Tower Defense Game: My Eternal Kingdom

Chapter 286 Botanists
Strips of flexible black hoses are like exposed tendons, wrapping the cold mechanical structure.These special tissues would still flow from time to time, like forming a layer of liquid coat on his body surface.

This is the peculiarity of deified transformation.

This technique—Cheng Shen regarded it as a unique puppet refining technique for the time being.

It adopts the form of existence that fuses metal and flesh and blood.

The alchemists in the castle have finally cultivated a substance that can be derived from flesh and blood through countless experiments over hundreds of years. This substance can have the characteristics of flesh and metal at the same time, so it is called:

active metal.

This material can perfectly replace the flesh and blood organs of the reformer.

Moreover, after a long period of running-in, the active metal implanted in the body will eventually completely integrate with itself, just like a part growing out of the original body, so there is no need to worry about the compatibility of the soul!
Active metals have anti-aging, anti-corrosion properties that outlast normal flesh and metals.

It can also autonomously reproduce and replace old aging tissues.

In theory.

This is undoubtedly already a physical state close to eternal life!
And this is the fundamental reason why generations of crazy alchemists are willing to work hard for this.

If it is a research with no hope at all, even the most persistent person will not blindly pursue it for a lifetime.But the birth of active metals really gave this group of crazy alchemists hope.

of course.

That is the idealized form of active metal development to the final stage.

Perhaps the person who recorded this information had succeeded, or perhaps the description he left was nothing more than fantasy.

In fact, the research of active metals by the alchemists in the castle is still in the third stage.

and.

The cost of refining active metals is also quite high.

According to the records, if alchemists want to obtain a piece of active metal, they need to implant a piece of maternal substance into a newly formed embryo, and wait for it to grow to adulthood naturally before picking it.

As short as three to five years.

For decades.

The longer the active metal is stored, the better the effect will be.

And because of this, among the mammalian biota, humans, who have the longest growth cycle and are the easiest to capture, have become the main experimental subjects.

tuk...

Cheng Shen's footsteps fell, and a layer of liquid fluid structure immediately wrapped the soles of his feet without making a sound, but Cheng Shen seemed to feel the weight of this step, and every step seemed to be walking on a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood.

"This world is more insane than I ever knew..."

Cheng Shen tore up the documents in his hands, crumpled them into a ball, and then squeezed them hard with both hands, crushing them into irreparable dust.

There is still a lot of information in the hidden compartment in front of him.

Cheng Shen took a rough look.

In the treasury of this crazy goblin scientist, not all the bloody research involving biological transformation, but also a lot of advanced scientific and technological knowledge, he recorded all the useful experimental data.

And while he was reading the material in front of him with his memory.

On the other side, his body has already returned to the territory and recorded what he saw on white paper.

This is also one of the characteristics of the Demon Soul Thousand Body.

common sense.

Cheng Shen once thought that this was a defect of Demon Soul Qianshen, but the facts proved that there are no useless characteristics, it only depends on the timing of choosing to use it.

Right now, the feature of simultaneous interpretation has helped Cheng Shen a lot.

Otherwise, with so much experimental data, even if his brain is as powerful as a computer, he cannot store all of them in a short time.

"and this……"

After recording all the information, Cheng Shen looked aside.On the operating table where the dark green liquid was flowing, a bloody corpse could no longer see its complete shape.Cheng Shen admitted that his first dissection technique was a little rusty.

And right at the heart of this corpse, a diamond-shaped crystal shining with glazed luster has already replaced its original flesh and blood structure.

in this crystal.

The contained energy fluctuations made Cheng Shen feel palpitations.

"It might be useful to bring it along."

After thinking for a while, Cheng Shen stretched out his hand and carefully lifted the crystal up. The structure on his chest automatically collapsed inward, exposing the beating heart, and Cheng Shen placed them side by side.

Then let the deified organization form intertwined veins to fix it.

In this way, even if he encounters an enemy he can't deal with, he still has a hole card that can severely damage him...

Pack everything.

Cheng Shen put the silver robe on and pushed the door and walked out.

