Starting as a Mechan Chapter 224 5: Guo Man

'Ahhhhh, I really want to play gas, really want to customize my character's face.' Sister Ji

'Even female players like customizing faces?' Thank You

'What's wrong with female players, can't they like handso NPCs?' Sister Ji retorted.

'Pathetic, we male players aim to be the best in the ga!' Thank You

'No, male players like customizing faces too.'

'Agreed!'

'That's right, not only do we like customizing faces, but we also like playing female characters. By the way, can this ga create female characters?' Crossdresser

'That na upstairs sounds so manly, I like it!'

...

The ga launches in three days, and these silly players are just chatting idly, although it's quite useless, it's still pretty amusing to watch.

In his past life, Gao Gong wasn't much into forum chatting; he preferred posting pictures.

Especially second creation pictures of NPCs, those scantily clad, provocatively shaped second creation pictures.

Switching to the background, he found that quite a few people had ssaged him, over 99

already.

'Administrator, can I sell you a cute act for a "Fine" rating?'

'Hey admin, care for so PY trading? You definitely know lots of storyline data, right?'

'Admin bro, you don't want anyone bullying lil old

in-ga, right~(￣3￣)～'

'Admin hubby, I've got my butt sticking out, go hard~'

Who the hell are you!

Gao Gong glanced over and realized the person who said this was 'Thank You', the sa one aiming to be number one in the ga.

I thought you were the iron-willed number one.

Gao Gong twitched his eye and shut the forum, realizing he underestimated the silliness of this group of players.

He casually picked up the visual imaging device he used during dinner yesterday.

According to Gao Yuanyuan, it was a gift from their Dean.

Na: Visual Imaging Device

Category: Visual Adjustnt Equipnt

Quality: Fine

Sensory Level: Level 4

Note: An advanced sensory equipnt that can completely interfere with your vision, making the surrounding environnt any way you want.

Environnt Templates: 5 Types

Gao Gong adjusted it to the 'Birds and Flowers' template, and the next mont, a large stream of data spread through the environnt, as if Gao Gong had left Nightless City and entered a forest.

This forest wasn't the concrete jungle of the Radiation Zone, but a pre-civilization environnt; beautiful ginkgo trees fragnted the sunlight, the ground was covered with flowers, grass, and a thick layer of dead leaves.

"High-quality stuff; their Dean's really generous."

Gao Yuanyuan grew up in the Welfare Institute, similar to a school for employees' children, belonging to the benefits of the chanical Main Brain. The Welfare Institute has children of different age groups, and she belongs to the older ones.

Gao Yuanyuan's goal is to beco an assistant teacher at the Welfare Institute after coming of age.

Turning off the visual imaging device, Gao Gong then switched on the TV and casually watched the news.

'Frontal Gang and Gothic Gang are having a heated battle in the Outer City District; our reporter is bringing you the live updates... Our reporter got killed by a stray bullet, now our caraman is reporting.'

'Pure chanical worshipers are marching in the Business District with slogans of 'Full body transformation, human revolution'.'

'A perverted serial killer is loose in Old Town District; there are 13 victims so far, all dismbered. Black Fox Security Company says they will take responsibility and step up patrols in each district.'

'Turing Sect radicals are spreading electronic viruses everywhere; Nightless City citizens, please beware. Now releasing photos of the extremists...'

Upon seeing this news, Gao Gong imdiately put down his raised leg.

Three major Mother Cities: Fortress, Deep Net, Cybertron.

Among them, Fortress was betrayed and conquered by the Cloud Nobility.

And Deep Net was destroyed by 'Turing God'.

Yes, this Turing God is the deity worshiped by the Turing Sect, a 'Large Data Virus' over level 90.

In the later stages of Cyber Wave, there's a super-large mission called 'Turing's Eastern Expedition'; players can choose a faction to defend Mother City Deep Net or join Turing Sect to destroy Deep Net, completely unlocking the shackles of Digital Space.

"Turing Sect, Turing Doctrine, as far as I rember, this Turing Sect has a Professional Knowledge Chain."

Gao Gong muttered to himself.

At this point, Turing Sect is still led by the relatively mild-mannered 'Wolm Faction'.

This faction claims to inherit Turing's will, aiming to enhance brain network computational power, suppress AI, revoke AI autonomy, ultimately serving human needs.

That's still quite okay; it gets worse later when the radical 'Isaiah Faction' takes control; those religious zealots intend to wipe out all AI on the planet.

If you want to obtain Professional Knowledge from these people, it's definitely easier in the early stage than later on.

Got to find a way to connect with the 'Wolm Faction' people.

How is the Turing Sect's mission triggered again?

Gao Gong racked his brains, but he couldn't recall this minor early-stage storyline well.

Just vaguely rembered a 'Three Sects in One' plotline.

"Excuse , is this 'MrG's Neural House'?"

...

Gao Gong looked up to see a peculiar middle-aged man at the door, wearing a cheap suit, with a blank expression but sporting a dark green wig, hesitantly peering inside.

"Co in."

Gao Gong inserted the casually spun scalpel into the dical pouch and gestured for the man to sit down.

