Highly developed technology has not reduced social contradictions, but has made them more acute.
With so many machines, human labor has become less important, and the upper class who control technology and resources have become more exploitative of the lower class.
As time goes by, the environment becomes worse due to the side effects of research. Except for the city which is still a shelter, the wasteland outside is full of dangers.
Radiation, monsters, resistance, everything is here.
In addition to the Source Project, there are the genetically-powered resistance led by Ashe, the Wasteland Alliance led by Pike, and the source code robots that have broken away from the control of the Source Project. These can be seen as the four main forces in this universe.
"Enemy attack!!!"
That blue energy arrow was extremely familiar to the people in the company, as Ashe had once been one of them.
After the establishment of the gene-powered resistance, another member of the resistance, Sejuani, was very dissatisfied with Ashe's resistance activities not moving towards more radical violent activities, so she became the leader of another radical resistance.
Now that even Ashe, a "moderate" rebel, has begun to take action, it is not certain how many people are left around.
The energy arrow released by the bow was like a cruise missile, accurately hitting the vehicle at the front of the convoy, and the battle was about to break out at this moment.
"Protect the doctor! The company's reinforcements will arrive in three minutes!"
This is the mission of these employees. If anything goes wrong with the people they are protecting, both they and their families will be severely punished by the company.
These three minutes were like purgatory for them. The genetically powered attack was extremely fierce and was about to break through their defenses.
But at this moment, the appearance of a pink dagger saved the situation.
Project Ambition Catalina.
A member of the Project, she later followed Ashe to rebel against the Project, and then returned to the Project Group with information about Ashe. Most members of Gene Power thought she was a spy.
"Doctor, the threat has been eliminated. You can proceed. The plan has been executed smoothly."
Catalina seemed to be describing the previous situation in a very normal way, but her words hinted at something else.
After all, there have always been people who believe that Katarina did not betray her genetic power, and that she is essentially a Mission Impossible.
On Firefly Island, perhaps because of some mysterious cosmic magnetic field, Orlan's Dream has recently become a series that always appears in the Source Project universe.
In terms of cybernetic transformation, the Project Universe can be said to be at the forefront.
Although Source Project is not omnipotent, it is also a leading overlord.
With the development of Project Origin technology, some modified parts and new technologies began to flow into the public through the black market.
And because of the large outflow of technology and parts, even the lower-class people who originally could not afford the high cost of transformation began to transform themselves without the intervention of companies.
In a sense, under the influence of Oran, this sea also began to undergo certain changes.
The technology used by Orlan himself and his confidants is now considered fifth generation, and the elite team within Piltover uses fourth generation technology.
The sales orders to the Navy, the World Government, and the underground world are for third-generation technology, and there are now signs of a large-scale outflow of second-generation technology.
Those second-generation products were originally the first batch used by the Navy and the World Government, but they were eliminated as technology was updated. These obsolete products are sometimes even more popular on the black market because they are cheap.
There are many talented magic-modification maniacs on this ocean. Their own invention abilities are not very good, but after coming into contact with things invented by others, it is as if they suddenly become smart and come up with all kinds of weird things.
As for how these things ended up in the sea, we'd have to ask people within the Navy and the World Government.
Although this thing has always been placed on Orlan's shelves as a commodity, according to investigation records, the number sold sporadically is far less than the number of sea prostheses currently in use.
As for Orlan, he now spends most of his time directing the bionic people to carve stone statues.
The differences between the Forbidden Magic Stone, the Monolith, and the Seastone are huge, and it is extremely difficult to solve the problem of interoperability.
And there is another problem with seastone - the difficulty of carving.
The essence of the Forbidden Magic Stone is a special product forged by fusing the fossil powder of those trees with other substances. For Demacia, it is equivalent to a secret brick.
Although the production process is relatively confidential, the carving is not complicated.
But seastone is different. Even the people of Wano Country cannot explain how this mineral appeared.
They just have a special carving method, and are one of the few places in the world that can precisely process seastone.
The outside world can only roughly change the appearance of the seastone, but the Wano Country can forge it into tiny nails and even adjust the purity of the seastone.
Not only does it take some effort to research, but it is also quite difficult to learn.
The people of Piltover only knew that their king had been building a lot of buildings recently and was directing a small group of people to carve a statue in the square under the royal city, but they didn't know what it was for.
However, in their eyes, this was actually Orlan's behavior becoming closer to normal.
In the five years since the establishment of the new country, engineering projects on the island can be said to have never stopped.
Windmills, dams, trams, roads.
Different technologies connected the islands together, and except for the initial transformation of the royal city, all the projects were aimed at the people.
This approach even makes people feel that Oran is not like a king. Now, the act of building a memorial statue is what a king would do.
"What kind of statue do you think His Majesty would like to carve?"
"It must be his own statue. Isn't that what all kings did before?"
After the renovation, the royal city feels like it stands on the top of a mountain. Ordinary people can only see the project covered by the protective net from below and discuss what their king wants to do.
"His Majesty Oran is different from those idiot royals. I think it's a statue of the princess. After all, His Majesty the King dotes on Her Royal Highness."
"It's too wide. The proportions don't look like Princess Leliana. Maybe it's a family portrait."
"Who knows? We'll know once the carving is finished. Anyway, I bet 500 berries on it. It's a statue of His Majesty Orlan himself."
This is a gambling game that is popular among the people of Piltover. It is unknown who initiated it, but it is said to be a charitable entertainment project. After the gambling is over, all the remaining funds will be invested in the construction of the welfare home.
According to their guessing method, there is a high probability that no one will be correct by then.
As for their King, he is currently in his laboratory, looking at the two things in front of him and thinking about the experimental project.
Two knives given by Zephyr and an animal-type devil fruit, so what will they add up to?
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