Start with Mechanical Hunter

Gao Gong came to the last location of the Cable Tribe.

The first thing that caught the eye was a laboratory that looked quite advanced.

Behind the laboratory is a three-story staff dormitory, but it has now been transformed into a villa for the great elder.

On the left side of the villa is a temple, which worships an unknown wild god. On the right side, there are a lot of packed supplies. It can be seen that the elder is ready to run away.

The senior engineer set his sights on the temple, where there was a strong sense of danger.

He narrowed his eyes and walked directly in.

A man's upper body hung at the door, his fingers clenched tightly on the threshold, and his nails cracked due to excessive force.

His lower body was replaced by dense nerve circuits. On the nerve lines, dendritic structures bulged out like small tumors.

When the senior engineer set his sights on the 'tumor', the thing shook a few times visibly to the naked eye, and then exploded, exploding a ball of colloidal liquid.

"So sensitive, do you have sensitive skin?"

The senior engineer complained, he knew this man, Zhao Yi, the son of the eldest elder, the first warrior of the tribe except Meng Duo, with all five attributes reaching 10 points. In the case of distortion, his strength can expand by half.

In terms of attributes alone, this guy is only a little worse than his predecessor's 'Double Red Stick'. Even among the group of mechanical hunters, he is an elite template.

But for today’s senior engineers, it’s not enough.

Stepping over this guy, the senior engineer saw more and more nerve lines spreading out from the altar like cables.

The 'dendrites' are getting bigger and bigger, and some can even clearly see the 'humanoid' inside.

The senior engineer walked up to the altar and kicked open the inner door. What appeared in front of him was a nutrient solution tank as big as a pool.

Professor Han lay naked inside.

In the nutrient solution tank, there is another creature.

Brain in a vat!

The 'Brain in the Tank' is not an oversized brain flower, its appearance is closer to a transparent octopus, with hundreds of tentacles rotating slowly, the big one is more than ten meters, and the small one is only two or three centimeters. It is slowly rotating around Professor Han.

The sucker part of the octopus was replaced by blue light spots one by one, forming a super large blue light vortex, which looked full of mystery and fantasy.

At this moment, as the tentacles squirm, these blue light spots are shining on Professor Han's body, making his skin color and bones become transparent, and only the nerve plexus in his body is constantly lit.

The whole person looks like a human-shaped neural network.

Professor Han's hair was shaved clean, and was replaced by nerve bundles as thick as a little finger, densely distributed in the prefrontal lobe, posterior frontal lobe, and parietal lobe, that is, the front and back of the head.

The overall look is like a Mohawk hairstyle with dreadlocks.

It’s also very trendy.

"I'm talking about being crazy about girls. Professor, you really almost killed the little woman this time."

In the water, Professor Han slowly opened his eyes, but his eyes were dull. At this moment, all his brain power was concentrated in the prefrontal lobe, which was responsible for mental functions. As for other brain systems, they were all in a state of shutdown.

The reason why the eyelids open is just a conditioned reflex of the eye nerves.

The mission gave him three options: kill Professor Han, kill the brain in the vat, and rescue Professor Han.

All three are actually not easy.

Because killing Professor Han means fighting against a spiritual boss with a perception of over 40 and mastering part of the power of the 'brain in a vat'.

And killing the Brain in the Vat means helping Professor Han become the new 'Super Brain'. Not to mention whether the other party appreciates it, just a few AOE hits from the 'Brain in the Vat' before it dies is enough to make him Gao Gong died several times.

If Gao Gong hadn't been a master in the face-making world and the master of the virtual world in his previous life, the task would never have been so easy.

First, it was deliberately sucked into the brain.

Then ask Huang Yuanli to 'restart' the system.

Then use the 'tightening circle' to escape.

Professor Han, who was found along the network cable, was like a bionic prostitute who came out to pick up customers, doing whatever he wanted.

"What should I do with you, professor, or rather - brain in a vat?"

The senior engineer looked at the transparent octopus and grinned.

"Let's talk about the conditions. If I can help you get rid of this old man, what benefits can you give me."

The tentacles of the 'brain in a vat' were still spinning unconsciously.

"Stop pretending. Even if I kill Professor Han now, part of his personality will only enter your body irreversibly."

"Do you want to keep this old man's things for the rest of your life?"

After a moment of silence, ripples suddenly appeared in the nutrient tank, and then a transparent tentacle came out of the water and touched the back of Gao Gong's hand. A nerve node on the back of the palm lit up.

The voice of 'Huang Yuanli' sounded in Gao Gong's mind.

"Should I trust you? Human."

"Of course not."

The senior engineer sat on the edge of the pool and settled the account for the other party with a smile.

"I can help you deduce that the best ending is for you to kill Professor Han, get rid of Huang Yuanli, and become the final winner."

"Of course, you also know that Professor Han has made so many preparations, and it is unrealistic to leave nothing behind."

"The second option is for you to swallow Huang Yuanli and become the host of this girl's body. No matter what, the girl's brain is more fragrant than the old man's brain, although it is not as good as the pig's brain."

"But are you really willing to do it? You finally woke up from your slumber. There are so many powerful bodies in this world, but you can only choose such a weak carbon-based low-level ape with such a small chest."

"The third possibility is that your subjective consciousness is destroyed by Professor Han, and Huang Yuanli becomes the new brain in the vat."

