I manage female characters in all the heavens.

Emotional trauma can indirectly manifest in physical health.

Although it does not cause physical damage, the disruption of nerve signals and stress response can place a substantial burden on the brain.

If psychological trauma accumulates to a certain extent, the body will directly determine "brain death," thus resulting in actual death.

Qiu Shi stood behind him, his hands clenched so tightly that his knuckles turned white: "It seems that Ao Deng is in bad shape. Can you pull him back?"

"I'll give it a try." Xia Tianlai took a deep breath, switched his finger to the main control panel of the operation interface, and clicked the preset "Logout" button.

Chapter 202 Let me show you what elementary school students can do!

A confirmation window pops up on the holographic screen, flashing a blood-red triangular warning sign.

Summer arrived and he pressed confirm without hesitation.

The machine emitted a low hum, and the indicator light on the helmet changed from a dark blue to a rapidly flashing orange, as it began to attempt to extract the mental signals of Ulan Aodeng from the system's records.

one second.

two seconds.

three seconds.

The orange indicator light suddenly dimmed and turned a blinding red, and a failure alarm suddenly blared in the cramped brain-computer interface!

"What?!" Xia Tianlai's eyes widened suddenly, his bloodshot eyeballs almost popping out of their sockets.

He quickly typed a series of manual commands into the control panel, trying to bypass the automatic system's restrictions and force log out, but each attempt failed.

“This…this…” His voice began to tremble, “The one-way firewall I set up is still there, but the identification module is completely unable to lock onto Aoden’s mental signal!”

He suddenly looked up, staring intently at the spectrum analysis chart on the monitor: "The outer edge of Hai Sang's mental world is enveloped by an extremely active layer of mental signals, like a cocoon, completely blocking my detection signals!"

"I simply cannot lock onto Oden's mental signal, nor can I forcibly pull him away!"

Qiu Shi's previously composed face instantly turned ashen: "Didn't you say your insurance was foolproof?!"

"I..." Xia Tian opened her mouth, but found that she couldn't say anything to defend herself.

He had always touted himself as the most skilled person in Longgu Village in the medical and related fields, but in this situation, his proud technical skills were as fragile as paper.

The unique mechanisms of action of certain source potentials are beyond the scope of current scientific and technological analysis.

It's not that his technology is bad; it's that the technology of the entire world is bad.

After a few seconds of silence, Nanjixing asked, "Can we physically sever the connection and forcibly disconnect?"

"No!" Xia Tianlai stood up agitatedly. "Forcibly severing the physical connection will cause Ao Deng's spiritual body to lose its homing coordinates and become completely lost in Hai Sang's spiritual world! That would be tantamount to killing him!"

"What do we do now?" Qiu Shi paced back and forth, his steps quickening. "Ao Deng is seriously injured inside, and we're just standing outside like idiots, unable to do anything?!"

"How the hell am I supposed to know what to do!" Xia Tianlai slammed his fist on the control panel, the metal panel making a heavy thud, and several indicator lights flickered a few times as he hit it.

He hadn't been this anxious in years. The last time he lost his composure like this was when he failed to revive his wife.

The three powerful officials in Longgu Village, each ruling their own territory, were now in this small joint ward, as anxious as ants on a hot pan, but none of them could come up with a feasible solution.

Just as they were in a state of panic and despair, the heavy iron door to the ventricle was kicked open from the outside!

The iron gate slammed against the wall with a loud bang!

The three of them turned around at the same time and saw a little girl wearing a red hoodie and with her hair in a ponytail striding in.

The little falcon she named "Ulanchagai" was still perched on her shoulder. The little creature tilted its head and looked at the people in the room with its round eyes.

"Mai Duo?!" Qiu Shi's eyes widened. "How could you..."

“I know everything,” Maido said in a tone that suggested she knew no one.

She walked to the center of the room, her gaze sweeping over Ulan Aodeng and Ulan Haisang lying on the hospital bed, before returning to Xia Tianlai's face: "I've always known that Lao Deng wants to save his brother's brain."

“Then you…” Antarctic Star frowned.

“I didn’t tell him because if I showed that I knew, Old Deng would worry about me and get distracted.” Mado shrugged. “Being a good daughter who is kept in the dark is what he wants, so I gave it to him.”

She paused, her gaze shifting to the chaotic waveforms on the holographic screen: "But now, it seems he still needs some help from his daughter."

"Connect me to the brain too. I'll go to the mental world and bring out that useless old Deng and my brother."

Qiu Shi paused for two seconds, then shook her head violently: "No! Mai Duo, you can't go! Before your father went in, he repeatedly told us that if anything happened to him, we must take good care of you! If you go in now, wouldn't that be letting his wishes go to waste!"

"You won't be of any help even if you go in!" Xia Tianlai exclaimed excitedly. "That's a spiritual entity with all of Jiu Feng's combat experience. Even your old man Deng can't beat her. What can you do if you go in? Go and die?"

"Maido" crossed her arms and tilted her head slightly: "So, you want me to stay in the classroom and do my homework, and then wait for my dad and brother to both become vegetable people, or simply become that woman?"

Her words silenced all three of them.

“I want to go in,” Maido said, enunciating each word clearly, leaving no room for negotiation.

“You can help me, or you can keep arguing here and wait until Old Deng dies, then see how I treat you uncles and aunts who watched my father and brother die.”

The group argued incessantly in the brainwashing room. "Maido" insisted on going in, but the old folks refused to let her.

"No means no!" Qiu Shi waved his hand sharply. "Do you want Ao Deng to jump out of his coffin and curse us even after he dies?"

