Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1162 1144. Blood Transformation

Leaving the dragon scale sample for Berengar to study, Lan En, who was just waiting for the blueprint, stood up easily.

"Are you free tonight?"

The young witcher said this casually.

"What? Do you have anything else to do?"

Berengar, who stood up with Lan, was confused.

"Nothing." Lan En spread his hands and smiled, "Rita said she wanted to come out for dinner at the Silver Heron Tavern. If you have time, you can come together."

Berengar is not opposed to social gatherings with friends, after all, the people at the table are all old acquaintances.

So he nodded as a response to Lan En.

Lan put on his hood again, walked out of the office and headed out of the workshop.

The Valyrian steel business has only been going on for a few years, but the demand for it continues to grow and intensify.

During the last Civil War, Valyrian steel weapons were an absolute rarity, and even senior officers were rarely equipped with them.

But as tensions grow, each side realizes that the end of the last war was not really the end.

Not even the beginning of the end, but the end of the beginning.

Arsenals across the country are manufacturing equipment in full swing, new soldiers are being recruited in large numbers, mercenary groups are being established one by one, and long-term contracts are signed with employers.

Before the situation had forced them to this point, even the kings of various countries could not have imagined that they could integrate such a large military force.

At the last Battle of Sodden Mountain, the combined forces of the Nilfgaardian Empire and the Northern Kingdoms were only around 110,000.

And that was the largest scale of battle the world had ever seen.

But now, only two years later, the total military strength of the northern countries alone would never be less than 110,000.

War is both an engine and a catalyst.

What goes against common sense is that in a chaotic world there will indeed be a large number of deaths, but as the war progresses, the military strength of all parties will continue to expand.

Lan's knowledge of history made him very clear about this fact.

In history books that describe troubled times, it is always written that many people died, and even large areas were abandoned because of too many deaths, with bones piled randomly on the ground.

However, while making this description, if we focus on the descriptions of wars in the same period, we will find that the scenes of those wars are becoming more and more large-scale.

It seems that no matter how many people die or how miserable and difficult the lives of civilians are, the army can always continue to expand.

At the beginning of the turbulent times, a well-known and powerful man could only gather a team of a few thousand people, which was a great achievement.

However, in the midst of the chaos, the military force of tens of thousands of people was just like waves, rising and falling.

The Japanese Warring States Period, which is jokingly called the "Village War", could indeed be called a "Village War" in the early stages because the number of participants on each side was truly small.

Even if the numbers were inflated to intimidate the enemy and exaggerate, these numbers were still very modest.

But after the constant deaths, the breaching of river mouths to flood cities, the plundering of food by draining all the fish out of the pond, etc., it looked like an extermination-style military operation.

In the end, the scale of the battles in the Japanese Warring States period had expanded to hundreds of thousands of people!
Because the number of dead people is never greater than the number of living people, and if the living want to continue living, they have to try every possible means.

War will drive everyone crazy. Farmers who used to live honestly will be plundered and slaughtered, and his wives and daughters will be raped and then killed.

If you survive this time, there will be next time.

The rebel army and the bandits will not show mercy to anyone.

If you want to survive, you have to become a member of the military force.

Even if they still want to live and produce in peace, they have to do so under the protection of the army and under the planning of the army.

Therefore, the more chaotic the world becomes, the more powerful the army will be and the stronger the power of violence will be.

Today, weapons and equipment made of Valyrian steel are rapidly being deployed in the armies of various countries.

Although they are still luxury goods and valuables, at least we won’t be unable to see them anymore.

The Valyrian steel business is becoming more and more prosperous under the tense situation, but as a beneficiary of this business, Lan En does not feel at ease.

The sound of forging in the workshop behind him was in full swing and would continue to grow in the foreseeable future, just like the footsteps of war.

Every sound brings many people closer to death.
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After returning to Aretuza from the workshop, Lan went directly to the crystal cultivation laboratory.

At this time, there was no one in the laboratory. After Tishaya and Felicia finished their daily work in the laboratory and imported the experimental data given by Lan En into the equipment, they didn't have to wait any longer.

After many rounds of improvement, the crystal cultivation project has become a mature process. They only need to record the experimental results at the end.

In the dim laboratory, only in the container on the crystal plate, a tiny tissue was floating in the nutrient solution.

If you don't look carefully at this rice-grain-sized tissue, it might be mistaken for an impurity in the nutrient solution.

Lan En took out the [Blood Regeneration Organ] from the culture medium and placed it in front of his eyes for observation.

