After a short wait, the call was connected.
"Have you changed your mind?" The voice on the other end of the phone was still a male-female electronic synthesized voice.
"What benefits will I gain from cooperating with you?" Yuanye asked straight to the point.
"Let me think about it, how about one million yen? Isn't it a huge sum of money for a high school student like you?" Mechanical Baiyi said casually.
"I'm afraid the price of any organ I sell would be more than this, let alone if you want to dissect my body." Yuan Ye mocked.
"That's true." Mechanical Baiyi's tone rose slightly, "Although the current organ sales are just a cover, people who need to replace their organs use stem cell induction technology to directly produce new organs that will not be rejected."
"I want to know what [Qi] is." Yuan Ye is not interested in chatting with the mechanical white clothes anymore, "I will consider your request only after that."
"That's it." The mechanical white clothes said an address, "Then you only have one hour to come here to find me. After that, the address will also be invalid."
"Okay." Yuan Ye hung up the phone and dialed the same number again. As he expected, it was an empty number.
——It seems that he took the initiative to get rid of the call records.
Yuan Ye took off his headphones and entered the address given to him by Mechanical Baiyi into the navigation system. The result was a warehouse on the seaside, very close to where Yuan Ye originally rented. It seemed that Mechanical Baiyi had nothing to hide. Awareness, choosing to capture dissection objects around their hiding places.
——Have you chosen a place that is out of sight? Just what I want.
Yuan Ye took the subway back to the station closest to where he rented his apartment. After changing out of his school uniform in a public restroom with no cameras outside the station, he stopped by a milk tea shop in front of the station and took a 2D picture of ordering food online. Code, if what Sato said is true, that's enough.
But Yuanye still carefully avoided every camera. Thanks to the policies of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, the cameras in the six non-core areas of Tokyo are highly bound to the cameras for road violation fines. As long as the navigation system is switched to driving mode, the map Every illegal camera will be carefully marked on the website - of course, this mode also requires payment.
Yuan Ye couldn't achieve complete invisibility by hacking into the camera like the watchdog he had played in his previous life. He could only do his best. Anyway, going to court was better than going to the ancestral hall.
With this mentality, Yuan Ye moved forward and arrived at the warehouse by the sea.
According to the information on the navigation, there is an owner of this warehouse, but that person should not be a mechanical white suit, but that doesn't matter anymore.
When Yuanye approached the door of the warehouse, the door opened automatically, seemingly aware of his arrival.
The strong smell of blood gushed out along the open door, but was quickly blown away by the sea breeze.
Yuan Ye used the QR code to place an order for a cup of bubble milk tea, took off his glasses as a reality augmentation device, and raised his vigilance to the highest level as he walked through the door.
The warehouse behind the door was brightly lit. After Yuan Ye entered the warehouse, the door of the warehouse was closed immediately.
"Welcome, welcome." There was an operating table in the center of the warehouse. Mechanical Baiyi stood behind the operating table and said to Yuan Ye.
It was still the electronic synthesized sound that was both male and female, but this time, Yuanye understood the origin of the sound.
The mechanical white clothes did not turn on the optical camouflage this time, and the body wrapped in the doctor's robe was completely exposed, or in other words, the body was sewn into the doctor's robe.
Only the torso and head are left on the body of the mechanical white clothes, and the rest are replaced by prosthetics. The torso is completely integrated with the doctor's robe, and the extended metal of the doctor's robe wraps the second half of his torso. It can be seen that the life of the mechanical white clothes is maintained by the doctor's robe.
Half of Mechanical Baiyi's throat was replaced by machinery, which is why he can only make electronic sounds.
"I came as promised." Yuanye said to the mechanical white clothes, "So what is [qi]?"
"This is a long story." Mechanical Baiyi thought for a while and said, "It goes back to when I was still in the research institute."
"Are the injuries on your body just because you escaped from the research institute?" Yuan Ye guessed.
"Indeed." Mechanical Baiyi was not angry because of this. "I can't go to the hospital either. I can only deal with it urgently."
"So? Is qi a research result of the institute? What exactly is it?"
"No." Mechanical Baiyi pulled out a whiteboard and used a personal terminal as a projector. "It was only after there were examples that I studied it."
"Let me ask you a question first. Why do the higher-ups prohibit prosthetics from taking the unified examination?" Mechanical Bai Yi asked a question first.
"Prevent prosthetic transformation from impacting their monopoly?" Yuan Ye expressed his opinion.
"How is it possible? With genetic adjustment, civilians may also have genetic mutations. Wouldn't the upper class be more crushed by using prosthetics?" The mechanical white clothes seemed to laugh at Yuan Ye's naivety, "They will always replace the latest and best prosthetics first, civilians. You can’t compete with the upper echelon if you use financial resources.”
"It's not like a fanatical pursuit of pure flesh." Yuanye asked himself and answered, "I'm afraid there is another reason."
"That's right." The mechanical white-clothed finger pointed in the air and called up an anatomy diagram. "Since the birth of genetic modification technology, human beings have begun to move towards the so-called [perfect human being]."
"With the advancement of technology, humans adjusted by humans are moving closer and closer to the physical upper limit of carbon-based humanoids." Mechanical Baiyi said slowly, "Our research institute is to provide acquired body maintenance for those upper-class people. After all, The human body is like a complex machine, and only with constant maintenance can it run better."
"Until one day, my boss suddenly fell ill. As a last resort, the institute had no choice but to let me take over his work." The mechanical white coat shrugged, and it could be seen that this was a habit he had when he was still in the physical body. "Actually, it didn't It’s not a complicated job, it’s just about operating machinery, and we’ve already asked AI to perform the specific tasks.”
"It was during that biological maintenance event that I got an abnormal report." The electronic synthesized voice of the mechanical white clothes also became deeper, which obviously impressed him very deeply, "A report that I shouldn't have seen. ."
"Did the truth about Qi be recorded on that report sheet?"
"You can't tell the truth." The machine in white clothes pulled out a body with its chest and abdomen broken open and electrodes inserted into it. "It can only be said to be the truth."
"What fact?"
"Human beings are special, or in other words, the biological limits of carbon-based organisms can be broken."
