Chapter 329: Five-Star Good Citizen, Get to Work!
A few hours later, inside the large warehouse of the Paradise Island Cang Yuan branch, Ye Xing received equipment blueprints from Sister Xue. To be precise, it was an optical camouflage cloak, plus an artificial body surgery pod.
The optical camouflage cloak was essentially a flexible holographic screen. When powered on, it could display the background behind the wearer, thereby making them invisible.
Against enemies in a specific direction, within approximately a 60-degree field of view, it could allow the wearer to completely blend into the background.
Within a 60 to 120-degree range, as long as the enemy wasn't staring intently, it would be difficult to detect any flaws.
This was also effective for surveillance cameras; as long as the distance was kept beyond one meter and the external light source wasn't too strong, the optical camouflage cloak would not fail.
Moreover, it was extremely lightweight and thin, and when folded, it could easily fit into a container the size of a cigarette pack.
The artificial body surgery pod was a variation of the Cang Yuan hibernation pod, capable of implanting newly developed Emerald Star biochemical artificial organs into the body while reshaping the flesh.
Currently, these first-generation artificial organs were all custom-made for Ye Xing, drawing from diverse technical sources, including golden age artificial body modifications, Emerald Star's controlled evolution data, and advanced algorithms from the Intelligent Order Consensus.
There were six types of organs in total.
One, Enhanced Cerebellum: It could quickly learn the target's actions and behaviors, master their tactical skills, or precisely mimic their posture and gait characteristics.
Two, Built-in Power Source: It reconstructed the lungs, allowing them to meet respiratory needs with only 5% of their original volume. The remaining part was entirely converted into elastic biochemical metal hydrogen batteries, utilizing a wireless charging solution. It could also be additionally charged through frantic eating, with a capacity of 180 kilowatt-hours, sufficient to support the operation of the internal biochemical organs for one week.
The reason nuclear batteries were not considered was to avoid detection of radioactivity by high-end security checks. Three, Elastic Skeleton and Elastic Muscle Fibers: They could change height within a range of plus or minus 20 centimeters and adjust data such as shoulder width and head circumference.
Four, Malleable Appearance: It could change facial bone structure and soft tissue thickness, alter iris color and patterns, and increase or decrease hair, and change fingerprints through rapid metabolism, allowing Ye Xing to perfectly mimic others.
Five, Enhanced Vocal Cords: It could mimic various sounds, including infrasound and ultrasound, or envelop himself in an active noise cancellation field, greatly eliminating noise generated during movement.
Six, Cooling Core: It reconstructed the circulatory system, allowing the aorta itself to provide circulatory power for the blood, and the “heart” was replaced with an Entropy Zero Element Furnace disguised as a heart, which could eliminate his infrared thermal signal.
"What good stuff are you looking at, so happy you can't stop?"
Male God walked past Ye Xing, lowering his head to glance at his pad.
"These are blueprints for artificial organ modifications?! Wow, where did you get these? Isn't this high-tech still under development on Emerald Star?"
"Exactly! Hahaha, I'm going to change professions before you guys; I'm not going to be the same kind of creature as you anymore!"
"What? Change professions??"
Such explosive and arrogant remarks naturally quickly attracted everyone else.
"Look, these biochemical organs won't show up as abnormal on X-ray security checks! That means I can impersonate anyone, easily obtain various authentication permissions, and enter anywhere I want to go!"
Although rapid DNA sequencing technology had been mastered by Cang Yuan in the 23rd century, in Star Union Space, it had been completely lost after the apocalypse.
All identity verification relied on six methods: voiceprint, fingerprint, iris, facial recognition, gait, and posture.
Star Alliance artificial humans might be able to perfectly mimic the first four, but mimicking gait and posture required customized, highly artificial body modifications, which were very expensive.
At the same time, it required a long time and separate development of mimicry algorithms.
"All your gadgets are for spy infiltration; they don't increase attack power." Male God said with a look of disdain.
"Don't be such a brute, okay? All you know is increasing attack!" Ye Xing said with a look of contempt.
"I'm telling you, this spy work, it has the effect of using four ounces to deflect a thousand pounds. And being a spy really gets addictive. Ah, never mind, telling you common folks who haven't seen the world about this, you wouldn't understand."
"Tch."
The group of players all felt confused.
Where did your sense of superiority come from?
