Gacha games can't save this bizarre world.

Winston is now completely covered in various metal parts and instruments, with only half of his face exposed. The metal equipment is still changing and moving, clearly indicating that it has basically gone out of control.

With a loud thud, the over three-meter-tall metal Winston, unusually heavy, slammed into the ground, creating a large crater in the tiled floor.

He raised his head, his eyes glowing red, and even his tailbone swayed as if it were on fire.

What surprised Zhao Hao even more was that the metal parts on his body were constantly adjusting and deforming, forming different modules and functions.

It can even evolve?

"What do we do? Winston has completely lost his mind!" Elena said worriedly. "I can't even sense his emotions; he's fallen into a deep sleep..."

Zhao Hao gave Elena a gentle push, sending her five or six meters away. "You stay out of the way and let me see how he is doing."

You have to admit that Winston's research is at least half successful; his psionic level has reached at least Iron 4, or even higher.

It's just that people are out of control!

"Awooo!" Winston roared to the sky, pounding the ground with his two big arms, sending stones flying!

By this time, his two metal arms were already very long and thick, making him look like a metal gorilla!

He slammed his fist on the ground, grabbed a few bricks, and threw them at Zhao Hao. The bricks flew over with a whoosh, moving at incredible speed, demonstrating the immense strength of the mechanical Winston.

Zhao Hao dodged several bricks, casually grabbed one, and then crushed it!

"Come on, let me see what tricks you have up your sleeve!"

Zhao Hao stomped his foot, shattering several floor tiles, and shot out like an arrow, throwing a punch at Winston.

At this moment, Winston was being controlled by the intelligent core, with the psionic conductor integrated board providing various calculations and solutions, conversions, information collection, behavioral control, and so on, all of which surpassed human capabilities.

He no longer relies on nerve impulses to react to and control his body.

His reaction was extremely fast, and the dynamic tracking ability of that blood-red mechanical prosthetic eye was extremely strong, so he threw a punch.

A metal fist the size of a ladle collided with Zhao Hao's fist with a loud "bang," and the shockwave from the impact was even visible.

Zhao Hao rotated his wrist, feeling that it wasn't easy.

This metal gorilla is incredibly strong.

Winston's physical strength and physique are definitely far inferior to Zhao Hao's, but being covered in this iron armor makes all the difference.

However, Zhao Hao's fist was enveloped in psionic energy, and with the support of various equipment, its attack power was very high.

The punch landed, and although his hand hurt a little, the metal gorilla's fist was also dented with a fist-sized dent.

However, Zhao Hao was surprised to see that the metal near the dent was melting and then reshaping itself, actually healing the injury.

"Holy crap! This is liquid metal that the Secret Service just got their hands on. Winston even managed to get his hands on it! He even got his hands on memory liquid metal? This guy is even better at abusing his power and exploiting capitalism than I am!"

No wonder the Metal Gorilla went out of control in the end; Winston added too many good things, to the point that he couldn't control his own psionic level.

"I'm going to get serious now!"

Zhao Hao clenched his fists, and a burst of golden spiritual energy covered his fists, forming two huge spiritual energy fist shadows that enveloped his arms.

"Take this punch!" Zhao Hao shouted, leaping up and punching the metal gorilla in the head.

The metal gorilla was not to be outdone, roaring even louder and throwing punches at him!

Elena was initially a little worried about Zhao Hao, after all, Metal Winston's size and imposing presence were indeed intimidating. However, the two fought for several minutes, basically exchanging punches, turning two nearby houses, gardens, and the ground into ruins, but Zhao Hao was still enjoying himself, even wearing a smile on his face.

They look just like two naughty kids!

Elena slapped her forehead, deciding to teach Zhao Hao a lesson that night for being so childish.

Of course, Zhao Hao wasn't simply using that metal gorilla as a punching bag or engaging in pointless fighting, or so it seemed.

However, after playing for a few minutes, Zhao Hao discovered quite a few characteristics of the Metal Gorilla.

