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After finishing a roast chicken and half a bottle of champagne, Old Gu returned to his usual self. “Kid, drink a little more with me today.”
But the next moment, Old Gu paused on his way toward the half-case of beer, as though suddenly remembering something important. “Look at me, I almost forgot the real matter. Come on, let’s go to my clinic. I’ll give you a full-body examination.”
Mo Wendao could not refuse him, so he picked up the half-case of beer and followed behind Old Gu.
They occasionally ran into familiar faces on the street. From a distance, those people failed to recognize Mo Wendao at first. Only when they drew closer did their faces fill with shock. After remaining speechless for quite some time, they barely managed to call out, “Old Mo.” Naturally, whenever an acquaintance greeted him, Mo Wendao smiled and returned each greeting in turn.
Old Gu entered the clinic, activated the operating table, then began rummaging carefully through a storage cabinet. “How was it? Not used to your first day at work, right? That place needs neural interfaces everywhere. If this keeps up, you’ll only get more and more uncomfortable.”
Mo Wendao nodded. “Yeah.”
Ẁ е b̈n ӧ v е_l Ѐn̆ u m̀ а̃
Senior Sister Xu had complained to him about this as well. She told him that once he received his first month’s salary, he should go to one of Three Lives Pharmaceuticals’ cybernetic hospitals and get a better neural operating system installed. If he did not have enough money by then, she could help him apply for a low-interest loan. This was also one of the benefits offered to employees of major corporations. Plenty of people immediately applied for large low-interest loans upon joining a company and replaced every implant in their bodies.
Implants could greatly improve a corporate employee’s work efficiency. Although the company did not explicitly write these matters into the employee handbook, the monthly KPI assessments were far more binding than any handbook. Having a body full of mismatched junk implants meant falling a step behind everyone else on your very first day. Before long, you would be kicked out of the company under the bottom-ranking elimination system.
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Corporate employees might earn a lot, but most of them spent more than half their monthly salary paying off loans. Even Xu Linna had a large amount of debt to repay.
Although competition in the Lower City was not particularly fierce, Xu Linna could not tolerate having a subordinate without a neural operating system who had to carry a laptop everywhere.
Mo Wendao had also given the matter some thought. If he wanted to continue climbing upward and eventually touch upon the secrets of the β-agent, a neural operating system would be indispensable. Vast amounts of Three Lives Pharmaceuticals’ information were stored in databases, and accessing them required connecting through a neural link.
The reason Mo Wendao had never installed a neural system before was partly poverty and partly the lack of anyone he could trust. It was an operation that required opening his skull, which meant that throughout the procedure, he would be completely at someone else’s mercy.
E n̊ ûm а̀
He stared at Old Gu’s back.
If he absolutely had to choose one person in District 52 to perform the operation for him, Old Gu was the only one.
“Ha! Found it!”
Old Gu exclaimed in delight. “Heaven Drive II. This is the highest-end thing I’ve got here. High performance. This model used to be issued to the Cyber Surveillance Division. It’s more than enough for your work. Most importantly, the system comes with its own firewall. Ordinary hackers won’t be able to get through it. It’ll be enough to last you until you reach the Middle City. Once you get there, you can replace it with something better.”
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“Old Gu, just give me something more ordinary. I can’t afford something this expensive right now.”
“Who said I wanted your money? I’ve been eating your fried skewers for free for so long. Now it’s my turn to give you a present.”
É n_um а . і̌d
“But...”
“Stop fussing like an old woman.”
Old Gu put on a stern expression. “Either I install it for you today, or if you don’t trust me, take it back with you and have the company’s cybernetic hospital install it. They’re not bad either.”
“Thanks, Old Gu.”
“That’s more like it!” Old Gu chuckled. “Once you make something of yourself in the future, I’ll be able to brag that some big shot from a corporation once bought cybernetics from my place, won’t I?”
Mo Wendao reclined halfway on the operating table and put on a breathing mask. As the anesthetic gas flowed in, his consciousness gradually became hazy and darkness filled his vision, but his spiritual sense remained active. He watched Old Gu prepare the surgical tools and sterilize everything. A sharp scalpel pressed against the back of his skull, yet he felt no pain whatsoever.
