The Creators: From Night City

Isaac gradually slowed down his pace. Apart from the unusual cleanliness of the corridor, he also discovered something incredible.

Those unconscious, fearless zombies, who were extremely eager for life and flesh and blood, actually stopped not far behind him, as if there was an invisible barrier in front of them that blocked them out.

But Isaac felt that this group of zombies were like hyenas wandering outside the tiger's territory. They wanted to kill him as their prey, but were afraid of the death threat posed by the tiger.

Soon, Isaac's premonition came true.

As the door of the lounge on the side of the corridor opened, a voice passed through the helmet's collector and reached his ears.

"Hey, there are actually living people in this place, what a rare visitor."

There was a sense of relaxation in his tone, which was in stark contrast to Isaac, who was panting heavily.

This was a yellow man, wearing a heavy-duty work suit that Isaac had never seen before. The surface of the matte black all-metal protective suit was covered with holes of various sizes.

The man's body looked unusually tall in this outfit, but contrary to common sense, he moved very lightly.

"Sabul, what's your name?"

As the man approached, Isaac felt an inexplicable sense of relief, as if some kind of haze that had been hanging over his head had been dispelled.

Isaac, feeling as if he had gotten rid of a burden, only then realized that the other party was holding a vintage samurai sword that basically only existed in museums.

The man, or Jiang Bing, glanced at Isaac.

But he was obviously more interested in the modified plasma cutter in the hands of the engineer.

"What's your name?" The man, under the gaze of a dozen zombies, as if attending a social party, asked the somewhat confused engineer again in a familiar manner.

"Isaac Clarke, patrol engineer of the Ishimura."

"Oh~"

Jiang Bing looked as if it was not unexpected, which made the other party even more confused.

"Nice to meet you, Isaac. Excuse my rudeness, but we'll talk later. I'm going to go take care of these groundhogs that are destroying the backyard lawn."

Necromorphs, as corpses that have been influenced by the divine seal and mutated into tissue pieces that can move again, in a sense, cannot be classified as living things, but rather as pieces of moving flesh and blood.

They are neither alive nor dead, and unless their flesh and blood are completely destroyed, cutting like Isaac did before can only temporarily hinder their movement. It won't be long before the flesh and blood will automatically aggregate and form a zombie again.

Even the flesh and blood will aggregate together to form giant zombies.

However, resurrection also requires energy. As long as they are chopped into pieces enough, these zombies will be able to stay safe and sound for a long enough period of time.

Of course, there is another way.

Under Isaac's gaze, the dozen or so zombies followed Jiang Bing's approach, like prostitutes encountered by a crackdown, victims of a honey trap, being treated as 0's 1, and retreated frantically looking for space to hide.

In this way, more than a dozen zombies blocked the closed corridor door, with no way to retreat. They were like pigs trapped in a corner and waiting to be beaten. Finally, they could not bear the humiliation and rushed forward with a desperate move, howling.

For the first time, Isaac heard fear in the howling of these damn monsters.

In Jiang Bing's 'sight', these corpses were unscrupulously emitting turbid, smelly, chaotic and disordered fluctuations, and these fluctuations were closely connected with another kind of blood-red fluctuations that always enveloped the Ishimura.

And this blood-red fluctuation is the field emitted by the "Divine Seal".

The 'zombie crisis' on the Ishimura was also caused by it.

Jiang Bing's increasingly powerful inner strength, and with the help of the mental amplification characteristics of [Power-Wind Lord], he can arrogantly squeeze out a field of his own in the ubiquitous "Divine Seal" field.

The zombies shrouded in these fields were cut off from the "Divine Seal" by Jiang Bing.

If the corpse is dead at this time, it is truly dead. The dead flesh and blood are no longer active and will soon decay over time. At this stage, even if it is connected to the "Divine Seal" network, it has basically lost its use value.

In a sense, the knife cuts the flesh, and the heart cuts the soul.

Soon, Jiang Bing used a samurai sword to cut these zombies, which were much weaker due to the Internet outage, into small pieces and made into sauce.

This lowest-level creature, mutated from a corpse, has the bone spurs on its arms as the hardest part of its body. However, no matter how hard the bone spurs are, they are still just bones. Compared to the titanium alloy bones of the residents of Night City, their hardness is far inferior.

The single-molecule samurai sword in Jiang Bing's hand can cut titanium alloy into mud, and it is as easy to cut ordinary bones as vegetables or melons.

Isaac obediently followed Jiang Bing back to the lounge.

