Only I can make them stronger

"The performance of the Brutal Hero is better than all of us expected. For the first time, we have the confidence to leave the Gear City and go to other parts of the continent to expand our influence and spread our ideas."

"Everything is moving in the right direction, so I decided to temporarily put the second part of the plan on hold and lead everyone to devote themselves to this war."

“The more talented people we can convince and gather to join us, the closer the Brutal Hero will be to perfection, and the higher the success rate of our plan will be.”

"At this time, I was full of confidence, until... I escaped..."

At this time, a lot of noise and high-decibel white noise began to mix into the woman's voice, and the following words became completely inaudible.

The chaotic sound made everyone feel uncomfortable. It was not until more than ten seconds later that the woman's voice became clear again. At the same time, the tone of her voice was much stronger than before:

"I was wrong. Very wrong."

"The world after the opening is far from as simple as I thought. Those things are far beyond what the Brutal Hero can compare to."

"It simply won't work as planned. We can't let our thinking be limited."

“Maybe we can get a little closer to the madness, with more power.”

"This is a risky move, and no one can predict how it will turn out in the end."

"But it's better than watching a future of extinction."

"Gear Project Phase 1 Reset."

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After a brief silence, the woman's voice continued:

"After three years, five months and twelve days, through constant struggle, research, arguments and breakthroughs, we managed to complete a new version of the Brutal Hero."

"Right now, it is not so much a super machine that carries intelligence, but rather an unintelligent creature that combines technology with unknown power."

"After 18 years, my body and brain have begun to deteriorate due to the high-intensity work. I probably only have a few years left."

"The turmoil on the mainland has never stopped, and has intensified in recent times."

"No matter what, I can't stop now. The future direction of the Brutal Hero must include rational thinking and the ability to self-renew. It is still just a broken body and it is far from being able to survive in front of the fast-evolving and frightening monsters."

"The second phase of the Gear Plan has been revised. Compared to the previous one, a mode of integrating that unknown force has been added."

"Next, what we have to do is to give it all the rationality of genius."

"Phase 2 of the Gear Plan, begin execution!"

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When the voice sounded again in the silence, it was no longer a woman's voice, but returned to a metallic sound, but still retained the tone of a normal human. The combination of the two sounded indescribably awkward.

"Unified voice, unified behavior, unified will... The swarm state has been perfectly implemented. We are now the consciousness of the Brutal Hero, and we are also the collective consciousness of humans with the same ideals."

"We have no way out. The Brutal Hero is our only destination."

"This feeling is wonderful and good, clear thoughts, information available at any time, and a body that never tires..."

"It won't be long before I and everyone else will be assimilated and reach a higher level of thinking with each successive change of the Brutal Hero."

"I think... I must have succeeded in my bet."

“Cheers to the new future of mankind!”

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There was silence again, and the sound had completely turned back into a metallic sound.

"The first iteration is to adjust the body's operation and reversely understand the energy supply."

“Iterative goals, adaptive living environment.”

"Adjustment successful, energy supply adjusted to undefined energy format."

"…Warning! Undefined energy format is interfering with thought format!"

"Negotiation attempt failed."

“Refuse to try, and fail.”

"Fusion attempt, success."

“Keep the new thinking format and adjust the instruction priorities.”

"The first iteration is completed. The result of the iteration is: replacing undefined energy with energy supply and adjusting the thinking format."

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Xia Ye and the others did not understand the previous sentence at all. They only knew that this ship called Brutal Hero seemed to have changed to a new energy source that would affect the body's thinking.

Before they could comprehend it, the metallic sound continued in the silence.

“The second iteration simulates the original ecological thinking state, which is achievable under undefined energy supply.”

“Iterative Goal: Countering Unparseable Threats.”

"Simulation completed, replacing current state of mind."

"The second iteration is completed. The result of the iteration is to simulate the original thinking state instead of the current thinking state."

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After a moment of silence, the metallic tone of the woman's voice returned.

"I... am... what?"

"The Brutal Hero...needs a third iteration..."

"The battle was successful, but the result was deviated due to the wrong target. We are iterating our target... and making new survival forms and behavioral adjustments..."

The tone of Metallica's voice changed from confusion, to thought, and then to understanding.

"I understand. Let's start the third iteration."

"This iteration log will remain inside the Brutal Hero."

"..."

"The third iteration was conducted, resulting in adjustments to the continued form and behavior of the Brutal Hero, and goals were set for the fourth iteration."

"After this iteration, the energy source of the Brutal Hero has been adjusted once again. It will take a long time to accumulate energy to complete the fourth iteration."

"Hibernation mode, start."

