Chapter 49: Symbiotic Battle Armor Complete Form, Terrifying Healing!

"Phew..."

Su Cheng let out a long breath. He finally possessed an implant.

It was just that subsequent synthesis and upgrades would be quite troublesome since there were only five sets in total, and he had no idea where to find the rest.

Both the production line and the research institute had been sealed off, and their exact locations remained unknown, let alone whether they had been destroyed.

Even so, the performance of this implant was more than sufficient.

It was the most suitable implant for him, and as his body could continue to undergo strengthening, the amplification provided by the implant would only grow greater and greater.

A multiplicative data amplification could practically be considered a growth-type enhancement.

Therefore, it did not matter even if he could not synthesize and upgrade it further, as long as he was able to keep strengthening his physique.

It must be retrofitted!

[The Primordial Implant does not require cutting through skin and muscle tissue, nor does it require surgery; it can automatically embed itself into the human spine.]

[Current technological upper limit elevation progress: 3.1415926%]

He saw the technology upper limit progress bar once again. Overall, things were looking pretty good.

In just a few days, it had increased by about three percent.

Since the technological products he was currently synthesizing were still of very low levels, the experience gained might be relatively small, but the speed should pick up in the later stages.

Besides, not needing surgery was simply fantastic!

"Since it doesn't need surgery, it probably won't hurt, right?"

Su Cheng handed the implant to Clueless, took off his shirt, and said, "Help me place it on my spine."

Clueless looked at the "dragon claw" on the implant and hesitated. "Putting this on looks like it might hurt a bit, oh."

"It's fine, anything is better than having surgery! What the—"

Before Su Cheng could finish his sentence, an intense pain surged from his back!

Clueless had just placed the implant down.

The moment it touched him, countless needle-like sharp claws instantly extended from both sides of the implant.

They were even thicker than the claws on the implant Zhu Shan'er used!

These needles directly pierced into Su Cheng's back, while the interior of the implant split apart from the middle like the mouthparts of an insect.

In an instant, it bit into the flesh on Su Cheng's back and sliced right through it!

So this was what it meant by not needing him to undergo surgery—it performed the surgery on him itself!

That was utterly absurd!

Once the flesh was cut open, the implant embedded itself directly into the spine, and then the two "dragon claws" at the top drove deeply into the back of Su Cheng's neck.

Countless micro-filaments, muscle fibers, and ligaments connected and intertwined, while simultaneously wrapping around his internal organs.

The S-grade symbiotic bio-armor also activated!

The liquid nano-matter automatically fused with the implant and spread upward toward his chest.

Finally, it covered his entire body!

The implant connected directly to his cranial nerves, and the symbiotic battle armor shifted its connection to the implant!

This way, neural signal transmission was faster, reactions became more sensitive, and movements could follow his will even more fluidly!

During the evolution of vertebrates, the existence of the spine allowed signal transmission from the brain to the body to be faster than that of invertebrates.

This was one of the crucial factors that enabled them to rise up and win ultimate dominance!

When the implant completely conformed to the spine, the embedding process was complete!

At that moment, the wounds on his blood-soaked back began to rapidly form scabs and heal!

The bleeding stopped at a speed that was almost visible to the naked eye.

There were no hemostatic measures or medical treatments applied, and he didn't even drink high-grade nutrient fluid.

Su Cheng grabbed the high-grade nutrient fluid from Clueless's hand and downed it in one go.

The wound healing speed became even faster!

His stamina also rapidly recovered to its peak!

Clueless's halo flickered. "I told you, it might hurt a bit, oh."

In his mind, Su Cheng cursed the Dimension Eye a few hundred times over. It was a complete trap!

He would have preferred to choose actual surgery.

[Prompt: Automatic embedding refers to the spine, not the skin.]

[During the initial embedding, cell self-healing capabilities are elevated to the limit to accelerate the healing of the surgical wound.]

Fine, fine, fine.

Playing word games, were we?

After just a short while, Su Cheng felt that he had fully recovered.

"I'm going to take a shower."

He took off all his clothes and stepped into the bathroom.

He turned on the shower.

The blood was washed away bit by bit.

Su Cheng looked in the mirror.

The muscles on his body were solid, lean, and tough!

