My Endless Life.

Chapter 471 Transformed People and Natural People
Planet A-336 is an ordinary life-bearing planet in the C-10253 star zone.

This planet is not an administrative planet or a central planet within planet C10253, but rather a relatively remote border planet.

If compared with a normal planet, it is equivalent to an ordinary small town within a province, not even a city.

But on such a planet, in the most prosperous city, three special guests arrived today.

They wrapped themselves in cloaks, dressed mysteriously, and walked into the black market of the city.

These three people are Li Qi and his group who have already got off the aircraft.

"This is... my first time here too, but according to the information left in the database, there is indeed a black market here that allows for illegal transactions..."

Various data flashed in Hongye's eyes.

She is a cyborg, with the Empire's latest data chip in her head, various modules with different functions implanted in her body, and her eyes have also been modified to become the Empire's prosthetic eyes.

That’s why Hongye can connect to nearby networks and mobilize data within the network anytime and anywhere.

But after checking the data stored in her mind, Hongye looked at Li Qi strangely.

But they came here not because of Hongye's leadership, but because of the coordinates and specific map given by Li Qi.

Hongye was also very puzzled as to why a young nobleman who had never traveled far would know the location of the black market on a planet that was not even worth mentioning.

Li Qi didn't think too much about it. He looked around in this city, which had a completely different style from the Imperial Star, and said to Hongye casually:
"Then hurry up, our time is limited."

Although Li Qi said "faster", his eyes did not move away from the surrounding scene.

This planet on the edge of the border galaxy is a planet with relatively backward technology.

Li Qi's first impression was of brown, yellow sand, mud, dust, and a hovercraft that was rusty and spewing black air on the road.

It gives people a wasteland punk style everywhere.

However, the tall gray mecha standing in the center of the city shows a completely different appearance from the entire planet.

That should be the top combat force on this planet.

A level 5 mecha that has not yet been able to fully integrate with the mecha pilot.

Li Qi's gaze stayed on the mecha for a moment, then turned to someone else.

The Empire rules over almost a quarter of the universe. In such a vast area, of course, humans are not the only ones living there.

It’s just that the human race is the main race in the universe, so all the high-ranking officials and nobles are human, but this does not mean that there are no other intelligent creatures.

The closer you get to the border, the more intelligent creatures of other races you will find.

They looked different, just like aliens from a movie. When he actually saw them, Li Qi realized that he had traveled to an interstellar world.

As they walked and looked around, Li Qi and his group soon found the black market in this city.

Then, the person leading the way changed from Hongye to Li Qi.

Art: “?”

Hongye: "???"

Seeing Li Qi moving around the black market as skillfully as if he was back home, Art and Hongye had a lot of question marks over their heads.

After all, Li Qi's current appearance does not look like a noble young master who is locked up at home.

"…Does your young master often come to places like this?"

After a long silence, Hongye asked Art in a low voice.

Art didn't say a word, he just looked at Hongye as if she was a fool.

Art's gaze made Hongye feel insulted, but she also knew that she asked a stupid question. If Li Qi came to this city often, he obviously wouldn't need to spend so much time and energy to escape.

It is impossible that this city has not been found by the Ninth Princess until now.

But if that's the case, then there's a problem.

Why is Li Qi so familiar with this place?
Hongye didn't understand, and Art also had doubts.

But the two of them didn't ask anyone, they just followed Li Qi deeper into the black market.

After crossing a dirty street and arriving at a relatively hidden alley, Li Qicai stopped.

Art and Hongye behind him also stopped.

But then Art's expression changed, and he immediately stood in front of Li Qi and looked deep into the alley.

At the end of the alley, a 'mysterious man' with a normal height stood there. When Li Qi and others came in, the man raised his head, revealing a pair of eyes flashing red.

"Omnic!?"

When Art saw the man's mechanical eyes, he was shocked and wanted to call out the mecha and put it on.

"Calm down." Li Qi put his hand on Art's shoulder, motioning him to lean back, and then said, "He's one of us."

"One of our own!?"

Hongye was also shocked and stared at Li Qi with wide eyes: "Isn't it illegal to use intelligent machines? Uh..."

Halfway through her words, Hongye once again received a look of pity as if she were a fool, so she immediately shut her mouth and stopped talking.

That's true. The three of them are now a member of the terrorist organization Renaissance Society and two fugitive "nobles". Saying that it's against the law... is simply laughable.

However, Li Qi also knew how nervous the Empire was about the intelligent machines, so he explained, "Don't worry, it has no self-awareness, and it will automatically destroy itself after completing its mission, leaving no trace."

The technology in the interstellar age is indeed advanced, and accordingly, artificial intelligence should also be extremely advanced.

