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Chapter 169 Promoted to Grandma Level (3K)

"By the way, Xinran, while you were in a coma at the city hospital, did the white worms infect any of the doctors there?" Shen Xing asked a question he had wanted to ask from the beginning.

Shen Xing had wanted to have a comprehensive physical examination a long time ago, but he gave up because he was worried that the examination would produce abnormally high results. He could only record the increase in his strength.

Now that everything is in place, Shen Xing feels that a physical examination should be put on the agenda.

"Here?" Wang Xinran asked.

"right."

"Yes, while I was unconscious, the white worms were repairing my brain and then swarmed outwards, infecting some doctors, nurses, and patients," Wang Xinran said, looking at Shen Xing. "Lu Lingyun also thought of this and asked me to go to the hospital to get it treated."

"Would it be convenient for me to go to the hospital for a full body checkup?" Shen Xing asked.

"Okay, what do you want to check?" Wang Xinran nodded blankly.

Shen Xing thought for a moment. He wasn't sure how many tests the hospital here could perform, so he could only start with some basic ones.

"Complete blood count, X-ray, echocardiogram, electrocardiogram, and brain CT scan."

After saying that, Shen Xing added, "You have all of these, right?"

"Yes, we have both. Should we have our bone density measured?"

Do they also have bone densitometers?

"Okay," Shen Xing nodded, then asked, "Is there anything else that needs to be investigated?"

"A complete biochemical panel, blood clotting, that's all I can check here." After a moment's thought, Wang Xinran asked, "Would you like me to help you come up with a body modification plan?"

This was something Shen Xing had been thinking about before, so it wasn't surprising that Wang Xinran knew about it.

Wang Xinran majored in biomedical engineering as an undergraduate, and her specialization was biomaterials.

If it were just the knowledge of an undergraduate, it might not be of much help to Shen Xing. But now Wang Xinran has a lot of medical knowledge from the directors of top-tier hospitals in big cities. This knowledge, when combined, is of great help.

"Yes, we'll go for a check-up tomorrow." Shen Xing nodded.

"Okay, let's wait for the test results," Wang Xinran said, placing her right hand on her left chest, near her heart.

For some reason, Wang Xinran felt some very strange emotions just now.

It feels like happiness, but I don't know why I'm happy...

Thinking back to what Director Liu Chunqiu had said to me before... is it because this is my interest?

If I were Wang Xinran, wouldn't I be interested in this kind of thing?

"What's wrong?" Shen Xing asked, seemingly noticing Wang Xinran's unusual behavior.

"I seem to be very interested," Wang Xinran said directly, without hiding anything.

"Hmm." Shen Xing nodded and said with a smile, "You've always been interested in these things."

Before...?

"Mm." Wang Xinran smiled and nodded, mimicking his expression.

Wang Xinran increasingly felt that choosing to believe in Shen Xing was the right thing to do. He accepted himself as he was now, and he also accepted himself as he was before. His attitude towards himself had never changed.

"By the way, if you can control yourself in the future, it's best not to laugh like that anymore," Shen Xing said, slightly raising his chin. "Your laugh looks a bit strange, and it might make other people feel uneasy."

"Hmm?" Wang Xinran stopped smiling, but still nodded.

I clearly learned it from him.

"There's one more small problem." Shen Xing glanced around the room and asked, "Aren't there any other suitable rooms? There's no drainage here, so it might be difficult to clean up if we need to dissect a corpse."

The fertilization room is on the first floor, very close to the farewell hall. People may come and go there regularly, and the lack of drainage makes it quite inconvenient.

"Yes, this is just for temporary use. The other side has already been cleared out," Wang Xinran said. "There's an abandoned embalming room on the basement floor, which was previously used to clean the bodies."

"Why was it abandoned?" Shen Xing asked curiously.

"The morgue is also downstairs. The previous employees thought it was unlucky and had too much yin energy. Later, they bought a new freezer, but it was too big to fit into the elevator, so they simply moved the preservation room to the newly built prefabricated house on the first floor." Wang Xinran had memories of the old employees here and directly explained the reason.

Basement level?

That would make it even more discreet, and the morgue is right next door, which is like having the material warehouse right next to it, which is quite convenient.

The fact that there are surveillance cameras in the morgue is a problem.

However, Shen Xing usually doesn't need to retrieve it himself. When a corpse is to be cremated, it always has to be taken out. Cremation only needs to preserve the bones; keeping the flesh and blood in it will actually slow down the burning process.

Helping someone else's loved ones cremate quickly is also considered a good deed.

Although it's a small city, it's the only public funeral home here, handling more than five or six bodies a day, and even more during the winter when temperatures drop and during flu season, so it's definitely enough.

Of course, we can't use the bodies of those with relatives all the time. There are many unclaimed bodies in the morgue that have been unclaimed for more than sixty days. These bodies will be cremated together in the same furnace, and if the ashes are not claimed after a year, they will be buried together.

These are the main materials used in Shenxing's experiments.

With Wang Xinran's help, Shen Xing moved all his belongings to the new underground anti-corrosion room.

