Survival in the game world begins with Biochemical 2

Chapter 328 Team research results and unexpected encounters
In the blink of an eye, it was half a month later.

Badlands, Stoneridge Mountains.

On the surface, this abandoned town is still as desolate as before, but in fact, after Yori Xuan decided to cooperate with Li You, he sent his trusted engineers over to renovate the equipment here.

Today, although the appearance of Shiji Mountain remains the same, the large solar power generation equipment outside the town has all resumed operation.

The substation in the town has also been adjusted to achieve high-intensity power supply - after all, this was originally intended to be an extension of the Night City, and the equipment was complete, which was now convenient for Li You.

The underground night devil's lair has expanded into an entire underground space after the night devils' unremitting construction. The central lair hall is as big as a football field, and there are a large number of passages around it extending in all directions.

The Night Stalkers leave supporting points when digging their holes, and the secretions from the core of the nest can also strengthen the structure, so there is no worry about collapse.

And the specially thickened room that can isolate detection has been turned into a laboratory for conducting various most important tests.

Today, Lai Xuan came here with Li You and watched the technicians who were his confidants busy underground with the night demons.

Yes, now Yori Xuan has directly moved all his manpower and equipment to the Night Demon's lair. This will undoubtedly be much more efficient, and it is also safer than conducting experiments at the company base under his own name. , because those places may still be discovered by Arasaka agents after all.

Li You replied: "There is no problem with the installation, but there is one thing. The number of night demons is a little nervous. In order to suppress the side effects of the prosthesis, they are necessary."

That is to say, Adam Hammer himself is actually a "high-functioning" cyberpsychopath, so he doesn't have to worry about the prosthetic body driving him into madness.

"You could say the same thing."

"...It finally succeeded." Yori Xuan squinted his eyes and looked at the night demon in front of him.

Heavy Hammer's modified version of the dragon knight-type full-body prosthetic body places a greater burden on the wearer than the prosthetic King Kong. A Heavy Hammer prosthetic night demon requires at least twelve sentient night demons to help suppress and share the burden, otherwise it will be easy He went berserk and transformed into a cyberpsycho on the spot.

Li You said: "It's still locked in a single room."

Yori Xuan then looked at the Heavy Hammer Prosthetic Night Demon and the Prosthetic King Kong Night Demon, and even stepped forward, touched their prosthetic bodies, and said:
"The Prosthetic King Kong project has been cancelled, but we should still be able to find two trial models in the warehouse, which can be used after adjustments. As for Adam's Dragon Knight prosthetic body, it can be shipped within two days at the fastest. Three sets, more will have to wait, otherwise it will arouse suspicion.”

Lai Xuan was speechless for a while: "...Do you have any deep grudge against Adam, so you won't let him go?"

The first thing standing in front of Li You and Lai Xuan at this moment is a prosthetic King Kong Night Demon - after being paired with eight sentient night demons to share the mental pressure, the side effects of the Prostitute King Kong have been completely eliminated.

Li You spread his hands: "With this guy's character and actions, you don't have to have too many enemies, and I'm just one of them. But I must avenge this. Just like what we said when we first communicated, the importance is Hammer must die."

After their full cooperation and more than half a month of research and experiments, the project finally came to fruition.

"But I also know that he has indeed committed countless crimes in the past, and it is normal for you to refuse to let him go. Then so be it, he will be handed over to you. My only condition is that you don't let him go in recent times. Make his case public.”

“Now, like the prosthetic King Kong Night Demon, it can use telepathy with other sentient night demons to share the mental side effects caused by the prosthetic body and maintain itself in the best condition.

"After all, Adam is not an ordinary person." Yori Xuan was not surprised, "But for me, as long as he has the same appearance and has 80% of Adam's combat effectiveness, it is enough."

Joanne, as well as a male researcher who came under Yori Xuan and is now the deputy director, were all standing aside waiting. At this time, Joanne said:

As for the night demons, the total number has remained in the range of 50 to 70 during this period. The reason is also very simple. Now the night ghosts and the Luan Dao Gui have been frightened by the night demons, and their sphere of influence has been reduced to the minimum. , I simply don’t dare to show up in the bad soil.

Lai Xuan asked: "Now that we have reached the closest cooperation, I will ask directly. Don't you consider releasing him? After all, even among the legendary ranks, he is the top combat power."

Li You looked at the dragon knight-type prosthetic Night Demon and said, "Although this is the case, unfortunately, its combat effectiveness is still significantly different from Heavy Hammer himself, and it cannot exert 100% of the capabilities of this full-body prosthetic body."

Accompanied by the sound of machinery running and heavy footsteps, another tall figure steadily walked up to the two of them.

