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Chapter 261: The Four Giants of Scientific Research_1

Chapter 261: Chapter 261: The Four Giants of Scientific Research_1

For Falena, there was nothing more intuitive than becoming a member of the Bug Swarm to understand the process of being "Infected."

It was completely different from what she had imagined.

She had assumed her consciousness would fall into chaos or vanish completely, becoming a walking corpse dominated by the Queen’s Nest, but after the assimilation process was complete, she found that her memory and consciousness remained intact. She still possessed the ability to think independently, the only difference was the appearance of a device similar to a communicator in her mind.

She could hear voices from the Queen’s Nest and between different individuals.

At the moment, the voice in her mind was summoning her, urging her to return to the Queen’s Nest.

This piqued Falena’s curiosity; as a researcher, she was also eager to see the true face of the Queen’s Nest.

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"The Shadow Guards have grown stronger."

After Falena and the Humanoid Weapon of United Technology had left, Song Lan spoke.

The number of members had increased from the initial two to more than a dozen, and each member had their own specialty, which was the advanced type of warrior he had mentioned before.

With combat and healing abilities that exceeded those of the special forces, they could solve environments that were different from ordinary crimes for the Law Enforcers.

But the more important gain was United Technology’s Humanoid Weapon.

Due to the chip in the Wild Bone being fitted with the United Government’s positioning system, they couldn’t research the numerous secret technologies of the United Government hidden within it until the problem was solved. However, the appearance of the Humanoid Weapon brought a new direction to their research.

The Overload system.

A simple time acceleration system, which was nothing less than a demotion attack for most enemies.

With the dynamic vision of ordinary humans, it was simply not enough to capture someone who had activated the Overload system, and Falena’s joining enabled them to master the secrets of this technology more quickly.

The two did not go home immediately but made a trip to the dump to attend a welcoming party.

They welcomed Falena and also celebrated the official establishment of the Shadow Guards, with a dozen members, already forming an organization of considerable scale.

These former Cyber crazies came from various walks of life in District Seventeen, and when not on a mission, Lu Xiang allowed them to temporarily return to their lives.

After the welcoming party was the seminar on the Overload system. Under Medea’s leadership, the four research giants composed of Dr. Bai Zhu, Falena, and Ge Fu participated in the discussion.

Lu Xiang, as the leader of the Bug Swarm, listened from the side.

"The adaptability of the Overload system is extremely demanding. Even within the company, the experimental subjects capable of adapting to this technology are very few. It requires not just a specialized operating system to make real-time judgments during the Overload process but also reckons with whether the human body can withstand the strain the Overload system brings," Falena explained.

As the highest administrator of the District Seventeen branch, few people knew the project better than Falena, "Apart from the compatibility of the operating system, users of the Overload system also need to replace their spine, vital organs, neurological feedback devices, and the circulatory system. The complete project’s modification estimate is 46.7%."

Those who can undergo prosthesis modifications up to and beyond 40% are already within the category of three-star rescuers. This figure allows them to find a decent job in any core area, and the Overload system gives them a stronger burst of power in combat encounters compared to others of the same level with prosthesis modifications.

For those unfamiliar with the Overload system, the "first encounter kill" benefit of the Overload system was evident.

This was undoubtedly one of the greatest research achievements of United Technology in the past decade, and it was precisely the advent of this technology that gave the company an extremely solid position within the United Government.

"Without replacing the spine and transplanting key organs, the load brought by the Overload system would quickly drag down the human body, resulting in side effects such as spinal fractures, organ failure, or vascular rupture during the initial experiments."

To keep the human body up to speed with the Overload system in a short period, a corresponding price needed to be paid, and all the data and parts that needed to be replaced researched by United Technology were drawn from countless failures.

The number of test subjects who died for the Overload system was no less than a hundred; their existence gave birth to the aces of the various regional branches, "The company refers to the successfully modified individuals as ’Transcendents’, who possess capabilities superior to Awakeners, with the purpose of dealing with the rebellion of Awakeners."

The Awakeners, as successful experimental subjects, retained their autonomous consciousness even after a high degree of Prosthesis Modification.

For the company, human free will was like a double-edged sword; while it allowed Awakeners to discard the side effects of cyber lunacy, it also could foster the thought of betraying the company.

After all, not everyone is willing to stay with the company to pay off the debt they owe for their military-grade prosthetic bodies, and some, after adapting to the power of military-grade prostheses, start entertaining the unrealistic idea of confronting the company.

On this issue, an individual sharing the same mind with the Queen’s Nest would never harbor thoughts of betrayal or resistance to the Bug Swarm.

Falena regarded the Bug Swarm consciousness as an excellent subject for research since, to some extent, it was also the most ideal method of dominion for the rulers of the company.

"The Devourer in District Seventeen is an exception."

Medea threw cold water on the idea, as genetic engineering was her strongest area, and she had overseen the entire Devourer project from the start, "Most of the Devourer entities lack an active autonomous consciousness. Although they also have the ability to learn, they cannot suppress their biological instincts, which manifest in incessant devouring and assimilation."

If a Devourer is left unchecked, the most likely outcome would be its gradual consumption of an entire city.

This particular Devourer’s greatest difference lies in its ability to suppress its instincts and even carry out rational research and thought; to a certain extent, it had become somewhat similar to artificial intelligence.

Medea thought, this was mostly related to Song Lan.

That’s because he had always been the model for the Devourer to emulate and learn from.

Song Lan was also the only person in her knowledge who could ignore the invasion of the Queen’s Nest’s consciousness and communicate with it; anyone else would have been assimilated into a part of it upon encountering the Queen’s Nest in the underground sewers.

"But as for those assimilated by the Devourer, the side effects you’ve just mentioned are almost negligible."

Ge Fu expressed his opinion, "The healing abilities of the Infected allow them to repair damaged parts in a short time, so what we need to do next is figure out how to implant the Overload system into the brains of the Shadow Guards. By the way, what do you think of ’Superspatial Infectee,’ ’Infectee Guard Type III,’ or ’Rapid-Type Infectee’? I think these names are pretty cool..."

"Indeed, this is the direction for our next research."

As the main person in charge of the research group and the one who understood Ge Fu the best, Medea spoke up, "But please refrain from adorning them with those tasteless names."

She felt there must be something off with Ge Fu.

After all, who would call a King Bug of the Horn Bug ’cutie’?

Every time she caught Ge Fu whispering with his "cutie," she would get goosebumps all over.

Thinking of this, she looked seriously at Falena, the new member of the research team, and said, "You should try to avoid discussing Horn Bug and Infected matters with him, because he will drag you into a discussion for an entire afternoon, or even a whole day."

Plus, with Ge Fu’s maniacal tones, it would definitely leave an indelible bad memory.

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