The paste-like substance formed from the pulverized five fingers was quickly and completely devoured by the thirsty cells at Jiang Chunshui's severed limb. However, this small amount of substance was clearly far from enough to consume it, at most only allowing Jiang Chunshui's severed arm to grow back a little bit.
Let's continue...
When Zhou Ziwei saw that this method worked, he no longer cared about any humanitarian nonsense. He immediately grabbed the half-corpse that had been pulled out of the lake and once again ruthlessly swung his dagger. Like a rapidly spinning meat grinder, he quickly ripped off an arm from the corpse and shredded it into a pile of gooey flesh, which was then scattered onto Jiang Chunshui's severed limb.
Limb regeneration... right now.
Zhou Ziwei, full of vigor and high spirits, immediately grabbed Jiang Chunshui's severed arm again and poured a wisp of liquid soul power, as solid as a substance, into it continuously. At the same time, he opened his middle dantian and mobilized a large amount of attribute-less energy, which was transformed into fire energy and injected into that lump of flesh and blood...
Injecting fire energy into the flesh and blood is not an easy task to control, and Zhou Ziwei was well aware of this. Therefore, he proceeded slowly, little by little, first integrating it into some of the flesh and blood until it was almost completely absorbed by Jiang Chunshui's active cells. Then, Zhou Ziwei would replenish the remaining flesh and blood with fire energy.
If this is done too early, the lifeless flesh and blood will be unable to hold onto this energy, and before Jiang Chunshui's cells can absorb and devour it, this energy will dissipate again.
In addition... the amount injected is also very important. If too little is injected, Jiang Chunshui's active cells will not have the desire to devour, while if too much is injected... once the fire energy erupts, Zhou Ziwei will soon smell the aroma of roasted meat.
Therefore, this process not only consumed Zhou Ziwei's two powerful energy reserves, but also... it was extremely mentally and physically exhausting. Even after watching that almost flawless, smooth and white jade arm being created little by little under Zhou Ziwei's careful care and finally perfectly displayed, Zhou Ziwei felt a sense of mental exhaustion.
This feeling... Zhou Ziwei had hardly felt it since his rebirth. Nourished by the powerful soul force, how could his spirit feel tired? This shows how difficult it was for Zhou Ziwei to create an arm for Jiang Chunshui.
We finally succeeded.
Zhou Ziwei released Jiang Chunshui's arm, which he had been holding tightly, and then subconsciously wiped the sweat from his forehead. Then... he realized that the atmosphere in this sandy space seemed very abnormal...
What kind of gazes were those... What Zhou Ziwei didn't expect was that while he was treating Jiang Chunshui's severed arm, almost everyone in the entire sand space had already woken up from their coma.
Like bullets and marbles, they had only been in a brief coma because they had swallowed a lot of lake water due to prolonged suffocation and the impact of external forces, which caused them to temporarily lose their self-control.
When Zhou Ziwei rescued them, he had already squeezed out the lake water they had swallowed, so after breathing air, they had all woken up by now.
These people are all elites who have received special training. Even if they wake up, they will not shout or make a fuss. The first thing each person does after waking up is to make a self-protective action, and then quickly observe the surrounding situation. Only when they find that there is no danger will they turn over and sit up.
These people all fell into a coma at roughly the same time, so they all woke up at roughly the same time.
Having survived the ordeal, and finding themselves so many of them in what appeared to be a completely enclosed space of sand, they were filled with questions. They wanted to ask, but upon waking and sitting up, each of them was immediately stunned by the astonishing scene before them and could no longer utter a word...
The fact that all twelve members of the Dragon Group were present brought a long sigh of relief to Bullet, the group leader. Turning her head, she saw several people who were clearly researchers from the underground research base of the United States, each carrying a strange-looking box. She immediately guessed what was inside the boxes and was greatly pleased once again.
However, when she saw that Jiang Chunshui was missing an arm and a dozen legs, she felt a pang of sadness. Having been disabled since childhood, Zidan naturally knew the pain of being a disabled person, and she understood even more how distressed a perfectly healthy person would feel if they suddenly lost a part of their limb.
How could it end like this?
While they were preparing for the mission at the mining base, Bullet naturally asked Jiang Chunshui to perform a divination to predict the success or failure of the mission. In the past, Jiang Chunshui would consume a lot of life force with each divination, and there was no way to replenish it. So, unless it was a life-or-death situation, Bullet would not usually ask Jiang Chunshui to perform divination. However, now that they had encountered a monster like Zhou Ziwei, who could help Jiang Chunshui replenish his lost life force at any time, Bullet would not be polite.
