Chapter 30 Free Upgrade
There were no worrying accidents during the operation.
After all, the chip implantation technology has appeared in the wasteland for more than 30 years and has been popularized. It has become the foundation of the technology in this bizarre world.
Even though Rogge's chip is more advanced, the implantation method is not more complicated.
First, use a drill to make a small hole in the skull, and then insert an electrode base connected to the brainstem nerves to receive bioelectric information.
Then insert the chip into the base, and finally place the silver information gathering device above the ear.
Jiang Xia's left eye was also implanted with the Black Hand Society's masterpiece.
A thing called a biological probe, just like Liu Laosi's, turns his left eye into a biological prosthesis, which can realize the most basic external information detection.
The party in the town bar outside was still going on. In this house, Su and Jasmine were each guarding their own bosses, waiting for them to wake up from anesthesia.
The two did not communicate, not even eye contact.
Every second was unbearable. Jasmine's fingers were always on the pistol. As long as Su made any movement , he would be shot in the face.
But Sue didn't.
He just sat next to Rogge, quietly counting the supplies for the relocation.
Ten minutes later, with a slightly painful groan, Jasmine turned around and saw Jiang Xia rubbing his eyes and sitting up from the console.
My left eye was swollen and painful, but it only lasted for a few moments.
The brain nerves quickly adapted to the pain, and there was still some moisture in the corners of the eyes, like tears, but that was the remnant of the biological repair fluid.
He wiped the corners of his eyes with his sleeve, moved his eyelids, and looked ahead.
The brain chip has not been formatted, so when it restarts now, there is a slight delay due to the large data flow. The right eye still sees the normal picture, but in front of the left eye there is a green data stream flashing on the screen.
It was almost exactly the same reaction as when Liu Laosi first started the chip.
After a few seconds, his right eye dimmed as if he was blind, but then lit up again. A visual interface between reality and illusion floated in front of Jiang Xia's eyes.
On the right side of the field of vision, each icon has a red X on it, indicating that advanced functions cannot be used due to the lack of supporting prostheses, and error prompts appear one after another.
It looks exactly like what happens when an XP system crashes.
Those prompts quickly blocked Jiang Xia's right eye's vision.
“Blocking misinformation.”
He rubbed his forehead and said something without any instruction. The next moment, the vision of his entire right eye immediately became clear, and the chip began to reset the functional units according to the command.
A second later, most of the complicated icons in the field of vision disappeared, leaving only a few most basic functions that could be activated.
Jiang Xia sat there, like a child who got a new toy, curiously observing the world in a new way, turning his head left and right, and the pupil of his left eye kept expanding and shrinking, like the focal length of a camera.
The darkness outside the room switched to night vision after one second, and various objects placed in the darkness were clearly visible. It switched to thermal imaging mode in the next moment, and several people in the room immediately turned into red silhouettes.
Temperature, humidity, orientation coordinates, and environmental data.
Even the amount of radiation remaining in the air was marked on the right side of the field of view, and when the fire control system was activated, a cursor moved left and right on the field of view.
Jiang Xia was quite curious. He jumped off the command platform, picked up the pulse rifle at hand, turned on the safety, and connected the weapon in his hand to the chip fire control system through signal access.
The next moment, the remaining energy of the rifle, the damage to the gun, and the various shooting parameters were calculated. The most exaggerated thing was the three-dimensional coordinate system of the entire battlefield. Within the detection range of the chip, all living targets were calculated as coordinate points.
In the field of view of the fire control system, there is even a phantom. By placing the muzzle of the gun in that position, precise aiming can be achieved.
"Is this how you see the world? It's quite interesting."
Jiang Xia pursed his lips and turned on the safety of the rifle in his hand. Su in front of him finally breathed a sigh of relief.
“I’ve never seen this icon before.”
After testing the basic functions of the chip, he discovered that there was a strange function icon at the edge of his vision that had not been activated, so he tried to turn on that function.
The next moment, Jiang Xia felt an electric current surge through his brain, making his hair stand on end.
The bioelectricity in his brain became several times more active through the manipulation of the chip, which enhanced his perception several times at this moment. The world before his eyes seemed to have slowed down a lot.
Under Jiang Xia's astonished gaze, Jasmine and Su turned into slow motion frame by frame like a PPT, as if time was slowed down. The changing expressions on their faces were seen clearly by Jiang Xia.
His mind became very active, but his body movements could not keep up with the rapid reaction of his mind. It was not until five seconds later that everything returned to normal.
A feeling of fatigue erupted in Jiang Xia's mind.
It was like I had been up for three days and two nights, and I was extremely tired. My brain was twitching under the heavy pressure.
"Well"
Jiang Xia rubbed his head, squatted on the ground, with a look of pain on his face.
"That's a bioelectric enhancement plug. It can speed up your reaction time in a short period of time. When used with limb prostheses, it can give you the ability to 'quickly draw your gun.'
It has a really complicated, boring scientific name, but I prefer to call it 'bullet time', or what I used to call it in old western movies I've seen.
The Eye of Death."
At this moment, Rogge also slowly sat up. He looked at Jiang Xia who was squatting there rubbing his head, and he knew what he had done.
"Can you keep up with the reaction without the prosthesis?"
Jiang Xia rubbed his head and asked.
