Chapter 464

Man, what kind of canned food am I talking about?

Li Cheng, unsurprisingly, rubbed his temples; this 【Summoning Art · Farmhand】 skill scroll nearly replicated every concept used in creating the 【Summoning Art · Estate Guardian】 on a one-to-one basis.

Plantations, slavery, cotton—from old London's Union Jack.

The difference lies in the addition of higher-quality concepts, such as George Floyd, the African-American man whose death sparked the nationwide BLM movement in 2020, and Derek Chauvin, the white officer who knelt on his neck.

Racial discrimination and skin-color concepts extracted from the personal items carried by both men.

The incident had wide-reaching consequences, igniting the ongoing nationwide looting craze in America, profoundly influencing the U. S. presidential election, and even prompting mysterious entities in Taiwan to hold "Black Lives Matter" events.

Yet ironically, the black man Floyd, the catalyst of the event, was no law-abiding citizen—he had been arrested four times for selling illegal drugs, stealing firearms, illegally breaking and entering, armed robbery, and pointing a gun at a pregnant woman's belly, making him a regular inmate.

His family, including distant relatives no one could reasonably claim as kin, all opened donation accounts during the BLM movement, raking in $27 million in city council compensation and tens of millions in donations.

The transfer fee reached a hundred million U. S. dollars—now it's truly "Black Lives Matter."

Li Cheng clicked to learn the scroll and turned his gaze to the second item.

It was a thin golden metal wire shaped like a W, sturdy and resilient; under light, its edges revealed fiber-optic threads so fine they were nearly invisible.

【Item Name: Silver Wing Path】

【Type: Tech Item / Worn Item】

【Quality: Epic】

【Effect: Silicon Crystal Martial Art. Passive effect. When worn by a mechanical lifeform, it provides optimization options and a tactical operation interface based on the mechanical lifeform's data.】

【Consumption: Uses the mechanical lifeform's own energy, depending on the advancement and completeness of the mechanical body.】

【Cooldown: None】

【Usage Condition: None】

【Note: I have seen things you humans would not believe. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.】

"Hmm."

Li Cheng picked up the Silver Wing Path, weighing it—it weighed about 100 grams, not much heavier than an egg.

"This item's S-class intelligence, A-class calculus, and A-class classical mechanics derive from Newton's ten-thousand-page handwritten manuscripts, unpublished draft letters to Leibniz, and the original copy of Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, all housed in the British Museum."

The intelligent core said: "Also included is A-class technology from the Voyager 1 interstellar space probe."

"A-class chip from humanity's first silicon integrated circuit."

"A-class combat technique from the sword of the last warrior of the Inca Empire before its fall."

Like the 【Floating Engine】, the 【Silver Wing Path】 also uses 1S, 5A, plus a pile of B-class concepts.

Newton's original copy of Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica was originally kept at Cambridge University and the Royal Society, but just recently, during maintenance, it was sent to the British Museum.

Coincidentally, it was picked up by Grey Rain.

Isn't that just ridiculous?

It's a bit regrettable that time was too short back then—if Grey Rain had collected more of Newton's holy relics, he could've definitely extracted S-class academic clique, A-class political struggle, A-class grudge, D-class stock trading, and C-class theology concepts.

"When worn by a mechanical lifeform, it provides optimization options and a tactical operation interface based on the mechanical lifeform's data. This description is unclear."

Li Cheng rubbed his chin, thought for a moment, then opened his 3D warehouse and took out three items.

One was Honda's third-generation ASIMO humanoid robot. The second was Boston Dynamics' robot dog.

The third was the domestic Yushu general-purpose humanoid robot.

He attached the 【Silver Wing Path】 to each of the three items in turn and observed them with his Information Synthesis Glasses.

First, the Honda ASIMO robot—when its first generation was launched in 2000, it truly shocked the world: it could walk, turn, climb stairs, kick balls, pour water.

Many public intellectuals once used it to praise Japan's scientific advancement and mock China's Zhonghua Dajiangnong robot.

But ASIMO was fundamentally unrelated to intelligence; every single motion was manually coded by exhausted Japanese coders using inverse kinematics and dynamics, capable only of operating within pre-set environments.

It could not handle complex outdoor conditions and was quietly retired in 2018.

Even the seemingly advanced Boston Dynamics failed to solve this problem, passing through multiple hands—Google, SoftBank, Hyundai Group.

As for the latest generation of robots, their revolutionary breakthrough came primarily from AI's deep reinforcement learning algorithms, allowing AI to endlessly trial-and-error in virtual space, autonomously writing motion algorithms and preset instruction sets, drastically reducing R&D costs and improving iteration efficiency.

"Ding—"

The 130-centimeter-tall ASIMO robot slowly stood upright, the 【Silver Wing Path】 planted on its head like an antenna, and began walking at a slow pace as commanded by Li Cheng.

Its speed increased steadily—from walking to running, from running to jumping—far exceeding the original limits set by the coders, nearly reaching the servo motor and joint motion ceiling.

In the view of the Information Synthesis Glasses, ASIMO's spaghetti code was completely reset, becoming clean and elegant.

Subsequently, the Boston Dynamics robot dog and the Yushu robot also underwent significant evolution in their movement patterns after installing the 【Silver Wing Path】.

The higher the joint flexibility, the greater the improvement.

"This is different from 【Compassionate Soul Infusion】. 【Compassionate Soul Infusion】 grants a soul, making it seem alive. But 【Silver Wing Path】 optimizes the mechanical lifeform itself."

Li Cheng pondered, picked up the 【Silver Wing Path】, and walked toward Grey Rain, who was lying on a steel-spring bed drinking cola and playing games. "Put this on and try it."

"What's this? A crown?"

Grey Rain placed the golden metal wire on her head—one second, two seconds—no reaction.

"No change?"

Li Cheng scratched his head; this item was specifically customized for Grey Rain.

"Change…" Grey Rain thought for a moment, then suddenly grew serious. She drew a deep breath under Li Cheng's expectant gaze.

Then she let out a cola-flavored belch.

"Burp—"

Grey Rain awkwardly fanned the air, then suddenly her eyes lit up. "Hey, I see a virtual panel in my vision—it says I can optimize my own structure."

She climbed off the spring bed, blinked her eyes as if clicking to confirm.

The next second, her right arm rapidly melted, and the liquid-metal arm restructured into a hydraulic cylindrical skeleton intertwined with fine metal-fiber tendons.

The overpowered strength caused Grey Rain to instinctively swing her arm—resulting in the steel-spring bed, weighing a full ton, flying like a foam-filled lazy sofa and crashing with a boom against the concrete target wall.

(End of this chapter)