Age of Mecha: Divine-grade Genetic Extraction

John’s armor was opened. This was the first time Peter and Professor Eugene had seen a smart mecha voluntarily open its armor. The mechanical structure exposed inside shocked everyone present, including Betty.

“Oh my god, the Holy War Organization that you’re talking about has the most advanced technology I’ve ever seen.”

Betty’s interest was piqued. She began to focus on understanding John’s mechanical body. With John’s cooperation, Betty would soon be able to find the key technology at hand, which was the conversion of genes into energy.

Before John was transformed, he was a powerful Genetic Warrior. After he was captured by the Holy War Organization, his organs and power systems were dismembered before he was fused with a mecha. The technical difficulty of this was very high.

“God of War Peter, the genetic conversion system in John’s body is impossible with the current technology in the Federation. We can extract genes and convert them into energy, and we can increase the power of the mechas. However, we can’t combine these two technologies.”

Peter understood what Betty meant. The level of technology that the Holy War Organization had far exceeded that of the human Federation. However, he still asked a question that had been bothering him for a long time.

“Betty, I know what you mean, but I’m wondering why that Holy War Organization has been hiding in the dark, even though they have very advanced technology. It’s easy for them to replace the Federation, or even eliminate the mutant creatures and become the overlords of this world.”

Peter voiced his doubts not only to Betty, but also to all the people and creatures present.

This also included the fake President, the former President who had been transformed into a cyborg by the Holy War Organization.

There was a long silence in the room as no one could answer Peter’s question. After all, this concerned a large, hidden secret. No one knew what the ultimate goal of that Holy War Organization was.

In the end, it was Professor Eugene who broke the silence. He was the person with the highest authority in the human camp regarding gene extraction.

“God of War Peter, when I first joined the Genetics College, I heard the old dean mention something. In the early days when mutated creatures appeared all over the world, human cities were occupied by a large number of mutated creatures. Countless ordinary people became their food. However, following the miserable early years, the number of mutated creatures kept growing. Meanwhile, after humans built the base cities, the number of deaths was controlled within a certain range. However, mutated creatures also needed food. What did they eat?”

“Professor Eugene, are you trying to say that the Holy War Organization has always been hiding its strength? Is it related to the global mutation of creatures?”

Peter could guess what Professor Eugene was thinking. However, Professor Eugene’s thoughts were a little far-fetched and he could not convince everyone present.

“God of War Peter, your wisdom always inspires me. What I want to say is that the global mutation of creatures is related to that Holy War Organization!”

This time, Peter was really surprised by Professor Eugene’s guess. However, this was not impossible. After all, during the period before the global mutation, there had been many disasters worldwide, including the rapid transmission of viruses, infectious diseases from animals, and even viruses studied by humans that had broken loose.

That mysterious Holy War Organization might have been founded long ago, at least before the mutation of global creatures. However, Peter and others had no evidence to prove this guess.

At this moment, the fake President, who had not spoken all along, stood forward.

“After I was transformed into a cyborg, I retained many of my memories from before. Only my memories from when I was transformed were missing. I don’t know how the Holy War Organization did it, but when I was training with them, I accidentally discovered that they seemed to be afraid of leaving their base.”

The discovery that the fake President had made gave everyone some inspiration.

“Is the Holy War Organization afraid of leaving their base?”

“Yes, they’re afraid to leave the base. Any contact with the outside world is via their smart mechas, or through puppets like me and General David.”

Professor Eugene stood still, thinking about the discovery that the fake President had mentioned. Meanwhile, a possibility suddenly occurred to Peter. Then, he simply shared it with everyone so that they could discuss it.

“If it’s really as the President said, is it possible that the people of the Holy War Organization cannot leave their base? It’s not that the Holy War Organization doesn’t want to leave the range of the base. Instead, they can’t do it. Is there a power suppressing them in the base of the Holy War Organization?”

Professor Eugene also thought of a possibility and looked at Peter to voice what he was thinking.

“I think there’s another possibility. Their power might be sealed within a range. Once they leave that range, their power will suddenly disappear.”

Professor Eugene’s guess was also possible. This reminded Peter of a scene from a movie, which told the story of a mysterious and powerful race that had descended on Earth. They had technology and power that surpassed that of the human world, but they could not leave the spaceships they were on. Once they left the range of the spaceships, their bodies would quickly wither into dried corpses as their power would be exhausted.

Could the mysterious Holy War Organization be also a descendant of those aliens?

Just as everyone was sharing their thoughts, Peter received a message from the S-Grade queen insect. The S-Grade queen insect could communicate with Peter through its powerful brain waves.

“Master, I’ve lost control of all the smart mechas I sent out!”

Peter knew that the S-Grade queen insect had sent out the smart mechas with incomplete consciousnesses. He had thought that after these smart mechas were sent out, they would most likely be destroyed by the Holy War Organization.

“Master, I also discovered that the incomplete consciousnesses of those smart mechas can… be pieced together.”

The S-Grade queen insect had just learned human language. Thus, it paused for a moment before finding the words that could express its meaning.

“Piece together?”

“What do you mean?”

After voicing his doubts, Peter waited for the S-Grade queen insect to explain.

“Master, when the smart mechas I sent out approached the base of the Holy War Organization, I intentionally kept half of the smart mechas and only allowed the remaining half to enter the base. However, after the smart mechas that entered the base were cut off from my control, I also lost control of the smart mechas outside the base.”

Peter was numb from reading the message from the S-Grade queen insect. It was still a little difficult for the queen insect to express its thoughts in human language.

However, Peter understood what the S-Grade queen insect meant.

Half of the intelligent mechas did not enter the base of the Holy War Organization, but the S-Grade queen insect also lost control of them.

This proved that the Holy War stored the incomplete consciousnesses of the smart mechas.