OD Project: Remediation Station I

Endmin, thank you for making this trip.

As you can see, the Feranmut Heart from the Marker Stone Ruins is here.

It suffered the worst damages during Ardashir's attack...

But it looks ... kinda okay to me?

But its initial Protorig module has been damaged. We could do nothing about that.

We'll do our best.

In addition to repairing the damaged Protorig module, we must re-initialize the Feranmut Heart as well.

After all, it's a rare honor to take part in extensive repairs of the Feranmut Heart.

The Aggeloi...

Tianshi Zhuang assigned a supporting role for me. Repair work will be facing complex issues, so we must work together.

For the Marker Stone Feranmut Heart, the first activation was personally carried out by the proxy.

Since then, the Heart would continuously collect ambient data and auto-adjust the magnitude of its own energy dissipation.

But the proxy is not with us. We must now use various instruments to collect tangible ambient data for the Feranmut Heart to activate it.

To address issue, Cardiac Remediation Station director, Tianshi Han Fang, designed the Feranmut Imager to support this work.

We also have Tianshi Bu Yuan. The Feranmut Cardiograph she developed is to ensure that the initialized Feranmut Heart is capable of sustaining stable energy dissipation.

Tianshi Ge, are you still getting frequent Aggeloid activities in the Marker Stone area?

Yes, but the Aggeloi are hardly a concern.

Damages to the Feranmut Heart weakened Marker Stone's suppression of the rift. This is the issue we need to address.

Tianshi Han Fang is calibrating the Imager. As for Tianshi Bu Yuan...

Ahem. She should be enjoying tea somewhere.

Huh?! Tea?!

When science runs into a bottleneck, one must find a fount of inspirations.

Oh. Tianshi Han Fang is calling. He's having an inner disagreement again.

Tianshi Ge, if you need something, we can always help.

Good to hear. Han Fang is near the Tianshi Pillar Array outside Wuling City.

The data ... doesn't look right...

Things were so dangerous back then. Why didn't you evac?

These Aggeloi won't stop me... And I just ran around the city to photograph a nice place ... I can't run anymore...

Thank you for helping. Old Ge introduced me, right? Name's Han Fang. I'm calibrating the Feranmut Imager.

But, why did he ask you to come here personally, Endmin...?

Initialization data handed down by our mentors only emphasized that ambient senses of the Feranmut Heart must be "people-oriented".

However, I recently tested more than a dozen photos but calibration progress didn't even budge! Not one bit!

No matter what I did, progress is now stuck at seventy percent. Maybe I should try a different approach...

I talked about this with Tianshi Bu Yuan. Wuling is a dynamic and changing city...

Ambient data should also include new things that never existed before...

But this is too much work. Even if Tianshi Bu Yuan and the disciples help out, we don't have enough people to photograph every new stuff.

Awesome. I've marked every place associated with novelties. We really need all the help we can.

I gotta run to the Institute of Materials Science and process the data with the Imager terminal. Meet me there once you're done photographing.

After several rounds of testing, we discovered that ambient data are related to crowd activities...

We took photos of various crowd activities. The Imager then converts them into ambient data tangible to the Feranmut Heart.

Lastly, we'll compare them against data collected by the normal Feranmut Heart in the Marker Stone Zenith to finish calibrating the Feranmut Imager.

The way people live and their perspectives have changed.

Fangxing Avenue is closest. I advise going there first.

Disappointingly, it mentions nothing about what the proxy actually did.

"The Perplexed Tianshi"? Turns out I've been neglecting the most obvious thing...

I thought I kept "people-oriented" to heart, but I never realized that I missed every quiet and hardworking soul around me.

I almost let everyone down. My utmost thanks to you!

This Imager calibration will serve as our basis for extracting tangible ambient data for the Feranmut Heart. Wait for my good news!

And if you need help, we can talk about it over some tea.

Feel free to share everything on your mind. I'm all ears.

Tianshi Han is adjusting the Imager. Let's check the progress at the Remediation Station.

I left myself out when I focused on people helping people... And I might never have realized this were it not for this project.

No wonder Tianshi Zhuang handed this mission to me. She even reminded me to think about our mentors' lessons...

Tianshi, watchguards, farmers, and laborers... Everyone tacitly upheld these tenets. But set aside the roles and we're just people.

I only knew the literal meaning of our mentors' wisdom. I treated them as mere instructions for repairing the Feranmut Heart.

Tianshi Bu Yuan, why does your team take so many photos of novel dishes and desserts?

Hmm... I am exploring new possibilities. Upload it and see. Maybe it'll progress it a little.

Sure, I'll try... Hmm. There's a pulse, but it is absolutely negligible.

I knew it. The history of cooking is just too long. Stylistic changes do not constitute a novelty. Another approach is required...

Great! Just the set I need. Your photos are more compliant to my requests. I hope they can push the calibration along!

Endmin, just upload the images to this terminal and I'll convert them to ambient data!

Endmin, we're close.

Wow. Are we gonna photograph these chubby lungs?

Tianshi Han believes these chubby lungs symbolize youthful tastes and trends.

Newp! Not just the youths. I know plenty of old masters who can't get enough of chubby lungs!

Over there, Endmin!

A photo of migrating fowlbeasts... Does this have anything to do with crowd activities of Wuling?

Hmm... If anything's related, there didn't seem to be this many fowlbeasts in Wuling several years ago.

Is that so? Then the migrating fowlbeasts are proof that the Wulingers made improvements to the natural environment.

Oh. Exam blessing banners for the Academy. I used to avoid this place due to the number of instructors here...

Every exam season is a major event in Wuling. Many Tianshi would visit the place to check on the registrations.

This is also proof of the city's dynamic growth and the heritage of the Wuling Tianshi.

Gotta title this: "The Perplexed Tianshi".

Back when I trained in swordmancy, if there was a move I didn't get, my mentor told me to study my reflections in the water. It really helped me spot my mistakes.

We should show Tianshi Han how troubled they look. Perhaps it would give them new ideas!

Maybe this will work. I think you found the missing piece, Chen.

Oh, why is everyone saying nice things about me?

Endmin, we'll try things out with "The Perplexed Tianshi".

Endmin... Maybe it's just me, but the Tianshi never thought about taking selfies.

Endmin! It's responding! We're getting actual progress for Imager calibration!

Seventy percent and rising ... and it just hit eighty percent!

Wow. That progressed really fast!

Our approach is correct. Progress for calibration leaped to ninety-five percent in one shot.

We're almost there!

Wait. Why is the calibration progress stuck at ninety-nine percent?

It shouldn't happen. We exhausted nearly every single possibility...

Maybe I ... missed something crucial?

Endmin! Let's try the next photo!

Tianshi Han is incredibly committed to academic research, but...

He has a habit of disagreeing with himself, and he ignores everything else when that happens.

I think I covered every site to my best knowledge. Things should work this time.

Hmm. Wonder how Tianshi Bu Yuan's team is doing about the photographs...