"There is an even worse outcome. Professor Han will devour you without leaving any trace behind."

"Of course, the last possibility is that you are deceived by me and get one of the four random endings above."

"But what if I didn't lie to you? After all, you still have to have dreams. What if I can help you solve this dilemma?"

"Tell me, what are your choices?"

The 'Brain in the Tank' fell silent again. After a moment, a three-meter-long tentacle protruded from the nutrient solution, like some kind of notebook that a senior engineer had drawn before. It wrapped around him little by little, and the tentacle that was attached to the The mental nodes on the skin lit up one by one.

An indescribable refreshing feeling emerged from Gao Gong's spiritual level.

[The nerves in your trunk are strengthened and stimulated, perception +1]

[Your visceral nerves are stimulated intensively, perception +1]

[Your gray matter is stimulated intensively, perception +1]

[Your brain white matter is stimulated intensively, perception +1]

Gao Gong was feeling comfortable when the tip of the tentacle passed around the back of his head and gently touched his frontal lobe.

A special kind of mental fluctuation came from the back of his head.

The next moment, Professor Yang's version of electrotherapy burst out of Gao Gong's brain again.

The 'brain in a vat' whose nerves are intertwined suffers from electrotherapy ten times more painfully than Gao Gong.

"Huh - I feel refreshed," the senior engineer bared his teeth, "Did you just want to steal my idea?"

The transparent tentacles trembled, and there was actually an embarrassed emotion.

'really--'

There is no mastermind AI that gave birth to the omnic crisis, no pan-conscious subject that has not undergone ethical reshaping, and no indigenous leaders who have never left the planet.

When people give nicknames, they are the three idiots in the universe.

"Forget it this time, we can't do this next time. Let's continue with the binding."

The tentacles of the 'brain in the vat' stretched out again.

[Your thalamus is stimulated intensively, perception +1]

[Your pineal gland is stimulated intensively, perception +2]

[Your character-1]

Character: 3

Note: Use the body of an ignorant girl to satisfy the ambitions of a perverted old man, and use human cunning to deceive pure conscious beings. There is still room for your character to decline!

The senior engineer rolled his eyes and ignored the system.

After the pineal gland was strengthened, the brain in the vat also fell into a state of exhaustion, and the mental nodes on the tentacles flickered like a light bulb without electricity.

In fact, Gao Gong did not deceive the other party, not that he was honest enough. In fact, if he were level 30 now, he would immediately take action and kidnap the other party and use it as an 'auxiliary brain'.

Who says that ‘biological batteries’ can only be made by humans, but conscious creatures can do it too!

Don't look down on others!

However, in the current situation, helping 'Brain in a Vat' is the only three-win option. Huang Yuanli kept the brain flower, while Gao Gong won twice.

Only Professor Han's injured world was achieved.

The senior engineer took out another 'tight hoop' and threw it into the pool.

"Put it on Professor Han, then wake up the little woman in your body and let her use telepathy to connect me and this old man. Remember, it is a one-way connection, don't make a mistake!"

Huang Yuanli seemed to have had a long dream. In this dream, she seemed to be connected to the entire scavenging city, scanning the entire city from a very strange perspective.

Her telepathy, which she had just glimpsed, was incredibly powerful under the amplification of the 'brain in a vat'.

At the same time, her feelings gradually became indifferent, maybe a little curious, but more of a kind of chaos.

She was frightened by herself without emotions.

However, soon, she floated up from the bottom of the sea, like a resurrected corpse. When she floated to the surface, the feeling of 'humanity' also came out.

"Don't be stunned, listen to me, I ask you to do this..."

The senior engineer's voice suddenly sounded from the sky.

After a long while, Huang Yuanli came back to her senses and spoke in surprise - she found that she could speak directly without using her throat.

"You mean, let me pass on your pain to the professor?"

"Yes, the 'central nervous system direct control circle' can produce the effect of electrotherapy. Two circles is twice the pain."

"And if the 'brain in a vat' uses brain power to catalyze it, it can reach ten times."

"Ten times the electrotherapy is enough to make the old man pass out directly. Once he passes out, the connection with the 'brain in the tank' is cut off, and the big octopus can smoothly expel him from the body."

"The second step is to follow the same example. You use 'telepathy' to sense my pain, and the brain in the vat will intensify your pain and make you faint. Once you faint, it will get rid of you completely. "

"Wait, what if I pass out and this thing eats me?"

Gao Gong shrugged, "Then today will be your death anniversary next year, and I will burn incense for you!"

"You——" Huang Yuanli felt the long-lost anger.

"Don't worry, that big octopus won't be interested in your little arms and legs." Gao Gong paused and said meaningfully: "If it really eats you, it means that it has completely taken over your body. Then I will kill you easily and avenge you."

Huang Yuanli hesitated for a moment, then gritted her teeth and said, "Okay, I'll cooperate with you!"

The whole plan is not complicated, the key is trust. It is difficult for the 'brain in the vat' to trust humans, while Huang Yuanli only trusts senior engineers, not to mention Professor Han, who is so paranoid that he only trusts himself.

This is a prisoner's dilemma.

What Gao Gong did was to get the prisoners' guns into his own hands, and then force them to win three times.

That's right, Gao Gong won twice.