Chapter 104 Swarm
The Fabius clan, which is about to take over the real power of the Ye Clan Council, is actually secretly siding with the Collector.
Although I had known that the Collector was probably supported by a large number of top companies from all over the world, Ye's family was not considered a top company, ahem, but I didn't expect that even a loan shark like Ye's would come to the monster trading market to get involved.
However, 01044 was quite polite. She was definitely going to bulldoze the collector's site, but at least she informed the local manager in advance and told him the risk of offending Ye Shi, and asked him to be prepared.
After all, she can go back to Earth 01 after finishing her errands, but Li Pan still has to stay here to clean up the mess of 0791.
Li Pan also hesitated for a moment,
"You mean, we can't suppress Gao Tianyuan too hard, otherwise it will be difficult for the Ye family to get along with each other in the future if the Night City is dominated by one family?" 01044 smiled and shook his head
,
" The core of politics is the rule of the majority by the minority. When conditions permit, of course, we must eliminate as many potential dangers as possible in order to deter the majority. Peace is the plea of the weak and the gift
of the strong. If you ask me In my opinion, I suggest that when you use war preparations this time, you can appropriately consider expanding the scope of attack.
After all, whether some people are actively siding with collectors or betting on both ends, in order to avoid greater conflicts, they must be informed There must be consequences for going against the company."
Li Pan understood what she meant and asked him to beat up Ye Shi when he dealt with Gao Tianyuan.
Just as he was about to speak, the car horn in 01044's hand beeped twice, and then the halo disappeared.
This monster actually failed?
Li Pan saw that she had really thrown away the rag, and took out a stereo from the bag. He still took it in his hand, rubbed it, and continued to block the network.
When Li Pan saw how skilled she was, he couldn't help but ask,
"Is this a one-time monster? Made on site? Can I ask you what kind of skill it is? Super power?"
01044 thought for a while,
"Have you ever played those popular online games ? ? The world of bee demons? Then just understand me as a magician."
Li Pan said he understood,
"Oh, magic? Can you make fireballs? Which one is better, fireball or howitzer? Can you make one for me? Take a look?"
01044 smiled and said,
"Please forgive me for my incompetence. In most places, grenades are stronger. And I am not that kind of professional battlefield magician, more like an auxiliary. It's just that
this time in the 0791 plane, It happens to be the territory of the Ye clan, and there used to be the leyline magic circuit of the elven civilization. Several Holy Grail procurement wars were held, so the headquarters sent me on a business trip to assist. By the way, that collector Beria is also a black magician
. Master, well, you can actually understand her as a demon, a big demon."
"Oh, so you can restrain her? Then you are a demon sorcerer?"
Li Pan asked endless questions to get to the bottom of it, 01044 He shook his head and smiled bitterly, and simply submitted his resume,
"No, I was an astrologer at the Lighthouse before joining the company. I also studied alchemy at the Academy. I also studied some demonology, ancient magic, and elves at the Library. language and occultism, so yes, I can handle most of the methods that Beria can use, and if necessary, I can also directly use the local ancient magic network to set up a workshop. Use alchemy to create a 'monster's projection', and capture ' Site' is not that difficult."
Li Pan understood again, "Oh, alchemy, right? I know, I know, the Philosopher's Stone can be converted into a human body in exchange for equal value, right?"
01044 looked a little surprised,
"You actually know this Philosopher's Stone and human body refining... Yes, in fact, I have almost collected the materials. Next, I need to make as many Philosopher's Stones as possible. Therefore, the more 'temporary workers' used for human body refining, the better. Okay. If you allow it..."
Li Pan snapped his fingers,
"No problem, there is nothing else in the Night City, but there are many scum. Those Dongcheng Guild dare to blackmail the company and commit suicide. You can use it and call it La. Ma and the others will grab a few more for you to practice."
01044 smiled and raised his chest and saluted,
"Thank you for your permission."
Seeing that the other party was quite easy to talk to, Li Pan asked curiously,
"01044, returning to the topic just now, about Ye Do you have any suggestions on how to deal with the family? Are there any war-ready monsters in our company that are more suitable for restraining vampires? What if I want to limit the scope of the attack to the Fabius family?" 01044 still said calmly,
"
You What did you originally plan to use?"
