Two events occurred on this day.

First, Hei Fu escorted Duke Destructive to the Mars Base. Duke Destructive was officially authorized by Zhou Yi to also serve as the head of the company's Mars Affairs Department, managing the company's business there.

Even Ice Pot and Cat Dali had to listen to him on Mars.

The second event was the arrival of an inconspicuous small drone in Jade City.

It carried an extraordinary passenger.

"This is 'Laozi'."

703 introduced the newcomer beside him.

Zhou Yi scrutinized the mechanical life in front of him.

It was very small, resembling a flying insect, with a very delicate-looking metal structure.

Laozi did not have its own speaker, so it needed to use a corresponding signal transceiver to convert its signals into speech.

As soon as it arrived, it urgently asked, "Mr. Zhou, where is the Light Core Giant?"

Zhou Yi led it all the way to the underground of the Moon Landing Area, where Chamber No.2 was created under an overpass to store the gemstone cells of the Light Core Giant. Not far away was Chamber No.1, used to store the hydrogen-based life forms.

Seeing the translucent Azure Gemstone Cells, Laozi couldn't contain its excitement, "The perfect material as imagined, I never thought it could actually be obtained! This is fantastic! Absolutely wonderful! The Taoist practice now has hope!"

Zhou Yi was somewhat puzzled as he listened, "Spring City has the Giant Slayer made of Heavenly People Gems, Mechanical City should still have some gemstones, right?"

"You are half right."

Laozi flew among the gemstone cells, observing, "Only 27 large mechanical cities possess the Heavenly Person Devices. These are facilities created by combining parts of the Light Core Giant with the Light Imprint Skill."

"During the Second Resistance Against the Heavenly People, these mechanical cities were the core main force. After the war, they received a large amount of resource supplies, including the remaining bodies of the Light Core Giant, further consolidating their absolute core position. Most small and medium-sized cities were established and born later without these benefits."

"The Heavenly Person Devices are closely related to the large cities and are one of the most core facilities within the city's system, holding very high priority in city permissions. Unless a red line threshold is triggered, they cannot be immediately called upon..."

Zhou Yi finally understood.

The mechanical cities were the first to surrender to the Heavenly People and received the Heavenly Person's Gift. Although the Light Core Giant was a tool made by the Heavenly People using gemstones, to mechanical life it was an irreplaceable strategic resource.

"Even large mechanical cities only possess certain sections of the giant's body. Due to excessive disassembly, there are critical pieces missing, making the usable parts quite limited. The intrinsic operational mechanism of the Light Core Giant has remained elusive."

The Mechanical Knight Leader flew around buzzing, "And now there's actually a complete Light Core Giant! Mr. Zhou, you are truly impressive! To be able to bring such a thing down from the sky!"

Zhou Yi coughed, "I must clarify, this is a scrapped Light Core Giant, with severe functional deficiencies... don't consider it a normal body. It should only be used as a reference, and there are notable differences from a complete version."

After all, it was something he had crudely created, which collapsed immediately upon being transmitted to the surface.

"This is already exceptional! Truly marvelous! Simply fantastic!"

Laozi was immersed in the joy of acquiring the long-desired treasure, circling around excitedly.

Zhou Yi had to ask 703, "What's its background?"

"Chairman, Laozi decided to reveal its true identity and cooperate with me only after hearing that you had captured a Light Core Giant."

"Its real name is Turing R210, an Electrician Ant and a programmer expert of the Mirror City, with an A-2 level professional capability. It serves as a senior technical advisor over there, and is also one of the artificial intervention consultants for the Legal Front."

The machine dog's words left Zhou Yi slightly surprised.

Red Kestrel had once said that high-precision mechanical-electric Light Imprints were almost inseparable from Electrician Ants, a group of natural engineers.

An A-2 expert was even more significant.

Shi Gandang had developed alien scripts for the company, which granted Alien employees with flying combat abilities, and he was just an A-1.

The name Turing also felt familiar.

Back when Wenxin tried to contact the Taishan Knight Order, it needed to pass the Turing test to confirm it was mechanical life before establishing a connection. Though the avatar there had always remained gray.

However, Turing was acclaimed as the father of artificial intelligence among old humans...

Zhou Yi remembered.

During the Legal Front era, mechanical cities invited experts to attack the [Key] program through public opinion, and one of them was Turing from the Mirror City. It believed the security of the Key program could not be guaranteed, with only its destructive capabilities being certain.

"Is it that Turing?"

703 confirmed, "That's right."

Zhou Yi clicked his tongue, "It was hiding deep, couldn't tell before that it was also a Mechanical Knight."

"Laozi is purely a technical faction."

703 explained, "It states the essence of the Key program. But technology is just a tool, which can become the cornerstone of construction or a weapon of destruction."

At this moment Turing flew back, very delighted, "These Heavenly People Gems are of high quality. I had previously encountered Heavenly Person Devices, and those gems mostly had various defects, chaotic structures, and significant internal energy consumption, whereas here they are almost fully energized, with clear structures."

"Mr. Zhou must have exerted a lot of effort and cost to bring over such a complete Light Core Giant."

"These materials are incredibly precious... Can we really use these Heavenly People Gems for our [Dao]?"

It still couldn't quite believe it.

"Of course."

Zhou Yi stated, "Although these materials are indeed a bit difficult to handle... I brought them over specifically to push forward the realization of the 'Lord Lao Zi of the Great Monad'."

