Sweating profusely, Sun Jack looked up at the colossal Tapai in the sky and burst into ecstatic laughter, feeling the changes coursing through his body. He knew he had made the right bet.
"Revolution Sun Jack" had always been backed with capital for a purpose that never changed; making money from the reality show was merely incidental. Their real aim had always been to promote DNA programming technology!
This IP was too important to them, far more important than Tapai by a long shot!
They couldn't possibly just watch him being killed by Tapai, especially when everything that was happening below was broadcast to the Holy Grail.
If he died, the entire IP would be completely destroyed. They had to help him, and they could only help him, as it was the only way to minimize costs!
"Tapai!! You're finished!! Hahaha!! You're no longer the director! You motherfucker, you've become a supporting character!!" As Sun Jack laughed uproariously, all the remaining clones were injected with syringe pumps.
Inside all of Sun Jack's bodies, rapid changes began as secretions of foreign substances occurred, and under the interference of these specific substances, Sun Jack's body began to exhibit various abnormal reactions such as papules, nodules, hyperpigmentation, inflammatory responses, and so on.
These rejection reactions, combined, triggered chemical reactions, and under the influence of these substances, the flesh and blood inside Sun Jack's body started to proliferate, gradually growing electronic components made from soft flesh and blood.
At the same time, every prosthetic part of him, whether it was the Battle Armor on his body or the prosthetic limbs, both inside and out, began to grow polyps and proliferations. At this moment, these prosthetic bodies were no longer foreign objects, but had become an integral part of Sun Jack.
Suddenly, Sun Jack moved. His body left an afterimage and, in almost 0.1 seconds, he was gone from his original spot, dodging Tapai's laser lock-on. His body was not just breaking physical thresholds anymore; it was now beginning to break the thresholds of flesh and blood.
At this moment, it was no longer just about numbing pain or increasing strength. Whatever a mechanical prosthetic body could do, he could do now; whatever a mechanical prosthetic body couldn't do, he could also do now!
For instance, when Sun Jack stepped on the ground, and with a forceful push, flew straight towards the giant figure in the sky,
as his golden eyes glared fiercely, within a 100-meter radius with himself at the center, everything under the coverage of EMP flesh and blood devices that had grown proliferated was disrupted, and any drone or shell that came close to him malfunctioned and exploded.
"Hahaha! Tapai! Today, I'm going to show you who the fuck is the main character of this show!!"
As Sun Jack swiftly approached, the body of Tapai formed by various drones began to collapse, with drones falling in clusters, creating a large hole in his body.
Then, without dodging, he charged straight towards the Spacecraft Carrier in the sky.
All along the way, the attacks from the Spacecraft Carrier on Sun Jack were easily dodged by him.
Hacking was even more useless because at this moment, all the chips on Sun Jack were made of flesh, not part of a coherent system.
Soon, Sun Jack arrived next to a Spacecraft Carrier and went straight down the drone tunnel into it.
Inside, everywhere he went, there were either explosions or paralysis. What mattered more was that he was not alone at this moment; all Sun Jacks were doing the same thing!
Seeing their boss in such a formidable state, the others were instantly exhilarated, and they rushed to follow him.
Some who had started to flee covertly saw an opportunity and turned around to join the battleground.
"Mercenary commission posted! War-time payment increased tenfold!" With that message broadcast by Abu on the company channel, everyone suddenly became as invigorated as if they had been injected with chicken blood, with even other mercenaries joining the fray.
The people of Metropolis were not afraid of war nor death; their only fear was poverty. As long as there was money on the table, they were willing to do whatever it took.
Guan Sanke's face turned extremely ugly upon witnessing this scene. He tried again to control Sun Jack's body, but found that his target had already freed himself from his control through DNA recasting, and the backdoor he had left within him had completely vanished!
Yet he refused to admit defeat, arguing that no matter how powerful Sun Jack was, he was still just flesh and blood! And DNA technology, this new-fangled science, simply couldn't withstand his machines.
"The fight isn't over yet! Do you really think you alone can take on ten spacecraft carriers?"
As he commanded, the hovering spacecraft carriers began to crack and transform, revealing strategic-level attack equipment.
However, this time he did not aim at the densely packed mercenaries and combat units below but instead locked onto the Heavenly Machine Weapon!
Guan Sanke knew that only this device posed the greatest threat to his spacecraft carriers. If he could prioritize and destroy it, then no matter how formidable Sun Jack and the mercenaries were, they would be of no use!
"AA!!" With Sun Jack's alert, the AA operators within the Sky-base Weapon swiftly increased power to avoid being targeted.
Just as the leftmost spacecraft carrier began to charge up its power.
In the next second, with a humming sound, a gravity singularity appeared within that spacecraft carrier. Under the intense gravitational compression, the massive carrier began to warp, deforming and collapsing.
Under the watchful eyes of all present, a brand new spacecraft carrier appeared on the left side of the battlefield, its thick armor plates adorned with a large image of a puppy, just like the one AA had drawn on the damp and gloomy walls of the sewer pipes.
This was the spacecraft carrier Sun Jack had promised to AA—a promise he had made, and was certain to fulfill.
"Boss, we've caught up!!" Excitedly shouting, the AA operators within the spacecraft carrier took control and began to attack. While Sun Jack was busy cloning himself, AA wasn't idle either. She was also cloning herself, and she had made many.
All of this, she did to help her boss, not for her own enjoyment.
"You think these are enough to take me on?!" Guan Sanke's voice nearly warped as he roared in anger. He directly deployed his company's hacker brigade in an attempt to seize control of the spacecraft carrier.
However, the feedback from the hackers nearly made him spit blood, "BOSS!! That spacecraft carrier operates on manual mechanics! It's not even connected to the network!!"
At that moment, the Digital Personality stopped pretending and, with Tapai's assistance, began to infiltrate the entire network of Metropolis, trying to steal all resources possible and counter-invasively hack into the spacecraft carriers' networks.
When another laser beam from the Sky-base Weapon flew into the sky, a spacecraft carrier was suddenly pierced with a huge hole.
"Sun Jack!" Accompanied by Guan Sanke's roaring, a flash of white light appeared as a nuclear bomb exploded. A massive mushroom cloud formed with Shendong Street at its center, and with a violent shake, a powerful shockwave carrying radiation rapidly dispersed in all directions.