His physique was extremely well-proportioned.

The lines were graceful.

When he raised his arms slightly, the shark-gill muscles on his abdomen looked like strands of steel reinforcing bars.

He turned around and faced his back to the mirror.

In less than five minutes, the wounds had almost completely healed!

It was terrifyingly powerful!

For a normal person, it would take many days!

Even with the aid of advanced therapeutic drugs, it wouldn't be this fast!

Although this was the result of his cellular self-healing ability being elevated to the limit, it shouldn't differ too much from his Blood Rage form.

The Primordial Implant had completely fused with the skin on his back. Rows of dark red fine lines formed a hexagonal pattern beneath the skin of his back.

With a single thought from Su Cheng, the symbiotic battle armor instantly appeared!

The armor was pitch-black throughout, engraved with exquisite dark red patterns.

On the chest of the armor was a furious dragon head pattern outlined by dark red lines, identical to the one on the implant!

The armor fit his body perfectly, featuring smooth lines and a surface resembling dragon scales.

On both sides of the black facial mask were eight air purification filter holes.

The dark red eye-visors resembled slender boomerangs, making it look full of aggression.

Two bright red pupils moved in tandem with Su Cheng's eyes.

The spine structure on the back of the armor was identical to the Primordial Implant.

"So this is the complete, fixed form of the symbiotic battle armor!"

Su Cheng retracted the armor. This form must have been altered based on the implant, incorporating the patterns from it.

After showering, he stepped out of the bathroom and put on his hunter's attire.

"You stay home. I'm heading to the ruins."

The ruins were too dangerous after all, and Clueless possessed no combat capability whatsoever, making it unsafe to bring him inside.

"No, I have to go with you."

Clueless shook his body. "Do you really think I'm a housekeeping robot from eight hundred years ago?

Although I feel like I've lost a lot of memories and I don't know my model number, I can be certain that I am not a housekeeping robot!

If you don't take me with you, even if you find a robot and bring it back, it might not necessarily be useful."

Su Cheng thought about it. There were two main purposes for this trip to the ruins.

First, to verify whether the disappearance of [Malice] was related to the ruins and if it might be located inside them.

Second, to find a robot of the same model for Clueless so he could synthesize and upgrade.

Both objectives were extremely important!

"Alright, we'll go together, but you must stick close to me."

"No problem, boss, and let me tell you, you might need me in the ruins. Even though I don't know what you'll need me for, this is my 'intuition'."

...

After packing some necessary supplies,

Su Cheng brought Clueless along, mounted his motorcycle from the back door, and drove toward the edge of the city.

As they drew closer to the ruins, there were no longer any residents in the vicinity.

The buildings grew increasingly dilapidated and ruined.

Broken pipes, collapsed houses, and torn metal walls were everywhere, presenting a desolate scene.

The wind whipped the dust on the ground into the air.

When they arrived near the boundary where the city met the ruins,

the wind grew even stronger!

A few people wearing cloaks and full sets of air purification equipment were there.

They were all hurriedly running toward their vehicles.

Others were pushing their way through the border, running desperately out from the forbidden zone, clutching various pieces of junk in their arms.

"Look, another fool is heading into the ruins."

"Who knows how many people die in there every year, thinking they can go in and find some treasure."

"And with the wind blowing this hard today, a radiation storm is probably coming!"

"Run, hurry up or it'll be too late!"

Seeing Su Cheng still riding his bike outward, the crowd mocked and shook their heads.

These people were all scavengers from the nearby area.

They picked up trash from the borders of the ruins to sell.

If they were lucky enough to get their hands on antiques from the Old Century, they might be able to fetch a good price.

It was relatively safer than sifting through the processed waste at the garbage disposal plant,

as it carried no risk of contracting the Black Death virus.

However, they didn't dare linger in the border zone for too long either, as life-threatening dangers lurked within just the same!

*Whoosh...*

A transit train sped past overhead, instantly plunging into the ruins.

Before it had traveled very far, the silhouette of the train was swallowed up by the billowing yellow sand.

The crowd glanced back once more, only to see that Su Cheng and Clueless had already charged into the ruins.

"That kid is definitely done for. Look, the boundary of the ruins is starting to shift—a radiation storm is definitely approaching!"