Being able to perform a divination before taking action, so as to understand the risks involved and then seek good fortune while avoiding misfortune, is the truly important role that a diviner in a team should play.
Jiang Chunshui's divination skills have always been very accurate. After all, Jiang Chunshui is not a charlatan. She would never fabricate things out of thin air if she couldn't divine them, nor would she arbitrarily interpret things she didn't understand. So... unless Jiang Chunshui doesn't speak, every word she utters after a divination will inevitably come true afterward, without exception.
Therefore, Zidan trusts Jiang Chunshui quite a bit. If Jiang Chunshui says that this mission will be dangerous, or that it will ultimately be impossible to complete, then Zidan will immediately and without hesitation choose to temporarily abandon the operation and wait for another opportunity. He would never knowingly go through with a futile effort, or even cause any irreparable damage.
After performing the divination, Jiang Chunshui paused for a moment, his expression turning somewhat strange, but ultimately concluded that the operation would proceed relatively smoothly. Although there would be some minor setbacks, the mission would ultimately be accomplished, and all twelve members of the Dragon Group would successfully evacuate with minimal casualties.
When Zidan heard the divination result, he was very happy and immediately decided to proceed with everything as planned. He was also reassured by Jiang Chunshui's words. The mission was successfully completed, and the twelve members of the Dragon Group were basically unharmed. This was definitely a very good outcome.
In the past, how could such a difficult mission not result in casualties? You must know that at its peak, the Dragon Group had as many as 28 elite members. More than half of them either died directly or suffered serious injuries that affected their combat effectiveness in several difficult missions in recent years, and had to retire early.
The Dragon Group... was originally a group with an extremely high casualty rate, and also a group with a very fast turnover rate. An ordinary member who could stay in the Dragon Beard Group for three to five years without being eliminated or dying was already an elite among elites. Now, the remaining twelve people, apart from Zhou Ziwei and one or two others, are all super elites with several years of combat experience. Therefore, under the current circumstances, even losing one person would be very painful for Bullet.
However, it was only now that Zidan finally understood why Jiang Chunshui had said that the twelve members of the Dragon Group were basically unharmed. She hadn't said "no casualties" at the time, but had added the word "basically" before it. Zidan hadn't noticed it then, but now she remembered that was exactly what Jiang Chunshui had said. It seemed that Jiang Chunshui must have already foreseen that she would suffer serious, even disabling, injuries during this mission. However, she didn't want the entire Dragon Group to abandon the mission because of her own danger, so she concealed the specific details.
Divination is something that can't be clearly explained most of the time. It's good enough if people can get a general outline for reference. After all, Jiang Chunshui isn't a living god who can know five hundred years into the past and five hundred years into the future. Divination isn't a form of prophecy. It's already good enough if the bald head can vaguely perceive some auspicious or inauspicious aspects of a certain event that is about to happen. So it's possible that Jiang Chunshui's explanation after divination is very vague.
Zidan sighed inwardly, a sharp, cutting pain gripping his heart. He thought that Jiang Chunshui would inevitably spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair, just like him. Moreover, Jiang Chunshui's situation was clearly worse than his own. After all, he had only lost two legs, which only made movement somewhat inconvenient. But Jiang Chunshui had lost a leg and an arm, which would cause even more trouble for her future life.
However, just as Zidan felt sorry for Jiang Chunshui and was thinking about how to comfort her, and even how to write a report after returning to China to help her get more and better compensation and care, she was horrified to discover that Jiang Chunshui's bloody arm was slowly growing back under Zhou Ziwei's gentle rubbing...
Jiang Chunshui's severed arm wasn't growing very fast; it was actually quite difficult to notice if you weren't paying attention. But... who was Zidan? Someone who could handle a pistol with such incredible skill couldn't possibly have poor eyesight. While her eyesight wasn't as exaggerated as Eagle Eye's, able to discern the sex of a mosquito kilometers away, Zidan could clearly see Jiang Chunshui's arm gradually growing back. Upon this shock, Zidan's pretty face instantly lost all color...
Limbs regenerating... This is absolutely absurd, something that could only exist in myths and legends, but now... it's really happening right before my eyes, and it's all so real, so...
Bullet couldn't believe her eyes, so she started to act like she had trachoma, closing her eyes to rest for a while, then opening them again, then closing them again, rubbing them vigorously, then opening them again... After all this fuss, the "illusion" in front of her still hadn't disappeared, so Bullet simply pinched her waist hard...
