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Mechanical modification laboratory.

Compared with the initial team of less than ten people, the laboratory has been expanded several times, and now the team has an unprecedented number of 1,208 people.

At this time, Mo Yu was lying on the operating table.

Quietly waiting for the mechanized transformation of the brain to begin.

Over the years, the Supreme Council of Star City has given its greatest support to the mechanization transformation project.

There was Feng Qi's help and his own efforts.

In previous years, the project had also been opposed by some members of the Star City Supreme Council.

At that time, he was invited to the Supreme Council and was asked this question at the meeting:

"It is enough to achieve the mechanization of limbs. Why does the mechanization project continue to advance? If the brain information is uploaded to the chip, and the chip replaces the brain in the future, are you a human being at this time, or a mechanical life?"

Facing the sharp questioning, Mo Yu was silent for a long time.

Finally, he gave an answer.

This answer convinced the opponents of the Supreme Council who were present at the time.

This is what he said:

"I believe that the key factors that define a person are consciousness and memory, not the body. In essence, mechanical transformation is the same as cultivation. Cultivation allows our lives to transform in a gentle way and evolve in a more perfect direction. When thousands of people People from the future will appear in front of us ten thousand years from now, and we will find that even though their appearance is similar to ours, their bodies are completely different inside. Can you deny that cultivators ten thousand years from now are not human beings?"

"The method of mechanized transformation is more radical than that of cultivation and evolution. Because of this, mechanized transformation is not as consistent with the ideal evolution method of mankind as the cultivation system. However, the flesh and blood body discarded by transformation abandons the superficial definition of human beings. But In terms of self-awareness, I am always human.”

"I don't mean to deny the existence of cultivation studies. In fact, I have always firmly believed that cultivation societies are the mainstream of the human growth system. But I understand one thing better. When the ideal path is not enough to allow us to When developing rapidly and keeping up with the crisis-ridden future battlefield, mechanized transformation will open up a new path of hope in despair."

After this meeting, the resistance to the development of mechanized transformation disappeared.

Mo Yu was approved by the Supreme Council of Star City and received more support from resources.

But just for this reason, Mo Yu was not satisfied.

In order to get the Supreme Council of Star City to agree that the Mechanized Transformation Department could obtain higher priority resources in Star City, he wrote in detail the advantages of mechanized transformation and submitted it to the Supreme Council of Star City for review.

In this planning document, Mo Yu divided the mechanization transformation process into three stages, and the function of each part was described in detail.

The first stage is what Mo Yu calls prosthetic modification.

In the frontline supply areas of the five major cities, a large number of soldiers are disabled and retired every year.

Putting aside the moral aspect, if we only look at these retired veterans who are supported by the city from a macro perspective such as the development of the human race, they have actually become a burden to the development of the city and even the human race.

But with prosthetic limbs, these veterans who can only live in the city will regain their value and continue to work for the future of the human race.

The second stage is the mechanization of the body.

This step requires mechanizing the entire body except the brain.

In the instruction manual, Mo Yu compared the differences between flesh and blood bodies and mechanical bodies in detail.

The first is environmental tolerance.

In Mo Yu's opinion, human flesh and blood is very fragile, and its adaptability to harsh environments is also extremely poor.

Poisonous gas, high temperature, extreme cold, vacuum... there are many environments in which flesh and blood cannot adapt to survive. When encountering extremely harsh environments, the combat effectiveness of flesh and blood will be greatly weakened.

The mechanized body may not be able to fully adapt to harsh environments, but it has huge advantages over the physical body.

The third stage is what Mo Yu calls brain mechanization.

At this point, the flesh and blood body will be completely abandoned, and the body will completely turn into a mechanical body.

Compared with the flesh and blood body, the strongest advantages of the mechanical body will be revealed.

If the evolution of life requires the ingestion of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to temper the physical body through cultivation, then mechanized transformation is the upgrade of the strength, function, and other aspects of body parts.

The limitations of the evolution of flesh and blood come from three aspects: cultivation resources, cultivation techniques, and one's own talent.

Among them, one's own talent is the most important of the three evolutionary requirements.

The growth limitations of mechanized transformation are only two aspects, namely resource and technology upgrading.

The resources can correspond to the cultivation resources needed by the physical body, and the technical upgrade can correspond to the upgrade of the cultivation techniques.

The biggest advantage of mechanized transformation is that there is no talent requirement.

