Chapter 820 - 427: Damn
Chen Xuantian really was like, "What the fuck." His Blood God’s Son buzzed with shock, and for a moment, all he could do was mutter, "Damn it, so all this time, I wasn’t even human..."
"Huh? Wait a minute! I am human! I’m human, right? I was born by my mom! I, I... I’m a damn human, aren’t I?"
Bubble chuckled,
"Bullshit, count how many times you’ve died already! And look at your current ghostly form, can that even be considered human? Would your mom recognize you? Ha! You think you have a mom? You’re just the prototype unit, okay!"
What the fuck, so this was the setup...
Let’s just say, the last episode had too much information; not only was Chen Xuantian shocked to the point of exclaiming what the fuck, he still couldn’t quite process it all.
Even the Kun was spitting up, blub blub blub, collapsing exhausted on the sphere.
Thus, at a loss for words, Chen Xuantian gathered his thoughts, and only after the Kun had settled did he say,
"So what do we do now? Turns out we’ve all been Heavenly Demons? Are we still supposed to fight these Heavenly Demons or what?"
"What’s the hurry, the newbie tutorial has just started. Just take this info back with you, make your own judgments, and do as you see fit."
With that, the sphere continued to carry the Kun along, this group of non-human creatures headed deeper into the logistics cruiser.
Bubble continued to introduce the wetware ecology intermittently,
"The place we just passed through is the biomass field, used to produce the organic nutrients needed for wetware. Essentially, it’s plants, animals, microorganisms, and their metabolic products, mixed together, formulaically combined, with various sugars, aldehydes, alcohols, lipids, amines added, eventually generating high-protein living tissue, which is basically maggots.
Of course, these maggots are laboratory-grade bioengineering materials, with top-tier technology. I can’t explain it all at once, but basically, as the biological basis for prosthetic engineering, all customized wetware is evolved from maggots, so it’s fair to call them our ancestors."
Chen Xuantian replied, "What the fuck..."
The sphere left the biomass field and entered a long corridor, which seemed to be some kind of production workshop. Here, heaps of meteorites and the like were being crushed, refined, and processed, then transported to other workshops for secondary, tertiary, Nth processing, until they finally produced strands and rolls of shimmering... silk?
Bubble explained,
"That’s right, this is the silk woven by the Immortal Palace. In your time, circuits were etched onto wafers and then packaged into chips, right? Now technology has advanced to where even a single strand of this silk is a supercomputer.
By simulating the structure of biological neural networks, these Immortal Silk, neuroform chips, are implanted into the wetware body, forming a new neural functional system, which is what we locally call ’meridians.’
Chen Xuantian exclaimed, "What the fuck... meridians... no wonder... wait, is even True Qi artificial?"
"No, you’ve got it completely wrong. Humanity’s technological capability might be enough for planetary terraforming, but undertaking actions against natural laws and economic benefits is not something humans would do.
So the core design of wetware is not to alter nature but to adapt to it. Because Taiji Heaven has True Qi, wetware developed a meridian system that can utilize True Qi for self-evolution.
Precisely because different universes, different celestial bodies, and different environments have different survival rules, wetware, which can update and evolve in real-time and adjust its ecosystem, is necessary to ensure the population maintains its superior ecological status in natural competition.
As for True Qi, that’s the unique natural environment of this Tai Chi Universe; honestly, such an environment is rare across All Heavens and Myriads of Worlds. So far, only the Thirty-three Heavens have been found compatible, nothing more."
Then Chen Xuantian saw a humanoid wetware on an operation table, undergoing meridian system implantation.
"Huh? Isn’t that the Insect Queen? So this is someone from the Immortal Palace? The form most suited to the Taiji Realm’s Immortal is originally a bug?"
Bubble clarified,
"Of course not, otherwise they would evolve Immortal Silk themselves while still in the egg, no need for later modifications and implantation. These are crew members who arrived earlier, probably having dimension-jumped from some place where insect form was more suitable.
In any case, on this string, due to various reasons, humanity has refined genetic, biological, and electronic engineering to their peaks, able to simulate, create, evolve, and enhance any life form. But by habit, to match ancient human body engineering devices and production lines, human form is still the primary mode.
On these long-distance cruising ships, the crew generally are female wetwares, or to be more strict, they’re some kind of hermaphrodites. Inside them, the original gene blueprint is preserved, allowing self-repair in case of damage or disease. In the event of sudden extreme environmental changes causing irreparable fatal damage, the female forms can urgently produce new eggs for instant resurrection.
Of course, there are also hyper-male wetwares specially used for combat, but those are superhuman killing machines, requiring numerous surgical modifications, strengthened with military implants, and require special board approval to activate, mainly used only for high-intensity, high-consequence corporate wars.
Moreover, even though newly born wetware lacks combat prowess and needs time to grow and evolve, aided by various technologies, its genes determine its strength at the baseline, and given time, it can almost certainly grow into the top predator in the current natural version, a far cry from the days of being canned behind closed gates..."