Knights of the Wasteland Fortress

Chapter 109 The Third Contact

After earning enough income, Jiatu sent Heda to the preschool education class on the record level. Although the price of 10 dry food sticks per month is not cheap, it is still a fortune for the explorers One cent.

But to his surprise, when he returned to Hera's tent, what was waiting for him was not an empty tent, but a tall and somewhat familiar figure.

"haven't seen you for a long time."

Hearing the movement behind him, the man turned around, looked at Jiatu in the tent, lowered his head and said.

His expression was soft, but his straight cheeks were still calm and majestic.

And Jiatu was a little surprised to announce the other party's name:

"Captain Wu Yao... why are you here?"

Jiatu and Wu Yao had only met twice in total, the second round of testing and the third round of testing. Generally speaking, they could only be regarded as somewhat familiar strangers.

As a result, the other party paid a sudden visit.

This made Jiatu somewhat confused about what was going on.

Just when he was guilty of associating the reason with the research institute, Wu Yao took the initiative to speak:

"Want to heal your leg?"

Jiatu froze for a moment, swallowing the words that were about to leave his throat.

Leaning on the crutch in his hand, he pondered for a few seconds, then nodded silently.

He had been waiting for this moment for too long.

"Then come with me."

The man nodded, and left the tent under Jiatu's retreat.

Unlike Sun Simiao, Wu Yao cannot be regarded as a talkative person.

But the two obviously have something in common——

For example, on the question of "don't like to explain the destination".

Jiatu followed Wu Yao, and the two left the structural floor together, walked along the central staircase towards the industrial floor.

Just when Jiatu thought they would stop at the industrial floor, Wu Yao continued to move up and entered the training floor.

This was Jiatu's first time entering the upper zone, so he was a little surprised.

Although he hesitated, he still followed Wu Yao and passed the automatic supervision gate in the upper area.

Compared with the darkness of the lower area and the grandeur of the middle area, the space of the upper area can only be called "simple".

Everything here is very clean, with white lighting, soft floors, and a kind of extreme "purity".

Everyone here was wearing white robes and was in a hurry, almost no one stopped to chat.

Unlike the people in the middle-level area, almost everyone of them is equipped with external brains. Although it is only a civilian version, there are hundreds of them at a glance.

"Are you a little surprised that the upper area looks like this?"

Standing on the escalator, Wu Yao looked at Jiatu behind him and asked in a low voice:
"The number of people in the upper zone is limited, and those who do not meet the living conditions will be relegated to the middle zone, so people here live at a fast pace. If there is no need, don't bother them."

Jiatu nodded, a little silent, he had gradually realized their destination.

After going through the training layer and the discipline layer, the escalator enters the life layer.

This is the second floor after the management, and there are very bright sky lights everywhere. Under the Rayleigh scattering similar to the natural sky, the various life cultivation tanks on the floor present a very bright color.

In those colorful culture tanks, only Jiatu could see, there were all kinds of specimens—biological, animal, plant, and even mechanical.

And Wu Yao took him, passing through these cylindrical training tanks one by one, and came to an automatic door in the hall of the life layer.

"come in."

As the voiceprint detection information passed, Jiatu and Wu Yao entered the interior of the door together.

Almost as soon as he entered the room, Jiatu immediately realized what it was——

All kinds of mechanical prosthetics and biological prostheses occupy almost every corner here.

And the doctors in white robes looked at them in surprise.

"Here, here~"

Following an arm protruding from the corner of the room, Wu Yao walked over without hesitation.

Then Jiatu saw a healer in a white coat behind the desk full of prosthetic bodies——

A black-haired little girl who looked only fourteen or fifteen years old.

"Ah...is it really that expression?"

Seeing Jiatu's expression, the girl sighed, and pushed the glasses on the bridge of her nose:

"It's a life extension experiment. I'm already 40 years old."

She was wearing an ill-fitting white robe, her long black hair was tied into two ponytails, and she looked innocent.

