His own blood was burned dry by the flowing flames...
This was Liao Qi's most intuitive feeling after the adjustment and transformation began.
It was as if countless hot needles penetrated the bionic skin, drilled through the subcutaneous armor made of plastic steel, and then injected some corrosive liquid into the blood vessels. The severe pain made him grit his teeth.
Immediately, a burning sensation occurred in all places where blood could flow. The flame-like liquid reshaped his body's blood circulation system.
From the large arteries and large veins extending from the heart to the small capillary ends curled around the fingertips, Liao Qi's whole body's blood circulation system was gradually replaced by some kind of lattice network-like structure.
A structure with greater energy transmission efficiency, greater load-bearing capacity, and more difficult to destroy.
Naturally, what flows inside this new blood circulation system is no longer a mixed liquid of red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, and various inorganic salt ions. It is a kind of magnetic fluid that is driven by an electromagnetic field and can perform all functions like blood.
Compared with blood, this kind of magnetic fluid has higher energy transmission efficiency, faster flow speed, and stronger resistance to foreign objects invading the body-at least, no naturally evolved bacteria or viruses can survive like this. survive in an environment.
That's not all...
At a certain moment, Liao Qi was suddenly able to clearly feel the flow of his new "blood".
It's not like feeling the blood flowing upward when you're emotionally excited. Instead, it uses its own magnetic field sensing ability to sense the flow of its own "blood" just like sensing the airflow during breathing.
Not only can he sense it, he can even control it.
Using his magnetic control ability, Liao Qi can change the flow rate and flow rate of his "blood" at any time as long as he is willing, and in this way can more accurately control the output of his various organs or prosthetics.
Mercury Wings System...
Along with the blood circulation system, Liao Qi's "heart" and "brain" were upgraded.
The broad-spectrum energy core merged with Liao Qi's second heart and was upgraded to the corona furnace heart, occupying his chest. Its powerful maximum output efficiency is about three times that of the past - that is enough output to self-destruct the current prosthetic body. As for the energy it can store, it is ten times more than the energy core in the past!
Nowadays, after being fully charged, Liao Qi's full-body prosthesis can last for nine months under normal energy consumption.
In order to dissipate the heat of this thing, two sets of liquid nitrogen cooling systems were implanted on the left and right of his shoulder blades. After the connected cooling fins were stowed away, they hung down behind him like folded featherless wings.
Corona Heart...
Deep in Liao Qi's brain, his originally normal pituitary gland began to divide and grow like a cancerous cell after receiving some kind of stimulation. Under the combined effect of mutated gene expression and Turing morphogen, The "cancerous" pituitary gland expanded by approximately 30 percent of its volume. It wasn't until it grew upward and merged with the optic chiasm that it finally stopped.
The supercomputing biological protein chip is integrated with the optic chiasm nerve, which allows Liao Qi to almost instinctively obtain an amount of information that far exceeds that of ordinary people for things involving numbers that appear in Liao Qi's field of vision. For example, if someone sprinkles a handful of rice on the table, he can tell directly how many grains are on the table with just a glance.
Of course, this instinct for intelligence processing also brings a lot of hidden dangers - when receiving an excessive amount of digital intelligence in an instant, he may be like a cat that unconsciously pounces on a red dot, causing a certain An obsessive-compulsive reaction.
For example, in combat, if the enemy knocks over a bucket of beans in front of him, he needs to fight against his instinct and work very hard to resist the urge to count all the beans.
But on the other hand, this calculation instinct combined with the "bullet time" enabled by the turbulent adrenaline pump allows Liao Qi to accurately calculate bullet trajectories mentally, even in battles calculated in milliseconds, so as to make optimal decisions. tactical choices.
Apollo Pituitary...
Although there were only three adjustments and transformations, the depth 3 adjustments and transformations of Icarus Path lasted for a full half an hour in total - which was almost as much as the first two depth adjustments and transformations combined.
What was different from the previous two adjustments and transformations was that this time after coming out of the multi-purpose printer and falling back to the solid ground, Liao Qi didn't say anything or do anything - he just stood there quietly, Close your eyes as if you are meditating.
"how do you feel?"
Winston, who had been responsible for the debugging and operation of the multi-purpose printer, walked up - of course, he did not dare to get too close - and asked cautiously.
This depth 3 adjustment and transformation brought significant changes to Liao Qi's body. His face looked paler than before... No, it was more than just pale. Now his face looked like a character in an ancient CG movie, with an unreal and inhuman quality.
