As the number of “allies” embedded within the Confederation grew, Luo Wen gained a deeper understanding of his enemies. The intriguing bits of intelligence he uncovered beca more frequent, and Luo Wen often found himself using these tidbits to pass the ti.
Since becoming a conceptual higher-dinsional entity, multitasking had beco trivial for Luo Wen. While handling important matters, he enjoyed diverting so of his attention to studying the histories of the Confederation’s mber races and their interesting anecdotes.
The information about nanobots and body modifications was sothing Luo Wen had co across during one of these leisurely readings. At the ti, he had simply chuckled and moved on, treating it as an amusing diversion.
But now, precisely because he was aware of these regulations, he found himself puzzled and confused.
The individual currently fusing with the biological armor was, based on the state of his body, undoubtedly a highly modified cyborg. Combining this with the earlier observation that the biological armor couldn’t detect his visual neural signals, and the current fusion progress data, Luo Wen concluded that this individual likely had very few original body parts left.
Such behavior by the biological armor’s host was a clear violation of the Confederation’s regulations. If Luo Wen had encountered such a high-tech individual on a remote, technologically backward planet, it might have made sense.
But where was this happening? This was Ji Race territory, a high-end biological research zone, with at least one Ji Race elder present and who knows how many others watching via video feed.
Under these circumstances, a lawbreaker openly appearing here, and clearly still connected to the network, was highly abnormal.
This wasn’t the early days of civilization, where personal connections and favors could smooth over certain issues. Well, even in so advanced civilizations, such practices still existed today.
But this didn’t apply to the Ji Race!
What was one of the most criticized aspects of Lumina? Its inability to be flexible or consider context. It was a collection of programs and algorithms, rigidly adhering to rules, an enforcer that followed regulations to the letter.
Even the esteed Ji Race elders were under its supervision. Over ti, the accumulation of laws and regulations had beco overwhelming, to the point where even professionals specializing in this field couldn’t guarantee they knew every rule.
But Lumina didn’t have this problem. Its storage system contained the most comprehensive legal code, ticulously detailed, with no room for oversight.
The Ji Race, however, lacked this capability. They couldn’t guarantee they would never violate regulations, especially in urgent situations where expediency often ant ignoring certain rules.
But Lumina didn’t understand such behavior. In its eyes, there were only 0s and 1s, right and wrong, with no middle ground. Although the esteed Ji Race elders had passed so regulations granting themselves certain exemptions in special circumstances, these were limited to specific situations and didn’t cover all violations.
This was why many Ji Race mbers had a love-hate relationship with Lumina.
But what was happening now? A highly modified cyborg, in clear violation of regulations, was brazenly operating under Lumina’s watchful eye. And after all this ti, Luo Wen hadn’t seen any chanical soldiers storming the castle to arrest him.
Was it because he was an experintal subject? Luo Wen quickly dismissed this idea. As ntioned earlier, Lumina was a rigid program. It wouldn’t overlook a violation just because the cyborg was part of an experint.
Was there so behind-the-scenes deal? Had Sade and his team secured so special permission? But the cri of chanical modification wasn’t punishable by death, and the individuals involved still retained significant rights. To allow such a violator to participate in an experint of this scale, Lumina would likely require a small council eting, a significant event that would notify all the elders.
But Luo Wen had his own “allies” within the Ji Race elder council. He quickly contacted Elder Hus, who imdiately set aside his tasks to investigate the matter for his beloved Overlord. The result? No such eting had taken place.
This ant Sade and his team hadn’t secured any special permissions through the elder council to allow a free, highly modified cyborg to participate in this experint.
Could it be that the cyborg had volunteered for the experint, lowering the approval threshold? Perhaps only a small council eting or the consent of a few elders was needed, and Sade had simply held a private eting with so friendly elders to get it done?
This possibility couldn’t be ruled out, but it was highly unlikely. Again, Lumina didn’t understand nuance or human concepts.
A cyborg volunteering for an experint? But he had violated regulations first and needed to be punished before participating. And after the punishnt, Lumina would ticulously provide repair services to ensure the cyborg had the opportunity to violate the rules again.
These repair services involved removing the nanobots that had replaced critical body parts and using thods like cloned organs to restore those parts to their original state.
But judging by the experint in the castle, this cyborg clearly hadn’t undergone such repairs. This made the first hypothesis slightly more plausible, though it hadn’t been completely ruled out.
There was another possibility, one Luo Wen didn’t want to consider: Lumina knew about this. Well, of course it did. With so many networked machines and surveillance systems in the castle, there was no way Lumina hadn’t seen what was happening.
This ant Lumina had tacitly allowed it, or perhaps even participated in it. The speed at which the biomitic walls of the nanobots around the biological armor were updating was far too rapid for a small experintal team to achieve.
Moreover, achieving this would require not only a large, specialized team but also significant supercomputing resources, which again tied back to Lumina.
Luo Wen also thought about Sade, who belonged to the Inheritor’s Faction, a group that supported the chanical path. Yet Sade had been assigned as the overseer of a major biological research zone.
What was the connection here?
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