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Chapter 174 Do you still want your genitals?

From an emotional perspective, what is the difference between humans and animals?

Compared to animals, humans are a species that is extremely adept at self-torture.

A cat feels satisfied when it catches and eats or plays with a mouse.

After killing prey, a person may feel pity and remorse towards the remains after filling their stomach.

Humans can feel ashamed because of anger, or guilty because of pleasure; their emotions are distorted and uncontrollable.

Wang Xinran lay on the rooftop, looking at the blazing sun hanging directly overhead, her expression completely unchanged.

She seemed to be lying there pondering some questions, but it was more like she was lying on a boundless blue sea, with countless memories and emotions intertwining in her mind.

Almost every minute, every second, she could feel a completely new life and possess a completely new set of memories.

Downstairs, Wang Xinran's mother had regained control of the white worm, forgetting all the unpleasantness that had just happened, and the three of them were now chatting happily together.

"Buzz..."

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As more and more people became infected with the white worms, a buzzing sound echoed in Wang Xinran's mind.

A series of fine, sharp pains emanated from her brain, like a swarm of tiny ants slowly gnawing at it.

She stopped the white worm infection, and the biting in her mind stopped, but the buzzing in her brain did not stop. Instead, it gradually turned into a tinnitus that made her feel a little dizzy.

Blood gushed from Wang Xinran's nose, but she seemed to have no intention of wiping it away, instead remaining in that position without moving.

The ringing in her ears interrupted her thoughts, and the various memories churning in her mind began to blur, seemingly a side effect of the interrupted resonance.

What was that middle-aged woman thinking when she said those things?

Wang Xinran seemed to hold a significant place in the other person's heart; to that middle-aged woman, Wang Xinran was "special."

If you think back carefully, almost every ordinary person in your mind holds a special place and importance in the hearts of one or two other people.

By incorporating the special emotions evoked by others into those ordinary fragments of memory, those originally flat memories seem to have their own corresponding vivid individuals.

Meanwhile, on the other side...

Shen Xing looked at the doctor holding the medical examination form and asked, "Number 3?"

"Number 3?"

The doctor looked down at the medical examination report, but his mind seemed to be completely elsewhere.

What's wrong? Are you spacing out?

Has something happened to Wang Xinran? Is she in trouble? Or is it a lesion in the prefrontal lobe?

Shen Xing looked at the male doctor in front of him and frowned slightly.

He was ready to get up at any moment, grab the examination report, and leave.

"Hmm? Hmm." The doctor belatedly realized what was happening. He looked down and glanced at all the medical examination forms in front of him again before saying, "Hmm, all done."

"How is the situation?" Shen Xing asked.

The foundation of forensic medicine is clinical medicine. He can read these examination reports without any problems. He is quite good at biochemistry, and X-rays and CT scans are even easier for him.

However, he now wants to hear Wang Xinran's opinion more, since she can basically be considered a "grand slam" expert in medicine.

Moreover, X-rays and CT scans are now full of noise, making it impossible to see anything at all.

"The hemoglobin concentration is high, and the red blood cell volume is also larger than normal, so the oxygen-carrying capacity should be stronger, but the white blood cell count is too low."

A low white blood cell count in a normal person means a weak immune system, but Shen Xing's healing speed far exceeded that of ordinary people... This may indicate that the presence of abnormal flesh and blood has replaced some of the functions of his own native immune system.

This is within an acceptable range.

"The biochemical indicators are normal, but the creatine kinase level is almost eight times higher than that of a normal person. If a normal person has this value, it basically means that they have severe rhabdomyolysis."

Shen Xing nodded slightly after hearing the doctor's words.

After the abnormal flesh and blood entered Shen Xing's body, he could feel warmth in everything, whether using it or in daily life.

While the abnormal flesh and blood replaced part of his own flesh and blood, it was also constantly and violently destroying his original muscles, constantly destroying and then repairing... It's like Shen Xing is now practicing the three major fitness exercises 24 hours a day without interruption.

"Rapid blood clotting...normal bone density..."

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"My heart rate is too slow, 40 beats per minute, like someone who is fast asleep..."

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After quickly flipping through the rest of the test reports, the doctor said, "If we ignore the abnormal factors, you're basically riddled with illnesses all over your body."

"In this situation, are there any good ways to further enhance physical performance?" Shen Xing looked at the doctor controlled by Wang Xinran and asked the most crucial question, which was also the one he was most curious about.

The doctor adjusted his glasses, carefully considered his words, then looked at Shen Xing and said, "You are essentially a chimera right now...abnormal flesh and native muscles are intertwined in a symbiotic way, but the abnormal flesh is continuously infiltrating and slowly replacing the native muscles."

"Are you sure the abnormal flesh and blood won't have any effect on you? And what about the splitting organisms?"

The doctor looked at Shen Xing and asked this question.

"It has no effect." Shen Xing shook his head. "They are part of my body now."

"My advice is to continue building muscle and replace the original muscle as soon as possible, and also to store more fat. This is the most direct way."

Wang Xinran thought for a moment and then said, "If you don't care about reproduction, you can have your entire reproductive and urinary system removed and replaced with muscle or fat. If you can accept this option, there are many other things in your body that can be replaced."

Shen Xing:

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What does that mean?

Should I be castrated?

"What about other options?" Shen Xing decided to listen to other suggestions first.

"Your body currently has two weaknesses: bones and blood circulation."

The doctor got up, walked to Shen Xing's side, and reached out to pinch his arm.

"There's no way to strengthen the bones themselves right now, but if your abnormal flesh and blood have good shaping ability, there's another way."

"What method?" Shen Xing pressed.

"The abnormal flesh is pulled into thin filaments that connect together, forming a fibrous layer that wraps between the periosteum and muscle, like a sheath."

"Do you know carbon fiber? Your bones are made of carbon fiber, and that fine mesh is made of resin... They can distribute stress, so if your bone is subjected to stress in a single point or undergoes explosive contraction, it will be evenly transmitted to the entire bone surface through this mesh."

Shen Xing nodded slightly as he listened to Wang Xinran's words.

This is a good method...we can give it a try. Shen Xing had never thought of this before.

"And then there's your circulatory system. Your heart muscle is probably in a state of extreme hypertrophy, pumping more blood in a single stroke than a national-level athlete, which is why your heart rate is low."

"It's difficult to change blood vessels, but you can try it with a small section of an artery. Replace the medial layer of the artery with abnormal muscle, so you can at least control the expansion and contraction of the blood vessels yourself."

"Also, given your current digestive capacity, if you don't want to have your reproductive and urinary systems removed, you can cut several sections of your intestines to make room for your spleen and increase its blood volume."

"You can leave a little more in your small intestine and try to improve its absorption efficiency... If the abnormal flesh can be evolved to the point where it can break down fibers, you can get glucose from the wood. Your abdominal cavity still has a lot of usable space."

Shen Xing nodded repeatedly as he listened to Wang Xinran's words.

These ideas... are all very good.

Moreover, the risks are all within a controllable range.

Sure enough, listening to Wang Xinran's opinion was the right thing to do.

Shen Xing seemed to have thought of something, and he looked at Wang Xinran and asked, "By the way, I saw you spacing out for a while earlier, what happened?"