Chapter 439 Chapter 436 Iron-Willed

Although he didn't understand the purpose of Zhuang Xuteng's need for so many metal cigarette holders, as long as he promised that smoking would not affect his health, Morgana would find it for him and take it there.

"The meat bag is very good. He pestered me as soon as we met, as if he was asking about you. I told him that you were recovering and everything was fine. The guy acted as if he understood, immediately relaxed and went on his way "I'm sleeping in the nest." Morgana shrugged and said, "I have never seen such a smart pet!"

"This makes me feel more at ease." Zhuang Xuteng opened the drawer of the bedside table and placed the titanium alloy cigarette holder inside. "Morgana, I'm awake now. Brother Dao is watching next to me. The two of us will recover together. You don't have to come here so often. You should have a good rest, especially when you start working again - it's very chaotic outside. Bar?"

"Well, you guessed wrong. Because of Colonel Taft's suppression, mercenary activities have almost stopped, and the streets of Peicheng are much quieter than before. For a moment, I suspected that mercenaries were the source of the chaos in Peicheng."

Zhuang Xuteng smiled and said, "For a moment...then what do you think most of the time?"

"Colonel Taft didn't let go of the gang either. This is the fundamental reason." Morgana used an electric razor to shave Zhuang Xuteng and said at the same time: "After causing trouble for you, he also went to the Canghuo Gang. Let's talk about the details. What happened? There is no accurate information yet. I only know that when he came out, the soldiers around him were cleaning the blood on his clothes. "

Zhuang Xuteng snorted and said, "Just one person died and everyone was in a state of panic."

"Okay, you're shaving, don't move your mouth." Morgana pinched Zhuang Xuteng's chin and turned it left and right to check whether the beard marks on both sides were symmetrical. "Compared to you mercenaries, Colonel Taft was obviously merciful to the gangs. At least he didn't call all the more powerful guys over to beat them up. I guess he thought it was unlikely that the gangs were responsible for the murder."

"Yes, are there any clues about the case now? Has the death been confirmed?"

Morgana shrugged, put away the razor, and said, "I have no clue at all. Our PCPD has been busy looking for him recently, launching a blanket search in Taiping District and Uptown District, but there is no news about the missing person named Kaho. , It’s like disappearing out of thin air. A week has passed, and the guy still hasn’t shown up. What a disaster!”

"Colonel Taft acquiesces that Kaho is dead, and I agree with his judgment." Zhuang Killer Xu Teng said: "The question now is how long the unresolved state can last. Morgana, depending on Colonel Taft's attitude, the company This shouldn’t be the first time this happens – how have they dealt with it before?”

"That's right! Go back and check it out. Maybe it can give you some inspiration." Morgana thought about it carefully and said, "We can't check it from the PCPD, but we can find some clues from my family circle."

"Huh? I think it's better not to involve your family." Zhuang Xuteng said: "Colonel Taft represents the company. The problem of Kahuo is the problem of Quanpei City. There is no need to take the responsibility on yourself. Now Quanpei City may Under the supervision of Dingxin Magic, if it causes risks, the gain will outweigh the losses. Don’t forget that Dingxin Magic’s main business is weapons, and they have no shortage of firepower.”

"Huh...yeah...this is really troublesome." Morgana sighed and said: "Who did it? Do you dare to admit it? Do you dare to admit it? Hurry up and admit this matter, and save everyone's trouble. Okay?"

Zhuang Xuteng scratched his head and could only follow Morgana's wishes and said, "Yeah...who is so worthless..."

Because of Kaho's death (disappearance), the entire Peicheng was in panic. From top to bottom, whether it is the company's executives or the residents on the street, everyone is more or less affected by this incident. Many people will ask "What's going on?" and more people will ask "When will it be finished?", but some people will also care about the real question: "Why?"

Why did Dingxin Magic take Kaho's death (disappearance) so seriously that it allowed a group of people with a higher position and importance within the company than Kaho to stay in Peicheng for a long time, ignoring everything else and just staring at it? Don't let this matter go. Even if revenge and maintaining the company's authority are indeed important, the company's costs and profits are not considered? Don't they have anything else to do?

Go away quickly, go away quickly. Zhuang Xuteng prayed silently in his heart. Not only him, but Ge Gongdao, Nightingale, Yanque and Lucy were all praying for this matter. Even though everyone knew that the gods would never return and their prayers would not be answered or promised, they still prayed with the simplest wishes. Things. They all felt that their power was too weak to influence Taff's actions. This incident is a lesson and a spur to each of them.

