Chapter 1534 - 492: Quadruple Unity_3

Chapter 1534: Chapter 492: Quadruple Unity_3

In Wen Xishu’s mind, this body was starting to look riddled with wounds, full of holes everywhere, yet even in such a heavily damaged state he still had to complete a whole set of movements.

[Current compatibility—ninety percent. Limit reached.]

It stopped.

The simulation in Wen Xishu’s mind suddenly came to a halt.

He raised his hand, as if he’d turned back into a human, and it felt completely natural.

Core transfer complete.

Looking at the compatibility simulation frozen at ninety percent, Daedalus was on the verge of tears.

"This is, so far, the work I’ve made with the highest compatibility."

But Wen Xishu wasn’t very satisfied.

The simulation process was essentially the process of piloting the new body.

He’d just gotten that feeling of having finished warming up, of things starting to get fun, when he was suddenly told—game over.

But Daedalus was already more than satisfied.

He looked at Wen Xishu with the gaze one uses for an eternal artwork.

He knew that in this lifetime, he would never again forge a work this perfectly matched; timing, geographical advantage, human factor—none of them could be missing, and such an opportunity would never come again.

He was just too pleased. But Wen Xishu clearly wasn’t planning to end it like this.

[Forcibly launching Compatibility Simulation System.]

[Compatibility Simulation System online, current compatibility—ninety percent, limit reached.]

An electronic synthesized voice came from the red crystal walls.

Daedalus said:

"There’s no harder test item left. I know your compatibility isn’t just ninety; ninety is the limit here, but it’s not your limit. This is already good enough!"

Wen Xishu shook his head:

"No, there’s something harder."

Wen Xishu took a deep breath, an action he only ever did back when he was human.

That alone was proof that Daedalus’s chassis really did give him the sensation of being human.

And in the next second, a scene that blew Daedalus’s eyes wide and made him question his entire mechanical life appeared.

Wen Xishu’s body began to change rapidly.

The change was not like a Transformer-style mechanical reconfiguration full of structural aesthetics, but more like a flicker state.

Like a radio station with unstable signal.

After several flickers, Wen Xishu’s image turned into a child in a small blue suit, with a delinquent’s grin that made one feel like they were nothing but his plaything.

"Tsk, see? I can do the harder thing too."

[Current compatibility, ninety percent, limit reached.]

Daedalus was utterly shocked.

"My God, my God! You can actually pilot the Scorpio form, and the compatibility in Scorpio form... is also ninety percent?"

"You... how is that even possible? Are you two blood relatives or something? Or do you... share some enormous connection?"

"Unbelievable! Completely unbelievable!"

To Daedalus, what was happening at this moment was already beyond his understanding.

Either Wen Xishu could ignore the limits of his capability—but that was extremely unlikely, since even the Mechanical God couldn’t use certain mechs.

Or else...

It was exactly as Wen Xishu had said: the person in his memories was his younger sibling; there was a huge connection between them, a deep entanglement of fate.

But that was a God.

As a legendary chassis of the Mechanical City, an old-timer who’d survived the apocalypse, he of course understood who sat at the very top of the food chain in this wasteland world.

"I underestimated him. He can actually pilot this form... which means the different weapon sets of Scorpio form, Pisces form, and Albert form can be used by him as well."

The shock in Daedalus’s eyes slowly faded, replaced by a kind of intoxication—intoxication with his own work, and with the one piloting it.

[Current compatibility, ninety percent, limit reached.]

The prompt sounded again, and Wen Xishu opened another form.

In that instant, he turned into Pisces.

He could feel the chassis becoming lighter, and the sensation was marvelous—how the hell did Daedalus pull this off?

At that moment, Wen Xishu looked at the chassis shape reflected in the red crystal wall, at that black-and-white lower body design...

"Tsk, if Pisces sees this, he’ll probably kill me, right?"

Wen Xishu even wanted to do a catwalk, but felt that would be a bit too perverted.

Even while feeling ashamed of the body, the compatibility still stayed at ninety percent.

That gave him tremendous confidence in what he was about to do next.

Because...

He could feel that after completing a form switch, he seemed... able to use a little bit of the power belonging to those two forms.

That is to say, the power of Scorpio and Pisces.

Not much, but in that instant he already felt an unprecedented strength, and had begun to look forward to the journey ahead.

Wen Xishu started attempting the final form—Albert form.

Compared to Scorpio and Pisces, Albert’s level of detail richness was second only to "himself."

So this was also the form Wen Xishu most longed to experience.

But right then, something happened that left him deeply puzzled.

[Current compatibility, forty-five percent, chassis control difficulty increased, please attempt to disengage this form.]

Daedalus and Wen Xishu both fell into confusion.

This was far too abnormal.

Indeed, Wen Xishu could pilot Albert form without being rejected by its divinity—but the compatibility was extremely low.

This was an abnormality that Daedalus simply couldn’t comprehend.

He hadn’t expected Wen Xishu to be able to pilot the Scorpio form and Pisces form, which in his impression were harder to pilot.

Yet the Albert form, which was supposed to be the easiest to pilot... had compatibility low to this extent.

Wen Xishu could also feel that Daedalus’s construction had no issues; he could sense the surging power, but...

He just couldn’t steer that power.

"Where’s the problem?"

Daedalus found it utterly baffling.

"You... you can pilot a true God, but you can’t pilot someone equal to a God. This... this is absolutely not a problem with my design, so it must be an issue on your side."

"Your entanglement of fate with Scorpio and Pisces must far surpass that with Albert."

Wen Xishu had no choice but to accept this explanation, but he was unwilling; he wanted to experience, just once, even if it was only once... that feeling of shattering everything with a single punch.

"There are still six days left, no rush. For this Mechanical City start, I’ve already rolled a god-tier opening hand. Compatibility can slowly go up."

Wen Xishu consoled himself like that, then switched back to his original form—Xishu.

"I need armaments," Wen Xishu said.

Daedalus smiled mysteriously:

"They’ll appear when you need to fight. I already finished the weapon authorization protocol just now. I’m really looking forward to watching you use different forms to deal with different enemies."

"But remember, if you fail—"

Wen Xishu caught on instantly:

"Don’t worry. If I fail, I won’t drag you into it. Daedalus, once we walk out of here, before I succeed, there will be no more contact between us."

Wen Xishu left quickly.

The new body made everything feel interesting.

Watching Wen Xishu’s figure disappear from his sight, feeling that Wen Xishu had already walked out of the furnace...

Daedalus grew a bit flustered:

"I have this nagging feeling... I just built something that’s going to overturn the Mechanical City."

In fact, when he accessed Wen Xishu’s memories, he already sensed that Wen Xishu was no simple person; coming to the Mechanical City, he was probably here to trigger a transformation.

He himself only wanted to enjoy a quiet corner; living in the Mechanical City was still living, and better than being outside, tortured by all kinds of monsters and creepypastas.

The Mechanical City wasn’t some humane place; it was saturated with inhumanity.

But... given his abilities, he could at least live decently.

That’s how he thought of it—the Mechanical City was fine.

But his hands itched too badly.

When he saw those details, he couldn’t help thinking, if he could make something like that... his whole life would be worth it.

And so, he still joined this revolution.

He just didn’t know what kind of chaos Xishu and its various forms would unleash on the Mechanical City.