Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes

Although he wanted to figure out the origin of this "uninvited guest", Calvin's increasing sleepiness still caused Calvin to fall into sleep.

The last perspective in Calvin's consciousness was the "prime man" Cerbus standing in the crowd, looking up from his whispered prayer after hearing his call.

The consciousness of the Primarch sank downwards, through the continent of pure souls, and through the black ocean of the subconscious beneath the endless tides.

He finally passed through the deepest part of the sea and returned to the origin of his soul in another way.

The original master in the real world was breathing more and more steadily, while the pharmacist was waiting quietly by his bed. After confirming that the original body had finally entered deep sleep, the pharmacist called his colleagues, transferred the original body into the oversized life-support capsule prepared by him, and then carefully carried it to the medical department on the middle floor of the battleship.

Here they can get more help from medical equipment to provide more accurate real-time supervision and feedback on the original body's body data.

The Honor Guard and the Imperial Guards monitored the entire transfer process. They need to ensure that every piece of physical data of the original body has a clear destination, and every test result will not be leaked.

Calvin fell into dormancy, and the government work at hand came to a standstill.

Fortunately, Suo was sailing in the subspace, so the only ones active on the entire battleship were the clerks of the Tribunal and the Gray Knights. When the owner of the battleship was no longer busy, only the huge Relentless Jihad remained. The Gray Knights are still maintaining endless training.

Pharmacists are an exception, they still need to stick to their jobs. Because although Calvin had stopped eating, his body's need for nutrients was still there.

Therefore, the still busy medical department will remain brightly lit in the next ten days, and the pharmacists attached to the battleship have been paying close attention to the data fed back by the life-support cabin, and cautiously added to it the data needed by the original body. substance.

As time went by, the speed of the original body's nutritional intake was slowly declining. By the fifth day when the original body entered dormancy, Calvin's energy intake had dropped to normal levels.

But what about change? The pharmacist who was observing from the beginning to the end was puzzled.

He had been waiting for the growth and development of the original body to end, and originally thought that Calvin would have intuitive parameter changes in the data like the previous growths.

But until the growth and development of the original body ended and the curve of its physiological data flattened, he was unable to find any significant increase in any important data.

Well, not entirely without change.

At least the original body's weight has increased by about 10% compared to before, and the cell activity has also increased by about 5%.

His bone density has increased slightly, but only slightly. If it were not for the accuracy of the instrument, this increase could even be included in the data error.

But instead of growing in height, he actually shrunk. Other than that, the pharmacists have not found any physical changes in his data.

Could this be a failed growth? Or was there some mistake on the part of the pharmacists that prevented them from accurately recording the physical changes of the original body?

Really? of course not.

The original body has indeed become stronger, but not at the physical level. In other words, this physical growth is far less obvious than his spiritual growth.

Although pharmacists cannot measure this accurately with instruments, as long as you are lucky enough to see the sleeping body of the original body, you will have an intuitive understanding.

Bang bang... bang bang...

In the quiet medical room, the white-armored giant was quietly inspecting the instruments. The faint heartbeat sounded in his ears, but he still calmly carried out the operating procedures in his hands.

Bang bang... bang bang...

The heartbeat was getting closer and closer, as if it was right next to his ears. The pharmacist seemed to feel that his own heartbeat was also approaching this frequency, but he knew that this should be an illusion caused by psychic induction.

He still frowned and continued to operate, and the movements in his hands remained stable to the millimeter level without any tremors...

Bang bang... bang bang...

The hammer-like heartbeat pounded in the pharmacist's ears, and the bright red blood tore through the fragile blood vessels in the nasal cavity and flowed down from the nostrils. However, he ignored the scarlet warning in the helmet's sight glass and continued to focus on the work in front of him.

Ding!

With the reverse force of the star wrench in his hand and the mechanical arm on the backpack, the last circuit of the faulty instrument was connected again. The pharmacist put down the tools in his hands and staggered out of the empty room, leaning on the wall.

"Five minutes and thirteen seconds..." The moment the gate opened, another taller pharmacist standing at the door said to him while holding the timer in his helmet.