But after all, the prosthetic King Kong Night Demon was just an attempt before Yori Xuan entered the game. The real results after the researchers he brought joined the team are yet to come.

Moreover, even if the prosthetic King Kong Night Demon is short of manpower, it can still be controlled by injecting high-concentration inhibitors, but the Heavy Hammer Prosthetic Night Demon... does not even have this option, and can only use inhaled inhibitors at most.

He said and looked at Li You again: "Speaking of which, how is Adam?"

Lai Xuan and Li You looked at each other for a while, then finally sighed and chose to give in: "...I originally thought that Adam has been with me for so long, so I can fight for it."

After all, after installation, basically only the original brain is left.

Of course, Joanne, Charles and others also played a big role because they knew the Night Stalker better, especially Joanne, who was originally the research director of biotechnology. Now she has returned directly to her old job and is responsible for leading the entire team.

"And these night demons who come to share its burden will not be a drag. They can still move, fight, and cooperate with it to exert stronger combat effectiveness."

Otherwise, the mental pressure on the employees would be too great. Staying with the Night Stalkers all day long would be enough to affect their mental health.

Li You nodded: "Don't worry, I won't let him die so silently."

Yori Xuan looked up, and the familiar posture almost made him exclaim: "...Adam!?"

Yori Xuan took a closer look at the Heavy Hammer Night Demon and the prosthetic King Kong Night Demon, and couldn't help but nodded: "It seems that the biggest difficulty has been overcome, very good."

"Yes. With enough data samples, professional equipment, and sufficient personnel, we finally completed the operation that allowed Night Demon to install a dragon knight-type full-body prosthetic body while retaining Night Demon's original telepathic abilities.

This is why Adam Hammer is so special. His prosthetic body is not irreproducible, and it is not that no one else can survive the operation, but after the operation, there are really only a few people who can persist in driving the prosthetic body to fight.

With Yori Nobu providing a large number of researchers and technicians, the progress of the research has been greatly advanced.

However, he also has a bottom line. For example, he does not require these researchers to work overtime every day... The working hours are still very humane, and the entertainment facilities are not left behind.

Although this is a bit inhumane, Li You is not pedantic and will use tough measures when necessary, otherwise it will ruin their great event.

He turned to look at Li You: "When these prosthetics arrive, I need you to complete the installation in the shortest time and make them combat effective. Is that okay?"

Li You replied: "From the perspective of combat effectiveness, yes. But unfortunately, I still can't release him. Rather, I would like to ask, now, can I kill him?"

As for the security of these personnel themselves, Lai Xuanke was not a soft-hearted person. He directly infected all of them with a virus that blocked network communication to prevent anyone from betraying them.

Just in case, Li You also asked Yuzi to give these people a parasite neck ring that had not been taken out for a long time, and also asked the night demons to keep an eye on them one-on-one at all times to ensure that nothing went wrong.

However, he immediately discovered that although the "person" in front of him looked almost exactly the same, he was not Adam Hammer, but the researchers' latest achievement, a sentient night demon implanted with the same prosthetic body of Adam Hammer. .

Yori Xuan understood immediately: "It can be regarded as team collaboration in another sense."

Even with the help of the two wanderer tribes, Adecardo and Red Ochre, it is now difficult for the Night Demons to capture a few members of the Luan Dao Society.

As for the other gangs in the city, because the Night Stalker has made its existence public and cannot target others, otherwise it will turn into a large-scale gang conflict, it has been quite a headache recently to recruit personnel. They can only recruit from the Voodoo Gang. The remnants of the gang and the rats from the Random Sword Society barely managed to catch a few.

After listening to Li You's explanation, Lai Xuan also thought a little: "Isn't it enough to sense the night demon... Let me think about it."

Although he is the nominal heir of Arasaka Company, his actions are actually very restricted. Including the people he brought after his cooperation with Li You, they were all run secretly by him without telling Arasaka people, otherwise it would be impossible for them to follow Li You will study together.

Therefore, at this time, he had no good solution, and could only say: "Let's pay attention to the scavenger recently."

Li You has no objection. For now, the scavenger is indeed the best choice.

The question ended here, and Yori Nobu then asked: "There is one last project, how is the progress?"

The male deputy director next to Joanne reported: "Sir Yori Xuan. I am responsible for the project of converting ordinary night demons into prosthetics. Let me explain it to you."

He briefly explained the situation of this project.

As the name suggests, the purpose of this final project is to implant prosthetic bodies into ordinary night demons that can hatch indefinitely, so that they can have the ability to perceive night demons at a low level.

The physical fitness of the night devils is actually not much better than that of ordinary night devils, but their telepathic abilities and the fact that they are not afraid of ultraviolet rays make them much more comprehensive than ordinary night devils.

