Various faces, bodies with different features, complete human forms appeared in the cabin, but metal plates were still attached to their skin, and metal tubes connected to the plates like umbilical cords.
Jiang Ye stared intently at several of the human bodies, noticing that all the reincarnated individuals showed no signs of life. Their chests did not rise and fall with breathing, and their skin looked stiff no matter how he looked at it. Compared to newborns, they resembled corpses that had just died.
"Next, we'll prepare to download consciousness," Lin Yuren said.
The indicator light changed color again, to a purplish-red like grapes.
A semi-transparent white plastic tube extended from the top of each reincarnated person's head, and they all lit up simultaneously.
Jiang Ye expected the consciousness download to take a long time, but it only took an instant. The light in those tubes disappeared as if the power had suddenly been cut.
Immediately after, crackling sounds spread from the production workshop. The noise was like thousands upon thousands of fish in a large pond blowing bubbles towards the surface. The dense network of tubes connected to those bodies detached, section by section, like snakes that had bitten their prey and injected venom, now releasing their grip.
Jiang Ye noticed that those bodies had begun to breathe, their chests slowly rising and falling.
He expected the reincarnated people to open their eyes next, but they didn't; they only breathed.
"It will take about ten minutes for the consciousnesses downloaded into their brains to gradually adapt to their new bodies. This means they will start to wake up one after another in ten minutes," Lin Yuren said. "During this time, we will print clothes for these reincarnated people. After all, this workshop has both men and women. After they revive, they will be living, normal people and legal citizens of Jiang Ye Star. We must protect their right to privacy; they cannot be embarrassed and blush as soon as they wake up. Even if the joy of being born makes them temporarily disregard everything, they would still feel awkward if they crawled out of the cabin completely naked after a few days."
As soon as he finished speaking, a buzzing sound echoed through the production workshop again, and some fabrics began to appear on the reincarnated people at a visible speed.
Jiang Ye expected them to be high-end clothes, but as the printing progressed, he realized they were just hospital gown-like garments. The men's clothes were light green, similar to the color of a newly unfurled lotus leaf, while the women's clothes were a tender yellow, resembling the color of soybean sprouts.
After printing the clothes, each person was also fitted with light blue eye masks.
"Why wear eye masks?" Jiang Ye asked.
"You know, after an earthquake, people rescued from the rubble are given eye masks. Their eyes have been in darkness for too long, and if they open them suddenly, they will be subjected to strong light stimulation, damaging their eye cells and optic nerves," Lin Yuren said, pointing to the people on the floor. "You can see them, but the glass of the reincarnation cabins is specially made, and it's very dark inside. The light is similar to the half-hour after sunset. They also need eye masks to help them adapt to the environment."
"And their eye masks are also absorbent for tears," Lin Yuren added.
"Absorbent for tears?" Jiang Ye was startled, then thought of something and nodded thoughtfully.
While the reincarnated people hadn't woken up yet, Jiang Ye went to the restroom.
Two staff members were urinating in the restroom. Upon seeing Jiang Ye enter, they looked as if they had seen a devil, as if they had seen their resurrected ancestors. They trembled all over, and then, without even pulling up their pants, they bowed deeply to Jiang Ye. As they bowed, the urine that hadn't finished flowed onto their own shoes.
Jiang Ye was speechless. "Why are you so scared? I don't eat people."
The two staff members, filled with awe and trepidation, dared not continue urinating. They hastily pulled up their pants and left.
Jiang Ye shook his head and chuckled. Was he already capable of exerting such pressure on people?
Why? Wasn't I usually quite approachable? There were no rumors in the media about "General Jiang being terrifying," were there?
I hope I don't scare them into having heart attacks.
The ice cubes in the urinals were perfect ice spheres, with cherry blossom petals inside.
Jiang Ye marveled. This was his first time seeing such cherry blossom ice, and it was being casually thrown into the urinals.
Finally, he saw something that exuded a sense of luxury on Jiang Ye Star.
Based on Jiang Ye's experience, the older and wealthier the planet or region, the more astonishing details they would showcase in such small matters. Now, it was just the urinals at Solaris Technology Company. When all the public restrooms in the major cities of Jiang Ye Star were like this, this planet would surely have evolved to a considerable level of development.
Leaving the restroom, he returned to the workshop.
After a few minutes, some of the reincarnated people began to move.
Upon detecting their movement, the cabin covers immediately sprang open, like the canopies of ancient fighter jets pressing the parachute button.
Then, the support boards behind the reincarnated people slowly rose, allowing them to sit up.
Jiang Ye inexplicably thought of corpses sitting up from coffins in ghost stories, but these people were indeed dead people coming back to life.
The workshop's broadcast began to speak in a gentle female voice, the sound waves washing over each reincarnated person like water, reaching every corner.
"Attention, all reincarnated individuals. Please refrain from any sudden movements to avoid injury."
"Attention, all reincarnated individuals. Please refrain from any sudden movements to avoid injury."
The reincarnated people who had been sitting up and moving about instantly became still, sitting quietly and waiting.
But then, some people started to cry.
After all the reincarnated people had sat up, the crying quickly spread.
Jiang Ye had never witnessed thousands of people crying together. The scene was quite interesting, clearly showing that each person's personality was different. Some sobbed quietly, others wailed loudly, some tried to hold back their tears, and some cried heartily. A thousand people had a thousand ways of crying.
Jiang Ye recalled the nurseries in some large hospitals, where rooms full of newborn babies waiting for examinations cried as loudly as each other. These reincarnated people, the youngest physiologically being over ten years old and the oldest over thirty, were crying incessantly like zero-year-old infants.
He could understand why they were crying, after all, this was rebirth, and they had been confined as consciousnesses in dark boxes for hundreds of years.
Next, the lights in the entire workshop dimmed, so much so that their faces could not be seen, only ghostly figures.
The broadcast prompted the reincarnated people that they could now remove their eye masks.
Everyone eagerly removed their eye masks and began to look around.
Loud chatter replaced the crying. People in adjacent cabins shook hands and introduced themselves. This was the first person they saw upon their arrival in the world, and there was a sense of kinship that transcended a century.
The lights gradually brightened, taking ten minutes to adjust to a brightness similar to that outdoors.