"Hiss—" After the bullet gasped silently in pain, she finally realized that what was happening before her eyes was real and definitely not a hallucination. She was completely excited.
Although the other members of the Dragon Group, and even the few researchers who escaped death, were all extremely shocked when they saw this scene, and even the researchers were excited yet confused.
However, no one was as excited as the bullet, because at most they were just amazed that such a magical ability existed in the world, that it could actually regenerate severed limbs.
But then a thought suddenly occurred to me… that is… since Zhou Ziwei could help Jiang Chunshui regenerate her severed limbs, couldn’t he also… help me regain the legs I’d lost years ago…
Of course, Zidan knew that her situation was somewhat different from Jiang Chunshui's. After all, Jiang Chunshui's injuries were all new, while her legs... had been crippled for more than ten years. Even the short half of her legs that remained had long lost all sensation and had become a pile of dead flesh. It would be extremely difficult for her to grow her legs again under such circumstances.
But... this is, after all, a hope, a hope that may be the only chance in this lifetime to get back on my feet.
If Zidan hadn't witnessed Jiang Chunshui's severed limbs regenerate with his own eyes, he wouldn't have dared to hope for anything more. Even if he heard from others that someone had such a miraculous ability to heal her legs, Zidan would have just laughed it off and wouldn't have had such an unrealistic dream.
But now that she has witnessed the miracle created by Zhou Ziwei, her heart can no longer remain calm.
Zhou Ziwei wiped the sweat from his forehead and suddenly sensed that something was wrong. He turned around and saw that everyone in the entire sand space was staring at him blankly. He then realized that he had probably made a huge fool of himself again.
Uh... if I had known it would turn out like this, I would have just knocked them all out, or... if I hadn't released that energy ball for illumination, they wouldn't have seen this scene at all, and naturally there wouldn't have been any trouble later.
Zhou Ziwei was unaware of other troubles... but seeing the excited looks in the eyes of those biological researchers and the boundless longing in Zidan's eyes, he knew that he was probably in for a lot of trouble.
Of course... he could completely ignore those researchers from the M country, and even use hypnosis to brainwash them, making them forget what they had just seen.
But as for Bullet... Although Bullet hasn't said anything yet, that longing look in his eyes has already taken root and sprouted deep in Zhou Ziwei's heart. Even if Bullet doesn't say anything, Zhou Ziwei absolutely cannot pretend that he doesn't know anything.
Volume 3, King of the City, Chapter 534: Spirit Warrior
"Ouch...it hurts...it's so itchy..."
Just as the group of people in the sandy space were staring at each other, a low, painful groan rang out. Jiang Chunshui's body twitched slightly and then gently convulsed a few times.
All eyes were focused on Jiang Chunshui's arm, which Zhou Ziwei had just created.
Although everyone watched as this hand grew out of Jiang Chunshui's body bit by bit, whether it could truly extend and retract as freely as a normal person's arm remained an unknown.
If this is just a superficial arm, which looks perfectly integrated with Jiang Chunshui's body but doesn't actually function like her original limbs, then... it's nothing more than a prosthetic limb that looks realistic. In that case... it wouldn't be very valuable, and naturally, bullets wouldn't be so eager for it.
“It moved…her hand…her hand really moved.”
Spider Woman was the first to exclaim in surprise, then grabbed Bullet's shoulder, saying excitedly, "Bullet, her... her newly grown hand is actually... it's actually real, it can really move!"
Spider Woman and Bullet have always had a good relationship, so she naturally knows what Bullet desires most. Seeing this, she naturally feels happy and hopeful for Bullet.
Jiang Chunshui shuddered, finally regaining some clarity. She blinked gently, seemingly afraid to open her eyes. Then, perhaps recalling the scene of being attacked and torn apart by crocodiles, she became agitated, suddenly crying out in alarm. She waved her hands in the air, shouting, "No...don't bite me...I won't...I won't die like this! The divination clearly said I would turn misfortune into good fortune, how could I...how could I be eaten by you beasts...Ah...my legs hurt so much, my hands...why are my hands so itchy..."
Jiang Chunshui shouted louder and louder until she finally forced her eyes open, only to see her own hands waving in front of her...
"Huh... my hands are still here. So... I was just dreaming. Oh my god... what a vivid dream... my hands really are still here, they weren't eaten by the crocodile!" Jiang Chunshui breathed a sigh of relief, her shock subsiding. Then... as if she suddenly sensed something, her expression changed slightly, and her hands trembled as she slowly... slowly reached towards her severed leg.
"You're tired... Get some sleep first! Just wait... everything will be alright, believe me... everything will only get better."
