Outside Liu Yang's door, all of his women perked up their ears.
Each one listened with rapt attention!
Even though they were already pregnant and unable to engage in such activities themselves, listening in on someone else was the next best thing to satisfy their cravings.
As they listened, their breathing grew heavy.
He Yushi couldn't help chiming in, "What's going on here? Is Liu Yang seriously so overpowered that even a robot can't handle him? That machine just said she was about to leak oil, right? What does leaking oil even mean? Lina, break it down for me."
Zhao Lina wore a helpless expression. "I might be a straight-A student, but I'm not in mechanical engineering! How am I supposed to know anything about machine oil?"
Chen Dan said, "What did she mean by entering an 'overclocking state'? What's overclocking? I don't get it at all!"
Wang Siqi added, "She said she was operating at eighty hertz! What does eighty hertz even mean? How are you supposed to run at a frequency like that?"
Zhou Keke wondered, "What kind of state is 'redline mode'? Is the temperature just way too high?"
White Fox gasped, "Holy crap, listen! She's saying her system is crashing! Can Liu Yang actually drive a robot to a system crash?"
Su Xiao remarked, "Who knows? I figured this cyborg would scream in a few different languages, but who would've guessed she'd speak exclusively in mechanical jargon we can't make head or tail of?"
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Three hours later, Liu Yang received a system notification.
[Notification]
Legacy Multiplier Success! System reward acquired: All basic attributes increased by 50 points!
Seeing this prompt, Liu Yang's eyes lit up.
Cyborgs could indeed successfully trigger the Legacy Multiplier, and the system counted them as ability users!
When he expanded his lineage with those fifteen ordinary girls from the residential district back then, the basic attribute reward was only 10 points per person.
Yet a single cyborg netted him a massive 50 points!
That meant the system categorized cyborgs on the same tier as ability users.
Liu Yang muttered to himself, "If I can get my hands on this kind of cybernetic enhancement tech, couldn't I just convert ordinary women from the survivor base into cyborgs and then expand my lineage with them?
That way, I wouldn't have to worry about whether their natural looks or figures are up to par. I'd only need to preserve their brains, and as for physical appearances, I could custom-design whatever I want!"
"Damn, this is basically an infinite cheat code for farming ability-user stats! I could turn every single woman in the Island Empire into a cyborg!"
Liu Yang made up his mind right then and there.
When the time came, he'd have to raid the White Eagle Empire and steal their cyber-conversion technology.
This tech was going to be insanely useful!
Back on the bed, Lucy was practically overheating to the point of a total system crash.
Her voice glitching with heavy static interference, she gasped, "Retaining... this reproductive subsystem... is simply... incredible♡! I never thought that back when I was fully human I'd miss out on it, and that becoming a cyborg would make it even more impossible...
Never imagined... that you'd be this formidable, Master... My mechanical frame is about to be shaken to pieces... My neural processor has hit the redline zone, I feel like... I'm about to blow up♡!"
Watching Lucy's state, Liu Yang wore a smug grin.
Cybed-enhanced women weren't so tough that they couldn't be broken after all!
Faced with his relentless, storm-like assault, didn't she still end up begging for mercy?
Liu Yang told her, "Go jump in the bathroom and take a cold soak to cool down your liquid-cooling loops."
"Understood, Master Liu Yang!" Lucy slowly dragged herself up, her entire frame still trembling faintly.
The extreme heat and violent vibrations from the overclocking cycle left her body completely unstable.
Overclocking was a cyborg's ultimate trump card, capable of boosting their physical combat specs by up to fifty percent.
However, it placed an immense burden on their remaining human biological brain tissue.
Because of that, they were left utterly drained and weak for a long time after every use.
Even Lucy hadn't expected Liu Yang to be so monstrously powerful that he'd literally drive her into an overclocked state right in bed.
It was absolute madness to even think about!
Outside the room.
Tong Bingjie was completely dumbfounded.
Even a heavily reinforced cyborg woman had been driven to beg for mercy?
I might be an Earthly Ranking powerhouse, but my physical constitution definitely can't match a chassis built out of military-grade metal!
If my turn comes up next, I'm going to get wrecked!
Tong Bingjie turned to the floating, semi-transparent JK uniform in the air and said, "Xue'er, get into my room. I need to ask you some questions!"
If you know your enemy and know yourself, you need not fear a hundred battles.
Lin Xue'er had already gone through rounds of intense combat with Liu Yang. She needed to extract as much intelligence out of Xue'er as humanly possible to prepare herself!
Tong Bingjie never fought an unprepared war!
"Got it, Sister Tong!" Lin Xue'er-invisible save for the fluttering JK uniform-nodded in agreement.
Hearing the quiet settle over Liu Yang's room, He Yushi and the rest of the women began dispersing downstairs.
Chatting animatedly among themselves as they walked, He Yushi remarked, "First time hearing what a robot sounds like when she loses it. Absolutely wild!"
Zhao Lina chimed in, "Same here, first time hearing a robot beg for mercy! Who would've thought even machines wouldn't be a match for Liu Yang?"
Chen Dan giggled, "And my first time hearing about a machine leaking oil!"
Su Xiao sighed, "Us ordinary girls just got lucky finding Liu Yang early on. If we crossed paths with a powerhouse like him now, we'd honestly get taken apart piece by piece."
The women who hadn't awakened any supernatural abilities nodded along in deep agreement.
They had simply caught him at the right time.
If they had to face the current, leveled-up Liu Yang in bed now, they wouldn't just lose a layer of skin-they wouldn't survive the night.
Forget ordinary mortals; even seasoned ability users and battle-droid cyborgs couldn't take this kind of punishment!
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While Lucy went off to submerge herself in cold water to drop her core temperature, Liu Yang laid back down to catch some sleep.
Even though his physical stats had skyrocketed, going hard for hours against a cybernetically enhanced beauty still left him feeling a bit drained.
He drifted into a deep sleep, waking up the next morning.
After getting up, stretching, and cleaning up, Liu Yang headed downstairs for breakfast.
Chen Dan and the crew were already bustling around the kitchen, joined by the newly integrated cyborg Lilian.
Even a machine-body like Lilian had started trying to master Chen Dan's culinary secrets.
Once breakfast was out of the way, Liu Yang planned to resume scavenging for supplies.
After all, whether it was the Island Empire's forces or the White Eagle Empire's strike teams, mobilizing a proper force took time.
Though he had intentionally leaked false coordinates to draw them out into a trap, it would still take a few days for the fish to bite.
And Liu Yang had no intention of wasting those days sitting around.