"I think it should still be useful," Dan Ta said, "You guys think, if he can disguise himself as a mining executive, maybe he'll have a chance to scan the zero element mining exploration machines, and then all of our main quests would be completed."
Ye Xing gave a thumbs up.
"Exactly! Sister, you know your stuff."
"Oh, that's true then—good luck!"
After Dan Ta's reminder, the others also realized the great significance of this modification.
"Alright, it's relatively advanced, but why did they develop it for you first?"
Guo Li Cheng felt this was very unfair.
"Of course, it's because I'm exceptionally outstanding. Putting everything else aside, I have the highest level."
"Damn it—you haven't killed the most people!"
"Kill count doesn't mean everything, okay? You're truly hopeless, chaos has gotten into your head."
Ye Xing waved his hand and ran off to print his gifts, and incidentally, Sister Xue's teleportation point.
She had already entrusted the New Hope branch to destroy her teleportation point left there. As soon as the artificial body modification equipment was completed, Sister Xue would be able to teleport to Paradise Island and operate the equipment to help him complete the modification.
"Stop chatting for now."
At this moment, the branch manager Ma Lou walked over.
"Perk up, there seems to be something going on around the base. Surveillance caught some shadowy figures."
"(!) Is it those ruffians who were eyeing us before!?"
Dan Ta immediately got excited.
Finally, she could get some action.
Ma Lou shook his head.
"Probably not. Those guys probably saw that we had quite a few people and didn't look like ordinary merchants, so they didn't dare to come and sold the information to a larger local gang."
The branch players had been wearing only power soft armor these past few days, but even so, their daily display of organization and detailed movements still alerted the Blade District gang members.
These guys had trained!
At least their strength was more abundant than ordinary people's.
They were all street toughs; if they didn't have this kind of discernment, they would have been lying dead on the streets long ago.
"Large gang? Good, bigger is better!" Dan Ta grew more excited the more she listened.
"Alright!" Ma Lou clapped his hands, "Then everyone, let's prepare to welcome our guests according to our pre-set defense plan!"
"Okay!"
Soon, Guo Li Cheng walked over, wearing her battle armor.
This was actually still her melee-specialized "Fierce Poison" MK3, which enhanced instantaneous power and weapon output with powerful superconducting capacitors.
However, because the name "Crimson Witch" had already spread in New Hope, and likely also reached Paradise Island with the caravans, to avoid suspicion, Guo Li Cheng had changed the paint scheme to black.
"Wow, Black Knight! Cool!"
Because "Fierce Poison" had a broad-shouldered, slim-waisted, long-legged design, it indeed looked a bit like the Black Knight from the Souls series.
Male God gave a thumbs up, then paused.
"Wait a minute—what's with these two red horns sticking up on your helmet?"
"They're not horns!" Guo Li Cheng argued.
"I'm always being slandered as a murderer, so to improve my image, I asked Zhong Xia Ye to design these two bunny ears. See, aren't they cute?"
Cute my ass. —
"They don't look like bunny ears."
Male God felt that the other party seemed to be playing abstract, but there was also a stubborn earnestness in it.
"To match the power armor, the lines were made a bit more rigid, you know."
"Alright, then why are they red?"
"I like red."
"..."
"Sister, Zhong Xia Ye probably tricked you, didn't she? She's a Warhammer fan."
Ye Xing really couldn't listen anymore.
"Are you sure this isn't a Chaos Space Marine?! Did you guys pay GW for the copyright?"
"I don't understand what you're saying. I'm a beautiful girl who lives a full life; I'm not very good at those things you otaku like."
"Heh heh! You played games four or five hours a day before playing Star Sea; what kind of full life are you living?"
"Alright, then let's assume they're bunny ears—what's with this eight-pointed star pattern on your chest?"
Ma Lou also couldn't suppress the urge to complain in his heart, curious to see what ridiculous explanation the other party would give for this.
"Isn't this the symbol of the forces of Chaos? It's identical."
"The worldview is completely different, okay! This symbolizes the eight virtues of a knight."
Guo Li Cheng said earnestly, counting on her fingers.
"Humility, Honesty, Compassion, Valor, Justice, Sacrifice, Honor, Spirituality! Didn't know that, did you? My coach told me this when I used to do historical fencing. You little otaku should go out more and broaden your horizons, go, go, go—"
Everyone looked at each other, maintaining a tacit silence.
You are truly too "spiritual"!
This is fine, no need to bother explaining it to her.
