[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer":3,"chapter-cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-1010":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Cyberpunk: Cross-dimensional Science and Engineering",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},1152969,1495,"Chapter 1004 - 47: Breaking the Deadlock","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-1010",1010,"\u003Cp>African Union.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Following the fragmentation of the Internet and the internal conflict within the United States, Africa has completely severed its ties with the outside world, facing circumstances far more challenging than those in Europe:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There’s no Lille here to help them repair the broken network...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, the place where Ultron originated is in North Africa.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several months ago, after the Internet completely collapsed, the African Union has been unable to restore network communication, and even the engineers from the Atlas Group cannot identify the problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The chaotic network environment has turned stable network construction into a luxury. The situation here is akin to Europe: the few electronic devices that are operational frequently explode, with no clear understanding of what is happening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To address this situation, Wakanda proposed a new solution:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Firstly, given the accelerated rate of equipment wear and tear, the African Union has prioritized increasing maintenance personnel, resources, and lowering the difficulty of repairs. Within just a year, the African Union has extensively promoted the Brain-Computer Interface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Numerous individuals who have never received education have been forcibly implanted with Brain-Computer Interfaces, directly infusing them with work skills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To accommodate these workers, who fundamentally lack basic knowledge, the Atlas Group has subjected the equipment to nearly excessive modularization and standardization... essentially turning the operational work into an assembly line type of production.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The downside of this method is that a maintenance assembly line, originally manageable by just one engineer, now possibly requires ten or more workers to complete the upkeep!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Due to the constant need for maintenance and replacements, material consumption has skyrocketed. Fortunately, industrial technology has always been a strength of the Atlas Group and is the main reason they came to Africa.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the wholehearted cooperation of established resource-rich countries like Tanzania, this industrialization has faced no bottleneck; virtually everyone has been forcibly placed in a role!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, the limitation on wireless communication remains a significant issue, and this industrialization is unusual, driven primarily by a vast human resource base, with so-called industrial equipment largely concentrated at an individual level:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Industrial exoskeletons without any communication functionality, powered machinery, smelting furnaces...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These are extreme solutions custom-fitted to a scenario reliant on a large population and strong central control.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simultaneously, in terms of resource allocation, the priority for civilian areas has been dropped to the lowest, focusing primarily on maintaining the industrial zones, parallel to the military radio—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, the cycle of military operations has been finely adjusted. Engineers from the Atlas Group and Wakanda have jointly determined an operational cycle with relatively low accident probability, with military squads resupplying within seven days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Overall, the atmosphere across Africa is very tense, and unknowingly, Africa has achieved something unprecedented:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Devoid of external interference, the African Union, which possesses advanced scientific and industrial technology, unsurprisingly controls all of Africa. Administrative orders disseminate from the parliament to the grassroots in less than a day, leaving no room for any \"national liberation fronts.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, all of this indeed forms under suffocating oppression and control:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is, after all, a war, with the entire society bearing the pressure. The notion that war equates to soldiers’ brave sacrifices, or that dignity is only lost upon defeat, is a naïve fantasy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wakanda, center of the African Union’s discussions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In most of the Marvel World, this place is among the most advanced countries globally, often arguably the most advanced.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, here, in a world where Vibranium is pitifully scarce, potentially extinct, Wakanda possesses only fertile land and geographical advantages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, with the help of the Atlas Group, this place is nearly returning to that status—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The vast plains have been fully developed, with countless mechanized agricultural workers laboring day and night on this land that produces three, even four harvests a year without fertilizers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Using custom greenhouse technology, it’s possible to harvest six crops a year, where Wakanda could previously feed half of Africa with outdated technology; now, the agriculture from the Wakanda plains alone can feed the entire continent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fertile land hosts advanced cities, though they seem to evince advanced technologies used in outdated ways:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Numerous carts on the roads are still man-powered, though this \"man-power\" comes equipped with highly advanced exoskeletons and implanted prosthetics...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This situation reflects the state of Wakanda’s logistics industry: unable to utilize autonomous vehicles, with equipment prone to internal explosions or paralysis within one to two days, if logistics equipment also required maintenance, the African Union would be incapacitated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now T’Challa is sitting in such a man-powered cart, which steadily follows ground paths, arriving at the council building. After hitting the confirmation button, the driver pulls away—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a transporter, his primary job is transporting materials, not people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another person alights simultaneously in front of the door: however, this person is an anomaly, with noticeable signs of prosthetic modification.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Half of his face is replaced with a carbon fiber panel, his prosthetic eye emits a faint red glow, utterly dissimilar to a high-end prosthetic eye, unlike a human eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The skin exposed on his neck is bare, revealing cast alloy structures extending down—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly, his entire body has undergone massive prosthetic replacement, pushing his clothes outward, with the most noticeable replacements being his lower body, common among the African Union as \"miner legs,\" robust and industrial, struggling with delicate movements but highly durable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This marks him as an anomaly among the upper echelons: in any era, the upper class’s prosthetics are always the best, powerful, and seamless, visible only if they indicate \"wealth\" or \"power,\" requiring legal protection or intrinsically rare resources, rather than terrifically exaggerated industrial prosthetics.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He bears the mark of Tanzania, the first country the Atlas Group conducted industrial cooperation with. Lille secured uranium mining rights from them, naturally making this country the leading country within the African Union, second only to Wakanda.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This person has in fact had a \"fleeting encounter\" with Lille, being the former Tanzanian Minister of Mining, who first faced the Stark Industries combat robots, Minister Mos, now President Mos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>T’Challa naturally approaches, and the two of them walk side by side into the building.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mos is the first to speak: \"Are you sure those robots are gone?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Absolutely.\" T’Challa confirms resolutely, \"The information my people relayed indicates they flew towards the Middle East, but they are well-concealed, and if not for luck, we may have missed this news.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many died to reach that location...many.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"All year long, many have been dying, many have died, Prince—everything on my side is settled, you won’t falter, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>T’Challa stops immediately, his hand resting on Mos’s shoulder: \"You underestimate me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When his arm grips Mos, under the light, one can see T’Challa is not simple:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His arm is entirely metallic, with fingers seemingly capable of ejecting some other components, whether claws or bullets is unknown.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The same is observable from his neck; his body is also thoroughly prosthetic—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mos’s prosthetics include many industrial ones; his holds many military ones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two differed distinctly from the swiftly entering council members.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mos emits a low chuckle: \"Hehe...it’s time to break the impasse.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, a strong female voice resounds from behind:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why are the two of you standing at the door and not going in?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two turn their heads at once, facing Silver Sable, the Chief Defense Officer for the Atlas Group stationed in Zhuya City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We’re just going in.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three of them enter the elevator.\u003C\u002Fp>",1233,"2026-06-03T12:33:47.681Z","2026-06-03T12:33:56.171Z",1,"novelbin.me","d5f3ee9a3f1789a2402ec5fc6523815797cd52084b599d66cbf47ec3a1c90f01","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-1011","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-1009",1068,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fcyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-cover.jpg"]