"Huh... so long?" The pharmacist walked out of the room and took off his helmet. After the sound of the air pressure valve releasing, he saw a young face with a mouth full of blood.

He first raised his arms to wipe away the blood on his face, but then he was worried that the armor would be contaminated. In the end, he had to take out a disinfection bag from his waist and wipe the stains off his face.

"You exceeded the time stipulated in our process, which is a serious disciplinary violation. But... for the sake of you handling "it", regarding this disciplinary violation, I will stay and hold you accountable next time."

The taller pharmacist's tone was extremely stern, but as the words continued, the serious warning finally turned into a joke.

"I can handle it. This is what I calculated from the beginning..." the young pharmacist replied with a smile. However, the dense bloodshot eyes and the faint bruises under his eyes showed the pressure he had been under before.

"Stop talking nonsense... If it's a little later, I plan to go in and rescue you." Another pharmacist looked at his face and spread his hands helplessly. His originally relaxed tone finally turned serious, and he issued the most formal warning to the newcomers in front of him:

"There is no possibility of any mistakes in matters related to Titan. I don't want to, nor do I want to see any arrogant words full of subjective meaning like "I thought" in the next report."

"Yes!" The young pharmacist finally became serious. He saluted the elder in the most standard manner, indicating that he accepted the other person's advice.

The latter examined the opponent's kneeling body for several seconds, and after repeatedly confirming the young man's attitude, he finally decided to give him another chance:

"Get up, kid. At least this time, you did a good job."

After saying that, the tall pharmacist turned and walked towards the monitoring room next door.

"Yes!" The young pharmacist stood up and quickly followed the former's footsteps.

While using precise body control to keep his pace exactly half a step behind the former, he turned his head and asked his mentor:

"About Lord Calvin...oh no, regarding Titan's medical matters, were they always this difficult before?"

"No..." The older pharmacist opened the door to the control room as he spoke, and the pharmacist, separated by a layer of psychic barrier glass, was standing in front of a platform composed of a bunch of complex instruments and nodded to him.

As he walked into the platform, he also waved to the latter. After his sight passed through the thick psychic isolation barrier and looked at Calvin floating in the life-support cabin in the room, he said in a serious tone. :

"At least before this growth, there was no such strong psychic reaction..."

Boom!

The sound of heavy objects falling to the ground behind him made the pharmacist suddenly turn around, and what appeared in his field of vision was the figure of the young pharmacist lying on the ground...

Yes, this is the growth effect of Calvin this time.

Although his body once again broke through the shackles of the holy blood cells, reaching an unprecedented level of analysis of more than 40%.

But unlike what he expected before falling into coma, his growth was not immediately reflected in physical strength.

On the contrary, because of the asymmetry between the strength of his soul and body that existed before, when his body strength was given the opportunity to increase again, his instinct drove the various organs of the body to prioritize those that were more adaptable to the pressure of his soul. Psychic issues evolve.

The result of this directional evolution is that his physical strength has not been immediately strengthened in ligaments, muscles, nerves and other parts.

On the contrary, the skin, organs, and the hematopoietic system represented by the spine and spinal cord in his body immediately plundered all the energy and materials obtained by the original body through eating, and used them to strengthen the adaptability of its internal circulation. superior.

Before these organs were strengthened, they had almost reached the theoretical upper limit of carbon-based organisms. After this enhancement, after they broke through the theoretical upper limit of carbon-based organisms, their various data indicators began to show. Obviously mythical.

What the pharmacists can do is actually very limited, because there are not many parts of the original body that they can recognize.

From the beginning of this evolution, the body structure of the original body officially broke away from all their theories and cognitive scope, and entered a field that was completely unknown to them.

The previous heartbeat sound is a typical example, because the heart itself, which is like a living creature, is the biggest beneficiary of this enhancement.

The apothecaries of the Gray Knights never thought that one day the Chapter would usher in their own Primarch; and what they did not expect was that their Primarch would be able to cause death with just the unconscious heartbeat in his sleep. The select elite of these millions are harmed.

