Li Pan used the silver key to open the door, walking into the dark and sweltering machine room.
On both sides inside the door, rows and rows of Hacker bio-access pods piled together. At a glance, they looked like enormous snake eggs, with connection lines coiling around the pods like blood vessels, linking one end to the central server and the other deep inside the network's ecological pod.
Upon closer inspection, inside the bio-pods filled with the orange-red LCL solution, those connection line ends could barely be seen, curled up like a human body trapped within a cocoon, resembling an embryo still being nurtured in a maternal body but not yet fully formed.
Yes, Whisperer's Artificial Humans, all of them are, but compared to Li Pan, who's just a temp worker, they're much worse off because they're not even considered 'Hackers,' rather more aptly described as a group of eight biological components, the foundational computing units for the Yamata no Orochi project.