With sufficient resources, every time technology is upgraded, the mechanized body can upgrade itself by replacing body parts.

This kind of upgrade will not go backwards, but will only move forward steadily.

This is very similar to the improvement of human blood potential.

Humanity needs to work hard from generation to generation to increase the blood potential of future generations.

The technology of mechanized transformation is upgraded, and the starting point of the next generation is the culmination of existing technology.

One of the great advantages of mechanized transformation is that it does not require a cumbersome training process. Even a newborn baby can instantly obtain the most advanced mechanized body through mechanized transformation.

In this detailed explanation of mechanized transformation, Mo Yu listed the advantages of mechanization compared to flesh and blood.

But at the end of the manual, Mo Yu also expressed his views on the training system.

Mo Yu believes that flesh and blood has an advantage that a mechanized body can never match.

That's plasticity.

Choosing the mechanized transformation route is equivalent to locking one's future route and preventing new choices.

But flesh and blood is different, you can have too many future choices.

Planting elves in the human body, elemental transformation, mechanized transformation, practicing exercises, faith growth... The flesh and blood body is compared to the initial template. Every choice is like a job change. The flesh and blood body can independently determine its own future growth. direction.

Finally, Mo Yu also gave his own guess about flesh and blood.

He felt that perhaps the flesh and blood body could be regarded as an organic machine. The human body was the most sophisticated instrument, far more complex than the machine.

The cultivation method conforms to the laws of natural operation, and the end point may be a special existence that only exists in myths.

God!

This thirty-eight-page detailed explanation of the mechanization transformation allowed Mo Yu to obtain a higher priority for resources, and the monthly allocated resources were doubled.

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At this time, a group of staff from the mechanization transformation department looked at Mo Yu lying on the operating table through the glass.

The mechanized transformation of the brain is about to begin, and their faces cannot hide their nervousness.

The results of years of hard work will be judged in the coming hours.

When the three transformation operators in front of the console controlled the robotic arms and began debugging data, Mo Yu, lying flat on the operating table, opened his eyes.

Turning to look at his colleague who was observing him through the transparent glass, a smile appeared on his face.

Failure means death, but he has no fear in his heart.

He knew very well how difficult this mechanized transformation was.

The mechanized transformation predecessors of the Future Research Institute have had many forward-looking ideas about brain mechanized transformation, but their ideas all point to the storage of brain information in mechanical chips.

This kind of transformation essentially means that one's own consciousness has died.

Even if the transformation is successful, only a robot with a perfect replica of his memory will be born.

Through his efforts over the years, he has improved the forward-looking ideas put forward by his predecessors.

He is taking the route of mechanized transformation of psychic energy, which means that he is destined to combine psychic technology with machinery. He cannot follow the route of purely mechanized transformation. The existence of consciousness is crucial.

Therefore, the mechanized transformation of the brain he envisioned abandoned many previous ideas and designs.

He wants to build his consciousness into a psychic chip, rather than copying self-information uploaded from brain information.

At this time, the green lights on the eight robotic arms lit up, indicating that debugging was completed.

"let's start!"

Mo Yu, who was lying on the operating table, did not hesitate and immediately turned to look in the direction of the console and nodded.

Upon hearing his "start" command, the operator immediately controlled the eight robotic arms to start operating.

When the cold metal helmet was put on Mo Yu's head, his consciousness entered a strange state of disorientation.

The consciousness seems to be wrapped in liquid, unable to disperse, let alone separate from the body.

During this process, Mo Yu's consciousness was compressed and eventually turned into translucent beads.

The parts inside the helmet operated automatically, quickly disassembling Mo Yu's head.

Skin, eyes, teeth, nose, ears... When the superficial flesh and blood tissue is separated, metal parts begin to replace the flesh and blood organs.

When the replacement of the surface layer is completed, a robotic arm on the outside removes the metal helmet.

After disassembly, a new metallic head is revealed.

The eight mechanical arms now approached Mo Yu's mechanical head and began to carry out the next step of transformation.

This step is the most critical step in mechanization transformation.

At this time, the only flesh and blood organ in Mo Yu's body was the brain full of neurons.

One of the robotic arms began to move at high speed, scanning the distribution of neurons on the brain.

The other seven arms move on the other side, constantly picking up mechanical parts on the tool table and assembling them to reproduce the detailed structure.

A few hours later, a metal brain was born.

The core of this metal brain is a psychic chip.

But at this time, the psychic chip was still blank.

