Embers of Embers

Chapter 98
Countless shackles fixed the broken body, just like a saint crucified on the platform. Along with the mechanical cutting, the water injector on the side flowed out cleaning fluid to keep the incision of the holy silver clear.
Maxwell took out the data from previous inspections and explained it to Nicholas bit by bit.
"Stronger muscles and stronger bones, it seems that this is related to the mysterious secret blood... It can be said that they are optimized versions of ordinary humans."
"Like some fucking super soldier biological experiment?"
There is no such thing as divinity, and Nicholas explained the witcher's power in terms he could understand.
Maxwell thought for a moment and then confirmed.
"You are right. Based on the information we have, we know that the secret blood is extracted by demons through a process called alchemy. In fact, if compared horizontally, the secret blood is like some kind of super soldier serum. "
"But obviously, this thing is more powerful than the super soldier serum we know."
Nicholas gently stroked the surface of the holy silver. The silver-binding bolt in Ed's body completely melted after he exceeded the critical value. The hot holy silver directly burned his internal organs, and finally formed the iron coffin of the holy silver. Completely seal the secret blood in his body.
"Where did this holy silver come from?"
Nicholas observed that the metal extended directly from Ed's body, as if someone poured liquid holy silver into it from his mouth.
"Inside him."
"in vivo?"
"Yes, according to the reports of the scavengers, when they recovered the corpse of the demon hunter, the holy silver was in a liquid state and was constantly pouring out of his flesh and blood."
Maxwell said as he took out the reports of the scavengers and put them aside.
"Holy silver and secret blood coexist in the same body. We currently roughly guess that this is a restraint device. Just like our Original Sin Armor, the demon hunter also has the possibility of losing control. Once out of control, the restraint device will be activated. Destroy him completely from within.”
Maxwell looked at the body that had changed beyond recognition, and he could even initially guess the tragic death of the demon hunter.
The molten holy silver is released from the inside of the body, burning everything in the body, but the powerful vitality brought by the secret blood can sustain it for a period of time. It cannot survive or die, and it gradually dies in this painful torture.
Nicholas didn't seem to expect such a result. He originally thought that the demon hunter was killed by a weapon made of holy silver, but he never thought that the cause of his death would be due to himself.
"So have you extracted the secret blood?"
"The holy silver completely molded his internal organs into silver blocks, and the blood inside must have been mixed with the metal."
Maxwell said his own reasoning.
"This should be the secret measure of the Demon Hunter Order. The molten holy silver will completely destroy the inside of the Demon Hunter. Even if the secret blood remains, it will be mixed with the metal. There should be a special extraction process inside them, which can Separate it, but we don't know."
"Is that so?"
Nicholas couldn't help but feel a headache. The Purification Agency had tried to reproduce the secret blood technology a long time ago, but it all ended in failure. Now they had a rare corpse of a demon hunter, but they didn't have the key to open this treasure.
The cutting machine began to descend, and the rapidly rotating blade cut the solid holy silver. The dark gap continued to expand, like opening an unknown door, and strange power was pouring out of the gap.
"Reporting the Geiger Index."
Nicholas observed the cutting process. They needed to extract a part to try to refine the separation and try to recreate the secret blood.
"The Geiger index is stable."
Feedback on Nikolai's inquiry in the command room.
To a certain extent, they were dissecting a monster at this moment, an extremely dangerous monster.
The entire piece of holy silver was cut off, and then a cross-section was revealed as if it had been eaten by some kind of insect. There was a black viscous liquid slowly dripping from the small holes. It was not human blood, and was filled with weird... It felt like just looking directly at it would produce an unspeakable feeling of disgust in the bottom of my heart. At this moment, the surrounding indicator lights instantly turned scarlet, and a piercing alarm sounded inside the protective suit.
"The Geiger index has changed and started to rise. Everyone should evacuate the experimental site!"
Anxious sounds came from the command room, and the people surrounding the operating table put down their instruments and began to evacuate in an orderly manner, but Nicholas remained unmoved. He looked at the dripping liquid and suppressed the feeling. Feeling strangely afraid, he picked up the test tube nearby and tried to catch it, but was stopped by Maxwell.
"Evacuate Nikolai, this damn thing is polluting!"
Before he finished speaking, surging low-temperature air came out of the pipes. The soldiers were already fully prepared outside the glass wall and raised their guns one after another.
Nicholas didn't say much. He took a deep look at Ed's body, and then evacuated with Maxwell. Then the entire Experimental Site No. [-] was blocked. Time passed little by little, but Ed's body did not change at all. .
"It looks like another problem has been solved."
Maxwell took off his heavy helmet and looked at the operating table that was completely covered in low-temperature air-conditioning with cold eyes.
"What do you mean?"
Nicholas asked. He and Maxwell's main research directions were different. Maxwell knew more about demons than he did.
"As for why Geiger counters cannot detect the existence of demon hunters, it stands to reason that they have secret blood flowing in their bodies. Once they come into contact with Geiger technology, they will be exposed. But from the perspective of the demon hunter named Lorenzo, The Geiger counter didn’t work at all.”
Maxwell explained to Nicholas.
"I speculate that the demon hunter should have something that can hinder the contamination of the secret blood, so that it can only remain in the demon hunter's body. It seems that the thing should be the holy silver. Before cutting the holy silver, the Geiger index was always It was very stable, but when it was completely cut open, that weird thing was exposed, and the index increased."
"Holy silver can isolate pollution." Nicholas gave the answer.
"It seems so, but we should need more experiments." Maxwell looked at the Geiger index that began to stabilize. When it stabilized completely, the experiment could continue, but this time all of them were really are exposed to pollution.
"Actually, I think our experimental progress could have been faster."
After a while, the silent Maxwell suddenly said.
"What do you mean?"
Nicholas didn't understand. The demon hunter's corpse was already a rare specimen, and it was too late to celebrate. But then Nicholas seemed to have thought of something, and he felt a little surprised, and then said.
"I don't think Arthur will agree. Their purification agency has been negotiating with the demon hunter for a while."
"But as long as there are enough benefits, I believe that the demon hunter will help us."
In this regard, Maxwell appears extremely confident.
"In addition to these, we also need the help of that demon hunter. The development of the original sin armor has hit a bottleneck. In the past half month, six test drivers have been sent to the neurological rehabilitation hospital."
Maxwell smiled.
They need secret blood technology, all kinds of strange knowledge, and even a test driver who can support erosion to complete the test drive.
In fact, in essence, these problems can be solved by one person. There is no need to dwell on the corpse of the demon hunter in front of you. After all, there is a lively demon hunter in a corner of Old Dunling at this moment.
Lorenzo stretched out and woke up from the bed. Looking at the ceiling covered with posters, he decided to try the dish he saw on the first restaurant poster when he woke up this morning.
Looking at the stars?What the hell.
Lorenzo sneezed thinking about it and looked at the frost-covered glass. Winter was coming.
(End of this chapter)