The corridor was dark and gloomy.

Silent.

The sound of Cheng Shen's footsteps was also swallowed by the darkness.

According to the detailed information given by Seaman, usually, alchemists would stay in their own private laboratories for research, few people would come out to hang out, and there would be no guards to avoid disturbing the place.

Only at certain times of the day.

The owner of the castle will send someone to collect the new products and potions they have developed today.

Cheng Shen wasted too much time on deified transformation.

It was less than an hour before today's acceptance, which meant that his task had to be completed within an hour.

Wait until the castle guard finds the body.

It's too late for anything.

"The NO.11 alchemist was a botanist, before he tried to plant seeds in the human body...

Perhaps valuable information on improving crops could be obtained from him.

Alchemists No. [-] and No. [-] respectively hold two keys to laboratory No. [-]... why is it one and five. "

Cheng Shen didn't want to understand.

time is limited.

He decided to take the three most important goals first.

dong dong dong...

Cheng Shen came to the door of NO.11 laboratory, and according to Seaman's description, he knocked on the door at steady intervals.

"Who is it?"

The door quickly opened a gap, and a pink halo was reflected from it. The substance of that color was not only light, but also mixed with light dust, which directly hit Cheng Shen's face with a faint fragrance.

"Receive the experimental results."

He said hoarsely.

"Huh? Why is it so early today? No, your voice is also different from usual... Wait!"

Cheng Shen pushed the door open without waiting for the other party's reaction, and then used his generous back to hold the door.

The hood fell off, revealing only the lower half of his face made of flesh and blood, and the two spar eyes embedded in the black metal frame instantly burst into bright light.

"Who are you?... How could you have such a complete apotheosis?!"

A woman's shocked voice came out.

Cheng Shen looked forward, but the one in front of him was not a normal human being, but a thick, bloated, luxuriant, pink, weird ancient tree whose branches and vines had already covered the entire laboratory!

the middle of the trunk.

Rough folds of bark form a hollow face.

And on every branch it extends, there are shriveled corpses hanging, like fertilizer and soil used for cultivation, and clusters of brightly colored flowers and plants grow on the dried up corpses!
"it hurts……"

"It hurts..."

Weeping came from the dense canopy.

Only then did Cheng Shen see that a group of people seemed to have just been hung up by it. The thick vines had pierced through their bodies, and moss and sprouts had grown under their skin, but they were still screaming and wailing consciously!

Cheng Shen immediately realized this scene.

This obsessed botanist is not only growing from human bodies, but living human bodies too!It is to let the spores of plants take root and germinate in these human bodies, absorb nutrients, and drain them alive!

Cheng Shen shuddered just thinking about the torture of this method of death.

"You deserve it for bumping into me!"

Cheng Shen kicked his foot, and the powerful sole of his foot immediately broke the rattan on the ground, and a pink, foul-smelling liquid flowed out from it.

"what!!"

There was a delicate scream from the ancient tree, and more dense flower mist fell from the mammoth canopy, covering Cheng Shen directly into a pink human figure!
boom!
The pollen exploded suddenly.

Cheng Shen's two bright gemstone eyes did not fluctuate at all.

The deification experiment is immature, and it is still far away from using active metals to completely replace the functions of flesh and blood, but it is precisely because of the incomplete transformation that Cheng Shen only has to worry about being affected by the control of lust!

He simply didn't!

There is no reproductive physiological structure installed in this body at all!
And the effect brought by the pollen is only limited to the physical level, and cannot affect his consciousness.

This botanist can be said to be perfectly restrained by Cheng Shen!
Zheng!
A two-foot-long sharp blade protruded from Cheng Shen's right arm, while his left hand collapsed inward, turning into a dark hole.At the same time, he condensed a mental hammer and slammed it towards the face on the ancient tree!

Soul Shock!

Bang!
The transparent heavy hammer directly passed through the outer defense and hit its spiritual core fiercely. All the movements of the ancient tree stopped instantly, but Cheng Shen raised his left hand at this moment, and a blue energy shell was blasted out!
The luxuriant branches and vines in front of him that blocked his progress were instantly smashed to pieces, and the pink juice splashed all over the sky.