Li Pan had nothing to hide,
"Let's use 'bee venom'. My initial consideration was to send some ninjas to poison... By the way, what did you do last time? And that What on earth is 'bee venom'? Doesn't it matter if you use it casually? It won't wipe out all the vampires in the city, right?" 01044 thought for a while and said,
"
That's appropriate. Don't worry, the vampire's prosthetic body also belongs to directed genetic engineering. , some abilities are unique to the family, and are within the scope of restraint.
As for 'Bee Venom'... Of course you have read the memo, but have you heard anything about Earth 036 specifically? Li Pan shook his head, "
I haven't heard of it." I have never heard of this plane. "
To connect to the Earth server in another world, you have to use a paid line, and you also need a special chip and a network license. Li Pan has only gained money in the past few months. In the past, he could just watch Mewtwo for fun. How could he have the spare money to go to another world? Travel.
01044 nodded,
"It's normal if you haven't heard of it, but do you know TERRA HOLDINGS?
"Oh, you mean the financial backers behind those vegetarians? " "
Of course Terra Holdings Li Pan knows, after all, this company is so famous.
Those famous (infamous) extreme environmentalist organizations in the world, Sambogo Earth Environmental Protection God, Life and Health and Vegetarian Alliance, The Pure Humanity Foundation, etc., are all supported by Terra Holdings. Led
by this company, there are also some food companies that launch various advertisements and public service films on a large scale, organize various activities, and promote environmental protection and clean energy. , the concept of caring for the earth.
Of course, in fact, rather than saying that they really love the earth and care for the environment, it is better to say that everything is for business. The
main business of Terra Holdings is actually Terraforming, livable engineering, and planetary terraforming. .
Long before the war, in the generation of Earth 0, the divergence point of human civilization, mankind also considered the stars and seas, and the future of space development. The corporate tycoons of the previous generation invested enormous resources in developing planetary terraforming technology. and equipment, and developed a large number of technologies and patents.
Terra Holdings was a top company in this field. Under the coordination of the Earth government at that time, it concentrated resources and technology, optimized resource allocation, and used Mars as an engineering test site to take full responsibility. The behemoth of the 'Terra Project' of New Earth Architecture.
The purpose of this company's existence is to monopolize giant projects such as planetary terraforming and shoulder the important task of building homes for interstellar humans. It is a unique super oligopoly enterprise.
At that time, Terra Holdings could be said to be the most sophisticated company. If mankind really moved towards the star sea, it would definitely be the corporate empire with the highest market value.
But who would have thought that a technological breakthrough would highlight an unreasonable and stable FTL engine that has not yet been launched, but that time travel technology and multi-dimensional wormholes have been launched first.
The heavens and the earth were originally the earth and did not need to be transformed. Now the stock price of Terra Company plummeted and it almost went bankrupt.
I say 'almost' because after all, their technology is genuine and they have a lot of patents in hand. Various orbital colonies in the solar system, Europa, Mars, lunar transformation projects, and earth environment control projects are still profitable. Therefore, although they were split and reorganized after the war and squeezed out of the top three, Terra Holdings has always been Retained seat on safety committee.
Therefore, it goes without saying that Terra Holdings loves to hype environmental protection issues.
After all, the patents for environmental transformation technology are all in their hands. Whether it is a private estate, a corporate colony ship, an undersea science and technology park, or a vacuum industrial city, the livable transformation business of the entire universe is contracted and monopolized by Terra. .
01044 took Li Pan to the endless garbage dump and climbed up the hills of garbage.
"036 In the process of industrialization of the earth, due to corporate wars, chemical leaks, misuse of pesticides, and serious pollution, the earth's ecosystem has been systematically damaged. Collapse. So the committee half-sold and half-gifted this earth to Terra, and they repaired the earth and restored the overall environment.
At that time, Terra used 036 as a model project pilot and used various super engineering and technologies to transform it. In fact, It was quite effective at first, and soon an artificial and livable natural system was built. But there was a mistake in one link. It
was the bees."
"Bees?"
01044 suddenly turned around and asked,
"Do you know what bees are? Your world should be extinct, right?"
Li Panhan said, "I, I still know this, I saw it online..."
