Chapter 448 - 187: The Swollen-Head Faction

"Cyber Realm" is touted as a 100% realistic simulation game.

So most of the time, the system plays an auxiliary role, there’s no backpack, and blueprints need to be crafted by yourself.

At most, it occasionally gives you some candy.

Other than adding an alliance panel, the NPC system doesn’t seem much different.

However, this time, Gao Gong finally felt the greatness of the ’System Power.’

Oh no, it should be called ’Civilization Correction Power.’

In Gao Gong’s eyes, this thing is like a divine cheat descending from the heavens.

Civilization Correction Power (Cyber Test Field): At the same level of civilization rank, it can regress the enemy’s technology tree back to a previous branch node and interrupt the growth of that branch.

This is kind of a mouthful, but it can be summed up in one phrase—factory reset.

If Gao Gong uses this move against Eliza, the ’Mother of Data’ will collapse at the data layer, her personality will dissolve, reverting to the baseline structure of Cyber Space, and she will never be able to restore her personality.

If Gao Gong uses this move against Hugh Laurie, then all the moral chips will crash, and the ’Human Completion Plan’ will go up in smoke.

This move has an attribute similar to ’Intelligent Particle,’ directly locking the future of a given technology path.

In the chaotic Cyber Test Field with its mixed-up technology paths, this move undoubtedly qualifies as a dimensional strike.

"How is it done? Is it micro-level locking or consciousness-level change?"

"Why does it feel strangely familiar?"

In the universe, there are some existences even advanced civilizations cannot explain.

These existences are called ’Marvels.’

According to legend, by upgrading the civilizational treasure known as ’Giant Structure’ to the highest level, it ascends to become a ’Marvel.’

This ’Marvel’ is so powerful that it can even distort universal rules.

Although ’Civilization Correction Power’ is not nearly as powerful, at most it modifies the growth of a branch segment on a technology tree, but the principle is similar.

Of course, the usage conditions for ’Civilization Correction Power’ are relatively harsh, requiring the same civilization tier.

For example, if Gao Gong is now at Level 29, he can modify a certain technology branch route of a Level 1 Civilization.

For example, changing some parameters of electric vehicles to cause their energy pollution to surpass that of gasoline cars.

That’s a bit of black humor.

In short, ever since returning from Cyber Space, Gao Gong has been pondering how to make the most of ’Civilization Correction Power.’

In Corporate Warfare, this is definitely a decisive killing weapon.

As for Eliza’s proposal, naturally, Gao Gong had no objections.

With Google at hand, the world is mine.

Their trade-off is that Eliza helps Gao Gong gather information about Destructive Energy online, while Gao Gong needs to collect Destructive Energy Carriers for her in reality.

In Eliza’s view, perhaps she sees herself getting a good deal.

After all, no matter how well Gao Gong develops, he’d end up as nothing more than a ’planetary entrepreneur.’

But if she collects enough Destructive Energy Carriers ahead of Mother City and offers them to that Advanced Civilization, the benefits she gains would be tenfold, a hundredfold of his.

But all this is conditional on the Cyber Test Field not going wrong.

But in fact, once the Cyber Tide descends, human society will collapse, Cyber Space will shatter, Conceptual Bodies will reincarnate, and even Mother City will struggle to care for itself.

Gao Gong even suspected that the ancient civilization behind Mother City had problems.

Otherwise, how would outsiders dare to sabotage an experiment of an Advanced Civilization?

All reality will crumble in the face of a true torrent.

So, Gao Gong immediately agreed to her.

After all, why not agree to unachievable promises upfront?

Director Du no longer has time for her puppy; she’s found a new love, which is this huge mechanical creation, Level 3 Architecture-Mechanical Hub.

This made Gao Gong itch to try it himself.

He currently has three complete professional knowledge chains—

Virtual Personality, Mechanical Brain, Mechanical Complex.

The scientists under him, like Dr. Rong, also have a complete professional knowledge chain of ’Mechanical Life.’

Theoretically, he could try synthesizing ’Professional Knowledge Chains.’

After all, wagering ’knowledge’ is not as thrilling as ’knowledge chains.’

The experience of gambling with ’blueprints’ is calculated by tens of thousands.

But gambling ’large blueprints,’ you have to add two zeros and calculate in the millions.

After glancing at his experience, Gao Gong sighed gently.

A penny can bring a hero to his knees.

If only he had extorted the players a bit more, why give so many benefits?

However, a thought crossed Gao Gong’s mind; he remembered there seemed to be a ’corporate legacy’ among the task rewards.

This thing also appears to be able to gamble a ’large blueprint.’

[Do you choose to open the ’corporate legacy’]

Gao Gong clicked confirm, and the next moment, four pale ’memorial portraits’ appeared in front of him, faces deathly pale, eyes wide open, as if ready to crawl out at any moment.

Hugh Laurie, Dr. Murray, and two unrecognizable old men.

"Oh my!"

Gao Gong was filled with black lines.

"System, are you doing this on purpose or what!"

[Please choose a legacy]

This seems like a double-choice question.

"So, the corporate legacy can be chosen twice?"

The system didn’t respond, seemingly by default.

"Interesting."

Gao Gong rubbed his hands; having seen the Rich Lady, his luck shouldn’t be too bad.

