The Mech Touch novel Chapter 843

Something profound occurred the moment a solid connection appeared.

A sacred god differed hugely from a wild god. The former possessed a sentient mind, while the latter was a slave to its instincts.

Even Ves couldn’t predict what might happen if a mech pilot interfaced with the mind of another sentient being. He had the feeling that what was happening right now was an exceedingly sensitive matter. If the MTA knew he was doing something like this, they might have suffered a collective heart attack!

So far though, the telemetry sent back by the sensors and monitors showed that their life signs remained stable and within a tolerable range. Captain Orfan’s nervousness even subsided a bit, though she seemed to have been whisked into another world.

Ves grew a little bit concerned at her lack of reaction or response. What was she experiencing right now?

"Sir?" One of the experts opened her mouth. "Captain Orfan is showing signs of hallucination. She is experiencing an unusual event. Do we abort the test?"

"No." Ves shook his head. "Just wait and observe for now. Halting the connection might do more harm than good."

Although the instruments didn’t mention anything exceptional, Ves kept feeling that something extremely significant was happening. It also happened outside the range of their regular sensors, which was why the experts watching the instruments didn’t suspect anything strange.

Ves on the other hand perceived a tiny clue. He focused his attention on his sixth sense and felt a tiny prickling in the distance.

The man-beast connection between Captain Orfan and Qilanxo produced a strange phenomena that Ves couldn’t understand! This was unlike anything he had ever witnessed before. Even the first activation of a mech by a mech pilot never led to such a solemn event!

"How much time has passed?" He absently asked.

"Five minutes and going. Sir, we are reading elevated activity in Captain Orfan’s body. Her temperature is rising and and outside influence is stimulating her cell activity. None of this is supposed to happen during an interfacing attempt!"

"Didn’t we always suspect that a man-beast connection affects the physiology of the human that takes part in this connection?" Ves replied calmly. "Monitor the effects and make sure we don’t miss anything. Don’t abort the connection without my say so even if the life signs are starting to enter dangerous terrain."

The doctor didn’t necessarily agree but what say did he have? Ves was the boss and nobody dared to go against his word.

Besides, Ves also had a point in that interrupting the connection while it facilitated an unknown reaction might threaten Captain Orfan’s health. _{freewebnoveℓ.com}

For better or worse, they had no choice but to let the reaction run its course.

"The rate of data exchange has tripled! Captain Orfan’s brain activity has increased drastically!"

"Is it hitting through the upper limit?"

"The data exchange is well within limitations. I think the two are communicating with each other!"

Ves took a look at the readings. While he didn’t understand most of it, he figured Captain Orfan and Qilanxo must be exchanging a substantial amount of data, and it wasn’t limited to a single level. He made a bold guess that their bodies and minds simultaneously communicated with each other at the speed of thought!

Even as some of the experts puzzled and worried over what exactly went on that caused Captain Orfan to experience all of these physiological changes, Ves maintained a stable demeanor. His rock-like posture emanated boundless confidence, which silently reassured the experts and prevented them from panicking.

Nonetheless, questions still emerged.

"Why hasn’t this phenomenon happened in our previous tests? Is it because we used wildlings and wild gods?"

Ves nodded his head. "What is happening right now should be similar to how a sacred god chooses one of the blessed people to be their chosen. From the descriptions we received at Mulak, this ceremony is extremely holy to the city folk. It’s unfortunate that they held back a lot of information."

Nobody expected the first connection attempt to be accompanied by all of this fanfare. Was this why Qilanxo refused to interface with the wildlings? To a sacred god, each connection between the mind of a human came with a lot of implications.

They couldn’t be a loose as wild gods who seemingly didn’t care whose minds they interfaced with. Interfacing with a sacred god was like bedding a wife for the first time, while interfacing with a wild god was like paying a visit to the town prostitute!

Still, a fundamental question popped up in his mind.

Why did this happen?

"Is it because of the man-beast connection?"

The source of the matter lay with the sacred gods. Nothing like this happened with the wild gods. Old experiments where researchers attempted to interface the mind of a human with the mind of a dog or cat never delivered such drastic results either.

What made sacred gods different? Why did they get to be called sacred?

Ves thought for a little while, ruling out several variables before he fixated on one in particular. He walked away from the experts monitoring the sensor readings of the test pilot’s health and approached one of the engineers that monitored the activity of the god crystals borne by Qilanxo.

"Sir, is there anything you need?"

"Are Qilanxo’s god crystals doing anything?"

"Their energy reserves are decreasing at a small but steady rate. I can’t tell you where the energy is led towards." The engineer said in a confused tone. "We haven’t been able to insert any invasive sensors into Qilanxo’s body, and her body outputs too much interference for our deep scans to penetrate her flesh."

Qilanxo was drawing upon energy! And not the regular kind of energy that powered the mechs and machines if the Flagrant Swordmaidens, but pure higher-dimensional energies siphoned from the astral winds!

While Qilanxo never called down an energy tornado since she suffered heavy injuries and entered captivity, none of her god crystals ever ran empty. Even though she expended most of her energy reserves from defending against the massive explosions that overloaded her space barrier, she still retained a low amount of charges that never went anywhere.

Now, for the first time in months, those god crystals finally discharged their higher-dimensional energies.

And it definitely involved the man-beast connection!