Being able to repair means being able to modify, to establish a stable connection with the human brain's neurons.
And the final research data shows—although it cannot completely replace the user's consciousness data, and even during overwriting, it may lead to permanent brain death, or leave the brain alive but turn the person into a madman or fool, among other issues.
But the Relic Chip can indeed write certain consciousness data into the user's brain.
From some records of the research data, some researchers have already attempted to implant data such as 'psychological suggestions', 'subconsciousness' into the user's brain.
Although this type of experiment hasn't been successful, the data shows that some related thoughts indeed appeared in the subjects' minds.
This means the Relic Chip can already achieve relatively safe and stable data transmission to the human brain.
It's just that this technology doesn't align with Arasaka's research goals of 'forced brainwashing' and 'consciousness overwriting', so this technological breakthrough is considered a 'technical accumulation' and temporarily shelved.
Because those important figures who can afford the Relic Chip do not need to use this thing to stuff things into their brains.
And using it for low-level soldiers or employees to reduce learning costs? If Arasaka was so kind-hearted, would Mercer have needed to run away overnight with the child?
After reading this, Mercer made up his mind.
He needed to study the Relic Chip technology carefully.
Even if it was just to facilitate faster and more convenient knowledge acquisition.
And to achieve this, besides studying the knowledge, Mercer also needed to tackle another crucial piece of knowledge—the Soulkiller Program.
Otherwise, just the hardware Relic Chip couldn't manage to automatically output to the human brain by simply downloading the program.
It requires the accompanying Soulkiller Program to input consciousness into the human brain, and even further, modify brain neurons as per the program's settings.
With this in mind, Mercer simply disconnected from the deep dive.
Back in reality, he opened Zeta Technology's official website from his laptop.
In the field of computer and network equipment, Zeta Technology has been way ahead since the 20th century. Nowadays, there are indeed some competitors, but those competitors have some technical advantages only in specific areas.
However, Zeta Technology can ensure that all its equipment is at the top level. Considering the compatibility, repair, and usage habits of the tools, Mercer has basically gotten used to purchasing all equipment related to the computer field from Zeta Technology.
Mercer looked around the mall on Zeta Technology's website, originally intending to buy some equipment for researching the Soulkiller Program and the Relic Chip.
But after browsing the entire mall interface and getting ready to check out, he found that his shopping cart was already filled with various equipment worth over two hundred thousand euros.
Then Mercer, with a dark face, deleted some items that were temporarily unnecessary and could be purchased as needed later, and started browsing the server prices sold by Zeta Technology.
The base is currently under renovation and remodeling, so he must plan the size of the server room in advance and ask the Adcardo people to set up the power system for him.
He also has to consider the cooling environment and add a separate large air conditioner for the underground base's server room.
Otherwise, frequent tripping or incorrect cable specifications would be troublesome and require redoing the work.
After looking at the prices of server units sold by Zeta Technology for a while, Mercer's suspended heart finally gave out.
"How much has this Voodoo Gang earned exactly?"
Mercer couldn't help but curse, a hint of ferocity flashing in his eyes: "Why not just rob these bastards..."
"Calm down, Mercer... There are nearly a hundred people permanently stationed near the Voodoo Gang's building." Lucy said helplessly, afraid that he would slam the table and call V.
Do not be misled by Mercer cursing the Voodoo Gang's incompetence all the time; they may be disorganized, but their strength is not a joke.
Mercer still showed displeasure, muttering, "So in the end, brothers robbed two company dogs and can only afford a few small server sets to make do..."
You should know that in the game, every similar security room that players hack into is equipped with several small server units.
The kind that looks like a rectangular glass cabinet containing rows of rectangular machines inside.
That is a typical small server unit built using rack servers.
Each small server in such a small server unit varies in price, mainly determined by the components' prices inside such small servers like CPU, GPU, and storage hard drives.
Ordinary people or some ordinary companies and gang organizations might just need to buy those small servers costing a few hundred euros each to cobble together a few units.
But such amateur-level small servers are merely toys for a professional hacker like Mercer.
His hacker chair is equivalent to a high-priced advanced server, whose computing power surpasses those junk units tenfold.
And the kind of small server that meets Mercer's standards, which is an enterprise-level small server, a single rack server about the size of a laptop costs thirty thousand euros each.
A single unit, considering the standard server rack configuration, can hold at least 12 inside.
That means two hundred and sixty thousand for a small server unit, and only the computing power provided by such a unit can surpass Mercer's hacker chair by about twice.