Dream Travel

Chapter 300: So confident?

Bai Mu's idea was to kill all the Awakened Ones, but the Awakened Ones had legs, and they couldn't be stopped if they wanted to run away.

"Next up is the north." Bai Mu checked the time and took a picture of the sunset with his camera.

The cleanup of the southern region took less than a week, with most of the time spent on the road. If the awakened ones gathered together, the operation would end that same day.

The team led by Bai Mu fundamentally eliminated the possibility of these awakened individuals escaping.

"Go back and rest for a day," Bai Mu said to the others. Although he felt full, he was still mentally exhausted from traveling for many days.

Take a day off and then continue to cause trouble for other awakened individuals.

"Won't this take up too much time?" Fissna remained very enthusiastic about the current situation.

After clearing out the Awakened Ones, this place will be completely safe, and the development of Luoguduo Town can be accelerated.

During the time when the white curtain was not in effect, many greatswords were performing guard duties.

It wasn't that they had accepted a commission from another place, but rather that they were protecting the 'caravan' of Luoguduo Town, not to mention the bandits they encountered along the way.

They don't even need to lift a finger. Although the organization is gone, many Claymores are still reluctant to attack humans.

But for ordinary bandits, the guns in the caravan wouldn't be so lenient...

When encountering Awakened Ones, it's time for the Greatswordsmen to make their move. Although the firearms carried by the caravan are useful, Awakened Ones are generally very fast.

In addition, they all have regenerative abilities, so ordinary firearms don't do much damage unless you hit them in the head or something similar.

Unfortunately, many awakened individuals are quite stubborn.

More powerful firearms could easily take out those Awakened Ones, but the problem is that the processing bureau didn't bring many more powerful firearms with them.

They haven't brought many with them yet, at least not now.

In the town of Luoguduo, Bai Mu found Evefeya, who seemed to have gained considerable fame there over the past week.

The local residents didn't feel much of a difference, but the greatsword warriors did.

"How come you're so good at handling people of the same sex?" Bai Mu took a box out of the weapon case.

These contain the fresh flesh and blood of awakened beings.

The items were provided by Evefeya, and they are very easy to use; you just need to put the items inside.

If it goes bad, it's not just a matter of the white screen.

“I just helped them fix a minor flaw.” Evereya opened one of the boxes and looked inside.

She immediately recognized the flesh and blood components inside the box; it wasn't just a random piece cut off, but rather collected from different parts of the Awakened's body.

She closed the box and said to the white curtain, "You're also very good at winning over women."

"I want to make their lives a little better." Bai Mu glanced out the window; the Claymore trainees were resting.

"That has nothing to do with these things. I've checked their physical condition, and it's easy to resolve. Although the modification technology is useless, the potential is still excellent."

Evefeya commented on the Claymore Organization's modification techniques, saying that their techniques were too brutal and the mortality rate was destined to be very high.

However, its growth potential is superior to that of many biochemical viruses.

The enhancements brought about by biochemical viruses often lack the characteristic of change, while the modification of the greatswords by implanting demonic flesh is essentially a biological fusion technology.

Implanting chunks of flesh directly would kill countless test subjects in any other world, but this world somehow manages to pull it off.

However, what stands out in this fusion process is not the greatsword warrior, but the demonic flesh and blood used for the fusion.

That thing itself has a strong parasitic nature, which is why it can perform the fusion function.

If that kind of flesh and blood didn't have this characteristic, then the technology possessed by the Claymore Organization... Evefeya was unwilling to comment.

Even the growth potential brought about by this technological transformation comes from the flesh and blood of the Youmu, not from the organization's technology.

After learning about the Claymore Organization's techniques, Evefeya was certain that their so-called techniques were more like assembling building blocks and kneading dough.

When mixing the demon flesh and blood, adjust the proportions until they reach a suitable and usable level, then start assembling the blocks.

If you're lucky, you'll get a good shape; if you're unlucky, you'll have to start over.

Although the Claymore organization's research data was destroyed, Evereya could still deduce the organization's subsequent research based on the information provided by the Claymores she had seen.

Given their style, after using the original demon flesh and blood, they will most likely try to create a new mixture using the flesh and blood of awakened beings.

It's another round of kneading the dough, just like how human development is inseparable from boiling water.

If the Claymore Organization's method of kneading dough has any merit, Evefeya will not belittle it, after all, many bio-engineering technologies are also 'kneading dough'.

However, the Claymore Clan's dough-making technique is rather... well, it relies entirely on modifying the properties of the materials themselves.

If they hadn't created the parasitic demonic flesh in the first place, their initial research would have been completely stalled.

They were just lucky to have a good start, but that also limited them.

Once you step out of this comfort zone, the organization's research will essentially become worthless.