The windows here are also clean and bright, and even the lighting above is the same as in other areas, and at this moment it is filled with a normal sense of warmth.

Isaac felt as if he were in another world. The work area he had just arrived at also had a lounge, but he did not feel safe at all. It was as if the air was full of eyes, staring at him from all angles. The feeling of unease slowly seeped into his body from all directions.

This is of course the fault of the 'Divine Seal'.

The field it emits can slowly erode the spirits of ordinary people, causing them to gradually collapse mentally, experience hallucinations, abnormal consciousness, become disgusted with the world, and even commit suicide.

And in this lounge, there is a new 'craftsman apprentice.'

In terms of status, Jiang Bing is much higher than that imitation.

It can affect the real world, so Jiang Bing can naturally do it too, but he is just not very willing to use it.

Mainly, this is also very energy-consuming.

Moreover, in terms of size, Jiang Bing currently cannot match it.

This resulted in Jiang Bing emitting his own field all the time, counteracting the field of the 'Divine Seal', ever since he entered the Ishimura through the [Key]. Six days of long-term output had already made him feel mentally exhausted, so he maintained the range of the field at about ten meters in order to reduce the loss of mental power.

However, this can also be considered a kind of tempering of mental strength.

Therefore, during this period of tug-of-war, Jiang Bing and the 'Divine Seal' developed a certain tacit understanding.

The Divine Seal temporarily ignored Jiang Bing, the indestructible copper pea, and continued to carry out his own plan on the Shicun, waiting for the arrival of the final gathering, and then settle accounts with Jiang Bing.

Jiang Bing, on the other hand, was happy with the delaying tactic of the "Divine Seal". No matter what the other party's plan was, once the [Key] was charged, Jiang Bing would slip away.

"Find a place to sit."

After a brief greeting to Isaac, Jiang Bing returned to a disassembled nano workbench and continued to work.

In the small lounge, various mining tools and different types of protective clothing were randomly placed, as well as many blood-stained RIGs.

Chapter 67 Social Engineering

Most of these things have been disassembled, and the complex circuits and internal structures are exposed to the air.

Needless to say, these things were the spoils of the mysterious man named Sabul, but Isaac was very curious why he was keen on dismantling these ordinary work tools.

Jiang Bing was naturally deconstructing the manufacturing principles of these tools, but these mining tools, which seemed very common to Isaac, were slightly too complicated for Jiang Bing at this stage.

Even with the mechanical affinity and intuition bestowed by the 'craftsman apprentice', Jiang Bing was still baffled by the lack of a large amount of basic knowledge support and some of the 26th century 'high technology' from this dimension.

For example, the C99 super particle collider contact ray device that he is currently disassembling. Although it is not large in size, it is essentially a small particle collider device.

In the 21st century, this "high-tech" that scientists worship as the Holy Relic of Ohm Messiah is mainly used in commercial blasting, such as blasting large rocks.

The high-level martial arts world has launched a dimensionality reduction attack on the magic-free world.

Of course, this is mainly because in the world of Dead Space, technological development is very distorted. The unified field theory achieved a huge breakthrough early on. Due to the need to obtain resources, planetary fission technology, faster-than-light travel, gravitational field technology, and mining-related technology points are extremely high.

But in terms of AI, network programming, and prosthetic technology, it is a little behind the cyberpunk world.

Everyone has his strong and weak points.

Of course, as a mining ship, the Shicun basically has no detailed information on those advanced scientific principles mentioned above, but this does not prevent Jiang Bing from analyzing the tools made according to these principles, and then copying them and making the usable parts for his own use.

Looking at the busy Jiang Bing and thinking about the fighting ability he had just demonstrated, Isaac, an engineer who firmly believed in pragmatism, suddenly had an idea in his mind.

"Um, Mr. Sabul, you need to remove the pre-accelerator module in front of the accelerator before you can release the structural safety lock."

As a colleague of Jiang Bing, Isaac couldn't help but remind him.

Jiang Bing suddenly turned around, his eyes bright, as if he had found a guiding light.

Seeing Jiang Bing's performance, Isaac reaffirmed his thoughts.

This engineer, who had been working on the Ishimura for several days, now had an extremely flexible moral bottom line.

"If you're interested in the structure and design principles of these tools manufactured by Schofield, the mechanical area has a complete set of maintenance manuals that document the structure and design principles of all the tools in service on the Ishimura."

Jiang Bing's eyes were visibly shining.

"As an inspection engineer, I have the authority to export these maintenance manuals. If you need them, I can export a copy for you."

