The examination was completed quickly. As expected, her left leg was fractured, and two of her ribs had been broken, likely from the impact when she had fallen onto the prison cart. Aside from surface abrasions and bruises, there were no other issues with her body.
Her chest felt oppressively tight, but the imaging showed no abnormalities. The main cause was judged to be the compression of her internal organs from passing through the black hole. Fortunately, the problem was minor, and there was no damage to her organs.
The medicines in the dimensional space pharmacy were very complete. The bone adhesive could quickly seal fractured bones together. After two hours, she would already be able to walk and live normally, as long as she avoided strenuous activity. Within a month, the bones would fully heal.
So as long as her organs were unharmed, fractures were only minor injuries to her.
After treating her wounds, Tong Shuxue had Ling Yi push her to the small plaza in the living area. Everything brought into the dimensional space from the outside world, whether living or dead, would appear only in that plaza. As for Tong Shuxue herself, whenever she entered the dimensional space, she would appear outside her medical treatment pod.
This setting had been designed as a precaution. If she were ever seriously injured and flashed back into the dimensional space, she could receive treatment immediately.
Items searched from the two groups of corpses were piled on the ground in the plaza. There were swords, daggers, silver banknotes, broken silver pieces, copper coins, as well as the silver masks and identity tokens from the second group.
Two identity tokens had been found on the first group of yamen officers, and they were identical to the ones carried by the second group. The tokens were made from a black metallic material. One side was engraved with a feather pattern, while the other side had no design at all. In the center was a single character, and each token had a different one. It seemed these represented the identities of those people.
The tokens carried by the yamen officers were much more official-looking, with the words “Imperial Capital Prefecture Office” engraved on them.
Those black identity tokens were not very useful. At most, they revealed that those people were enemies of that War King. As for the Prince of Dingbei and the War King, she had no idea what relationship they shared.
The silver banknotes, broken silver, and copper coins were probably the circulating currency of this Great Yong Kingdom.
There were not many banknotes in total, less than two hundred taels altogether. The broken silver pieces each looked to be worth around one tael, though she had no idea what the prices were like here or how much these silver pieces could buy.
The clothes stripped from the corpses belonged to those yamen officers. Tong Shuxue instructed Ling Er to throw them into the washing machine.
Half an hour later, after the clothes had been dried, Ling Yi and Ling Er changed into the yamen uniforms and were sent out of the dimensional space.
Tong Shuxue needed to learn the basic situation of the Great Yong Kingdom. She also needed clothing suitable for appearing in front of people.
Gathering information and purchasing supplies were simple tasks for Ling Yi and Ling Er. Tong Shuxue gave them three days. After three days, she would have to find a place to temporarily settle down. The dimensional space was low on power, and she could not remain inside it for too long.
After sending Ling Yi and Ling Er away, Tong Shuxue returned to the small villa inside the dimensional space and climbed onto the bed. She desperately wanted to sleep properly, but once she lay down, she could not fall asleep no matter what.
The years of research data she had accumulated were probably already reduced to ashes. Both she and the experimental data had vanished without a trace. She wondered whether her two assistants would collapse mentally because of it.
She had never expected a black hole to appear during the energy field convergence experiment. A backup of the experimental data existed inside the dimensional space, but the experiment still required modern scientific equipment. Even if she wanted to recreate it, it would be impossible under her current conditions.
And even if she truly succeeded in reconstructing the experiment and another black hole appeared, among countless parallel worlds, there was no guarantee she could return to the modern era.
The probability of returning to modern times was simply too low. Suddenly, Tong Shuxue felt completely lost. Her life goal had always been scientific research, but now that she had arrived in this time and space, what could she even do?
As she continued thinking, she unknowingly drifted off to sleep.
In her hazy state, Tong Shuxue smelled a fragrant aroma, and her stomach responded with a loud growl.
Tong Shuxue opened her eyes. A faint ache came from her injured left calf, and when she inhaled, her abdomen throbbed painfully as well.
She raised both hands and rubbed her face hard several times, becoming much more awake.
The aroma became even stronger after she walked out of the room. It was the smell of beef noodles.
Ling Si had already served the noodles and placed them on the dining table.
“Major General, your noodles are ready.”
Tong Shuxue had arranged this with Ling Si before going to sleep. She planned to sleep for two hours to relieve the discomfort in her body, and had told Ling Si to calculate the time and make her a bowl of noodles.
All ten of her robots were master chefs. The food they made tasted excellent, but unfortunately it was always exactly the same, and they could never innovate. The flavors produced by all ten robots were also largely identical, mainly because the recipes programmed into them were exactly the same.
Tong Shuxue slowly walked to the dining table and sat down. While eating the noodles, she felt as though she were still living in the modern world.
With this dimensional space, even if she could never return, she should still be able to live well here.
After finishing the bowl of noodles, she felt much more energetic. She went to the kitchen to check how much food remained.
The large meat buns, dumplings, and wontons in the freezer compartment of the refrigerator had not been touched yet. They had all been specially prepared for her by the cafeteria chefs. There was not much meat or seafood left, since those ingredients had been prepared mainly for cooking noodles.
Whenever Tong Shuxue began a new round of experiments, she would never leave the laboratory halfway through. She ate and slept inside the laboratory until an entire round of experiments was completed.
Therefore, before every experiment began, she would ask the cafeteria chefs to prepare extra convenient food for her. Inside the villa in her dimensional space, she had even placed a double-door refrigerator specifically for storing ingredients.
There were still quite a lot of noodles and vermicelli left, but there were only twenty jin of rice remaining.
Although the food did not look like much, the robots did not need to eat. For Tong Shuxue alone, it was enough to last more than a month.
Tong Shuxue stayed inside the dimensional space for three days. By the evening of the third day, when she left the dimensional space, Ling Yi and Ling Er had already returned.
Both of them carried two large bundles on their backs and wore bamboo hats on their heads. Their clothing had already been changed into flowing white ancient robes with an immortal-like elegance. Their appearance resembled wandering martial artists from wuxia films.
Ling Yi stepped forward to report.
“Major General, these are the clothes we purchased. All information has already been recorded. Should it be exported?”
Tong Shuxue nodded.
“Alright. Let’s return to the dimensional space first. The clothes you two are wearing look pretty good. Very pleasing to the eye.”
Ling Yi revealed a standard smile.
“I guessed Major General would like this kind of appearance, so Ling Er and I selected several different styles of clothing. We bought three sets each of women’s and men’s clothing for Major General. Since the male humans in this time and space all have long hair, we also bought wigs.”
Tong Shuxue had already noticed on the first day that the men here all had long hair. It was just that her robots all had short hair, and she did not have the materials needed to modify them.
As expected, the robots she had created truly possessed superhuman intelligence. They had even thought to buy wigs.
After returning to the dimensional space, Tong Shuxue transferred all the information compiled by Ling Yi and Ling Er onto the computer.
Wherever the robots went, they would scan and preserve realistic simulated maps for future mission reference. All gathered information would also be converted into text and stored. Everything could then be exported onto the computer.
Tong Shuxue sat in front of the computer and carefully examined the results of Ling Yi and Ling Er’s work over the past three days.