And this project is trying to solve the shortcomings of ordinary night devils.

According to Li You's idea, they can communicate remotely through brain-computer chips, and then rely on subcutaneous armor and artificial skin to perhaps give them the ability to resist ultraviolet rays?

According to the deputy director’s report, the final result was simple and clear.

Implanting a brain-computer chip for remote communication, no problem. Implanting subcutaneous armor and artificial skin to protect against UV rays will not work.

To be precise, it is theoretically feasible but not practical.

After all, it would be difficult for them to purchase such a large amount of subcutaneous armor and artificial skin to supply all ordinary night demons. This is not only a funding issue, but also a supply-side issue.

Li You and Lai Xuan were not surprised by this, so they looked at each other and said, "In that case, let's install brain-computer chips on them first."

The deputy director wrote down: "Yes, Lord Yorinobu."

So far, Yori Xuan has finished everything he came here to see. So he turned to Li You and said: "If you have no objection, then I need to take away this heavy hammer version of the prosthetic Night Demon. Adam has not appeared in front of others for a long time. If he doesn't show up, there will be some problems on my side." Troublesome."

Naturally, Li You would not object, and said, "Then take these prosthetic night demons with you. I will send you a group of them with complete artificial skin implants, and let them report to you later."

"can."

In this way, Yori Xuan left first, and after Li You emphasized to the Night Demons, he asked them to put on the Arasaka agent uniforms prepared in advance.

Then, he asked the heavy hammer prosthetic Night Demon to lead the team, and led the Night Demon team back to Night City to report to Yori Xuan.

After dealing with the affairs of the Night Demon Lair research team, Li You went to the training center next to him, where Yuzi and Aiji were both here.

The task here is to try to teach the Night Demons how to use their energy. This was also one of the projects that Li You originally asked Joanne to lead the research on, but after trying it, they found that it was too difficult for them.

After all, Joanne and others don’t understand this either…

So in the end, this task still had to fall into Ai Ji's hands, and Li You asked her to try to use spiritual links to teach the night demons how to use their energy.

If they could learn it, the average combat effectiveness of ordinary night demons could be improved.

But unfortunately, even with Ai Ji imparting experience through spiritual links, it is difficult for the night demons to master the secret of strength. There were dozens of night devils who "study" together, but in the end only a few sentient night devils managed to get started.

It seems that this is still too difficult for the night demons.

In short, now, Aiji is taking the few night demons who have barely learned how to perceive, transmitting his experience to other night demons, hoping that more talented ones can enlighten them.

However, although she had to "teach" dozens of night demons every day, her final results were still limited, which was basically equivalent to betting on odds.

Li You didn't embarrass Aiji and just let her come as she pleased. Anyway, in this world, the individual combat power of ordinary night demons is basically enough, and the rest is left to quantity.

Although Yori Xuan didn't say it when he came just now, they had already recognized that the number of ordinary night demons and secondary night demons would still increase.

When necessary, the sea of ​​ordinary night demons can also become their last trump card.

It was also for this purpose that Lai Xuancai sent people to repair the power supply facilities in Shiji Mountain - this would also facilitate the supply of energy to the core of the nest.

In addition, Yorinobu also asked his subordinates outside Arasaka to secretly establish a supply line to transport a large amount of energy food to the lair every day to maintain the survival needs of the night demons.

So now, the total number of night devils in the lair has increased again. Although the number of perceived night demons cannot increase, the total number of ordinary night demons and secondary night demons is over 500.

Needless to say how valuable this fighting power is.

In short, Night Demon currently only lacks the final accumulation, and other difficulties have basically been overcome, so Li You can turn his attention to other preparations.

For example... brainwashing Arasaka employees.

In the past half month, Li You has made progress in his exploration in this area. He has roughly figured out the use of the ability of the Light Canon, and also discovered the real reason why the previous brainwashing effect will not last long before it expires.

After all, the Light Canon is positioned as a religious classic, and since it is a religious classic, of course, it needs to have at least one object of faith.

And more importantly, this object must have the ability to respond to beliefs, so that the influence of the scriptures on people's hearts can last for a long time.

As for how you said he found out? It was obtained by repeatedly testing it on a group of unlucky people with the Book of Light.

So what Li You has to do is to give the content of the scripture a directional object of faith, a "coordinate" that can respond to faith.

Of course, the only existence he could think of was the Sakura Dragon Divine Crystal in his body.

In this world, Yinglong Shenjing did not cause any trouble and slept peacefully. It only became active when Li You mobilized his power.

But this does not mean that it is really obedient. The Sakura Dragon blood shadow inside the divine crystal is still watching with eagerness.

