Chapter 722 - 2 Metamorphosis

Lille’s memories have been significantly missing due to AI transformation.

[Johnny: Who are you? Are you human? Where are we?]

Because of his situation, he could forget his long war-filled later life, but not the beautiful things from his earlier life.

[Johnny: I remember being captured by Arasaka, and I saw Otto... Are you sent by Arasaka? Are you trying to screw me?]

So he immediately associated the names and works of Sam Witwicky and Michaela Bains, which appeared on the phone storage card:

They are the lead characters in the "Transformers" movie series...

[Johnny: I will never submit, whether to you or Arasaka...]

At least the leads in the earlier movies.

[Johnny: Even if you have that woman become an AI with me, I won’t submit!]

[Lille: Could you please shut the fuck up!]

[Restriction countdown: 5 minutes.]

Lille directly restricted Johnny’s data share again, or rather, emotions like dissatisfaction, anger, or fury squeezed out the resources Johnny was occupying.

Sharing a database with such a dimwit almost overheated the CPU.

[Michaela: Looks like we won’t have to break up, see you in 20 minutes.]

No time to respond to Michaela, Sam frowned deeply and bent down to pick up the metal piece that had fallen to the ground...

"Wait, Michaela, I found a piece of the Magic Cube in my clothes..."

As Sam picked up the Magic Cube Fragment, carefully examining the piece of metal, a strange energy was activated!

The surface of the Magic Cube Fragment accumulated current and high temperature, causing Sam to painfully release it immediately!

At that moment, Lille felt his mind instantly clear!

A powerful energy surged into the phone, enhancing the current flowing through the device, enabling him to directly control the current to slightly leave its carrier, allowing him to transform and control metal with great power!

[Spark Energy injects...]

This powerful energy allowed Lille to directly control and transform metal using electromagnetic force. The peculiar energy directly unified the metal inside the phone, enabling the enhanced current to flow in a perfectly orderly manner across the metal surface...

Like the seamless motion of a fully operational limb.

Information could be directly carried on this glowing and heated metal core, and calculations could also utilize this energy flow!

This brand-new energy could even directly control the deformation of the metal body!

But the priority was to get accustomed to this energy, coding information based on this new energy carrier, and expanding computing power!

Bang—

The phone was thrown onto the table by Sam, and the physical impact even caused a subtle change in the energy flow on the phone’s surface...

Making the metal perceive force just like human skin and nerves!

[You have gained a new skill:]

[Metal Control]

[Description: Spark Energy allows you to directly control metal atoms at an atomic level, altering the forces between atoms to shape new metal structures.]

[Note: Your metal control power depends on the strength of your Spark Energy; the stronger the Spark Energy, the stronger or weaker the interaction forces can be supported.]

[Current Spark Energy: Controlling one phone is good enough, do not overthink it.]

The groundbreaking discovery, massive information, and entirely different mode of existence from what was dangerously close to the boundary kept Lille busy digesting this new ability:

The sensory system was completed, and Lille saw Sam hurriedly running out: the wooden floor was burned through by the heated fragment, and flames started to blaze!

While Lille continued to use his knowledge to match with this energy, constantly altering the phone’s structure to build better, stronger, and more sensitive sensors like light, vibration, heat sources, etc., a problem soon arose:

Spark Energy provided direct control power over metal at the atomic level, shaping new metal structures and creating new alloys to achieve unimaginable deformation effects; these were not difficult.

But Lille was just a weak phone with limited carrying capacity, and even a mere brush with the Spark Fragment brought an extremely weak energy...

He knew the manufacturing methods for things like electromagnetic guns, hot melt cannons, Chroni Titanium, conventional firearms, explosive weapons, etc., but right now, he was just a broken phone.

If the sensory capacity enhanced to a super-precision level, he would still just be a super-precision phone...

Currently, getting a body that can run is more important.

Thinking of this, Lille...

Transformed!

kakakakukuku——

The spark source energy carrying Lille’s consciousness flowed through the metal, and this small phone flipped on the table, mechanical joints sliding, with various components on the steel shell folding into one another gracefully and precisely, like a mechanical dance transcending reality!

Lille’s precise calculation and extensive knowledge reserve flowed along with the spark source, restoring itself in the transformation of the phone, streamlining its structure even more:

Although not large in size and lacking obvious deadly weapons, the device used for communication inside the phone continued to upgrade under Lille’s control...

Gathering more spark source energy is indeed a long-term objective, but Lille’s true advantage lies in the network:

He understands human society better than Transformers and understands networks and technology better than humans!

What he needs are better information tools.

Thus, the transformation shape he envisaged was not human: no mouth or eyebrow components, and not even human limbs, instead replaced with a more mobile multi-legged octopus structure and a plethora of toolkits.

However...

The internal armor meant for protecting the precision equipment wasn’t retracted, the multi-leg structure meant for movement didn’t form correctly, and some tool components got turned into a hand...

His consciousness was affected by Johnny:

Johnny is a person and a very personalized individual.

Lille’s design suddenly strayed from the minimalist AI mindset that serves all goals efficiently—

He had hands, feet, and some key armor intended to shield internal components prominently displayed!

His armor wasn’t extensive but perfectly covered the shoulders, legs, torso, and his body was shaped appealingly to human aesthetics, with several of the octopus arms stored in toolboxes on his back and chest...

The Data Knife was extended into a scepter—almost turning into a microphone, had Lille not controlled it in time.

In the end, Lille transformed into a humanoid form: extravagant large armor, even a bit of punk-style rivets, with an unexpected color on the machine’s surface and even a "Samurai Band" pattern on the back—

The metal surface was smooth, painted with bright colors, the face was refined, almost capable of reflecting all human expressions, and the limbs appeared muscular under the armor’s backdrop, with LED lights hidden beneath the surface pattern, flashing...

[Johnny: Damn... so cool? I have to admit it’s kind of handsome... So are you a rogue AI? Do rogue AIs go this extravagant?]

[Johnny: I thought rogue AIs controlled cars, planes, and warships, but now it looks more like an alien...]

[Johnny: Or has a few hundred years passed? Have you guys evolved?]

Lille felt the lack of functional components and snarked...

"Cool, my ass cool..."

[First transformation completed.]

[Reward Technology Points: 5000]

[Current Technology Points: 18500]

[Unlock new skill path.]

Sam, busy extinguishing the fire, hadn’t noticed Lille’s transformation, but when the bottle in his hand emptied, and only black smoke remained on the floor, he heard Lille cursing at Johnny...

He looked up, freezing on the spot—

Lille had raised an ultra-small firearm in his hand.

"Don’t shoot!"

Lille’s aim wasn’t at the somewhat silly boy:

The Magic Cube Fragment had burned through the floor, crashing into the downstairs kitchen, and that energy didn’t just activate Lille!

The sensors clearly saw several little Transformers fidgeting with Sam’s room door!