When the metal brain was placed in front of Mo Yu's brain, the upload of consciousness began.

If consciousness is regarded as the soul, then the process of uploading consciousness is actually uploading the soul.

This is not a memory copy and upload in the sense of mechanical ascension, but a pure transfer of consciousness.

The energy nodes woven by energy appear on the surface of the metal brain, and suddenly spread into an enlarged version of the three-dimensional diagram of the brain structure, and countless connected energy nodes can be clearly seen.

On the other side, the mechanical arm continued to move, and a small formation appeared above Mo Yu's head.

I saw a light blue energy pipe emerging from the center of this formation, connected to the mechanized brain.

The formation was running, and wisps of white mist emerged from Mo Yu's head, being sucked into the formation, and then injected into the metal brain through the light blue energy tube.

At this time, a percentage progress bar appears on the experimental console.

Countless chaotic symbols quickly crossed the screen, and Mo Yu's consciousness was continuously extracted, and then aggregated in the mechanized psychic brain.

This process is very slow.

The advancement percentage on the screen can only roughly calculate the progress of consciousness transfer, and cannot give an accurate value.

This is also the first time for Mo Yu and his team to come into contact with research on the consciousness level.

Over the years, they have only been able to conduct experiments on consciousness transfer through mice and other animals, but they have never used it on humans.

Whether it will succeed is completely unknown.

Time passed, and all the staff watching the mechanized transformation were holding their breath, waiting for the results to be announced.

After a long time, the consciousness-extracting formation stopped operating, and the progress bar on the big screen in front of the control desk had reached 100%.

Under the control of the staff, the mechanical arm slowly lifted up the mechanical brain and inserted it into Mo Yu's opened brain shell.

With a stroke of the mechanical arm, the mechanical head closed.

At the same time, the thin hose inside the mechanical head automatically extends and connects with the simulated neurons on the mechanical brain.

Mo Yu's body entered the initialization state.

The energy core at the heart sent energy throughout the body, and all parts of Mo Yu's body turned green at the same time.

Finally, energy surged into Mo Yu's mechanized brain.

When the green light lights up on the back of Mo Yu's head, it proves that the energy transmission is normal and the operation is normal.

But Mo Yu never woke up.

At this time, the eight robotic arms switched tools and began to spray bionic skin fluid on Mo Yu's mechanical head.

The silvery-white metal head was covered with bionic skin tissue, restoring Mo Yu's head to its original appearance.

While waiting anxiously, everyone was extremely nervous.

According to the simulation results, Mo Yu should wake up after his brain is connected to the energy core.

But Mo Yu seemed to have lost consciousness, and his body never moved at all.

As time went by, the mood of everyone watching the transformation process gradually sank, and they felt that the situation was developing in the worst direction.

At this moment, Mo Yu, who was lying flat on the operating table, suddenly opened his eyes.

As the silver-white prosthetic eyes blinked, their color gradually changed into simulated black eyes.

Seeing this scene, the crowd watching the transformation experiment burst into cheers.

But Mo Yu ignored the cheers.

He slowly raised his arm, put it in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully, then bent down and stood up.

The world seen by prosthetic eyes is the same as the world seen by naked eyes, but with an additional translucent detail panel.

The temperature in the warm air, the humidity, the speed of the air movement, etc.

The mechanical body gives him the ability to digitize everything in detail.

Stand up from the operating table.

The energy core in Mo Yu's body suddenly accelerated. His body suddenly jumped five meters high, and then landed easily. Next, he began to punch the air one after another.

For every movement of his mechanized body, his brain can instantly receive real-time data feedback.

The strength of each punch can be perfectly controlled.

Let a flesh-and-blood warrior punch a fist with an impact of one hundred kilograms, and he can only control the approximate strength.

But with the combination of a mechanized body and a consciousness chip, the power of each of his punches can be accurately exerted.

Mo Yu then turned his attention to the robotic arm in surgery.

The prosthetic eye narrowed the sight distance, and the consciousness chip connected to the database network immediately retrieved the relevant information of this robotic arm.

A translucent panel appeared before his eyes.

[Multifunctional Robotic Arm Version 8.7]: The multifunctional robotic arm produced in the 397th batch of the Science and Technology Research Institute, specially customized by Hupo Research Institute, order number AAFD0023...

Looking at the search details in the translucent box, Mo Yu clenched his fist fiercely.

He is one step closer to mechanical ascension!