Cheng Shen passed through it like a sharp black sword.

Pfft!

The sharp blade sank into the thick bark of the ancient tree, and the screams stopped abruptly.

Cheng Shen's left hand returned to its original shape, and then he stirred the sharp blade to open the gap, grabbed one side with one hand and yanked hard!
Stab it!

The entire piece of bark was directly torn apart by him violently, and there were dense veins connected inside, just like the dense capillaries in the human body, which burst and sprayed blood, covering Cheng Shen's whole body with a layer of viscous color.

He looked forward calmly.

In the center of this tree trunk is a fibrous human body, her limbs have been completely integrated into the tree trunk, and her body is covered with raised green patterns, like countless writhing earthworms.

A pink gemstone on her forehead has been broken, and the blade has penetrated into the skull, completely pierced.

With an incredulous expression on her face, "How would you know... my weakness..."

Cheng Shen didn't answer its question.

Look around.

As the energy core of this ancient tree was directly destroyed by him with the momentum of thunder, the human beings hanging on the branches, or the corpses that had already produced flowers, also quickly dissipated their life fluctuations at the same time.

But the opposite is true.

The flowers that bloomed on the corpse became more and more dazzling.

It seems that in the entire room, the energy that has not had time to dissipate in the future has been plundered by them.

One of the bright red flower buds on the top of the tree crown attracted his attention the most.

Cheng Shen did not expect this kind of change.

Seaman, the competent insider... Cough, partner!While telling him of the botanist's specific weaknesses, he didn't mention what would happen to it after it died.

……anyway.

He may not know such a secret thing.

"Don't think it's over."

Cheng Shen temporarily ignored the strange changes in the room, and turned to look at the botanist who was dying.

after death.

If there is no special means, spiritual consciousness will also disappear.

Unless it is affected by some special circumstances, such as its own strong obsession, external environment, or human factors.

Spiritual awareness can then be preserved.

This is how the undead and the unowned souls used to refine puppet creatures generally come from.

And mostly the former.

Most of the time, alchemists also go to catch wild undead, or ask necromancers for help to buy souls.

Rarely does direct action be taken against living innocent lives.

of course.

This is the rule of the old days.

In other words, it is uncertain how many alchemists can stick to the depth of the bottom thread.

At least.

He has no scruples about it.

Soul stripping!

A strange mental wave immediately enveloped the botanist's corpse.

In the dark.

Cheng Shen seemed to have caught a cloud of indeterminate matter.

That's it!

come out!

With a thought in Cheng Shen's mind, his spiritual stance immediately pulled a ball of light emitting chaotic light out of the corpse.After the ball of light remained in a chaotic state for a while, a female face emerged from it.

It immediately heard a cold voice.

"I ask, you answer, if you dare to tell half a lie, I will let you experience what life is worse than death..."

"..."

The botanists were uncooperative at first.

After all, she is also a ruthless person who dares to directly transform herself into a plant, and the degree of psychological distortion is no worse than any perverted maniac.

However, after experiencing the double interrogation of soul impact and soul stripping.

She eventually confessed everything.

If it is said that purely physical pain can still be endured by a strong-willed strongman.

It is impossible for anyone to withstand a blow to the soul.

The two are not at the same level at all.

Although Cheng Shen has never felt that kind of pain, he would rather never experience it.

The chaotic ball of light in front of me was gradually stripped away, leaving only one primary color, and then it was like a bubble that was punctured by a needle.

Completely dissipated into the invisible.

Cheng Shen looked at the place where the soul had dissipated and suddenly paused for a moment.

He thought, is emotional perception already the deepest substance in the soul?

Could it be that the disappearance of emotional perception means that a person's soul can no longer be resurrected,
Disappear completely?

He always felt that the structure of the soul was not so simple, perhaps there was a deeper level, something that even the ancient Celestials hadn't excavated.

After all, in this extraordinary world where even a single drop of blood can be reborn, it will not be so easy to completely erase the traces of a person...

(End of this chapter)