However, since Li Qi traveled through time until now, he has never seen any artificial intelligence.

I heard it's quite popular in the Irene Federation, but it's rare in the Empire.

The reason is that there was an intelligent robot rebellion in the empire two thousand years ago. Some of the intelligent robots suddenly gained self-awareness, improved their consciousness cultivation methods, and possessed the ability to cultivate mental power.

After awakening the consciousness training method, every intelligent machine is at least a fifth-order mechanic, and even ninth-order mechanics are emerging in an endless stream.

That Omnic Crisis almost swept across half of the universe, and even forced the Empire and the Irene Federation to join forces to clean up the Omnics that had awakened their self-awareness.

After hundreds of years of war, the intelligent machines were completely eliminated, and the Empire began to issue an intelligent machine ban, prohibiting anyone from manufacturing or using anything related to AI in any way.

Anyway, as long as there are mechanics, we can control interstellar battleships even without the assistance of intelligent machines and AI.

That's why Art and Hongye were so surprised to see the 'living' intelligent machine.

"On a... mission?"

Hongye also understood after hearing this.

It turned out that Li Qi had already arranged people here.

She stared blankly as Li Qi approached the omnic, took the silver briefcase from it, then opened the briefcase in front of everyone and put the contents of the briefcase on himself.

While putting on the equipment, the intelligent machine next to him was explaining how to put on the corresponding equipment.

"This is a hair color changing spray. It can semi-permanently change the hair color. It requires a special fading agent to remove it..."

"This is a contact lens. It is an antique from a long time ago. However, after special modification, it can be connected to the modern network. It is equivalent to the smart chip in the brain of ordinary people..."

"The universal mechanical bracelet is also an antique. It can be considered as an artificial body for ordinary people..."

As the intelligent machine explained, Li Qi used the things at hand.

In less than half an hour, Li Qi's hair color had changed to the common black, and the color of his eyebrows and eyelashes also changed accordingly.

The pupils also changed from red to pink because of wearing contact lenses.

There is no way. The genes of the Sarnak family are too strong. Ordinary smart glasses cannot cover that special red color, so they can only be slightly modified.

But this is enough.

When the hair color and eye color changed, no one would immediately connect Li Qi with the missing young master of the Sarnak family by appearance.

Taking out a mirror to check his current appearance, Li Qi casually threw the remaining spray to Art:
"Change your hair color. We are going to the Irene Federation next, so we need to keep a low profile."

After catching the spray, Art did not immediately change his hair color, but slowly said to Li Qi:

"Your Highness, it is difficult for you to keep a low profile as a natural person."

In the interstellar age, body modification has become the norm.

Ordinary people have had smart chips implanted in their brains since childhood, and most operations when they go out rely on smart chips.

When they grow up a little and their bodies are fully developed, it is common to have prosthetic bodies, artificial eyes, and even to transform their internal organs into semi-mechanical ones.

Mecha masters and mechanics who have talent and potential may not make large-scale modifications to their bodies, but ordinary people who do not have talent and potential will transform their bodies into combat weapons when they reach adulthood.

Even if these people have not practiced consciousness training, they still have the combat power of at least a third-level mecha master!

All of the above are normal for ordinary people.

It’s even the norm for most first-class citizens!
Even Hongye, a noble lady from a baron's family, has undergone implantation of a smart chip, and has undergone prosthetic eyes and artificial internal organs.

Only the top nobles, such as the royal family, the three ducal families, and some high-ranking marquis families, have purely natural bodies without any additives.

The same is true for Li Qi.

Therefore, from the time we entered the city until now, all the work related to the transaction has been done by Hongye.

This is also the reason why Li Qi brought Hongye here.

Of course Art can do it, but Art cannot connect to the Internet. Once he connects to the Internet, his location will be locked by the family, so all this can only be done by Hongye.

Even now that Li Qi has contact lenses and a disguised identity prepared by the intelligent machine, he can use the contact lenses to operate the Internet.

But his natural identity is difficult to disguise. Almost any simple physical examination can identify his natural identity, and at the same time confirm that he must be a noble above the Marquis!

He is even a direct descendant of the nobility!

Because only direct nobles would be ordered to prohibit any body modification.

Even the collateral branches do not receive such treatment.

"Art, do you think I went to so much trouble to get here that I don't have the necessary preparations?"

Faced with the questions raised by Art, Li Qi was not panicked at all, but instead smiled.

Seeing Li Qi's confident smile and thinking about the preparations he had made along the way, Art shut up again.

But when he looked at Li Qi, there was finally a hint of complicated emotions in his eyes.

He found that he seemed to have a hard time understanding his little master.

(End of this chapter)