Although they are all full-body modifications, this kind of labor is fundamentally different from the killing machine like Adam's heavy hammer.

As the company's top killer, Adam's hammer is full of violence from head to toe.

What missile launcher, infrared laser scanning, full-body intelligent equipment, high-strength alloy armor......

It can be said that every part of the body is built for destruction and killing.

And what about these cyber laborers?

They can even crash because they don't apply lubricant to their bodies in time!

Because of the accident just now, at noon, the half-human and half-mechanical little supervisor had a rare vacation, and the laborers also took the opportunity to unplug the cables plugged in their heads, took out the prepared "food" from various corners, and began to supplement "nutrition".

"9527, the latest bio battery, want to try it?"

The old man who had been talking to Li Ji took out a square box from under his feet and wanted to hand it to him.

"No, I have something to do in the afternoon, I've asked for all the leave, and I won't be back later."

"Leave? In this case, you will be busy for half a month, what can't you do until the end of the month when you have a break? ”

In this old brother's opinion, 9527 is simply crazy to do this, and he has almost forgotten about the matter of asking for leave.

Following the long assembly line, Li Ji walked to the depths of the factory.

Armed men were rarely seen here, and at most they were swaggering foremen reprimanding the slow-moving laborers.

He was in the second half of the assembly line, and the only thing he was behind was packing and shipping.

But as he went deeper ahead, fences that needed access blocked Li Ji's way.

"Electromagnetically induced access control card?"

If this was his own body, Li Ji could easily open the door, but for now, he could only turn to Xiaosha who was attached to the USB flash drive.

Taking advantage of the fact that there was no one around, Li Ji sensitively hid in the blind corner of the camera and approached the USB flash drive to the identification area of the access control.

After waiting for a few seconds, he managed to reach the assembly line area upstream.

This is the packing area, which is also operated by cyber laborers with tubes in the back of their heads.

As for why such repetitive work is not all performed by robots, Li Ji also has his own guesses.

There is only one reason, and that is that it is too expensive and time-consuming.

Maintenance, calibration, programming, shipping, everything costs a lot of money.

Moreover, large companies that can produce such industrial robots will not sell the robots to the owners of small factories at all, but adopt the authorized leasing system.

There are also various ways to charge, including charging according to time, charging according to action, and even charging according to the share of profits......

Small bosses are often not careful, and there will be no bones left to be gnawed by large companies.

In contrast, this kind of cyber labor is much more cost-effective.

As long as a long-term agreement is signed with the prosthetic transformation company, small bosses can transform hundreds, if not thousands, of people into workers who no longer eat human food.

Moreover, the money needed for the transformation does not need to be paid by the small bosses, and all the costs are borne by the cyber laborers.

Even if you don't have any money now, you can use a contract loan with a small company and pay it off monthly.

And the only price paid by the small bosses is the meager salary paid to them every month.

After that, you don't have to worry about their maintenance, because the workers will take care of it themselves.

As for giants like Arasaka or military technology, they have long abandoned this low-cost method and used their huge size to directly control thousands of small factories.

And this is also the reason why everyone in Night City is scolding the company dog, but they are extremely envious of the company dog.

After all, for the mud legs at the bottom, who can be a human being, who wants to turn themselves into laborers covered in metal scrap?

As Li Ji continued to go deeper, he encountered more and more access controls.

Under his method, he gradually approached the true origin of this assembly line.

I don't know if the big company still retains the only mercy, this low-cost body still retains a minimum of sensory simulation, allowing Li Ji to smell the residual smell in the air.

Unlike the aroma of the food you just smelled on the assembly line, the closer you get to the source, the more pungent the smell becomes, and the more dilapidated the machine next to it becomes.

There were fewer and fewer laborers, from the dense crowd at the beginning, to only one or two in the end, and now it is almost all run by machines.

What looked like an "ingredient" was ground repeatedly through rows of rollers, but it was vaguely recognizable as the meat of some kind of animal.

From time to time, other unknown liquids and solids are added in large quantities, and if you look at the ratio, you can probably add a whole tank of other ingredients to a piece of meat.

It's the kind of man-high vat.

Looking at these ingredients flowing down the mechanical assembly line, Li Ji was no longer in a hurry to let the three fingers attack here.

Because as far as he knew, there were no farms in the vicinity of Night City, or even between the nearest city, because the unmodified wild was no longer suitable for domestic animals.

And genetically modified poultry has become sky-high.

One of Night City's most popular food slogans is that it claims to be 100% replica of real meat.

So in Li Ji's cognition, the source of meat in this food factory should be synthetic protein, but now it looks more like natural meat.

Because Li Ji saw the internal organs and bones of the animals that had not had time to be ground during the operation of the machine.

"Could it be that big companies have developed new genetically modified animals?"

With this doubt, Li Ji went all the way down.

From just now, he felt that the road here was not flat, but with a downward slope, and now his position should have been dozens of meters underground.

A door with a warning mark appeared in front of Li Ji's eyes, and there was also a tight iron wall.

Several thick iron pipes extend from the inside of the wall to the outside, and the food raw materials are continuously transported inside.

"Triple nested passwords? Finally, there is a dynamic verification? If it weren't for Xiaosha with me, I'm afraid that even if I came here in person, I would have to stop here. ”

With the help of AI's powerful computing power, Li Ji successfully broke through this last barrier and came to the deepest part of the factory.

Rows of mechanical pliers are hung high in the air, connected by several metal poles on the roof of the shed.

In the middle of the hall is a mixer room several meters high, which receives the "ingredients" transported by mechanical tongs.

Li Ji understood that there were no new types of genetically modified animals, and there were no hidden ecological farms.

Some are just "people's fat and people's ointment" that have been talked about for a long time.

There has never been a moment when Li Ji felt that these four words could be so deafening, because the hanging on the pliers was a mangled human corpse.