Chapter 736: Chapter 735: Alternative Approach

Shilude took a few minutes to thoroughly adjust to her new shell, then began to cooperate with the technicians on site for a series of tests.

Yu Sheng and Erin were watching the spectacle from the side. They observed Shilude connected with a dazzling array of cables, sitting idly on the assembly platform and occasionally moving her limbs according to prompts from the testers. The former Black Spot Scientist, who had been wielding incense just moments ago, started muttering incessantly to the data terminal. Yu Sheng listened on the side and basically summarized the technician’s amazement into three directions:

What is this? How does it work? What’s the principle?

Clearly, although the tech team on site managed to activate the production facilities left by the Hidden Monastery, they were still baffled by the mystical technology left behind by those old hacks.

Yu Sheng figured they could keep themselves busy here for quite a while.

Once the basic tests concluded, Shilude casually stripped away the testing cables attached to her. The technicians clad in lab coats, cherishing the data as if it were treasure, left the room to continue calibrating that heap of equipment in the adjacent workshop, leaving the room quiet for a moment.

Luna and Shilude huddled together, whispering about something, while Yu Sheng stroked his chin, looking somewhat deep in thought since earlier.

The small puppet tugged at his clothes, quickly clambering onto his shoulder: "Yu Sheng, what are you thinking?"

"I’m contemplating a question," Yu Sheng looked up at Shilude chatting with Luna, "Now that we’ve successfully transferred a mind body into a blank artificial saintess shell, can this process be reversed? If it can be reversed, can it be done in a criss-cross manner?"

Erin’s expression suddenly turned blank, and the small puppet pondered deeply for a while before hesitantly asking, "What do you mean?"

"Free ’upload’ and ’download’ for artificial saintesses and brass knights," Yu Sheng clapped his hands, "What if we stored a bunch of blank saintess and knight bodies, since their bodies are mass-produced from hardware anyway, and during battles, we temporarily upload consciousnesses into them, and if damaged, send them back for repair, and if beyond repair, simply switch them out..."

Erin blinked dumbfoundedly, then turned to find Luna and Shilude also stopped talking, both staring over here in astonishment.

"Can it really be done?" the small puppet finally exclaimed, "Hey, wait, this actually makes some sense... why didn’t we think of this before?!"

"Come on, we only had Luna as an artificial saintess before, and just one iron coffin," Yu Sheng spread his hands, "Now you know how lively the Soul Wilderness has become."

With that, he waved Luna and Shilude over.

Boundary Land’s Idea King’s initiative was beyond doubt, and Yu Sheng’s straightforward gaze with a pinch of anticipation made Shilude, still not fully accustomed to the company culture, shiver instinctively, and she turned to Luna, asking, "What, what to do?"

"The master’s ideas are often quite constructive," Luna, who was clearly used to this, spoke slowly while giving Shilude a pat on the shoulder, "Switch."

"Switch what..."

Shilude instinctively uttered two words before Luna dragged her within the Soul Wilderness to the mirrored door, where they proceeded to investigate.

Yu Sheng had no clue what they were studying, but in the real world, he saw Luna and Shilude, hand in hand, suddenly zoning out for half a minute before their mechanical bodies started emitting all sorts of buzzing and beeping sounds, and the glowing mechanical eyeballs flickered.

Erin, watching on the side, leapt in fright, instinctively hugging Yu Sheng’s head: "What the hell, is this going to explode?! Doesn’t this sound off..."

Before she could finish her sentence, "Shilude" suddenly raised her head, her gaze turning here: "Just attempting to switch consciousness transfer, needs adaptation."

Erin stood stunned for a moment: "...You’re C-type buckle?!"

Yu Sheng couldn’t help but remind her: "By your standards, all artificial saintesses are C-type buckles."

Erin blinked, her mind nearly short-circuiting: "True, oh..."

Yu Sheng’s gaze lingered on Luna and Shilude, evaluating them for a long time in awe: "It actually worked?"

Shilude’s tone carried astonishment: "...Wasn’t this your proposal? You didn’t even have confidence in it yourself?"

"You’ll get used to it later on, our organization generally moves forward by pondering," the small puppet waved dismissively, suddenly realizing something, and widened eyes at Luna, "Wait a minute, I just realized, so your stutter wasn’t a hardware malfunction?! You still stutter even with a different body?"

Luna glanced at Erin, speaking slowly: "I’ve never claimed to have, a hardware malfunction."

"So what’s up with your stuttering?"

"I don’t know," Luna said honestly, "As soon as I’m in the real world, I just can’t seem to speak properly."