01044 nodded and continued climbing up the garbage mountain,
"Bees are important to the balance of the ecological environment. Natural pollination by bees is the most efficient and cheapest way to increase crop output value. In natural systems, at least three-quarters of crops rely on bee colonies for pollination. The co-evolution of bee colonies and plants is closely related to the dynamic balance of the entire ecological environment.
Once bees become extinct, many crops and plants will be unable to reproduce and the entire agricultural ecosystem will degrade, and even the collapse of the ecosystem will be irreversible. Of course,
with current technology, humans will not become extinct, but in the end it will become what you are now, A world where we can only rely on synthetic industrial food to survive."
Li Pan looked at the liquid nutritional cream packaging bags in the garbage dump, and 01044 continued,
"To terraform a world whose ecosystem has collapsed, bees are An indispensable part, but pure organisms cannot be directly put into the already severely polluted environment, so Terra specially developed the Autonomous Artificial Apoidea, 3A autonomous artificial bee, 'swarm' system. 3A is a
very High-tech micro-ADI, an autonomous insect-type drone, is composed of a large number of MEMS microsystems. It can not only perform pollination, but also observe overall changes in water quality, temperature, and soil environment. It can provide data feedback and is controlled by a central The swarm system is controlled and can be connected to the Internet when returning to the hive. Through cloud upgrades, program updates, system repairs and self-replicating copies are performed by customized worker bees and nanorobots in the hive. Fully automatic maintenance and promotion of ecosystem upgrades. Of course
similar In addition to bees, ADIs also come in various types such as earthworms and ants. The specific model used depends on the environment. It can be said to be the crystallization of human civilization and can even be said to be one of the top systems among Zhutian Company's drone products. "Yes."
Li Pan said, "But?"
01044 changed another speaker,
"But the AAA developed by Terra was too advanced. The technical blueprint was as advanced as 3A. It is still rated as a level seven military weapon system, and at that time In order to make 036 the dimensional headquarters of Terra Corporation, they added banned technologies to AAA that were so advanced that they were dangerous.
For example, for the company's business, they have upgraded gene target tracking, allowing AAA to carry out targeted gene selection during pollination, and only pollinate genetically modified crops produced by Terra's brands, making it possible for other companies and those not yet to pollinate. Gene-edited weeds are eliminated naturally.
For example, in order to reduce losses and maintenance, they used the latest developed nanoscale synthetic biological materials for the hive, and used self-adaptive self-evolving nanorobots, so that the bee colony can detect itself after a fault occurs, evolve itself according to the environment, and adapt to production. Target self-replicating production, completely eliminating the need for human operation and maintenance.
For example, there are many weapons companies under Terra, which will also directly use the company's advanced ADI modules to conduct weaponized modification experiments and sales, and add various biotoxin syringes, micro radars, and infrared gravitational wave sonar to AAA. Detection, optical invisibility, electromagnetic resistance and interference..."
Li Pan imagined a seventh-level ninja the size of a fly, armed to the teeth, "Fuck..."
01044 smiled bitterly, "But they are not enough. After all, top companies The competition is very fierce. The top market is only so big. If you take it away, I won’t have it. So I heard that they have also upgraded the overall computing power of the swarm system.
In order to free the AAA system from the shackles of Chaos Technology and establish an independent network system exclusive to Terra, the Gestalt logic operation module was introduced privately from the QVN security network without permission from the Ethics Committee... In short
, The outcome is that the bee colony gets out of control, and a mass extinction occurs in 036. "
At this time, they also climbed to the top of the garbage mountain and looked at the night city with lights in the distance.
01044 said quietly,
"It is said that 036 the earth had a population of 14 billion at its peak. That disaster even affected the local branch of our company. were also completely destroyed. If the monsters in that plane were also integrated into the purification by the 'swarm'...
In short, so far, the 'door' leading to 036 has been strictly controlled by the security committee, QVN has been blocked on the entire network, and Star Fleet has There are at least ten Titan-class fleets stationed in the low-Earth orbit over there at 036, destroying everything that tries to fly out of the atmosphere.
Li Pan couldn't understand, "It's already like this, why don't you just give it a nuclear kill? " ?
