Becoming A Tech Tycoon Begins With Regression novel Chapter 95

Chapter 95: ONI [2]: Completed

Ethan soon found himself back in the lab again, Irina had also returned to the hotel where she currently stayed after their ’talk’.

’Talk’ being loosely used here since Irina refused to take his advice...well, not really an advice but still.

Anyway, back to the lab. Ethan made sure he was completely disinfected before putting on the lab coat and a new pair of latex gloves. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

He approached his cryo container where he had previously stored the half completed ONI and slowly moved it towards the microassembler.

Taking out the lenses out, they looked almost completely done, save for the lines of graphene that visibly passed through it and it’s subtle glow, all of which Ethan was going to adjust.

With a pair of precision hand tools he adjusted the lines, careful not to mess anything up else he’d risk resetting his progress and starting over again.

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The hours quickly passed and with no one to disturb him, he soon completed ONI and the system was the first to congratulate him.

[Congratulations on creating a tech not from the system’s shop, tech has been successfully registered in your status screen.

Rewards:

+50 SP, +10 Biotech & Genetic engineering proficiency.]

[Would you like to see your status screen?] The system asked.

’Not yet,’ Ethan leaned back on his chair, ’give me a second.’

As much as he wanted to celebrate this wind, his mind wouldn’t let him. Not until he was completely sure it worked.

On the work table before him was what seemed to be subtly glowing lenses encased in what seemed to be a jel like substance.

Ethan then proceeded to swap the latex gloves on his hands for a new one before he slowly moved the lenses towards him.

There would be one of two results if he tried putting them on right now, either it works as intended or they just completely fey his eye balls, which did not sound so appealing.

But despite his better judgement, he was going to put them on anyway... Why?

Well, one he was eager to see the capabilities of a physical piece of tech created with his own hands and two, he didn’t exactly have a lab rat, one that was preferably human, so he could only test this on himself.

Though, he intended for that to change in the future.

Carefully, he picked up the irises and tilted his head a bit upwards before putting it in and blinking to steady it.

At first, it felt pretty weird, since he could feel the foreign object in his eyes, but it would only take some getting used to so he didn’t mind.

Picking up the other, he put it in his left eye and also blinked to adjust it.

The connection was already established the moment he put it in his eyes, so he only needed to activate them.

This was the moment of truth.

Ethan blinked, his vision briefly distorting as if reality had been split into panes of glass. Then, just like that, the world snapped back into focus, only this time it was a lot clearer and detailed.

One part of his mind was cataloging every sensory detail in the room, another was running probability scenarios of ONI’s failure rate, a third was recalling his conversation with Irina word for word, and the rest filled in with calculations, future planning, and even idle daydreams.

It was terrifyingly liberating.

He raised his hand in front of his face. With one ’mind,’ he focused on the fine wrinkles of his knuckles.

At the same time, two other minds were already sketching out optimizations for ONI’s next iteration.

"...Holy shit," Ethan muttered.

His voice came out in unison with the thought-thread that was still silently running through half a dozen equations. He didn’t even stutter or need to pause any of the two.

He also discovered that he could assign multiple tasks to a single ’mind’ while keeping the rest idle and he wouldn’t get anything more than a slight headache.

But the tests were far from done, there were still a few capabilities of ONI that needed testing, but before he could get to them, a warning screen popped up before him.

(Warning: Extended use of more than three minds at a time may cause disorientation, identity drift, or emotional fragmentation. User discretion advised.)

Well, the side effects were not completely unexpected, they were even tame compared to what he was expecting.

"Alright then," He stated, "let’s run more tests."