Should See Me (Part 1)
"Hey, wake up, wake up!" After a brief pause, Field Officer Yunbo simply reached out and patted Ronan's faceplate. "You're not really dead, are you? Surely not... Hey, can you hear me?"
"...I can." Ronan replied in a muffled voice.
He had just awakened from his Turtle Breath state, deliberately breaking the naturally imposing stillness of "Buzhou Mountain." His heart resumed its powerful beating, pumping blood to sustain the activity and natural expenditure of every organ in his body. His Mental Layer also shifted from stillness to activity, then contracted within the bounds of his Xing Hai. With the Great Sun Chains structure at its core, it fully mobilized the power of his entire Form and Spirit Framework.
This took a process, though not much time. Field Officer Yunbo simply spoke too fast, leaving Ronan no chance to cut in.
Yun Bo's hand remained on his shoulder. Much like when he had used that Residual Image Transfer technique earlier, currents of energy moved back and forth, testing the state of Ronan's Form and Spirit Framework.
Only after confirming there was no problem did Yun Bo let out a long breath, then immediately praised him. "Not bad. Calm in a crisis, and you played dead even more convincingly than I could."
"Huh?"
"Technical personnel should be flexible like this. We're not the type to charge through artillery fire... Say, are all Earthlings as complicated as you? You seem simpler again now. Oh, I mean the structure of your Form and Spirit Framework."
Ronan considered it, then replied, "I've always followed a fairly orthodox cultivation path."
Provided Format Theory really was Tianyuan orthodoxy.
Yun Bo immediately thought of another possibility. "Did you use external objects in your cultivation before? It's common enough, but you still need to