"Tom, you can't run away!"
When Du Kang shouted out this sentence, Tom was putting all his strength into stuffing his sister Luo Xuan into an iron coffin, which he had pressed a button on the bedside of the abandoned prison cell and lifted from the floor.
This coffin could only lay for one person, so he had to knock Luo Xuan unconscious and stuff it in. Listening to the footsteps of Du Kang rushing towards him from far to near, he tapped a button next to the coffin, which closed and slowly lowered.
"Bang!" The cell door was smashed open by a figure, and Tom stood up to block the coffin. The figure pushed him against the wall and made a loud thud, echoing in the steel cell on all sides.
This is Du Kang. At this moment, he was dressed in white, his eyes shining red, and his whole body was filled with flames. However, as he pushed Tom away and pulled his palm down, a vibration came from below, and with a swoosh, something went far away.
Underneath the broken steel plate is an empty space, and a few strands of shattered light slowly rise from the breach.
"Ejection escape pod? Damn it!" Du Kang angrily lifted Tom up and fiercely pressed him against the wall. At this moment, two bone armor generals rushed in outside the door. He turned around and cursed, "Immediately dig this place open for me, and then catch up!"
"Yes!" The bone armor warrior rushed forward, widening the gap, and with a loud bang, an explosion occurred below, lifting two bone armor warriors out. It was Du Kang who promptly opened the crystal energy shield to protect himself and Tom, so that he was not harmed.
Two bone armor generals got up and cleared the smoke to see Du Kang holding Tom with one hand and covering his mouth with the other. Blood flowed from the corners of his mouth and he immediately shouted nervously, "President, are you okay?"
As soon as Du Kang let go, one bone armored warrior quickly took over Tom, while the other supported the shaky Du Kang. At this moment, the president of the Tianxuan Society had a pale face and bloodshot eyes, looking seriously injured.
"Cough... cough..." Du Kang coughed for a while before asking, "Tom, who told you there was an escape pod here?"
Tom was choked so hard by him just now that he couldn't catch his breath. Now that he's released, he doesn't answer, just inhales and exhales hard.
"Damn it, these damn remnants have dug up such an escape route in my base. It seems they don't want you to fall into my hands either... cough... cough... it's a pity that if it weren't for Luo Xuan, you would have escaped now. Without Luo Xuan, it's not related. If I had used you well, I would still be the strongest."
More people rushed to the outside of the prison cell, including one wearing a white coat. Tom recognized him and it was Director Sun who had been at the building base before.
"Old Sun, start operating on him immediately!"
Director Sun's face turned pale as he said, "President... the penetration rate of his skeletal cells is not yet up to standard, and he cannot undergo proliferation culture."
Du Kang spat out a mouthful of blood and asked impatiently, "How long will it take? Three days? Four days?"
Director Sun hesitated for a moment, tilted his head and calculated before answering, "Normally, preoperative bone immersion preparation takes 20 days. It's only been three days now. If you want to advance, I can increase the dosage and prepare for an additional week."
Du Kang was supported by a bone armored warrior and threw a sentence: "I'll give you three more days," then turned around and left.
Director Sun approached Tom and held his hand for a while, then pressed his ribs before sighing and muttering, "It's a pity. If you could give me enough time to prepare, that would be great. Let's take it away."
So Tom was taken out of the prison area and transferred to a laboratory, where two armored soldiers were responsible for guarding him.
At this point, there was no crystal energy left in Tom's crystal nucleus, and he was powerless to resist. The guards of the two Bone Armor generals were completely unnecessary.
In the previous three days, besides going out to take a shower, have meals, and check his body every day, he received a hidden crystal when he returned, and once again received a note.
The note reminded him that there was a hidden ejection escape pod in an abandoned cell at the end of his prison. This is the secret escape route they built in this underground base, and it is also prepared for him.
Unfortunately, in order to be as secretive as possible, this escape pod is very small and can only accommodate one person.
The note warned him that if he persists in this bone tremor experiment for at most three days, it must be interrupted, otherwise it will cause irreversible damage. Therefore, it is recommended that he take the opportunity to escape when he returns from the examination today.
However, the plan couldn't keep up with the changes. While undergoing the examination, his sensitive hearing heard researchers chatting outside the door, saying that the famous prickly rose and purple rose would be swallowed by the president at the day selection meeting, which made him unable to bear it anymore.
After wandering around the building base before, he learned some secret knowledge and combined it with his own experience to guess something.
For example, when he was at Zhang Meng's mutant base, he was stabbed to death by Mao's sister Natasa. It was Yu Liangjun who dug out his own crystal nucleus and stuffed it into Tom's body. At that time, the crystal nucleus in Tom's body was in the stage of decay, which immediately engulfed Yu Liangjun's crystal nucleus. While improving the quality of the crystal nucleus, it also gave Tom the ability to self heal.
