Chapter 159: Heart, Sasageyo!

"Ooh!"

The head of the Steam Train let out a muffled whistle. Under the full operation of the Steam Core and the Supercritical Boiler, the train's speed accelerated to its maximum in just over ten seconds! Fortunately, following the announcement over the train's intercom just moments ago, neither Yun Mu nor Brenna was startled by this sudden change.

The scenery outside the carriage changed rapidly; in just a few minutes, the train had traveled beyond the city limits.

"What is the speed of this train?" Yun Mu asked, watching the scenery flying backward outside the window.

"85 kilometers per hour," Brenna answered without hesitation, clearly very knowledgeable about such things.

"Of course, it can go faster, but for safety reasons, the train usually doesn't run at maximum speed."

"Then how fast can it go at its fastest?" Yun Mu pressed.

"Ignoring the quality of the tracks and the load of the carriages, it can surge up to 135 kilometers per hour." Brenna waved her hand, looked out the window, and explained, "But that's just the theoretical speed. Usually, even at maximum, it's only about 110 kilometers per hour."

"85 kilometers per hour to the Winter Capital takes 14 hours, which means Frostfall City is..." Yun Mu calculated in her mind what eighty-five times fourteen was.

"1,190 kilometers," Brenna, who was beside her, couldn't watch anymore and spoke up.

"Oh~ so you mean Frostfall City is over 1,100 kilometers away from the Royal Capital?" Yun Mu realized.

"Slap!" Brenna patted her forehead and said helplessly, "You aren't wrong to understand it that way, but the train doesn't travel in a straight line the whole time."

"If you only look at the straight-line distance, Frostfall City is only a little over 1,000 kilometers from the Royal Capital."

"What's the use of looking at the straight-line distance? Do you travel to the Royal Capital in a straight line?" Yun Mu retorted.

"... You're right." Brenna was silent for a moment.

She felt she had been persuaded by Yun Mu.

"Hoo."

After a brief silence, Brenna took a drawing board and a steel pen from her Storage space and began to draw blueprints on the train.

The noise inside the train was minimal, and it wasn't very bumpy while moving.

Plus, as a Transcendental, Brenna naturally wouldn't be affected by such a small matter.

Her hand was very steady; on the drawing board, a highly precise Mechanical Heart was being designed.

"Is this thing... a Mechanical Heart?" Yun Mu asked after glancing at it with curiosity.

"Hm?" Seemingly surprised that she could actually identify the purpose of this object, a look of slight astonishment appeared on Brenna's face.

"Yes, I intend to use it to replace the heart Elena is missing..."

Brenna laid out all her thoughts and plans, only concealing the matter regarding the God of Decay and Necromancy.

After hearing her thoughts, Yun Mu was stunned at first.

Fine, fine, a Bionic Doll wasn't enough; now she's even researching mechanical internal organs.

But then, she thought of something and hurriedly asked, "Why must you use a mechanical one? Isn't there any magic that can regenerate a heart?"

"Or..." She hesitated slightly before continuing, "Find a death-row prisoner and transplant that prisoner's heart."

"What kind of magic is that? It's more of a miracle," Brenna rolled her eyes.

"As for transplanting a heart... I have looked into some experiments on transplanting other internal organs, but they don't seem very reliable."

"A Transcendental might have this ability, but that is for living people."

"In the world of Ether, dead people are, in every sense, very different from living people."

"Many rules that apply to living people become invalid... That is why I must restore Elena's body on a physical level." "Her neck was broken, I can correct it; she lost too much blood, I just need to give her a transfusion; and the heart problem is just a bit more complex," Brenna said, looking very determined.

"What about the brain?" Yun Mu asked.

It wasn't that she wanted to pour cold water on her, but she had once seen it online.

Normally, for an average human, the brain requires about 20 percent of the body's oxygen supply every minute to maintain basic functions.

When the heart stops beating, blood cannot effectively transport oxygen and nutrients to the brain, and brain cells can only rely on their own reserves of oxygen and nutrients to survive for a short time.

This usually causes irreversible damage within three to eight minutes, and no one knows how long Elena lay outside.

Even a Third-tier Expert Transcendental wouldn't exceed an ordinary human by much in this regard, right?

Yun Mu thought to herself.

"..." Brenna pursed her lips. After a long while, she said, "I don't know. I just want to try."

"Otherwise, I truly cannot be reconciled," she said.

In fact, if the God of Decay and Necromancy hadn't come to her basement last night and said those words, she would indeed just be acting out of a lack of reconciliation, wanting to take a gamble.

But now, since there was another possibility, she wanted to try it no matter what! Even if that God of Decay and Necromancy might have other motives.

"Alright." Yun Mu didn't know about the conversation between the God of Decay and Necromancy and Brenna, but seeing her so determined, she lost the urge to dissuade her.

Who could say for sure that Brenna wouldn't succeed?

Even if there was only a tiny, faint chance, but... what if? No longer disturbing Brenna, Yun Mu took out the card containing her painting tools from her bosom and infused it with Spirituality.

She placed the Painting Board in front of her, took out a Paintbrush, and began to conceive what to paint today.

There was no rush for the notebook; she would find time to finish it later. Now that Brenna was by her side, she wasn't thick-skinned enough to draw lewd pictures in front of an acquaintance.

However, because she hadn't slept last night, her Spirituality hadn't recovered much.

She didn't need to think about overly complex drawings; it was better to keep it as simple as possible.

And to increase her Destiny Points, it was best to paint an Oil Painting.

Yun Mu stared at the Painting Board in deep thought, but after thinking for a long time, she couldn't decide what to paint.

Just as she was observing her surroundings to find inspiration.

Catching a glimpse of the Mechanical Heart Brenna was drawing, a flash of inspiration burst into her mind.

That's right, she could also try to draw a Mechanical Heart! A Painter-series Transcendental doesn't need to care about logic; the fact that the magic circle she drew randomly in the painting 【Sunset】 worked just fine proved everything.

Although that was likely because she used Chinese characters at the time... but it didn't matter!

Just paint it; at worst... add a Chinese "Heart" to try it out? Would that not be enough? Then add an English "heart" to it, would that work?

If that still didn't work, as an old fan of anime, she could also write the Japanese word for "heart."

Wait, didn't she see a note in the subtitles when watching a video from a Latin-learning content creator about the word for heart?

How was it written again?

PS: Heral, the God of Civilization and History, will appear frequently from now on.

It can't be helped; who told Civilization to have so many coverable meanings?

(End of chapter)