"From now on, any problems caused by foreign aid will be borne by the foreign aid themselves!" Lucy has been feeling regretful for a while recently. Every time she thinks about her decision to let Zhuang Xuteng rescue Bumore, she wants to slap herself. Although she did not expect that a rescue operation would lead to a B1 level enhancer from Dingxin Magic, accidents could not be used as an excuse, nor could they solve the current troubles. She could only bite the bullet and continue to play the role of an innocent person, and at the same time hide Bumore, deeply, and would rather kill him than let him out...

If this continues, the middlemen will have no work to do. As long as the mercenaries don't want to be beaten, they can stay at home and live on their previous savings. If they don't continue, leaving Peicheng will become the best way out. Now more and more mercenaries are talking about the "Curse of Peicheng", that is, every once in a while, the middleman-mercenary industry will suffer a blow, either this or that, and there has never been a peaceful day that can last more than a year.

How many years does a mercenary's career last? For most people, this is a job that relies on youth. Try hard when you are young, save some money, and then change careers and live a peaceful life. This is what most mercenaries think. Few people will choose mercenary as a lifelong career. Even if they do, they will try their best to make money when they are young and can fight. For these people, "suspending business for rectification" is like asking for their lives.

Lucy also faces this pressure. Nike and Daoge are lying in the hospital. They will not leave, but Lucy has other mercenaries under her. A week is still bearable, but there will definitely be problems over time. In the past week, in addition to being frightened, Lucy has begun to think about finding a scapegoat for Nike and the others. The "Gardener Organization" seems to be the culprit of "Kaho's death", but this organization acts in secret, how can the suspicion be placed on it?

"It can't appear to be too involved, nor can it be too deliberate - finding clues first will not necessarily be praised. Given the company's character, it is very likely to become a target at the same time." Lucy pondered: "It is best to let others discover the suspicion of the Gardener Organization and let that guy report it to Colonel Taf, so that it can be safe..."

This kind of strategic thinking makes Lucy rack her brains! Zhuang Xuteng is recuperating in the hospital, basically cut off from the outside world, and can't worry about this. He is actually very concerned about what is happening outside, but the company's surveillance must be nearby, and he dare not take risks. It was not easy to exchange a serious injury for a preliminary pass, and he didn't want to attract Colonel Taf's attention again.

Although it is recuperation, it can't just be recuperation. Zhuang Xuteng doesn't like the feeling of being beaten down. When he sees the gap, he must try to catch up. Ordinary people cannot get the company's internal implants, and cannot learn the company's shadow spells. It is impossible to close the gap - but Zhuang Xuteng is not like that. He believes that with the knowledge and skills of the Lich Master plus his own efforts and tricks, he will be able to hold victory in his own hands one day.

With a firm belief in his heart, Zhuang Xuteng continued to practice while lying on the bed with an alloy cigarette holder in his mouth. Broken bones need to be recast, and drugs that stimulate growth and recovery and a large amount of nutrients are continuously injected, and titanium alloys also quickly enter the bones. On the first day alone, Zhuang Xuteng sucked a titanium alloy cigarette holder dry, which weighed almost 200 grams. Although the gram weight is small, the density of this thing is not large. It is a whole piece about the size of a thumb.

"Is this the effect of the bone forging technique running at full power?"

Zhuang Xuteng was overthinking. Fast inhalation does not mean fast absorption. Only part of these titanium alloys can stay in the body, and the rest will still be discharged. The next day, the doctor found that Zhuang Xuteng's defecation test indicators were abnormal, but they really couldn't think of such a strange direction for titanium alloy molecules. They mistakenly thought that he had a slight poisoning or that the implant was damaged, so they dragged him to do another full-body examination.

"Strengthen care, especially pay attention to the status of the implant." The doctor failed to find the cause and could only start to cast a wide net.

Will Zhuang Xuteng slow down his practice because of the doctor's confusion? Obviously not. He still maintains the speed of absorbing titanium alloy at the rate of one cigarette holder a day, allowing them to enter his bones and continuously strengthen them. At the same time, bone forging should be combined with bone shield technique, and the superposition of ghost servants is also being trained synchronously. He realized that his biggest shortcoming at present is defense ability, so he worked particularly hard.

The doctor of the Second Hospital soon fell into a vortex of self-doubt. He looked at Zhuang Xuteng's physiological indicators and compared them with when he was in a coma. He always felt that there was a problem, but he couldn't find it. It happened that in the problematic state, the patient's recovery speed was faster than expected, and the results were better than expected. There was no explanation for this.

