novelonline Chapter 4211 Directed Mutation
Chapter 4211 Directed Mutation
Chapter 4211 Directed Mutation
Viggo shook her head, denying Megan's conjecture:
“Just now, Shad went to Granny Cassandra’s place and borrowed that nun statue relic that can test bloodlines. Eve is still considered a pure human.”
Megan nodded, then tapped the outside of the glass vessel containing the heart with her finger after casting the spell, and listened carefully to the vibrations:
"The three gears are made of an alloy. This complex alloy can coexist with flesh and blood, so it must have good corrosion resistance and biocompatibility. If we can obtain the formula for this material, it will be another major discovery in the field of alchemy."
The wise witch was clearly very interested in this matter:
"Although our ancestors mentioned fusing machines with flesh and blood in their research, because flesh and blood and machines are ultimately different, our ancestors did not conduct in-depth research in this direction."
"Wei Ge, the future apprentice you've prepared for me has truly given me a wonderful surprise. I'm not leaving today; I want to borrow your underground laboratory to dissect this heart. Even if I don't know how it was formed, I at least want to figure out how the gears work in conjunction with flesh and blood."
Wei Ge nodded:
"No problem, you can do whatever you want. But this is Eve's heart after all, you can't take the sample with you."
"What would I do with them? Well then, Shad, I'm going underground now. Call me anytime if you need anything."
Megan picked up the jar and followed Viggo's maid to the mansion's underground laboratory.
Lacey continued to share her thoughts:
"The absence of whispering elements suggests it's unrelated to the relics. But Luvia's divination indicates the gear grew directly from the ground—that can't be a natural phenomenon, can it?"
She was very puzzled:
"Or perhaps, is this some kind of unknown infectious disease with supernatural powers?"
Luvia continued shuffling the cards on the coffee table, wanting to do another divination, while Dorothy wore a worried expression.
“Shad, this morning in Tobesk, you saw it in my niece’s heart.”
"Let's go see her when we get back tonight."
Xia De nodded and said.
Miss Rowling rushed back at seven o'clock in the evening with the intelligence. Seeing the file bag with the church's seal in her hand, Vig knew that the intelligence had been successfully obtained. But she did not reach for it, instead asking Shad to check it.
Xia De moved Xiaomia from his lap to the sofa, pulled out the documents from the file folder, and quickly read through them. Even he couldn't help but be surprised:
"Is this even possible? Targeted mutation?"
"what happened?"
“Strictly speaking, this is indeed a natural phenomenon. But the Church of Creation suspects that the appearance of this so-called ‘natural phenomenon’ is related to the ‘Construct Masters’ and the others. Although the defectors took away almost all the data, the Church is not without ways to reconstruct their past research reports.”
Shad handed the documents to Luvia and briefly explained them to the girls:
"The 'Construct Masters' pursue the mechanization of the human body, believing that flesh and blood are ultimately not as strong as metal. This mechanization can be achieved through human transmutation, such as Mr. Sari Pirot, the 13th Ring 'Iron Right Hand' stationed in Tobesk. He suffered conceptual damage to his right hand in his early years, but after undergoing surgery to transplant an ancient steel prosthesis, his right hand is almost indistinguishable from a normal arm."
However, mechanizing the human body through human transmutation cannot be considered creating a new race; it's merely human modification, far from opening a new direction for human evolution. Now, the Church's defectors seem to have found a way to permanently influence the growth trajectory of flesh and blood life—no, not all flesh and blood life, currently only humans, with a very small number of qualified individuals capable of naturally growing mechanical structures within their bodies.
Luvia quickly finished browsing the document:
"If this tendency toward mechanization first appears in the brain or heart, it will have serious consequences. But if it appears in other places, the human body will adapt to the change after a period of abnormality and gradually mechanize the whole body. This can be considered a targeted change in the direction of mutation of flesh and blood life."
Wei Ge couldn't believe it:
"How did they do that? I mean, directly impacting the entire human race—is that something mortals could accomplish?"
Lacey thought of a possibility:
“Shad said that each of the forces that now controls the source of the fire is very likely to have a candidate for the chosen one. Among the defectors of the church, there is probably also a candidate, which may be related to the candidate’s special talent.”
Dorothy, who was also chosen, nodded;
"While it sounds exaggerated, such a possibility does exist. However, no matter how amazing that talent is, influencing the entire human race, it's still not something an ordinary person can easily accomplish. The other party might possess high-level relics, special artifacts, or other things we can't even imagine. It's the combination of the chosen one's talent and those peculiar powers that leads to this situation."
