Before, Da Vinci had to multitask, handling diagnosis, examination, surgery, and drug guidance all by himself.
Now, a pharmacist outpatient service has been added.
Feng Ying would consult with patients with minor illnesses, providing targeted drug treatments after confirming their conditions. Only severe cases would be transferred to Da Vinci.
The Mechanical Doctor could thus focus more on treating patients with serious illnesses and performing various surgeries.
Da Vinci sent a message.
"Li Mo's second stress source removal operation was successful."
"The next extraction is scheduled for one and a half months later."
Red Kestrel brought over the stress source that had been sealed in a plastic box.
Zhou Yi looked at the small box in his hand.
With this thing, he could enter the Heavenly Person Domain again.
Since his last return, no matter how he used the "Radio", he couldn't get any information from the first stress source, as if it were completely broken.
Reverse Flow's Xiao Fu said, "This is a consumable one-way channel."
"Just receiving one-way information has no impact by itself. But if it's used to connect to another source of information at the far end, it will become invalid after the one-way trip. This is a common encryption method." ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ Novᴇl_Fire(.)net
If all of the stress sources on Li Mo's body were removed, he himself could use it four more times.
The opportunity being precious, Zhou Yi decided to enhance the strength of the "Radio" first.
At times , the measuring capability of the Condenser shone brilliantly. It entered the old Chongqing City area, and with Lie Hai, they found a total of 70,000 smartphones, which were sent back in batches and stacked in the warehouse.
Zhou Yi walked into the warehouse, his hand brushing over each smartphone, his body's combat seed rapidly absorbing and breaking them down.
Soon, the tin shed, once filled with digital products, was left with only a thick layer of dust on the floor.
The "Radio" was thus upgraded to channel 5.
Unless the mobile phone industry was resurrected, it would be impossible to reach the next magnitude of 4.2 billion mobile phones.
Zhou Yi looked at the new stress source in his hand.
He suddenly felt a moment of dizziness, and a figure appeared before his eyes.
The man sat on a large rock on a mountain, his head, left shoulder, and the upper half of his chest gone, leaving only a ring of charred wounds.
The entire mountain seemed to be burning and twisting, looking very unreal, with endless clouds in the distance.
He spoke with a voice that seemed to vibrate through the air, "Unknown Light Core Body discovered."
"Severe entity damage."
Zhou Yi instantly realized that channel 5 had brought a qualitative change in ability, turning the signal into a more intuitive real-time scene.
Before, he could only hear the sound.
Now, he was directly immersed, with increased sensation and a wealth of information.
Zhou Yi summoned Unit 2.
"Do you know what a Light Core Body is?"
Xiao Fu said confidently, "Of course. The next step after the Embryo Stage is to transform into a Light Core Body, a stage completely different from before."
"A Light Core Body isn't confined to one world and can truly pass through space bubbles—that is, what's referred to here as the Dark Domain. This point alone is a qualitative change; a Light Core Body can cross many worlds, harvesting unique elements from different worlds to further modify and enhance itself."
Zhou Yi thought, "So, Reverse Flows are Light Core Bodies too?"
Xiao Fu said proudly, "Reverse Flows are genuinely higher life forms."
"Then why can't you beat the Heavenly People?"
Reverse Flow explained, "Reverse Flows have never been known for combat. We specialize in collecting Fire Seed Life and preserving the heritage of civilization. It's normal for us not to win if we are ambushed or attacked."
"We revolve around the Circumference Light Device as our core. If we need to engage in combat, we must design and create combat devices, but that takes a lot of time and wastes resources. Normally, Reverse Flows don't bother with those things; just building a Light Wheel Well and Circumference Light Device quickly is enough... We aren't a warrior race, we don't do conquests; we're a faction that believes in technological salvation."
It just goes to show that there are differences among Light Core Bodies.
Suddenly, Zhou Yi saw.
The headless Heavenly Person was suddenly surrounded by electric light. His body went limp, and he fell from the rock into the clouds below.
