Chapter 143

Chapter 143

Therefore, most of the ghouls' cells are wrapped in a layer of cell wall, just like real fungal cells.

More different types of bacteria live in the tiny pores inside the cell wall and are connected in filaments, building a huge and fine network among the ghoul's cell tissues.

This layer of network not only strengthens the physical strength of the ghoul's body tissue, but also acts as a buffer and defense when it suffers a heavy blow. It can also contract faster and more powerfully than ordinary muscle fibers under the action of nerve electrical signals. At the same time, they are an excellent nerve signal transmission medium. Both receiving signals and feedback signals are much faster than the nerve fibers in ordinary animals.

It can be said that this is the most fundamental reason why the physical strength, physical strength, and reaction speed of ghouls far exceed those of humans.

Although this result seems extremely scientific, except for the mysterious force that allows fungi and bacteria to symbiosis with original cells, everything else can be explained by biological knowledge, but this does not change the method. The fact that Yuan simply couldn't apply this body structure to himself.

He is currently quite satisfied with his human identity and has no desire to implant any bacteria or fungi in his body.

As soon as Fang Yuan thought about how all the cells in his body had been eroded by various bacteria and fungi, and that his entire body was like a hotbed for the growth of fungi like Cordyceps sinensis, he suddenly felt shuddering all over and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

This TM is even more terrifying than injecting the T virus into the body, right? In fact, after Fang Yuan discovered this horrifying fact, he immediately sealed the ghoul arm again, and at the same time carried out the most thorough disinfection of his laboratory and residence (that is, using alchemy to disinfect all All microorganisms are broken down).

Then, he was still uneasy, and even conducted an in-depth examination of his body at the molecular level, breaking down all the microbial species in his body that he had not seen during the last enhancement.

I don't know if it was Fang Yuan's illusion, but he always felt that after cleaning himself up like this, he felt much more refreshed... After this time, Fang Yuan made up his mind, it was really time to find a professional experimenter The place is up! ')017'\u003eChapter 17 The difficult choice of whether to be a human being or not

The ghoul matter came to an end. After Fang Yuan dug a secret laboratory in the middle of a hill near his home community, he sent in the dangerous items that were tightly sealed by high-density stone. One of the fully sealed storage rooms, he didn't want to see this thing again in a short time.

Of course, that doesn't mean that Fang Yuan really gained nothing this time.

Although the truth about the physical structure of the ghoul is very horrifying, the physical power that surpasses the human body in all aspects is real. Although Fang Yuan cannot directly transplant these structures to his own body, he can ultimately gain a lot of reference and experience from them. inspiration.

For example, the body surface of a ghoul is filled with a tough membrane similar to a rubber structure. Although those material square elements mixed with special mycelium and collagen cannot be used on oneself, one can analyze the fiber structure and mechanical support. After the structure is established, it is still possible to make similar improvements and adjustments to your own skin structure.

Another example is the hyphal network in the ghoul's muscles that basically replaces the muscle fibers and motor nerve fibers. Fang Yuan also used this structure to transform some of the connective tissue in his own muscles to achieve a similar effect.

There are also skeletons like those of ghouls. In order to be able to support the huge strength of this creature that exceeds human limits, their bone quality has also changed. Both in terms of composition and micromechanical support structure, it is far from the best. Beyond the human skeleton.

Fang Yuan used this as a template to optimize the microstructure of his bone compaction, directly making his whole body's bones completely surpass ordinary steel alloys in terms of hardness and flexibility.

Overall, Fang Yuan's copycat magic transplantation of the ghoul's body structure immediately enhanced his overall physical functions by nearly half, and there was no major change in body shape and weight. It can be said that it was quite rewarding. Yes.

Now Fang Yuan, in terms of physical fitness alone, has surpassed Batman, who is known as "the limit of mortals", and is close to super soldiers such as Captain America and Deathstroke who have undergone human enhancement and transformation, and is getting further and further away from the term "ordinary human beings".

