Start with a Mechanical Hunter

   Chapter 41 Three Wins

  The senior engineer came to the last place of the cable tribe.

   The first thing I saw was a laboratory that looked quite advanced.

Behind the    laboratory is a three-story staff dormitory, but it has now been transformed into a villa for the elders.

   On the left side of the villa is a temple, which is worshipped by wild gods, and on the right side is a lot of packed supplies. It can be seen that the elder is ready to run away.

  The senior engineer set his eyes on the temple, and there was a strong sense of danger.

   He narrowed his eyes and walked in directly.

  A man's upper body was hanging on the doorway, his fingers were firmly clasped on the threshold, and the nails were cracked due to excessive force.

   And his lower body was replaced by dense neural circuits. On the nerves, one by one dendrite structures bulged, like small tumors.

   And when the senior engineer set his eyes on the 'tumor', the thing visibly shook a few times, and then exploded, blowing out a cloud of colloidal liquid.

   "So sensitive, sensitive skin?"

   The senior engineer complained, he knew this man, the elder's son Zhao Yi, the first warrior of the tribe except Meng Duo, the five attributes have reached 10 points, and in the case of distortion, the strength can be inflated by half.

   In terms of attributes alone, this guy is only a little worse than his predecessor's 'Double Flower Red Stick', and even in the group of mechanical hunters, he is an elite template.

   But for today's senior engineers, it's not enough.

   Stepping over this guy, the senior engineer saw more and more nerve lines, spreading out from the altar like cables.

  'Dendrites' are also getting bigger and bigger, and some can even clearly see the 'human shape' inside.

  Senior worker walked to the front of the altar and kicked open the inner door with one foot. What appeared in front of him was a nutrient solution tank the size of a pool.

  Professor Han lay naked inside.

   And in the nutrient solution tank, there is another kind of creature.

   Brain in a vat!

The 'Brain in a Tank' is not an oversized brain flower. Its shape is closer to a transparent octopus. Hundreds of tentacles are slowly rotating. It is slowly turning around Professor Han.

   The sucker parts of the octopus are replaced by blue light spots one by one, forming an oversized blue light vortex, which looks full of mystery and fantasy.

   At this moment, as the tentacles wriggled, these blue light spots were shining on Professor Han's body, making his skin color and bones transparent, and only the nerve plexuses in his body were constantly lit up.

   The whole person looks like a human-shaped neural network.

  Professor Han's hair was shaved clean, and replaced by nerve bundles as thick as little fingers, which were densely distributed in the frontal, postfrontal, and parietal lobes, that is, the front and back of the head.

   The overall look is like the dreadlocks of a mohawk hairstyle.

   is also very trendy.

   "Is this old man crazy about girls, professor, you really almost killed the little woman this time."

  In the water, Professor Han slowly opened his eyes, but his eyes were dull; at this moment, all his brain power was concentrated in the prefrontal lobe, which was responsible for mental functions, and other brain systems were in a state of shutdown.

  The reason why the eyelids open is just the conditioned reflex of the eye nerves.

The    quest gave him three options, kill Professor Han, kill the brain in the jar, and rescue Professor Han.

   The three items are actually not easy.

   Because killing Professor Han means fighting against a spiritual boss with a perception of over 40 and a part of the power of the 'brain in a vat'.

And killing the brain in a vat means helping Professor Han to become a new 'super brain'. Whether the other party appreciates it or not, just a few AOEs before the death of the 'brain in a vat' is enough to make Senior workers have died several times.

   If the senior engineer was not the master of pinching his face and the master of the virtual world in his last life, the task would not have been so easy.

   was intentionally sucked into the brain first.

   Then ask Huang Yuanli to 'restart' the system.

   Use the 'tight hoop' to escape.

  Professor Han, who was found along the network cable, was like a bionic prostitute who came out to pick up guests.

   "What am I going to do with you, Professor, or—brain in a vat?"

  The senior engineer looked at the transparent octopus and grinned.

   "Talk about the conditions. If I can help you deal with this old man, what benefits can you give me."

   The tentacles of the 'Brain in a Jar' are still spinning in circles unconsciously.

   "Stop pretending, even if I kill Professor Han now, part of his personality will only irreversibly enter your body."

   "Do you want to keep this old man's stuff for the rest of your life?"

   After a moment of silence, the nutrient tank suddenly swayed with ripples, and then a transparent tentacle came out of the water and tapped on the back of Gao Gong's hand, and a nerve node on the back of the palm lit up.

  'Huang Yuanli' sounded in the senior engineer's head.

   "Should I trust you? Human."

   "Of course not."

The    senior engineer sat on the edge of the pool and smiled and settled the bill for the other party.

   "I can deduce it for you. The best outcome is that you kill Professor Han, get rid of Huang Yuanli, and become the final winner."

   "Of course, as you know, Professor Han has made so many preparations that it is unrealistic to want to leave nothing behind."

   "The second is that you devour Huang Yuanli and become the host of this girl's body. No matter what, the girl's brain flower is more fragrant than the old man's brain flower, although it is not as good as the pig's brain flower."

   "But are you really willing? You finally recovered from your slumber. There are so many powerful bodies in this world, but you can only choose such a weak carbon-based low-level ape with such a small chest."

   "The third possibility is that your subjective consciousness is destroyed by Professor Han, and Huang Yuanli becomes a new brain in a vat."

