Mountain and Sea Realm, Yungong City.

"Is this the out-of-control engineering machinery?"

Standing on the vast open-air plaza, Aten looked up at Jia Shen, which was restrained by various binding devices, with undisguised curiosity in his voice.

"You found modified Sun Gears inside it?"

"These special Sun Gears not only altered its system programs but also granted it a certain degree of transformation ability?"

Hearing this, A Qi, who was standing quietly beside the gigantic golden beetle and also looking up at Jia Shen, took the initiative to correct him.

"It’s not transformation ability, it’s adaptive evolution ability."

"Jia Shen cannot change forms at will..."

"But its body can evolve the corresponding ability in a short time according to its strong will."

"It’s as if compressing millions of years of evolutionary history into just a few minutes and then applying it to Jia Shen’s body."

No one understands the nature of this "adaptive evolution ability" better than A Qi, who has been completely assimilated with Jia Shen and then rescued back by the central system of the City of Intelligent Machines.

After all, the present A Qi has undergone mechanical modification and transformation all over his body.

Without the unique adaptive evolution ability, A Qi would probably rely on continuous hormone injections for even the most basic emotional fluctuations.

In fact, A Qi’s body was completely reshaped and mechanized, yet his consciousness was miraculously preserved intact.

In this state, even if A Qi received hormonal injection treatment, he would likely become a cold, emotionless personality.

However, the current fact is that although A Qi has become a metallic burrowing insect,

this metal body automatically generates and simulates hormones and neural networks unique to biological organisms, preserving A Qi’s memories and emotions as a carbon-based life form to the greatest extent.

"Adaptive evolution ability, huh?"

Gently turning his head, Aten thoughtfully glanced at A Qi.

"Can you still communicate with Jia Shen?"

Upon hearing Aten’s question, A Qi hesitated for a moment before nodding lightly.

"There shouldn’t be a problem as long as you don’t make any aggressive moves."

At this moment, A Qi’s stance clearly leaned toward Jia Shen, but Aten didn’t mind at all.

After all, having been assimilated with Jia Shen for a period of time,

no one would likely believe that A Qi wasn’t influenced at all.

In comparison, merely harboring empathy and sympathy for Jia Shen could be considered the mildest influence.

"No problem, I guarantee no one will attack it."

Saying this, Aten’s two flexible antennae on his head gently slid across the virtual screen projected by the brain-computer.

In the next second, the police personnel on lockdown near the plaza received instructions not to attack Jia Shen under any circumstances.

"Thank you!"

Seeing Aten’s actions, A Qi sincerely expressed his gratitude.

Because he knew that if it weren’t for the request of Aten, the inventor of the "Sun Gear," Jia Shen would have long been dismantled into a heap of scrap iron and sent to various laboratories for research.

"Don’t thank me. I just don’t want such a precious ’experiment’ to be destroyed."

With his elytra slowly opening behind him, Aten laughed indifferently.

"Besides, I’m really curious about what the guy who can modify the ’Sun Gear’ in this way intends to do."

.............................

When Aten took A Qi and flew into the sky, landing bit by bit on Jia Shen’s head armor,

Jia Shen indeed did not attack the two but raised its mechanical head in confusion.

To be honest, Aten was quite impressed with himself for being able to discern expressions from those armored shells.

Of course, Aten was even more impressed with Jia Shen for having evolved an expression system similar to that of intelligent biological organisms in such a short time.

"Jia Shen, we’re here to ’treat’ you..."

"Now, open your ’core,’ we need to go inside and examine it."

Unlike his decisiveness before awakening, Jia Shen clearly hesitated when he heard A Qi’s words.

This gave Aten a new understanding of Jia Shen’s evolutionary speed - the guy who created that [Sun Gear] was simply a genius beyond doubt!

"Rest assured, I know you can understand our language."

"I’m different from those previous guys, I have little interest in you yourself."

"The Sun Gear inside you that turned you into this form is my true interest."

"If you let me study it, maybe I can help make your evolution ’orderly’ instead of ’chaotic’."

Staring blankly at Aten, Jia Shen indeed understood his language but couldn’t grasp the meaning behind his words.

"Idiot!"

"What this guy means is that you can freely master your power in the future without worrying about being locked up again!"

And with that explanation from Batis, who appeared beside Aten with a puff of pink smoke,

"I... don’t have to be locked up?"

With Batis’s explanation, Jia Shen finally understood Aten’s intention.

So, with a simple thought, Jia Shen immediately opened his head armor without suspecting Aten’s ability to achieve this.

Ka... ka... ka...

When that crimson single eye appeared before Aten and the others, a clear inclination towards intelligence could already be seen in it.

Without further hesitation, Aten flew into the single eye with A Qi and Batis, finally seeing the mutated Sun Gear.

"Sure enough, it was modified using the power of the sun..."

Tossing A Qi to the side, the two antennae on Aten’s head began swiftly exploring the Sun Gear.

As the developer of the Sun Gear, Aten immediately realized the extraordinary nature of this Sun Gear upon contact.

The power of the sun is also divided by attributes, with different solar powers corresponding to different divine positions and gods.

As a former ancient solar entity, and one that almost replicated the path of the Sun Hunter Ra, the Sun Gears he developed were naturally very comprehensive.

Theoretically speaking, the Divine Power of regular Sun Gears is ownerless and harmless.

However, this Sun Gear was different. The divine power it contained had a clear inclination, which led to Jia Shen’s mutation.

"This divine power... it seems somewhat familiar?"

Blinking with slight confusion, Aten carefully reviewed his memories from before his reincarnation, but he could never pinpoint the source of this familiarity.

The only certainty was that the owner of this divine power was definitely not the Sun God of the Mountain and Sea Realm.

"Wasn’t Ra’s world supposed to have vanished?"

"How could there be a Sun God in this era that feels familiar to me?"

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