My Card Girl's Infinite Evolution

Lou Sheng carried the mechanical maiden on his back and, after confirming the location of Dr. Jack on the map, made his way toward it.

The wasteland world, apart from the cyberpunk city floating in the sky, also had many wasteland city-states. As the name suggests, these city-states were established by scavengers and those unable to obtain a green card for the Sky City. Naturally, the wasteland city-states served the Sky City by providing vast amounts of resources, while the Sky City protected them and provided some technology, funds, and violent institutions.

The nearest city was called Detroit, and it was where Dr. Jack's city-state was located.

"Doctor, how is she?"

Lou Sheng found the clinic and entered, where he saw a middle-aged man with a rough beard wearing a white coat.

Dr. Jack placed the mechanical maiden on the operating table, and mechanical arms began scanning her. He then glanced at Lou Sheng and the adorably naive Acoley.

He took a look at the display monitor on the operating table and replied, "At least her reproductive organs are intact."

"Uh..." Lou Sheng froze for a moment.

It was clear that Dr. Jack had mistaken him for some rich young master seeking excitement, especially with Acoley, who appeared so cute beside him.

Lou Sheng wasn't like that, but he secretly sighed with relief. The mechanical maiden was still human at least.

Dr. Jack said, "She's severely injured. These cybernetic limbs are all damaged, and her body is extremely weak. I can help replace her limbs."

"Thank you, Doctor."

Lou Sheng apologized and handed over the mechanical coins he had collected.

Dr. Jack became even more nimble, immediately using the best prosthetics in his clinic to replace the maiden's limbs, and installed a high-powered biological lung. He repaired her physical ailments, and she regained a bit of her former radiance, but she was still in a deep coma.

"If you don't have a place to stay, you can stay here with her. I have a spare room upstairs."

Dr. Jack could tell that Lou Sheng wasn't from around here, nor was he from the Sky City, so he offered a room in the clinic as a way to drum up some business and make a little extra money.

Lou Sheng naturally agreed and nodded.

However, when Lou Sheng saw Dr. Jack's excellent mechanical repair skills, a new idea formed in his mind.

Lou Sheng took the [00-2 Human Combat Armor] from his card box and handed it to Dr. Jack, saying, "Can this suit of armor be upgraded?"

Dr. Jack appraised the armor and casually said, "This armor is too basic, upgrading it is quite easy, but if you want the best materials, the price will be high."

Lou Sheng confirmed his suspicion that other mechanical cards could be upgraded in this wasteland world, meaning that in a card world, cards related to the world could also be strengthened.

However, he was currently in a bit of a bind since the treatment and repairs for the mechanical maiden had already cost him a large number of mechanical coins.

Dr. Jack seemed to notice his predicament, "Some small changes can be made with little money, but for a large-scale upgrade, you'll need to gather more funds."

Lou Sheng agreed and nodded.

He then asked Dr. Jack how to make money quickly, and Dr. Jack gave him the simplest advice: become a bounty hunter.

The population in the wasteland city-states was mixed, and there were all sorts of people living there, inevitably leading to crime. Since the mechanical police from the Sky City couldn't effectively stop the crime, bounty hunter organizations were set up to combat it.

During Alice's coma, Lou Sheng gathered information in the wasteland city-state and registered as a bounty hunter at the headquarters, successfully becoming a hunter.

With Acoley's help, Lo Sheng successfully hunted down a criminal and earned a substantial bounty, which he then handed over to Dr. Jack to further upgrade the combat armor.

Lo Sheng was very clear about his goal: this suit of armor was both a weapon and a defensive suit to protect his life.

He knew he had to take it seriously.

Dr. Jack also didn't hesitate. As long as the money was in place, he would replace the armor's parts with better components, even miniaturizing the Hall Thruster and distributing it on the palms and soles of the armor.

He also improved the armor's insulation and replaced the long sword with a silver ion folding long sword, making the armor more lightweight.

…

Three days later.

The mechanical maiden slowly awoke, finding herself lying on a soft bed. A handsome, fatigued young man sat on a single sofa beside her.

He seemed to sense her awakening and opened his eyes. "You're awake. How do you feel?"

The mechanical maiden asked, "How did I end up here?"

"You were found in a garbage heap, and I brought you here to Dr. Jack to get you saved," Lo Sheng briefly explained.

"Thank you..."

The mechanical maiden muttered her thanks but then fell into a daze.

Lo Sheng looked at her curiously and then asked, "What's your name? Where are you from?"

"Alice," the mechanical maiden replied, then looked blankly, unable to remember anything else.

After repeatedly confirming with her, Lo Sheng discovered that the mechanical maiden named Alice had complete amnesia. She only remembered her name and had forgotten everything else, like a blank slate.

However, there was an upside: Alice, in her amnesiac state, immediately formed a certain dependency on Lo Sheng when she first saw him.

Lo Sheng didn't hesitate. That night, while hunting down a criminal, he brought Alice along to let her experience being a bounty hunter.

Unexpectedly, Alice, who had been watching from the sidelines, seemed to awaken some kind of instinct.

While Lo Sheng was fighting a criminal with a bounty of 50,000 mechanical coins, Alice, seeing Lo Sheng struggling with the criminal, jumped in and used powerful jiu-jitsu to crush the criminal.

Lo Sheng immediately took her back to the clinic.

After Dr. Jack examined her, he told them, "She's likely a soldier from the military. She has stored high-level mechanical jiu-jitsu techniques lost fifty years ago. She's naturally a combat expert."

Dr. Jack didn't mind that Alice was a relic of the military and didn't kick them out. Instead, he told them about events from the past.

Fifty years ago, a world-changing war broke out between the Mars Federation and the Blue Star Alliance, leading to an extended conflict that turned the universe into a sea of flames. In the end, both sides suffered nearly catastrophic damage, with 80% of the world destroyed. Countless innocent lives were lost, and technology took a massive step backward.

Neither side was able to continue the war, and a peace agreement was reluctantly signed.

However, after the war, the world order had already collapsed. Only a few Sky Cities remained, maintaining order across the various continents of the world. People gathered around the Sky Cities, and this led to the current chaotic and crumbling state of the world.

Alice was likely a super soldier transformed during that war.

"I see." Lou Sheng now had a new understanding of this world.

In the following days, Lou Sheng continued to take Alice on bounty hunter missions. Gradually, she learned to hunt criminals under Lou Sheng's identity.

Lou Sheng also used some of the money he earned to rent a room from Dr. Jack and asked him to take good care of Alice.

Dr. Jack nodded in agreement.

But Alice seemed reluctant, "Are you leaving? I know you don't belong here, but I didn't expect you to leave so soon."

Lou Sheng gently stroked the golden locks of her hair and her delicate face, comforting her, "Although I have my reasons for leaving, I will come back."

Alice eventually accepted and told Lou Sheng she would wait for him at the clinic.

Lou Sheng left the clinic and found a secluded place to exit this world.

In his perception, the wasteland mechanical world and his card world had a ratio of 15:1. In other words, while fifteen days passed in the card world, only one day passed in his original world.

The cards in his hand continued to evolve.

After Lou Sheng left, Alice became increasingly strong. She continued to use Lou Sheng's bounty hunter identity to fight various criminals.

One day, she attracted the attention of an organ trafficking organization. Surrounded by them, she was caught in a fierce battle.

The last scene froze on her fighting the enemy.

The white card in Lou Sheng's hand also began to glow, eventually transforming into a bronze card: [Battle Maiden - Alice].