The Relationship Between Soul and Body

Establishing his own bridgehead became Zhang Hao's greatest desire. He asked, "Great God, are there prerequisites for opening your own bridgehead?"

"Not bad, you even know that establishing a bridgehead requires prerequisites. Indeed, to build a bridgehead, you must possess a powerful soul. Your soul right now is only slightly stronger than an ordinary person's, far from enough to establish a bridgehead."

Zhang Hao smiled wryly, "How can I quickly strengthen my soul? By the way, can blank souls be fused?"

Mi Feng smiled. This was the first time Zhang Hao had seen Mi Feng smile. Although it was a custom-made robot, the smile was a bit stiff, but Zhang Hao believed he wasn't mistaken about his smile.

"They can be fused, and it can also quickly strengthen the soul!"

Zhang Hao detected a hint of mockery in Mi Feng's tone and immediately realized something was wrong.

Sure enough, Mi Feng continued.

"If the soul strengthens too much, and the original body can't adapt, once the soul returns, the original body will immediately collapse. At that time, without the help of a soul crystal, you'll be half dead. Losing the physical body has immense drawbacks."

"When there's no original physical body, your soul can indeed strengthen quickly, but you'll lose your humanity, meaning all your emotions will disappear. You'll become more and more like an intelligent program. Is that the consequence you desire?"

Holy crap!

There was such a huge pitfall here. Zhang Hao's soul shuddered. He said, "Then what should I do?"

"Strengthen the soul little by little, gradually matching the body. In other words, you can't reside in the soul crystal for too long. You need to return to your physical body from time to time. You've already learned music, which is a good thing. Good music can best harmonize your soul and body. This requires life, this requires your musical comprehension."

"In other words, the soul and body must become strong simultaneously."

"If they're not matched, big problems will arise."

"This is the principle, this is your foundation. If only the soul remains, without the nourishment of the body, your soul will endure countless torments. This pain, acting on the soul, will make you wish you were dead!"

This warning made Zhang Hao truly take it seriously. He dared not mess around with his soul and body anymore, not even in his thoughts.

Mi Feng said, "Soul enhancement happens when you spend a long time in the soul crystal, the soul will gradually strengthen, that itself is a method of enhancement. So, the time spent in the soul crystal shouldn't be too long. Return to the main bridgehead in time, go back and let the body adapt. The benefits of a strengthened soul can also strengthen the body. It's a mutually beneficial thing."

"Let me remind you, the soul crystal can quickly increase soul strength. In the Space-Time Wanderer world, only the soul crystal has this effect, and the soul crystal... is extremely rare, but its advantages and disadvantages are equally obvious. You'll slowly understand later."

"When your soul is strong enough, strong enough to accommodate an intelligent program—and this isn't the intelligent program here, but a highly advanced intelligent program—that powerful computing ability is the foundation for you to establish a bridgehead."

Zhang Yihu, Zhang Erhu, and Zhang Sanhu stood ten meters away from the two of them. They wouldn't care about Zhang Hao and Mi Feng's conversation, and even if they heard it, they wouldn't understand. Both of their past lives had been erased.

"Enough about that, you need to choose your mech now."

"Humanoid mech! I don't want a biomimetic mech."

Mi Feng said, "You really know how to choose. Humanoid mechs are known as the strongest mechs on Slaughter Planet. Those who can control humanoid mechs are mostly experts at first. Later, some people specialized in making pseudo-humanoid mechs, but their strength is not as good as biomimetic mechs, let alone fighting against real humanoid mechs."

"Real humanoid mechs are all custom-made, and there are also light, medium, and heavy types. What type do you choose?"

"Medium mech, I guess heavy ones would be too tiring."

"Here's a suggestion, start with a light mech, the kind with short wings, which can briefly fly at supersonic speed, very good for escaping."

Zhang Hao couldn't help but roll his eyes, but the robot didn't support such facial expressions.

But he didn't object. In any case, he was too unfamiliar with mechs.

"You need skill infusion and learning. Controlling mechs is actually very easy. For us, it's different from the mechs in this local world, more advanced than them. Our main task is to collect soul crystals, and also to mine, not to fight."

"We're more like bystanders, but we have a few principles. One is, if someone comes to snatch soul crystals; another is, snatching other people's soul crystals; and another is if someone snatches our minerals..."

"Do we also snatch other people's minerals?"

"No, we can explore and mine minerals ourselves, but not soul crystals. This thing is too precious, and we're also very short of them. So, soul crystals are the most important items. As long as we see them, we must get our hands on them! In addition, if others provoke us or try to kill us, then there's no need to be polite, hit them back!"

Zhang Hao laughed, "I understand that, if people don't offend me, I won't offend them; if people offend me, I will offend them!"

"A good summary, that's it. Except for soul crystals, regardless of whether others offend me or not, I will definitely offend them."

Mi Feng had a strong obsession with soul crystals, assuming that all the soul crystals in this world were his. As long as he saw them, he had to take them back, domineering and utterly unreasonable.

"Okay, okay, I got it."

Mi Feng took out a thin metal stick, slightly thicker than a toothpick, only two centimeters long, and handed it to Zhang Hao, saying, "Swallow it, you know how to use it."

Zhang Hao nodded. This was a storage device used to infuse skills, containing soul crystal powder, aimed at the soul.

A robot's mouth is different from a real person's. It has teeth and a vocalizer, but no tongue or throat. Putting the storage device into his mouth, a large amount of information was transmitted in an instant. This was a transmission aimed at the soul. Zhang Hao's soul was already much stronger than an ordinary person's, but it was still far from a truly powerful soul. This impact made his whole body shake.

The soul trembled wildly!

Mi Feng shook his head slightly. He took out a circular patch and stuck it directly on Zhang Hao's head. Immediately, music resonated in Zhang Hao's soul, the piano music and chanting that Zhang Hao himself had played.

With the sound of the piano, Zhang Hao's soul gradually stabilized. Even though there was still a large amount of information being transmitted, the soul was stable, so no accidents would occur.

The information transmitted this time was a bit large, including information about the Slaughter Planet base, information about controlling various mechs, knowledge about the entire Slaughter Planet, and various other knowledge that needed to be input. Most importantly, the right to use the light gate to enter the base in the future was all in the soul. Soul recognition was required to use the light gate. Zhang Hao was the second commander, second only to Mi Feng in authority.

It took a full four hours... During this time, Mi Feng infused skills into the three elite-level mech warriors. The skills they were infused with were very simple, a mech control skill. If they were infused like Zhang Hao, even one percent of the information would cause their souls to collapse directly.