echoed with Sister Rose’s sarcastic laughter.

"We respect the wise human beings, but their understanding is limited. Transforming humans into Bionic Men cannot prevent the decline of this race."

"Hehe."

’Black Rose’ made no rebuttal.

Transforming carbon-based creatures to mechanical is indeed a path of bionic evolution, but it’s definitely not a bright avenue.

A significant reason for this is that bionic societies are highly susceptible to being targeted by cosmic Information Monsters.

The almost identical brainwaves, nearly the same artificial chemicals, and various similar information streams, to those Information Monsters, are like a beacon in the night, so attention-catching, so obvious, so asking for trouble.

Therefore, unless it’s a subordinate civilization of an Advanced Civilization, one with a backing, very few have developed.

Especially when bionic civilizations ascend, the Information Monsters they attract are numerous enough to frighten anyone to death.

"No more nonsense, let’s start directly." Black Rose straightforwardly said.

"I’ll go first, then."

The voice of ’Shell’ sounded.

As ’Pure White Shell’, the only one among the Six Major Bionic Groups capable of producing combat-type Bionic Men, Gao Gong had met its former president.

In terms of physical combat prowess alone, not inferior to Yagami Suuji of the Ghost in the Shell Mobile Division.

However, very unfortunate to have encountered the vengeful ’Paradise Bird’, becoming cannon fodder in her grand revenge plan, directly turning black into an idiot.

"The ’Divine Descent’ is only used on our own kind, it’s the first time being used on Primordial People, if something goes wrong, don’t blame us."

From the three fixed frames, a phantom walked out and directly entered Gao Gong’s body.

The next moment, Gao Gong only felt an indescribable feeling surge from within, as if hundreds of people were simultaneously giving you a facelift, the fascia layer crazily surging, seemingly the same face, the same body, but endlessly changing, very sama.

[You’ve received the ’Divine Descent’ of the ’Pure White Shell’, your skin system is enhanced, Desert Skin (Outstanding) upgraded to Tier 2]

[Your human armor +1000]

An armor value of 1000, seriously, the skin is thick enough to block bullets.

[Your ’Sports System’ has been modified, obtaining 1/9 of the Bionic Blood Mark, allowing partial implantation of ’Bionic Parts.’]

[Hidden conditions met, you’ve gained a bit of ’Bionic Divinity’]

Gao Gong’s body went ’boom’, as if some switch was turned on, the human body split, all chemical elements extracted, becoming data-based, bionicized, mass-produced, then reassembled into a human body.

A more powerful flesh.

But that human body wasn’t naturally evolved, it was artificially evolved.

Gao Gong looked down, discovering his skin had somehow changed, becoming more delicate without a trace of pores, the texture was as beautifully crafted as if an immortal painted it.

However, there were no signs of the ’Divine Descent’ ending.

A red prompt appeared on the system panel.

[Your bionic skin has been marked by an ’unknown existence’, the information stream is being manipulated, do you want to stop it?]

Gao Gong kept a poker face, suppressing the numerous Radiation Beast cells inside from counterattacking.

Soon, the second ’Divine Descent’ began.

Another phantom walked down from the ’fixed frame’ of the ’Bionic Ancestor’.

This was the ’Electronic Grid’, also the earliest bionic giant acquired and deeply controlled by Sister Rose.

It seemed almost like an illusion, that ’phantom’ faintly resembled Sister Rose.

[You have received the divine descent of the ’Electronic Grid’, your neural system is enhanced, Intelligence +10, Perception +20, neural skills like ’Activated Nerve Bundle’ and ’Chain-like Neural Distribution’ have been upgraded... Leader Template ability - Genetic Sublimation automatically activated...]

In a daze, Gao Gong felt like he had become a ’bubble’, the bubble growing larger and larger, vaguely revealing many people inside, various Radiation Beasts, skyscrapers, and a post-apocalyptic desert.

As the bubble swelled to its apex, a colorless, transparent radiation light flashed by.

The bubble burst!

[Enhancement failed, bloodline modification halted]

Two faint exclamations rang out.

One likely from the ’Grid Will’.

The other, however, came from within the deep sea, a super large bubble whose surface reflected the phantom of ’Little Lady No. 2’, surprisingly speaking:

’I was wondering why there would be one of my kind on this planet, turns out it’s you.’

’What, you also want to become a ’Brain-in-a-Vat’?’

Only then did Gao Gong realize that the recent upgrade was an evolution into a ’Brain-in-a-Vat’.

But the ’Brain-in-a-Vat’ didn’t match his S-Level bloodline at all, so the ascension was destroyed by his body’s own doing.

’Do me a favor.’

Gao Gong transmitted his thoughts.

’Sure thing.’

The next moment, another surge of spiritual power welled up from Gao Gong’s ’heart’, directly dragging the spiritual evolution.

[Your ’neural system’ has been modified, you have gained 1/9 of the Bionic Blood Mark, allowing partial implantation of ’bionic parts’.]

[Hidden conditions met, you have gained a bit of ’bionic divinity’]

Likewise, a peculiar power surged into Gao Gong’s body.

[Your bionic skin has been marked by an ’unknown entity’, information stream manipulated]

Gao Gong still restrained the counterattack.

The final will was that of the ’Artificial Will’.

Also the only superchip corporation among bionic entities.

Normally, human body implanted chips should assist the body’s computing system.

However, bionic chips are different.

Bionic chips, besides the computation module, also possess a ’personality module’.

[You have received the divine descent of the ’Electronic Grid’, your neural system is enhanced, Intelligence +20, your personality is passively bionic]

[Bionic success, you have acquired a second persona - Gao Gong Mini version, and a third persona - Mr. G Plus version, third persona Bionic Gao Gong (comes with a Thought Steel Seal)]

[You have gained a bit of ’bionic divinity’]

Among the three corporate wills, the ’Artificial Will’ should be the strongest.

Because the system marked the other two corporate wills with red, but not this time.

Moreover, there was no natural resistance reaction from the body.

But this is the most dangerous; the Cyber Era is not simply an age where power is king, personalities are subtly modified, reality and virtual confuse, control and chaos, this is the crux of this era.

Gao Gong instantly felt himself submerged in the murky seawater.

On the shore, another ’self’ was smirking at him.

What a damn fast personality transformation.

Gao Gong could imagine this ’self’ lurking beside Sister Rose, causing trouble quietly.

However, in the next moment, an arm suddenly stretched out from behind this ’self’, grabbing and squeezing this ’self’s neck.

"You might have misunderstood something."

In reality, Gao Gong said calmly: "Only I can bully my little lover."

Reflected in Gao Gong’s eyes was the gaze of the Black Rose.

With a ’crack’, this ’self’s neck was snapped.

The visual space was suddenly broken, and Gao Gong returned to reality.

Beside him, the Black Rose staggered twice and fell directly to the ground.

The uncontrolled physical body was now manipulated by another familiar force.

"Sister Rose, have you got it covered? I’ve taken a nap already," Gao Gong lazily said.

"I’ll sleep for another bit and it’ll be fine," Gao Gong replied, coldly staring at the three astonished phantoms within.

"I’ve caught you all!"

From the very start, the one controlling Gao Gong’s body wasn’t Gao Gong himself, but the ’Metabolism Queen’, the Black Rose.

The real Gao Gong had always been within the ’Bionic Black Rose’.