Benign
You Su had no other expression. After the other person said, "Long time no see," he just responded lightly to acknowledge.
The lieutenant general shifted his gaze, saw the doctor leading a medical team entering the emergency room, and instructed the soldiers to closely monitor Ying Chenlin's condition.
After explaining these, the lieutenant general noticed a woman standing beside him. He nodded slightly to Shen Xingtang and then left the emergency room with his personal guards.
The aftermath of the incident in the Koria pollution zone had to be handled by the First Star Domain General Army. As the overall commander, he didn't stay here for long. Once the people left, Shen Xingtang looked at You Su, who had been silent beside her. Despite the familiar appearance, it was hard to believe there was no connection. She spoke, "I remember you telling me you don't have many relatives or friends."
Shen Xingtang looked at the dialogue and expressions between the two, curious about You Su to the extreme. She first met You Su during the pollution clearing mission eight years ago. At that time, she was in charge of repairing Theo, and that was when she reluctantly got to know You Su. Later, they met again in the Dawn League.
After retiring, You Su roamed the pollution zone for years. When his mecha encountered issues, he occasionally asked Shen Xingtang for help. However, despite knowing You Su for so long, Shen Xingtang only knew about his time in the special forces. She rarely heard about his connections with the Border Army's high-ranking officers.
"Not wrong. I don't have much connection with him," You Su said, arms crossed, leaning on the side. His peripheral vision fell on the virtual screen in the emergency room. "Instead of worrying about me, think about why he personally brought a medical team. Your precious one has complicated relations."
Jiang Simiao thought, 'Yours aren't simple either,' but he curiously looked at Shen Xingtang. "Chenlin got injured, and the Border Army sent a medical team to assist in treatment, which is understandable. Still, it alarmed the medical team from the First General Army..."
His gaze fell on the side, where Qiu Lao's personal guards were also present. Too many people were paying attention to Ying Chenlin's condition.
You Su, along with KID and others, wasn't in the control room. He had limited knowledge of the past events in the Koria Restricted Zone. Shen Xingtang had stayed in the control room for so long that she had guessed most of the things.
"Is it related to Ying Songshan?" You Su looked down slightly. "The permission algorithm he used in the Forbidden Zone is Ying Songshan's. The Border Army has been looking for Ying Songshan for many years, but he claimed to have no family, and the Border Army couldn't find him. Maybe he's already passed away."
He thought of the photos on the wall of the research institute in the Forbidden Zone and continued, "That person is a survivor from the Forbidden Zone years ago, and Ying Chenlin is related to the Forbidden Zone."
Jiang Simiao was confused, "Who is that person?"
Shen Xingtang glanced at the Border Army nearby, "Lieutenant General."
Seeing You Su say all this, she cautiously added, "Let's wait until Chenlin wakes up to discuss the specifics. He's probably the one who wants to know these things the most."
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Inside the emergency room, several doctors stood in front of a medical cabin. In the medical cabin lay a pale-faced young man. His brow was furrowed, and the mechanical part on his right arm had been completely dismantled. The repair fluid in the medical cabin maintained the activity of the arm's tissue cells, and all the recorded data were transferred to the nearby testing chamber.
"The patient has a history of genetic diseases."
"Spirit power A-S, physique B-S."
"It's been an hour since serum injection, and the infection hasn't improved."
After reviewing Ying Chenlin's medical history, the doctors from the First General Army went to the medical equipment to check the changes in Ying Chenlin's arm nerves. This patient had a strange medical history, and genetic diseases, which already had the lowest cure rate in the Star Alliance, were previously classified as related to environmental pollutants. Genetic diseases combined with a moderate infection could cause much more severe issues than a malignant infection alone.
While reading the medical records, the doctors also found that the patient had undergone an amputation surgery in the early stages of genetic diseases without medication control, choosing to eliminate the risk directly.
"The activity of the pollutant tissue is too high."
Another doctor explained, "We've extracted and produced the serum for this pollutant, but the pollutant itself is a fusion of weapon energy and residual tissue from other pollutants. Its behavior is different from conventional pollutants. We're unsure if it will affect the patient."
The chief doctor asked, "What is the ability of this pollutant?"
The person next to him said, "The main ability is regeneration. It has a highly efficient regenerative ability, and it has fire resistance."
S-level mutant pollutants, seen by doctors who had witnessed such regenerative mutations, could instantly recover from damage even with 100 units of energy output in cannon fire. The activity of this ability was remarkably rare.
"The data in the patient's mechanical nerves is abnormal."
