He panted heavily, releasing his inner dissatisfaction.
The artificial leather at the front of his fist was torn, causing a slight sting. A series of codes and prosthetic body damage information flashed before his eyes.
If the process of dying becos prolonged, it will gradually drive people insane.
John forced himself to calm down with deep breaths.
Once composed, he recalled sothing:
When the web police were hunting him down, soone had cleaned up the traces of Black Light at the Dan Street Apartnt, leaving the state police without any solid evidence and unable to take him away before Eden.
John returned to the scene afterward and found a vacuum tube in the ruins, inside which was a self-destructing chip after reading.
The ssage read:
[Pacifica, is that you?]
Pacific Connor is the real na of the super hacker [Serum].
If [Diode] was the person who left John a ssage at the Dan Street Apartnt, it ant they knew the secret of Black Light.
Serum undoubtedly possessed so intelligence.
[Mission Objective Update]
[Establish contact with Serum. (Not Achieved)]
The progress of the main mission had shifted.
Vito noticed that John’s expression had turned grave.
This young man always beca particularly calm once things reached a certain degree of badness, as if his emotions hit a threshold and were forcibly cleared, switching to a more rational state.
John began to calculate the current situation.
He had already asked Gino to help contact Serum and planned to check back after the chaos at Bolago Club subsided.
For now, the priority was to leave the scene.
The dead body in the room was a mber of the Jingke Heavy Industry board.
His biological remains needed to be properly disposed of, and the bound insurance package and authorization codes required a complex procedure.
The fall of a big shot would trigger a chain reaction.
The company could select a replacent mber within ten minutes of the incident. The transfer of power and inheritance of resources was the real battlefield.
But none of this concerned John.
Mr. Vito sighed.
"Trust , John, stay away from them."
"If I don’t find the vacuum tube, I could die at any mont."
John looked Vito straight in the eye, with sincerity.
"The video of your transaction has spread among the elite circles."
His implication was that the vacuum tube wasn’t as terrifying as imagined.
In Eden City, there are no walls that are completely sealed off, nor people who can truly hide themselves entirely. It’s just a matter of ti.
Vito chuckled lightly, shaking his head.
"That was intentional by Vacuum Tube [VT]. My secret investigation was discovered, and the public video was a warning, exposing to the enemy’s view, forcing to change my weapon usage plan... What a pity, originally no one knew I had bought a big toy, manufacturing surprise would surely have been more fun."
John wasn’t interested in delving into corporate and gang conspiracies.
"What else do you know about Colonel Chris?"
"He has a Basic Physique."
"What?"
Vito furrowed his brow.
"It’s a scientific term. Unfortunately, I’m just a gang mber and can’t explain it to you from an academic perspective. Before contacting the vacuum tube, I even thought it was just a big corporation boasting..."
He attempted to translate it into layman’s terms.
The Basic Trait is very rare.
In the countless prosthetic surgeries of the Cyber Era, it’s often heard that soone installed an excessive number of implants, the pressure beca too much, and they eventually developed cyberpsychosis.
But there’s another, even rarer case.
So people exhibit extraordinary endurance and adaptability. Even after implanting advanced prosthetics, they show no signs of rejection.
So major corporations are collecting similar samples.
They are attempting to create the [Basic Physique] through artificial intervention.
Successful enhancers can accept prosthetic implants beyond the Alpha Level and still retain complete biological character and ntal capabilities even when their physical retention is below eight percent.
One standard of a perfect Basic Physique is:
Cyberpsychosis is below the standard unit.
Vito noticed John’s reaction was sowhat odd.
"Kid, your hand is shaking?"
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