Chapter 20 Renovation and Reception
In this way, the old Calvin greeted his last days in the arms of the young Calvin.
This was more like a long-prepared ceremony than a premeditated murder.
And this ceremony full of rituals is the old Calvin's last confession to himself, and it is also the last warm but cold reminder of the young Calvin's growth.
There are three stages of human death: physical death, social status death, and the last and most cruel one, existential death. The old Calvin was the last of these.
He left no body behind. The dead old man's body was like erased handwriting on the canvas, disappearing in front of Calvin little by little.
After he gave his "name" to Calvin, he no longer had the qualification to "exist".
In this timeline that once belonged to him, his short but rich life trajectory, which lasted only a hundred years, was completely wiped out from beginning to end.
And the vacancies caused by his disappearance, such as the people he has met or the things he has participated in, are all erased and corrected to the result without him by the self-correction ability that exists in time and space. All his efforts and achievements in this life disappeared. All of his existence will return to its original starting point and then be corrected to become Calvin's life trajectory.
It's like this old man never existed in this world.
Calvin looked quietly at the hut in front of him, which was only his own. He knew that when he left here, this hut would disappear in the same way. But there was no point in him staying. The will of old Calvin has never left, he is here, in his body.
Calvin's soul has not been much strengthened after this soul merger, and no amount of the same soul will make up for his shortcomings. His changes are more reflected in the increase in weight in the sense of time and space.
And the old man's lifelong memory and experience as a low-level psychic was only better than nothing to him.
There was no other item in the room worth taking away, only the dagger, which at some point turned into a copper ring, was quietly put on Calvin's right hand.
The slight heat it emits gently burns Calvin's fingers, seeming to indicate that it will guide Calvin to continue this unfinished journey.
Turning the perspective again, in the real world, Calvin, who had met the basic parameter requirements for transformation surgery, was taken out of the life-support cabin and placed on the operating table.
Under the watchful eye of the Chief Pharmacist of the Gray Knights Chapter, the surgical team consisted of two pharmacist brothers who performed the operation at close range, and two Chapter Pharmacists outside the medical room who concentrated on operating the automatic surgical instrument.
Attempts began to implant the already cultivated superhuman organs into Calvin's body. The two pharmacists looked at each other briefly, then looked at the chief pharmacist standing next to them.
After getting permission, one of them waved to the outside: "The operation begins."
On the humming robotic arm of the fully automatic surgical instrument, one dedicated to cutting began to reach down. At the tip of the robotic arm, the blade that performs the cutting function through high-frequency vibration begins to charge. The purpose of this surgery was to create a 10-centimeter surgical field on the right side of Calvin's chest.
"The surgical field of view is good. Continue to try to free the heart artery and prepare for extracorporeal circulation." The moment the knife completed its task, the pharmacist who had been waiting by the side skillfully began to clean the wound and began to evaluate the effect of the knife.
So the entire operation began to smoothly enter the first step of the long transformation process:
Stage 1 - Second heart, role: a completely self-sustaining organ that can speed up the blood supply of Space Marines while adding a layer of insurance to them - when the original heart is destroyed, Space Marines can still rely on this second heart Obtain relatively complete blood circulation ability.
This stage is not too difficult. Except for a very small number of samples with poor physical constitution that cause rejection, most of the transformed people can successfully accept this organ.
After the second heart begins to beat and is integrated into the body's circulation, the further enhanced vitality can create more favorable basic conditions for the subsequent surgery.
"The arterial connection is completed and the electric shock is activated." The two pharmacists who completed the transplantation simply confirmed the effect of the modification of the arterial circuit and the suturing of several new arteries during the operation. Give instructions to colleagues outside.
"The second heart was started successfully and the extracorporeal circulation was closed." The pharmacist outside transmitted his voice into the room through the microphone.
"After the inspection, there is no blood loss." The two pharmacists confirmed again. Then he looked at the chief pharmacist.
"Sut it up and let it sit for 72 hours for observation." After the assessment, the chief pharmacist quickly issued the latest order.
On the other side, Calvin also followed the guidance of the ring, and after a few seconds of traveling through a dream-like world, he came to a place on the edge of the empire that always attracted the attention of the entire empire's top leaders - Cadian.
This is the remains of a battlefield. When Calvin arrived here, he only saw a battlefield mixed with the corpses of Imperial Guards, Astartes, and more Chaos Space Marines.
The fallen tree trunks all over the place and the two-foot-thick empty soil proved that this place had been subjected to saturation bombing, and the dense corpses showed that the defenders here fought fiercely in the last moments.
There is no easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack terrain here, so there is only one reason why both sides of the battle can invest so many lives in strangulation: this must be the only way to a certain key node.
Calvin followed the guidance and walked to the back of the battlefield. At the end of the battlefield, he saw his target, a dying Astartes. He lowered his once noble head and sat there quietly.
The blue paint and the inverted Ω indicate that this is a warrior from Ultramar. The golden feather patches on the shoulder armor and fallen helmet prove that this warrior who relied on the boulder to fight until the last moment was a glorious chapter champion.
Calvin slowly walked up to his still majestic body and squatted down gently. He saw the familiar yet unfamiliar face. The owner of this body seemed to sense Calvin's arrival, and his closed eyes slowly opened.
"Am I late?" Calvin asked sadly.
"No, it's not too late. If you can come, it's not too late." Champion Calvin smiled. The wrinkles on his cheeks and the service nail on the right side of his forehead all showed how long he had been guarding the empire. The smile seems to still see the arrogance of his heyday.
"Come on, take me away to meet our new battlefield." Champion Calvin said as he struggled to raise his only remaining right arm, clenched the huge glove into a fist, and gently Reach for Calvin.
At this moment, Calvin understood the meaning of this action without any knowledge. He also stretched out his right hand with the ring and clenched it into a fist, with the ring facing forward.
The two fists collided slightly, and he looked up and saw the champion Calvin's last smile at him before disappearing:
"Please take care of me from now on."
Posted it at the last minute in the early morning. I'm really sorry.
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