Modifying the universe starts with Minecraft command blocks!

"Click."

With a crisp mechanical closing sound, the flying silver spears instantly retracted and folded back into the seemingly harmless silver briefcase.

Pei Qi watched as the shimmering light on the surface of the [Replica Enchantment Quinque] in his hand quickly dimmed, and almost subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, even twitching his lips with a hint of heartache.

"This is practically a money shredder."

In the lower right corner of his field of vision, there was an energy bar that only he could see.

In the brief three seconds since the "Global Penetration Mode" was activated, the purple liquid level representing energy dropped by a full 5%.

This quinque is genuine, and with the added enchantments, its power even surpasses that of the original IXA in Arima Kishou's hands.

However, it has a fatal inherent flaw stemming from "reverse engineering": extremely high energy consumption.

The core of the genuine quinque is an active Herba, which can achieve semi-perpetual motion through electrical signal stimulation.

However, the one in Pei Qi's hand is essentially a "pseudo-Kazuka" simulated using MC materials.

It has no ability to regenerate on its own. In order to maintain the high activity output of Rc cells, it is necessary to continuously inject high concentrations of "Rc cell extract".

And the source of this extract...

Pei Qi mentally calculated the exchange rate.

"Every second wasted is like throwing one and a half gold bricks into the water." Pei Qi silently shed tears in his heart.

"Even if you're rich, you can't afford to burn like this."

Although he currently has the backing of GOC (Government of Consumer Affairs), his core resources are still stretched thin. Therefore, saving every penny is essential, and thrift is a good habit.

The creation of this weapon is itself a miracle forged by "mysticism".

When Pei Qi took over GOC, most of the relevant "god-making project" information had been lost to the dustbin of history.

All he had were a few tubes of dried Rc cell samples that had been preserved for over twenty years, and an IXA cell that he had "borrowed" from Kishou Arima and observed for two days.

Logically speaking, trying to replicate biological weapons with such limited resources is nothing short of a pipe dream.

But Pei Qi has an external advantage.

Instead of following the normal biological research route, he directly adopted the Minecraft module technology tree.

In that underground three-story laboratory that had been transformed into an "otherworldly factory," Pei Qi built a production line that was enough to drive anyone's sanity crazy.

First, use the "Plant Growth Machine" in the "Thermal Expansion" module to forcibly mature Rc cells.

Although this thing was originally used to grow wheat, it will identify Rc cells as a "special strain" and can proliferate like mushrooms as long as electricity and water are provided.

With the raw material issue resolved, the next step was to shape the burqa.

For this step, Pei Qi used the "Pressure Reaction Chamber (PRC)" from the [General Machinery] toolkit.

This machine can force solids, liquids, and gases to undergo chemical reactions that defy the laws of nature by applying extremely high pressure.

Since Pei Qi did not have detailed blueprints of the Heba, he resorted to the most primitive and brute-force method—exhaustive search.

He used a massive amount of Rc cell fluid as a liquid input, then used various substances such as redstone powder, fluorite powder, and even zombie flesh as a solid matrix, and finally pumped in different concentrations of oxygen or chlorine as a gaseous catalyst.

Set thousands of possible permutation and combination parameters, then press the start button like drawing cards from a gacha pool, and wait for the birth of the "Golden Legend".

Failure. Failure. Explosion. Failure.

During those days, a muffled thud could be heard almost every ten minutes in the laboratory; it was the sound of a machine exploding due to a malfunction.

The finished products were also bizarre: some turned into blood upon contact with air, some were as hard as stone but showed no reaction, and some even grew eyes and tried to attack Pei Qi.

The success rate was shockingly low. If Pei Qi hadn't brought a massive amount of gold and diamonds from the Minecraft world to keep the machines running, GOC would have gone bankrupt long ago.

Until the 3402nd experiment.

After adding "memory metal" as a stabilizing matrix, the machine that had been reporting errors finally produced a stable, purple-glowing sac-like object.

This is the core of the quinque in my hand.

A biological miracle created by industrial machinery.

Sometimes, even Kishou Arima couldn't help but ask, "Boss, what's the working principle behind that machine that can generate magma out of thin air without fuel?"

At such times, Pei Qi could only reply with four words, his face expressionless:

"I have no idea."

This is not a perfunctory response, but the truth.

The MC mod machines unlocked through analyzing technology and recipes exhibit characteristics in the real world that are practically tearing Newton and Einstein apart.

Take the most basic general machinery, the crusher, for example.

In reality, grinding a hard iron ore into powder requires a huge jaw crusher and ball mill, accompanied by deafening noise and a long physical grinding process.

But what about in the MC shredder?

Just turn on the electricity and throw the ore in.

"Buzz—"

Two seconds.

In just two seconds, there was no grinding sound without any physical contact, and no dust flew up.

