Deep in the Living

Chapter 262: Mature Body
mature.

Unlike children in the human world, due to their fragile bodies, they need to undergo a long period of feeding and training under various protective measures. It takes more than ten years for their bodies to mature, their organs to reach normal efficiency, and their muscles to reach their limits, so that they can become so-called "adults."

"People" born from the real hell do not need this process.

They have physical qualities that surpass those of humans since birth, including but not limited to:

High temperature and dryness resistant, and the flesh is plastic.

In order to expand the military force faster, to strengthen the national strength, and to select talents more efficiently, except for the Order Group, almost every major force has its own way of "ripening the body".

Able to help newcomers reach physical maturity faster and more efficiently.

This process usually only takes a few hours to a few days to complete.

among them.

The method adopted by the Spinals is "flesh maturation", which is a method of ripening that has evolved over tens of millions of years. It is the most suitable solution for the Spinals and can allow the newly arrived Spinals to quickly obtain their combat positioning.

Although it has been extremely optimized, the process is still dangerous and requires the body involved in the casting to meet the following requirements:
1. The development of the spine has not exceeded the first stage (before or after spinal opening)
2. The body is not mature and has not undergone any form of deep transformation.

3. Physically healthy and mentally sound.

The Spine who meet the above conditions will receive a call from the Spine headquarters [Chaos Hive] and go to the foundry to participate in the conscription ceremony, which is the so-called physical casting.

Their bodies will be completely transformed and matured in this process.

The resulting body can vary greatly depending on the individual's tolerance, spinal strength, and self-awareness.

The casting results can be roughly divided into the following five categories:

"Big Spine" - the inferior mature body. The spine completely loses its self-awareness during the maturation period, and the body itself collapses and the spine is shattered.

The shattered flesh will be die-cast into a single piece, becoming a cube of flesh and bone to be used as building material for the hive city.

"Weapon Raw Materials" - During the casting process, the consciousness is destroyed, the body collapses, and only the spine remains intact. The factory will forge the spine separately, process it into raw materials and transfer it to the weapons factory in the hive.

[Beast Transformation] - During the process of forging, consciousness dissipates, the most primitive animal nature is aroused, the spine and the body remain intact, and it will eventually transform into a pure spine beast*.

These beasts are often given as pets to veteran soldiers who are skilled in animal training.

A few beasts have spines of excellent quality and maintain their growth potential, eventually developing into important war beasts.

"Ordinary people" - their consciousness is preserved, their bodies are sound, and their spines are intact. However, because the individual cannot resonate with the maturation process, the ideal maturation effect cannot be achieved, and the body remains in the primary stage.

Such spine people will be labeled as ordinary people. They are the lowest level of existence and can only act as suicide troops. They are jokingly called "filler babies" by spine people.

"Soldiers" - Spinemen with perfectly formed physical structures, enjoy the official status of the hive city, and can serve in the most suitable troops after passing the assessment.

The flesh casting process is generally divided into the following stages:
1. "Boil (blanch)"-Boiling water can activate the skin, making it completely transparent and ductile, preparing it for the subsequent flesh casting.

2. "Smelting (Blueprint)" - After being blanched, the individual will be sent to the conveyor belt. After a short breath, the conveyor belt will load the individual into the [Big Forge]*.

*The most core equipment in the factory is the key to forging the flesh. It is operated by the blacksmith wizard to keep the internal heat high while reading the thoughts of the spine inside.

The extreme heat of the Great Forge can completely melt the flesh in a short time. Even a well-trained spine will be burned to the critical point. Some people with poor spines may even be melted.

After being sent into the Great Forge, the Spineman imagines the final blueprint of the body in his brain before his body is completely melted.

Once it is thought out, it will be known to the blacksmith wizard outside, and the body will be forged according to this blueprint.

3. "Forging (Meat Shaping)"

The completely melted flesh will be transported out along with the red-hot spine and handed over to the top biological blacksmith for forging according to the mental blueprint they obtained before melting.

Eventually, a mature body that is almost identical to the blueprint will be forged, becoming a soldier and gaining the right to live in the Chaos Hive.

……

Luo Di, whose skin was transparent due to blanching, was sitting on the conveyor belt. Less than a hundred meters ahead was the center of the entire factory, a melting furnace emitting high heat. Luo Di, who had experienced many battles, knew very well what this extreme heat meant.
Even now, there is a high possibility that he will die in it.

The opening of the furnace was like the gate of death, and the fast-running conveyor belt was carrying him inside.

Faced with such a situation, most spinal people would feel fear, a fear of death, which is something engraved in the genes of any living thing and cannot be erased.

As long as you are alive, you will fear death.

This design is also the main purpose of the conscription ceremony.

It can be used to test how much fear a spine fighter will secrete when facing death, and whether he can suppress this fear by himself. After all, war is directly linked to death, and cowards are a burden in war and have no qualifications to fight.

Only those who can suppress fear on the conveyor belt can keep their consciousness stable and think out the blueprint of the physical body.

If one enters the furnace with fear, one's consciousness will be burned along with the body, and even the spine will melt, turning into the lowest quality flesh and blood material.

the strange thing is.

Rody showed no signs of fear, even his facial skin didn't twitch, and his blinking frequency didn't change at all.

At the end,

Rody's body fell down from the end of the conveyor belt and landed in the deepest part of the furnace, in a metal container that was just big enough to hold him.

The flesh of the body melts rapidly at a temperature of over a thousand degrees Celsius, turning into sticky meat water that rolls down and is collected between containers.

This feeling of death is so familiar, the only difference is that it is a little hotter.

Before the flesh completely melts.

The pituitary gland between the brain loses its color prematurely, turning into a movable gray and being stored between the spine.

Perhaps it is the spiritual feeling before death.
Maybe it's the so-called revolving lantern effect.
Before his death, Rody actually recalled the massacre in Moon City, the scene of slaughtering all the inspectors and piling up corpses.

A special blueprint was stable in his brain, unaffected by the furnace of hell, undisturbed by the thoughts of war, firm and steady.

The blacksmith wizard outside the furnace was surprised after receiving the blueprint information. Although he had never seen it before, he did not hesitate much considering Rody's special nature. He immediately drew the blueprint on parchment and handed it to the biological blacksmith.

Perhaps it is because the blueprint is rare and the forging difficulty is too high.
The blacksmiths also need to hold a meeting in advance, and finally several senior blacksmiths will be responsible for forging.

The bottom exit of the furnace opened, and a container filled with metal spines and melted flesh was carried out and sent to the forging table.

Spine hammering,

Mould pouring,

Muscle twisting,

Organ stability,

Tempering the body,

Polishing the details,

Skin acid immersion,

After detailed carving and polishing by several masters, the finished product was finally completed.

However, all the blacksmiths who took over had some doubts. Although this blueprint was special and relatively complicated, their casting process was unusually smooth.

It seemed that the other person's body was gradually adapting in the process, and even assisting in the shaping of the body, as if this spine person could survive independently by relying on the spine.

This is far beyond the positioning of ordinary chiropractors.

Moreover, all blacksmiths saw a color that did not belong to the factory during the forging process, a gray color flowing over the spine and flesh.

(End of this chapter)