The young woman stood quietly with her back to a door, her fitted sheath skirt hugging her waist and hips, outlining her full, rounded curves with particular clarity.
A stretch of calf showed beneath her skirt, her skin smooth and even, the over-the-knee stockings drawing it into a sleek, taut curve.
She leaned forward slightly, her gaze settling on the light screen floating before her. The movement tugged the collar of her white shirt open a little, revealing a softly contoured collarbone.
Her long hair was loosely pinned up with a single wooden hairpin, a few wisps slipping down along the side of her neck.
"Not bad. Your talent really is exceptional."
The speaker was Elder Xu, who was leading the institute's researchers in shifting their focus to single-body positive-cycle arrays. With technology supplied by an unnamed technician, they were making rapid progress, and Ling Zichen had thrown herself into the research as well. In exchange, they could not let her parents participate in the research.
She had yet to earn the distinction of being a mad scientist. She already had the passion; all she lacked was time and results.
"Hmph!"
Ling Zichen snorted coldly. They shouldn't think this would make her forgive this pack of bandits. She wasn't giving herself over to Sun Moon; she was dedicating herself to science. The Tang Sect could go a day without its ruler, but the research could not go a day without her.
She already had a tremendous idea in her head: implant the Source Spring Positive-Cycle Single-Body Core into a mecha, employ the most advanced modern mecha technology, combine it with research into battle armor, and finally integrate the battle armor's Soul Guidance Arrays, activating them through the Source Spring as the energy core.
If her idea could be realized, it