"The injector of the scorpion medicine was afraid that the drug would not be effective enough, so he overdosed."

"It seems that the overfitting in the injected person not only changes the mind, but also permanently changes the bones and muscles-

It is a morbid metamorphosis, in which his limbs gradually transform into the scorpion's skeletal shape, and are solidified by his armor.

His skin is also replaced by a chitin shell, which acts as a link between the armor and the organism when it comes into contact with the skin and nerves.

It's almost a cyclical deterioration, and the scorpion suit will eventually cause humans to become real scorpions, both physically and psychologically.

Eventually, more often than not, he will die. ”

In the laboratory, the analysis of the scorpion suit has been completed.

The conclusion is that only the craziest madman will put on this equipment - or the one who puts on the suit, is not at all voluntary.

This armor is indeed very combative, especially the tail, which is almost an armor-piercing bullet used in melee combat, but it also has fatal flaws in itself.

Throwing and attacking creates tremendous pressure, and the suit's exoskeleton is designed to withstand this pressure.

However, this exoskeleton must be adapted to the nerve, and the adaptation method used is to make people change their shape in the direction of the scorpion.

If a person has to turn into a scorpion to withstand the pressure of the Warframe. Is that the design of equipment for people, or the design of equipment for people?

The effects of brain-computer interfaces on neural circuits, the chain reaction of exoskeletons and genetically modified agents, and the defects of floppy drive systems used by battle armors.

It's all parsed.

In the lab, everyone fell silent.

Dr. Otto was particularly impressed – not only by Lille's academic prowes, but also by the scorpion's tragic fate.

And some sentimentality for yourself: the octopus arm is an extremely dangerous modification of the external prosthesis, and the scorpion is the best example.

Even if Lille solves the chip problem, the human body can directly direct these robotic arms beyond the AI.

This pattern of thinking with four more arms is also prone to having an unknown effect on human consciousness.

At the end of the day, even in cyberpunk worlds, it's rare to see prosthetic modifications of this scale.

Moreover, the flexibility of the octopus arm is so exaggerated that no human brain can properly process this level of mechanical signals, and Lille has calculated for Otto with mature theories.

If you compare the two worlds, the signal complexity of an octopus arm is slightly more complex than that of a whole set of centaur mechs.

In the lab, it was quiet, except for the sound of Lille tapping on the keyboard.

Otto suddenly whispered to Connors, "How old is he?" Which school? ”

"Just turned 18 years old, Midtown junior high school."

"Huh?"

As Lille finished typing on the keyboard, the drawings on the screen switched to the neural interface designed by Dr. Otto, and pulled out the chip inside.

"The hardware bottleneck is here, and I have a new prosthetic control driver design here, which is also paired with a new chip architecture.

This architecture is able to handle the conversion between biological and electrical signals more efficiently. ”

In general, the basis of information engineering is binary logic operations, but the code used by living organisms, i.e., DNA, is quaternary and contains four bases.

So in the cyberpunk world, the chips used for implantable prostheses have always been designed based on quaternary transformation.

At the same time, it has made great progress in the field of biocomputers, using both protein chips and silicon-based chips to achieve human-computer interaction.

This can exponentially increase the efficiency of human-machine data conversion.

"Theoretically, the human brain can safely withstand the data traffic of one arm, but of course, the extra limb will still have an impact on consciousness."

Otto looked at Connors, and then at the design on the screen.

【Voltage stability】

【Stable current】

[The data channel is stable.] 】

[Safety Simulation Experiment Results: Passed]

"It's so, it's shocking."

Connors looked like "that's the expression" and smiled from ear to ear.

He had the same expression when he was frightened by what Lille had taken out of his pocket!

Otto read the design, paced left and right, and calculated in his head many times, and finally determined:

Four octopus arms may be unstable, but one octopus arm is completely stable!

Then make an octopus arm first!

"The chip looks familiar – yes! There was indeed a CPU this year that used a similar architecture, and it seemed to be "

As soon as Lille heard it, he knew that he was looking for a foundry to produce the chips.

So he said: "I designed it, and I still have some in hand, although the effect is worse than ideal, and the current technology can only do this." ”

Otto leaned back slightly, then turned and walked briskly towards the storeroom: "Let's start now!"

