Chapter 10 Mortal Bones
Solid is not a person with innate abilities, and of course, he is not a biochemical transformation person.
His experience of obtaining superpowers was accidental.
Many years ago, during a rescue mission behind enemy lines, Solid and a dozen commandos were surrounded by thousands of enemy troops due to command errors from their superiors... When the reinforcements they called for arrived, the enemy had already left, leaving only dead bodies in the ground.
When Solid was discovered, his whole body was covered with blood. His entire right arm was blown away, and two more corpses were pressed on his back. If a soldier hadn't happened to see his fingers moving, he would have died there.
In any case, relying on his tenacious vitality, Solid rushed to the hospital with a breath under that injury.
In the 23rd century, for injured patients with broken limbs, the principle of rescue is that if the injured patient arrives at the hospital within six hours after the broken limbs, the limb should be reconnected immediately while ensuring their survival; if the original limb is damaged, a third party's limb is called for transplantation; if there is no limb that can be transplanted in time, a "nervous stagnation" operation is performed to treat the nerves of the wound and wait for the limb to be delivered.
There is no doubt that Solid met this standard, so although he was already in a coma when he was sent to the hospital, the doctor could still do his job according to the rules and perform the surgery for him.
In this era, prosthetic technology (in the 23rd century of this universe, biochemical/mechanical prosthetics that move freely have become quite popular, and decorative prosthetics are only used by those with extremely financial difficulties) have been very developed. However, in principle, as long as conditions allow, it is best to reattach the patient's flesh and blood body.
As for the "six hours" time limit, it is because the success rate of nerve recovery within six hours of being cut is relatively high. Once this time exceeds this time, it will be difficult to deal with... If the patient is young, rehabilitated and lucky enough, he may be able to recover completely, but most people's nerves cannot return to their original state after exceeding the optimal retrieval time limit. Even if the surgery is forced, it will lead to a series of complications. In the end, the limbs have to be removed and the prosthetics are modified.
Solid was very lucky. When he was sent to the hospital, he was about five hours away from his broken arm. In the morgue of this hospital, there happened to be a body donor who had just died. His age and body shape were also very close to Solid... In addition to Solid's military background, the doctors assigned by the hospital were naturally very skilled.
Two days later, when Solid woke up from the hospital bed, although his whole body was in great pain, his limbs were in full swing.
He almost immediately adapted to this new right arm. Except for the small and short rejection reactions in the first few days, the arm was later the same as his own.
However, things didn't end here...
Not long after, Solid discovered that "superpower" appeared on his body, and... the source of his ability was his right arm.
So he returned to the hospital and tried to investigate the source of the arm; because he knew that the hospital had the rule that "the information of the body donor cannot be disclosed", he did not waste time finding someone, but sneaked into the hospital archives and downloaded the information he wanted to see.
For "veterans", this level of infiltration... is as simple as grabbing candies from children's hands.
Unfortunately, the content of the archives is nothing special. The donor is a down-and-out boxer in his twenties. He has no fame and no money. The cause of his death was suffocation caused by being strangled with steel wire. Combined with the police report (after Solid discovered that the donor was murdered, he went to the police station's archives room) to see that this kid has been fighting black market boxing in recent years. I guess he had caused some trouble and was silenced by the gangsters who controlled the game.
Judging from the fact that he was strangled to death, I am afraid this is a person who has never discovered that he has superpowers until his death.
In any case, since he couldn't find out any name, Solid no longer struggled. He regarded this superpower as a kind of luck, a tool given to him by God, and exercised and used it.
To this day, he is already a "strong" ability person, and the origin of that superpower has gradually shifted to his whole body as the arm cells combine with his body.
And Solid's ability is called the Bone of the Bone.
When this ability is activated, the substance exposed to by the ability can temporarily lose its "characteristics"; this "characteristics" can be chemical properties, physical properties, or even conceptual traits that cannot be explained by science, such as... superpowers.
For example, he can make carbon monoxide lose its "combustibility" and become something that will not burn even when exposed to open flames; he can make copper lose its "conductivity" and become an insulator; of course, he can also make the capable person become an ordinary person...
Although his ability seems to be amazing at first glance, it is not very exaggerated to use it in practice.
First, the amount he can influence every time is limited, and when he encounters a huge target... For example, the pyramid in front of him is definitely impossible for him to deprive the "characteristics" of the entire pyramid. With his current ability level, the part that can "ancient bones" is only a few cubic meters at most.
Secondly, the time for deprivation is also limited. The effect of bone deprivation is undoubtedly temporary. The more complex the "characteristics" are, or more than one "characteristics" are deprived at one time, the time for deprivation will be shortened accordingly.
Third, it is also the most troublesome point... This ability requires the support of "knowledge".
Suppose you want to deprive the "boiling point" of water and make it a liquid that will not boil no matter how much heat it is, then you must first understand what the "boiling point" is, otherwise it will not be able to complete the deprivation; and Solid... let's say so, you read less books.
Due to the loss of culture, Solid's cultivation of ability has reached a bottleneck. Although he has trained his physical fitness to the peak of strong level, he rarely uses his abilities in actual combat.
Even when encountering opponents with the same ability, Solid tends to use his own tactics and combat skills to solve problems; because... Solid discovered in the battle that trying to deprive others of his "powers" is not enough for you to know that others have superpowers; your understanding of the opponent's abilities, the complexity of the nature of his abilities, and the gap between the energy and ability levels of both sides... will affect the effect of deprivation.
To sum up, Solid generally does not use this kind of tactic with great uncertainty.
However, the pyramid in front of him was not a "person", but a "object". Facing a metal outer wall, he still didn't mind trying it.
Chapter completed!