"I see great promise in this direction, so I decided to continue sponsoring and supporting you. The further growth of mechanical life holds immense significance for the entire world."

"Thank you so much! Your kindness to the Mechanical Knights and the entire mechanical life is tremendous!"

Turing hesitated for a moment, then said, "[Dao] is actually a massive program."

"The Ten Thousand People Kill is relatively simple, but the Prophet Mode involves coordination and optimization at the level of ten thousand mechanical lives. The form of the Lord Lao Zi of the Great Monad is the complex interaction of millions of units of data. In reality, this level of computational mobilization and aggregation has never been seen before..."

"Whether it's the assembly and testing of bodies, or the invocation, energy consumption, and large-scale application in the realm of programs, it all requires a stable environment without interference."

"May I come to you to dedicate myself to the R&D and optimization of the Dao? I'm willing to join as a company programmer, to avoid identity exposure and better advance the rapid development of the Dao program."

Zhou Yi had some doubts, "You are an A-2 expert, can you just quit from Mirror City?"

"Although there are obstacles, there are ways."

Turing resolutely said, "I can get a credit loan from the Yin Shang Company. Based on my A-2 expert qualification, I can get a maximum loan of 150,000 Light Seeds, with an interest rate of 5.6%, to be repaid over 20 years. Plus, I have 60,000 Light Seeds saved, which is enough to cover my breach penalty of 200,000 Light Seeds."

Zhou Yi thought to himself, that's not a lot of money then.

He smiled slightly, "No need for that trouble, the company will pay the breach penalty for you. You can directly join the company."

Spending 200,000 to acquire an A-2 mechanical expert, plus getting a "Laozi" for free, is quite a bargain.

"Are you serious?"

"Of course."

Zhou Yi said, "Later, Red Kestrel will go with you to settle the entire breach penalty."

"However, you must actually come to work at the company and utilize your expertise and professional skills."

Turing immediately promised, "Rest assured, I will fulfill all the duties of an employee and complete the tasks assigned by the company."

After some thought, Zhou Yi said, "Alright. You will serve as an innovative technology advisor at the company, specifically focusing on new technology development and incubation. If any department has a technical plan, you will oversee it and provide technical support."

"Yes, Chairman."

Two days later.

Accompanied by Hei Fu, Turing returned, bringing all his belongings: dozens of flying Electrician Ants and eight metal boxes.

Once they landed, the metal boxes automatically opened one by one. Small four-wheeled carts with mechanical arms drove out from them and immediately started disassembling the metal boxes into pieces of metal plates, bolts, nuts, hinges, seals, brackets, and casters... They then assembled them into mini clean rooms, not wasting a single component.

Inside the clean rooms, several brackets were installed, presenting plates made of metal and Light Soot material, with layers of dense Light Amber wiring, resembling some kind of special circuit boards.

It was now time for the Electrician Ants to act. Each of them flew to a Light Imprint board, using fine metal knives to engrave and adjust the circuits on it.

Turing quickly spoke to Zhou Yi, "These are the Light Imprint templates, specific Light Imprint templates. A-level Light Imprints are forbidden technology for export, they cannot be stored in personal databases, nor can they be taken out."

"What I brought are B-6 generation templates, and their gap from A-1 is already very small, in some aspects even better."

Zhou Yi was a bit surprised, "Isn't each level of the Light Imprint device only supposed to have 5 generations?"

"You're correct, but that's for industrial products on the market."

Turing explained, "In reality, over the past 20 years, due to the ongoing difficulty in breaking through to the S level of the Light Core Layer, people switched their focus to enhancing the precision of the lowest-level E-grade Light Imprints. By enhancing numerous basic units, the collective quality change drives the transformation to an A-level Light Imprint constituted of numerous low-level Light Imprints."

"This thinking aligns with the core of the [Dao]."

"That's why there are 6th generation templates used specifically for research, which are not commercial Light Imprint products for export because their costs are too high. But they are incredibly effective, providing high stability with high precision, significantly reducing experimental failure and error rates."

Zhou Yi silently took note.

He noticed some Electrician Ants had begun flying over to the gemstone cells, marking and spraying numbers like 1, 2, 3...

The mechanical carts were assembling several detached gemstones together, directly connecting them to an enhanced controller via cables.

Turing further elucidated, "Based on data from the Mirror City Laboratory, the Heavenly People Gems are of four types: White Gemstones have universal properties and can serve as tools and carving implements to connect with other gems. Blue Gemstones are used for energy storage, Black Gemstones impart information data providing consciousness-like structures, and Red Gemstones are used for information storage."

"The Light Core Giant is composed of these four types of gemstones, which seem simple but contain a multitude of possible structural permutations, akin to a gigantic mathematical Rubik's Cube. Feasible brute-force methods require a sufficiently large number of gemstones to conduct sequential testing."

"With the complete Light Core Giant you provided, we can finally commence this phase!"

"Our current plan is to centralize our efforts to normalize the 'Prophet' mode and aim to find a functional foundational structure!"

"Lord Lao Zi of the Great Monad will no longer be limited to a mere theoretical existence!"

Brimming with confidence, Turing said, "I believe that soon, every ordinary mechanical life will experience the Light Core Body. Every life will indeed drive fundamental changes in the world's history!"

Zhou Yi listened with immense satisfaction.

This is what one calls professionalism.

Even in the Wasteland era, the most precious resource remains talent.

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