No matter how you look at it, they are just elementary school students.

"Thunderstorm, the chief researcher of prosthetic science in the life layer."

Wu Yao replaced the girl, briefly introduced her identity, then looked at Jiatu and said:

"You must be curious, why didn't I bring you here before?"

Kato nodded.

He really felt a little strange. Logically speaking, if his left foot can be cured, shouldn't the sooner the better?
But the girl named Lei Yu replaced Wu Yao and said in harmony:

"It's very simple. All the mechanical prosthetics here need to be powered by magic."

Under Jiatu's surprised eyes, she left the desk, went to the wall to pick and choose, and took down many prosthetic limbs of different models, muttering in her mouth:

"A mechanical prosthetic with the lowest power also needs 40 watts, which is 120 Moko in a day. There is no need to come here before you pass the first stage."

Lei Yu said while connecting some electronic circuits to Jiatu, and then began to detect his condition——

"Well... It's exactly as I expected, and it's not particularly serious."

Talking to herself, she put a set of mechanical prosthetic legs on Jiatu and asked him to try:
"how do you feel?"

Jiatu felt the tingling sensation coming from his calf, and nodded subconsciously:
"It hurts."

"It's okay if it hurts, just try to move."

As Lei Yu spoke, he connected the instruments around him to different mechanical prosthetic limbs to test the sensitivity of various responses.

And Jiatu can also see the synchronization rate on the screen in front of him.

They range from 10% to 70%, but none exceed 100%.

"How about it?"

Wu Yao whispered behind Lei Yu.

The contrast between the giant and the loli makes Jiatu feel a little funny.

But Lei Yu didn't notice this, nodded and said:
"So-so, it really isn't the kind of mechanically adaptable explorer."

She jumped down from the table and chair, picked up a set of metal rod cages that looked like correctors, and put them on Chito's left foot, and then tightened——

"how do you feel?"

Pushing round glasses on the bridge of her nose, she asked Jiato.

"pain……"

Jiatu gritted his teeth and his face twisted, he felt unbearable pain from his deformed ankle.

"It can still make a sound, which means it's not painful enough."

As Lei Yu spoke, he tightened the corrector again.

Now Jiatu couldn't make a sound at all, he felt as if his throat was tightly strangled, and the convulsed left foot kept sucking air from his lungs.

At the moment when his eyes were blackened by the pain and he was about to faint, he heard the "snap" of the corrector and jumped away.

"How about it?"

Jiatu heard Wu Yao who was beside him asking again in a low voice.

"It's not the same as you and Sun Simiao back then."

The ruthless old Lolita woman nodded and muttered:

"His left foot is not completely damaged. After a certain degree of corrective training, it can recover to about 80% of the original, while the synchronization rate of his mechanical prosthesis is only 70%. I am suggesting that he should not undergo surgery, but actively participate in corrective training."

"Did you hear it?"

Wu Yao raised his head and looked at Jiatu on the testing platform.

Jiatu was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat:
"Correction training?! Like just now?"

"Maybe it's about 120% more painful than before?"

The old Lori woman gestured to Jiatou, but with her finger close to her eyes, she could already see the entire Milky Way!

"120% now or 220% now?"

Jiatu was not deflected by the thunderstorm's words, and further confirmed.

"About three times."

As a result, Lei Yu said an even more exaggerated number and jumped off the office chair:

"However, we will give you anesthesia, complete the corrective surgery in one go, and you will be able to return to normal walking in about three months."

"Three months? Then my trainee training will also be greatly reduced?"

Jiatu looked at Wu Yao beside him with some help-seeking eyes.

And the giant glanced at him, and looked at Lei Yu lightly:
"Is there no better way?"

"There are three plans in total."

Lei Yu took out a lollipop from the cupboard, stuffed it into his mouth, and said vaguely:
"Mechanical prosthetic modification, corrective surgery, and what you and Sun Simiao use—"

"Magic replacement organ."

　There is another chapter after 24:[-]

　　
　
(End of this chapter)