Tower Defense Game: My Kingdom of Eternal Life

Boom, boom, boom!

The closed door was banged by a series of heavy knocks.

After waiting for no more than a moment, the door opened a crack with a click.

Before the people in the room could see who was coming, a thick stream of blood rushed towards their faces.

Plop!

A body leaning against the door hit the ground heavily, causing the already fragmented structure to become even more fragmented. If it weren't for the solid metal skeleton supporting the flesh and blood, you wouldn't even be able to tell that it was a person!

"help me……"

Weak mental waves came from the wreckage.

Inside the door, the weird man covered in dirty bandages stared through the gap with a pair of dark eyes.

He has worked here for so long, and this is the first time he has encountered this situation.

"Ramones...?"

A dull sound came from under the bandage.

On that face that was covered in blood and flesh, no good piece of flesh could be seen, and covered with thick black hair, the highly recognizable gemstone eyes helped Seaman determine the identity of the person in front of him.

"No, you're not Ramones!"

Seaman was immediately alert.

The Ramones he knew had never awakened any magical talent! What's more, the deification transformation he carried out also destined that no magic power could be born in his body.

"help me……"

Cheng Shen just repeated these two words through mental fluctuations.

His fight with Alchemist No. 9 was too brutal.

That guy is an experimental creature, and his combat effectiveness is not at the same level as the weak conventional legal units. Moreover, he also keeps two special "big dogs" in his private laboratory.

If Ramones' body hadn't been mechanically modified by more than 60%, he would have taken three specially prepared pills from Morais.

Cheng Shen is afraid that he has already explained this!

Cheng Shen, who had already learned the information in advance, was not surprised that the alchemist in front of him was dressed exactly like the sick man in the deserted village. And because of this, he had a reason to absolutely convince the other party to help him!

Seaman quickly calmed down. He backed away cautiously, with an evil look in his eyes: "Why should I help you? I don't know which laboratory you escaped from, but leave quickly! Otherwise I'll call the guards!"

Cheng Shen used many soul attacks in previous battles to overdraw his mental power, causing his consciousness to become quite weak. He could recover it by running the Blue Whale Meditation Method, but that would take time.

"I will go to the sick village..."

Cheng Shen tried his best to convey accurate information in the shortest possible length.

"!"

Seaman's eyes suddenly became sharp, and his body suddenly froze at this moment. The turbid yellow body fluid that quickly seeped out of the bandage showed the ups and downs of his inner emotions.

"You want to go to the Sick Village? But how can you help me." Seaman said softly: "No one who escapes from there will ever want to go back in this life, and no one can leave safely after entering..."

…”

But he seemed to be just talking to himself.

In fact, after Cheng Shen told the key information that he was going to the sick village, Heman had already made a decision in his heart.

He bent down with great difficulty to drag Cheng Shen's broken legs. Halfway through, he suddenly stopped again. Seaman's strange eyes full of black pupils looked up and down at the broken body, and shook his head.

Shake his head.

"You are too seriously injured. Even if I perform deification surgery on you now, your flesh and blood structure will not be able to survive that moment. Your body must be repaired first, but I can't find much flesh and blood tissue here."

He said with a somewhat regretful tone.

"..."

Cheng Shen raised a twisted arm and pointed behind him with difficulty.

Seaman followed his gaze, and through the warm light from his laboratory, he saw an animal skin package that had been soaked black with blood.

Ximan was silent for a moment, and then nodded. He did not ask who caused Cheng Shen's injury, nor did he ask where these living flesh and blood organs were obtained. He just closed the door carefully.

Seeing himself being dragged onto the operating table, with his body wrapped like a mummy, Seaman began to prepare the tools for surgery.

Only then did Cheng Shen feel relieved and allowed this ray of understanding to sink into the state of Blue Whale Meditation.

…

His consciousness then switched back to his true self.

"Morais mentioned that Seaman had a special obsession with the deserted village he escaped from. It seems that this obsession was stronger than he knew, and it allowed him to make such a decisive decision to betray the owner of the castle...

…”

"This is important information to use."

Cheng Shen pondered in his mind.