The doctor walked quickly to the testing instrument, looking at the various indicators jumping on the data sheet. His gaze moved to the mechanical arm that had been removed. The damaged mechanical arm also had pollutant tissue fluid, but the activity of infected cells gradually weakened after the mechanical arm left the body. On the other hand, the infected area on Ying Chenlin's real arm tissue had not diminished in activity.
All the doctors were surprised by the unexpected results. Pollutant infections had many malignant consequences, and some patients even experienced distortions. However, this person in front of them, without malignant infection distortions, showed neither a decrease nor an increase in benign reactions.
"It hasn't weakened or strengthened..." The doctor looked at the unconscious Ying Chenlin on the bed. "This may be related to the patient's special physique. Administer the serum immediately."
Other doctors started to get busy. The chief doctor's assistant came over and asked, "Teacher, in this situation, can the patient's arm be reattached?"
The patient's arm joints were segmented, and pollution by the pollutant tissue fluid might cause a rejection reaction during the subsequent assembly of the mechanical prosthesis. In severe cases, it might lead to the inability to use the prosthesis. Many genetic patients lost control of their limbs when their genetic mutations reached the most severe stage, making it difficult for them to move... Malignant infections were similar.
But for this person, no malignant infection or distortion had occurred, and there was no benign reduction.
"It can be reattached," the chief doctor said seriously. "Maintaining such weak activity under both mental and physical weakness may not be a bad thing."
"You mean...?"
The chief doctor looked at various indicators, carefully considering, "This is a benign reaction, and not just an ordinary one."
He immediately made a decision, "After injecting the serum, proceed with the prosthetic reconstruction surgery."
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The incident in the restricted zone of the Koria pollution zone was finally suppressed by the mobilization of the First General Army. For this, the General Army used nearly three large-scale defense weapons to barely maintain the collapse inside the restricted zone. The pollutant tissue extracted from the Mecha Abyss was brought back by Qiu Lao's team for research. The pollutant, which used energy as nutrients and survived without its unique ability crystal, didn't die but continued to survive. However, it lost its proud regenerative ability, and its defensive capabilities weakened to the level of an S-level mutant.
The originally integrated weapon energy in the pollutant couldn't be neutralized, but after extracting part of the pollutant tissue for research, the Border Army's team found that the pollutant tissue had completely spread throughout the integrated weapon. It couldn't neutralize the integrated weapon, but it could inactivate the pollutant.
This inactivation operation was, in another sense, another form of neutralization. However, inactivation took time, but for the Border Army, it was already the best result. After 20 years of surveillance and investigation into the Koria Restricted Zone, they finally made unexpected progress in this operation. As long as the inactivation agent was developed, the threat of the restricted zone could be completely eliminated. If KID and Gale hadn't entered, and they discovered this pollutant later, investigated the pollutant... it would take much more time and manpower. Even with the inactivation agent, resolving the situation would cost them a more painful price than this time.
When Li Jingyan received the joint clearing task and the report on the restricted zone, he hung up his conversation with the president of the Second Star Domain Union. He looked at his secretary, "Did they report everything on the side of the Gale?"
The secretary nodded, "The incident of the Mecha Abyss appearing in the Koria Restricted Zone was suppressed as usual. All personnel in the control room were contacted, and they won't leak related information. The Border Army provided significant assistance."
This incident involved the Border Army's secrets, so they wouldn't leak any information.
Also, at that time, there were few people in the control room, and most of the people who saw Mecha Abyss were from the Border Army and Gale's mecha team. The news could still be suppressed. Now wasn't a good time to disclose this matter. Once the connection between Sink and KID leaked, the media and related personnel surrounding KID's base would increase. It wouldn't be good for those who urgently needed to recuperate.
Moreover, that child might not continue his professional career.
As an elder, Li Jingyan wanted to provide that child with a more stable and peaceful life. "I really hope to hear better news about him in the future."
"Should we also suppress the joint clearing task, President?" the secretary asked.
"Suppress it," Li Jingyan said, looking at a confidential file on his desk. It recorded the events before and after the restricted zone incident. Li Jingyan had never thought about Ying Chenlin's identity before. He knew the Border Army was looking for someone named Ying Songshan, but he didn't expect Ying Songshan to be directly related to Ying Chenlin.
Ying Songshan was Ying Chenlin's grandfather.
The effects of fire attribute weapons were seen in more than 50 weapons throughout the Star Alliance. The Border Army often operated in the polluted area near the border, and their relationship with the Mecha Alliance only involved some mission exchanges. Even if they noticed the weapons from the Abyss, they wouldn't pay attention to the weapons and the fire attribute of that pollutant years ago. The weapon's core made from the ability crystal weakened the power considerably.
