"Who is that Haipu?" Xia Lian asked.

Mercury walked on the streets of this uninhabited land, "According to the information obtained from this database, his research project is to upload human consciousness to computers and upgrade human life forms.

It is a first-level project in this research base and has great authority."

"It's the completely opposite path from Helios." Xia Lian murmured in a low voice, "It seems that there are quite a few people at the top of the New Federation who want to live forever."

Today's technology has become very advanced. If there is a problem with the body's organs, cloning technology can be used to clone the organs or mechanical ascension can replace all the organs with machines.

Or, like the Empire, inject micro-nanotechnology to perform real-time organ repair and enhance organ function, allowing people to always maintain the body in the same physical state at the time of injection before death.

But even so, people cannot truly achieve immortality. The brain cannot be easily replaced, and even if the lifespan of the brain is the longest among all organs, the limit is only two hundred years.

Two hundred years old is considered the limit for most people.

According to the secret history that Xia Lian learned from his father, human beings had eternal life at some time in the past.

On a certain planet, they discovered a special aquatic creature whose cell tissues could be regenerated almost infinitely.

People have extracted this infinitely regenerative gene through biotechnology and successfully produced an immortality potion.

Moreover, the number of such creatures is very large, so this immortality potion is very cheap and can be enjoyed by almost everyone.

But the problem is that the productivity at that time did not reach the level that could allow people to have eternal life. Later, as the number of people with immortality became larger and larger, many social problems followed.

The older people get, the harder it is to accept new things, and the technology of civilization has fallen into a huge stagnation.

And the most fatal problem is the birth rate and employment rate.

Technology has stagnated, and the growth in the number of jobs has naturally stagnated. The original jobs are difficult to replace because people have gained immortality, and people born later have almost no employment opportunities.

Also because human beings have gained immortality, people no longer need children to support them in old age, and due to many other problems such as difficulties in future employment for newborns, the fertility rate has dropped to almost zero.

But a person cannot work at his or her job forever. After gaining eternal life, people will have more time to accumulate wealth.

When their wealth accumulation is completed, they will naturally not go to work. In addition, the fertility rate has been zero for a long time, and it is difficult for people to find new people to take over these jobs. For a society whose production capacity has not yet been fully intelligent, this is a problem.

A devastating disaster.

At the same time, there are some people who are confused and afraid of a life that is too long, and the suicide rate is also rising sharply.

A vicious cycle emerged in the society at that time, almost endangering the continuation of the entire human society.

People have tried many methods, such as euthanasia when people are 100 years old, and government control of birth and work, etc.

But in the end, this suppression led to a civil war among humans, which ended with the planet where the immortality potion was produced being burned into glass.

People have lost their eternal life.

But in fact, according to his father, the immortality potion was not really immortal. Those who were initially injected with the immortality potion also died of organ cancer after living for more than a thousand years.

"No wonder there are no homeless people here. They are treated as consumables." Xia Lian continued.

"Limited to the brain." Mercury said, "The body was made into minced meat and fed to other homeless people. It is known as recycling, so he has a pretty good reputation among the homeless people."

Xia Lian was silent for a long time. After a while, she heard Xia Lian take a deep breath.

"Mercury, sometimes, you really have to lament the bottom line of human nature."

Mercury seemed to sense the depression in Xia Lian's words. She opened her mouth to say something, but the next moment.

"boom!"

A light cannon hit her solidly from a distance, knocking her away several meters. Mercury did a somersault in the air and landed firmly on the ground.

Her right back was melted by the high temperature, making a sizzling sound, but soon, the micron nanoparticles filled the wound.

Mercury's wide-area radar was turned on to its maximum at this moment. In her radar map, dozens of red dots loomed, surrounding her.

In the darkness of the distant alley, Haipu walked out slowly.

"It seems that my guess is correct. The only thing that can break through our firewall so easily is the Empire's technology.

Your neural integration technology has capabilities similar to artificial intelligence, and I’ve been craving for it for a long time..."

His voice seemed to be mixed with gravel, making it uncomfortable to hear. Haipu looked at Mercury's face, his eyes full of enthusiasm and possessiveness.

In the surrounding darkness, dozens of men and women with the same appearance, wearing black tights and sunglasses, slowly approached.

"Allow me to introduce them. Their names are guardians, and they are our technology for human transformation." Haipu put his hands behind his back and said calmly.

It's as if mercury has become their prey.

"However, they don't have brains. The last weakness of human beings has been completely overcome by me!" Haipu shouted crazily.

As his words fell, the guardians around him also took action at this moment. They raised their weapons and prepared to attack Mercury together.

But Haipu shouted anxiously from one side, "Don't use that, don't destroy my sample!"

Upon hearing this, the other guardians withdrew their firearms and rushed towards Mercury.

Mercury pulled out the gravity rod without hesitation, and the light rod turned into a halo floating above her head, like an angel's halo.

At the same time, she simultaneously turned on the overclocking mode, with short white hair particles flowing around. The overclocking mode can not only increase her basic values, but her most important function is to overclock her brain, doubling the processing speed of her brain.

In her eyes, all the movements around her slowed down at this moment, like bullet time.

With the help of the gravity control device above her head to reduce her own gravity, she jumped high from the ground. At the same time, she raised her hand, and her arm began to deform and turned into a giant gun. The muzzle condensed with light. The next moment.

"boom!"

A huge flame, like a falling pop, hit the ground from top to bottom, causing the earth to shake.

When the flames dissipated, a huge crater was blasted out of the ground, but the guardians were protected by light shields and remained motionless.

That's technology similar to Helios Field.

At this moment, mercury does not have a Helios field.

The next moment, the guardians appeared around Mercury. At the same time, a repulsive force spread from the center of Mercury to the surroundings, pushing them away.

Mercury wanted to take the opportunity to evacuate, but the guardians pursued him very closely. Light cannons were fired from their mouths and bombarded Mercury's open gravity shield.

These light cannons were deflected by the gravitational shield, but as the bombardment of these light cannons ended, a bolt of lightning shattered the air, bombarded the gravitational shield, penetrated the gravitational shield, and hit Mercury solidly.

This is also the reason why the deflector shield was eventually eliminated. It carries a conductive medium, so it will be penetrated by the electric spear.

High-voltage lightning destroyed Mercury's body, her vision went black, and she fell to the ground, but was caught by Mithril who came over.

Seeing the second modified person appearing in the field, the man named Hai Pu became even more excited.

"The second material."

Quickly regained consciousness, she used a micro-nano to separate a USB flash drive, handed it to Mithril, and whispered.

"Take His Highness and leave."

Mithril took the USB flash drive. Transformers are not emotional people. Her brain quickly analyzed the current situation.

The two of them can indeed fight these guardians for a period of time together. The Principality of Helios's technology for human transformation is superior to that of the New Federation.

But as time goes on, the enemy's support will become more and more abundant, and it is meaningless to continue fighting.

After confirming this, Mithril glanced at Mercury and turned around to leave without any hesitation.

"Don't let her run away!" Haipu said excitedly.

The dozens of guardians immediately flew up and chased after them, preparing to stop Mithril, but the next moment.

"boom!"

The terrifying gravitational field pressed them directly to the ground, causing the concrete floor to crack.

Mercury's hair was flying, the particle flow became more and more vigorous, and the gravitational field affected hundreds of meters in radius, making everyone unable to move.

"Quick Silver." Xia Lian's voice sounded in Mercury's mind.

"I'm sorry, Your Highness." Shuiyin said calmly, "I may not be able to accompany you on the next journey. I should have listened to your words just now and shouldn't have made matters worse.

Now, it's time to pay for my stupidity."


Chapter completed!