Eternal Night

Chapter 662 The Non-Humans of Europa

(PS: I'll probably only have one update today and tomorrow. It's Children's Day, and I've been promising my child this for over six months. I'm taking advantage of my diet and sugar reduction to spend two days with him.)
Wu Pifu has always had a bad impression of gangsters.

Putting aside his upbringing, social and family environment, just considering his past in the 21st century, the temptations he faced, and the potential harm and persecution his parents might suffer in the future, gangsters were undoubtedly involved in all of this.

Therefore, in Wu Pifu's impression, gangsters are basically in a sub-state between humans and non-humans.

Of course, he wasn't a fanatical person, so he would use his eyes to see, his ears to hear, and his super brain to sense the gangsters he was going to come into contact with, trying his best to distinguish between the human and the non-human among them.

As for the mission...

"You have the materials, so you can create a Dragon Rider system?" Wu Pifu looked at Liaozhi.

Zhi has recovered from being knocked unconscious. He is incredibly thick-skinned... literally, he is like someone with exceptionally high energy. While an average person needs about eight hours of sleep in twenty-four hours, someone like him can usually be energetic for a whole day in four hours. But Zhi is even more exceptional. Given how much Wu Pifu knocked him unconscious, an average person would need about twelve hours of sleep, but he would wake up in two to three hours at most. He is truly an exceptionally energetic person.

Zhi seemed to be thinking about something, occasionally chuckling. When he heard Wu Pifu's question, he immediately widened his eyes and said, "No, what do you take me for? What you're talking about is called the 'omnipotent wish-granting machine,' where you put the materials in and the finished product comes out on the other end of the conveyor belt. No, buddy, do you have some kind of misunderstanding about engineers and scientists?"

Wu Pifu nodded knowingly, then asked, "What exactly is the Dragon Rider System? How big is it?"

Zhi then became serious: "The Dragon Rider System is just a more descriptive name. Its full name is the Military Super Brain Version of the Human Brain Consciousness Reception Decoding Amplifier. As the name suggests, you understand what this is, right? This thing is not mysterious in essence. This technology already existed before World War III. Its predecessor technology is the virtual reality system, which is the reverse engineering analysis technology of the human brain. It allows human consciousness to enter the virtual reality through microcurrents. The Dragon Rider System simply applies it to weaponry. Its application mechanism is to control weapons through thought, and carry out ultra-long-range, ultra-precise, ultra-miniature, multi-target attacks."

Wu Pifu also became interested and asked, "If that's the case, then there should also be a version of the Dragon Rider system for ordinary people, right? The combat power of ordinary people would immediately increase a lot."

Zhi shook his head and said, "It's not as simple as you say. This actually involves a very important issue. The level of willpower of ordinary people is insufficient. To put it this way, the Dragon Rider system that was actually used in the Fourth World War weighed about ten tons, accounting for about one-eighth to one-tenth of the weight of the mechs specially equipped by the three supercomputers. However, its energy consumption accounted for more than half of the mechs' energy consumption. This is the data at the level of willpower of supercomputers. If it were an ordinary person, the Dragon Rider system would weigh at least tens of thousands of tons, and its energy consumption would require a medium-sized nuclear fusion power plant to maintain. This would completely lack practical combat capability. Moreover, the reaction speed of ordinary people means that the Dragon Rider system they use is at most slightly more agile than airplanes, missiles, and mechs, at most two-line or three-line control. But with a supercomputer, even an ordinary supercomputer like Xu Wanfang or you can at least achieve ten thousand-line control, and the speed of the floating weapons they control will reach the limit of your supercomputer's bullet time. Do you think there is any comparison between them?"

There is absolutely no comparison. This is not the difference between an ordinary soldier and a king of soldiers, but the difference between a mortal and a god. According to this data, an ordinary supercomputer at Xu Wanfang's level could easily wipe out an armored force of at least 100,000 people on a plain in one second. It's a direct wipeout. The difference is exaggerated.

After pondering for a while, Wu Pifu roughly figured out what this thing was, as well as its size and weight. If it was a metal object weighing around ten tons with a large internal filling volume, then its volume wouldn't be huge. Even if there were many internal cavities, it probably wouldn't be huge either. But it was still not something that a mere mortal with no strength could manufacture and move by himself.

"Do you know what kind of skilled workers or engineers are needed, as well as tools and equipment... and the high-end manufacturing instruments required?" Wu Pifu asked after doing some calculations.

Zhi then revealed a somewhat neurotic smile, it was unclear what he was thinking: "Of course, otherwise how would I be able to manufacture it?"

Wu Pifu was too lazy to care about this mental patient anymore. He said while thinking, "We don't have much time. It will take more than twelve hours to go back and forth. By the way, how long will it take you to make it?"

