Chapter 30 The Long War

"In the distant 41K Warhammer universe, war will be everywhere."

Well, Calvin didn't have the chance to see this sentence in his previous life, but a war that started at the cellular level in his body was something he had never expected.

When the blood first entered Calvin's body, his energy was still focused on how to solve his "data redundancy" problem.

After entering Calvin's chest, the blood was not active enough to take any action because of the previous cryogenic preservation. The two sides of this body spent a short and peaceful period.

As time went by, the cold blood was slowly activated by the temperature in the chest, and the cells in the blood began to show some instinctive ferocity.

The cells in the blood have no will of their own, they only have a little bit of instinct.

And these instincts will drive them to invade this body, copy their own RNA and grab as many nutrients as possible to copy and spread them.

Until the entire body is completely eroded and replaced, as for the completely replaced body collapsing because there is no corresponding will, it is not a problem that these cells can consider.

In a sense, if the host's will is not strong enough and cannot achieve a certain symbiosis with them.

Then, they are cancer. They are viruses.

These cells are not eager to announce their existence to the original owner here.

On the one hand, they begin to infiltrate from the pleura, spread and begin to replicate themselves; on the other hand, after completely replacing the original cell functions of the pleura, they do not expand wantonly, but launch a new round of infiltration into the deeper heart with a clear goal.

When the arterial bypass closest to the pleural tissue began to be infiltrated by these golden cells and spread all the way to the ventricle, Calvin's original heart was gradually replaced by the tissue composed of these foreign cells without his knowledge.

The whole heart was like an invisible brush, dyed from the original red to gold from the inside to the outside.

Until this time, Calvin had just broken away from the internal spiritual world, and the invaders who were in power and benefited from the adequate nutrient supply of the heart artery finally gave up their disguise and showed their hideous fangs.

They wantonly intercepted the nutrients carried in the blood flowing through the heart arteries, then killed these nutrients and the red blood cells responsible for transporting them and transformed them into one of them. Then these newly born golden cells joined Calvin's circulatory system along the heart's arterial circuit and swept all the way down.

The lungs and liver have no nerves, which makes Calvin's reaction a little slow.

It was not until the cells of the gallbladder tissue and the digestive system represented by the stomach died and replaced on a large scale that the neurons sent out severe painful electrical signals that were captured by Calvin's brain. Calvin, who felt the abnormality of his body, subconsciously turned his psychic vision to the inside of his body.

He was shocked to find that these invaders were openly attacking his organs throughout his body along the heart's aorta with the heart as the center.

The cell tissues of the blood vessels and organs along the way were all necrotic under the attack of these golden invaders, and then absorbed and replaced on the spot by the newly born golden cells.

The rapid spread of the virus left him no time to think, so he could only rely on his instinct to focus his psychic energy on the organs that had not been lost, and try to delay this sudden defeat by resisting at the cellular level.

However, the effect was not ideal, as Calvin had no experience in the application of psychic energy at the cellular level.

Even with the benefit of compulsory education in his previous life, his knowledge of biomedicine was not very good.

To describe Calvin's medical knowledge in one sentence, it was "only the cubs of Russ in the Wolf Group were more illiterate than him."

The liver, lungs, gallbladder, pancreas, digestive system, and kidneys were lost one after another, and the war that quickly spread to the external peritoneum and the muscles closer to the surface of the body cut off Calvin's connection with his limbs.

It also announced that his last territory was only the head above the neck.

The above situation is actually what every Grey Knight will encounter during the transformation operation, and it is also the last difficulty: how to survive the invasion of these mysterious and sacred blood.

It's simple to say that after the initial collection of these golds, the backdoor has been prepared for these future "hosts".

Behind the illusion of their strong offensive is the amplified psychic induction.

When a Grey Knight apprentice is forced to death by these invaders, if their loyalty is real, what is the most likely thing they will do at the end of their lives?

It is to pray, to pray with unprecedented determination and awareness. Their souls and their psychic frequencies will be closer to the Emperor than ever before, and such psychic fluctuations are the key to unlocking this deadly situation.

These golden invaders will gradually fade away after sensing the corresponding psychic fluctuations, leaving behind the second or third generation or even weaker offspring cells as the final result of this transformation.

The most aggressive and closest to the original body of the first generation of cells, on the contrary, because they are cells of high-energy organisms, they must be supported by the high-energy host will.

In the end, they will all die after losing the support of the divine will for a long time.

All of the above has a most basic condition, that is, the Grey Knight candidates must believe in their almighty Lord with all their heart and soul.

On the contrary, mortals who do not believe in Him will be unable to resist His will and the invasion of these cells.

And what if a high-energy race like the demons and the Eldar dared to try this?

Then these bloods would be like promethium, or even much stronger than promethium, and would immediately use the flames that burned its body and soul to compensate for this blasphemous act.

Calvin was neither of them. He had never believed in the Emperor as he believed in God, so he would not choose to ask for help from others when he encountered difficulties; he was not one of those warp creatures born with dirty original sins. These golden cells could not find a trace of dirt from the warp even after searching his body.

So he could only fight the invaders who were equally dull and only knew how to achieve their instinctive goals.

From the initial step of defeat, he was killed and lost his armor and armor but could not destroy a single enemy; when he retreated to his neck, he could occasionally cause a little damage to these golden cells. Calvin's psychic energy improved rapidly in microscopic operations.

When the first golden cell was killed, Calvin also realized the secret of the other party's power: from a microscopic perspective, the outer wall of each golden cell was engraved with marks representing the sacred and pure spiritual energy of mankind.

Following suit, Calvin also began to upgrade and iterate his existing cells. Starting from the first mark, he patiently made the initial transformation of his cells.

With the addition of these new cells, this war that originally saw no hope gradually showed the dawn of victory.

In the real world, the vital sign monitor that had been screaming was also turned off by the pharmacist who lost patience.

After discovering that this battle had never completely threatened Calvin's life, the pharmacists could not do much except increasing the energy and material replenishment of the medical cabin.

The grandmasters who were urgently summoned also left after a brief understanding of the situation on the scene. Only Aidan, who brought Calvin here, was left waiting here.

Calvin's battle continued, but the situation became more optimistic. He found that these invaders really only fought according to instinct.

Even when he was trapped in the most critical situation of the head, these cells never thought of cutting off the nutrient supply in this direction, but simply charged at Calvin in waves.

In the body, the cells are constantly strengthening over time. Although they cannot compare with these invaders, they are gradually gaining the upper hand in the war with the support of Calvin's divine will.

Starting from the cervical vertebrae, clavicle, shoulder, heart, lungs... the battles lasted shorter and shorter.

Finally, after reaching a certain critical point, Calvin, who seemed to have met a certain hidden condition, found that the golden cells on the opposite side no longer resisted.

So, the fierce war between the two sides turned into a takeover after unilateral surrender. From the perspective of external observation, his body also quickly recovered from the original light gold to the original white.

Surprised, Calvin had no time to think, but just watched his own cells instinctively attack and metabolize these lost territories.

Relaxed, he could not maintain his tired spirit and almost dry spiritual energy, and fell into a long-lost black sleep. On the monitor, his vital signs finally returned to normal.

It was a tough day indeed...