Zhou Ziwei didn't want Jiang Chunshui to see him treating her injured leg while she was awake. After all, he had used a bunch of dead people's corpses to decompose them, then integrated them into Jiang Chunshui's cells, and finally restored them to Jiang Chunshui's limbs. If she didn't see it, that would be fine, but if she did, it would probably leave an indelible shadow in her heart forever. So, Zhou Ziwei simply patted Jiang Chunshui's forehead lightly and immediately hypnotized her.
When everyone watched Zhou Ziwei regenerate Jiang Chunshui's severed leg from beginning to end, down to the last detail, and even the fingernails were perfectly restored, everyone once again let out heartfelt exclamations of admiration and gasps of disbelief.
It was absolutely astonishing. This miraculous method of reattaching severed limbs was beyond description. If they hadn't witnessed it with their own eyes, probably no one would have believed that such extraordinary people and events could happen in this world. What they found even more unbearable was that the person who created this miracle was a child of only five or six years old. Such a young child possessing such abilities—this kid wasn't just a prodigy; he was practically the envy of the heavens!
The female researcher was also seriously injured, with at least a dozen pieces of flesh torn off her body by the crocodile. However, she was lucky that her bones and tendons were not damaged.
Zhou Ziwei was too lazy to give her such meticulous treatment. When he had a moment to catch his breath, he had already done some simple first aid, injecting some soul power into her wounds so that they would heal on their own.
Because the treatment was delayed, the female researcher did not suffer a significant loss of energy and had already regained consciousness by then.
However, relatively speaking... although this crude treatment method is equally effective and works very quickly,... after Zhou Ziwei's irresponsible and haphazard treatment, the female researcher is basically disfigured, and her whole body is covered with terrifying scars that would make anyone's hair stand on end just by looking at her...
Then look at the new arm and leg that Jiang Chunshui has grown... It looks exactly the same as Jiang Chunshui's other arm and leg in terms of skin color and shape, from top to bottom, perfect without any flaws.
It's true what they say, comparisons are odious...
However, the female researcher didn't seem to be very jealous. She just stared blankly at Jiang Chunshui's leg for a long time, then suddenly muttered to herself, "So that's how it is... By absorbing the activity of similar substances and then accelerating cell vitality under specific conditions, it can lead to the assimilation of the foreign body... Ah... The secret of biochemical cloning can be this simple."
The female researcher's muttering was very low. She thought that only she could hear it, and even her companion standing next to her, the biology PhD who was already trembling with fear, couldn't hear it clearly. But unexpectedly... in this not-too-big sandy space, there were two perverted beings who had already heard her mutterings clearly.
One of these two was naturally the blind child with abnormally strong hearing, and the other... was Zhou Ziwei, who was abnormally strong in every aspect. Both of them heard the female researcher's mutterings. Zhou Ziwei frowned slightly and immediately began to have some doubts about this mysterious underground research base and the identities of the researchers in front of him.
This underground base was definitely not built in a day or two. It certainly couldn't have been set up specifically for researching and cultivating these few water sprite seeds. Why would a perfectly good biological research base not be built on the surface, but instead dug hundreds of meters underground, hiding its true nature? Obviously... it's conceivable that what's being researched in this secret research base isn't anything good.
After hearing the female researcher's words, Zhou Ziwei immediately understood... It must be related to research on clones or bio-warriors.
The fact that he had just used his soul power and attribute-less energy to help Jiang Chunshui reshape her body and rebuild her limbs—this mysterious and profound technique—had actually allowed the female researcher to see through some of its intricacies. Moreover, through this simple observation, the female researcher had gained insights, as if she had suddenly solved a long-standing problem. This woman... was truly extraordinary...
The activity of devouring similar substances... assimilation of other organisms... This woman saw through the surface to the essence almost instantly; she truly has a natural eye for detail... no... it should be said that she is extremely knowledgeable and insightful...
Zhou Ziwei tilted his head and sized up the woman whose face was somewhat disfigured by the crocodile bite. He looked at her with newfound respect. Originally, Zhou Ziwei had felt that these researchers were a bit of a burden and was considering whether to take the boxes from their arms and throw them into the lake to feed the crocodiles. However, after hearing the female researcher's words, Zhou Ziwei immediately changed his mind.
Of course... those boxes had to be retrieved first, and only when they were in the hands of our own people could we feel at ease. And only when we brought those three boxes back to the country could we officially consider the mission complete.
Hmm... These researchers must be extraordinary people to be able to stay with that female researcher. They are probably all inextricably linked to the research projects originally conducted in this secret underground base.
