Soul of Burning Steel

"Master Nostradamus, please persuade the Lord Earl..."

In the evening of Starfall 839, May 5th, Ten Thousand Realms Sacrifice Site, Salt Sea Underground Cavity Practice Center.

In the lobby of the research institute, a researcher in white robe asked the person beside him in a almost prayer tone: "This is a joint research institute after all. Be careful as much as possible. He is a legendary strong man who is not afraid of failure of the experiment, but we No, maybe one, the whole cavity will be implicated..."

The researcher had a sincere tone, even with a little bit of crying, and behind him, a large number of researchers nodded in unison with lingering fears.

"Yes, yes, nothing wrong at all!"

"Although I know that every powerful fighter is a master of vitality, I didn't expect..."

"It's too dangerous, really, obviously unnecessary..."

Scattered words spread among the crowd, and listening to these words, an old mage with a helpless expression sighed: "Okay, I know, you guys will also be a little quieter." Then he turned his head. , Said to the researcher Baipao: "What is Joshua doing? And even if you are afraid of something wrong, you can just give your opinion directly. He is still very good at talking."

After the white robe researcher and the others behind him looked at each other, they turned their heads, and replied quite confidently, "We dare not!"

Then, his tone quickly softened: "Master, Lord Earl, his experiment is too dangerous and immoral... Please let him stop the experiment, it is not possible, let His Majesty the Emperor also come to persuade... This is really a bit Beyond the realm of our thinking..."

——So you guys dare to comment on me?

Nostradamus, who was called by the emergency messenger, felt that he seemed to be regarded as a good talking model, but unfortunately, he was really good talking. So after listening to the researchers’ complaints, the old mage shook his head and replied helplessly: “Israel? It’s weird if he would persuade him. Two guys who keep dragons as pets and are not human at home, they see The danger of this is completely different from that of your group."

"As for now... alright, let me ask the situation, but you guys, please come up with the plan for the'otherworld ecological environment transformation' as soon as possible. We will cooperate with the elves and the Guantian White Pagoda to let the natural teacher personally make this perfection. The natural realm is not for you to waste resources."

After speaking, the old master took a step and walked towards the practice room located in the center of the research institute amidst the echoes of a group of researchers.

Soon, he entered the area that all researchers in the entire Cavity Institute dared not approach, opened the door of the fourth practice room, and the thick air began to exchange.

"Joshua, why did you suddenly change your temper and start experimenting—"

Nostradamus was about to speak, and asked what the **** his friends were up to, how could the group of researchers who talked and laughed with the undead and dismantled the demon beasts was so scared that he was out of control, but he walked into the practice room and saw clearly. The old mage couldn't help sucking a breath of cold air as he put things on top of each other.

"The truth is up, what the **** is this?!"

What appeared in front of the old mage's eyes was a densely packed, quietly piled "body".

The human body.

The silver quadrangular practice room is actually located in a small man-made semi-plane, connected to reality through a magic door, and when necessary, the magic connection can be cut off directly to avoid contact with the outside world as a result of failed experiments. Because of this, the area of ​​the practice room is actually very large, as large as a medium-sized city square.

But now, in such a huge area, there are densely arranged numerous translucent spindle life-sustaining crystal cabins, and among them is a ‘body’.

The reason why these bodies are not called corpses is because these bodies are still alive. Nostradamus perceives that these bodies are still breathing, and the body is still undergoing a metabolic cycle. Groups of silver lights are flying in the air. Many silver fairies, they are happily replenishing the necessary nutrients for each life-sustaining crystal cabin to maintain its activity.

If it's just the body, it is not enough to shock Nostradamus. He is also a legendary powerhouse who has experienced orc battlefields. He has seen mountain-like corpses in Jingguan, not to mention that he is still alive?

What really made him speak out were all kinds of weird and weird humanoid creatures intermingled with these similar human bodies.

Among them, there is a prosthetic person whose body is replaced by part of the puppet structure, and the biological part and the machine coexist.

Among them, the body is completely replaced by the mechanical puppet structure, and only the brain, brainstem and spine exist-even these are partially assimilated synthetic humans.

In addition, there is a part of the body that is assimilated with monsters. The beasts are almost beasts. The internal organs have been replaced with artificial transcendent organs. Basically, only the shell is regarded as the original modified person-even the brain is A pure mechanical existence replaced by a magical mechanical structure.

Countless various and peculiar human models were placed in the crystal cabin. With their eyes closed, they sprayed out a series of bubbles from time to time, as if they were breathing. There is no doubt that all of these bodies are alive, and none of them died.

