There Will Always Be Protagonists With Delusions of Starting a Harem

Chapter 109

[Scanning protagonist status... No abnormalities.]

In the old version of the plot, Eddie's mecha manufacturing system had a strong presence—it was the thing that Eddie depended on the most beside the alpha leads. In the new version of the plot, the system's presence seemed to have significantly decreased. It became more like a learning system that could only help the protagonist learn mecha manufacturing faster. The other small functions used by Eddie in the old version of the plot, which had nothing to do with mecha manufacturing, didn't reappear.

Ye Zhizhou thought about two possibilities of why the system could've changed. One possibility was that the mecha manufacturing system malfunctioned after Eddie died, so only a part of it transferred to Inez's body. The other possibility was that the Zerg parasite in Eddie's body no longer needed to depend on the system after transferring host bodies and thus only relied on its own ability to achieve its goal. If the situation was the former, it proved that Zerg parasitism had a cost, or, the mecha manufacturing system was probably brought by the Zerg when it became a parasite in Eddie's body—not some mysterious golden finger. Now if it was the latter, it meant that the Zerg was becoming stronger and no longer needed the system's omnipotent assistance.

When this thought came to mind, Ye Zhizhou's hands stopped typing. He picked up the information that Dale had left behind and carefully looked through it again. The more he read, the worse his expression became.

He only had Inez on his mind before so he didn't pay much attention to other information. However, he just suddenly thought of a possibility—the mecha manufacturing system might not be a "system" like Tongtian but could just be a product of human experiments. In the old version of the plot, the system functions that Eddie used, which weren't relevant to mecha manufacturing, included: scanning a person's aptitude and health, detecting the number of people nearby, and sensing thermal weapons in advance... All of these were functions of existing devices on the market. None of the functions went beyond the world's technology, and especially, not against the heavens. When it came to the system's mecha manufacturing aspect, the system became very sophisticated and efficient. It was like an actual mecha manufacturing master was always standing behind the protagonist and giving him advice... Maybe not exactly like that, but it really felt like a mecha manufacturing master was constantly standing behind the protagonist... They just didn't have to be alive.

Within the information that Dale had left behind was a photo. In the corner of that photo were a few scattered optical computers that were connected with some messy wires. At first, he didn't notice this detail, but after seeing the detailed descriptions of several badly damaged experimental bodies in the information, his heart sank.

The optical computer, the experimental bodies with badly damaged brains... To prove his conjecture, Ye Zhizhou carefully looked through the old plot and found all the parts that involved Eddie and mecha manufacturing. After roughly organizing them, he used Tongtian's cover to enter the network and compared all of Eddie's theories and finished product design drawings with the works of all the mecha manufacturing masters that had appeared in history.

20 minutes later, the frantically scrolling light screen stopped, and one person's name was magnified in the center of the screen.

Jennifer Bafton, Carol's grandfather's sibling... Ye Zhizhou couldn't help raising his hand and covering his face to prevent the people in the monitoring room from seeing his ugly expression. So it was like this... The irregularity that the protagonist found in the component at the mecha manufacturing factory was Jennifer's last creation before they went missing...

The optical computer, the experimental bodies with badly damaged brains, the missing mecha manufacturing master, and the protagonist's powerful mecha manufacturing system... As expected, it was a human experiment; the most despicable kind of experiment—replicating a human brain to serve as an optical computer system.