This heartbeat will ignore the psychic protection of the Gray Knights, becoming louder the longer it is heard, and the heartbeats of all those who can hear the heartbeat will also dance with it, and eventually become uncontrollable. After violent maneuvers, it exploded.

Several mechanical slave workers have died due to this senseless disaster. Calvin's unconscious release has put the Gray Knight pharmacists into an unprecedented dilemma.

As a last resort, they moved the life-saving capsule containing the original body again, and used a special laboratory with a psychic isolation barrier to maintain monitoring of the original body.

But even this kind of treatment cannot achieve complete isolation. The heartbeat of the original body can still penetrate the thick barriers and resound in every cabin in the entire medical area.

But this time, "its" destructive power was finally limited, and it was barely within the range that the Gray Knights could withstand.

As a result, the mortal technical officials in the entire medical area were urgently evacuated, and the mechanical slave workers in the entire medical area were forced to sleep.

The medical area of ​​Nuoda fell into an eerie silence. On the entire large deck composed of hundreds of cabins, only the pharmacists of the Gray Knights and the stationed honor guards were active.

But what about the equipment? Equipment problems are always going to happen.

Even if there is no major problem with this equipment, under continuous tremors of this intensity, some sudden problems will inevitably occur at the links between equipment and at the interfaces between pipelines.

So there was the thrilling scene just now. The young pharmacist was already the fourth batch of people who entered the laboratory to repair the equipment. In the previous three attempts, they probably figured out the limit of what they could bear.

Five minutes, just five minutes, not even one second more. And that brave and reckless young man paid a heavy price for this...

Fortunately, it was too early when he had problems. Fortunately, the place where he fainted was the place with the most abundant medical resources on the entire battleship.

The young pharmacist who was rushed to the operating room next door was thrown on the operating table and was personally taken over by the chief pharmacist.

The thoracotomy was performed immediately under the order of the chief pharmacist, and after the single-molecule ripper sawed open his breastplate and chest cavity, what was revealed to everyone was a shocking amount of erosion.

His first and second hearts were severely damaged to varying degrees, and what shocked everyone present was that even with such serious injuries, he could actually walk out of the previous medical room independently on his own...

Unexpectedly, extracorporeal circulation and heart transplantation began simultaneously, and with the joint efforts of all the senior pharmacists on duty, they finally saved his life from the hands of death after four hours.

But he still had to recuperate for a long time, because he could survive two heart ruptures at the same time, which was a medical miracle in the eyes of pharmacists.

Even if he is an Astartes with an inhumanly powerful body, it will take a long time for him to adapt to the rejection of his two hearts.

So the Gray Knights' next battle in Gian Moro had nothing to do with him.

Of course, considering that he was in a coma at this time, he didn't have the energy to think about such a thing...

Calvin finally woke up on the tenth day after falling into a deep sleep. The most obvious sign of his awakening was that the heartbeat that had been resounding throughout the medical area finally began to stop being crazy under the constraints of its owner's consciousness.

Its thunderous voice began to slowly fade into silence, getting slower and slower...and lighter and lighter, until it gradually disappeared...

The original body's eyes opened with a look of confusion after sleeping for a long time, and what was before him was a scene that was completely unfamiliar to him:

Inside the unfamiliar cabin were unfamiliar decks and mechanical devices, and under the unfamiliar cold light were fifteen unfamiliar pharmacists, large and small.

What he couldn't understand the most was the expressions of these pharmacists. They all took off their helmets after seeing the original body awaken.

In Calvin's stunned expression, these pharmacists bowed to him in unison, and then with a speed and efficiency that he could not understand, they released Calvin from the life-support capsule, and then kicked him out of the medical area. door.

"Did I say they were overreacting?" Calvin stood in front of Golden, who came to greet him, still holding the half-dressed linen robe in his hand.

The latter obviously knew something about what Calvin was doing these days, so he could only forcefully explain to these technical geeks amidst the confusion of his own monarch:

"Indeed, maybe I'm too tired..."

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