Chapter 1052: Chapter 300: Transaction_3
Chen Ming nodded.
After He Gu left, he pressed the start button on the instrument.
A surge of Spiritual Energy Fluctuation immediately flowed out from inside the instrument, following the Spiritual Power and Spiritual Energy Fluctuation Chen Ming had left behind and wrapping around his body.
Two or three lines of text appeared on the instrumentâs display.
The first line was the Spiritual Energy attribute that was compatible with Chen Ming.
The following lines were the locations of materials or equipment with that attribute, retrieved by the instrumentâs chip from its database based on the Spiritual Energy attribute that matched Chen Ming.
Simply put, it was a database that would tell the user where to find recorded, suitable, and still obtainable Spiritual Materials.
Chen Ming was just about to take a closer look.
But in the next moment, the text on the display changed, turning into a new Spiritual Energy attribute.
Before Chen Ming could react, he saw the display change yet again.
And it kept going.
The results shown on the display kept changing, with each result staying on screen for no more than half a second, as if it just couldnât stop.
"This..."
Did that mean it hadnât found a Spiritual Energy attribute compatible with him? That couldnât be right...
Still puzzled, Chen Ming waited another two minutes, but the situation did not change.
The content on the display was still constantly changing, not giving Chen Ming any reasonable result at all.
There was nothing Chen Ming could do; he pulled open the door of the reception room.
He Gu, who had been looking down at his terminal, immediately turned his head and asked, "All done?"
"No."
He Guâs question was more of a formality; he really hadnât expected that Chen Ming actually wouldnât get it done.
"What happened?"
Chen Ming directly handed the instrument back and said, "Take a look."
He Gu took it, frowned as he watched the constantly flickering text on it.
Chen Ming asked, "Does this mean the instrument didnât find any Spiritual Energy attribute compatible with me?"
"Probably not."
He Gu denied Chen Mingâs guess and said, "Because back when the database was still incomplete, testing for Spiritual Energy attributes still turned up many suitable attributes that hadnât been discovered yet.
"So when that happens, there will be a notification. Normally, several similar attributes are displayed together to make comparison and speculation easier."
"Even if there arenât any similar ones, it still shouldnât be jumping around like this. This kind of situation... could the device be broken?"
"..."
In the silence, Chen Ming suddenly had a feelingâthat the instrument wasnât broken; the problem lay with him.
It was probably just like heâd guessed before.
As a Mind Breaking Entity, a chaotic existence, how could he possibly have a single compatible Spiritual Energy attribute?
And thinking about it carefully, since Psychics have one or several Spiritual Materials with good compatibility, then having Spiritual Materials with bad compatibility is perfectly normal.
But Chen Ming had come into contact with so many different attributes of Spiritual-energy-related things, and it really seemed like there wasnât a single one that showed obvious bad compatibility with him.
That alone seemed enough to explain the problem to a certain extent.
Although Chen Ming had suspected before that it might be an issue with the prosthetic body.
But the Spiritual Power stored in the device was his, the Spiritual Energy Fluctuation was his, the blood was exactly the same as his original bodyâs, and as for the genes, that went without saying.
So he had ruled out the possibility that the prosthetic body was causing the instrument to malfunction.
Since that was the case, Chen Ming felt he could just go with whichever Spiritual Energy Fluctuation looked stronger and use that, without bothering to consider compatibility at all.
If he really had to find some kind of compatible affinity, maybe heâd have better luck in the Crimson Dimension.
Of course, that was just Chen Mingâs guess. His use of the Crimson Dimension was still focused on cutting off his senses and transmitting other things.
Under the premise of keeping his own consciousness, he could only stay in the Crimson Dimension for half a second. Doing anything there was obviously not something he could manage right now.
It was just something to think about.
In Chen Mingâs silenceâ
He Gu reached out and applied the standard universal fix for electronic devices to the instrument, that is, he gave it a few whacks.
But that method clearly didnât work; the display on the instrument was still jumping between all kinds of results.
"It should be that the instrument is broken."
He Gu said, "I pulled this out of the warehouse. Those instruments and pieces of equipment might have been manufactured several years ago. They may have gone bad in storage. Iâll send word back to have another one prepared for you, and Iâll have them arrange compensation for the damaged device."
"Compensation? Like a âfake one, pay tenâ deal?"
"Haha..."
He Gu gave an awkward laugh and said, "That we probably donât have, but we can give youâ"
Even though he knew it probably wasnât the instrumentâs problem, Chen Ming couldnât exactly tell the truth, so he just quietly accepted the benefit.
The three thousand Contribution Points had already been credited earlier. Although there was a small hiccup in this transaction, the main deal was already done.
It didnât matter if they couldnât work out a result afterward.
He already had an answer in his heart.
The two of them didnât dwell on the instrument for long. After He Gu handed the instrument to Chen Ming, and Chen Ming turned it into a piece of scrap metal right in front of him, they wrapped up the formal topics and chatted a bit about their own matters.
Although He Gu and Chen Ming hadnât known each other for very long and hadnât met that many times,
they were both researchers in certain technical fields and still had plenty of common ground when it came to research.
There was always something they could talk about.
After a few casual exchangesâ
He Gu suddenly asked Chen Ming, "Do you have any plans for what comes next?"
"Plans?"
Chen Ming did, of course, have plans.