Dorio stepped forward.
As a former Animals gang member, her enhancement path leaned more toward using massive chemical drug stimulation to break human limits, conducting overload physical training to gain exaggerated muscle strength and physique.
This brought powerful combat capability but also made her body bear enormous drug toxicity side effects and metabolic burden. Neural system signal transmission with enhanced muscle groups showed perceptible delays.
Cairo's scans penetrated her metabolic and endocrine systems.
"Your enhancement path is built on chemical catalysts and overdrawing body potential. Current drug formulas inefficient, side effect accumulation rate too high."
His tentacles interfaced with several specific neural plexuses along her spine and abdomen, and micro-interfaces of metabolic regulatory organs. "I'm adjusting your liver enzyme secretion efficiency, kidney filtration rate, and neurotransmitter balance. This will significantly reduce drug toxicity residue, improve your metabolic clearance capability. Simultaneously optimizing neural signal transmission protocols between you and enhanced muscle groups, reducing command delays."
Next, he retrieved an auto-injector from a low-temperature freezer on the workbench containing a newly formulated agent glowing faintly.
"This is a compound adaptation formula recalculated based on your current body parameters. It will stimulate your muscle potential with higher efficiency while reducing metabolic product burden on your body by seventy percent. New training cycles need adjusting to coordinate with this drug—estimated achievement of side-effect-free peak strength improvement within four weeks."
Falco's chaotically assembled sensors and reconnaissance equipment from different eras were recalibrated one by one by Cairo.
Cairo not only adjusted hardware parameters but more critically upgraded his core data fusion and processing algorithms.
Falco discovered information in his visual interface becoming unprecedentedly clear. Data from different sources perfectly layered, overlaid, correlated. Invalid environmental interference alerts reduced about seventy percent. Effective information acquisition speed and accuracy massively improved.
Even Pilar's mechanical limb shoulder just repaired by Cairo underwent secondary fine-tuning.
Cairo optimized power transmission's instantaneous response curves, elevating reaction speed another percentage point—movements even smoother.
Rebecca's new optic implants were loaded with a more efficient target recognition and background filtering algorithm Cairo personally wrote, significantly reducing visual interference and misjudgments in Night City's complex, chaotic light-shadow environment.
Finally, Sasha. Cairo's operations on her were most delicate and cautious.
His tentacles interfaced with her rear cranial advanced data port with nearly absolutely stable slow motion.
"Your neural network is your most valuable asset, but its complexity also means extreme fragility."
Cairo's synthesized voice seemed lowered even further to avoid any possible interference. "Executing deep scan. Clearing long-accumulated neural cache fragments, repairing microscopic data flow damage, reinforcing your cognitive firewall's active response logic.
I'll load you with a neural signal voltage regulation and buffering protocol I've modified. It can provide approximately five percent additional stability redundancy when you conduct high-intensity data intrusions or suffer reverse shocks, reducing cerebral tissue overload risk."
Sasha closed her eyes, long lashes slightly trembling.
She could feel a cold, absolutely precise and stable force operating in her most delicate, most sensitive brain implant area, meticulously combing through complex neural currents even she couldn't fully control.
The entire process brought no pain, instead accompanied by a strange clarity and burden-relieving relaxation, as if certain fuzzy burrs in her thinking were completely polished smooth.
When Cairo completed calibrating all team members, the workshop fell into brief silence.
Everyone in Maine's crew was immersed in the wonderful sensation brought by systematic body function optimization.
This improvement didn't come from crude enhancement of a single component but from the entire body system first achieving a highly harmonious, optimally resource-allocated state—a deeper, more comfortable and controllable power.
"This... merely through calibration and software optimization?" Falco looked at his hands incredulously, feeling unprecedented equipment control. "You didn't replace any hardware?"
"True essence of technology lies in profound understanding and coordinated optimization of existing systems, not blind component replacement."
Cairo answered calmly, words containing absolute mastery of technology's nature. "Most efficient solutions often hide in re-integration of existing resources and potential mining."
Maine took a deep breath, struggling to suppress inner excitement.
As team leader, he saw not just personal capability improvement but the team's future potential making an enormous leap.
"Boss, this is just calibration... if, if we wanted to go further, conduct real hardware upgrades? Like Rebecca's new eyes."
His gaze filled with desire for stronger power.
Cairo's crimson optical lenses swept across each of them.
"Of course possible."
He walked to the main control terminal, quickly calling up several complex blueprint outlines—these plans were real-time generated based on each person's detailed body data, neural tolerance thresholds, combat style preferences obtained from just now's deep scans.
"Based on your biological foundations, neural stress limits, and tactical roles, I've designed complete hardware upgrade paths for each of you."
The light screen showed plans designed for Maine, emphasizing stronger internal support structures, energy cores, and impact force management systems;
Plans designed for Dorio focused on further optimizing biochemical metabolism and muscle response system coordination while providing higher-grade drug formula routes;
Plans designed for Falco were highly integrated, multi-spectral, multi-mode environmental perception and data processing suites;
Plans designed for Pilar focused on comprehensively improving neural interfaces and stabilization systems for precision operations and weapon control capability;
Plans designed for Rebecca involved safely and efficiently integrating heavier external weapon platforms with her nervous system;
Plans designed for Sasha were extremely advanced implant units focusing on top-grade neural protection, data encryption, and processing rates.
Each plan's design philosophy was bold yet ingenious. Technical indicators and implementation effects far exceeded any top cyberware products accessible on Night City's market.
These blueprints directly addressed their innermost desires to break their own limits, making Maine and crew dazzled, breathing unconsciously becoming rapid.
"These... can they really be achieved with existing technology?" Dorio's voice carried barely detectable trembling.
"As long as there are properly spec'd biomaterials, rare alloys, energy cores, and corresponding precision manufacturing equipment, within my technical system, transforming and enhancing any organic lifeform to far exceed current levels is feasible."
Cairo's tone carried calm based on absolute technical confidence. "Its theoretical limits even sufficient to rival..."
His words had an almost imperceptible microsecond-level pause here. Immediately after, those crimson optical lenses seemed to instantly adjust focus, becoming deeper. The workshop's atmosphere also seemed to suddenly freeze.
From beneath the face mask came an extremely slight yet chilling sound of airflow (though he likely didn't need to breathe) that made all who heard it feel inexplicable coldness.
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