Maido stared at them for a few seconds, then sighed softly, "Fine, you win."

She turned around and walked out of the brain ward without looking back.

Xia Tianlai breathed a long sigh of relief and patted his chest: "Finally, I managed to persuade this little devil to leave... Let's think of another way, try other frequencies, maybe that will work."

The group got to work together.

Not long after.

"No, it's not good!"

A young staff member stumbled and scrambled into the brain-connection room, stammering, "The spare brain-connection device in cabinet number two... is gone!"

"What?!" Xia Tianlai jumped up from his chair!

The gears in his mind meshed rapidly in that instant, and the image of Maido's unusual, blissfully exhilarating surrender flashed before his eyes.

That girl had no intention of persuading them at all! From the very beginning, she planned to steal the brain-connecting device and do it herself!

"Damn it!" Xia Tian cursed, a curse he hadn't uttered in decades, and then ran out!

Qiu Shi and Nan Ji Xing followed closely behind, their footsteps echoing in the corridor like a series of rapid drumbeats.

Using the surveillance footage, they quickly located "Maido's" location.

They walked through the corridors of the medical area, rushed across the playground in front of the school, and finally found the person they were looking for in a dilapidated tool shed filled with discarded junk behind the school.

But it was too late.

On the floor of the tool shed lay a hard wooden board that she had dragged from somewhere, with a layer of cotton wadding torn from an old school uniform haphazardly spread on it as a cushion.

The 11-year-old girl lay quietly on the hard wooden board, with a brain-connecting device on her head, and was already unconscious.

She actually teamed up with Xia Dou, Jiu Ge, and other kids from the school to assemble a rudimentary device and successfully stole a wire from a spare brain-connecting device stolen from the ward to enter the brain!

Compared to the converter modified by Xia Tianlai and others, this device truly deserves the title of "wasteland style".

The main body is the core module salvaged from discarded equipment, while the messy brackets, wire connectors, power adapters, and other peripheral components are clearly makeshift, handmade parts.

A bunch of wires of different colors were exposed, haphazardly wrapped with insulating tape, and various indicator lights were flashing at an extremely unstable frequency, as if they were about to explode at any moment.

Xia Dou and a group of friends, along with Jiu Ge, a dozen or so people, were squatting next to the wooden plank, clutching screwdrivers and pliers. When they saw the three Zhang Hengs descending from the sky, they were so frightened that they trembled all over.

"You—" Qiu Shi pointed at Xia Dou and Jiu Ge, her voice trembling with anger, "Do you even know what you're doing!"

Xia Dou shrank back, but still mustered up the courage to mutter, "It was...it was Mai Duo who forced us to do it..."

Jiu Ge silently put the pliers on the ground and then said, "I am helping voluntarily. Do with me as you see fit."

I'm not afraid to let you know, but right now I feel very guilty and I have to do something for Maido!

Nanjixing silently walked forward, squatted down, and reached out to check Maiduo's breathing as she lay on the wooden board—her breathing was steady. He then flipped her eyelids over—her pupils were already in a fully dilated state of deep sleep.

He stood up and slowly shook his head at Xia Tianlai and Qiu Shi: "They're inside. If we cut off contact now, the consequences will be the same as Ao Deng's."

The tool shed was silent for a few seconds.

Xia Tianlai suddenly squatted down and carefully examined the "homemade brain-connected system." A few seconds later, he didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "The design concept and plan... were actually correct."

"Although it's shockingly rudimentary, the circuit logic is complete, the signal conversion is correct, all the core parameters are present, and even basic filtering to shield against interference has been implemented..."

"Have the students at the All-Science Academy become this terrifying?"

It's not just a technical problem; this group of kids secretly pulled a cable from the medical room, and they only just discovered it now. Their efficiency is astonishing!

Qiu Shi took a deep breath, swallowing back all her anger and helplessness, and turned to the staff who had rushed over, saying, "Go, bring over the medical facility's mobile device and transfer her to the proper brain-connecting device."

"Also, lock these 14 brats in solitary confinement and give them a good talking-to!"

Xia Dou looked pitifully at Xia Tianlai: "Dad..."

Summer was furious and started rambling incoherently: "Go to solitary confinement! I don't have a father like you!"

Before long, "Maido" was carefully moved to another bed in the ward and switched to regular equipment.

Xia Tian glanced at the gradually stabilizing waveform on the screen. "The signal strength is unexpectedly high, and this was achieved using such rudimentary equipment... This girl's mental strength is far superior to her father's."

"If we had agreed to her request earlier and used proper equipment to connect her brain directly, the success rate might have been quite high."

Qiu Shi stood to the side, arms crossed, her expression a complex mix of emotions: "It's no use saying anything now, it's too late. All we can do now is pray for her success."

"...How much of a chance do you think she has?"

Xia Tianlai was silent for a moment, then spoke the truth: "I don't know. But since her mental strength is higher than Ao Deng's, and her martial arts skills are quite good, then at least she's no worse than Ao Deng."

"With the father and daughter working together, their chances of winning are naturally much greater."

"All we can do now is wait."

The group exchanged glances and all sighed.

They actually had to rely on a young girl to save the day in this way; they've failed in their duty...

Chapter 203 A Terrible Experience, Terrifyingly Strong

Due to the rudimentary equipment, the experience of "Maido" connecting to the brain was not very good, completely different from the instant arrival at the destination via Ulan Aodengxiu.

She felt as if she had been stuffed into a high-speed spinning washing machine, being tossed around and turned, her internal organs churning violently.