The strong man in the bed next to Naike is also a strange man. The effect of the medicine on him is very poor. He only grows flesh and skin, but the recovery speed of his organs is not as expected. The doctor is also confused. If he continues to be "biased", it will affect his relationship with the implant. Not only will the potential ability to install implants in the future decrease, but in serious cases, it is possible that the current implants will produce rejection reactions and have to be removed if they want to survive.

Hearing this news, Ge Gongdao was silent for a long time. He made a request to the doctor: reduce water intake as much as possible without dying of thirst. The doctor said that doing so would cause toxins to accumulate and he would be poisoned before dying of thirst. Ge Gongdao proposed hemodialysis or other effective means, and pain was no longer within his scope of concern.

Although Ge Gongdao did not reveal his bloodline ability, the doctor had roughly guessed it and quickly modified the treatment plan. The effect of the new plan is obvious. Ge Gongdao's complexion has improved a lot, and the values ​​of the side effects of the implant have also been greatly improved. At present, Dao Ge's only problem is anger, especially when he sees Zhuang Xuteng drinking water and eating porridge, his anger is burning.

Having solved the problem of Gogongdao's health indicators, the doctor is still only half relieved: the mystery of Naike still cannot be solved. In fact, Zhuang Xuteng was also quite curious. He had absorbed so much titanium alloy and his bones were much stronger than the average person, but the hospital had never been able to detect it. He will be taken for fluoroscopy and bone density testing every few days. All indicators are only slightly better than ordinary people. The signal of this titanium alloy in the fluoroscopy machine should be different from that of bones, right? Or is it that he has eaten so many cigarette holders but has actually changed very little?

Regarding this matter, he specifically asked the Lich Master, but the Lich Master's explanation puzzled him: "Bone forging does not add metal to your bones, but makes your bones have the properties of metal. You choose If you make a light and hard metal, your bones will become light and hard like that metal, but that doesn’t mean your bones will become metal.”

"I do not understand."

"If you wanted to be a magician like me when you were a child, you would learn my knowledge, abilities and even style, but you would not become me, but like me." The Lich Master said: "Your bones are also doing it. The same thing."

"My bones don't learn."

"But you use magic to let it complete the learning process." Master Lich pointed to his head and said: "My skull is empty and there is no organ like a brain, but I can still think. Why? Because I Let my current body have that ability! Even if I choose the ghost state, as long as I maintain the same ability, I can still think like before."

Zhuang Xuteng scratched his head and said, "I understand what you mean now, but I still find it amazing. The spells used by our Church of the Light God when it was at its strongest did not have this effect."

"It is true that the spells in your world are relatively rudimentary, but this is very misleading."

"Misleading? What does that mean?"

"Nothing. I'm just saying: You have never been a master of magic. You have only read a few books on the church's magic. You don't know the whole picture, how can you dare to make judgments?"

Zhuang Xuteng nodded: "What I just said is indeed a bit arrogant. Let the bones have a metallic effect, just like titanium alloy, which is light and hard... Master, if I don't think about being light and hard, what effect will the bones have? "

"Then it has no effect. Well, this situation is unlikely to happen. First of all, bones can only learn the properties that the metal actually has, and it is impossible to produce abilities out of thin air. Secondly, you learn bone forging just to strengthen yourself, and so does metal. What you choose must be in line with your design for this spell. No one will do it the other way around intentionally, and there should be no unintentional mistakes. If it does go the other way on purpose, it is a problem with his thinking, not the fault of the spell. "

"Oh, that's right." Zhuang Xuteng nodded, and then a new question popped up in his mind: "Since the body can learn the skills of the brain, even the brain can eventually be omitted, can the body learn the skills of the implant, so that Can……"

Master Lich quickly shook his head and said: "No! High-risk spells like Bone Forging cannot be used like this! Modifications of this level are very dangerous and very likely to be fatal. For your own safety, don't take this risk. At least until your knowledge of magic is close to my level and you can fully understand the composition of the bone forging technique, then you will have the basis to make modifications. Moreover, you'd better test it on others before making it yourself."

Zhuang Xuteng glared and said, "Didn't you also modify the bone forging technique for me? Why did you let me use it directly?"

"The bone forging technique to absorb metal has cost at least thousands of lives in the experiment, and various verifications have been completed long ago. I just gave you the verified variant, which reflects my rich knowledge and is not a transformation. Strong ability." The Lich Master patted his ribs and said: "I have never installed or used the implant, but I know that it is based on shadow servants and can absorb metal, gems, rune stones or resentment. It’s completely different and can never be copied.”

"Can you still absorb resentment?"

"Yes. How else could he become a ghost?"