Roger shook his still confused head and said:
"I don't know. I always use it with the prosthetic overclocking. It's very useful when I'm besieged. While maintaining accuracy, I can make a pistol fire at the speed of a submachine gun.
Perhaps, after long-term training, the pure human body can also adapt to this thinking speed.
After all, I saw those good cowboys in the West, who could draw their guns and shoot in a few tenths of a second without the help of a chip. Its design principle does not exceed the physiological limits of the human body.
But are you sure you don't want to take this opportunity to equip yourself with some prosthetics?"
Roger sat cross-legged there and said:
"With the help of that chip and some modifications, you can even fly for a short time, or use bioelectric discharge to hurt people remotely, just like magic."
“I don’t have that idea for now.”
Jiang Xia stood up, shook his head, and said:
"This is enough. Your prosthetics need to be charged . In my world, there are no charging stations for you to use, so it's best to modify your prosthetics before leaving.
Switching from electric drive to mechanical drive means sacrificing some functionality, so that when there is no power, they will not become a burden and become paralyzed. "
“Well, that’s a very thoughtful consideration.”
Roger nodded at Su.
Su immediately included this matter in the relocation affairs.
This kind of full-staff transformation would of course take more time, but when Jiang Xia came back just now, he already knew from Su that they had spent three days there, and more than ten days had passed here.
The time flow rate in his own world and that in the wasteland world is about one to five, which means that Black Hand will have about three days to complete the migration preparations.
"I have a suggestion for you. Even if you don't want to undergo full-body prosthetics, you should add a bioelectric enhancement module to your body."
With Su's help, Roger jumped off the console and said to Jiang Xia:
"That module can regulate human bioelectricity and form a personal magnetic field to reduce radiation damage. When used with the bioelectricity enhancement plug in your chip, it can also perform some 'little tricks' that can save lives at critical moments.
It doesn't require opening your stomach. It's just a small operation that can be done by the little girl next to you.
Also, the chip contains all the memory data that I can show you. Don't release them all at once, as it will put a lot of pressure on your thinking.
It might even cause your personality and behavior to shift towards me, so unlock it bit by bit, and watch it slowly."
He patted Jiang Xia on the shoulder and walked out of the room with Su.
Jiang Xia and Jasmine were left here. After Rogge left, Jiang Xia sat on the chair and glanced at Jasmine who was packing the toolbox.
"Is the module he mentioned harmful?"
Jiang Xia didn't say anything, but his voice rang in Jasmine's mind through the chip communication, scaring the girl.
She raised her head, looked at Jiang Xia with her brown eyes, tilted her head, and there was also a voice responding in the silence in Jiang Xia's mind.
"The bioelectric module is harmless, but generally no one installs it. My chip only has three slots, and there are no extra slots to insert more functional plug-ins."
Jasmine explained with envy:
"Only advanced chips like yours, boss, have more expansion slots and can realize more advanced functions. Yours has eight slots, and I also heard that the Eternal Life Association has a top-level chip with twelve slots.
But boss, if your chip has a bioelectric plug, I do suggest you install a matching module, otherwise the plug will be wasted."
"Let me see."
Jiang Xia closed his eyes, called up the chip console, and carefully browsed the types of plug-ins in the eight expansion slots of this chip. After a few seconds, he said to Jasmine:
"Prosthetic ecological control, fire control system, information collection and communication, perception enhancement, bioelectric enhancement, eagle eye, behavioral personality modification, pain immunity.
There are only eight inserts, the first four are basic, and the last four are functional.”
"'Eagle Eyes' can be achieved by replacing eyeball prostheses. Its function is more powerful than biological prostheses."
Jasmine immediately replied:
"But for the last two, I have to connect the brain bundle nerves to a controller. I can't do that with my mechanical skills, and I don't have a nano-scale precision controller at hand."
"Okay, I don't need these two either."
Jiang Xia blinked his eyes, and the two of them communicated with their eyes like dumb people. He said to Jasmine:
"Strike while the iron is hot. Replace my left eye with a prosthesis tonight. As for the bioelectric module... we'll talk about it next time. It will take me some time to convince myself to accept being an incomplete man."
"Boss, didn't you say that you wouldn't consider replacing your prosthetic body for the time being?"
Jasmine asked, blinking.
Jiang Xia stretched out his hand with a relaxed look on his face, tapped Jasmine on the head, and said:
"It's not that I don't want to change it, I just don't want them to change it for me. Maybe in the future we can trust each other and entrust important matters to each other, but not now."
As he spoke, his eyes fell on the back of the console, where there was a toolbox left by Rogge, containing several unopened chips.
He blinked, turned his head and said to Jasmine:
"Those things are ours too. Go pick one you like. I heard from Roger that they are six-slot chips, which are much better than the three-slot chips you are using now.
Just think of it as the first time I pay you your salary."
"Great."
Jasmine did not refuse.
She walked forward happily and started picking among the chips.
If she were still in the Eternal Life Society, she would need to work for several years to accumulate enough merit to upgrade her lowest-level chip. To upgrade to a six-slot chip, she would have to work for the Eternal Life Society for almost ten years.
She is more than happy to receive this free upgrade opportunity.
Jiang Xia also looked at Jasmine's unconcealable joy and thought, this child is so innocent, even her happiness is so innocent.
Sometimes, I feel so envious.
