Chapter 327
Three days had passed since the transformation. Shimada stood on the rooftop, a sword slung across his back. His mechanical body had been repainted, the white coating with black streaks paired with green energy lights, making him look exceptionally magnificent. Hearing footsteps, he turned around.
"So you were here." Lu Li him, looking at the city's night view. "The coating on your body came from that monster; it's perfect enough to evade mental scanning and other abilities. I've been looking for you for a long time."
"It seems my stealth skills haven't fallen too far behind." Shimada's tone became somewhat neutral, even leaning more towards a feminine one.
"Do you know about transsexualism?" Lu Li asked, and without waiting for Shimada's answer, continued, "Transsexualism refers to the psychological denial of one's own gender, so a person's psychology can also be considered to have gender."
"These psychological genders are caused by things like human hormones, and are also related to living environments that contradict objective facts. When we transferred your mental will, we used a lot of drugs. Those drugs not only activated your vitality, but also generated a lot of hormones and other information, which impacted your personality and psychology."
"So even though you now have a genderless robot body, your personality has become more feminine due to the previous shock," Lu Li said with a smile. "Your memories and psychology are currently mismatched, which is the reason for your anxiety. You need to adapt."
"Adapt to what? Adapt to memories? Or adapt to the mind?" Shimada's mechanical body leaped lightly and stood on the rooftop railing, drawing the sword from his back. The blade had been completely destroyed by the acid corrosion, leaving only the hilt.
"I have lost all of the Shimada Family's bloodline, and my samurai sword has been severed. What use are thoughts of love between men and women now?" Shimada said with a hint of resentment.
Originally, by activating his bloodline through technology and obtaining the Dragon Soul, his inner knot had been untied. With just a little more time to adapt, he could become a swordsman. However, he suffered a crushing defeat the first time he used the Divine Dragon Slash.
The dragon soul that He revered as His life's ideal and pursued throughout His life was easily blocked by that monster. He also lost his human body. Without even a human body, let alone the Shimada Family's divine dragon bloodline that He regarded as His glory.
"Don't you know the Light Swordsmanship?" Lu Li's voice came from behind.
Shimada looked at the broken sword in his hand, channeling his will into it, and a bluish-green blade appeared on it. He stared at the blade in silence for a long time.
"Even a blade can be reforged with willpower, let alone a dragon soul? A dragon soul is always just a spirit, not a bloodline!" Lu Li stated his judgment. The Shimada Family were born mixed-blood, and their souls were altered by their bloodlines. Even if they lost their bloodlines, their souls were still dragon souls. "Even without a bloodline dragon soul, there is still a soul dragon."
Shimada suddenly froze. In the family records, some members of the Shimada Family could launch two divine dragons. He had always thought it was a joke. But looking at the samurai sword he had reshaped, or rather, his own samurai way, Shimada realized that he had been on the wrong path all along.
In the past, I focused too much on bloodline, which delayed the awakening of my consciousness and soul dragon. Later, I used drugs to stimulate my bloodline and awakened my bloodline dragon soul. However, this made me extremely arrogant, and I lost my way as a warrior.
The Soul Dragon? Shimada sighed inwardly, no longer rejecting her own mind, no longer rejecting her mechanical body. The blue light from the energy lamp on her body shone brightly. She raised the light blade in her hand, touched a higher realm of thought, and then suddenly swung the blade at the sky.
A dragon's roar echoed through the sky, and a massive azure dragon soul soared into the air, leaping continuously towards the distant sky. Shimada sheathed her sword back on her back, her heart at peace. However, she was unaware that a purplish-black light flashed above her head in the shape of a V-shaped energy lamp.
"Humans are too prone to accepting or rejecting everything. Once they accept something, they will automatically accept everything else as well. This is a blind spot in their consciousness." Lu Li thought to himself as he sat in the research department chair, handing the research data in his hand to Zeng Yunge across from him.
As Shimada's mind became clear, she also fully accepted the backup plan that Lu Li had planted in her. Through the Stench Calamity Beast Mind Control Liquid, Extraction the Mind Infection Liquid. The effect was not as good as the Stench Calamity Beast, but with the help of dream control, it was very subtle.
But as Shimada accepted her mechanical body and psychological changes, she also accepted the idea of wholeheartedly assisting Lu Li. From now on, Shimada Ikka... no, Shimada Kako is no longer able to escape Lu Li's control.
"This practice has greatly improved my bio-modification techniques, and I believe the modification of the Brood Nest will be successful soon," Lu Li said confidently, looking at Zeng Yunge opposite him.
"Very good. Please feel free to make any requests." Zeng Yunge looked at the military nest renovation plan in her hand and nodded in satisfaction. During this period, the Great Wind Society had suffered continuous setbacks due to the Demonic Calamity and Star Calamity, and urgently needed some gains to stabilize morale.
"I need a secret room that won't be observed by the Transmigrator Association, as well as a large number of living organisms." Lu Li hesitated for a moment, but still said it.
"I have some good assistants in the other world, and I want to use summoning magic to summon them to help me, since this transformation of the Brood Nest also involves many mystical aspects."
"However, the method of summoning is blood sacrifice. Although it only requires living beings such as livestock, it clearly violates the regulations of the Transmigrator Association." The Transmigrator Association has instruments that can sense spatial fluctuations over a wide range, something Theseus had told us from the beginning.
"I see..." Zeng Yunge murmured, frowning as she pondered.
"Alright, I can arrange a secret chamber for you that shields you from external spatial perception. All the assistants you summon must register with me. As for the sacrifices, I can allocate a batch of Demonspawn to you." Zeng Yunge said earnestly, "Lu Li, don't let me down."
"Thank you, President! I will always remember your kindness in nurturing me!" Lu Li said, his eyes brimming with tears of gratitude.
After Zeng Yunge left, Lu Li still looked moved, but a small black dot suddenly transmitted a message to his ear. "It's a waste of your talent not to be a hero (idol)."
"You too." Lu Li replied calmly, but his face still showed a touched expression. Zeng Yunge did not trust Lu Li so easily. From the moment Lu Li entered the research department, he had been monitored by an invisible machine. Therefore, Lu Li and Li Fei, who represented the Windless Organization, communicated privately entirely through that small black dot communicator.
"Are you really just summoning some assistants?" Li Fei asked with interest, appearing much more lively in this exchange.
"Hmm~" Lu Li tidied up the Brood Nest renovation plan he had shown Zeng Yunge earlier, slowly suppressing the emotion on his face and putting on a smile, "Who knows?"