The nucleus is the most important organ for mutated and evolved individuals, and once lost, the body will quickly collapse and die.
Upon learning that Du Kang was going to devour his sister's crystal nucleus, Tom couldn't sit idly by and immediately gave up his escape plan. He controlled two researchers and asked about the No. 5 laboratory where Luo Xuan was sent. He then rushed over in a hurry and ultimately saved his sister.
It's difficult to escape from the base because it's 50 meters deep underground, and from a human's perspective, it's already 1200 meters high,
So in the end, Tom chose the ejection escape pod left for him by Qian Zhiqiang and decided to let her go.
The escape capsule bounced away, and the subsequent self explosion destroyed the passage. It would be very time-consuming for the members of the Tianxuan Meeting to dig up the passage and find the direction of the secret passage, which means that the younger sister is safe.
Although he didn't escape, Tom felt it was worth it. At the last moment, his younger sister surprisingly cleared up the misunderstanding with him, which made him very pleased.
However, satisfaction returns to satisfaction, and he still has to face the consequences of the decision to stay.
That night, he was once again injected with an injection, and the pain of what Qian Zhiqiang called bone tremors struck again. As Director Sun said, as the dosage increased, his pain also intensified and lasted longer, increasing from 8 hours to 15 hours, almost doubling.
This kind of pain tormented him to the death, and on the first day of increasing the dose, he almost couldn't endure it. It was Director Sun who injected him with liquid crystal energy in time, replenishing the energy of the crystal nucleus, enhancing his physical fitness, and finally persevered. In exchange, the steel walls of the laboratory were in agony, and he was pounded all over with dents.
The pain faded away, and he collapsed to the ground, completely unconscious. His hands, feet, and head were scarred from repeatedly hitting the wall.
After sleeping until night, the researchers gave him a few injections of nutritional supplements and then began injecting bone immersion fluid, causing bone tremors and severe pain to reappear in an hour.
This time, Tom was in full pain for twenty hours, his clothes were covered in sweat and blood, and he was completely exhausted. Director Sun had to pause and continue preparing for bone immersion, allowing him to rest for a day.
During this time, Chen Youyou proudly came in to see him and said some harsh words in his ear, saying that one day he would catch Luo Xuan and make her feel worse than death.
Originally, Director Sun wanted Tom to rest for another day, but it was Du Kang who issued an ultimatum. Director Sun reluctantly injected him with bone soaking agent again.
When waiting for the bone tremor to come again, Tom could finally feel his body. This body gave him a familiar yet unfamiliar feeling, as his arms and feet seemed to have grown heavier and even longer. He didn't know what he looked like now, but he realized what Qian Zhiqiang had said about the irreversible damage caused by the bone immersion agent.
"At least... my sister has escaped... but... don't come back to save me. Find an opportunity to avenge me."
The intense pain hollowed out Tom's body and tormented his will. At this moment, he had given up any hope and only wanted the day of liberation to come.
The bone tremor came again, and the pain intensified again. After about ten hours, various organs in his body began to fail and he was on the brink of death. Director Sun had to inject him with liquid crystal energy again, hoping that the crystal nucleus would help him overcome this life and death crisis.
In the observation room, Du Kang looked coldly at trembling Tom through the glass window, listening to Director Sun's anxious words in his ear.
"President, this is just too much pressure. His various bone indicators have not yet reached the standard values, but his body organs have begun to fail, his crystalline lungs have deteriorated, and his crystalline heart is also shrinking. Although I injected him with five units of high concentration crystalline fluid, I don't know if his crystalline energy can sustain it. Once the indicator line passes, the crystalline energy will explode. In that case, it would be really wasteful to destroy a good skeletal body."
Du Kang remained expressionless, but his tightly clenched hand revealed his inner nervousness. "My injury has not yet healed, and the damage caused by Warlord Wu is milder than mine. It will recover soon. Once Warlord Wu finds me, I can only rely on him to increase my capital, so I don't have time. I will do everything to make him survive and then start the surgery!"
"But..." Director Sun was in a difficult situation, watching the instruments monitoring Tom's physical condition constantly sound alarms. He was very discouraged, "This high-intensity bone immersion preparation is unprecedented, and no one can withstand it!"
"He will get through it!" Du Kang slammed the table hard and said firmly, "He must get through because he is a god."
"Director Sun, the 'Divine Son', was greatly surprised. He looked around and saw that the people were quite far away from them, so he probably couldn't hear Du Kang's words. He then approached Du Kang and asked in a low voice, 'Isn't it... isn't the Divine Son 12? And... if he really is the Divine Son... if we take him as our leader... there will be...'"
Du Kang sneered and said, "Of course he's not the 12th Divine Son, but he's my Divine Son!"