Besides that, the most eye-catching thing is the pair of "wings" extending out from behind him.
It is about two meters long when fully opened, and has neither feathers nor wing membranes - even if there were, such a pitiful size and heavy metal frame would not be able to support Liao Qi to fly with aerodynamics.
From a functional point of view, these "wings" are mainly heat dissipation devices.
But beyond that…
The metal bone wings unfolded with a "snap", and Winston was frightened by the movement and took several steps back, and immediately turned his head to look at Booker not far away.
If the opponent falls into the mental uncanny valley due to this adjustment and transformation, then only the team leader has the ability to subdue the opponent.
Booker shook his head at him, indicating that there was no problem.
Winston once again turned to look at Liao Qi who suddenly opened his "wings". At this moment, something like liquid metal flowed and turned into something like feathers, covering the skeleton of the wings in layers. On.
At this moment, he looked like a metal sculpture of an angel.
"Are you ok?"
Booker watched quietly as Liao Qi finished doing this, and then asked.
"I'm afraid my sleeping position will be very awkward in the future."
Opening his eyes again, Liao Qi replied.
His originally brown pupils were now silvery white - making him look as if he was blind.
"However, there are generally no problems...my current mental state is very good.
"As for my changes..."
After saying that, he closed his eyes again and began to feel the abilities he gained after upgrading to Depth 3.
In addition to a more stable and powerful energy system; as well as improved brain computing power and resistance to hackers. Essentially, there is only one ability gained in Icarus Path Depth 3——
For the manipulation of magnetic fluids.
In fact, both the "Apollo Pituitary Gland" and the "Coronal Furnace Core" exist to assist this ability - the former provides it with sufficient computing speed, while the latter ensures that there is enough energy for continuous control.
And this ability itself can be regarded as an extension of the magnetic field control ability of Depth 2...
Liao Qi thought to himself.
In addition to retaining a small amount of the circulatory system that supplies blood to the brain, all the blood in his body has been replaced with a special magnetic fluid called "Wings of Mercury." In the "radiator" behind him, there is a magnetic fluid equivalent to the amount of his blood stored as a supplementary reserve.
This kind of magnetic fluid will instantly change its molecular structure after being activated by currents of different strengths, showing different physical properties - it may be as hard as an alloy, or as soft as a memory sponge, or it may be woven into a stretchy material. Extremely strong fiber structure...
Under his control, these magnetic fluids can change into various shapes according to his will - they can form and wrap around themselves to form armor; they can also turn into sharp melee weapons; they can also extend out. , as a tool for finding enemies in complex terrain.
Liao Qi opened his palm, and bright silver liquid seeped out densely from his palm, and under the influence of its tension, it gathered into a round and smooth silver bead.
Then, like shaking red wine in a goblet, he gently shook the silver bead, letting it roll in the palm of his hand like water drops on a lotus leaf, and then...
With a slight exertion, under the influence of the magnetic field, the silver bead sprouted countless sharp needles like a sea urchin.
Next, just a little more power is needed to keep it in a stable state.
And then, he can throw it... like a real sea urchin to hurt people?
Liao Qi laughed at himself and shook his head. Then he kept moving his fingers, and the ball of magnetic fluid continued to change shape with his movements.
The intertwined double helices, the membrane covering the palm, the countless standing needles, the layers of scales...
Although they look ever-changing, they cannot transform into complex mechanical structures like the Aegis Combat Module of Perseus Path.
Rather, it is already very difficult to make the magnetic fluid form a stable polyhedron through magnetic field control.
Therefore, in battle, there are only a few forms that can really be used - covering the surface of something with fluid, elongating sharp spikes, or gathering a large amount of magnetic fluid-like fluid to use as a whip for slashing.
as well as……
Liao Qi controlled the magnetic fluid to wrap around his fingers like a snake, and drew an "∞" sign.
Next, power on.
He looked at the newly formed data wire in his hand and nodded slightly.
Therefore, this is the real effect of "Mercury Wings"...
Liao Qi thought to himself.
If Christie hadn't told him before about the true ability direction of Ascension Path Ikaros, he might not have thought in this direction, but would have just used the "Mercury Wings" as a slime under his control.
Unexpectedly, after connecting to the interface and then adapting it, it can be compatible with almost all prosthetic interfaces.
In this way, he is like a Shoggoth, growing countless pseudopod appendages - he can use them to invade the prosthetic bodies that interfere with other adjusters, or to expand other prosthetic bodies that originally have no slots for himself.
And this is the true purpose of "Mercury Wings"! (End of chapter)