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When the Heaven Drive II slowly entered his body, an indescribable heat suddenly surged through him. His spiritual power reacted like startled tentacles, instantly flooding toward the unfamiliar intruder and wrapping around it layer by layer. Immediately afterward, the heat transformed into a faint electrical current that surged through his brain.
Mo Wendao had experienced something similar when refining the military-grade cybernetic implant before, except this time the sensation was clearer and far more intense.
He could feel the Heaven Drive II undergoing some kind of change under the influence of his spiritual power, but Old Gu remained completely focused on the surgery and appeared entirely unaware of it.
Mo Wendao gradually became accustomed to the unfamiliar sensation. Once the electrical current weakened, only a tingling numbness remained.
Without realizing it, he actually entered a state of breathing cultivation, and his sense of time became blurred.
After an unknown amount of time, he finally heard Old Gu’s voice again. “Give it a try. This is your first time installing a neural system, so some mild dizziness is normal. Don’t be nervous. It’ll pass soon.”
W е̇b́ n оṽе̊l̈ Ѐ nũ ḿа́_
When Mo Wendao opened his eyes again, a pale blue progress bar appeared in his vision. When the bar reached 100%, a flood of unfamiliar information suddenly filled his sight:
『Welcome to the Spirit Platform Sword Network I』
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『User: Mo Wendao』
『Realm: Foundation Establishment Realm, Early Stage: 14/120』
『Cultivation Art: Grand Unity Flying Light Art, Minor Accomplishment: 5/100』
『Spiritual Artifact: Barcode, Spiritual Grade』
Е ńu mà ..і̌ d̄
『Skills: Artifact Refining, Beginner: 89/100; Energy Siphon, Flying Sword』
This was...
Mo Wendao froze slightly. Every term displayed before him was cultivation terminology he had been familiar with in his previous life. But as far as he knew, District 52 possessed no immortal cultivation methods, so naturally it could not possibly know the cultivation knowledge from his previous life. Moreover, the system displayed before him was not the Heaven Drive II Old Gu had described.
He carefully recalled the various abnormalities that had occurred during the surgery and thought, “Is this the result of the Heaven Drive II and my spiritual sense influencing one another? Thinking about it carefully, my flying sword mark was also affected by the military-grade cybernetic implant. This Energy Siphon is not any cultivation art I ever practiced. It was most likely an effect created after the military-grade cybernetic implant was refined.”
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“That would also explain why fellow Daoist Juan was able to gift all of his energy into my hands.”
Old Gu’s concerned question interrupted Mo Wendao’s thoughts. “Kid, are you all right?”
Еn u̇m̌а̂
Mo Wendao shook his head. “I’m fine.”
“Then give it a try.” As he spoke, Old Gu handed him a chip and pointed toward the chip slot at the back of Mo Wendao’s neck.
Mo Wendao inserted the chip into the slot, and an advertisement for Old Gu’s Cybernetic Clinic immediately appeared in his vision.
Next came the data cable at his wrist.
Mo Wendao silently experienced the changes occurring in his body and consciousness. When Old Gu turned around, he entered “Spirit Platform Sword Network” into a search engine. There were no relevant results whatsoever.
In corporate terminology, this should count as a self-developed neural system.
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Mo Wendao jokingly thought this to himself, then entered “Heaven Drive II.” Although he had already mentally prepared himself, the price still startled him:
Heaven Drive II, Price: 21,000 watts.
By this point, Old Gu had already opened two bottles of beer and handed one to him. “Come on, tonight we drink until we drop!”
“All right.”
Mo Wendao mentally recorded the 21,000 watts as a debt. He disliked owing favors. Someday, he would find a way to repay Old Gu.
Old Gu could not be considered a strong drinker. After only a few glasses, he was already somewhat drunk.
Ӗ n̊ù m̈_ӓ
He staggered over and lay down on the operating table, staring at the dim light bulb on the clinic ceiling.
“Kid.”
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His words slurred as he murmured, “Don’t let the company eat you alive.”
(End of Chapter)
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