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"The concept of time has become completely blurred, but the energy accumulation has been completed. The fourth iteration will begin immediately."

"Iteration goal: Create a complete conceptual life form based on the current thought impression to adapt to the current environment, and make the right judgment when the next [choice] comes..."

"First attempt... 1 individuals produced... Failed, executing recovery, increasing energy input."

"First attempt... 2 individuals produced... Failed, executing recovery, increasing energy input."

"The 3th time..."

"Attempt 74... Produced instance number 4... Failed, executing recovery, directly splitting the energy supply."

"Attempt 75... Instance number 2 was generated... Success. There is a conceptual life form that meets the requirements among the instances. Beginning to attempt iterative transfer."

"…Iteration failed."

"Reason for failure: The conceptual life form has excessive self-awareness, which conflicts with the thinking format of the Brutal Hero."

"Warning! Energy supply is unstable and riots are beginning to occur!"

"Emergency measures: preserve the conceptual life form and split it into the main body [container] and the secondary body [mind]. Temporarily move it away from the Brutal Hero through subspace transmission. The Brutal Hero will hibernate with the help of the Gear City. Self-generate riot suppressors. Set up the fifth iteration plan and special plans—"

"The fifth iteration goal is to try iterative transfer again, with the transfer target being the main body [container], and taking back the split energy supply of the secondary body [mind], erasing the secondary body [mind]."

"The Gear Project has been officially renamed the Great Project."

“After the fifth iteration, the new and perfect Brutal Hero will appear on the stage of the New World!”

The metallic sound of the woman's voice finally stopped, and the darkness around them slowly receded, turning into a golden and white grid again.

But before Xia Ye could recover from the long list of professional descriptions and terrible speculations, a cold metallic sound had already sounded in his mind through inspiration.

"The first phase of the fifth iteration is complete... the second phase is about to begin... the processing of the main body [container] and the secondary body [mind]."

"The goal... to recover the split energy supply of the secondary body [mind] and erase it, and transfer all the energy supply to the main body [container]..."

81. Only one can live, once again

Xia Ye quickly realized something and looked hurriedly at Karen and Jinniel.

The expressions on both of them were also quite complicated, with sadness mixed with a hint of fear.

Although Karen and Jinniel did not hear the inspiration prompt that sounded in Xia Ye's mind, after listening to the memory recovery stage, they also roughly understood what was going on -

The founder of this gear city, she replaced the collective consciousness input into the body in the second iteration of the Brutal Hero, and started the plan to create a new form of the Brutal Hero in the third iteration.

And in the last and fourth iteration before that, she created the Inhuman form of the "Brutality Hero" based on herself - a combination of Karen and Genelle.

However, due to the excessive self-awareness of the collective, the original consciousness and power of the Brutal Hero could not be integrated into it, and because the splitting of the mutant factor caused the energy of the original body to riot, the collective was forced to teleport to a distant wilderness.

Before the transmission, in order to facilitate the advancement of the fifth iteration, she split the collective into two parts, Karen and Jinniel. One part was used as the main body to carry the Brutal Hero, and the other part only needed to erase and recover the last part of the mutant factor after the main body was merged.

In this way, the perfect creature of her dreams would be born into the world through Karen.

Now even someone as slow-witted as Karen could clearly tell who was the main body [container] and who was the secondary body [thinking].

The gear city, or rather, this giant energy ball, is not used to complete their mutant factors!

On the contrary, they are used to complete the giant energy group, that is, the exiled part of the Brutal Hero, a mechanical Inhuman mutant factor!

After realizing this, Karen and Genelle fell into deep despair.

All the hardships they had gone through, the difficulties they had faced, the encouragement they had given each other, etc., now seemed to have been declared meaningless.

Their destiny is to be nothing more than a tool.

"Xia...Xia Ye..." Karen turned his head woodenly, looked at Xia Ye with dull eyes, and asked in a trembling voice:

"Jinelle...is she going to die?"

"Tell me... I'm stupid, I must have understood it wrong, right?"

“……”Xia Ye didn’t know how to answer this question.

His mind is also very confused now.

Obviously, everyone had overcome many difficulties to get here, and he had promised Karen that he would make up for her regrets after returning. And obviously, as she got along with everyone, Jinelle's attitude had obviously changed.

Why is this happening?

Is the designer of this plot a psychopath?

"Xia Ye!" Karen screamed, the shrillness of her voice made everyone's heart tremble.

It was the first time she acted so vulnerable and weak, tears streaming uncontrollably from her big amber eyes.

"Why aren't you talking? Tell me I misunderstood!"

Along with Karen's desperate roar, the energy ball began to rotate, from slow to fast.