And in the center surrounded by these human bodies, in the middle of the fourth practice room, a man sitting on a chair, seeming to be thinking about something, noticed the arrival of his friend. He slowly stood up, turned his head, and said with some surprise. : "Nostradamus? Why are you here?"

"The people who were called over—the group of researchers was almost crying when you were scared."

The old mage passed through the crystal cabins. He came to Joshua and looked around the whole practice room with a serious expression: "I was still wondering why, but now I can explain...what are you planning to do? Human body? Experiment? You don't need to do this kind of thing a long time ago, right?"

"Of course not, where did you want to go... I am thinking of a suitable new body template for the Guardians."

Joshua waved his hand, looking a little embarrassed: "I accidentally made a little too much, so I had to save all of them first, and wait for William and the others to come over and see which one is more suitable."

"For the guardians? Indeed, this can be explained."

Nostradamus immediately reacted. The person in front of him is indeed the guy responsible for creating new bodies for the guardians of the big information database. He possesses the power of creation, let alone a mere human body, even if it is to build a small planet. A matter of time. It's just that the way the body is placed is too permeating, it's like a pile of corpse specimens soaked in antiseptic.

And, the most important thing is not this.

"Joshua, just creating a new body for the guardians, there is no need to do this... redundant experiment, right?"

Nostradamus slowly approached a crystal cabin pillar. He stared at the man-made body of the star that had been transformed by a Warcraft organ transplant and a mechanical structure. He suppressed the slight rising dissatisfaction in his heart, and said in a solemn tone: "Humans... not like this. Those guardians transformed themselves into inhumans, and we want them to become humans, not to make them into another kind of inhumans."

Perhaps, it is for this reason that those researchers who are not afraid of the world fear this practice room so much. They are not afraid that these are just alive, but they do not have a body of self-will, but fear each and every one. The meaning behind the body.

When Qiao Xiuya heard the words, the expression on his face gradually faded and became serious. He frowned and said in confusion, "Is there?"

It's just a prosthetic body modification, a consciousness upload, a little genetic modification and cloning engineering, and at most some monsters, or the transplantation of artificial biological organs-is this not a normal thing?

"This is not normal."

As if noticing the doubts of the representative behind Joshua’s expression, Nostradamus shook his head cautiously. He walked up to the soldier and glanced at the surrounding crystal cabin. He pointed to a spine covered with a series of metal skeletons. Instead, the eyes were replaced with the body of mechanical prosthetic eyes, and he solemnly said: "This transformation should not be decided for them by you, but should be decided by them. Even if it is not easy to use and fragile, we should do our best. It is possible to provide them with the original human body."

"Actually, it's not just for the guards,"

In this regard, Joshua scratched his head and couldn't help but feel a little helpless--because the old mage was too righteous and righteous, he didn't know the plan behind to say it.

——After he finished making the bodies for the guardians, on a whim, he planned to deduce the life sublimation process of everyone in the Mycroft world...a kind of sublimation that can be popularized and can give everyone a certain extraordinary power. process.

On a whim, he wanted to try to create a ‘protobody’ with a gift of perfect and extraordinary power.

And the result of this recommendation is a total of 1,179 bodies with completely different physical structures, but all of them generally remain human-shaped bodies.

Whether it is prosthetic transformation, consciousness uploading, or cloning, genetic modification, and organ transplantation, it can only be regarded as daily life for Joshua, and it is almost the same as the child of the neighbor next door with a pair of glasses. After all, in his original world, Whose child has to undergo several genetic corrections from childhood? The implantation of the prosthetic body, the mechanical body, is only a part of life for soldiers, and everyone has the right to freely assemble body components and organ functions.

But this kind of ethical concept that is too advanced is too much for them? Shouldn't it take a few more years to reverse the public impression bit by bit?

Actually not—Joshua didn't think so.

Whether it’s Nostradamus or the other Mycroft researchers, they just haven’t turned the corner. The transformation that they feel uncomfortable now has actually started thousands of years ago and is changing the whole thing subtly. race.

What is the difference between a so-called prosthetic person and an alchemist who replaces his body with a magical construct? Even Barnier, doesn't he have a magic props and prosthetic eye? But beastization, genetic modification, and even cloning, to put it bluntly, is not to transplant the internal organs of Warcraft, modify one's life form, and copy one's body as a backup alchemist and magician? Among other things, Joshua knew that there was an alchemist in his exploration team and that was the way.