Emmmmmm, Fang Yuan was still a little scared to let Fang Yuan try to hold a helicopter with one hand. After all, it was a movie special effect. Fang Yuan didn't know how strong the real Captain America was, so the above sentence was just a metaphor. ...However, no matter how strong the body is, as long as it has not reached the point of invulnerability, it will still have a mortal body, and it will still have to kneel in the face of a direct hit from modern firearms.

Even the androids in Steel who possess the Philosopher's Stone are almost immortal and have their own special abilities. They are not truly invincible. In the plot, their weaknesses were found and killed one by one.

In order to be truly powerful and invulnerable, Fang Yuan needs to find a new path.

But first, Fang Yuan had to make a very important decision - whether he should continue to be a human being.

As an alchemist, and an alchemist specializing in biology, Fang Yuan knows better than most people in the world where the limits of the human body are.

No matter how he optimizes or strengthens his body structure, as long as the most fundamental racial genes and life essence are not changed, his body will eventually have its limits.

If you want to go beyond the limits, you have to go beyond humans! (JOJO, I’m not a human anymore!) Of course, he doesn’t want to imitate Uncle DIO and become a vampire.

Not to mention whether vampires can be found in the real world, the mere fact of being exposed to light is enough for Fang Yuan to avoid becoming a vampire.

What Fang Yuan is considering now is whether to implant the Philosopher's Stone in his body to give him immortality similar to that of an artificial human, or to simply transform his entire body into a Philosopher's Stone like the villain in the bottle and Hohenheim. Stone composition.

Although the androids in the Steel anime died tragically one by one, and the villain in the bottle was overturned by a car like all the final bosses in the world, one thing is undeniable - that is, the wisdom inside them Before the Warrior Stone is exhausted, they really can't be killed no matter how hard they try.

After all, the experience of hunting a ghoul but almost being killed by a ghoul really impressed Fang Yuan deeply. He realized like never before that the ability to save one's life is the most important ability of a spell caster.

Therefore, the implantation and strengthening of the Philosopher's Stone, which could make him immortal, entered his field of vision.

Of course, it is a stupid idea to wantonly kill ordinary people to refine the Philosopher's Stone in a peaceful and stable country like China. Fang Yuan's existing conscience does not allow him to use his compatriots as materials for alchemy.

But don’t forget, the world is a big place! Take a look at the world map. Except for a few very limited places such as North America, Europe, East Asia, and Australia, at least half of the countries in the world are still mired in continuous war.

Especially Black Africa, where warlords are constantly emerging and destroying, and Green and Green in the Middle East, which shouts Allah and kills each other to kill all heretics and pagans. There are a lot of places in those places that can be classified as human scum. The raw materials in the field were wasting their lives, and Fang Yuan had no psychological barriers at all to using those garbage items that were holding back human civilization to refine the Philosopher's Stone.

As long as Fang Yuan is careful and doesn't create any big scenes (such as playing with the realm of refinement or something), he can casually refine the Philosopher's Stone that can resurrect him hundreds of times.

However, after gaining the alchemy ability, Fang Yuan, who re-read all the comics, animations and settings of the entire Steel Refining series, noticed one detail.

That is mentioned in the plot, as the protagonist's father von Hohenheim, when he is nearby, all animals will be inexplicably frightened and uneasy.

Anyone who has watched the plot knows that this important character can be said to be the origin of the creation of the Little Man in the Bottle. His body is almost entirely composed of philosopher's stones, and these are enough for a person to live for hundreds or thousands of years without aging. The Philosopher's Stone is the life and soul of all the citizens of the country called Xerxes! It can be said that this "aura of fear" that only affects animals is the result of the souls of those who died tragically in the Philosopher's Stone exuding resentment that lasts for thousands of years, and even directly affects the outside world.

Although Fang Yuan didn't care whether he would be disliked by small animals, he didn't dare to implant such a thing into his body so casually, and he didn't know whether it would have any side effects.

Although these resentments may only drive away some animals in the world of steel, God knows what will happen after the real world is riddled with huge amounts of resentment.

