Hibernation Pod

If he wanted to do it, he did it!

After having the shelter record the frequency of the infrasound waves, Bai Yi sprang off the operating table.

After briefly feeling out his enhanced body, he did not waste any time and headed straight for the medical pod beside the modification room.

Little White was still undergoing modification. As Bai Yi passed by, he observed the process:

"So this is how thoroughly they get taken apart during modification!"

Looking at Little White's scattered body floating in the nutrient fluid, Bai Yi remarked with feeling before turning his attention back to the matter at hand.

He walked up to the medical pod and began controlling the shelter to modify it. Nothing else changed much; he merely added a mouth.

Watching the mouth inside the medical pod repeatedly open and close while flesh squirmed back and forth, Bai Yi rubbed his chin and clicked his tongue. Then he raised his log and took a photo.

"Bai Yi: Xie Xu, take a look at my medical pod. It can negate the abnormal status [Wail of the Dead]. I'm thinking of making more for trading. What do you think?"

"Bai Yi: (Photo of medical pod)"

"Xie Xu: Hiss—"

"Xie Xu: This is a little hard to judge. Are you sure this is a medical pod, not a torture device?"

"Bai Yi: Is its appearance not good enough?"

"Xie Xu: It's not an appearance issue. I lost one point of Sanity just from seeing the photo..."

"Xie Xu: If you want to trade it, it'd be best to first..., then..., and finally... Once you modify it like that, people should at least be able to accept it."

"Xie Xu: By the way, how are you negating that abnormal status?"

Seeing Xie Xu's suggestions, Bai Yi's eyes lit up. He knew asking Xie Xu had been the right call.

After casually replying, "I'll post it in the group," he eagerly began changing the medical pod's appearance.

The outer shape of the medical pod did not need much alteration. Keeping its original bony exterior was fine; the main focus was the internal design.

Bai Yi first hid the mouth overhead, then created a piece of white bone riddled with tiny holes to cover it. The mouth could no longer be seen, but the infrasound waves could still travel through it.

He then cut away all the tentacles, leaving only soft flesh behind.

When he found it still somewhat eye-searing, Bai Yi controlled the bones to become thinner, wider, and longer. After a great deal more effort, he obtained a thin layer of bone membrane.

The bone membrane was extremely soft and cool to the touch, but its flaws were that it was somewhat translucent and not tough enough.

But such a minor problem could not stump Bai Yi. After tightly layering one sheet of bone membrane together with ten sheets of flesh membrane, a biological membrane with a white exterior and flesh-colored interior formed.

Bai Yi tested it. Its toughness had increased significantly, and once it was fitted against the inner surface of the medical pod, the texture of raw flesh was no longer exposed.

"Perfect!"

Bai Yi lay inside to try it out, and it felt extremely comfortable.

As the pod door closed, infrasound waves echoed through the cramped medical pod, and [Wail of the Dead] vanished along with them.

Bai Yi was delighted. He was certain that quite a few players were troubled by their declining Sanity every day.

After all, aside from Bai Yi and Xie Xu, everyone in the group chat was buying the [Sanity Recovery Elixir] made by Li Zihua.

As a result, Li Zihua's elixir never even had the chance to be listed on the trading market. It was consumed internally by the team.

Tang Zheng had also complained more than once that with his 7.5 Mental points, he would lose 20 Sanity in a single night.

Combined with the Sanity consumed during daytime battles, it was easy for it to drop below 70.

For several days in a row now, whenever he woke up, he had seen loads of little people fighting in his shelter and inside his head.

Therefore, this medical pod would definitely be hugely popular!

"It's no longer appropriate to call it a medical pod. It doesn't have any medical functions anymore."

Bai Yi thought for a moment. "I'll just call it a Hibernation Pod."

Thus, using this Hibernation Pod as a template, he controlled the shelter to produce seven or eight in a row, arranging them neatly across the living room.

There was only one final issue Bai Yi needed to solve: energy.

The Hibernation Pod's mouth was not a perpetual-motion machine. Emitting infrasound required energy.

