They traveled through time at the same time, but the villainous scientist

Chapter 389 Using a Chicken to Lay Eggs
Alien World, Earth

The towering skyscrapers resemble a forest of steel and glass.

In the heart of the city, in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows of a luxury apartment, Zhang Qi's figure was clearly silhouetted against the neon lights and floating traffic outside the window.

A pale blue holographic screen floated in the air in front of him, with countless data streams refreshing rapidly like a waterfall.

"2122 AD..."

Zhang Qi tapped lightly on the virtual keyboard, tracing the historical context of this world.

The timeline on the screen rapidly rewinds, eventually freezing at the beginning of the 21st century.

Up until 2000, the trajectory of this world's development almost completely overlapped with his memories of his past life, until the appearance of a name that led the history of the entire world onto a completely different track—Peter Wieland.

This person's resume can only be described as "unbelievable".

In 2012, he founded Wieland Corporation, a behemoth that will profoundly influence the course of human civilization for more than a century to come.

Just four years later, in 2016, he invented the atmospheric processor.

This historic technology was able to synthesize a breathable atmosphere directly above the polar ice caps, forcibly halting the then-escalating global warming crisis.

Based on this achievement, Wieland Corporation took over all the copyrights to the technology development from NASA and obtained a license to independently explore outer space.

In the same year, with the full launch of the space exploration project, Wieland's probe discovered, for the first time, direct evidence of extraterrestrial life beneath the ice of Europa.

It was also in this year that Peter Weyland first announced his ambitious concept to the world – the "Prometheus" project.

"As expected... it was that spaceship."

Zhang Qi's gaze lingered briefly on the word "Prometheus," and the image of the research vessel that met with annihilation on planet LV-223 came to mind.

Since then, Wieland Corporation has entered a period of rapid development, extending its reach into all high-tech fields such as military weapons, biomedicine, and artificial intelligence. Like a ravenous beast, it has successively swallowed up countless former business giants.

Today, the economic and power lifeline of the entire planet has been completely divided up by five super-corporations, and former nations and governments have long since become mere decorations for these commercial empires.

These five mega-corporations are now unanimously investing all their resources in an ultimate technological race that will determine the future control of the Earth.

The competition has only one theme, a theme that has been humanity's ultimate fantasy since ancient times—immortality.

There are three main technological approaches that are advancing in parallel around this topic.

First, androids.

Just like the cyborg named Ash that he encountered on the Nostromo, it has an appearance and behavior pattern that are no different from humans, but its interior is a cold mechanical skeleton and synthetic tissue fluid.

Secondly, a hybrid of prosthetics.

This can be seen as an extension of the former, but the goal is not to create a substitute, but to gradually replace the fragile flesh and blood tissue of the human body with high-tech mechanical organs, and ultimately achieve mechanical permanence.

Third, digital upload.

The core concept is to completely digitize human personality and memories, upload them to a vast cloud network, or inject them into a specially designed robotic body to achieve immortality at the level of consciousness.

As for the extent to which these three technological approaches have developed, the information available on the public internet ends here.

The deeper intelligence was clearly locked away in the safes of those five giants.

"That's interesting... but this is good too, it makes it easier for me to show my skills."

Zhang Qi turned off the light screen, a slight smile curving his lips.

The world's technology is quite advanced, which is the perfect environment for him, who possesses countless "technologies".

He smiled and took out a card as thin as a cicada's wing from his storage ring.

The card was entirely black, with a faint glow flowing across its surface. This was his new identity—[Zhang Qi, researcher in the biological department of Wieland Corporation].

This small item cost him a precious D-level side quest and a full 500 reward points.

Of course, its value goes far beyond just a card. Relevant identity information, academic details of graduating from top universities, several papers published in authoritative journals, and even fingerprints, blood type, DNA sequence, and medical records from childhood to adulthood... all of this is perfectly embedded in a global database.

It's as if there really is a "Zhang Qi" living here for over twenty years, perfectly fitting together without any flaws.

"Watson, I'm leaving this to you. Continue your in-depth investigation into this world."

Zhang Qi stood up, straightened his researcher's uniform, and spoke to the figure sitting quietly on the sofa on the other side of the apartment.

"I should go to work now."

The man called "Watson" stood up upon hearing the sound.

He has an ordinary yet attractive Eastern face and a tall, upright figure.

This is an assistant that Zhang Qi created with a small amount of points from the main god. Its physical attributes are twice that of an ordinary human, and its brain has been implanted with a massive amount of fighting skills and knowledge, including technological theoretical foundations from Zhang Qi's memories that do not belong to this world.

He was his bodyguard, his assistant, and an absolutely loyal executor.

"I understand, sir."

Watson bowed slightly, his voice steady and devoid of any superfluous emotion.

Zhang Qi nodded, turned around, and walked out of the apartment.

As the largest company on Earth, Wieland Corporation's global headquarters building is itself a work of art showcasing power and technology.

Like a black sword piercing the sky, it stands in the absolute center of the city. The building's surface is covered with a special material that can absorb and convert solar energy, and under different angles of light, it will present a change of light and dark like a living organism breathing.

Zhang Qi walked through the magnificent gate, which resembled the entrance to a temple, as an icy blue scanning beam swept over his entire body from head to toe.

"Identity confirmed. Zhang Qi, Department of Biological Research, Level 3 Researcher. Welcome, Mr. Zhang."

A cold electronic sound sounded.

He rode in the high-speed elevator, watching the city outside the window shrink rapidly beneath his feet, and finally arrived at the biological research department on the 53rd floor of the building.

The researchers, dressed in uniform white uniforms, hurried about, their faces mostly showing focused or tired expressions.

Zhang Qi walked through the office area and, guided by the personal terminal on his wrist, finally arrived at his workstation.

A semi-enclosed compartment is equipped with state-of-the-art experimental analysis equipment and data terminals.

He sat down, but instead of starting work immediately, he logged onto the company's intranet.

Just as he had found out before, Wieland Corporation is essentially a military-industrial complex, with its core strengths in aerospace technology and weapons manufacturing.

Their research in the field of biotechnology has never been outstanding.

Coupled with the disastrous "Prometheus" project a few years ago, which not only cost the company its top scientific research team but also led to the death of its founder, Peter Wieland, the company's stock price plummeted and it was on the verge of collapse.

In an effort to reverse the decline, Charles Bishop Weyland, then president of Weyland Corporation, made a surprising decision—to merge with its former competitor, Yutani Corporation from Japan, to form the present-day Weyland-Yutani Corp.

After the merger, in addition to retaining its original strengths in scientific research, the company spun off and significantly expanded its biotechnology division, investing unprecedented resources in it.

This is precisely why the Wieland-Yutani Corporation exhibits an almost obsessive fascination with the "Alien" creature.

They aspire to use this "perfect organism" that has evolved to its ultimate potential to overtake others in the biotechnology field, crush the other four competitors, and regain absolute technological leadership.

Therefore, the biological department where he currently works may seem like just a part of a huge corporate machine, but it is actually the core of the company's future strategy.

However, to mobilize such vast resources and leverage this company's resources for his own benefit, the mere "Level 3 Researcher" status obtained from the Main God is far from sufficient...

With that in mind, Zhang Qi opened the document and began typing.

He also possesses the technological capabilities related to artificial organs.

That's cyborg technology from the Shocker organization in the Kamen Rider world...

(End of this chapter)