Steel steam and flame

The most caught fish are the fish in the lake. It took Cassia nearly three days to get the amount she wanted. But there was no suitable container to hold the blood, so Cassia could only keep the fish in captivity first, and then took the time to go back to the town full of old people to buy more food and utensils, and Something to prepare for exploration.

Although it is just a lifeless retirement town, fortunately, the most basic daily necessities are relatively complete. In addition, Cassia also took the opportunity of returning to ask these old people more about the lake. There are also previous features, as well as questions about whether there is a network of caves in that mountain range. Grote died a hundred years after the empire was established. Nine hundred years or so were enough for the power of nature to change a lot of things.

Of course, Cassia also got more details from various different accounts about the team that entered the mountains to search for minerals. The last truck that came back did not have the minerals they had found in those months, only a load of dead and dying people.

"There is no problem there. I don't know what it will be like now."

Cassia shook her head and briefly described the situation there: "I haven't felt anything yet. It's been so long, maybe there is no disease there anymore." It was like a joke, but the old people who came around didn't really believe it. ,

"The lake level must have risen again. I wonder if the small shipyard at the edge of the town is still there. In the past, the town was a famous place for selling fish. There should be a lot of boats. You can go there and have a look. Maybe after all these years, there will still be some hulls that have not been damaged. When we went to the shipyard when we were children, we still remember that their roofs were very strong, and the materials were wrapped in thick waterproof cloth, which could be stored for a long time. It will rust quickly. If you want to go to the mountains, it will be much faster to take a boat."

The stay in the town was longer than Cassia imagined, thanking everyone one by one, and it was already one afternoon when I left there.

After moving the new supplies to the temporary resting place, Cassia immediately set off to the other side of the ruins of the town.

From a distance, I saw a half-collapsed boat shed. The steel structure lacked basic care and maintenance, and its inherent shortcomings were exposed in a very short period of time.

Covered with a layer of thorny vines, Cassia used a forged steel sword to cut a path, and found what the old man said under the ruins.

"Maybe it can still be used." Cassia scratched the layer of rainproof cloth that could be felt stiff visually, and almost shattered it into pieces. There are a lot of shed shells and eggs of unknown insects gathered inside, but fortunately there are some things that can be used. At least in Cassia's view, there is no need to worry about the container used to hold the blood. As for the tools to get to the other side of the lake, he didn't seem to worry about it from the beginning. Even if the surgeon's weight makes them less good at swimming, the benefits of strength and coordination far outweigh the disadvantages.

After finding a usable hull and taking it back, Cassia took advantage of the fact that there was still some daylight and took advantage of the time to dissect the fish by the lake. He moved very carefully. When catching these fish, he found that the carnivorous fish in the lake were much more ferocious than other places. With more time to observe, even those huge birds sometimes miss the mark. The relationship between prey and prey is not yet clear.

After dissecting all the herbivorous fish, the single-person boat less than two or three meters long already contained less than half the amount of blood. The fish carcasses were piled together, and Cassia threw them all into the lake. After the carnivorous fish followed the smell and swam over to compete for food, he opened two or three steel-cased bombs and threw them into the fish.

Then the process repeated itself until most of the blood was filled in the hull before stopping.

A fire started nearby, and Cassia took off her clothes and jumped in. The smell of fish mixed with the smell of blood is not a pleasant smell. Expanding the cross pupils, Cassia felt the changes in his skin carefully. He wanted to understand himself more deeply, and also wanted to deepen his understanding of surgical development through his own feelings.

At first there was just a feeling of coldness and a stickiness that made the skin tighten. After about ten seconds, Cassia was convinced that the tactile signal had indeed been transmitted to the brain. I don't know what happened. It must have been stimulated by the "germ". The skin began to heat up, and the temperature and flow rate of the blood began to be beyond Cassia's control. The temperature and flow rate increased sharply.

Concentrating her energy, Cassia carefully appreciated the changes in her body. He closed his eyes and focused all his attention on his body. After some time, Cassia felt other things flowing from the boiling body.

Those are the perfectly evolved substances that exist within oneself. They have been hidden and stored in various locations in the body, and now they are all freed. They can freely travel through the body, and now they converge on the surface of the skin. The flesh and blood cannot block them in the slightest like blood vessels.

"Can the in-depth development of surgery be seen as the utilization of these perfectly evolved substances? Or can these perfectly planned substances be both the basis and the catalyst for evolution, accelerating something in our bodies in a very short period of time? Those old The professors said that my time in surgical development would be below the standard line. The fundamental reason should be that the content of perfect evolution substances in my body is much greater than that of ordinary surgeons." Cassia was immersed in thinking.

"But as far as I know, at the beginning of the operation, there seemed to be no perfectly evolved substance in the body. Maybe there was, but the content was negligible. Through the injection of various hormones and sedatives, this substance in our bodies It began to increase. And when the dragon tissue in the body began to initially assimilate and fuse, the surgeon himself seemed to gradually begin to produce this kind of thing, but the speed was faster or slower. From this point of view, the reasons that affect the progress of surgical development can probably be It is divided into two. One is the content, and the other is the application of these substances."

The meditation continued, and Cassia was completely immersed in it. Soon after, the sky darkened, the fish carcasses were eaten, the lake became calm again, and the fog gradually rose.

In the end, it fell into an endless loop. The originally smooth thinking gradually came to an end due to more and more problems and lack of information, and did not achieve the final result Cassia wanted.

When he looked at his body again, he realized that the burning sensation had disappeared. Cassia poked her head out of the blood and stretched out her hands to grab the peeling skin on her face. There was already a green world around her.

"We will set off to the mountains tomorrow." Standing next to the fire, Cassia looked at her new skin reflected by the firelight, and suddenly had the illusion that her touch was more sensitive. In the past, I could indeed judge the direction of the airflow around my body by relying on my palms and face, but it was relatively vague. It was completely useful for judging the direction and strength of the wind with a sniper rifle. But now, that touch has become clearer, integrated with other perceptions of the body, and turned into substance. The flow of air around the body has become a "visible" thing in Cassia's eyes.

"Compared with capturing the direction of the airflow, the work of capturing this kind of 'germs' must be much more precise." Cassia thought of this reason.

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"Intelligence Chief Sitian, the tracking of the people on the list has been completed. There are eight things that can become suspicious. Please take a look." The woman handed the report to Sitian and stood aside.