Knowing that "if there are enough people, enough materials, and enough tools and instruments, a Dragoon system can be manufactured in about six hours, provided that all of these are available."

Wu Pifu stared at Zhi for a long time before suddenly speaking, "...Xu Wanfang prepared all these things, right?"

Zhi looked at the sky at a 45-degree angle, pouted, and whistled.

Wu Pifu suddenly felt a headache coming on. He rubbed his head and said, "Do you think Xu Wanfang wouldn't prepare all of this for me? Just the materials? And they're still in the hands of the gang? You want me to prepare the personnel, equipment, and venue?"

Zhi continued whistling, while Wu Pifu covered his face and lowered his head.

About six hours later, the shuttle arrived in Europa's orbit, but instead of entering the official spaceport, it followed the coordinates to a place that looked like a junkyard, but was actually a hidden small spaceport, and landed there.

Emerging from the shuttle, what awaited them outside was neither a heavily armed army nor a cyberpunk scene strewn with corpses or steel ruins, but rather a chaotic scene resembling a vegetable market or a flea market. The crowd was disorderly, with various shouts and occasional fights. Numerous people with modified bodies, made of metal, or possessing strange organs walked by. There were also gang members wearing exoskeletons to maintain order, but since they were gang members, they ignored all the chaos, as long as they didn't use high-powered weapons.

Wu Pifu and Zhi stepped off the shuttle in this scene, and then a person dressed in a manner that resembled a pirate and a beggar walked over with a light screen above his head.

"Boss Longfei's clients? I've noted down your port entry fee. Settle it off upon departure. Also, do not use weapons exceeding laser type, explosive type, or high-penetration Gauss type. Judging from the records, you are regular clients. Although this is your first time here, you should know the rules. I won't say anything more." The man quickly mumbled a bunch of words, then shone the light screen on the shuttle for a moment before quickly leaving.

Wu Pifu looked at Zhi, who looked at him with a smile, as if to say, "You're the boss, so you can speak for yourself."

"...Alright then, Boss Longfei, right?"

Helpless, Wu Pifu could only use his super brain's emotional perception. Then he took Zhi away from the helipad and came to the chaotic city. Without saying much, he asked a three-meter-tall man whose body was obviously biologically modified, "Where is Boss Long Fei?"

The man looked at Wu Pifu with a puzzled expression, and after asking that question, Wu Pifu left without waiting for his reply, taking Zhi with him.

Along the way, Wu Pifu would occasionally ask questions of one person or a group of people. Soon, he and Zhi arrived at the edge of this bustling city. After passing through several old-looking metal pipes and turning left and right, they came to a building that looked like a bar, and inside was a bar, with a large group of energetic young men and women wandering around. It was noisy and colorful.

As soon as the two entered, they were stopped by the exoskeleton armor personnel maintaining order because of their clothing and mental state.

"I'm looking for Boss Longfei. I ordered some goods from him before, and I'm here to pick them up now," Wu Pifu said bluntly.

The exoskeleton-clad henchman seemed a bit confused, but seeing Wu Pifu's composed demeanor, he couldn't make any judgments. He led the two into the depths of the dance hall. Although it wasn't as noisy or crowded as outside, there were still hundreds of gangsters with weapons, partying or doing something with women mixed in. At a bar at the very back, a man in a suit, but with a fierce face and half of his face covered in metal, was drinking.

The exoskeleton armored subordinate walked up and whispered something in the man's ear. The man turned around and gave Wu Pifu a strange look, then waved to Wu Pifu and Zhi.

Wu Pifu walked up on his own, with Zhi Ze following closely behind, revealing his signature neurotic smile.

Before they even got close, Long Fei shouted in an electronic voice, "This is the cargo you ordered? The only reason I agreed was to see something unusual. What kind of rare breed are you that dares to come and mock your 'Grandpa Long Fei'?" Wu Pifu ignored him and asked directly, "Where's the cargo?"

Long Fei looked at the two men with a strange gaze, especially staring intently at Wu Pifu for a long time, as if confirming something. After a moment of disdain, he looked at Zhi, and then his expression became more serious, though not drastically different. He then laughed and said, "Are you two out of your minds or am I? Do you even know what kind of goods you want? Yes, I can pull strings and prepare for a few years to get this batch of goods, but you expect me to have them ready in twelve hours, and then you send someone to pick them up... Are you trying to make fun of me? Who gave you the guts? Or are you just trying to get close to me and see what I'm capable of?"

Wu Pifu didn't answer immediately. He just turned to look at a henchman in an exoskeleton armor not far away, pushing a metal box more than three meters tall into the depths of the bar. He suddenly pointed at the metal box and asked, "What's that?"