Even the ghouls from COC have appeared here. Who knows where other unspeakable monsters that like to bite people with resentment are hiding... It's better to be more cautious when doing things! However, this is not the only way for an alchemist to strengthen himself.

After Fang Yuan changed his mind, he thought of another way.

That is to directly engrave the formation into one's own body! Fang Yuan, who had personally refined the Philosopher's Stone in the steel-refining dream, knew very well that the Philosopher's Stone itself was not a panacea that could restore full health after being eaten. The reason why those artificial beings could use the Philosopher's Stone was The power is constantly resurrected. In fact, their bodies have been repairing and refining themselves with the help of the Philosopher's Stone.

In this way, the role of the Philosopher's Stone in this process is actually just an automated alchemy launching device with huge energy and material reserves.

So, as long as you think of a way, you can actually use other methods to achieve similar effects.

PS: As a conscientious protagonist who grew up under the red flag, Fang Yuan said that the Philosopher's Stone and other things were too brutal and bloody, and he was definitely not a coward to abandon this plan! (Serious face)')018'\u003eChapter 18 People who are afraid of death can always find ways to survive

Medical alchemy to repair the body and restore injuries is not actually a very advanced alchemy.

Especially for an alchemist specializing in biology like Fang Yuan, who has an extremely good understanding of the human body. As long as he has enough material and a clear consciousness, and gives him a circle, he can repair no matter how serious the injury is. return.

But for Fang Yuan's desire for the ability to automatically recover and resurrect similar to that of an artificial human, he still has one difficulty that needs to be solved.

That means he must activate the formation formation himself.

In other words, he had to make sure that he was still conscious when he was injured. If he was directly attacked and shot in the head, there was nothing he could do.

So, how to modify the alchemy array so that it can be successfully activated even if he loses his brain has become Fang Yuan's most important topic now.

========Dividing line of research=======　　The so-called alchemy is a kind of "science and technology" that understands, decomposes, and then constructs matter based on the principle of "equivalent exchange" - this is what is said in Fullmetal Alchemy.

Let's not talk about whether the "science and technology" in this sentence is scientific or not, but "equivalent exchange" is indeed the real core of alchemy.

The equivalent exchange here is not only the mass conservation that the mass of the material before and after the alchemy must be equal, but also the energy conservation of "how much energy is needed to achieve the greater the effect".

Even the so-called philosopher's stone that can break the iron rule of "equivalent exchange" in the plot does not really break this law, but only exchanges the mass of the soul for the mass of the material.

However, this is a contradiction - does the action of the alchemist promoting alchemy to change the material itself not need to consume energy? Don't worry. According to the setting of Fullmetal Alchemist, the reason why alchemists only need one alchemy array to achieve various grand alchemy effects is that the energy of crustal movement is actually used to drive the alchemy reaction. The alchemist's own mental power is actually only used to guide and regulate the operation of this force. It can be said that even at the energy level, the iron law of "equivalent exchange" still holds true.

Of course, all of the above is not the point! The point is that if there is no alchemist's mental power to drive it, then the alchemy array, no matter how perfectly drawn, is just a very beautiful decorative pattern. The crustal energy will not be activated, and the alchemy phenomenon will not occur.

Therefore, Fang Yuan must find a way to stably input mental power for his new alchemy array.

Fortunately, Amesdoris's research and development of alchemy has indeed reached a certain level. Although most of the material technology is still at the level after World War I, the research on soul consciousness has far surpassed the earth in the 21st century.

At least the earthlings in the real world cannot do such a thing as fixing a person's soul to a piece of armor.

(A special mention here is that Edward is really a jerk! The entire military secretly researched for a long time to develop the technology, but he, a little kid, easily completed it!) Especially as the culmination of soul alchemy - the Philosopher's Stone Alchemy.

In fact, the soul-fixing alchemy array that can fix a person's soul on a dead object is itself a by-product discovered in the study of the Philosopher's Stone Alchemy. In the entire soul alchemy system, the content about the subtle relationship between the human soul and the body and how to interrupt or resume this connection can be said to occupy a large part.