Therefore, although theoretically, the Yinglong Divine Crystal could become the coordinate of faith, Li You was not sure whether to do so for a while.

Since there was no way to discuss the problem of the Sakura Dragon Divine Crystal with others, he could only mention it to Yuzu and Aiji, and write a letter to Eima in the Sekiro World, asking her to help look up the classics.

But unfortunately, even from Yingma's side, no detailed records can be found. As for the miko of the Source Palace, she didn't reply to Li You's last letter. Later, he asked Eima and found out that the miko had gone to sleep in the divine realm on the top of the mountain again.

So for the time being, Li You could only put this matter down.

If it doesn't work in the end, then just use this method.

After making up his mind, Li You took out his mobile phone and called Sasha.

"Sasha, how are you doing over there?"

Sasha's reply came quickly: "It's Li You. I'm at the Badi Hotel right now, and your hackers are soaking in the cyberspace."

"Although the data stolen entrusted by Mr. Hanz is not too difficult. After all, we now have our own subnet and data fortress to back it up, but the workload is quite large. I hope you can negotiate a price with him."

Li You smiled: "Well, I will definitely let him give you a good price."

Sasha also nodded and said: "That's fine. As for the progress, let me see...oh, just right, it's completed."

She immediately sent over a list of documents. Li You looked at it and found that the detailed information Mr. Hanz had requested about several of his "customers" and competitors was already in it.

"Good job!" Li You praised, "Thank you for your hard work, Sasha. Take a good rest and I'll treat you later!"

Sasha snorted: "You won't bring that company woman with you then, will you?"

Li You's expression remained unchanged: "Of course not, who do you think I am?"

"He's just an unreliable person anyway!" Sasha made a face on the other end of the video and hung up the communication.

Li You was a little helpless, but business was important now, so he dialed Mr. Hanz's number as soon as possible.

"Hello? Mr. Hands, I got all the data you asked for."

There was a hint of surprise in Mr. Hands's voice: "So fast? It's only been two days since I gave you the list, right?"

Li You just said: "The data packet has been sent to you, please take a look."

Mr. Hanz confirmed the content of the data and said: "...Really, all the information I want is here. It seems that you not only control the Voodoo Gang's data fortress, but you may even have their people left behind." ”

"It's up to you to guess." Of course, Li You would not answer directly, but said, "Then, is it time to fulfill your promise?"

Mr. Hands nodded and said: "Of course, business is business, and I will not break a promise without reason."

"Within three days, you choose a time, and I will have someone pick you up and take you to Dog Town, and I will cover your movements until you leave, as we agreed before."

Li You raised his eyebrows: "Full coverage? We only agreed on pick-up and drop-off before, right?"

Mr. Hands chuckled and said: "Because before, I thought that even you couldn't succeed. But now... I don't think so."

"So, it is worthwhile to invest a little more in your future legend."

Li You also smiled after hearing this: "As expected of Mr. Hands, a middleman who can work hard in the dog town and has a good vision."

"Okay, then I will inform you when it's time to take action."

"Okay, I'll wait for your call."

After making the call to Mr. Hands, Li You had all the urgent matters at hand taken care of.

He looked at the busy people and night demons coming and going in the lair again, feeling a little sigh in his heart, but more determined.

"We will win... Bah! This FLAG can't get in!"

Li You complained to himself, then called Yuzi and Aiji, left the Night Demon's lair, and drove back to the city.

It was very peaceful along the way. Thanks to Li You's "Night Demon", the roads in the bad land are much safer now. Many small businessmen who often go in and out of the city expressed their gratitude when talking about him and the "Night Demon" , this is something Li You didn't even expect.

However, just when Li You was driving Merrimack through the bad land and was about to return to the city, he glanced out of the corner of his eye and saw a unique person on the side of the road.

The man was dressed like a monk, with a bald head, Zen-style clothing, no prosthetic implants, a pair of amber glasses, and a simple altar hanging on his chest.

The moment he saw him, Li You slammed on the brakes!

"Squeak——!!"

Aiji, the co-pilot, was caught off guard and the cell phone he was holding fell out. Yuzi, who was on the rear side of the car, instantly extended tentacles from his hands to secure himself firmly.

"What's going on? Are there any enemies!?"

Aiji was immediately alert, and Yuzu also grabbed the machine gun on the car.

"No...not an enemy." Li You looked at the man on the roadside and frowned slightly.

To be honest, he never thought that he could see this person before.

"There is a man sitting over there who is dressed like a Buddhist monk. Have you seen it?"

Yuzi and Aiji looked in the direction Li You pointed, and then... shook their heads.

"...Where is there anyone?"

Li You understood immediately. It seemed that he was indeed right.

——Zen master!
(End of this chapter)