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Southern Hemisphere, Drug Zone, Hive Mechanical City

There are people coming and going on the streets. However, whether it is the rich area, the poor area, the gang area, or the corporate area, there is deathly silence.

The whole city was quiet, as if there were no living people.

Pedestrians on the road did not speak.

The overtime workers in the subway don’t talk.

The white-collar workers in the workplace don't talk.

It was as if everyone's tongues had been cut out.

But if you look closely, people of every status have their own way of communicating.

The white-collar workers looked at each other, and a stream of data flashed through their eyes at the same time. The content and direction to be handed over at work were all communicated.

Among pedestrians, the pheromones emitted by their bodies show their own moods, whether they are anxious, peaceful, angry, or sad. Everyone will be closer to the peaceful person, and naturally farther away from the violent person. And the two people also exude the pheromone. 'Courtship' pheromones make it easy for them to get together when they look at each other.

There are many similar scenes, and there are also many similar ways of communication.

This is why the Mechanical City is called ‘The Hive’.

In the universe, the hive civilization is an excellent carbon-based civilization. One is billions, and billions is one. Individuals and groups are completely inseparable.

Therefore, the wisdom of individuals in this civilization can be superimposed beyond limits.

A technology tree that would take an ordinary civilization a hundred years to break through, a hive civilization could break through in one year.

Therefore, many civilizations are looking for ways to become a 'hive'.

Some are through technology, such as the ‘Brain-Computer Project’.

Some through drugs, like here now.

Although it has not reached the level of 'hive', it has achieved basic 'barrier-free communication'.

If you open the mouth of a certain Hive City citizen at random, you will find that their tongue is a bit shorter than normal people.

This is a degradation,

In other words, another form of evolution.

‘Boom’

‘Boom’

‘Boom’

‘Boom’

With a huge noise, on this day, the city stopped.

Various components of the Machinery City, including intelligent voice elevators, fully automatic flying tracks, neon advertisements, etc., are all closed.

And with the shutdown of the last large machine, the mechanical mastermind of this city,

Everyone knows that the corporate war has begun.

Everyone's expression is different, including nervousness, fear, excitement, and fanaticism. Various types of information flow overflow from the human body, and even induce some fluctuations in cyberspace.

An illusory human face appeared in the sky.

Then, a black line fell from the sky, tearing the face apart, and the buzzing sound became louder and louder. Then, the black line sprayed out, turning into mechanical bee robots the size of puppies, with wings similar to The grappling hook attachment, and on the tail, is a weird surgical needle.

A bee robot hugged the back of a person's head like a facehugger, and then inserted a surgical needle into the back of his head. The pedestrian's eyes went white, his whole body trembled, and he froze in place.

Then, the bee popped out the mechanical foot knife. The laser on the foot knife flashed and slid along the back of his head, and a blood-stained skull as big as a monkey's butt fell to the ground.

Then, several other bee legs popped out, hanging on their tips were electrochemical controllers, brain plug-ins, neural plug-ins, brain chips, circuit boards...

With the surgical transformation, the entire left side of the brain was completely shaved off.

There is no doubt that this technological route of 'brain-computer access' is a right-brain transformation in brain transformation, which directly transforms the brain and makes it a signal access center.

There is no good or bad technological route, only whether it is suitable or not. Race, resources, social environment, and technological ethics must all be included. Generally speaking, the choice of an important technological route is a game that takes ten years or even longer. , can it sink into society.

For example, the simplest one is the alternation of dynasties between gasoline cars and electric cars.

However, in the cyber testing ground, as long as a large-scale and sufficiently intense social experiment is conducted, the problem can be solved.

On the wall of Hive Mechanical City, three black figures watched this scene silently.

Human body modification is fatal, especially the most sensitive brain. The strong smell of blood hit the face. In the field of vision of one of the black figures, two-thirds of the people on the entire street successfully completed the modification. And one-third of them died directly during the transformation process.

With all the sanitation robots in the city shut down, these corpses just lay on the cold ground, letting their blood flow and coagulate.

Massive attrition of 'artificial data' is acceptable during corporate war.

What's more, this is not a large amount.

"The transformation success rate is 66.5%. Sure enough, this hive-style drug transformer is very suitable for achieving this stage of brain-computer transformation. The success rate has increased by 21.3%, which is great."

A black figure walked out of the darkness, revealing a boxy metal head. As his sound generator sounded, the sound of a fan even sounded in his 'head'.

This person’s head is a ‘computer host’.

"Doctor, check the network and see the strength of the neural network signal," another voice said.

"Okay, boss."

The 'host computer' shook its head. Soon, the four metal surfaces flipped and turned into a display screen. A large number of bar graphs appeared on the page. Each 'column' represented the signal strength of an area. And now , all the 'signal bars' are rising crazily.

"Tens of thousands of networked virtual machines have been built, and 100 artificial network nodes can be artificially created. The computing power is comparable to that of a large data processing center. Moreover, this is only the first stage."

The black shadow in the middle showed an intoxicated expression, and the black shadows around it continued to expand outwards, and there were sounds of "grumpy" and "grumpy".

"I can feel the joy of corporate will, the overlap between machinery and life forms, which makes it feel full. The further expansion of the system organization allows it to evolve, and the feedback it gives me is also huge. I can be sure, In less than three days, my human brain processor will be able to reach the next level and reach the level of top AI!"

"No wonder all entrepreneurs can't wait to participate in this feast. It turns out that social transformation will bring such a powerful increase to the auxiliary AI of corporate will!"

The last black figure spoke, his voice rough and hoarse.

"But I have to remind you that this is the territory of the biopharmaceutical industry. After taking 'hive-type drugs', various types of biological viruses will be generated in everyone's body, and these viruses will be modified by brain computers and uploaded to the Internet. After that, it will inevitably evolve into a human brain virus."

"If this type of virus is not removed, it will be even more troublesome than the data monsters in the gaming space. Your brain-computer firewall will be penetrated into a sieve by them."

"You don't have to worry about this. We were prepared when we came here," the doctor replied, and looked into the distance: "But there are some troubles, and you have to be in charge to clear them up."

"No problem," the supervisor said coldly.

He could feel that there was some powerful aura in this mechanical city.

…

Corporate warfare is a feast of technological evolution, but for some it is a disaster.

The street area of ​​Hive City, Longtou Street.

A biochemical woman about two meters tall stood there with a gloomy expression.

Her skin is as pink and tender as a baby, and you can even vaguely see the brain fluid swimming under the cortex. Her hair is like the legendary Gorgon, which can emit 20 times the neurohormones of ordinary people and 100 times of them. She can even modify people's perception, communication language, and even secretly influence people's personalities.

And this ability made her one of the top gang leaders in the street area.

And she herself is a parasite-like existence in a hive society.

The more closely integrated the collective consciousness is, the easier it is for this kind of "collective consciousness parasite" to be born.

Surrounding her were bee robots scattered on the ground, all split into two with rounded cuts.

Her existence is similar to that of Lady Red Dream in the City that Never Sleeps, a special product of a specific social structure.

In short, a local snake.

And every social transformation brought about by corporate wars is a disaster for local cowards like her.

The sky suddenly darkened, and then the ground shook violently. A huge black shadow slowly stood up, revealing its true body. It was a super mechanical warrior with a transformation rate of over 100%, and hundreds of large and small gears, following his movement. Get up and spin wildly.

And his eyes were more like hundreds of tiny gear pieces, fitting together and rotating crazily.

"Introduce yourself, the combat director of the security department of Editor Technology, Shan Shen!"

"I'm here to get rid of social scum like you!"