In a silver room sealed so tightly that not even a fly could get in.
"As soon as I woke up, I realized something was wrong. I wasn't entering the dreams of the person from the other world like last time. Instead, I had directly replaced his consciousness and taken complete control of his body. At the same time, I couldn't contact the system..."
Seated in a chair, Wang Yu recounted his latest experience in the Otherworld to Dr. Chen, who sat behind the desk opposite him.
Beside Dr. Chen sat a young woman with short hair, rapidly jotting things down with a pen.
More than a dozen high-definition cameras positioned in the room's four corners recorded everything that happened inside.
"...An assassin appeared outside the abbey and chased me to the mountain behind White Cloud Abbey. Just as I was about to lose and couldn't hold out any longer, the Taiyuan subsystem activated on its own. It also triggered an automatic protection mechanism, forcibly taking control of my body and killing him..."
Wang Yu glossed over the unknown energy's intrusion into the system and the possibility that it had caused a mutation. He even brushed past the system's overclocked synchronization mode.
"The self-protection mechanism is indeed a basic function built into every Taiyuan subsystem. But when we configured the system for the Zero-Type Sleep Pod, that function wasn't supposed to activate under normal circumstances. It seems directly replacing the other person's consciousness inadvertently triggered it." Dr. Chen nodded thoughtfully as he listened.
"...I thought I wouldn't be able to return to Blue Star anytime soon, so I planned to increase my strength as much as possible to protect myself. That was why I intended to join an immortal cultivation sect in Tongzhou..."
"...When I met the Golden Core patriarch