Fang Yuan started from these contents and tried to develop a new alchemy formula that can stably connect part of his soul to the alchemy array.

In his imagination, as long as the alchemy array engraved with this formula is not damaged, even if his brain is damaged, his soul can still use this connection to fix his consciousness in the limb fragments where the alchemy array is located, and then use the pure spiritual body to activate the alchemy array to repair the body. As long as there are enough substances around him, he will be a hero again in a dozen seconds! Moreover, more importantly, there is no limit to the number of connections between this alchemy array and the soul! In other words, Fang Yuan can completely engrave multiple array diagrams named "Soul Connection Type Flesh Repair Alchemy Array" for himself, and then distribute them to various parts of the body. As long as there is a complete array diagram, he can be fully revived in a short time! It can be said that in this way, his heart, brain and other parts are no longer vital points. The absolute vital points that must be protected have now become such small alchemy arrays that can be engraved in any size anywhere in the body! When Fang Yuan finished the first draft of this plan, even he was shocked by his own genius.

——It turns out that I am also a great genius in alchemy! After testing, it was found that this new alchemy array was indeed running normally. After optimizing and modifying it in some details, Fang Yuan couldn't wait to engrave it in his body.

In order to ensure his own survival ability, he was so crazy that he actually engraved every inch of the surface of every bone in his body with this alchemy array-and it was micro-carving! It can be said that even if he was killed and only a piece of bone smaller than a fingernail was left, he would never die easily! This TM is already afraid of death to a certain extent! ... After engraving a large number of such flesh repair alchemy arrays in his body, Fang Yuan also has some "insignificant" additional abilities.

-For example, super-speed regeneration.

Now Fang Yuan only needs a thought to make huge wounds heal instantly, and even broken hands and feet can be reshaped and regenerated at will as long as there are enough materials around. Except for not having a body of adamantium bones and claws on both hands, he is now not much different from Wolverine.

Well, or more like Enkidu? Standing on the ground, he is immortal or something... Not only that, in fact, because this flesh repair alchemy array is enough to repair the whole body at the cellular level, Fang Yuan can now even give up the inefficient way of supplementing nutrition by eating.

As long as he is willing, he can use any raw materials to refine various nutrients needed by the body directly in the body at any time! Now that he had even achieved the achievement of "not eating the fireworks of the world", Fang Yuan felt that he was one step further away from the definition of "human being".

"I'm afraid I haven't really cultivated to become an immortal!" This was Fang Yuan's emotion after discovering this - he was hesitant to give up his identity as a human before, but he accidentally tried too hard and ended up losing his mind. I am even less human... PS: Of course, the protagonist now only has the lowest level of immortality. If he encounters an attack that can completely turn him into ashes, he will still have to kneel down.

Not to mention that there is actually a hidden limit on the upper limit of mental power. Once his mental power is completely exhausted, it will be a dead end.

')019'\u003eChapter 19 Internet articles about urban superpowers will indeed involve foreign forces

Two months later, after Fang Yuan initially achieved the achievements of "immortality" + "not eating the fireworks of the world", his trouble-making soul that had been suppressed due to the previous incident resurrected. Now he is extremely looking forward to the emergence of a good opponent for him to try his latest research results.

(Well, it's expanded again...) Therefore, after being blind to what was going on outside the window for a long time, he paid attention to the reports in the news media for the first time in a long time, hoping to find some interesting information.

I turned on the TV that I hadn't used for a long time, and after browsing through a few local stations, I found that it was all about ordinary daily news.

I checked the news online in recent months and found that except for the report of construction and repair of a certain section of underground culverts in the city two months ago, there were no other major events, and there were not even a few car accidents involving fatalities.

