Wow! The item-dropping rate is really high!-Chapter 637 - 486 Showdown_2

And now...

Aglaya, who had accessed privileged information, stared at the near-continuous record of book perusals, feeling a buzzing in her head.

The colleague of equal rank from the neighboring department came over with a chuckle, glanced over, and then the smile on his face vanished immediately.

"Who is this? Someone has read through them all so quickly?"

"Today, there was only one person in the library," Aglaya stated this fact with an indifferent expression.

"..."

"..."

The man was shivering as he stroked his small mustache, looking at Aglaya with a shocked stare, and asked with a slightly trembling voice, "No... It couldn't be, could it?"

Aglaya nodded calmly, "It's exactly as you're thinking."

"???"

Is General Bai E human?

"Could he be the chosen of the Lord of Curiosity?" speculated another manager who had hurried over, stroking his chin.

The Lord of Curiosity is also a symbol of knowledge; if blessed by it, possessing such a heaven-defying level of comprehension ability would seem plausible.

"But could the chosen of the Lord of Curiosity be as formidable on the battlefield as General Bai E?"

"Then he is the chosen of the God of War!"

"General Bai E's regenerative ability is also terrifyingly unbelievable."

"Then he is the chosen of the God of Eternity!"

"To hell with whoever! Damn Spiritual Energy!" The robe-clad manager turned and walked away.

The deeper one delves into this field, the more one discovers many illogical and incomprehensible things within it.

Things one couldn't understand should be left to successors; the only thing they could do was to preserve as many complete cases of Spiritual Energy as possible...

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After leaving the Spiritual Power Managers Center and heading straight for the Scientific Research Institute, Bai E's lips curled slightly, knowing that Aglaya and the others had probably finally caught on.

He knew those secret Spiritual Energy techniques must be quite difficult to learn, just like the "Exorcism Magic Circle" also found in the library.

Just looking at people's attitudes towards it, he knew it was not easy to learn.

In the entire city, there would not be many who could learn it, and there were several items in the library of approximately the same level as the Exorcism Magic Circle.

Having learned them all so quickly, he would definitely surprise them.

Just how much he would surprise them wasn't his concern though.

Any irrational event that occurred had an explanation.

They would hypothesize about it on their own; he didn't need to worry about it.

Ever since his return to the city, Bai E had been maintaining private contact with Helen.

To make contact outside the city's surveillance was quite simple for the both of them.

Bai E, who sought Helen out in private, stated his intent directly, "I want to reset the technical standards of the Artificial Human production line."

Helen stared at Bai E with her narrow and alluring eyes, her gaze flickering, a slight smile playing on her lips, "I knew your previous research on the production pods wasn't aimless."

Without letting Bai E answer this awkward question, Helen continued to speak on her own, wanting Bai E to know—she was aware of everything he was doing.

"What do you want to change?" said Helen as she casually sat down, drawing her robe aside to sit on the chair behind her.

Her posture was relaxed, striving not to make Bai E feel even a hint of uncomfortable aggression.

The spring scenery under her robe was subtly visible, but Bai E did not look aside, staring into Helen's eyes with an expressionless face as he replied, "I think there's no longer a need to apply the cognitive delay restrictions on them."

The trait of cognitive dulling indeed allowed artificial human soldiers to ignore, to some extent, the suppression from the Spiritual Energy field; during Bai E's first participation in the total assault on the hive, artificial human soldiers showed a significant resistance advantage in proportion to natural human soldiers when the Overmind appeared.

However, that was all.

While this restriction offered slight protection, it was more limiting than anything else.

It limited the potential for artificial humans to develop Spiritual Energy.

If their purpose was to serve as cannon fodder, then having no potential was acceptable; the city only required them to be effective.

But if every newly created artificial person is unwilling to be mere cannon fodder, then without lifting the ban, they will never become truly adept masters on their own.

Helen's IQ is top-notch in the entire city, and with just a thought, she understood the underlying meaning of Bai E's words.

"You want to develop artificial humans?" Helen's eyes narrowed slightly, "But you must understand that the suppression of artificial humans isn't just about their origins. Resources are always limited; if they consume more, others have less. Nobody wants to create a competitor who will eat into their own share of resources."

If Bai E really intended to develop artificial humans, then the ultimate outcome would only be that everyone would choose to do without them.

Under endless sacrifices, selecting from natural humans indeed became a bit difficult, but if they truly managed to conquer the Blackrock District Hive, then the last batch of sacrificed military camp fighters would become the final song.

Even if the world's situation remained severe in the future, the annual consumption of nearly ten thousand regular soldiers would not be necessary any longer.

"I know, so... I have a Spiritual Power Method that can be shared with everyone for cultivation," Bai E said, staring at Helen, emotionless as he dropped a bombshell.

The Spiritual Power Breathing Skill he had learned from Yue Ying and had successfully adapted after personal modification to suit human physique was his biggest gesture of sincerity. "I visited the Spiritual Power Managers Center today. After a thorough investigation of my spiritual power, they believe that my subconscious self-cultivation might have already formed an entirely new method. But privately, I've already tried it out. Aside from Rose, all the members of my special squad have already developed the seeds of spiritual power."

No matter how Helen would think, after careful consideration, Bai E believed that this was his only chip to firmly tie Helen to his chariot.

Helen is the most dedicated of researchers.

Anything that could significantly raise the overall human limit, she wouldn't be able to refuse.

Indeed...

"!" The veins on Helen's hand resting on the armrest of her chair bulged, her face flushed slightly and her breathing became noticeably heavier.

A brand new Spiritual Power cultivation method!

Even artificial human warriors with innate limitations could nurture the seeds of Spiritual Energy with dedicated care.

What about after discarding those innate limitations?

What about all the natural humans in the city?

Of course, there are many things Bai E didn't articulate, but she roughly knew them.

Bai E certainly would not be the "blank slate" he appeared to be; his emotionless facade was too deceitful, making even the current "laying of cards on the table" seem somewhat insincere.

There is no essential difference between artificial humans and natural humans.

When Bai E spoke of lifting restrictions on artificial humans, it was clear he intended to circulate his method only within a small circle—or rather, only among "the artificial humans who obey him."

He wanted power!

He would not contemplate spreading this weapon throughout all humanity, or even throughout all the natural humans in the city, until he had enough power to satisfy his ambition.

But what of it?

As long as it was a discovery that could propel humanity to new heights, Helen would only support its emergence!

Her loyalty was always to the overall limits of humanity, not simply to the three words "Blackwater City."

As long as the implications roughly aligned, she could pinch her nose and work with it.

But if there was a significant divergence, she would only adhere to her own inner path.

Smart people never call out another's flaws.

No matter what pretense Bai E used, she would not raise it directly.

In their conversations, they would only discuss official matters; only by doing so could she gradually make Bai E believe that she truly stood with him.

"What do you need me to do?"

"I only need access," Bai E said, asking for nothing else.

Even though he had acquired the technology for genetic programming after blowing up a production chamber, without the access, he naturally could not interfere with the chamber's backend.

Sneaking around was one idea, but during the lengthy process of artificial human maturation, if the monitoring authorities noticed that anyone tampered with the backend technical parameters, they would need just a simple command to instantly stop all production lines in operation.

Without Helen, Bai E could never achieve his goals.

"Access isn't a problem, but you don't need my help?" Helen replied curtly.

"No need."

Bai E did not trust others to do it; only his own settings were truly within his control.

"Fine." Helen glanced deeply at Bai E, her gaze filled with admiration as she agreed.

Just through the research done last time, he had already mastered technology to this extent.

It seemed that General Bai E had much more up his sleeve than he was letting on!