Looking at Jiang Bing's expression, Isaac realized that his plan had basically succeeded, so he revealed his true intentions.

"As long as you can accompany me to the mechanical area and find a RIG."

Do engineers in this world also need to study social engineering?

Jiang Bing saw through Isaac's plan at a glance, but when he thought of the "skill book" he mentioned, he really couldn't bring himself to refuse.

Looking at the other person's determined expression, ready to go through fire and water in search of his beloved, Jiang Bing had only one thought in his mind.

"Our ancestors were wise. You really can't judge a person by his appearance. I never thought a guy like you, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, could be so smooth."

So the two of them successfully completed the PY transaction. Jiang Bing uploaded all the knowledge he had recently acquired into the system and prepared to follow Isaac to the mechanical area.

System prompt: The knowledge you recently submitted about [Plasma Cutter], [RIG (Resource Integration Gear)], [SWS Electric Pulse Rifle], [DIVE Self-Defense Pistol], etc. has been included. This terminal has received 176 craftsman badges from the Seventh Crystal Wall host.

Listing properties for you

Name: Jiang Bing

Qualification: [Apprentice Craftsman]

Class Level: 3 (46%)

Domicile: B33 plane origin planet (Earth)

Location: Plane No. HXXD-G09234 (Dead Space)

Presence Strength: 2.8

Composition strength: 3.6

Creator Database Access Level: 1 (94%)

Number of craftsman badges: 207 (including previous accumulation)

Due to the lack of relevant knowledge, Jiang Bing has not been able to complete the analysis of various weapons and tools developed based on the unified field theory.

The main reason is that the generation gap is too big. Even with Jiang Bing's current "craftsman intuition", he is a little overwhelmed. Maybe he needs to wait until his qualification is promoted again to obtain higher analytical capabilities.

Fortunately, as long as I get the "skill book" that Isaac mentioned, it shouldn't be a problem to fully master the principles of these tools.

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When they set out again, they were fully armed.

Isaac not only had a plasma cutter on his waist, but also held a big thing in his hand. It was the C99 super particle collider contact ray device that Jiang Bing had dismantled before. The small backpack in his work clothes was bulging with plasma magazines and high-energy batteries.

In addition to the samurai sword that Jiang Bing almost never leaves, he also carries the giant chainsaw sword [Declaration] of the [Power I] type on his back. The only firearm he brought with him was the revolver he had brought before, and no other heavy firearms.

These zombies are living corpses. Bullets have little killing power on them, and two or three more holes are harmless to them. In contrast, a chainsaw sword that causes blood and flesh to fly when swung can have a significant killing effect.

In addition, the Ishimura is still floating in space. If a weapon with too much power accidentally destroys the hull, it will be fun to watch.

As a planet-breaking ship, the Ishimura's main mission is mining, so compared to those commercial manned spacecraft, its interior space is very compact.

The two twisted and turned in the dimly lit corridor and soon arrived at the mechanical area.

The journey was very calm, which made the nervous Isaac a little uncomfortable.

The machinery area is adjacent to the mining operation area and is mainly responsible for the maintenance and repair of the planetary cracking device. Of course, it also serves as the storage of spare parts, maintenance of large operating equipment, and the manufacture and maintenance of small engineering equipment.

Strictly speaking, it was the headquarters of engineers like Isaac, but the mechanical area was no longer bustling with people and the sounds of machinery.

Isaac had a clear goal and headed towards the personnel rest area in the mechanical area. He located the field doctor's RIG from the main bridge and it was right there.

The two men walked through the maintenance workshop, then passed the narrow login room, and finally came to the personnel rest area.

As soon as the sealed hatch was opened, an irrepressible smell of blood wafted out from inside.

Isaac glanced at Jiang Bing, who seemed not to smell the blood and was still calmly looking around at the structure of the ship. Influenced by him, his suddenly restless heartbeat gradually began to calm down.

Chapter 68 Blade Storm

The rest area for employees, which was originally used as a place for temporary rest and entertainment, has now been converted into a simple ward.

A large number of tables used as beds were neatly placed in the room, but the patients who were supposed to be lying on the beds were lying dead on the blood-soaked ground.

A huge cut was made in each person's throat, and the professional knife technique allowed as much blood as possible to flow out of the blood vessels of these sacrifices.

"This looks like the work of a doctor who is well versed in human anatomy." Jiang Bing hinted.

A strange religious pattern was drawn on the ground with blood. The spiraling circles looked very much like the cross-section of DNA.