The corpse blinked. If an ordinary person saw this, they would have fainted. But fortunately, Hao Ren's nerves had been tempered for a long time, and he was still calm. He put the MDT on the bed and went up to check the latter's status. By now, the corpse had returned to its original lifeless look. Her eyes were half-closed, and she looked no different from a normal corpse. It seemed that the "blinking" was just an illusion.
But something must have happened, because the MDT was still yelling about how it had regained some of its senses.
"There's a little light, but it's blurry. But I did see something." The MDT sounded happy. "And I can still see … and it seems like I can feel something, but it's a strange feeling. Maybe it has something to do with the drive incompatibility."
Hao Ren waved his hand in front of the MDT's eyes. "How does it feel?"
"Oh! There's a shadow! I saw a shadow! "The MDT's voice came immediately." But why can't I see it clearly? "
Hao Ren used his hand to pry open the MDT's eyelids. "Now you see?"
The MDT was surprised. "Oh! I can see it at once. God, how did you do it? "
Hao Ren used his hand to hold the MDT's eyelids, his big face directly in front of the MDT's eyes. "Because you were squinting! Open your eyelids. "
He let go, and the blonde girl's stiff eyelids immediately returned to a half-closed state. The MDT tried for a long time but to no avail. "How do you open your eyelids?"
"Didn't you just blink?" Hao Ren asked.
"I'm not the one who controls it!" The MDT said. "I've never opened my eyelids since I came off the production line. Who knows how to control this thing."
Hao Ren opened his mouth but found that he could not refute. So he took out a roll of cellophane tape from his Dimensional Pocket and used it to force the MDT's eyelids open. "Okay, I've opened it for you. Have a good taste of this feeling, and try to find a way to control it."
He felt that ever since he entered this world, his interaction with the MDT was getting more and more interesting.
The MDT replied with an "oh" as it began to fiddle with its incompatible drivers, grumbling as it did so. "Speaking of which, this body is so hard to control … There's just too many parts in a humanoid body, I can't even imagine how many drivers you'd need in your head to walk upright … Oh oh! The camera swayed! The camera swayed! Earthquake, earthquake! "
Hao Ren turned his head and glanced at him. "Shake your ass. That's your eyeballs moving. I told you to practice blinking. Where did you go?"
"Ugh, it's so troublesome to control. My usual optical sensor is a sphere with a 360-degree view. It's not that troublesome." The MDT shook its eyeballs back and forth. It was a strange sight for a stiff corpse. "Eh, I think I can sense the signal when the eyelids open. Take off the tape … Be gentle, my body isn't that strong right now …"
Hao Ren tore off the tape and saw the corpse in front of him blinking slowly. Her eyelids were twitching, and it was clear that she could not control this function well. But after a few tries, the MDT found the trick. 'Her' eyes widened as she looked around curiously. Her eyes darted back and forth, and finally fell on Hao Ren. "Oh, partner, so you look like this with human eyes … Tsk, what a monotonous scene."
Hao Ren was suddenly curious about the MDT's usual perspective. "So how do you see me? How different is it from now? "
"It's hard to explain to you. Our sensory organs are different." The MDT blinked (it was the only part of her body that could move). "If I have to compare … it's like when you're used to playing 3D games and suddenly you're playing Tetris on a black-and-white handheld. I feel like the quality of your entire body has dropped."
Hao Ren was speechless.
The MDT was not done yet. "Tsk, tsk. You're like a mosaic now. But it's better than nothing."
Hao Ren ignored the MDT's nagging. He curiously observed the expression on the MDT's face, trying to find more signs of recovery. "Aside from the eyes? Are there any other useful parts? "
"My hearing is back. I just found that out." The MDT checked its senses. "My sense of touch has also partially recovered. But a lot of signals are jumbled together. I can't tell which part of my body it's coming from. It doesn't seem to be useful. Other than that … "
The MDT pondered for a long time before it suddenly became depressed. "There are a lot of inexplicable signals. Maybe it's human sensory information, such as cold, heat, pain and the like. But I can't understand them. These signals are not as clear as the feedback from the sensors. I feel like I've fallen into an information storm. There's clutter everywhere. "
Hao Ren frowned. Although he could not empathize with the MDT, he still understood how troublesome it was to put a soul into a body that was incompatible with a life form. The MDT was trying to adapt to a new shell that it thought was seriously 'inaccurate'. All the sensors in the shell were probably broken. There was no quantifiable data. This was not something an AI could get used to.
"Why did your senses suddenly recover?" While the MDT was trying to learn how to deal with the fuzzy signals, Hao Ren muttered to himself. "This body should still be in a dead state. The nerves and circuits inside are broken. How do the sensory organs work?"
"I don't know. I only know that this body is not very good," the MDT muttered. "Besides, don't even think about taking me apart. It's not easy to improve a little. What if you poke it again with the screwdriver?"
Hao Ren looked down at the corpse and said, "Keep lying down. Even if you want to dissect your body, you'll need a scalpel. I don't know how to dissect it."
No matter how the MDT gradually recovered on a corpse, and no matter why this stopped functioning body suddenly regained consciousness, it was a good sign. According to the MDT's progress in controlling the blink, it was not impossible for this body to fully recover its mobility. By then, Hao Ren would not have to carry a corpse around and be regarded as a necrophile.
But before that, he still had to face a problem: how to explain the resurrection of the corpse to the mercenaries in this place?
The MDT came up with an idea. "You can tell them that it was a misdiagnosis. I'm actually still alive. I just faked my death."
Hao Ren stared at her. "You're the one who got punched through! If you said you faked your death, would anyone believe me? "
"Didn't you say that all the time?"
"When I said that before, at most people thought I was crazy. But if you really walked out alive, then it would be their turn to go crazy." Hao Ren covered his face. "Forget it. You'd better continue to pretend to be a corpse. You can move when there's no one around."
"That's fine. It's still too early to say. I haven't even mastered eyesight yet." The MDT blinked and continued to look around. "Oh, right. What were you doing with the beacon you threw earlier? Did it respond? "
"I wanted to confirm its condition when I came back, but you interrupted me."
Hao Ren said as he took out a set of communication device with a holographic projection from his dimensional pocket. This device could be used to communicate with the drone cluster, but because it was not intelligent, it was not as convenient as the MDT.
He turned his head and glanced at the MDT lying on the bed next to him. He sighed in his heart. This was the only thing he could do.
Activating the device, inputting parameters, and establishing a connection with the drone cluster. As the operation was not complicated, Hao Ren could still do it himself. After the system was connected, he successfully received a response signal from the drone cluster in a corner of the universe. Although the interference was strong, the connection was stable.
Then he ordered the drone cluster to look for the beacon. The beacon transmitter he had released in the slums had been set up ten minutes ago, and now it should be releasing a powerful navigation signal into space.
"Search failed. No beacon found."
The interface of the drone cluster replied stiffly.
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