Psychics don't die from gunfire

Chapter 164: Yujiyi

The sky blue armed shuttle approached from afar and slowly landed on the open apron.

There is a dark grey painted logo on the outer armor of the airship. The pattern is a perfect geometric circle divided by three parallel vertical lines, with the "∞" representing infinity placed in the very center, which makes people subconsciously feel awe - this is the logo of the giant enterprise [Zero Degree Network].

With a "puff" sound, the gas leaked out from the opened gaps in the armor, and the air pressure inside and outside reached a balance.

The shuttle's door opened silently, a folding ladder descended, and amid the silent gazes, a slender and vague outline emerged from the shadows.

The woman slowly walked out of the shadows, revealing a pretty face. She had long hair tied up, and was dressed very neatly. Apart from the pair of light red artificial eyes, she looked almost the same as a natural person, and it was difficult to tell whether she had other artificial bodies - or perhaps the implants in the former were too specialized for realism.

Seeing this person from the head office, who was listed in the high net worth talent training sequence and was destined to have a promising future, the person in charge who had been waiting here for a long time stepped forward and whispered: "Ms. Yu Jiyi, next..."

The young woman called "Yujiyi" raised her hand slightly, indicating that the other party didn't need to say these words.

"——Take me to see the deep-sea unit numbered UT-05."

"clear."

The person in charge nodded and led the way.

The elevator slowly sank, and after a series of identity verification and authority checks, the group soon arrived at Zero Degree Network's "Deep Dive Center" in Zhuguang City.

Along the way, Yu Jiyi said nothing, but just followed the person in charge calmly, which made the latter feel nervous and pressured.

The cold door slowly opened.

This space covering hundreds of square meters is reminiscent of a nest of peaks. One after another, metallic-colored hexagonal blocks are closely arranged to form the ceiling and the ground of this "deep diving center".

A faint blue light flowed along the cracks in the blocks, creating faint ripples in the sound of footsteps.

A row of obliquely placed black cubes stood silently, arranged in order, and next to these deep-sea diving chambers used for abyss salvage operations were some transparent life-support boxes.

The brains that had been completely peeled out and filled with tubes were soaked in a light green solution. The flesh-colored wrinkles on the surface that occasionally squirmed indicated that the brains were still active. The other ends of the tubes were connected to the deep diving chamber next to it.

There are one to three such brains placed next to each deep-sea submarine.

The silently wriggling brains and the cold black cubes are arranged in a close-fitting manner until the end of the boundary, making this hive look dead silent and creepy.

But seeing this scene, neither the person in charge nor Yu Jiyi showed any change in expression.

The latter even stopped for a moment and looked at one of the brains with interest.

"It uses the 'Resister' series memory, the third generation model. It's too old."

The woman's pupils lit up slightly. She seemed to see something even though she was only looking at the brain. She commented, "This generation of products has caused considerable damage to the hippocampus, but the effect of 'personality remodeling' is barely acceptable."

The memory template of the [Resister] series is a member of the anti-corporate organization that has been captured by the company over the years.

Their "memories" were extracted, and after a series of extremely complex adjustments, screening and cutting, the original "resistor" memory was made - the Zero Degree Network used it as a template to copy for internal use.

If the characters are considered as a collection of "labels", then the character personality represented by the "Resister" memory is the most common and stereotyped "Resister" in film and television.

Hearing this, the person in charge considered his words and explained carefully: "This batch of 'Resistant' memory is considered as inventory, so we..."

"It's okay. I don't mean to criticize or accuse you." Yu Jiyi smiled and said calmly, "I just expressed my feelings. Don't worry about it."

She raised her head slightly.

Twenty-three years ago, the former giant enterprise [Pure White Bio] officially announced its next-generation flagship product "clones" under the attention of the public.

Even if we take into account the trivial things such as ethical accusations and social impact, "human cloning" is still an undoubted great technology. As the developer, Pure White Creatures once again demonstrated its absolute position in the field of bioengineering.

Unfortunately, when "Clone" was still in the pre-promotion stage, the arrival of "Freedom Revolution" shattered everything.