There were still people monitoring Wang Xinran outside, so she couldn't stay here for too long. However, she still arranged for an employee to be given to Shen Xing as his assistant, essentially leaving a "clone" here to help Shen Xing.

With this "assistant" in place, Shen Xing's work efficiency has indeed increased significantly.

Wang Xinran had already left the funeral home, but Shen Xing was busy in the air-conditioned underground embalming room until 11 p.m.

However, Shen Xing was not sure whether the split body of [02—Doll] could still extract useful information from the remaining muscles after the corpse had been frozen for so long, and whether it could still become a shell.

Tonight, Shen Xing has a target for his experiment.

There are three bodies that are scheduled to be cremated tomorrow afternoon, and they are currently being kept in the embalming room.

After several rounds of feeding, both Split 1 and Split 2 have grown considerably. The diameter of Split 2 curled up together is now about the size of a tennis ball, and its growth rate is extremely fast.

The No. 1 was fed Shen Xing's flesh and blood. Shen Xing couldn't keep cutting meat for it, so its curled-up diameter was only slightly larger than a table tennis ball, and the two had a significant size difference.

Now, on the two stainless steel workbenches lie two different corpses, a man and a woman. Both corpses are severely dehydrated, their muscles have completely lost their flexibility, and their joints are unable to bend.

The inelastic skin lay on the corpse like dry, hard parchment, covered with ice crystals.

Once thawed, the two bodies will decompose at an extremely rapid rate, and large amounts of fluid will gush out from the cells pierced by the ice crystals.

There was another corpse that seemed to be someone who had fallen into the water. Shen Xing did not use the obese corpse that had already developed the appearance of a giant. Even if it were resurrected, it would be difficult to call it a human anymore.

Shen Xing placed the No. 1 split body at the mouth and nose of the female corpse, while the No. 2 body was placed at the mouth and nose of the unidentified male corpse, waiting for them to crawl in.

【02—Puppet】waited nearby, responsible for “commanding” the two split bodies not to devour the corpses directly, but to try to use them as containers.

The first clone completed the command the fastest. It wriggled and crawled into the corpse's mouth. Its hyphae, like sharp spikes, pierced the frozen, stone-like surface of the corpse, making a "crackling" sound.

The body wasn't completely thawed, but Shen Xing wasn't worried at all.

Because he had experienced the feeling of merging with the split body, his body felt like it was burning in a furnace, with every part of his body heating up and consuming his body's nutrients at an accelerated rate.

The corpse would undergo a rapid heating and thawing process, which might accelerate the decomposition and destruction of the body. In other words, if the split body couldn't even do this, it would mean that Shen Xing's method was wrong and a more complex one needed to be used.

Split-body number 2 reacted a beat slower. It stayed in the corpse's mouth for more than ten seconds before it began to burrow through the surface of the corpse and wriggle towards the brain. By this time, corpse number 1 had already begun to heat up.

"Click-clack" "Click-clack"

Inside the dimly lit and cold preservation room, the sound of hard ice shards cracking echoed. Shen Xing and the assistant controlled by Wang Xinran were carefully observing the scene and recording the changes in their notebooks.

The [02-Doll] standing to the side began to describe the current progress.

"Split-1 has entered the brain; the brain has been thawed and cannot be preserved..."

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As [02—The Doll] narrated, Shen Xing saw that the corpse's nasal cavity and ears began to ooze a grayish-red, viscous semi-fluid, which flowed down the guide channel of the stainless steel platform.

As the body thawed, the brain first turned into a puddle of completely melted, mushy mush. Because the brain expanded due to freezing, it was squeezed and burst during the thawing process, gushing out through the ears and nose.

However, Shen Xing wasn't too worried, because the way [02 One Puppet] acquires memories is not through the brain at all; it simply occupies a cavity in the brain.

The ice crystals on the surface of the corpse began to melt and flow down the guide channel of the stainless steel platform.

The bodies were frozen, clothes still attached, which were now completely soaked in meltwater and emitted a musty, musty smell.

The ice was melting rapidly, and at that moment, blood began to gush out of the corpse's mouth, nose, eyes, and ears.

Split 1 is progressing rapidly; the ice crystals in its body tissues have begun to melt. However, there has been no movement from Split 2 yet.

The body temperature of the corpse was rising steadily. In the cold embalming room, wisps of hot, moist steam could be seen rising from the female corpse.

Soon, the woman's eyeballs thawed, but they collapsed completely, and the eye sockets began to sink deeper.

In Shen Xing's eyes, the eye sockets of the corpse had been filled with messy black lines. Just then, the index finger of the female corpse's right hand twitched slightly.

The female corpse, bleeding from all seven orifices, had steam rising from her body. She stiffly raised her hand and sat up, supporting herself on the stainless steel workbench. She turned her head, making a "crack" sound. Her melted internal organs piled up in her abdomen as she sat, bulging out in a large lump.

The female corpse opened her mouth, and blood mixed with an unknown viscous liquid gushed out. She spoke in a muffled voice with a gurgling sound like a swamp.

"grandmother....

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Shen Xing:

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Wang Xinran's assistant thought for a moment about what to do, but couldn't think of anything, so she could only raise her hand and clap her hands lightly with a blank expression.

"Congratulations, it's a girl."

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