Mentos observes the tiny super-organ itself through the subject's eyes and compares it to the normal form in the database.

"Confirmed, the [Blood Regeneration Organ] manufactured this time is qualified and meets the implantation standards." The biochemical intelligent brain stamped a "qualified" stamp on the retina for this rice-sized organ.

Lan En nodded and immediately began to take off his clothes.

He took out a complete set of surgical instruments from the alchemical leather bag.

This is already a familiar routine for both Lan and Mentos.

The biochemical intelligent brain accurately provided surgical instructions, and the surgical site was determined to be inside a main blood vessel on the side of the neck.

According to Mentos' plan, Lan needed to open his artery laterally to reduce blood flow.

At the same time, the [blood regeneration organ] is joined to the inner wall of the blood vessel in a very short time.

He also cannot perform blood throttling on both sides of the surgical site of his aorta because it will affect his brain clarity.

This is a very delicate and dangerous technique.

The blood flow in the aorta is very large, especially in a body as strong as Lan En's.

The powerful self-healing ability brought by the [Belisarius Furnace] may even become an obstacle during surgery.

But both Mentos and Lan were already used to it.

Although biochemical intelligent computers have always advocated caution, Mentos has learned to calmly face all the disappointments in life ever since he watched the subject, who had nothing at the time, directly cut off and reconnected his heart vessels and connected to the [gene seed].

The aorta was opened, so it was no big deal.

Mentos also doesn't know whether the intelligent computers of the same model as his can understand what it means to be "numb".

Lan's precise swordsmanship made his technique impeccable, and his calm mind greatly slowed down the blood flow.

Although being able to remain calm while having one's neck and the aorta inside it cut open is terrifying in itself.

There is no need to worry about the super-organ's connection to the blood vessel wall, because the organ will automatically attach to the blood vessel wall when it is designed, and grow by bonding at the interface.

This is actually a very common operation for Lan En's current skills.

After the operation was completed, Lan En, with a slightly pale face, covered his bloody neck and drank a bottle of [Advanced Pure White Rafad].

Between the healing power of the potion and the self-healing power of the [Belisarius Furnace], Lan's neck almost made a 'thumping' sound of fat burning.

As the sound was heard, the cut in the aorta healed quickly, and Lan En began to wipe the blood off his body.

But it was obvious that his breathing was now much louder than its previous steady state.

And it’s still getting bigger.

This breathing sound was almost like panting, but Lan En did not feel any discomfort.

He held his neck and used his changed clothes to wipe the blood splattered on the floor.

Mentos duly projected the physical condition onto the upper left corner of Lan's retina.

On his aorta, the [blood regeneration organ] has begun to activate and function because it is connected to the body system.

The blood flow marked with different colors by the biochemical intelligent brain gradually appears from the surgical site and spreads into the blood system throughout the body.

These are the "high-efficiency blood" transformed by the [blood regeneration organs], which carry more oxygen and nutrients to maintain the consumption of many super organs in the body.

Provide a suitable high-energy environment for the physiological activities of these super organs.

However, as the upper limit of oxygen and nutrients that the blood can carry increases, these substances will not appear out of thin air in the body.

So Lan En would now unconsciously breathe deeply, seeking more oxygen from the air to fill the increasing amount of high-energy blood in his body.

However, this process is controllable. If Lan En deliberately maintains his previous breathing state, it will only slow down the process of oxygen filling in the high-energy blood.

Unexpected situations are unlikely to occur, after all, Space Marines can still operate normally in a low-oxygen environment.

Its greatest feature is its durability.

After slightly suppressing the spontaneous heavy breathing, Lan En moved his body.

He clenched and relaxed his fists, the Mentos reflected the changes in his body on his retina, and his [clairvoyance] penetrated his skin and flesh, looking directly at the internal activities of his body.

"[Second Heart], [Bone Strengthening Organ]. Well, the activity of the super organ has indeed increased."

Mentos added at the right time: "If the blood transformation is completely completed, the activity of these super organs will be further enhanced."

"At that time, your body will be a truly suitable environment for these super organs to carry out physiological activities, sir."

"How long do you estimate it will take to complete the blood transformation?"

Lan En asked as he cleaned up and put away all his surgical instruments, leaving no blood on the ground.

As for the bacterial infection caused by not disinfecting or performing the surgery in a sterile environment, when the [Advanced Pure White Rafad] was poured down, the toxicity of the potion had already killed the bacteria that had invaded the wound.

This is more effective than pouring disinfectant directly on the wound.

"It will take about three days to completely transform the blood, sir."

(End of this chapter)