The earlier serial murder case no longer attracted attention at all after the police "killed" the murderer - the atmosphere in the entire city was so calm that it was a bit ridiculous! "There's nothing interesting at all" Fang Yuan was a little disappointed. He thought that life after having superpowers would be like what was described in novels, where all kinds of villains would pop up randomly for the protagonist to fight monsters. As for upgrading - he has never thought about the meaning of a researcher who can upgrade himself going out to fight monsters! (Collecting materials?) Unwilling to give up, Fang Yuan enlarged the scope of his attention. He no longer focused on a few nearby cities, but expanded his horizons to the entire country, from various post bars, forums, Weibo, and Moments. Check for any clues of supernatural mysteries.

However, after such investigation, Fang Yuan discovered the problem - not that there was too little information, but that there was too much information that was difficult to distinguish between true and false! For example, the sighting report of a humanoid UFO that was suspected of being an immortal crossing a calamity during a thunderstorm was the kind with pictures and videos. With Fang Yuan’s shallow computer skills, it was impossible to tell whether it was real or fake.

Another example is the various legends about haunted houses and haunted houses. They even clearly describe which city, which street and which house number. However, when Fang Yuan uses the street view mode of the map software to view it, he often finds that it has already become I found a construction site after demolition, and there was no trace of the haunted house or anything like that - was this made up by someone or was the relevant state department acting too fast? There are also various gimmicky videos such as "Superpower Witness Reports" and "Street Superpower Battles". Fang Yuan watched it and had to give a thumbs up to the level of domestic film and television special effects - the sound and light effects are really There is no sense of violation, it is definitely a fifty-cent special effect! In short, after browsing around the Internet, Fang Yuan still found no real and reliable reports on supernatural events. Most of them were based on speculation or even simply the results of netizens' self-entertainment.

But Fang Yuan doesn't believe that the world is really as peaceful as it seems on the surface - not to mention anything else, hasn't he personally encountered and killed a ghoul that escaped from COC! Therefore, supernatural events must exist, but they have been artificially covered up by everyone - or, in other words, real reports of supernatural sightings have been hidden with a large number of fakes.

I don’t know if this was intentional or a coincidence. If someone deliberately guided it, then he or they did succeed. At least Fang Yuan really couldn’t extract the truth he wanted from this mess of information. intelligence.

... What to do... Fang Yuan frowned, a little hesitant.

"Maybe, we really need to find someone from the government..." He knew very well that if there is an organization in this country that knows the most about supernatural events, it must be the state machine.

From the fact that the news reports of the last ghoul incident did not disclose even the slightest bit of information about the ghoul, it can be seen that the government is already very experienced in dealing with similar incidents, and may even have a very mature set of procedures. The confidentiality process may also be unclear.

And the last time he slipped away from the government's eyes and has not been found yet, it also made Fang Yuan less afraid of the state machinery - at least they are not really as described in some works. , you used your superpower the day before and the country came to visit you the next day.

In this case, maybe he could take the initiative to contact the relevant people in the government? Anyway, he now has alchemy in hand, and changing his appearance is just a matter of thought. As long as the other party does not have any fantasy means such as breath tracking and soul locking, it is still attractive to contact other extraordinary people in the country.

However... in which department will the superpowers in the government be? Fang Yuan must first figure this out.

... However, the development of things in the world will not always follow your ideas.

Just when Fang Yuan was struggling with how to contact the superpowers in the government in a logical and safe way, he suddenly made a new discovery.

It seems that there are many more foreigners in this city without knowing it? Well, it should not be said that there are many. After all, when Fang Yuan occasionally went out, he only saw a few teams of foreign tourists with blond hair and blue eyes or different degrees of black skin, taking pictures in the streets and alleys of this city or playing live broadcasts on their mobile phones.

All this seems normal, as if a group of foreign tourists who are interested in small Chinese cities suddenly came.

But the premise of saying this is that they are really "tourists"! Although Fang Yuan's fighting ability is only second-rate among alchemists, and his physical fitness is only at the level of being able to barely parry compared to those real top close combat masters.

But at least he can tell from a person's walking posture and small movements whether he is just an ordinary foreign tourist or a well-trained professional warrior.