"Hmm!" Ye Xing gave a thumbs up, "I believe you! In the future, your image will definitely improve greatly, in some respects!"
As he spoke, surveillance cameras captured more gang members appearing around.
Their total number was estimated to be no less than 100, and their actions were quite organized; they had already surrounded the branch.
This time, the ambush was to be launched by an "old-established" gang called the "Tiger's Maw Gang."
On Paradise Island, a gang that had existed for more than 5 years meant that its strength was decent, not just a pure mob.
And the history of the "Tiger's Maw Gang" had exceeded 40 years.
Buzz!
Several rotor drones circled overhead.
They were controlled by a scout named Eagle Feather.
This person was a key talent cultivated by the gang, equipped with an expensive brain-computer interface implant, with half of his head occupied by a brainwave amplification device.
At this moment, Eagle Feather was squatting on the roof of a nearby tall building, shaking his head, simultaneously controlling 6 optical fiber drones via brainwaves, his vision consequently split into six equal parts.
Soon, he completed the preliminary reconnaissance.
"Calling Sledgehammer~~All-seeing eye is open! Those idiots didn't send anyone to patrol, and there are no automatic defense turrets on the building's exterior. Charge in~~Kill them all! Woohoo~~~Fly, my little birds~~~"
Because his spirit and intelligence could not be significantly enhanced beyond normal human levels like the players, Eagle Feather had to regularly take large amounts of psychotropic drugs to gain the "superpower" of multi-line brain control.
This caused him to often be erratic and on the verge of cyberpsychosis.
"Okay, I got it!"
The operations commander, Sledgehammer, hung up the communication, not wanting to deal with this madman any further.
"Alright, no need to hide anymore! We're attacking the main entrance directly!"
At a command, all members of the Tiger's Maw Gang emerged from the surrounding streets and alley corners.
Most of them carried gunpowder weapons and wore polymer combat suits with bulletproof plates, spray-painted with colorful gang insignias and ancient Earth Chinese slogans of unclear meaning, such as "Noisy and Base," "God in the Middle," and "Iron Rod Angel."
It was unclear where they learned them or if they even understood them themselves.
Perhaps they just thought it looked cool.
Pedestrians on the street, seeing these tough guys, quickly fled for their lives. The Tiger's Maw Gang entered as if into an uninhabited land, arriving at the Cang Yuan branch building, only to find the main gate was not closed.
"Looks like they're quite confident, huh? Let's warm up the atmosphere for you first! Haha!!"
The gang members laughed wildly, not rushing in, but instead throwing a large number of Molotov cocktails at the building.
Bang!
The bottles shattered against the exterior wall, and flames erupted.
"They're not reacting! Sledgehammer!
Ha!
This act of attacking a concrete wall, of course, wouldn't cause any substantial damage; it was merely to test whether the opponent was cowardly or not.
The experiment results showed that the other side was truly cowardly to the extreme!
"Charge!"
Sledgehammer waved his hand, and more than half of the Tiger's Maw members, like a swarm of colorful cockroaches, poured into the warehouse rented by Cang Yuan.
"Haha, they all ran away! All the valuable goods are left here! What are these big boxes?"
"Looks like 3D printers!" Sledgehammer said, "I've never seen this model before, but it feels like high-end stuff."
"So it's valuable, then?"
"It should be very expensive!"
"Oh yeah! We're rich! Look, there's even Fierce Poison power armor here, and it's an MK3 model, that's top-tier stuff! These useless guys, they have such weapons but don't dare to fight, and they still dare to come to our Paradise Island?! Go home and eat shit!"
Thud!
Suddenly, the eyes of that power armor lit up.
Ma Lou's voice came from within it.
"Close the door! Unleash Male God!"
Click, click, click! Clang!
The lights in the warehouse went out, and the heavy metal rolling shutter door suddenly dropped to the ground, blocking the escape route.
Ma Lou pushed off the ground, and with a whoosh, vanished into the nearby darkness, no longer to be found.
"It's an ambush!"
The Tiger's Maw members quickly turned on their headlamps and tactical flashlights.
In the pitch black, beams of light nervously swept across.
Boom!
An unusually heavy sound, along with ground vibrations, came.
Something seemed to have fallen from a height.
"Over there!"
Numerous light beams converged, illuminating a pale and enormous figure.
"Hello, brothers, you finally made it?"
Male God bared a mouth full of sharp teeth, smiling to welcome his guests.