For example, evolution!

According to Winston's original design, this psionic machine was capable of evolution. Depending on the circumstances it encountered, the intelligent core would choose to evolve different modules, to the point that even the psionic integration board could evolve to develop more advanced algorithms and programming.

It was precisely because he granted too much power and made his cheat abilities too powerful that he lost control.

Unexpectedly, after being equipped, the intelligent mechanical body's own evolutionary consciousness began to suppress his humanity, and it felt that he had too many weaknesses as a human, and wanted to pursue the ultimate evolution.

Although Zhao Hao didn't know what final evolution meant, he had witnessed the evolution of the Metal Gorilla firsthand.

For example, on the gorilla's two metal arms, the liquid metal had melted more than a dozen times, and then gradually generated many new small modules.

These new modules can simulate Zhao Hao's Vajra Great Hand Seal and also wrap his arms in spiritual energy.

It's definitely not as powerful or as powerful as Zhao Hao's skills, but it's still a start from scratch.

This is similar to AlphaGo rapidly absorbing various game records to improve its algorithm!

Furthermore, Zhao Hao's psionic energy recovery speed is something that no normal superhuman can match. Even the Metal Gorilla, which has already optimized its psionic energy consumption, cannot keep up with the recovery.

Therefore, some devices that absorb free psionic energy have begun to evolve on the back of his shoulders, which can be considered a kind of psionic energy recycling and reuse?

Because Zhao Hao was so fast, he couldn't keep up and even evolved a stun gun!

Perhaps they wanted to give those readers who didn't vote a dose of electrotherapy.

Of course, the reason he was in this state was because Zhao Hao was giving him pointers.

If it really comes down to a life-or-death struggle, and they resort to lethal methods, there's probably little chance for them to adapt and evolve.

Moreover, evolution is definitely limited; it cannot evolve indefinitely.

"Alright, I roughly know what's going on with you now..." Zhao Hao waved his hand and summoned a large area of ​​raging flames that expanded and exploded, forcing the metal gorilla back, and then flew back and landed next to Elena.

The metal gorilla wanted to continue the pursuit; he had no data on retreat or withdrawal in his mind.

However, with a casual wave of his hand, Zhao Hao conjured up an endless array of paper god butterflies formed from scraps of paper, much like cabbage white butterflies.

These butterflies are not aggressive and are only a centimeter or two in size, but they can confuse the enemy's senses, and most importantly, their numbers are extremely large.

Zhao Hao could summon hundreds of them in a second, but the spiritual energy consumed was less than the amount he recovered.

The thousands upon thousands of paper butterflies swirled around the metal gorilla, spinning and flying, quickly bewildering him. No matter how wildly he waved his two giant arms, he couldn't clear away the white barrier surrounding him.

Zhao Hao snapped his fingers, and the ground, houses, gardens, fences... everything that had been damaged was restored. After all, this was within the dreamlike barrier, so the destruction was all fake.

"How is it?" Elena asked.

Zhao Hao shook his head: "Not good. It's not easy to subdue him, but it's even more difficult not to hurt Winston. I'm even worried that if we push him too far, this gorilla will exploit his spirituality and cause irreparable damage to Winston in the end."

"Then what should we do? Keep bothering him and exhausting his spiritual energy?"

Zhao Hao pinched his chin and pondered for a while, "It's not easy to exhaust all spiritual energy, at least not in an hour or two. Look at those pipes on his back, those things can actually collect some of the dissipated spiritual energy, reducing consumption by 20% out of thin air!"

"However...it's not like there's no way!"

"What should we do?" Elena asked.

Zhao Hao smiled and asked, "Do you still remember our dream vacation last time?"

Elena looked surprised: "Um...didn't you say it was dangerous?"

Zhao Hao shrugged and pointed at the berserk metal gorilla, saying, "Do you think he's in danger right now?"

……

Soon, Fatty, Gou Quan, and Qi Yezaki arrived. However, they only saw Zhao Hao and Elena standing in the empty street.

