Chapter 58: Designing a Bio-Mechanical Assistant
It was past midnight when Medical Upper Ninja Aoki finally sent Hyuga Mirai, drenched in sweat, back to rest.
The moment he stepped out of the Medical Camp, Hyuga Mirai felt genuinely exhausted. He had to distract himself with acting while performing Medical Ninjutsu and then use Yang Release Chakra to stimulate his skin to make him sweat profusely.
Even so, Hyuga Mirai still completed eleven severe injury surgeries, and only by feigning a headache when his Shadow Clone dispelled was he sent back to rest by Medical Upper Ninja Aoki.
After this performance, Hyuga Mirai could imagine the extent to which his prestige in the Land of Wind frontline camp would rise.
He might not be a Konoha hero, but many ninjas in this frontline had certainly been treated by him, and they would be the main force in spreading his reputation in the future.
A good reputation in Konoha Village might have its pros and cons, but on the frontline, it was definitely more beneficial than detrimental.
Taking missions, moving freely—once Hyuga Mirai's fame grew, these restrictions would almost disappear.
Otherwise, as a Chunin, he had too many restrictions on the frontline.
Hyuga Mirai slowly walked to his resting place and suddenly noticed someone inside. However, it was unlikely to be an enemy within the Konoha camp; it was probably either Hyuga Kiyomi or Kurenai Yuhi.
Hyuga Mirai calmly lifted the curtain and walked in, then saw Kurenai Yuhi dozing off at the table, with a basket of rice balls beside her.
"Kurenai, wake up."
Hyuga Mirai patted Kurenai Yuhi, waking her from her half-sleep.
"Mirai-kun? When did you come in?" Kurenai Yuhi asked with wide, confused eyes. Even if she was almost asleep just now, she shouldn't have failed to notice someone entering.
"Just came in. Thank you for bringing me food, Kurenai."
Hyuga Mirai said with a smile, "But you're also very tired. Go back and rest quickly; there might be another mission tomorrow."
"I just went to the Medical Camp and saw you were constantly treating the injured, so I knew you didn't have time to eat."
Kurenai Yuhi said with a beaming smile, tilting her head as if asking for praise.
"Then I'll head back first, Mirai-kun. You should also rest early after eating."
She originally wanted to say more, but Kurenai Yuhi saw the fatigue on Hyuga Mirai's face and the sweat on his body, so she gave a brief instruction and then left.
After Kurenai Yuhi left, the fatigue on Hyuga Mirai's face disappeared. He then activated his Byakugan, paying attention to his surroundings.
Today, after Hyuga Mirai returned from completing the enemy elimination mission, he was called to the Medical Camp and had been busy for nearly ten hours; to say he was tired, he truly felt nothing.
Currently, Hyuga Mirai's Chakra was increasing daily and recovered very quickly. The level of Chakra consumption in the Medical Camp just now, even if it lasted all day, would not cause Hyuga Mirai's Chakra to run out.
This was thanks to the hashirama cells' genetic sequence. After Hyuga Mirai integrated the hashirama cells' genetic sequence into himself, his control over Yang Release Chakra improved by several levels.
If Hyuga Mirai's control over Yang Release Chakra, quantified, was one before, relying on his excellent Chakra control ability, it was now five.
"Finally, some time to myself."
Hyuga Mirai sighed, "War is truly a troublesome thing. No, it should be said that wars he has to participate in are truly troublesome."
"Let's continue the research and design of the bio-mechanical assistant."
Under the observation of his Byakugan, Hyuga Mirai could accurately detect if anyone was coming to disturb him, so he could safely research puppets indoors.
After arriving at the battlefield where he was fighting the Land of Wind, Hyuga Mirai had acquired a total of twenty-one puppets, the strongest of which should have been a Sand Ninja Jonin's puppet. Unfortunately, after that guy was found by Hyuga Mirai and his group, he didn't have time to take out his puppet before they killed him.
Hyuga Mirai took out the acquired puppets and tried them one by one, feeling the flexibility and reaction speed when controlling the puppets with Chakra threads.
"It should be similar to the speed of bio-electromagnetic sensing, but puppets can form a variety of combat methods through Chakra. This can be used as a reference, and there's also the issue of driving energy…"
To create a bio-mechanical assistant with its own consciousness and the ability to fight autonomously, the most important issue was energy drive.
When Dr. Kinnos created the Armored Gorilla, he used a nuclear battery pack, which could not only maintain the Armored Gorilla's daily consumption but also provide powerful energy during combat.
However, in the Ninja World, Hyuga Mirai currently lacked the resources to manufacture nuclear battery packs.
"Using Chakra as the driving energy? The fusion of Eight-Tails cells and hashirama cells is a research direction, but the Chakra supply system is not an easy matter…"
Hyuga Mirai took out paper and pen, designing and pondering the energy supply system while drawing the mechanical circuit design of the bio-mechanical assistant.
During this time, he made many modifications, adjusting many parts based on the characteristics of metals in the Ninja World.
"Tailed Beasts, the star stone of Star Ninja Village, the Zero-Tails, etc., can all be used as energy sources. However, the easiest to obtain among them is the star stone of Star Ninja Village. I remember this meteorite contains radioactive substances harmful to the human body…"
Hyuga Mirai suddenly paused here, and the pen he was using to draw the electromagnetic circuit stopped.
"Meteorite… radioactive substances. That's right, perhaps an energy reactor can be created based on the radioactive properties of the star stone. This might solve the energy drive issue."
Hyuga Mirai thought with a slight smirk, but all of this would have to wait until he got the star stone.
Star Ninja Village is a small village in Bear Country, and its strength should not be very strong. If worst comes to worst, Hyuga Mirai would hire a few bounty hunters from the black market. At most, he would pay more money to arrange for Kakuzu to take action. With his love for money, twenty million should be enough for Kakuzu to deal with an unknown small village.
Having a direction for solving the energy drive problem made Hyuga Mirai feel lighter when designing. Although he didn't know if the star stone was truly as he imagined, if the star stone of Star Ninja Village didn't work, then Hyuga Mirai could only set his sights on the Tailed Beasts.
"Chakra metal isn't hard enough, but it's sufficient for conducting Chakra to activate Ninjutsu. For the outer shell, I can look for some light, strong metals… Hmm?"
Hyuga Mirai suddenly felt a biological Chakra approaching him underground. He immediately focused his gaze underground and then saw a snake swimming towards him from beneath the ground.
"So it's a white snake. Do they need to use summoning beasts for messages even in the camp…?"
After the white snake emerged from the ground, it crawled up Hyuga Mirai's leg towards his shoulder, then spat out a scroll from its belly.
"Just spit it on the table; you don't need to crawl on me."
Hyuga Mirai still couldn't accept the mucus from the snake's belly, so he placed the white snake on the table and carefully wiped the scroll with a cloth.
After opening and reading the message in the scroll, Hyuga Mirai's mouth couldn't help but twitch.
"Why are they calling me over in the middle of the night…?"
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