Above The Sky
Chapter 1139: 164: All Terra People Should Kowtow to Inega II (6600)

Chapter 1139: Chapter 164: All Terra People Should Kowtow to Inega II (6600)

The Pioneer is clearly the type of scientist that super civilizations and Fallen Empires in the universe would want to take away. The Star God’s recognition and reward for the Pioneer is actually very selfless. If it were some other more selfish civilization, they might not give gifts but rather take them away directly for their own service.

From this point of view, the Star God, as Ian previously speculated, is indeed a higher civilization with goodwill towards many civilizations.

So, can Ian be compared to the Pioneer? A formerly ordinary rocket engineer in a previous life, after going through numerous events and learning a great deal of knowledge, can he be compared to a scholar like the Pioneer who leads an era without relying on the Silver Chip?

The answer is, of course, he can.

Although on Earth in his previous life, Ian was just an onboard engineer for a colonial rocket, he self-deprecatingly joked that his importance was not greater than a water dispenser—but only outsiders would truly think such a position was ordinary.

In fact, anyone who has really been through administration and done research knows what kind of value and talent it represents for a 20-something engineer who just completed a master’s degree and started a Ph.D. to directly join the colonial rocket and participate in a major project, with the potential to join the Light Speed Spacecraft development team in the future.

To call it a water dispenser is merely a jest. Ian’s talent is considered top-notch even on Earth. And on Terra, having absorbed so much knowledge and having seen much technology and culture from another world, he has fully matured.

Moreover, he also possesses the Silver Chip.

Therefore, he understands better than anyone the difficulty of the Pioneer stripping away the Silver Chip.

The young man lowered his head to gaze at his hand. Even at the end of his limbs, at capillaries and nerves, there is still a semi-entity ethereal network derived from the Silver Chip.

The Silver Chip, in a form that surpasses materiality, is attached to Ian’s soul and flesh, so tightly integrated that it cannot be said to be a part of the body, but rather a part of the body, soul, and will—at this moment, Ian even relies on the Silver Chip to maintain part of his thinking. Ian’s existence is no longer just above the flesh and soul; at least one-sixth of it relies on the Silver Chip.

No, it can be said conversely.

Now, the Silver Chip has one-sixth that must rely on Ian’s will to exist, and it would be destroyed once removed.

So, if the Silver Chip were to merge one hundred percent with Ian, what would be the result? This can also be glimpsed through the process of uninstalling.

It’s just that… even though the ‘uninstall’ button has always been there.

Can Ian really strip the Silver Chip from himself?

—He must try.

Ian made up his mind. He knows very well that his Fairy Bloodline is built upon the Silver Chip, and carelessly stripping it away might damage the ‘Pioneer of Iron’ heritage that he has just constructed… but he certainly would not experiment recklessly.

Click.

Ian twisted his wrist bone and directly twisted his right hand off from the wrist.

Unlike the bloody scene most people would imagine, the removed right hand looked like a twisted-off screw cap, with no bodily fluid oozing out or other damaged flesh falling off, only a bit of electromagnetic sparkle at the ‘wound.’

It could even move, its slender and fair fingers adeptly moving, laying themselves flat before Ian.

Thanks to the Pioneer of Iron’s heritage, Ian’s bones had long since metallicized, and as one who has actually reached the Third Energy Level, his control over his body has reached a point where he can control his flesh and blood at will.

Even, relying on electromagnetic signals, even if some body parts were cut off by others, Ian could still control this part of the body to move and even, like iron filings encountering an electromagnet, fly back from the ground into his body and embed once again.

But now, Ian plans to uninstall the Silver Chip from his hand.

[Uninstall]

Ian’s thoughts moved, selecting to uninstall the Silver Chip from his separately detached right hand.

Then his thoughts moved again, selecting ‘Do you really want to uninstall? Yes.’, thoughts moved a third time ‘Please read the possible sequelae of uninstallation and confirm your choice. Yes.’, thoughts moved a fourth time ‘Warning! Choosing to uninstall may cause unpredictable changes in part of your limbs’…

“How is this like rogue software?” By the eighth selection, even Ian couldn’t help but complain, “Will you even send me a crying cat head pleading me not to uninstall, with the other option being ‘heartlessly leave’?”

Of course, the Silver Chip is not so rogue. It is merely for the security of the holder that it asks in detail.

So finally, on the tenth selection, when Ian finished the last option and confirmed, he saw, surrounding his right hand, a splash of rainbow-colored aetheric brilliance.

Unlike the Origin Quality, which has various colors, the aether has only two: or rather, only ‘colorless’ and ‘rainbow-colored’ as the primary forms. Even when differentiated into secondary aether mainly of a certain color, there will be a halo of rainbow colors at the edges or a burning colorless flame.

And amidst this rainbow brilliance, above Ian’s right hand, a group of silver hand modeling gradually emerged, starlight flowing within, allowing every detail of the Origin Structure and the associated neural network to be clearly visible, even the muscle textures, blood vessel distribution, and cellular arrangement—this moment even gave Ian an illusion, as if he was viewing the ‘inside’ of his arm from a four-dimensional perspective.