Gou Quan: "Where is he? Where's Winston?"

Fatty: "Did they run away again?"

Zhao Hao waved his hand: "Don't worry, you know us. Once I catch him, do you think he can escape? Don't worry, he's in a safe place now. But he needs to calm down, it'll probably take a little while..."

Winston was actually trapped in a dream by Zhao Hao, not an ordinary dream, but a dream within a dream.

Since a direct confrontation is out of the question, the only option is a softer approach.

Time, on the other hand, is a panacea.

Zhao Hao has been exploring dreams for two years now, and because he can conduct a lot of research, training, experimentation, and trials in his dreams, he has many times more time than the average person. But even so, he still feels it's not enough to get ahead of others.

Extraordinary individuals like Uncle Tie started learning about psychic energy decades ago when they were children. They possess exceptional talent, are supported by prestigious sects, have cultivated diligently for decades, and have encountered various fortuitous events. Only now, with the resurgence of psychic energy, have they advanced to the Bronze level.

Even if Zhao Hao has good talent and a cheat code, it would still take him at least ten years to reach the Bronze level!

But Zhao Hao, this old silver coin, is feeling a great sense of crisis.

The world is deteriorating so rapidly these days, can I even keep up? If I can't keep up with the times, I'll be left behind, or even overtaken and crushed under its wheels.

Zhao Hao wasn't even sure if the Bronze level would be enough.

Although there weren't any urgent motivations for transmigrators like "avenging the tragic death of the whole family," "not to underestimate the poor youth in the three-year agreement," or "being caught in a deadly vortex and dying if you don't go in," Zhao Hao's sense of crisis still urged him to strive for improvement.

This is not a peaceful era, or rather, there has never been a peaceful era. Only by becoming strong can we achieve stability.

Since there isn't enough time for cultivation, and time is tight for experiments, research, and training, then we should increase the time available.

Dreams can multiply Zhao Hao's available time many times over, so can they multiply it even more?

Zhao Hao thought of Inception.

Dreams are layered. If you dream within a dream, your consciousness will fall into the second layer of the dream, and the dream will sink deeper into the sea of ​​psychic energy. There, the flow of time becomes extremely slow. Of course, it also becomes much more uncontrollable.

The ratio of real time to dream time is 1:12, meaning that if you sleep for 8 hours at night, you can spend 96 hours in your dreams.

Zhao Hao can control the acceleration of the dream to a certain extent, so the maximum time ratio is 1:20.

Of course, it's impossible to cultivate all the time, or even to push oneself to such limits every day—that's unrealistic. Therefore, the actual utilization rate isn't that high.

Zhao Hao ultimately tried the method of a dream within a dream, which involved entering a dream within a dream, and then entering a deeper level of the second-level dream, descending from the surface of the spiritual energy sea...

The second layer of the dream will last much longer. The time flow ratio between the main dream and the second layer is 1:20.

In the second layer of the dream, 10 hours in the real world is equivalent to 4000 hours here, or 166.6 days!

In reality, every time Zhao Hao returned from the second level of the dream, he felt as if he had been in seclusion for half a year! He couldn't recover without resting for three to five days and needed Elena's loving comfort.

Although the growth of spiritual energy through cultivation in dreams is not particularly fast, the upgrades of various skills and the progress of various research and experiments are increasing rapidly.

Last time, Zhao Hao took Elena to the second level of the dream world, and the two of them vacationed there for a month and a half! They could even pre-set up beaches, forests, mountains, and any scenery they wanted!

Now, Zhao Hao used a dream barrier to lure Winston into his second layer of dreamscape, a future world of mechanical lifeforms. Let him do his thing. He wants to fight, right? Let him fight all he wants there!

As the master of the dream, Zhao Hao had been secretly monitoring the progress of the second layer of the dream.

Sure enough, after a few days of brutal beatings, the metal gorilla began to calm down. A few days later, he sat silently on the ruins, and a few days after that, he began to ponder…