Having the genes of a demon king, I never intended to be a kept man.

"Hoo..." Gao Shenxue rubbed her sleepy eyes, pulled back the blanket, and her two snow-white little feet stepped onto the floor beside the bed.

She walked to the lab table and looked at the mechanical heart that was slowly rotating above the instrument.

"Why can't it be cracked...?"

The girl murmured to herself, her dark eyes filled with confusion.

She reached out her finger and touched it gently.

The mechanical heart seemed to have a life of its own; every time the girl touched it, the mechanical textures on its surface would shimmer with colorful light and emit a soft "buzzing" sound.

At the same time, for some reason, even though the thing didn't speak, Gao Shenxue seemed to be able to sense that it wanted to be close to her.

It's like when an owner sees a dog wagging its tail and begging for affection; even if the dog doesn't say anything, you can still sense what it means.

Furthermore, Gao Shenxue also vaguely felt a strange familiarity with it, an indescribable sense of intimacy.

"Mechanical life form..."

Gao Shenxue suddenly thought of something.

The girl hesitated for a moment, then bit her finger and pressed the bloodied index finger against it.

"Om-!"

Sure enough, this time the Mechanical Heart reacted noticeably.

It quickly absorbed the blood of Takayuki and integrated it into the mechanical texture of its surface.

Gao Shenxue's eyes flickered.

[Deep Blue System Notification: Target life form detected being activated...]

[DeepBlue system notification: An unknown software has been detected requesting installation...]

[DeepBlue system notification: Scanning the software for security...]

[Deep Blue System Notification: No danger detected yet]

Do you agree to proceed with the installation?

【whether】

Gao Shenxue hesitated for a moment.

Then I selected "Yes".

After making the choice, Gao Shenxue immediately felt a sharp pain in her head.

"Om-!"

Gao Shenxue: "Hmm..."

That mechanical heart, surprisingly, materialized into a mass of data and slowly burrowed into the girl's heart...

A white light exploded in Gao Shenxue's mind!

My consciousness was filled with a vast expanse of white.

Gao Shenxue felt as if she had just had a very, very long dream...

In my dream, there was a little girl, about three years old, with black hair in a ponytail and a pair of big, innocent, dark eyes.

There were many adults in white coats standing around, speaking in various scientific jargon that the girl couldn't understand.

On the white coats worn by these adults, there was a capsule-like icon on the chest, which was the logo of the gene company.

"Debugging complete, data has been processed."

"The equipment is ready."

"Number 3 is currently in good condition, with normal blood pressure, normal blood oxygen saturation, and all nanocells are in a stable state."

"Data connection can be established now."

"..."

At that moment, a woman came to the little girl's side.

She held a device similar to a supermarket barcode scanner, parted the little girl's hair at the back of her neck, and made a "beep" sound on her snow-white neck.

A beam of red light entered the little girl's neck.

The little girl cried out in pain and fell to the ground, curling up into a ball.

"Let's begin," the woman said calmly.

After that, the little girl fainted.

Her consciousness became blurred, but in the dream, she seemed to vaguely hear the voices of those adults again.

"It's terrible, supervisor! The equipment has completely stopped working!"

"Damn it, what are you all standing there for?! Hurry up and think of a solution!"

"She formatted all the security programs; the system simply won't run..."

"Something terrible has happened! She's rapidly draining the data experience points stored in the company's 'data experience pool'!"

"What the hell is going on?! Disconnect immediately!"

"No... it's unbreakable now, this guy has already taken control of all the systems..."

"Aaaaaaaahh ...

"This guy...this guy is a monster!"

"Help! Help me, ahh ...

"..."

In her hazy state, she heard the adults' screams growing more and more horrific. She had never heard such screams before; it would not be an exaggeration to describe them as hysterical and utterly tragic.

When the little girl woke up again, she found that all the adults around her were dead.

Corpses lay strewn everywhere, torn to pieces, blood splattered everywhere. The entire laboratory was dark; all the lighting equipment was broken, and the place was a scene of utter chaos...

The little girl's face was deathly pale, her body trembling uncontrollably. She suddenly hugged herself and burst into tears...

"!!!"

Gao Shenxue suddenly opened her eyes wide and woke up from her dream.

The girl came to her senses and breathed softly.

Looking up, I saw that the mechanical core of the instrument in front of me was gone.

A new transparent notification popped up in front of her.

[DeepBlue System Notification: Software installation complete...]

.......

Night falls.

Looking down from high above, the southern region was brightly lit and peaceful.

About three kilometers outside Night City, in the woods right next to the Southern Mountains.

A cold and beautiful woman in a fiery red dress with long, slightly wavy hair highlighted with black and red, stood atop the mountain with three tall and mighty demon warriors and a charming woman in black, gazing at the distant Night City.

A demon general, nearly two and a half meters tall, looked at the city's night view from a high vantage point and said, "I never imagined that a weak race like humans, which failed in evolution, could develop so quickly in recent years. The last time I came here, most of the human civilians were still living in thatched huts."

Another demon general with dark blue markings all over his body asked, "When was the last time you came here?"

"About five thousand years ago..."

"Five thousand years? That's indeed not a long time..."

"Although humans are weak, they are one of the races that are backed by the Light faction. They must have received help from other higher Light races to get to where they are today."

"Hehe, that must be it. Don't forget that more than 1,500 years ago, they were still enslaved by the dark races. Even a weak race like goblins could order them around at will."

Yan Ji stood in front of several demon generals, her fiery red dress and long black-and-red dyed hair fluttering in the night wind of the mountain forest, further highlighting her cold and beautiful temperament: "Alright, enough of the small talk."

The three demon generals immediately fell silent.

The three of them are all renowned warriors in the demon realm: Blood Fiend, Demon Valley, and Nether Blade.

Among them, Youren is at the Saintly Ascension Realm, while the other two are at the peak of the Heavenly Revelation Realm.

At that moment, several young men and women who looked like humans emerged from the woods.

These people, who look very much like humans, are all dressed in a standard black suit with a "capsule" logo below their breast pockets.

This means they are all employees of a gene company!