These past few days, Everea has been studying the physiques of the Claymore warriors in detail. Strictly speaking, every single Claymore warrior right now is only a 'half-finished product'. And this half-finished state is the limit that the Claymore Organization can achieve.

There are some greatsword users who try to become semi-awakened; their situation represents a way out that the creatures have found, but they are still not considered 'finished products'.

In their case, they only managed to completely suppress the influence of the demonic flesh and blood through sheer willpower, but the influence of the demonic flesh and blood did not truly disappear.

The parasitic effects of demonic flesh and blood persist, and the ultimate target of this parasitic invasion is the brain.

However, the greatswords were implanted into the demon's flesh in the abdomen, and the spread of this parasitic growth was slowed down by suppressing the demon's flesh with their willpower.

The simplest solution to the unfinished state of the greatswords is to perform a certain degree of inactivation treatment on the demonic flesh during the surgery.

If it's just to change one's constitution, there's no need for such active demonic flesh and blood. Overly active parasites can easily turn the tables and become the dominant species.

After the inactivation process, you can simply turn this thing into a battery.

However, there is a risk in doing this: the flesh and blood of demons that are not completely extinguished can easily regain their vitality.

This problem is easy to solve; just inject the medication regularly.

Another solution is complete fusion, whereby the greatswords are completely fused with the characteristics of demonic flesh and blood during the modification process.

It is not in the form of parasitism. Parasitism is either the parasite plundering the nutrients of the host or the inevitable modification of the host to its own advantage.

This is also why many parasites can affect a living organism's consciousness; nothing will readily accept parasites.

Organisms subconsciously reject parasites, so these parasites inevitably affect the brain state of organisms, making them conform to their own needs.

This kind of parasitism can be considered an unfair form of symbiosis.

If they were to fuse directly, such a problem could be avoided. After all, without the parasite, even if the physical constitution changed, the greatsword's consciousness would not deviate.

Because there are no demonic flesh parasites inside the greatsword, its brain is naturally unaffected and will not change in the direction of its needs for demonic flesh.

Another method is to directly manipulate the brain, causing changes without affecting its original functions, thus preventing the demon's flesh and blood from parasitizing it.

However, this method is akin to fighting poison with poison.

"Hmm...so how do you plan to solve this?"

"It's simple. Just cut off the main part of the demon's flesh and blood, and then carry out the subsequent modifications. I can cultivate a specific virus strain from the demon's flesh and blood."

This part of the virus reacts with the parasitic influence remaining in the Greatsword's body, catalyzing the residual parasitic components and completing a symbiotic relationship. However, this method is most effective for semi-awakened individuals.

Evefeya didn't care whether Bai Mu was a professional or not, and explained the best solution very seriously.

Once the demonic flesh and blood have parasitized the greatsword, their influence on it becomes deeply ingrained. Removing the most problematic main body part will still have an effect on the greatsword, but it will only be temporary.

After the virus was used, allowing the parasitic residue to coexist with the host, the Greatsword Warrior transformed from a semi-finished product into a mature work.

There may be new improvement plans later, but it's clear that those improvements won't be available to them.

Everea's proposed solution represents the limit for greatsword warriors, mainly because the initial modifications they underwent were too crude and primitive.

Even if we were to try to improve the design, we should look for clean bodies, not them.

What are the specific impacts of this process?

"There are no actual tests, but according to my research, their explosive power will decrease significantly after the main body of the demon's flesh and blood is removed."

It wasn't that her physical condition had declined, but rather that the release of her demonic energy had been affected, a range of impacts she had predicted.

The retention rate of demonic energy release is only about one-fifth to one-tenth.

The closer a greatsword is to awakening, the higher its retention rate.

"That's fine, as long as there are no risks associated with the surgery."

"Heh, although the demon flesh and blood are highly integrated with them, the greatswords' resistance and suppression of the fused substance make it easy to deal with the parasitic host."

Evefeya said confidently that modern medicine was far superior to the evil modification technology of this dream world.

There is no hope for the Awakened; they are the product of a completely new mutation resulting from the complete fusion of the parasite and the host, with the host being the main entity.

The problem with the Greatsword Warriors isn't that difficult, but the Rota Bureau needs their combat power.

After eliminating their threat, weakening their combat power would be a net loss.

"this matter……"

“Let’s start with the trainees,” Evereya interrupted Bai Mu. “I will make sure no one dies.”

"So confident?" Bai Mu raised an eyebrow slightly.

“They’ve already passed the highest mortality stage. What’s the difference between the next part and breathing?” Evereya said, taking out the Imperial Arms glove left behind by the White Curtain.

"With this thing, do you think I would fail?"

Bai Mu nodded sincerely: "There's no need to hold back if we fail."

(End of this chapter)