Hugh Laurie, Mr. President! It’s decided, it’s you!

[You have obtained a limited edition set of EVA CDs]

"..."

Looking at the familiar cover with two women and one man, Gao Gong was silent for a moment.

"System, care to explain?"

[In the Mechanical Split Star Corporation law, personal assets also belong to corporate assets]

You think that if you say that, I won’t want to kill you?

"Little A."

"Little A is here."

"Help me check the identities of these two people online."

"Yes, Master."

Soon, the identities of these unfamiliar faces were dug out: Litt, a senior manager in the industrial chain sector, rumored to be poached by Hugh Laurie with a hefty sum, specifically to solve product capacity issues. And there’s an old man named Sundar, who is more interesting; he’s the domineering president’s partner and a senior director of another chip giant, unfortunately hung up in Nightless City.

"System, can a partner be considered a member of the corporation?"

The system didn’t answer, apparently defaulting to yes again.

Gao Gong originally wanted to choose Dr. Murray, but if another EVA package came, he might just spit blood.

As for the other two, the black technology in the industrial chain would be of no use to him—

[You have obtained Level 2 Civilization - Universal Chip Production Machine]

Name: Universal Chip Production Machine

Category: Small-scale Civilization Architecture

Quality: Level 2 Civilization

Weight: 5 tons

Note: The terminal product of chip technology, the foundation of the new era’s electronic industry. Through this, you can produce any model of chip available in the market.

A small icon appeared, showing a peculiarly-shaped ’washing machine’.

Gao Gong tapped it open, and the next moment, a holographic projection of a ’washing machine’ appeared before him.

The whole ’washing machine’ was about two stories high, with the top layer as the micro-circuit design module, the middle as the lithography machine module, and the bottom as the 3D printing module.

Three major modules, huh.

Additionally, there was a display screen outside that could manually adjust the scale and parameters of the chips.

Wherever Gao Gong’s finger pointed, a corresponding mechanical blueprint would appear.

A rough count showed some 34 to 40 sheets.

’Universal Chip Production Machine’, in a Level 2 Civilization, holds the same status as a ’lithography machine’ does in a Level 1 Civilization.

Unlike the lithography machine, it integrates the entire chip production line into this ’washing machine’, with a chip production efficiency of one per minute.

One per minute, 60 per hour, 1800 in 30 hours.

Gao Gong finally understood how so many chips could pop up at once.

If this thing could be mass-produced to a dozen units, the production capacity would be terrifying.

"Chip technology, mechanical brain, virtual personality..."

The gambling dog spirit in Gao Gong began blazing fiercely again.

Though he didn’t dare gamble the knowledge chain, he could still try on advanced blueprints.

In his memory, the three knowledge chains he held happened to contain all the knowledge needed for an ’advanced blueprint’.

[Do you wish to disassemble the Level 2 Professional Knowledge Chain - Mechanical Complex]

Yes

On the synthesis panel, the ’Mechanical Complex’ column directly split, turning into seven types of professional knowledge.

[Industrial Materials Science], [Mechanical Transformation], [Mechanical Electronics Engineering], [Exoskeleton Design], [Energy Development], [Composite Materials], [Large Engineering]

Gao Gong dragged the [Mechanical Electronics Engineering] and [Composite Materials] professional knowledge into the synthesis box.

Following the template, he also disassembled the ’Virtual Personality’ professional knowledge chain into [Brainware Engineering], [Memory Transformation], [Cognitive Science], [Neuronal Technology], and dragged them in.

And on the ’Mechanical Brain Technology’, Gao Gong selected [Brain Chemistry], [Brain Structure], [Brainwave Control]

Generally speaking, the number of knowledge needed for a gambling blueprint doesn’t exceed 5.

Yet Gao Gong suddenly raised the number to 9.

Don’t look at it as just adding 3 more pieces of knowledge; the error tolerance rate plummeted.

However, this is under the condition of not knowing the experience ratio.

[Mechanical Electronics Engineering] + [Composite Materials] + [Brainware Engineering] + [Memory Transformation] + [Cognitive Science] + [Neuronal Technology] + [Brain Chemistry] + [Brain Structure] + [Brainwave Control]

[Do you want to synthesize the knowledge?]

Yes

[Synthesis failed]

Uh——

Eighty thousand points of experience gone.

If the knowledge exceeds 5 types, even if you know the experience ratio, failure is still possible, and you might end up drawing water with a bamboo basket.

But the more knowledge, the more important the synthesized blueprint.

After three consecutive failures, Gao Gong finally gambled out what he wanted.

[Fusion succeeded, you have researched the Level 10 Electronic Neural Blueprint [Super Brain Enhancement System]]

In the previous life, in the Level 3 Civilization, Gao Gong followed a civilization route called the ’Superbrain Civilization’, so the importance of this thing is imaginable.

This ’Super Brain Enhancement System’ resembles a super-thin helmet, akin to a semi-transparent glass form, with faint circuit patterns on the glass surface.

Compared to the Information Civilization, where the ’plugging into the back of the head party’ is relatively prevalent, this technology branch is called the ’Brain Enhancement Party’.

Also known as the ’Brain with a Bump’ party.