From the mouth of the ghost knife, Lupin learned what the so-called "Trash Bug Alliance" was......

In fact, it is a loose alliance of local transcendents in Neptune City.

The group of transcendents in Neptune City has a strange characteristic, that is, it is actually dominated by mechanical transcendentals, accounting for more than ninety percent.

Lupin remembers that there is a saying in Dream Weaving City called "the rich rely on technology, and the poor rely on mutation", which refers to becoming mechanical transcendental, often wealthy people from well-off families, and the poor want to become extraordinary, only to gamble their lives to inject genetic potions and take risks.

But in Aquaman City, it was the opposite...... The local transcendents, often from poor backgrounds, have all embarked on the road of mechanical transformation.

There are two main reasons for this.

The first reason is that the machinery manufacturing industry in Neptune City is very developed!

As early as before the end of the world, the level of precision technology, robot manufacturing, etc., was the world's leading, and this characteristic has been inherited to this day. Lupin had felt that the city seemed to be too automated, and the performance and number of robots far exceeded that of Dream Weaver.

The manufacturing industry is a pyramid, and with top-notch precision technology products, there will naturally be more downstream industries...... In the entire Tiankeng area, more than eighty percent of the poor people are actually engaged in production labor related to robot production, and the primary processing components, recycling and purification raw materials, basic spare parts, etc., which they manufacture are continuously sent to the metropolitan area every day.

The metropolitan area also generates a large amount of end-of-life e-waste every day, which is transported by airship to the deepest part of the sinkhole area and dumped.

Under such conditions, the Tiankeng area is undoubtedly a very suitable breeding ground for mechanical transcendentals! Everything you need for a mechanical transformation is easy to find here, and if you're lucky, you can pick up leaks in the mountains of garbage, find less damaged prosthetics and weapons, and more.

As for the second reason, of course, it is the special situation of the Inhumans in Sea King City.

Poor people are not stupid, in a city where Inhumans are commonly sold as slaves, and Aliens who have no owners or even walk on the street may summon patrols to arrest them, people will not take the initiative to become Inhumans unless they have a bad brain!

These two reasons have jointly led to the fact that in the Transcendent Alliance of Neptune City, the number of mechanical modifiers far exceeds that of genetic modifiers.

As for the reason for the existence of the transcendental...... It's somewhat similar to Dream Weaving City, both to resist the oppression of the upper echelons.

In Neptune, this oppression is even more naked...... The Tiankeng District here is equivalent to the Lower Ten Districts, and the poor people who live here are also living a precarious life, because from time to time, the major acolytes in the metropolitan area send cold and ruthless robot teams to the Lower Ten Districts to arrest people without saying anything!

In the name of beauty, optimize the population structure.

In fact, everyone knows that the poor people who were taken away are afraid that there will be more evil and less luck.

Where there is oppression, there is resistance, and in order to resist these teams of robots that capture people, some poor people began to use mechanical transformation to strengthen their bodies and become mechanical transcendental!

With a powerful body and some weapons, he has a certain amount of resistance in the face of the robot team sent by the metropolitan area to arrest people.

However, the power of individuals is limited after all, and the robot teams sent by the metropolitan area are not only numerous, but also have higher technological content, so the local transcendents have gradually united together to form a loose alliance.

That is, the "Garbage Bug Alliance" in the mouth of the ghost knife girl.

Lupin turned his head to look.

This bar, located deep in the garbage field at the bottom of the sinkhole, is one of the strongholds of the Garbage Bug Alliance, and everywhere you look, there are humans whose bodies have been heavily modified into mechanical prosthetics.

Changing an arm or a leg is just commonplace.

Some of them had half of their faces metal, their eyes flashing red, and they were obviously equipped with electronic prosthetic eyes.

There are also people whose bellies are hollowed out, and you can see mechanical gears rotating in them, and a few swarthy holes on their bodies, which are probably the muzzles of weapons.

What's more, the whole body is covered in metal, and at a glance, the proportion of flesh and blood is already very low, but it looks like a half-finished robot has a few pieces of real skin installed on it!

However, like the ghost knife, the whole person is purely robotic, and the anti-wild can't find a second one.

Lupin also noticed one feature - the machinery in this bar was extraordinary, and all of them were ugly.

That's right, it's the kind of ugliness that is full of primitive rough machining style:

Circles of thick red and blue wires are exposed, gears and chains are exposed to the air, white gas is spewed out from the gaps when the transmission is expanded, making a calamal sound, nanochips are replaced by larger integrated circuits, and there is no lightweight alloy shell common to high-end robots, replaced by heavy metal plates like tank armor.

In contrast, the ghost horse knife Ji, whose body is as delicate as a work of art and is covered in crystal materials, seems a little out of place here.

However, she had smeared a strip of mud on the bridge of her nose earlier, and it seemed to fit in a little more.

"This is the Garbage Bug Alliance, we were originally just a bunch of poor worms scooping garbage from the mountain of e-waste, but nothing can stop us from becoming stronger." The ghost knife girl whispered at this time, "The technology of the alliance is naturally incomparable with those big companies in the metropolitan area, but it is also in a class of its own, and it looks a little ugly, but if you look at it more, you will find that there is actually a different kind of beauty." ”

"I call it – Workshop Aesthetics!"

Lupin was a little speechless: "But I'm a stranger, you say so much, it has nothing to do with me." ”

"There are also a handful of combat-type Inhumans in the Trash Bug Alliance...... Besides, the alliance is not restrained, and the so-called strongholds are just some wasteland bars where everyone drinks and chats together, exchanging ideas and reforming experiences, just like this Radiant bar! ”

"I don't think you need some powerful weapons and equipment even if you don't accept the transformation. In the Trash Bug Alliance, all activities will be presented in the form of bounty tasks, and the organization will never force any transcendent to do things...... If you want a reward, just take the task! If you don't look at it, or if you are afraid of danger, you can turn a blind eye to it. ”

"Of course, if you want a better prosthetic body and a more powerful weapon, you naturally have to do the bounty mission...... Or, like me, participate in the annual mechanical competition. ”

"Speaking of which...... I suddenly want to ask you for a favor. Ghost Horse Dao Ji suddenly blinked, "Of course, this is separate from my repayment of your life-saving grace, I will naturally do what I promised you, and if you do me this favor, I will pay you." ”

"What's the matter?" Lupin looked at her.

"In this mechanical competition, I am determined to win the championship prize! I went to the Aurora Building to steal the information of the stealth technology before, and it was also for this. The ghost knife girl's eyes shone brightly, "But it's really difficult, I've always wanted to find a helper who can cooperate with me, think about it, you seem to be just right!" ”