There's also a batch of synthetics in the warehouse, and those things are my own, and the Osborne Group can't take them—

Let's implement this design now! ”

The machine started again--

His surprising inventions, especially the robotic arm, will make people forget that he is an authority and expert in many fields.

Especially in terms of materials science, the fantastic performance of the octopus arm energy is based on his personal research and development of nanomaterials.

However, in Lille's eyes, it is better to say that the entire Marvel Universe has heads and faces that are experts in materials science.

"Absolutely."

Drip.

[ctOS Emergency Broadcast:]

[A huge biological weapon appears outside the New York University Hospital:]

[Picture]

Reardon stopped and plugged in the TV broadcast signal: "Doctor, trouble is coming, let's take a look at this first." ”

The TV kept flashing back to the streets:

A giant rhinoceros armor gallops through the streets, smashing the road and everything that stands in its way like a tank!

Thick black smoke came out of him, and his exaggerated power even easily crashed through the building!

This is a bionic tank!

A group of men in suits wearing watercolor ink masks kept shooting, and even took out RPGs, but they couldn't penetrate the surface of that armor!

Gwen kept trying to stop the rhino in its direction, but couldn't--

That armor may not be flexible, but it's too heavy!

[Gwen: The whole of New York is in a mess!] 】

[Gwen: The rhinoceros came from two blocks away, and a bunch of masked people came out of nowhere, but the weapons were useless!] 】

[Gwen: I can't open the armor, and I can't find an excuse for the USB flash drive - think of a way!] 】

Everyone was stunned, and Lille quickly said, "We must stop that thing and find a way to break through the rhinoceros shell." ”

"But how?"

Lille entered another piece of information.

Deep diving hacking in the cyberpunk world actually uses the Ihara-Grubb transform algorithm to visualize the line information, so that hackers can directly manipulate the current and voltage in the circuit with more familiar logical thinking.

Gwen's USB flash drive is based on this idea, so he can cut directly into the wire for hacking.

But those USB sticks can handle simple software programs, but if the group that was eavesdropping on the NYPD gets involved with Norman, it may not be so easy to hack again.

He had to do it himself.

"It's a direct hacking device, but I need a weapon that can pierce through that huge armor right now."

Otto immediately thought of something: the tail of the scorpion suit.

When the tail is threaded in a straight line, it is actually ejected, and the mechanics involved are quite complex.

But it's not that it can't be copied.

Lille brought up the design of the scorpion's tail, confirming that the two had thought of going together.

"I can replicate the armor-piercing structure of the scorpion's tail, but the material used for its tail. It looks like classified military-industrial material. ”

"Luckily, I left that thing behind."

Lil gestured to the pile of parts on the table, including the armor-piercing tip at the end of the scorpion.

It also has a small built-in pipe for transporting biochemical venom, which can be used to plug in the wiring.

Otto tapped on the computer, immediately finished the calculations, and then sketched roughly.

After the sketch, a new problem arises:

The forces are reciprocal, they can create armor-piercing tips and power structures, but it may be desirable to want to pierce rhinoceros armor with a single impact.

So how to deal with the force that reacts to the user during the impact?

An exoskeleton is required in the design.

Dr. Otto looked at his octopus arm

This is his strong point, but according to their theory, even if the structure of the octopus arm is simplified several times, the risk of adding an external prosthesis is still high.

What's more, this is to be used in battle, and the internal environment in the body will change drastically during the battle, who can guarantee that the prosthetic system can still function normally?

He hesitated and said, "But in this case, the physical impact can be blocked, the mental impact."

"I'll take it."

Lille spoke, and Otto was once again deeply shocked, and he couldn't help but ask: Why?

Why do it at the risk of being altered by a machine, being corroded by a machine?

But there was no time to explain anything, and Connors tapped Otto on the shoulder.

"This is a young man full of mysteries, but everyone has privacy, do you want to work or not? Friends? ”

"Then let's get started."

"What am I going to do?" Peter, who had not spoken for a long time, raised his hand.

"Wiring, look at the ammeter. Report when you have a situation. ”

Lille took off his clothes before he could do it: "Three, I'm going to show you some. It's inconvenient to pass it on. ”

This time the external prosthesis had to match the prosthetic system on Lille.

No matter what, the brain-computer interface on his body will be exposed.

"You're all trustworthy people - so what you see here, get out of this door, please forget."

Take off your clothes.

The three of them opened their mouths wide.

(End of chapter)