Ling Cage: Twelve Talismans? I have everything I need.

Chapter 57 New Body

Upon hearing Bai Yuekui's question, Bai Yuetian fell silent, and the screen in the life support pod went dark again.

Bai Yuekui's gaze swept over the carefully disassembled precision parts and exposed interfaces, and she remained silent for a few seconds.

"These locations."

Bai Yuekui looked at Ash. Since his older brother wasn't going to say anything, he would just ask Ash directly.

ASH wore a helpless smile.

“Yes, just as you guessed, Yue Kui.” She picked up a new type of sensor with an unusually complex structure that was shimmering with a faint light from the corner of the workbench.

It was clearly intended to be placed inside Bai Yuetian's life support capsule.

ASH explained, "Yue Tian wants to upgrade the sensors. He said that the current sensors don't capture enough realism in terms of external information, especially in simulating ultra-fine sensory information. They are still far from the immersive experience he is pursuing."

"He asked me to modify the sensors to achieve a perception experience that is closer to the perfect one that Yue Tian envisioned."

Bai Yuekui fell silent.

She slowly turned her head, her cold gaze fixed on the life support pod that remained black on the screen, pretending to be an ordinary metal sphere.

Are you going to keep playing dead?

Hearing Bai Yuekui say that, Bai Yuetian could no longer pretend.

The screen in the life support pod lit up with a "whoosh".

"ASH!" Bai Yuetian's synthesized voice suddenly rose, strongly denouncing ASH.

"How could you tell Yue Kui everything! You can't even keep a single secret! I'm his brother! You're on my side! Don't you understand the priority? You should listen to me first!"

The life support pod even bounced a little on the workbench, making a soft "clunk" sound.

Bai Yuekui watched as her older brother unreasonably "bullied" ASH.

Then look at Ash's extremely aggrieved appearance; a vein on his forehead seems to throb.

She took a deep breath, seemingly feeling that arguing with her proud brother about sensor upgrades was a complete waste of time.

She completely ignored Bai Yuetian's clamor, her tone resolute and brooking no argument.

"Alright, stop fiddling with that junk."

"You bastard, how dare you call your brother trash!" Bai Yuetian cursed.

Bai Yuekui ignored her and raised her hand, pointing her fingertips upwards.

"The materials currently available at the ecological base, whether bioactive substrates or biomimetic sensing units, have performance parameters comparable to those of the old world. Rather than you continuing to stay in this life support capsule, we would rather build you a new body."

"Didn't you want realism?"

Bai Yuekui reached out and lifted Bai Yuetian, turning his body around so that his gaze was fixed on a large life support pod not far away.

There was a man lying peacefully inside.

“Or, to put it more simply,” she said, looking at the life support pod, “if you really dislike being outside your own body, go back to your own body. I can perform a brain transplant on you right now.”

"Orange is here too, so don't worry about anything going wrong."

"I..." Bai Yuetian hesitated.

“Grey stayed inside my body, and I felt so uncomfortable.”

Bai Yuekui turned his screen back to face himself: "Then move to the new body."

He remained silent for a full three seconds, and the screen turned into a chaotic jumble of static.

Finally, the snowflakes disappeared, and a constantly rotating spiral pattern appeared on the screen. "A new...new body..." Bai Yuetian's voice weakened noticeably, carrying a hint of lack of confidence.

"It sounds pretty...pretty good...but..."

He tried to find a reason to reject the new body earlier, "But creating a new body is so troublesome! There's also the need for adjustments, adaptation... it's just too much trouble! And this ball I'm in now... this life support pod is quite convenient to use..."

His voice grew softer and softer until it almost became a mumble.

"...Um, that body...ASH, do you have a ready-made version? Are you sure you have enough materials? Can you recreate my body one-to-one? After all, I'm so handsome, it's understandable if you can't recreate my handsomeness perfectly."

His attitude clearly showed that he was tempted, but he was still stubbornly trying to save face and confirm the details.

ASH looked up, her aggrieved expression still lingering, but upon hearing Bai Yuetian finally relent, she immediately nodded.

"Yes, Yue Tian, ​​my current computing power is sufficient to completely restore it for you."

"Hmph, since ASH has said so..." Bai Yuetian muttered, and the life support pod shook slightly.

"Well... let's see how it goes. But let's make it clear first, if the accuracy isn't good enough, I won't..."

"It's settled then." Bai Yuekui didn't even give him a chance to finish speaking before making the final decision.

She released her grip on the life support capsule, letting it fall back onto the workbench with a thud.
Bai Yuetian immediately let out a dissatisfied "Ouch!"

She then turned to ASH, her tone crisp and decisive: "ASH, now have them call upon his original physiological parameter model from your database to begin manufacturing."

She glanced at the starry white moonlight on the screen: "...Use the data from his old file, so he won't complain again."

“Okay, then I’ll tell them to prepare now,” ASH nodded.

"By the way, is there any progress on Mana's first appearance?"

The entire ecological base here is under ASH's jurisdiction. All that's needed is to send a wisp of consciousness to notify the researchers above; there's no need for me to go there myself.

Her true form remained on this floor; Mana's original body was behind the door of this laboratory, which ASH had been monitoring.

"As always, the initial body only shows obvious fluctuations when Yang Chen arrives." After saying that, ASH glanced at Yang Chen standing to the side.

Bai Yuekui pondered for a moment and said, "Well, let's do it this way then. ASH, go and make the preparations. We'll go back after my brother is transplanted into the new body."

"Okay, Yue Kui, I'll go prepare now."

ASH walked to the opposite side of Bai Yuetian's original body, where there was a device that connected ASH to the entire database.

She had her back to the equipment, from which several pipes gradually extended, connecting to the interface on the back of the ASH.

Bai Yuekui walked to the life support pod containing Bai Yuetian's original body, and looked through the transparent pod cover at the sleeping man inside, whose features bore a resemblance to hers.

Her eyes were calm and still, her fingertips unconsciously tracing the cold hatch.

Bai Yuetian looked at Bai Yuekui, his tone tinged with amusement: "What kind of expressions do you think those people would have if I went back into my body and then ran up to Tartarus?"

Bai Yuekui glanced back and said, "Boring."

"Hey~ you boring guy."

Bai Yuetian reached out his hand and tried to turn his body to look at Yang Chen: "Chengzi, you must feel bored being with her, right?"

"If you keep talking, Yue Kui will have ASH make your new body a little more unique."

Yang Chen stepped forward, picked up Bai Yuetian's life support capsule, and examined it.

"She dares!?" Bai Yuetian shouted.

Although his voice was loud, it was easy to tell from his tone that he was still somewhat afraid.

(End of this chapter)