The book continues from the previous chapter

"June 29th, Year of the Fire Chaser, Heavy Fog"

I saw a magpie.

Hmm... How should I put it? This person is different from what I imagined, and it is also different from what Big Dog originally described.

Magpie is a handsome man, tall and prettier than most of the rabbits in the imperial capital.

But he had a problem with his eyes, so he always wore a pair of dark red sunglasses, which greatly reduced his handsome face. If it weren't for the warmth when he spoke, it would definitely make people feel very weird.

He is very talkative and knows almost everything. I gained a lot from chatting with him, which makes me suspect that he is also from the imperial capital, because only those who have studied "Natural History", a course exclusive to the aristocrats of the imperial capital, will have

Such a wealth of knowledge.

I'm not arrogant, it's just the truth.

Knowledge is a very precious thing, and it is difficult to possess knowledge. This is the reason why most people in the empire cannot even read.

I questioned Big Dog on the spot about what happened to them.

Magpie was not angry, nor did he hide anything. He just explained the previous experiment to me:

[Mechanical Ascension Esoteric Society] is committed to studying the evolution of human beings through physical means, and is not limited to any form of means.

One of the most important purposes of the experiment on the Big Dog guy was to test the compatibility of the "mechanical bioprosthetic body" they invented with human flesh and blood.

Saying "compatibility" sounds weird, but actually I know this, isn't it just "rejection"?

Organ transplant scientists in the imperial capital have long said that "rejection" is inevitable during the organ transplant process——

When foreign tissue enters an immunocompetent host, it will inevitably be rejected.

Even if it can be relieved through medicine, it is not a method that can be used for a long time——

It may take as little as one to two months, or as many as two to three years, for the drug to become ineffective. By then, rejection will inevitably occur and lead to more serious consequences, such as organ necrosis and some nasty complications.

I have heard that some special extraordinary beings can transplant allogeneic tissue into the host through extraordinary means similar to sacrifice. However, the principle is different from the medical principle. They only control the allogeneic tissue through extraordinary power.

, which is essentially "control" rather than "transplantation".

Magpie told me that this is the direction they are researching - to enable machinery, electronics, plastics, and most non-biological and non-organic substances to become part of the human body, become the real human body, and be used by humans.

I think he is crazy, but I also think this research is really great!

Magpie also said that the Mechanical Ascension Secret Order is not open to the outside world and only communicates with the outside world within a very small range. If I want to know their information, I must pay something——

If I want to know their experimental data, even get some of their experimental results, or maybe get some intelligence and knowledge that only they know, I need to collect all the information about extraordinary people that I can and exchange it with them.

This information includes but is not limited to height, weight, inspiration organ attributes and arousal level, living habits, hobbies including X-ness, etc...

If the magpie is not lying, this is indeed an attractive transaction condition. Although it is troublesome to collect these things, it is not difficult if you use some extraordinary means. Besides, this is what I do.

The communication between us was very pleasant, and I think we will be able to start our first cooperation soon."

The text message that followed was dated and read "The Earth Covers the Year".

Chen Yan looked at the calendar again and saw that [The Year of the Earth] turned out to be ten years ago—it was also nearly the tenth year after the crash incident at the University of Michigan Research Institute.

"October 10th, Year of the Earth Covering, Light Snow"

It's only October now, and it's already snowing in Yanan City. People in the Imperial Capital are still wearing thin shirts... I really miss my life in the Imperial Capital back then.

In the past few days, for some reasons, I have come into contact with the underground again...

I remembered that incident back then.

It has been nearly ten years since that incident ended. Damn it, it has almost been ten years in the blink of an eye!

The water in Yanan City is deeper than I thought. We have to use the power of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of Anomalous Creatures to prepare to establish the Northern Federal Bureau of Investigation of Anomalous Creatures. This is a compromise of interests and cannot be helped.

In the past few years, Yanan City has undergone earth-shaking changes - whether on the surface or underground, everything has changed astonishingly!

On the surface, due to various people dragging their families into Yanan City, the city has expanded several times and has expanded to half the size of the imperial capital - I am not talking nonsense, it is just a fact.

If this continues, Yanan City will reach the same size as the Imperial Capital sooner or later, which is cause for alarm. His Majesty cannot tolerate the emergence of such a city.

According to the councilor I was on the line with, the council has decided to build an industrial zone in the southeast of Yanan City and a high-rise zone to accommodate a population of up to 1 million. They have set the floor height at 50 floors.

According to their tight budget, it is impossible to install an elevator. So, do people have to climb such a high building every day when commuting to get off work?

That's so fucking stupid, I don't think they have brains in them.

But no matter what, Yanam City is growing stronger and bigger day and night, and its industrial development is even more staggering.

I remember that when I came here, the current industrial area was still a low-lying swamp.

Today, a few years later, there are already small factories using steam engines for production, as well as large tracts of various handicraft workshops, and even several large heavy industrial equipment manufacturing plants and chemical plants!

Underground, oh, damn, I don’t know what to say. After what happened that year, a certain kind of ore was quickly detected in the underground - they called it [Snake Kiss Rock]. I don’t know which infatuated person planted it.

’s name, everyone calls it that now anyway.

Those strange snakes I accidentally released back then created things like [Snake-Bout Rock] underground. Their body fluids seem to have high research value, but their oxidation rate is very fast, and they are often oxidized before they can be collected.

became useless.

The emergence of this kind of ore was unexpected by all parties. Miskatonic University, as the place where the incident occurred, was the first to receive the news and organized the first mining.

I heard that this mining operation is worth the tuition fees collected by the University of Meteorology for a hundred years.

The internal structure of UM is not monolithic. When UM was first built, various universities in the imperial capital contributed. Some unlucky professors from various universities in the imperial capital came to UM to teach for a few years every few years. In Yanan,

The bitter cold land has endured the northwest wind for several years.

But the professors in the past few years were obviously much luckier than their predecessors. In their generation, the Snake-Bout Rock appeared, which meant that they could obtain astonishing wealth from the underground of this bitter cold place.

News spread extremely fast, but I didn’t know it at the time—according to what happened later, the major forces in the Imperial Capital had already received the news that night when the Snake Kiss Rock was discovered and proved to be useful.”
Chapter completed!