According to Morais' understanding, Seaman managed to escape from that deserted village, but why did he finally choose to help the castle owner who had a close cooperative relationship with the deserted village conduct a deification experiment?

Did he escape, or was he just like the emotional raw materials in the sacrificial temple, part of the deal between the deserted village and the castle owner?

Thoughts flashed through me one by one.

Cheng Shen climbed out of his hidden underground hiding spot.

In any case, this attempt to sneak into the castle brought him many unexpected gains.

pharmaceutical formula,

puppet technology,

And the mysterious deification experiment...

Before getting all these experimental materials, Cheng Shen was a little reluctant to do any damage... Of course, with his current physical condition, it would be difficult to carry out such intense damage inside the castle.

"Delaying time allows the analyst to steal as much valuable intelligence as possible...

The war on the main battlefield cannot break out in full force yet."

Level of mind.

In fact, it was not his turn to consider this issue for the time being. The castle owner's fighting style was extremely stable.

Cheng Shen originally thought that building ten crystal towers would be its limit.

But it seems that it has the idea of ​​building more crystal towers, as if to surround his territory!

Cheng Shen didn't know if his record in the Temple of Sacrifice was leaked, or if his countermeasures against the devil made him feel threatened, so much so that he wanted to destroy him at all costs.

Put aside his personal strength.

The battle of Storm Castle is used to fight a small and broken territory that has less than a month of development time.

It can be said to be a cannon blasting mosquitoes in every sense of the word...

but.

From a realistic perspective.

The vigilance of the master of Storm Castle is not entirely unreasonable.

It has not realized yet that the supply positions it has painstakingly built have been silently tampered with by Cheng Shen. At this moment, even if it orders a general attack, the outcome of the war will not be as it wishes.

However, even if these frontline positions were moved, Cheng Shen could not guarantee that he would be able to break through the castle.

Not to mention how many full resources can be harvested when the castle is breached.

Therefore, he did not alert the enemy in advance, but merely added a layer of insurance for the possible outbreak of war. Now, his knowledge of sneaking into the castle has become an important chess piece.

"Well……"

The dazzling light above his head gradually became softer, and Cheng Shen's eyes quickly became sober from being blank. However, he did not make any panic behavior, and calmly looked at Seaman who was washing his hands aside.

"How much time has passed?"

Cheng Shen tried to feel the presence of his body while talking.

"Three hours."

Seaman also changed a bandage for himself, but the newly replaced white cloth was stained with a layer of turbid yellow at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Cheng Shen glanced over and took in the clean room that was completely different from Laboratory No. 19. The white tiles around it looked like they had just been painted, and there was not even a trace of dust or dirt visible in the cracks and corners.

This led him to initially infer that Seaman should be a person suffering from severe mysophobia.

However, he himself looks like a human being and a ghost.

The numb limbs gradually began to feel pain. Cheng Shen tried to lift his stiff arm. He still remembered his miserable state before, so he could tell at a glance that this intact and strong right arm was obviously not his original product.

"Um?"

Cheng Shen asked.

Seaman seemed to understand what he meant, and explained: "I have preserved all the replaceable flesh and blood parts for you. In your current state, if you deepen the transformation, there will be a very high risk of falling into madness."

Said.

He looked at Cheng Shen with eyes full of surprise.

"To be honest, I find it incredible that you were able to keep your mental consciousness from collapsing in that situation. If your willpower hadn't been strong enough, it would have been almost impossible to survive such an injury."

"fine……"

Cheng Shen answered perfunctorily.

The death of a person specifically goes through two processes. One is physical death on the physiological level.

Then the spiritual consciousness loses its storage target and gradually dissipates.

Spiritual energy is a more ethereal substance than elemental energy and must be stored in physical objects in order to be maintained.

It's like the relationship between fish and water.

but.

His situation is rather special.

His consciousness itself is an outsider that does not belong to this body, and the characteristics of the demon soul's thousand bodies can allow his consciousness to persist for a long time after leaving the host body, as long as the next host body can be found in time.

In this case.

It doesn't matter whether Ramones' body can be repaired.