And according to Fang Yuan's observations, there is no doubt that the identities of these "tourists" are problematic! 　　Could it be that there is something special here that is enough to attract foreign spy organizations/mercenary organizations? 　　Fang Yuan's many years of experience as a novel reader, coupled with the changes that happened to him, made him think of this aspect at once.

To some extent, Fang Yuan's guess hit the bull's eye.

But unlike his guess, it was not that something happened "again" in this city, but that something that "had" happened before finally reached the ears of some people abroad.

')020'\u003eChapter 20 The greatest value of superpowers is to be studied

"Fuck! Are the people at the customs eating shit? They just let these suspicious people in so casually?!" At this moment, when Fang Yuan was secretly thinking about a series of spy war plots, a guy who also noticed these foreigners began to curse, completely ignoring that her queen temperament was completely destroyed.

Yes, it was the strong female civil servant Captain Liu who almost caused a big disaster before, or had already caused a disaster but fortunately the consequences were not particularly serious.

Because her decision almost caused serious damage to the country's precious resources (Taoists), and because an unknown supernatural strongman who had not yet been identified appeared in the local area, she was ordered to stay in this small city for a long time. Either she found the unknown strongman to atone for her crime, or wait for her superiors to calm down and transfer her back to the headquarters.

Although her civil servant position and salary were not downgraded, she was almost demoted anyway - after all, in the central and local governments, even if they were in the same position, their status was half a level lower.

What made her so angry, and even ruined her temperament and swore, was the sudden influx of foreign "tourists" in this city.

"...Captain Liu, there is nothing we can do! These people's passports are real, they don't carry any dangerous items, and they don't have any bad records in the past. The customs can't find a reason to refuse visas..." Xiao Zhang, the tall and strong team member with a tough muscular image, was also sent to the city to garrison as Captain Liu's follower. At this time, he was helplessly persuading his captain.

"But we know that these people are well-trained combat personnel! Most of them have served in other countries' armies! And they flocked here after the intelligence leak happened at the headquarters. You dare to tell me that they are fine?!" Captain Liu slammed the table hard, and the "bang bang" sound even spread outside the office, causing some passing staff to stop curiously.

"... No one stipulates that foreign veterans cannot come to China for tourism! Captain! After all, they are not like those mercenaries with bad records everywhere. The customs must follow the regulations and cannot do whatever they want!" "... Are you a national security or customs officer? Why do you always talk to those grandsons!" Well, the angry beautiful captain has begun to be unreasonable. This is probably the time when her feminine nature is most obvious.

Xiao Zhang: "..."　　...　　From Captain Liu's words, it can be seen that she has almost figured out the background of those foreigners, and even found the reason why these people with ulterior motives were attracted. However, due to the coordination problems between various departments, a large group of foreigners with ulterior motives rushed into the city. No wonder she was so angry that she swore.

But what exactly attracted these foreigners with "special skills" to pour into this small Chinese city that had almost no presence in the past? 　　The story still started two months ago.

At that time, after Fang Yuan solved the ghoul, in addition to a piece of arm, he also left behind an almost intact ghoul corpse and a huge frozen underground river that was six kilometers long.

The former is easy to say, after all, this kind of monster that came from nowhere is not the first time to appear, and the National Security Headquarters just put it together with general supernatural events.

But the latter, the six-kilometer-long frozen river, really scared many bigwigs in the headquarters. This destructive power is much stronger than most of the known supernatural people in the country.

Especially after the Taoist incident, it immediately attracted the attention of many officials of the National Security.

And the information was leaked to foreign countries by an infiltrated official lurking in the top of the National Security.

Although the traitor has been arrested and sent to the procuratorate, the leak of information is irreversible. After two months of fermentation, this incident finally attracted the response of foreign forces.

Yes, these people are all looking for Fang Yuan! 　　In fact, it is a little different from what Fang Yuan imagined. Although there are supernatural phenomena and superpowers in this world, superpowers with real application value are actually very rare.