"Yes—"
Dr. Chen felt somewhat emotional as well, but in the next moment, he had already switched into work mode.
Without any further small talk, he directly pulled Zhang Qi over to the console.
On the holographic screen, cascading green code and waveforms unfurled in an instant—
"Ever since Lin Yun became an electronic entity, the time she spends 'awake' has gradually grown shorter."
Dr. Chen swiped across the screen and brought up a timeline chart.
On the chart, the green sections representing "wakefulness" became shorter and shorter over time, while the intervals between them grew longer and longer.
"At first, it was once every few days. Then it became every dozen or so days. Now, she needs nearly a month between each episode just to maintain stable consciousness for an entire day—"
"Activity? You mean—"
"Vital activity."
Dr. Chen sighed and continued explaining. "Because of the unique nature of her life form, she needs a high-energy electromagnetic field to sustain her existence, much like how living beings need to eat."
He pointed to another set of data—the monitoring records of Lin Yun's consciousness fluctuations.
"According to Lin Yun herself, the world she 'observes' in that state is completely different from what we see."
"But her consciousness—or rather, her soul—cannot adapt to that state."
Dr. Chen's voice lowered. The reasoning was not difficult to understand.
Human eyes were extraordinarily complex and precise optical instruments. They received photons of specific wavelengths, focused them through the lens, formed images on the retina, and then transmitted electrical signals to the brain through the optic nerve.
But Lin Yun, having become an electronic life-form, had none of those things.
She perceived the world through the interaction between her own electromagnetic field and the outside world, receiving the electromagnetic waves reflected back to her.
She