As they spoke, a flicker passed in the eyes of Luna and Shilude, and they swapped bodies once again.

The process of switching the second time was significantly smoother than before.

"You guys really switch bodies without a second thought," Erin remarked in amazement, "I thought you’d at least do some psychological preparation."

"This shell..." Luna raised her hand, looking at her familiar mechanical arm, "It’s just a container, once detestable, now reliable, that’s all."

"Our essence is in the Soul Wilderness," Shilude nodded along, "We’re part of the travel agency’s Heroic Spirit Legion, so in the real world, all we need is a usable shell."

Erin thought for a moment: "Well, your mental state seems pretty healthy..."

Yu Sheng didn’t know how the little thing came to the conclusion of a "healthy mental state," but watching Luna and Shilude swapping bodies back and forth again, he still felt embarrassed to say anything...

...

Three days later, Original Saint Realm, Black Star.

A brand-new space structure had anchored itself in the orbit of Black Star—it was shaped like a silver-gray tower standing in space. The contour on the side of the tower resembled a slender sail, with arrays of antennas and a radiation-capturing array extending into the dark space on its surface, surrounded by numerous lights; those were the drones defending Star Castle and the coprocessing satellites enhancing the antenna arrays.

As Baili Qing and Red had promised earlier, Boundary Land provided a Star Castle to serve as a research station for Luo—arriving with the Star Castle was also a research team jointly formed by Boundary Land and Feiyu Star Domain, plus a large number of cooperative units and auxiliary space structures to support Star Castle’s operation.

It was clear that this dark star, appearing in the real universe after the Saint Realm collapse, had indeed stirred many nerves.

And nearby this Star Castle were a pile of things that looked completely out of place—

These were pavilions and towers floating in the orbit of Black Star, surrounded by auspicious clouds and floating brilliance like jade palaces. They hovered beside the United Army’s space station and space port, and every now and then, some Immortal Boats could be seen flying out from the palace clusters, drawing close to Black Star to collect environmental parameters.

Fact proves, the veteran’s words were quite influential at the Taixu Spirit Hub, although he was awkwardly taken as a prisoner spouse, but once he mentioned researching Angel’s Tomb with Boundary Land’s top scientists (Erin suggested this name), True Man Yuanling rallied a few big sects to bring out their valuable resources, the facilities set up here were even more outrageous than the Star Castle.

On a "Star-picking Tower" that directly overlooks space, Yu Sheng led Hu Li and Erin to the railing.

A layer of misty luminescence enveloped this "Immortal Tower", inside the luminescence was a habitable environment maintained by the Five Elements Array, streams and springs flowed through artificial clouds outside the tower, and far away the silver-gray Star Castle could be seen standing in space, while the mysterious Black Star hung silently above all the structures, maintaining its usual enigmatic presence.

Master Yuan Hao came over from behind, holding a small box, and handed it to Yu Sheng: "This is a Spirit Nourishing Blood Supplement Pill personally refined by my junior brother, it’s highly effective but shouldn’t be taken too much..."

Yu Sheng reached out to receive the medicine box and curiously asked: "So, if you take too much you burst and die?"

"Not at all, modern alchemy is far safer than ancient elixir pills, hardly any severe side effects, just if you take too much you’ll get inflamed and prone to hemorrhoids."

Yu Sheng’s hand froze in mid-air with the medicine box, looking at the veteran thoughtfully for at least half a minute before he couldn’t help but speak: "No, hearing you cultivators say these words somehow makes it sound awkward... Do immortals get hemorrhoids too?"

"Not everyone starts off in the Foundation Establishment Realm, we all come from Qi Refining and Body Forging, inevitably having phases of flesh and blood," Master Yuan Hao replied calmly, "Back at Taixu Spirit Hub, there was even a Spirit Pile Master struggling with this even at the Spiritual Realm, thus leaving a trace in immortal history..."

"Alright, alright, this is getting ridiculous," Yu Sheng quickly stopped the veteran, lowering his head to look at the medicine box in his hand, suddenly muttering. Recently, due to increased production of Aileen’s Army, and with the Artificial Saintess and Brass Knight production lines restarted, his blood supply was running short, so he sought help from these alchemy immortals on Qianfeng Ling Mountain. Little did he expect to hear such tales.

But he only muttered for a couple of seconds before feeling relieved, thinking the mild side effect wouldn’t affect him much.

Sitting on his shoulder, Erin suddenly seemed to have guessed something. The little puppet turned her head suspiciously at Yu Sheng’s eyes: "You weren’t thinking of using death to prove hemorrhoids if you overdose, were you?"

Yu Sheng: "..."

Why does this little thing have a mouth?