Long Fei was stunned, and veins popped out on half of his face. But before he could say anything, Wu Pifu walked towards the exoskeleton armored henchman on his own. When he got close, he reached out and touched the metal box. The exoskeleton armored henchman was stunned, pulled out a stun gun from his waist and pressed it against Wu Pifu's forehead.

"You son of a bitch..." Long Fei roared, and the gang of thugs around him instinctively looked over.

Then, they saw Wu Pifu look at the exoskeleton armor as if it were an insect or a roadside stone, raise his hand, cover it, and press it down, turning the exoskeleton armor minion into a puddle of flesh, and the exoskeleton armor itself became a puddle of something unrecognizable.

In a flash, at least seventy or eighty of the hundreds of henchmen around him immediately drew their weapons and pointed them at Wu Pifu. But Long Fei's expression changed drastically, and he roared, "Don't fire! Stop!!"

Wu Pifu didn't care at all. He reached out and tore the metal box open with both hands. Then he saw eight very beautiful children inside the metal box, both boys and girls. But that was all. They only had heads and a section of spine. Below that, there was nothing. And these heads and spines were submerged in a solution.

When Wu Pifu tore open the metal box, the eight beautiful children looked at him blankly with their colored pupils.

Wu Pifu looked at Long Fei expressionlessly. His expression only showed the sadness he had felt when he first saw the eight children, but he showed no murderous intent or anger towards Long Fei, only calmness, utter calmness: "What is this?"

Long Fei was terrified.

A seasoned gangster who had been on Europa for over fifty years, he had encountered vicious killers, despondent terrorists, devout cultists, and even brainwashed suicide bombers. He had never seen Wu Pifu with such an expression before, but the instant he saw it, he immediately understood what it meant and how terrifying this thing he had just thought was an ant really was.

That's a military-grade security exoskeleton armor!
It's an exoskeleton armor used in outer space colonies and asteroid belts. It can withstand not only human hands, but also Gauss weapons and laser weapons. It's the latest type of armor that can withstand the impact of small meteorites. Even so, he only has ten sets. That little brother wasn't a little brother at all, but a small leader under his command. And this man... crushed him with a single slap!?

"A statue of a beautiful woman...that's what those powerful and wealthy people call her!!"

Long Fei immediately spoke, without even realizing it, his voice shrill: "I didn't create these. I can't find such beauties. I'm just a dog kept by the powerful and wealthy. These things were found by the powerful and wealthy. I helped them transport and run errands. I have no idea how they came to be, how they were created, where these children came from, or who they are."

Wu Pifu shifted his gaze from Long Fei and looked at his underlings around him. Seeing their questioning and strange looks towards the eight children, he suddenly asked, "You think... it's very interesting? Very precious? Very fun?"

"Fuck you..."

One of the underlings, high on drugs, had just made a sound with his face flushed red when a hand pressed down on his head, turning him into a bloody pulp. The next second, dozens of underlings instinctively tried to pull the triggers of their weapons, but in less than a second, a hand flashed before their eyes, and they were turned into bloody pulp before they even had time to pull the trigger.

Long Fei only saw a blur before his eyes, and then he was horrified. In the blink of an eye, at least seventy of his underlings were turned into minced meat, so badly that they couldn't be pieced back together. Among them, three exoskeleton suits were also crushed into pancakes.

"Is it fun?"

Wu Pifu said expressionlessly, "What do you non-humans take humans for? What do you take life for? You shouldn't exist..."

Then Wu Pifu looked at Long Fei, who immediately raised his hands and said, "It's not fun at all! They're human beings!"

Wu Pifu remained silent for a few seconds before saying, "The goods... get them within three hours, that's one thing. Secondly, give me the information about the eight children that the powerful and influential people want. Thirdly, identify and record all similar powerful and influential people, including their superiors, subordinates, and lackeys."

Long Fei replied loudly and sincerely, "Yes!"

Wu Pifu paused for a moment before asking, "One last question: is there any hope for them?"

Long Fei said with difficulty, "It's impossible, given this situation..."

"Of course there is hope."

Having witnessed everything that had just happened, his eyes practically lit up. He excitedly exclaimed, "A good enough medical environment, enough medical staff, and cutting-edge medical equipment—I'll be the surgeon, no problem!"

Wu Pifu said expressionlessly, "In other words, Europa's official hospital?"

"Preferably at the central level," Zhi said with a grin.

Wu Pifu looked up at the metal ceiling and said, "And there's the best medical team."

"We selected the best medical staff from among the best of the best for Europa." Zhi smiled even more brightly and happily.

Wu Pifu looked at Liaozhi.

"You will be the surgeon."

"I've come to kill non-humans."

(End of this chapter)