Only experts in pollutant research like Qiu Lao could notice the difference in the core of a weapon from Qiu Jin's support. After returning, he reviewed the files one after another and confirmed that the extraordinary crystal on Yuan's weapon came from the pollutant fire of that year.
The secretary asked in confusion, "Why did Ying Songshan leave the Border Army back then?"
"Part of it was due to guilt. The fusion weapon was caused by his failure as the station leader. Although he later designed a shielding system, he felt guilty for causing a large number of casualties. Another part is probably because..."
Li Jingyan stopped there without continuing. Instead, he concluded, "Back then, Ying Songshan, as the station leader, left without saying goodbye, disappearing for many years in obscurity on Mingguang Star."
There were no records of relatives or exchanges on Ying Chenlin's information, and the data was very clean.
This kind of information probably had Ying Songshan's hand in it.
If the old man is still alive, perhaps he can see the achievements Ying Chenlin has gained later.
"Have the Mecha Brigades from Koria withdrawn?" Li Jingyan changed the subject.
The secretary replied, "The Mecha Brigades from the Second Star Domain left after the situation in the Forbidden Zone was confirmed. YDS and Black Crow left a few days ago... As for Gale and KID, they were all transported to the First Star Domain Border Army's First Medical Station."
"All of them were sent over?" Li Jingyan was astonished.
The First Star Domain General Medical Station gathered a large number of elite medical professionals.
"Yes, the Border Army took charge of all the treatments. Considering the severe pollution in the Forbidden Zone and the prolonged exposure of Mecha Brigades,..." The secretary recited all this in one breath. "Ying Chenlin's prosthetic surgery is contracted by the Border Army. The military doctors can't leave the main hospital for too long, and follow-up treatments will be conducted at the General Medical Station."
"Don't worry, the surgery went very smoothly, and he should be awake by now."
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Inside the advanced ward of the First Star Domain Border Army's First Medical Station, the medical cabin was still in operation. When the young man lying in the medical cabin opened his eyes, his mind was empty, and he felt weak all over. The white medical cabin environment and the surrounding treatment lights always made him recall the first time he underwent genetic surgery.
Back then, his whole body was covered with sticky medicinal agents, and he lay in the medical cabin for a full month.
But this time, he was awake, as if the treatment period had already passed. There were no drugs in the medical cabin, and he felt refreshed. There was no heavy taste of energy fluid, no smell of smoke in the air, and there was no longer the thundering sound of artillery and the chaotic sound of electric currents. All that remained was a quiet environment, so quiet that he seemed to hear his own breathing.
Ying Chenlin glanced slightly and saw his right arm tightly wrapped on the side, a special fixing device making his arm immobile.
He knew this was the fusion period after installing the prosthetic limb, where the mechanical nerves on the prosthetic limb needed to fuse and grow with the human nerves.
Have they already left the Koria Restricted Zone?
He remembered seeming to regain a moment of consciousness in a coma, remembered being taken to the cockpit, and then... retraced.
A voice suddenly responded, "If you're looking for You Su, he went with Lu Xi and the others for routine checks and will come over in a while."
Ying Chenlin raised his eyes and saw Shen Xingtang standing beside his medical cabin. Her eyes carried a hint of a smile. "Awake? Congratulations, you broke the record this time, slept a day longer than last time."
"Sister Tang." Ying Chenlin was momentarily stunned.
Shen Xingtang knew what he might be worried about and continued, "Don't worry, the Border Army has taken care of the matters in the Forbidden Zone."
As Ying Chenlin heard this, the memories gradually returned to his blank mind. He struggled to sit up from the medical cabin.
Seeing Ying Chenlin making a move, Shen Xingtang quickly reached out to support him, avoiding his right hand, "Be careful, don't press on your hand. The doctor said that the fixing device can only be removed in a week. You're really lucky this time. If the tentacle had hit you elsewhere, what would you have done? I've told you many times to be careful, but when have you ever listened to me..."
She said halfway, seeing the young man in front of her looking bewildered, undergoing several surgeries in a row, lying in the medical cabin for several days, he seemed to have not fully awakened yet.
Shen Xingtang helplessly let out a sigh, "Forget it."
She was about to say something else when she suddenly noticed Ying Chenlin's gaze fall on the side of the medical cabin.
There, on the platform, a special military data board was placed. She remembered that the Border Army had brought it in two days ago. "That's something the Border Army sent."
Ying Chenlin's gaze locked onto that data board, especially the special emblem on the front of the data board. He had seen it in his grandfather's laboratory.
He stared at it for a moment, his voice hoarse, "Sent by them?"
"That's something your grandfather didn't take with him back then." Shen Xingtang looked at Ying Chenlin and explained, "It's the legacy your father left in the Border Army."