The Idea to Find Mechanical Body X for Training

Within the sparse woodland surrounding the Black Tower.

Kevin was strolling around here with Biscuit, Pairo, and Morel.

He should have brought Men Qi, but Men Qi was currently focused on researching seasonings and had no interest in anything else.

Besides the few people, there were also mechanical beings following them.

Tuck.

"So, you don't know the whereabouts of your companions who have had their independent consciousness Blockade?"

Kevin looked at Tuck beside him and asked.

Tuck's words were transmitted to everyone's minds through suppressed vibrations.

"I don't know. After Blockade their independent consciousness, we severed the channel for remote communication. Even if I send them a signal now, they won't be able to receive it or give any response."

Hearing this, Pairo rolled his eyes.

"Although you may look like high-tech mechanical beings, you are fundamentally completely different."

Pairo's complaints are perfectly valid.

According to the normal mechanical structure, they should now be able to detect each other's location.

However, the so-called mechanical body is only an external manifestation; its essence is a spiritual and willful life.

I can't understand what you're saying; it seems I need to communicate with you more.

Tuck replied.

"Then what about that life form I encountered before, the one who made a deal with me and gave me the Information Chip?"

Kevin asked curiously.

I didn't find any trace of that mechanical entity when I went to the Black Tower before.

"He is our leader, in charge of the main tasks at this point. After realizing that things were hopeless, he Blockade himself in, but left himself some leeway to carry out mechanical work."

"You can understand that after realizing the situation was hopeless, he temporarily transformed himself into those mechanical tools, allowing him to respond to certain conditions and retain some adaptability."

Upon hearing this, Kevin understood and nodded knowingly.

"Then how come he was able to appear so precisely next to me? I had just dealt with the crazed machine when he immediately appeared."

"It's simple," Tuck shook the parts on his body and pried a pebble out of a crack. "Without the Storage Crystal, our consciousness is exposed. You must have attacked those crazed machines, causing their machines to break down and exposing their temporary storage."

Kevin thought about it carefully, and it seemed to be true.

"In this situation, the exposed spiritual entity will exhibit clear signal fluctuations. The leader is inside the Black Tower, which can quickly receive this signal and immediately bring him to the location of the signal."

Using this function to reclaim the spirit host is essentially reclaiming one's own people.

"Are there many of those crazed beings around the Black Tower?" Biscuit asked curiously from the side.

After all these years, most of them may have already been taken back, and their efforts may be in vain.

Tuck provided specific data. "When I re-entered the data into the Black Tower, I conducted a search, and according to the data, there are at least ten remaining companions outside."

"And just recently, after you arrived here, another companion's body was retrieved and recorded."

These words immediately made Biscuit and the others frown.

Because they did not take any action.

Kevin immediately realized what was happening.

"It should be gold. We found traces of people when we went to the Black Tower a few days ago."

"At the time, I thought that the reason they were able to enter the Black Tower was because they found a host outside, retrieved it, and then added it to the whitelist."

"In that case, let's begin the search by spreading out our forces."

Morel spoke, he shouldered his Pipe and began to exhale purple smoke, dispersing his Purple Smoke Machine Soldier outwards.

Pairo also sent out the Eye Butterfly.

Conduct a rapid, large-scale search to find those mindless, crazed mechanical beings.

"Why don't you retrieve them yourselves? After all, you've been here for so many years. Even if you took your time, you should have recovered most of them by now, right?"

Biscuit looked at Tuck and asked.

"No, our military force no longer supports us in carrying out such an action."

"Of all my companions who were sent to this node, only I have found an unexpected way to preserve my independent consciousness and continue to be active."

"But this activity is still barely enough. If I were to launch an attack, it would require a lot of calculations, which would deplete this activity and accelerate my entry into a forced period of dormancy and Blockade."

Simply put, Tuck currently has almost no corresponding military force.

He simply avoided danger by having a long-term understanding of the area.

Thinking about it now, it's true. As long as you follow Tuck and move around the large area around the Black Tower, you can find many safe channels and paths.

Barring unforeseen circumstances, there is virtually no danger.

"My crazed companions have no such concerns, because their self-awareness has crumbled and they can launch attacks at will without making the situation worse."

Kevin couldn't help but ask, "Under these circumstances, won't your consciousnesses dissipate?"

It's just that the consciousness has lost its autonomy and gone mad, but the consciousness itself still exists.

"Without external attack, it won't dissipate. However, without Storage Crystal or similar entity to safeguard the consciousness, the exposed consciousness will come into contact with its surroundings and be affected by impurities, leading to a decline in computational power and descent into madness."

After listening to Tuck's answer, everyone could roughly understand the various existences and conditions of these Machine Lifeform.

"So if you could attack or devour a consciousness, it would be extremely dangerous for you?"

"That's right. For example, the Snake Nest you're in right now is extremely dangerous to us Resentful Eater Snake, especially since we don't have Storage Crystal our food. Even just getting close will have an effect on us."

This was understandable, and no one was surprised, since Tuck had indeed shown resistance to the Snake Nest.

The Resentment that permeates the Snake Nest is pure Resentment, not directed at humans.

These Resentment, from the perspective of consciousness, should be considered rather extreme impurities, or even pollution.

Without Storage Crystal, Tuck can easily be affected if he gets too close.

If you understand its life structure, it's easy to deduce.

Now Kevin is increasingly certain that the Storage Crystal is absolutely crucial to them.

It has been established that the existence of the Storage Crystal provides protection for the consciousness entity.

The human body, being made of flesh and blood, serves to protect the soul, or consciousness.

Normal flesh and blood life has this structure.

If the potion is constructed primarily from Storage Crystal, then it should be able to protect the consciousness entity.

This would greatly make up for their shortcomings.