Even though it was eventually settled, this war started by the intelligent machines and spread across most of the world still changed many things.

Shortly after the end of the Liberal Revolution, after a round of baptism of "non-my kind" and an environment full of strong distrust, Pure White Bio's "cloning" technology became the target of public criticism - the Scientific Ethics Association required it to be temporarily shelved, public opinion was unprecedentedly huge, and other giant companies took advantage of the situation to add insult to injury. But Pure White Bio had no way out.

In order to complete this technology, they invested a lot of resources.

Even without considering the R&D costs, the penalty for breach of contract for various projects signed in advance with all parties for "clone" products is also an astronomical figure. Under the circumstances at the time, no matter what they did, the company's assets were evaporating all the time.

In the midst of visible weakness, [Emerald Pharmaceuticals] did not hesitate to launch an attack together with [Chrono Access], which was not yet a giant enterprise at the time - this was the beginning and end of the Fourth All-out Corporate War.

When the war ended, the [Pure White Creature] went bankrupt and disintegrated, falling from the throne of god.

[Emerald Pharmaceuticals] swallowed up most of the former's legacy, and [Time Passage] took advantage of it to become a giant enterprise.

As for the "human cloning" technology, facing various pressures, Jade Pharmaceuticals, which has been temporarily satisfied, chose to seal it up and said it would not be used or put on the market.
--"express".

Yu Jiyi looked around.

She had seen the source of these brains - the assembly line of cloning humans, where naked bodies were suspended in the air and sent to designated locations along conveyor belts.

They will be inserted into various memory devices, forced to develop personalities and generate emotions in a short period of time, and then sent to the operating room for rapid separation.

The body parts were piled up in carts for collective recovery, and the brains were placed in life support boxes and sent to the deep diving center.

They will serve as "living plug-ins" for members of the deep-diving force to assist in deep-diving operations - this is also the impact brought by the [Abyss].

People without psychic powers would find it difficult to stay in the [Abyss] for a long time, or to sink to greater depths. However, psychics are rare, and not all of them are suitable for deep-diving operations.

In response to the demand for “abyss salvage”, major companies have used “cloning” technology to create clones with personality and emotions to serve as an external buffer layer for deep divers, reducing the pressure of diving into the [abyss].

——In a sense, these brains are "filters".

If the oppression brought by the Abyss is regarded as "toxic gas", then these brains are the "filters" in the filter. They are non-psychics, so they cannot eradicate the toxic gas, they can only filter part of it, and need to be replaced regularly.

The company did not use "clones" anymore, at least not on the surface, and no one in the general public knew about it - and that was enough.

The [Resister] series of memory is quite popular in this field. After all, those who dare to resist the company can almost be said to be strong-willed - even if this strong will is only artificially tailored and fabricated and brought by the memory, but relying on this will, it is still considered an excellent product for endurance before the oppression of [Abyss].

This is the advancement of technology.

Even though she has seen it many times, Yu Jiyi still feels happy every time she sees this scene.

With joy in her heart and a calm expression on her face, she walked towards a deep diving chamber.

The person in charge's artificial eyes flashed, and a mist of cold air emanated. The deep diving chamber slowly opened, revealing the scene inside.

A naked man slowly emerged from the rapidly descending orange solution. He had his eyes tightly closed and was plugged with many tubes, the thickest of which was connected to the brain-computer interface located on his occipital bone.

"The deep-diving unit of the Lightcasting City, standard configuration, number UT-05."

The person in charge said, "There are four people in total. They all failed to surface during yesterday's deep dive. They are completely unconscious and currently only have weak physiological signs. The medical department has conducted preliminary tests and confirmed that they are no longer worth rescuing."

“But when it comes to memory, we can’t do that.”

"Let me take a look."

Yu Jiyi nodded.

She raised her slender but powerful right hand and gently pressed the man's head.

From the path of [Consensus], the spiritual energy at the peak of the second ring emerged silently.

Psionic arts.

【Excavation】

(End of this chapter)