"Er..."

Soshyan woke up from his dream and found himself surrounded by artificial light.

He blinked, shook off the illusions about the twisted maze and the dead, and groaned.

At the first glance, he saw a curtain composed of tortuous pipes and wires. The long lighting ball formed a square above, and the small window five meters away looked red and dark.

He also felt his mouth dry and his tongue smelled of metal.

Then his arm slid down from his forehead, blinked gently, and reached out to wipe the small debris off his lips.

Soshyan found that his fingers were covered with small blood particles. It seemed that he bit his tongue during anesthesia - but he didn't remember his habit of sleeping and smacking his mouth.

"Commander Zhan, you're awake."

Gasping for breath, he rolled out of bed and stepped on the cold metal ground.

Soshyan sat up, and the feast the day before yesterday and the subsequent physical examination seemed like a dream.

Pallas was packing up the tools and instruments. The machine servant brought a silver water cup, which was full, and many small bubbles were pouring out.

Soshyan took the cup, drank it, and then sighed comfortably.

Then he drank three more glasses of water, one faster than the other.

This nutrient solution is said to be Pallas's unique secret recipe. He calls it leibi. It tastes like carbonic acid, but it's not too much.

When he put down the cup, Pallas had come to him with some scans and data sheets. The new pharmacist followed him with an eyebrow, mixed with doubts and setbacks.

"How's it going?"

This was the first time soshyan had his physical condition checked. He had realized that the gray pulp was causing him some change, but he was not sure what the change was like.

"The situation... Is complicated."

"Then pick the important and say it simply."

"First of all, the content of liquid metal molecules in your body has greatly increased. If the record of the amount you injected was correct, now the liquid metal molecules in your body are more than 200 times the original."

"There's more."

"Also, part of the liquid metal is solidifying. I can't determine whether this solidification is permanent, but it does change part of the structure of your body."

"Where is it mainly?"

Pallas took out a scan of the whole body. It can be clearly seen that there are obvious shadows and differences between the upper part of soshyan's spine and the skull.

"About a quarter of your spine has been changed by solidified liquid metal."

Soshyan looked at the picture and blinked.

"That means... My bones become metal?"

"It can be said, but not absolutely, because it remains to be determined whether these solidified liquid metal molecules are exactly the same as the original material composition of gray pulp. Unfortunately, I don't have the original liquid of gray pulp on hand, so I can't compare it."

At this point, Pallas seems very sorry.

"Well, is this a good thing or a bad thing?"

"Generally speaking, the spine is the most important bone structure of the human body, which also contains a large number of nerves. Once damaged, the human body's action and coordination will be irreversibly damaged."

"But I have no discomfort in this regard."

"Yes, this is the third problem. Your metallized spine seems to have the same function as the normal spine, or even more powerful. Through the comparison of sensing current, I found that it seems to be more efficient than normal human bones."

"Well... I said if."

Soshyan thought for a moment and said cautiously:

"What if all my bones were like this?"

"I can't give a conclusion, but I speculate that if you want all your bones to be metallized, the content of liquid metal molecules in your body can be much more than now, and even change your blood structure, muscle structure, and even... Brain structure."

For a moment, soshyan's brain flashed the figures of those non soul mechanical undead.

Will he be like this?

"By the way, commander Zhan, I also extracted part of the gray medulla from your body."

With that, Pallas took out a test tube from the freezer on one side, in which you can clearly see some light gray substances with silver light creeping.

"In the near future, I plan to conduct a test of receptor fitness to prepare for further expanding the scope of transplantation."

"I see. I'll leave the job to you."

"It's a great honor."

After loosening his muscles and bones, soshyang went to the dressing room and changed into a loose robe.

Instead of leaving, he moved from the medical sanctuary where Pallas worked to a deeper transformation area.

The medical sanctuary of zhantuan monastery is a place full of miracles and fears. Although it is not the largest, it is the most tightly protected in all areas inside the monastery.

The mechanized living dead are widely distributed in it. The high ceiling is loaded with energy pipes and a transmission network emitting electric sparks. Strings of telegraph lines hang down like grapes in the desert, some extend to the internal rooms, and some wrap around the floor.

The fighter servants were connected to the wires in the recess, and their feet were replaced with the square base of the gyroscope. When soshyan passed, the muzzle of their weapons pointed at him, forming a circle around him, and their dead eyes locked his body.

The walls here were ordered to be chiseled through to accommodate energy cables, blood pumps and piped supplies.

The dim flow lamp hangs from the top of the classification bracket on the support column and wall to provide nutritional lighting for the slowly developing tissue to be harvested in the culture tank.

In the translucent glass trough, the muscle tissue and organs winding like grass are opening and closing unconsciously. These are the artificial organs needed for the transformation of star soldiers.

The air smelled of disinfectant, and the ground and wall were almost spotless.

The power cooling units stacked along the wall spray cold fog in the secret house, emptying all the warmth, and hiding the already vague words and the body shape slowly passing through the aisle.

Many surveillance cameras are installed in the secret house to record everything that happens inside.

Many stooped servants ran in and out, murmuring softly when organizing the collection of various materials - they were loyal servants who had followed the star knight for many years, and therefore had the honor to work in this secret place.

Soshyan walked through the corridor leading to the transformation room. Before he opened the door, he heard nassin ballitaem's voice.

"Start with the Y-cut, insert it in the middle, and then cut to the side..."

With his voice, the whine of the machine increased.