   "There is a worse end. Professor Han will swallow you up and leave no scum."

   "Of course, there is one last possibility, which is to be deceived by me and randomly choose one of the above four endings."

   "But what if I didn't lie to you, after all, there is still a dream, what if I can help you solve this dilemma?"

   "Tell me, what's your choice?"

The 'Brain in the Tank' fell silent again. After a while, a tentacle three meters long protruded out of the nutrient solution, like some kind of book that a senior engineer had drawn before, and wrapped around him little by little. The spiritual nodes on the skin light up one by one.

   An indescribable freshness emerges from the spiritual level of the senior workers.

  [Your trunk nerves are boosted, Perception +1]

  [Your splanchnic nerves are strengthened, perception +1]

  [Your gray matter is enhanced, perception +1]

  [Your white matter is enhanced, perception +1]

  Senior was in a good mood when the tip of the tentacle went around the back of his head and gently stroked the back frontal lobe.

   A special mental wave came from the back of the head.

   The next moment, Professor Yang's version of electrotherapy burst out of the senior engineer's brain again.

  The 'brain in a vat', which is entangled at the neural level, suffers ten times the pain of electrotherapy than that of high-level workers.

   "Hoo-refreshed," Gao Gong grinned, "Did you just want to steal my thoughts, kid?"

   The transparent tentacles trembled, and there was a feeling of embarrassment.

  ‘Sure enough—’

   The mastermind AI who did not conceive the omnic crisis, the pan-conscious subject who did not undergo ethical reshaping, and the indigenous leader who never left the planet.

  People give nicknames, the three fools of the universe.

   "Forget it this time, it can't be like this next time, the bundling will continue."

   The tentacles of 'Brain in a Jar' stretched out again.

  [Your thalamus is boosted, Perception +1]

  [Your pineal gland is boosted, perception +2]

  [your character-1]

   Character: 3

  Remarks: Use the body of an ignorant girl to satisfy the ambition of a perverted old man, and use the treacherousness of human beings to deceive the pure conscious life, your character still has room to decline!

  The senior engineer rolled his eyes and ignored the system.

   And after the pineal gland was strengthened, the brain in the tank also fell into a state of exhaustion, and the mental nodes on the tentacles flickered like a light bulb without electricity.

  The senior engineer didn't actually deceive the other party. It's not that he was honest enough. In fact, if he was level 30 now, he would immediately take action and use the kidnapping of the other party as an "assistant brain".

  Who said that 'biobattery' can only be done by humans, and conscious creatures can do it too!

   Don't look down on others!

   However, in the current situation, helping the 'brain in a vat' is the only three-win option, Huang Yuanli kept the brain flower, and Gao Gong won twice.

   Only the world where Professor Han was injured has been achieved.

  The senior engineer took out another 'tight hoop' and threw it into the pool.

   "Put it on Professor Han, then wake up the little woman in your body, and let her use telepathy to connect me and this old man, remember, it's a one-way connection, don't make a mistake!"

  Huang Yuanli seems to have had a long dream. In this dream, she seems to be connected to the whole scavenger city, sweeping the whole city from a very strange perspective.

   Her telepathy at the first glimpse of the door is inconceivably powerful under the amplification of the 'brain in a vat'.

   At the same time, her feeling gradually became indifferent, maybe there was some curiosity, but more, it was a kind of chaos.

  The emotionless self made her very afraid.

   But soon, she floated up from the bottom of the sea again, like a resurrected corpse, and at the same time as she floated to the surface of the sea, the feeling of 'human' also poured out.

   "Don't stand still, listen to me, I let you do this..."

   Senior Engineer's voice suddenly sounded from the sky.

   After a long while, Huang Yuanli came back to her senses and opened her mouth in astonishment—she found that she could speak directly without using her throat.

   "You mean, let me pass your pain on to the professor?"

   "Yes, the 'central nervous system direct control circle' can produce the effect of electrotherapy, and two circles are twice as painful."

   "And the 'brain in a vat' can be catalyzed by brain power, and it can reach ten times."

   "Ten times of electrotherapy was enough to make the old man faint. As soon as he fainted, the connection with the 'brain in the tank' was cut off, and the big octopus could excrete him smoothly."

"The second step is to draw a scoop according to the gourd, you use 'telepathy' to sense my pain, the brain in the vat will strengthen your pain, make you faint, and when you faint, it can completely get rid of you. "

   "Wait, what if I pass out and this thing eats me?"

   Gao Gong shrugged, "Then next year's day will be your death anniversary, and I will give you incense!"

   "You—" Huang Yuanli felt the long-lost anger.

"Don't worry, you little arm and calf, that big octopus will not be interested," Gao Gong paused and said meaningfully: "If it really eats you, it means that it completely occupies your body. Then I will kill you easily and avenge you."

  Huang Yuanli hesitated, then gritted her teeth: "Okay, I'll cooperate with you!"

   The whole plan is not complicated. The key is trust. It is very difficult for a 'brain in a vat' to trust humans, while Huang Yuanli only trusts senior engineers, not to mention Professor Han, so paranoid that he only believes in himself.

   This is a prisoner's dilemma.

   And what Gaogong did was to take the prisoners' guns into their own hands and force them to win three times.

   That’s right, the senior engineer won twice.

   (end of this chapter)