Ten days later, the entire production workshop almost didn't need any humans to participate in the production assembly anymore—just deliver raw materials to these terrifying Octopus Arms!
Hansen really couldn't understand if this was normal or not, he asked some researchers, but those researchers were all overexcited, worshipfully saying:
"You shouldn't concern yourself with Director Mercer's matters; he's a true genius. We're participating in a great work that can change the future!"
The researchers weren't aware that all of this wouldn't be possible without Venus' assistance. In their view, the Octopus Arms designed and developed by Mercer were enough to earn reverence just from their unique bionic structure from a hardware perspective.
So powerful, so flexible, so straightforward with a modular design, and even the cost is considered low! Yet its applicability is so extensive, its efficiency so high!
This is simply a great invention that could promote another leap in industrial productivity history!
But in terms of programming, the development of this intelligent AI was relatively less eye-catching.
Because currently, in the entire Netherworld Dog's work system, any programmer who really understands network technology and programming has been transferred by Mercer to other positions, with him solely responsible for program development and operations management.
So no one knew that the Netherworld Dog's servers had long been occupied by Venus, and no one knew that the terrifying productivity of the Octopus Arms was actually founded on a highly intelligent AI supported by supercomputational power.
What really excited and thrilled those researchers was not the Octopus Arms or the mecha, but the new generation of weaponry that Mercer developed for himself.
This was the first time Mercer truly did not need to consider the budget or cost-effectiveness; he could develop equipment focusing only on effect and purpose.
Although Spark Team earns a lot, honestly, in the stage of equipment development, it's really not enough.
This is also why Mercer has been slow in developing his own armor and new prosthetics—the cost is too high, and the cost-effectiveness is very low.
No matter how strong he becomes, in the end, he's just a hacker. Even if he and V put on the same Maoshun Armor, he can't match V's combat level.
And if he wants to have combat abilities like V, he needs to start from prosthetics, custom-making an entire set of super prosthetics tailored to himself, plus armor.
Considering cost-effectiveness, he couldn't selfishly spend everyone's money investing in himself, using the money that could upgrade V three times to upgrade himself once.
But now, spending Hanson's money, he had no such concerns.
So, under the amazed eyes of those researchers, Mercer continuously designed a whole set of super prosthetics, and without testing and theoretical experiments, proceeded with production directly.
Firstly, he made significant modifications to his hacker prosthetics—since Arasaka prioritized the consideration that hackers mostly sit by servers performing network work when designing this set of hacker prosthetics, so many security issues were not considered at all.
This is also why Mercer was rendered useless after an EMP attack; no hacker needs to face such an assault. They mostly battle from afar, with actual battlefields handled by professionals.
But Mercer faced a severe survival crisis; even if he wanted to hide behind, enemies would still come to him, so he needed his prosthetics not only to perform heat dissipation but also to meet his combat requirements.
The 'Devil May Cry' series of prosthetics is something Mercer had long conceptualized but never had the capital and resources to develop—his specialized super prosthetics.
The reason for the name is very simple—if those corporations are seemingly unbeatable demons causing havoc in the world, he would prove with his actions that demons can bleed, demons can cry!
Moreover, in terms of combat style, Mercer also greatly enjoyed the sharp yet light action feel from the game Devil May Cry.
The whole set of prosthetics' design philosophy has only one goal: to maximize Mercer's brain advantages, ensuring corresponding hacker capabilities while striving to enable him with combat abilities comparable to V.
At first glance, this design idea sounds anti-human because hacker prosthetics are already the type that puts the most strain on the body, and adding functionalities like Sianwistan into such prosthetics?
This isn't about developing prosthetics; it's about developing torture devices!
But Mercer simply used a reason like 'I'll solve the load with software' to make the researchers, who had no words for his technology, lose the courage to doubt.
Due to time constraints, Mercer found it hard to develop a new architecture prosthetic from scratch to meet his needs.
Hence, he boldly disassembled Arasaka's hacker prosthetics and reconstructed them using a military Sianwistan spine, integrating a built-in large Network Access Vault, piecing together a basic experimental version prosthetic.
Of course, it wasn't just simple assembling; Mercer also made bold modifications to the military Sianwistan spine, elevating its neural transmission speed to the limit current materials could withstand—he wouldn't consider the limits of human endurance.
And to address the higher heat dissipation needs after integrating functionalities, Mercer had to include the entire upper body in the transformation scope, even giving up most of the artificial skin coverage options, opting for a large amount of shark gill-style heat dissipation design similar to before.