Although the underground base has now been completely destroyed, and even the island in the lake above the base has been razed to the ground to destroy some evidence, it seems that as long as we get these researchers, it's the same as taking away the research topic that Old M is currently studying!
Clones, cyborgs... whichever they are, they all seem to be incredibly powerful and sophisticated fields of knowledge...
Zhou Ziwei immediately glanced at the four researchers again with a somewhat malicious intent, as if trying to see if they were hiding any secrets to increasing their strength. However, he was then horrified to discover that the water sprite seedling in the box containing the green liquid that the female researcher had been holding had grown considerably taller in just a short while.
Even Zhou Ziwei could only nod in amazement when he saw this. However, when he scanned the seedling and suddenly saw more than a dozen tiny, seed-like objects of various kinds of water sprites next to it, he couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.
Those things floating in the green nutrient solution really did look like water sprite seeds. At least from their shape and color, they really did look like them. But... Zhou Ziwei remembered that when he was picking water sprite seeds in the pilot plane, he was very picky about the poor and favored the rich. These smaller ones, which were obviously not yet fully developed, were so small that he didn't even know if they could grow and germinate if he planted them...
Therefore, Zhou Ziwei was quite suspicious. Where did these small, seemingly unfamiliar yet familiar water sprite seeds come from? Didn't Old M only steal three seeds from the domestic military? And these three seeds… after only a few days of cultivation, even with the most intensive methods, shouldn't have been able to grow, flower, and bear fruit! But if that's the case… then where did these tiny seeds come from? Could it be…?
Thinking of what the female researcher had been muttering to herself, Zhou Ziwei's heart skipped a beat. He thought to himself: Could it be... that this is the so-called cloning technology? They... they actually cloned the seed of the water sprite?
Thinking about this, Zhou Ziwei was quite amazed. Look... in just a few days, the achievements of the Americans are truly remarkable... and the technological power of this underground research base is indeed astounding. To destroy it all like this is a tremendous waste... However... it seems that what they were researching inside was all shady stuff. They probably feared that exposing these things would cause a huge uproar, which is why they designed the underground base that way... The explosion of the small submarine at the underground exit would directly trigger a massive internal explosion, even completely destroying the entire base, and ultimately causing the entire island in the lake to sink. This effect is truly astonishing...
Hmm... I wonder what kind of research projects this underground base has been working on. I imagine that besides cloning technology, there must be some other earth-shattering things that could scare people half to death.
Zhou Ziwei was too lazy to play guessing games. Anyway, he had basically controlled the main people in these research bases. He could slowly extract these things from them later. As for the underground base... there was one more very important thing that Zhou Ziwei almost forgot to collect.
That is... the soul!
From the moment their Dragon Group members parachuted onto this small island in the middle of the lake and fired the first shot of the battle, countless people died on the island. Add to that the large number of researchers in the underground secret base... Although Zhou Ziwei didn't kill them, when the submarine exploded, the entire underground base began to collapse. Then came the M Army's fighter jets' relentless bombing. It's safe to say that even if there were a few survivors in the underground base, the indiscriminate bombing by the fighter jets would have left no survivors.
These haphazard researchers might not have been of much use to Zhou Ziwei while they were alive, but after they died… their usefulness would be immense. While each of these researchers' souls wouldn't provide Zhou Ziwei with much spiritual power, each soul was essentially a collection of specialized knowledge… And if the knowledge possessed by so many researchers could be condensed together, then…
With a thought, Zhou Ziwei immediately began reciting the Six-Syllable Mantra in his mind. Rings of light continuously expanded outwards and then contracted again, instantly injecting countless strands of pure soul power into Zhou Ziwei's sea of souls. In the blink of an eye, all the soul power that Zhou Ziwei had consumed in helping Jiang Chunshui reshape her limbs was replenished, with a surplus of more than ten times.
It seems we should really thank those hardworking pilots in the air... If they hadn't been bombing so hard in the sky, almost wiping out all the creatures in the natural lake, Zhou Ziwei probably wouldn't have been able to absorb so much soul power.
You should know... in this natural lake, there are countless crocodiles alone, and countless other creatures, whether naturally occurring or artificially fed, such as fish and shrimp, have died. Even a small shrimp, as long as it has ever lived, is a living being with a soul, and after it dies, a part of its soul will also separate out.
Although these souls may be so fragile that even a strong gust of wind could blow them away, ... after accumulating little by little, the soul power extracted from all these tiny, weak souls will be astonishingly powerful.