The ore seemed to have been swallowed by the void, and then two piles of perfect, extremely pure metal powder appeared out of thin air at the discharge port.

Quality conservation? It doesn't exist; output simply doubles.

Energy conservation? It can be powered by just a few dry cell batteries.

Pei Qi had previously attempted to reverse engineer these machines. He carefully disassembled the casing of an induction furnace, trying to find the core technology supporting its exaggerated nature.

The result greatly disappointed him.

The inside of the machine is not a projection of a higher-dimensional space, nor is it a miniature black hole.

All they had were some seemingly ordinary circuit boards, coils, and gears. While these structures were ingenious, from a physics perspective, their incredible functionality was simply inexplicable.

Even more bizarrely, once the machine is disassembled and its "integrity" is destroyed, that is, when it becomes a dropped item or a broken block, it instantly turns into a pile of scrap metal.

Even if Pei Qi restored it to its original size with microscope-level precision, it would never be able to start again.

It's as if the soul of these machines lies in the "concept of blocks," rather than their internal structure.

Once the concept is broken, the power of the rules dissipates.

This is the "square black box" theory named by Pei Qi.

You only need to know how to synthesize it and how to use it, but never try to understand it.

However, the inability to understand the principles did not prevent Pei Qi from utilizing them.

"The current high resource consumption is simply because the parameters haven't been properly adjusted yet."

Pei Qi glanced at the box in his hand, a glint of shrewdness flashing in his eyes.

Although he cannot replicate the machine itself, he can optimize the output by continuously adjusting the parameters of the input Rc cell fluid and the ratio of memory metal at the processing end.

The success we've achieved so far is just the first step.

Given time, Pei Qi even conceived of a "fully automated quinque production line".

Simply pour culture medium and metal ingots into the input end, and the output end will continuously spit out various customized biological weapons.

Firearms made with Yukaku, riot shields and armor made with Kaku...

This is a production technology that completely transcends the limitations of the original work.

Pei Qi pulled his wandering thoughts back to the bloody reality.

As Pei Qi approached step by step with the box in his hand, "Sanmu," who was huddled in the corner, suddenly stopped trembling.

At this moment, Miki was no longer the arrogant bodyguard he had been just moments before.

Although the Barrett bullet severed his left arm, it also shattered the personality balance within him that was originally dominated by "Miki".

At this moment, Goto, the true master who had been sleeping deep within his body and who commanded the five parasitic beasts, awoke.

"Crack... Crack..."

A sickening, tooth-grinding sound of bones grinding together rang out.

Miki (or Goto) slowly stood up.

At his broken left shoulder, countless tiny granulation tissues were writhing wildly, intertwining like red nematodes, and miraculously stopped the massive bleeding within seconds, barely sealing the wound.

Although it hasn't fully regenerated, the oppressive feeling emanating from its very bones is completely different from before.

His eyes changed.

It was no longer the exaggerated ferocity of Miki, but an absolute calmness, a calmness that is both vigilant and full of killing intent when a wild beast faces its natural enemy.

He did not run away.

Despite witnessing firsthand the terrifying scene of Pei Qi's "All-Area Piercing" move instantly annihilating five of his kind, and despite his biological instincts screaming frantically, "Get away from this armored monster!"

But he still stood firmly in front of the seriously injured Hirokawa Takeshi.

"Oh?"

Pei Qi stopped in his tracks, a slight twitch of his eyebrow beneath his mask. "Interesting. Even though you've switched personalities, even though you know you can't win, why don't you run?"

According to the parasite's selfish logic of "survival first," it should have abandoned Hirokawa, who was a burden, and used its superhuman speed to escape on its own.

"Why?" Pei Qi asked with great interest.

Goto slowly raised his remaining right hand, which transformed into a massive, gleaming guillotine. His voice was low and hoarse, like two rocks rubbing against each other.

"Because... he is the 'brain'."

Goto's gaze swept over the corpses on the ground, finally settling on Hirokawa behind him.

"We parasites may be powerful, but in this human-dominated society, we're just a bunch of headless flies. We don't understand politics, we don't understand law, and we don't even know how to cover up the traces of our feeding."

"Hirokawa Takeshi is different. Although he is fragile, he allows us to survive as a 'species' instead of being wiped out as 'monsters'."

Goto assumed a fighting stance, his muscles bulging like armor:

"For the continuation of the species, the sacrifice of individuals is necessary. This is... the law of nature."

"I see."

Pei Qi nodded, the contempt in his eyes lessening and replaced by respect for the warrior.

"In an absolutely selfish species, a 'selfish' leadership mentality has actually evolved. The Parasite species is indeed interesting."

Pei Qi raised the briefcase in his hand again, his finger on the trigger.

"As a parasite that would sacrifice itself for others, you are worth a few more gold bricks from me."

"But that's all..."

"System Activate: Mode - Breaker."