"Dr. Gao, is this clinic new? To be honest, my na is Guo, I work in Virtual Real Estate—" Guo Man stared at the bloodstained scalpel, his legs trembling a bit.

"Not buying a house, not buying insurance."

Guo Man wiped his sweat, laughed dryly: "Dr. Gao, there's a misunderstanding, I'm here for a Prosthetic Rehabilitation surgery."

"Which prosthetic of yours is malfunctioning?"

Gao Gong quickly scanned the other's body. The number of prosthetics on him was pathetically few — high-grade plastic prosthetic eye, implant hair resembling green weeds, and a network access chamber similar to clip-on earphones.

The 'Flying Swallow-12' model, the lowest grade of access chamber, only had functions for 'scanning device' and 'quick crack', an old model with limited functions, even lacking an electronic defense wall.

A low-level 'Neural Encoder', didn't look like a business sales type, possibly responsible for after-sales repairs. The heels of his shoes showed slight signs of corrosion, caused by the industrial sewage unique to the Outer City District.

In Nightless City, anyone with so status wouldn't do business in the Outer City District. Running around here, the possibility of encountering gang warfare is quite high.

"Well, my access chamber has been producing phantom sounds recently, keeping

up at night. Doc, could you take a look?"

"Phantom sounds, can the access chamber still be used?"

"Usable, quite good actually."

"Have you implanted any other prosthetics recently?"

"No, aside from the company's free checkup, I haven't undergone any modifications that cost money."

"Have you eaten anything unclean or contacted anyone strange?"

"I eat and live at the company, working 22 hours a day, haven't been ho for half a month!"

At this point, Guo Man's face was full of pride.

In Nightless City, work is highly revered, the 996 schedule is a disgrace here.

"Lay down, let

check."

"Oh."

Gao Gong used a screwdriver to first remove the casing, then slowly opened it. Beneath the 'clip-on' access chamber, it was empty. The ear was cut off at the root, and pulled out from the black ear hole were four neural wires with yellow mucus, each corresponding to one of the four ventricles.

Neural Encoders differ from Programrs in that they don't deal with ordinary code, but sensory data converted from neural signals, requiring the use of an access chamber for human-machine interaction to operate.

In jargon, it's called imrsive programming.

No issues here.

If there were genuine issues, this old relic wouldn't even work.

Gao Gong thought for a mont, then found a wrench to pry open his occipital bone.

The implantation of old model access chambers required modifying the entire cranial structure.

During this process, the programr remained silent, not because he was brave, but because his pain system had already been removed.

Seeing the structure inside his brain, a hint of oddity flashed in Gao Gong's eyes.

"Fixable, 1000 chanic points."

"That much, Doc, a bit cheaper please, you know I'm an employee of 'Virtual Real Estate', how about I give you a discount on a house?"

"Your family really is a real estate company?"

"Sort of," Guo Man chuckled awkwardly: "But what we sell are Cyber Space houses."

"Get lost!"

"Doc, have rcy, I haven't slept well in almost a month."

"You haven't been working overti this whole month?"

"Doc, I have elderly to care for, kids to look after, and an adorable, clever daughter, for the sake of my family, please, a bit cheaper. The cheaper it is, the more my daughter can eat well…"

Looking at the middle-aged suit-clad man kneeling on the ground, hugging his leg and wailing, Gao Gong was montarily speechless.

Following the principle of a grand opening, Gao Gong finally gave him a discount, after all, it didn't require replacing anything, just a minor modification.

He adjusted the circuits in the hallucination maker in the man's brain.

...

Guo Man returned to the company, delighted.

He had checked — this type of surgery typically costs 1200 chanic points, but he managed to haggle it down to 800 points.

The remaining two hundred could buy his daughter the toy she likes the most.

"I'll be leaving early today."

He inford his colleague, and amidst their astonished gaze, Guo Man packed up and headed ho, running into a colleague who joined the company at the sa ti, now a mid-level sales manager, known for speaking without restraint.

"Old Guo, et my cousin."

In a hurry to get ho, Guo Man nodded perfunctorily.

"Don't worry, you're my cousin, how could I not take care of you? Trust , it's just a dozen contracts, I can handle them in no ti. By the way, have you bought a house? Let

introduce you to a new release from our company…"

Guo Man rode on a floating rail car, the scenery from the air long familiar to him. The rail car stopped at the top of his apartnt building, and he took the elevator all the way to his doorstep.

"Baby, daughter, I'm ho early today."

"Dear, you're back!"

"Daddy's ho!"

In Guo Man's eyes, was his gentle wife and adorable daughter.

"Daddy bought your favorite toy today."

"Yay, I love Daddy the most."

"Don't pester Dad all the ti, dear, wash your hands and eat."

With a 'beep', the transfer through the human chip occurred.

[You transferred two hundred to the 'Virtual Real Estate' charity fund. 'Virtual Real Estate' wishes you and your family happiness and fulfillnt in life]

In the rundown apartnt, Guo Man sat smiling foolishly at the dining table, across from nobody.

No, it was his wife and daughter from the hallucination generator.