01044 shook his head,
"The surface of the earth has already been swept by strategic nuclear bombings and gamma ray blasts, but the main body of the swarm has penetrated into the earth's crust and even transformed the entire planet into a nest. In the simple sense, the solemn regulations have already dealt with them. " Invalid.
To destroy the entire planet, it is most convenient to send the bomb to the center of the earth to detonate it. Otherwise, the Colossus-class meteor ship can only be built in low-Earth orbit.
However, the 036s are all empty, and there is no local production support. The hull equipment has to be imported from the sky. The cost is too high, and destroying the earth also requires a lot of procedures, review and approval. Now the safety committee is still wrangling, the ship The shell hasn't even been built yet. "
Li Pan looked at the lights in the distance and the city like a honeycomb of steel, and couldn't help but feel in a trance.
And 01044 continued,
"However, in the war with AAA, we have also gained something. They have evolved some very interesting things, and various companies are conducting research, such as this 'Bee Venom Extract', which was originally The chemical weapon designed by Terra has been independently evolved by AAA and has been upgraded to something that can be called 'level nine edge technology'.
Its main component is Terra's artificially synthesized melittin, which is composed of 26 amino acid residues. Polypeptides composed of bases can be transformed into extremely effective anti-inflammatory substances. They have hormone-like effects without adverse reactions. They have bacteriostatic, anti-radiation, and anti-viral effects. They can target viruses or diseased organisms without damaging them. Normal cells.
Therefore, after gene editing, you can use 'bee venom' as a carrier to attack cells carrying targeted gene fragments. To put it simply, you can poison anyone, but the other person only carries the feeling of 'bee venom' Painful, but not fatal, and once it comes into contact with the target, it will be destroyed from the genetic level.
Of course, our company's technical department has also made corresponding improvements to 'Bee Venom' and added specific toxins to ensure that it will be used after completion. Finally, a temporary worker can be used as a sacrifice to degrade in the natural system, eliminating all traces and evidence, so that no one can find out what kind of synthetic material you used." Li Pan was in a daze after hearing this, and 01044 also admired the night
. The night view of the capital city, after he digested it, he said,
"If it is just for the purpose of warning, the Fabius clan does not have any special system. In fact, there is no need to disconnect the entire plane scale and exterminate the entire genetic bloodline.
I You can set up a barrier in the City of Night to seal the power of the vampire's prosthetic body for thirty minutes. Manager, you just need to take the opportunity to put the 'bee venom' into the lair where the Fabius family lives. Try to find a 'bloodline' for the first shot. 'A pure knight or elder's injection can clear the blood of the Night City in one night." "
It's so simple..."
Li Pan thought for a while and asked,
"Do you have that kind of barrier for ninjas? Theirs The power should also be a variant of ancient elves. It just so happens that our company has stored a batch of their training secrets for your reference." "As long as it is
based on magic principles, there is no problem, but I have a condition."
01044 pointed at Li Pan's chest "Handkerchief",
"Can you lend me this monster for study?"
Li Pan was stunned, took out the 'handkerchief' and handed it to her.
"Have you ever seen a similar...'monster'?"
"Thank you."
01044 stared at the talisman on the 'handkerchief', nodded, and shook his head,
"It looks a bit like ancient seal characters, but I have never seen it before. How on earth did such magic have the rules engraved on the 'string'...
Sir, I wonder if you are willing to transfer this object to me? You give me a price, and I am willing to give you seven additional keys." "
That won't work. It's just seven silver keys, I'll get them back in a moment."
Li Pan twirled his fingers, and the 'handkerchief' magically returned to his hand. This thing is actually soul-bound. Seeing as everyone is a company If we have to get along with colleagues in the future, Li Pan will not play the trick of selling the dog and waiting for the dog to come back on its own.
01044 had a look of reluctance, but there was nothing he could do,
"Okay, I am personally very interested in the magic text of another world, but I can't see the principle of using this prosthetic body for a while. You can use the three curse seals engraved on the monster, Write it down and send it to me by fax for study. Don't make any mistakes. I'll pay you a key for every word."
Li Pan looked at the nine talismans on the 'handkerchief', then looked at 01044,
"Deal."
(End of this chapter) )