And let Nostradamus show obvious dislike of synthetic man and will upload, to put it bluntly, it is nothing more than the phylogeny of the lich, the soul lichization-in fact, his own soul can do it with this It's almost the same thing, it's nothing more than different carriers, one uses magic power, the other uses machinery, and each has advantages and disadvantages, nothing more.

The transcendents in Mycroft’s world have already done these seemingly unfamiliar things, but the essence is actually exactly the same...because in the final analysis, everyone wants to move to the same thing, that is the evolution of human beings. .

The speed of natural evolution, even if it has a magical acceleration, has to be calculated for thousands of years. As far as humans are concerned, their physique and talents for extraordinary power have not changed for tens of thousands of years-they want big changes. At least it will be hundreds of thousands of years before Mrs. Mike Luo's entire race enters the void, then humans should naturally evolve the ability to better adapt to the void, as well as more powerful extraordinary talents.

But at that time, the ashes of human civilization were probably covered with tropical rainforest, let alone evolution... The rate of natural change is too slow. As long as civilization still exists, human beings will never stop transforming themselves. , They will use various methods to accelerate their evolution and strengthen the process, whether it’s vaccines, antibodies, implants like black fog like the sanctuary civilization, or transforming themselves into semi-magical and semi-mechanical life. Things.

Even the three supernatural power cultivation systems of magic, fighting spirit and holy light can almost be regarded as the path and process of human beings' gradual transformation and gradual sublimation of themselves.

The reason why Qiao Xiuya wanted to design the'protozoa' was to try to use his own rich experience to directly create a transformation route that could be popularized by most humans without any consequences. He wanted to artificially Accelerating this process, raising the starting foundation of mankind, so that all human beings have a certain extraordinary power as soon as they are born, and have the silver-level strength of the'silver race' as soon as they reach adulthood.

He wants to make things that should happen gradually over hundreds of years be achieved directly in one step-but now it seems that the steps are too large, and perhaps it will only make people scared.

"It seems that these transformations can only be renamed and put on the enhanced redemption list... Thinking about the perfect human original body, let's wait a few years."

The warrior thought of this, but he was not particularly anxious. He knew that with the passage of time, the magic wave and chaos gradually hit, these meaningless fears will dissipate like smoke and dust. At that time, humans must sublimate as soon as possible. , Become stronger, and no longer have any extra time and energy to think about extra problems.

"Although it's a bit too much, it's still wrong."

At the same time, Nostradamus looked at the fourth practice room slightly, and couldn't help but ask a little strangely: "Joshua, if you are only exploring the transformation of the human body, you shouldn't make those researchers so scared-- After all, they are all gold-ranked mages, so timid for no reason...what are you doing? Their expressions seem to think that you will blow up the entire cavity."

"Probably because, I caught a small Void Giant Beast to solve it."

Qiao Xiuya said lightly, and he motioned to the horrified old mage to raise his head and look at the experimental platform behind him.

There, on the steel plate covered by the mist of the power of steel, there is a dark gray biological tissue that is constantly wriggling, twitching, and constantly forming various arthropods, mouthparts, and translucent cysts and flesh and blood. Although it was cut open, it was still alive, and countless strengths of steel turned into probes and liquids to analyze its structure in this indescribable organization. On top of the numerous tumors and exposed ganglia, densely packed golden eyeballs are squirming crazily - but these seemingly terrifying visual organs reveal an expression of extreme horror.

'help me! 'Nostradamus seems to have heard such a voice~www.novelmtl.com~ Some time ago, I went back to the surroundings of Siberia to check the situation and found that there were many small void giants appearing in the void, so I caught it. One came back--of course, this was only a part of flesh and blood, and its body was still suppressed by my body, which was pretty obedient. "

Joshua stepped forward and patted it'gently'. It was creeping crazily, seeming to want to split and spread, spreading his body, assimilating the flesh and blood of the giant void beast on the experimental platform, the soldier looked at the opponent as if shocked, and stopped. After all the actions, I continued to speak: "To be honest, I just wanted to see if the flesh and blood of the Void Behemoth could transform some useful biological weapons, but as a result, I found a lot of interesting information. "

"what's the message?"

After swallowing, Nostradamus stared blankly at this group of empty behemoths with gray eyes, as if they had completely given up thinking, and subconsciously asked, "Could it be related to the evil god?"

And Qiao Xiu nodded happily: "That's right."

"It is related to the evil god."