All light and shadow vanished with him.
Zhou Yi guessed that this person had probably returned.
He contacted Duke Baili again, to ask if the other party knew about such a situation.
"Fog Mountain and the sea of clouds should be part of the Outer Sea."
"I have not heard of the Light Core Body, I only know about the Skywalker."
Due to tier limitations, ordinary sea lords who had never ventured to the Outer Sea had only a vague understanding of this information.
Zhou Yi once again focused his attention on the Stress Source.
After patiently waiting for three minutes,
the familiar countdown sound rang in his mind.
But this time, a holographic image appeared.
All around Zhou Yi were gems of various shapes: round, triangular, polygonal, arc-shaped, wave-shaped, ring-shaped... These blue and white gems varied in size, slowly rotating and nudging each other.
The sounds of their tiny collisions overlapped in great numbers, becoming clear and bright.
The countdown reminders stemmed from these gems colliding with each other.
No wonder the sound seemed so crisp.
Zhou Yi was not unfamiliar with these gems.
The Heavenly People, tentatively speaking, were composed of these gem units.
He observed for a while and noticed another feature.
These gems, stacked and pushing against each other to form an overall rotating structure, resembled some kind of mechanical gear structure.
He felt as if he were inside a gem gear clock.
Zhou Yi couldn't help but be curious.
How exactly did these gems move, and what did they represent?
He attempted to touch the gems, but he could not make any real contact with this place; he was limited to observation only.
"Reintegration initiated."
In a flash before Zhou Yi's eyes, he merged back into the flowing Sea of Gems.
Returning to this strange world, he first elevated and broadened his perspective, venturing into the dark space outside the gemstone sphere.
Outside, various sizes of Gemstone Worlds still floated in the darkness.
They remained as silent as ever.
No signs of attention or exposure.
Zhou Yi relaxed a little.
Then his viewpoint returned to his gemstone body. This time he felt more flexible and agile, which was likely due to the enhancement of the "Radio" ability.
Zhou Yi tried to spread the gemstones into a flat plane or a disc shape.
The transformation could only go so far before it couldn't continue any further, unable to modify the body's structural form.
No matter how it changed, it would gradually return to a spherical shape.
It wasn't possible to modify the exterior.
So, he looked inside.
Zhou Yi parted the Sea of Gems, his gaze entering inside his body. The interior was still composed of gems—the entire massive body was purely based on them.
Then he discovered that by focusing his attention on a single gem, he could gradually change its shape, extending transparent gemstone fibers outward. By altering these fibers, he could reshape the gemstone. However, once the reshaped gems entered the ocean, their collisions with each other would cause them to gradually revert to circular, triangular, or square shapes.
Zhou Yi continued to explore deeper into the ocean and soon found something unusual.
It was a hollow space made up of numerous White Gemstones.
From his overview, Zhou Yi could clearly see that it was a sealed room with furniture like tables, chairs, and beds, but everything was made of gems.
He snapped back to reality.
This was the space where Li Mo had been located in the past, the place for crafting and cultivating Heavenly People bodies.
The fact that Li Mo had been sent here indicated that there was some sort of passageway for travel between the Wasteland World and this place.
After further inspection, Zhou Yi found that there were a total of four such hollow spaces. These spherical houses made of White Gemstones slowly drifted with the currents in the Sea of Gems, as if they were some kind of organ within this body.
What surprised him the most was that one of the Gem Rooms contained a living creature.
It was a Kobold, with the head of a Chinese rural dog, short yellow fur, claws, and teeth, and eyes that didn't look too bright.
The Kobold was gnawing on a Blue Gemstone, running around inside the house one moment and hopping and jumping the next. It didn't seem to feel lonely or bored at all, amusing itself.
It appeared to be a backup body left by the original owner.
Zhou Yi poked its head with a gemstone fiber.
The Kobold paused for a moment, then howled in pain as it scurried around with its head in its paws inside the house.