After dinner, Song Pinxuan and Song Zhaoyang both returned to the research module.
The sooner the consciousness transfer technology was developed, the better.
Tang Chenxi did not leave the G City underground city in a hurry and returned to her own residence next door.
Tang Li left the small residential module and went to the fourth floor again.
Although many storage modules had been replicated to store Longevity Elixir and X substance, the initial nine storage modules, used to pile up supplies prepared for transportation to the upper three floors, and to process domestic waste, sewage, and discarded items from various places, were still there.
However, the number of storage modules for replicating supplies had significantly decreased, while the number of storage modules for processing discarded items had greatly increased.
Tang Li arrived at the storage modules on the fourth floor, as usual collected the domestic waste and sewage delivered daily, and then went to the warehouse for processing corpses.
Here, she saw more than a dozen body bags.
Inside them were people who had died in the underground city today.
After all, not everyone could afford the Longevity Elixir, and even with it, one might not be able to resist various diseases.
Over thirty years had passed, and in the G City underground city, many of the initial 130,000 young and middle-aged adults had gradually entered old age, with people dying for various reasons every day.
Tang Li walked over expressionlessly and collected these body bags, along with the corpses inside, into her space.
In fact, with the exploitation of various resources, cremation had been restored in the official underground cities. After cremation, the ashes would be given to family members, who would either bury them in the ground on the surface or scatter them at sea.
However, in the G City underground city, after death, corpses were still collected by Tang Li into her space.
This was because the more spatial energy she had, the more Longevity Elixir and X substance she could replicate.
It wasn't just human corpses; the corpses of animals and plants from the breeding and cultivation modules also contained a lot of spatial energy.
If animals and plants in the breeding and cultivation modules died unnaturally, their corpses would also be transported to the fourth floor for Tang Li to handle.
Just as Tang Li was collecting one of the body bags, she heard breathing from inside.
Tang Li frowned: "What's going on? Is the person inside still alive?"
Without touching the body bag, Tang Li first collected all the other body bags into her space.
Then, she approached this body bag and slowly unzipped it.
Inside, appeared a familiar face to Tang Li.
It was Xu Xinyue, whom she hadn't seen in a long time!
Tang Li breathed a sigh of relief.
Xu Xinyue was a biological robot, not a normal living person.
This way, her activity of collecting items would not be exposed.
Tang Li patted Xu Xinyue's face, trying to wake her up, but she showed no reaction.
Her breathing was even, her complexion was ruddy, and she showed no signs of illness or poor health.
Moreover, she still looked like a young woman in her twenties, clearly, He Xiao had also given her the Longevity Elixir.
Tang Li knew this.
But her grandfather, Xu Zhenhua, had not been so lucky.
Tang Li had not given him the Longevity Elixir, so he had died more than ten years ago.
Among those on the fourth floor who had invasive brain-computer interfaces implanted, those without public identities, especially the R-country research personnel, Tang Li had not given them the Longevity Elixir.
Therefore, these people were now either old or dead.
Only Xu Xinyue, who lived in He Xiao's residence, received the Longevity Elixir from He Xiao.
Over the past thirty years, apart from the first child she conceived herself, the subsequent dozen or so children had been gestated through artificial wombs, and all had been matched with He Xiao.
After the children were born, they were raised by the underground city, so the couple did not need to worry about them.
Seeing Xu Xinyue's current state, Tang Li understood that the electronic robot brain implanted in her head must have malfunctioned, and He Xiao was unable to perform craniotomy to replace it. This had led to her current condition where her body was not dead, but she was immobile like a vegetative person.
If she were a vegetative person, there might still be a chance of waking up.
But this biological robot would definitely not wake up, so she was treated as a corpse.
However, since this person was not dead, Tang Li's space could not collect her.
It was not that she would die when collected into the space and then replicated, but rather she could not be collected into the space at all!
Therefore, the grains and cereals Tang Li initially collected, although they were seeds, were also collected after death.
Tang Li hoisted Xu Xinyue onto her shoulder and took her to the research module on the fourth floor, asking the researchers to replace the electronic robot brain in her head.
However, she had no intention of returning her to He Xiao, so she let her stay on the fourth floor.
If she were returned to He Xiao, perhaps He Xiao would again waste the Longevity Elixir on this living dead.
By staying on the fourth floor and not giving her the Longevity Elixir, after she naturally died, her corpse would be collected into the space, converted into energy, and used to replicate the Longevity Elixir and X substance.
After that, Tang Li's life returned to normal.
ps: The main text will have its grand finale tomorrow.