We initially thought the presence of those illegal ring sorcerer organizations operating throughout the city was bad enough, but we never expected the traitors of the church to achieve such a significant result.
Luvia handed the documents in her hand to Vigo:
"To prevent panic, the Church of Creation has deliberately suppressed the news. But the good news is that this phenomenon is currently mainly occurring in Arcadia and the surrounding areas, and the total number of cases since the defectors left has only just exceeded 40, with only 5 fatal cases like Miss McDonald's."
Following Shad's method, directly removing the mutated organ completely stopped the body from further mutations, and Miss McDonald was fine afterward.
Wei Ge also lowered her head and began to browse through the documents:
"This is another thing the church has done. What have they been hiding from everyone? And that 'Construct Master'—he helped us at the Leatherwork Guild. I had a pretty good impression of him at first, but now he seems to be an incomprehensible person. Warm, soft flesh and blood are of course better than cold, boring steel. Why can't they understand that?"
Dorothy asked:
"If this flesh-and-machine mutation is an epidemic affecting all of humanity, how can it be prevented?"
"Don't worry about that. Any magical spell or incantation that can resist flesh mutation can prevent this phenomenon from happening to you. Since it requires a constant 24-hour effect, a targeted amulet might be more convenient."
"I don't need any particularly high-grade flesh mutation resistance amulets; Old Man John will definitely have some in stock."
Luvia answered, and Lacey breathed a sigh of relief, planning to have Old John urgently order one after returning home and then give it to Adelina.
Xia De said:
“Next time I meet Mr. Gerald Delon, I will have a good talk with him about this. If they just want to experiment on their own people, that’s none of my business; it’s just a matter of their line of work versus the Church of Creation. But now they seem to be dragging all of humanity in the material world into this, and I can’t stand by and watch them do that.”
Because of the blessing from the Lord of Flesh and Blood Mutation, Shad didn't need to worry about the low-probability event of flesh-to-mechanical mutation happening to him. Vige quickly remembered that as Great Witches, they were protected by the Chaos Ancient God, and their basic resistances far exceeded those of ordinary witches and ring sorcerers, so this kind of thing wouldn't happen to them either.
Dorothy and Lacey need not worry about this happening to them either. In addition to their status as chosen ones, their multiple deep integrations with Grace and Helen have already influenced them with the Red Butterfly Sisters.
This effect can also be simply summarized as "Gemini's Blessing," which also includes an increase in resistance to flesh mutation.
The doctors and priests in the group must have enough resistance, so Shad suddenly realized that among the five people in the group, Luvia and Mia were the ones who needed to worry about their own situation.
Megan, who had gone to the underground laboratory to study the heart, returned to her study at eight o'clock that evening, but judging from her expression, she hadn't gained much.
"I now believe that the heart was definitely not made by external force; it was a purely natural product."
"why?"
"I don't believe anyone but the might of nature could create such exquisite creations."
Megan had washed her hands and did not smell of the lab on her.
"It's incredibly ingenious, a perfect fusion of flesh and mechanics. Every heartbeat drives the gears to rotate, and the rotation of those three gears in turn promotes the heartbeat. The position, size, weight, and center of gravity of the three gears must be perfectly matched to the heart to produce this effect."
I even believe that if you had chosen a different treatment method, instead of a heart transplant, but instead allowed her heart to beat normally, perhaps within a few days her body would be perfectly adapted to that heart, and then the heart would become fully mechanized, subsequently driving the mechanization of her entire body.
"Take a look at this."
Wei Ge handed her the documents in her hand:
“We’ve been discussing the potential consequences of this, but Dorothy is right. Since this phenomenon has already occurred, it suggests that the goal of ‘creating mechanical races’ may have been partially achieved.”
The new human technology of the Blood Spirit School is gradually evolving, and my mother's 'Perfect Child' is being completed as I recover my sister's parts. Now, the 'Mechanical Race' has also appeared.”
She sighed, then coughed softly a few times.
Megan quickly finished reviewing the documents in her hands:
“If that’s the case, then it makes sense. Vige, some of the ideas in the book you gave me a few days ago, ‘Natural Alchemy: Evolution,’ can explain this phenomenon. It’s a selected, directed mutation, but it’s not naturally occurring; it’s artificially induced.”
The current targeted mutations at most result in a subspecies of humanity. If it could spread throughout the world, it wouldn't require many people to become a mechanical race. Just a few hundred or a few thousand people completing the so-called 'complete mutation' and proving that they can pass this targeted mutation on to the next generation would be enough for a new race to be truly born.