Inside the shelter, the Hibernation Pod could connect directly to the shelter for power. But if he wanted to sell it, he would definitely need a new method.

Bai Yi had considered methods like burning charcoal or using steam, but without the corresponding technology tree, he could only think about them.

After much deliberation, he decided he still had to approach the problem through flesh technology.

After consulting the shelter and making improvements of his own, a mini converter was successfully born!

It was a white, rectangular bone device one meter long and wide and two meters tall. The entire device was flawlessly white and looked quite exquisite.

At the top of the converter was an energy input port. Once fresh flesh was fed into it, the entire medical pod would begin operating.

This device was essentially an extremely crude version of the digestion room. When the shelter first generated it, its appearance had been utterly grotesque.

Bai Yi had redesigned its layout and outer appearance.

Because of its size, this device's energy consumption was nowhere near comparable to that of the shelter.

Bai Yi conducted a rough test. If only the infrasound was activated, it would consume around 2 units of flesh over eight hours.

To add to its selling points, Bai Yi had also stuffed the Hibernation Pod with a constant-temperature mode and a massage mode. He even thoughtfully placed the switches where they could be reached with a raised hand after lying down.

Once the constant-temperature mode was activated, the Hibernation Pod could automatically detect the user's body temperature and gently heat the areas in contact with the body. As the name implied, the massage mode could massage the user once activated.

However, both functions consumed quite a lot of energy. Activating either one consumed 1 unit of flesh per hour.

If the soundwave, constant-temperature, and massage functions were all activated, they would consume roughly 18 units of flesh over 8 hours. (One unit of flesh was enough to feed one person for a day.)

A Hibernation Pod paired with a converter consumed 100 points each of flesh and bone, costing roughly 200 Mist Coins.

As for how much to sell it for, Bai Yi had not paid much attention to the plaza lately and did not know the current market prices.

Bai Yi spent some time browsing the plaza. Once he had a rough idea of the prices, he picked up his log.

"Bai Yi: Tests have confirmed that the abnormal status [Wail of the Dead] is a type of infrasound."

"Bai Yi: I have a Hibernation Pod that can remove this abnormal status. Do you want it?"

"Bai Yi:

[Hibernation Pod

Quality: Fine

Description: A Hibernation Pod manufactured using biotechnology. Adding fresh flesh can counteract the abnormal status 'Wail of the Dead'.]

"

"Tang Zheng: Dog Bro, you're still not asleep this late... I want it! I want this! How much is it, Dog Bro? I'll buy it!"

"Xie Xu: Yo, it worked! Infrasound, huh..."

Tang Zheng's words reminded Bai Yi that it was already past two in the morning. Most people were asleep.

"Bai Yi: You're not sleeping tonight either?"

"Tang Zheng: Heh, I can't sleep at all. My sanity dropped a little while I was exploring during the day, then it dropped again at night. It's below 70 now. There are a bunch of little people all over my face, telling me to worship their lord..."

"Bai Yi: Uh... I was planning to sell it for 2,000 Mist Coins. You guys get a 40% discount. There's an instruction manual included in the Hibernation Pod. Oh, right, do you have fresh flesh?"

"Tang Zheng: No. Dog Bro, did you forget that [Dark Erosion] speeds up food spoilage? I dried all my meat into jerky."

Bai Yi really had forgotten about that. Because of the special nature of his shelter, he had never needed to worry about fresh flesh spoiling.

"Bai Yi: I'll give you two units for free. Take them and use them."

Bai Yi traded the items over through private chat, and Tang Zheng paid 1,210 Mist Coins.

"Tang Zheng: Thanks, Dog Bro! I can afford the meat, so let's put the treasure chest matter aside for now. I really need to get a good night's sleep!"

Bai Yi smiled. It seemed Tang Zheng had truly been tormented badly.

There were still two hours until the treasure chests refreshed.

"They probably won't wake up until later."

Bai Yi did not plan to sleep tonight. With his current attributes, staying awake for several days straight would not be a problem.

He first went to check on Little White. After confirming that nothing was wrong, Bai Yi took his bone blade to the living room and continued practicing his second talent.

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