Of course, it was a completely different story from He-Man's point of view. Cheng Shen didn't waste time explaining to him. He tried to sit up from the operating table, and then he looked at the two long and short legs and fell into deep thought.

"These are the two human legs that are most suitable for you among the materials you brought. I think you don't want to see your lower body turned into a strange creature when you wake up."

Seaman said.

Cheng Shen wanted to say that he didn't mind at all. Anyway, the body where the consciousness was stored was just a temporary container. No matter how well it was maintained, it couldn't live as long as a normal person, even if it was transformed into a monster.

But he did not correct the reality of what had happened.

He asked He-Man: "Can you transform my body into a god now?"

"Thunder..." Seaman paused, then said: "I'm not sure who you are, but countless experimental results have proven that once the deification transformation exceeds 70%, any experimental subject will directly fall into madness."

"Insanity is a breakdown of consciousness?"

Cheng Shen confirmed.

"That's right, we can't even find out what caused this madness, let alone solve this problem. Even if your willpower exceeds that of ordinary people, I don't recommend that you continue to undergo deification transformation..."

Seaman said truthfully.

However, the fiery gaze in his eyes revealed his true thoughts.

True.

They have conducted countless biological modification experiments so far.

So far, no case has been able to break the curse of madness.

But isn’t experimenting just about finding that one-in-a-million possibility amidst countless failures?

The extraordinary willpower that Cheng Shen has shown previously has at least surpassed most of the experimental subjects he has handled. To describe it in the same words as Morais, Cheng Shen is simply an excellent experimental target!

Ximan was able to resist taking action only because of what Cheng Shen said to him in a coma.

Otherwise, he would have completely transformed Cheng Shen while he was unconscious!

"That's no problem, come on."

Cheng Shen said simply.

As a ray of consciousness that can escape from the body at any time, he does not have to worry about the danger of going crazy due to physical damage.

And he also reacted at this moment.

The madness that Seaman refers to should be the serious side effects of transformation when the experimental subject's spiritual consciousness cannot leave the body.

This is directly transforming a living life into a machine.

It is completely different from the operation of implanting spiritual consciousness into the body of an alchemy puppet.

Naturally, the difficulty is also very different.

For the latter, because the soul and the puppet body cannot perfectly fit, and factors such as the natural aging of the soul and the wear and tear of mechanical parts must also be taken into consideration, the life span of the puppet creature is often very short.

in.

The most important thing is the connection between soul and body.

Cheng Shen, who maintains a state of consciousness, is undoubtedly aware of this. He is now living in Ramones's body, and he can't find the familiar feeling of waving his arms and fingers at all. Instead, he feels like he is controlling a robot.

.

Even the transmission of sensations such as pain will be affected.

otherwise.

With the serious injuries he suffered before, the pain alone could make him faint countless times.

How is it possible to continue fighting with a seriously injured body?

And in this state, whether it is the natural wear and tear rate of his spiritual consciousness or the aging rate of his physical body.

It will speed up many times.

It is considered a miracle to have one-fifth of the lifespan of a normal person.

Even if, speaking at a grander scale, his consciousness can be cultivated to an extraordinary state, it will also be stored in an extraordinary physical body.

The problem of soul incompatibility can also have many serious consequences.

However, if, as Seaman said, a person's body that best suits his or her soul can be transformed into a mechanical structure that is not prone to aging.

There is no doubt about it.

The most difficult problem facing this shifting ideology will be solved.

That can be said to be a real step towards the goal of eternal life!

At this moment, Cheng Shen realized what the purpose of this apotheosis experiment planned by the master of the castle was!

"You said that all experimental cases conducted before have fallen into madness without exception? There are no traces of human intervention?"

Cheng Shen, who lay down again, suddenly asked.

"certainly."

Seaman nodded, hesitantly picked up the surgical instruments on the side and asked, "So are you sure you want to continue the transformation?"

"Sure."

Cheng Shen didn't have much trouble with this issue.

His situation is actually no different from transferring consciousness through an alchemical puppet.

It has nothing to do with the apotheosis experiment.

Of course there is no need to be afraid.

But Heman's words made him think for a moment.