The seating arrangent on the transport plane differed from that of a passenger jet; to facilitate etings, there were generally four seats placed facing each other.
Without turning his head, Wang Jixuan said, "Getting a little upgrade has fattened your courage, huh? You think I should look up to you?"
"How would Mu Dan dare," she replied.
Mu Dan turned to face Wang Jixuan and sat down with a giggly smile.
This was a demonstration posture she had learned from Shen Qionglin; her legs were kept together, calves laid to one side, and her even livelier pale hands were stacked on her knees, with the semblance of blood vessels subtly visible beneath her skin.
With a coquettish tone, Mu Dan said, "Commander~"
"Speak properly, don’t spout nonsense at ."
Wang Jixuan scolded with a laugh:
"If you want to report sothing related to your return to the factory for testing, then save so energy. I’m not interested in that."
Mu Dan pouted slightly in vexation, "Mu Dan also wants to thank the Commander. I heard that to save Mu Dan, you passionately debated with a bunch of professors for an entire day and night."
"Who told you that?"
"Captain Zheng."
"He’s talking nonsense, there was neither passion nor a day and a night..."
Wang Jixuan shrugged:
"Also, either put on your armor or a dress. Why are you running around in your underwear?"
"This is a pressure-resistant suit, a necessary prep before wearing armor, used to protect this precious imitation skin."
Mu Dan flaunted, raising her wrists:
"Commander, feel it."
"This part of the technology is banned from being promoted, to avoid confusion between humans and chanical bodies!"
"My suit is the only prototype version!"
Wang Jixuan grew sowhat curious, letting Mu Dan rest her hands flat as he gently poked her fingertips a few tis.
The touch was indeed not bad, indistinguishable from a human’s. What’s rare is the resilience when pressed down, and the soft indents that appeared, identical to real skin.
This prompted Wang Jixuan to inspect his housekeeper further using his Spiritual Sense.
In front of him sat a silver-white alloy skeleton, in the shape of a refined lady, with a pair of chanical eyes flashing red light.
Master Wang:...
Better just use eyes for looking.
Looking with eyes is at least more aesthetically pleasing.
"Mu Dan, have you adjusted your body asurents?"
"Have I?" Mu Dan stood up proudly, boasting her impressive artificial aesthetics, "To balance beauty and practicality, I secretly asked them to add so structure."
Wang Jixuan frowned and said, "Focus less on enhancents that aren’t beneficial to combat."
"Alright then."
"Is this all you’re reporting?"
"Of course not," Mu Dan cleared her throat, quickly regaining her serious deanor, "It’s a separate report concerning the autonomous machinery of the D5 Combined Combat Zone."
"Hmm?" Wang Jixuan was a bit stunned.
He puzzledly asked, "What direct relevance does this have to ?"
With careful choice of words, Mu Dan raised a finger and lightly tapped the air, creating a small sound barrier encompassing them both.
She said earnestly, "It does relate a bit, because during my upgrade, I accidentally accessed their control system."
"Control system?"
"Right," Mu Dan leaned forward slightly, whispering, "They didn’t notice that my soul... the Spiritual Body you ntioned, entered their data control center."
Wang Jixuan:...
What, hacking into one’s own systems?
"What did you find?"
"The Last Day Protocols! There are three layers of Last Day Protocols!"
Mu Dan looked unusually excited:
"The super-plan of the D5 Combined Combat Zone, with an incalculable number of chanical bodies, accumulated over fifty years, and the machinery warehouses maintain themselves!"
"The key to activating the Last Day Protocols is the brain of the Commander!"
Wang Jixuan was sowhat puzzled: "What do you an?"
"It ans, if the Commander doesn’t proactively issue commands to deactivate the three-fold Last Day Protocols, then upon the Commander’s brain death, all chanical bodies will activate."
Mu Dan spoke hastily:
"All chanical bodies will follow three principles:
"Protect humans, eliminate Blade Beasts, protect the Earth, with these principles listed in order of importance, and it’s specifically noted here that it’s to protect humans, not to obey humans.
"The machinery is also equipped with chanical factories and engineering autonomous machines, capable of chaotic expansion in a short ti!"
Wang Jixuan leaned back in his comfortable seat, pondering for a while.
This had no direct connection to him; it was purely Fu Jian and the D5 Combined Combat Zone’s choice.
Fu Jian had previously despaired that after his death, humanity would utterly degenerate or be dominated by Spirit Cultivators. Hence, this provision was made to protect humanity, rather than to make it obedient to humankind.
"And then?" Wang Jixuan asked, "You want to beco the chanical Queen?"
"How could I," Mu Dan pursed her lips and shrugged, her deanor sowhat mirroring Wang Jixuan’s, "I just suddenly discovered that my Spiritual Body can also attach to other chanical bodies, not by data replication or anything like that, but by directly diving in."
"So you got this banned imitation skin like that?"
"Eh, that..."
"Fine, I won’t report you for this trivial matter," Daoist Wang waved his hand, "Get so tea or coffee, I’m still pondering how the upcoming battle will unfold."
"Alright."
Mu Dan deactivated the sound barrier and floated off to the corner’s beverage area.
In the nearby seating area, a few Half-human chas were eyeing Mu Dan, letting out several sighs of "Our autonomous machinery has now beco fully humanized."
No.4, who had been waiting for so ti, rushed over, plunking himself across from Wang Jixuan.
The instructor chuckled, "Mr. Wang, what are our chances against Xing Dian this ti?"
"Six out of ten, I’d say. The worst-case scenario is a sixty percent chance."
Wang Jixuan clicked his tongue lightly:
"If No.4 Spirit Cultivator hasn’t set up, then we should have a seventy percent chance. It’s worth a try."
"Certainly, the odds aren’t bad."
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