Chapter 256: Emily the Walker
Chapter 251 – Emily the Living Corpse
As soon as they said they would do it, the two of them remodeled the incubation pod a bit before placing the female corpse that had completed the prior treatment into it, and then injected it with the nutrient solution mixed with the T-virus.
The T-virus in the nutrient solution was very active, and began to actively infiltrate into the cells of the female corpse, re-energizing the stiffened cells, thus showing that those cells really weren’t safely dead.
“It’s unbelievable, how the hell did she do that?” Owen was really very curious about what the other party used to make the cells maintain immortality for hundreds of years, it seemed that he would have to wait until he woke up the other party to find out.
The cells of the epidermis became softened after being awakened, but that wasn’t enough, then artificial blood mixed with trace amounts of T-virus was injected into the dried blood vessels, and the external heart was activated, mimicking the pulsation of the heart to make the injected artificial blood flow, further moisturizing the corpse.
A large number of probes were not pulled out, so Owen and Brian were able to carefully observe every inch of the corpse from inside to outside, from head to toe.
As the artificial blood flowed, blood circulation slowly formed, the activity of the muscles increased, the corpse became softer, and the artificial blood began to flow towards the internal organs.
“Start adding the artificial hormones.” Brian, who was in charge of observing the activity of the internal organs, saw that the time was almost right and added the hormones that took a lot of effort to synthesize into the new artificial blood, replacing the previous artificial blood that was depleted of nutrients.
Owen on the side revealed a satisfied smile after noticing that the internal organs began to recover under the stimulation of the various hormones.
The mysteries of the human body are endless, even with the system, Owen has not stopped his research in this area, after all, in the future he will definitely need to carry out composite reinforcement, he does not want to become a monster or die a violent death because of reinforcement conflicts.
Next Owen realized that he was too happy too early, because the problem is constantly, first of all, the activity of the spine has never been able to activate in depth, unable to play the role of nerve conduction, and also unable to create blood.
Then the internal organs also appear one after another failure problems, intestines are unable to peristalsis exhaust, obviously the internal circulation is out of balance, after all, the T virus is not omnipotent, otherwise how did the zombies come.
“Activate the preparatory program.” Owen frowned, then said to Brian.
As soon as the words fell, Brian barrel-loaded body everywhere open, stretched out seven or eight mechanical arms, axe and battle-axe, knife and fork are all available, chainsaw and air hammer are all standard, obviously prepared, just waiting for Owen to open his mouth.
Owen is very speechless, but this is the only way.
At the same time as possible to maintain the activity, the two will replace the spine into a mechanical spine, internal organs are also implanted biochemical devices as an aid to mediation, and finally saw the loss of blood production function of the skeleton, Owen simply give a layer of secret silver plating, but also to the security of the steel claws.
The chances of success of the experiment are very slim, Owen simply go through the motions, the big deal is that when the time comes to transform into a puppet, anyway, it will not be wasted.
Forcibly complete the internal circulation, the next is the most important brain, I did not expect that the smoothest was this part.
“It’s true that we can’t underestimate her people.” Owen understood after pondering for a while.
This female mage knew that she couldn’t keep her soul before she died, so she used her body as a bearer of memories and used some kind of magic to keep her brain nearly intact, her body was merely incidental.
She was betting that the one who found her body was a mage, or at least a law professional, and no law professional would ignore the corpse of a well-preserved legendary mage, so that she would have the chance to activate the memories in her brain and resurrect herself in a different way.
“Preserving one’s memories even if one becomes a soulless living corpse, truly worthy of being a Legendary Mage, admirable awareness.” Brian put away his mechanical arm and said in an undulating mechanical voice. Owen looked at this mage who had transformed herself into a mechanical barrel and secretly said that you are even more ruthless than her.
“Isn’t there something wrong with this brainwave?” Owen said with a frown as he looked at the rather smooth lines on the instrument.
“It’s mechanical thinking.” Brian was quite familiar with this state of affairs, so he hit the nail on the head.
“That means the other side is awake.” Owen’s subtle tone of voice caused the female mage in the incubation pod to open her eyes, clearly understanding that she needed to communicate next, rather than playing dumb all the time.
Changing places, the three were ready to talk, though anyone could see that Owen was the one who could make the call.
“Ms. Emily have a seat.” Owen reached out and pointed, then had the Slime maid serve three cups of nutrient solution.
Nowadays, Brian, who almost only had one brain left, relied on the nutrient solution to soak in and live, while Lady Mage Emily had only just been revived, and most of her body’s organs relied on biochemical instruments to maintain them, so now she could only drink the nutrient solution as well, and as for Owen, he purely wanted to get rid of that damned sweet taste on his tongue.
Emily elegantly returned the salute, and then sat down and began to tell about her experience, and did not hide anything, because there is no need.
The narration was no different than what was written in the other’s diary, and Owen then asked about the other’s family.
Emily still did not have the meaning of secrecy, it is very painful to say a lot of family secrets.
However, Owen did not care much, after all, is a few hundred years ago, the other family now still exists is a problem, even if it exists, but also not in this world, so just show an attitude.
“Then does Ms. Emily want to go back?” Owen asked a pointed question.
“Mages value the soul, not the body, if I go back, I will either be locked up or used as an experiment, there is no difference between the two.” Obviously Emily is not that naive, let alone whether Owen will release people, even if everything goes well to return to the family, as a living corpse hundreds of years ago, she does not feel that she will be treated as an old ancestor, the biggest possibility is that she will be arrested and drawn out all the memories in her mind, and her body will be reduced to experiments, because in her place she will do the same.
“In that case, then Ms. Emily will stay and can do research with Mage Brian, in addition there is a magic school in the territory, so if she goes to be a professor, she can get extra resources.” Although Owen had the other party’s magical notes, the knowledge recorded on them was dead, and people . The people seemed to be dead as well.
However, Emily’s value was indeed not low, Owen was willing to give the other party some favorable treatment, as for hidden dangers and whatnot, did he really think that he and Brian hadn’t left any backstabbing on the other party’s body?
What’s more, Owen was very interested in Emily’s current state, she was able to breathe, had a heartbeat, and was also able to eat, and even do some impulsive things, physically speaking, she was no different from a normal human, and theoretically was able to give birth to healthy offspring.
But she couldn’t be considered a living person, nor could she be called an undead, because her cellular vitality depended on the T-virus to maintain it, and even the undead had souls, which she didn’t.
To say that she was a zombie, yet she had a complete consciousness and normal thinking ability, no wonder she said that she could only become a test subject if she went back, because her way of existence was really too special.
Emily was actually in a daze, because according to her memories, she knew that she had already died, and what was alive now was just the original corpse, so what exactly she was, even she couldn’t say.
As for what to do next, she knew even less, so for Owen’s arrangement, she did not hesitate to nod her head and agree to it, because she wanted to find the meaning of living, and if there was none, then let others give her a reason.
(End of chapter)