I just don't know how big the difference is between used crystals and pure crystals? And is it even possible to use used crystals?

"Is it really true that there are no other mineral veins where Storage Crystal?"

Tuck gave an affirmative answer.

"All the outward nodes are essentially searching for the veins Storage Crystal, but even so, there is still only one vein in the location of the Core Homeland."

Four thousand kilometers is still too far.

It's simply impossible for them to travel that far to find the Storage Crystal, at least not at this stage.

Moreover, this loss of contact also indicates to some extent that Tuck and his family's home exists and must have encountered some kind of crisis.

It hasn't reconnected for so long.

To put it bluntly, it may very well have already been destroyed.

A place capable of destroying such a being must also be dangerous.

However, it's clear that the area around the Black Tower isn't very large if you simply pass through it.

However, finding a specific target within this area suddenly becomes difficult.

They didn't get anything all day.

Led by Tuck, they found a safe place to use as a temporary camp.

Night.

Kevin sat by the Bonfire, beginning to think about plans.

First of all, he certainly won't be able to conduct long-distance exploration for the next two months.

The exploration should focus on the area surrounding the Snake Nest. Dangerous areas can wait until two months later; there's no need to rush.

After all, his strength will double in two months, and his ability to deal with danger will be much stronger.

As for those crazed mechanical beings, finding two or three would be enough.

The main goal is to exchange for a few Storage Crystal, even used ones, to see if they can be used as materials.

The most important task for the next two months is to find a way to exercise the body.

It contains highly nutritious substances and is easily absorbed; these are all characteristics of this product.

The main issue now is physical exercise.

If excess nutrition is not translated into physical strength through exercise, it will be converted into fat and stored on the body.

One or two meals can turn you into a huge, obese person, and in that case, it becomes difficult to convert body fat into muscle.

The only one we don't need to worry about is Buhaci.

Because the opponent's Nen ability can be transformed.

But others can't.

The best approach is to quickly convert the energy into increased intensity for your workout on the day you consume it.

The main problem now is the method of exercise.

Just like training one's mental capacity, when the magnitude reaches a point where it is almost impossible to increase it further through normal means, that is the bottleneck of human structure.

Even if you exercise intensely all day, using the most extreme, or even somewhat destructive, methods, you can still work out.

It's still impossible to fully digest the nutrients from that meal. If you reduce the intensity of the workout and decrease the amount of nutrition, you won't be able to push your body to its limits.

This vicious cycle of being stuck at a bottleneck is the problem at present.

The limits of the physical body alone—both Kevin and Biscuit have reached this level.

However, Biscuit and the others don't need to consider breaking their physical limits at this stage, because they haven't even reached the limit of Nen power.

Kevin is under immense pressure because his physical strength is starting to falter.

The simplest method that comes to mind right now is, of course, through medicine.

When in doubt, consult a doctor.

This is the easiest solution right now.

The problem is, I can't find similar materials. What kind of materials can I use to increase the intensity of my workout?

The medication should put stress on the body, but it can't be a destructive poison, because that won't enhance the results of exercise.

The problem lies in the lack of a corresponding approach.

It's even impossible to find similar materials that could achieve the same effect.

"Are you still thinking about exercise methods?" Morel asked from the side.

Everyone now knows the problem and is trying to find a solution.

Kevin nodded.

Taking advantage of this moment, everyone began to discuss.

Biscuit was the authority figure among them.

"Let's start with a normal approach and work our way out," Biscuit said, pointing to her finger. "Normal training is essentially about increasing intensity, and that ultimately comes down to adding weight."

This is the unavoidable approach when you reach a certain level of training.

Bearing weight.

Add weights to other basic exercises to increase the intensity of the workout.

"The problem is that even if I put on the most extreme weight and train continuously for 24 hours a day, I still can't improve."

This is a bottleneck in the body's structure.

Kevin reminded him.

When the body reaches a certain level, physical strength will naturally reach an exaggerated level.

Exercising extreme weights at this time can cause irreversible damage to the body, even if it's just a little too much.

Their stamina is so great that they can train continuously for 24 hours straight with extreme loads.

Exhaustion filled my entire body.

But I still can't feel the effects of the exercise.

"But you have to understand that there is a limit to what is meant by bearing weight, and it is impossible to make every muscle and every part of your body bear the weight."

Even when wearing heavy armor, there will still be gaps; that's the limit of what you can bear.

Biscuit smiled.

"Did you know that some Nen user can alter gravity? Gravity puts pressure on the body from all angles—every muscle, every internal organ, even every cell—far exceeding the limits of physical training that can be achieved with weights?"

This is a method that Biscuit recently came up with.

"Gravity training, huh?!"

Kevin muttered to himself.

The question is, where does this kind of thing come from?

First, you can't find similar materials. Even if you did find similar materials, based on Kevin's understanding of the potion, it would be very difficult to concoct an effect that would cause the body to experience several times the force of gravity after drinking it.

"Could we simulate this gravity underwater using water pressure?" Pairo suggested, offering a good, extended idea.

"In human society, of course it would work, but this is the Dark Continent. Do you want to die?"

Biscuit glanced at Pairo.

Pairo shut his mouth, as if that were indeed the case.

If the environment on land is this dangerous, then the situation in the water is even more unpredictable.

They even exercise in the water.

Once a problem arises, it is almost impossible to solve.

"The Dark Continent should have a high-gravity environment, right? After all, this place is so abnormal."

But it's not recorded in the book.

"Not recording doesn't mean it didn't exist. Timely Rain Cloud didn't record it either, did she?"

"Isn't that still a matter of luck?"

The group discussed and argued.

Biscuit suddenly remembered something and looked at Tuck not far away.

Doesn't the other party have data records?