The Mechanic [BL]

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Chapter 48 - Machinery and Life (6)

Zhang Xun put on medical gloves and carefully picked up the small piece of material in the petri dish. The texture felt very tough, but the epidermis was covered with a skin-like softness, yet strangely permeated with a metallic sheen.

This was a new type of polymer and high-entropy alloy composite material, cultivated with protein. At the smallest molecular level, the atomic array of high-entropy alloy is carried between biological cell molecules and uses the replication ability of the cells itself to multiply into a larger piece of material. The shape of the material was controlled by adjusting the information in the DNA.

To put it simply, it was the latest material to be created that was as soft as flesh, but so tough that even a bullet couldn't penetrate it.

This was his result after being inspired by the fleshy server at the secret base of Feathered Serpent City.

Dr. Tian from the Institute of Life Sciences and Dr. Matthew from the Department of Chemistry, who collaborated with him, looked at what was in his palm excitedly and the two elderly people over fifty were so excited that they almost jumped up.

"Try it!" Dr. Tian took out a Swiss army knife from his trouser pocket and eagerly handed it to Zhang Xun.

Zhang Xun, who didn't understand why a doctor from the Department of Life Sciences had a knife with him, took it, put the "flesh" that reflected with a metallic lustre on the table and resolutely chopped down.

The flesh was unscathed, but the knife blade curled and flew out of Zhang Xun's hand, accidentally slicing the palm of his hand.

"Ss!..." Zhang Xun gasped in pain. Dr. Matthew immediately handed over ointment and bandages and Zhang Xun noticed that there were also stab wounds on his hands.

It seems that he had done the same thing...

"It's a success..." Zhang Xun smiled happily, looking at the two elders gratefully, "We really did it!"

"Yes! This is simply a revolutionary technological breakthrough!"

"It would be great if it could be applied to combat suits! We have to report our results right away!"

If the students of the two highly respected professors saw their teacher smiling like two silly boys at this moment, they would be shocked...

On the way back to the Lab from the Fifth District, Zhang Xun's mood was brighter after the haze of the past few days and his footsteps had become more lively. The hardest step was done. As long as enough of this stable protein material was produced, he could start making Adam's arm.

As soon as he arrived at the entrance of the Lab, he saw Fernandez sprawled on the head of a tall mecha, clumsily trying to move around it like a koala. Below him his research assistants were in a circle holding up a huge sponge pad and trying to target where he might fall, running to the left and to the right in a panic.

"What are you doing now?" Zhang Xun shouted helplessly at his deputy, Mad Mechanic Fernandez.

While awkwardly hugging a metal pipe beside the mecha's head, Fernandez shouted, "I'm testing my Ahn'Qiraj! The Sixth Chief is coming to review it the day after tomorrow!"

"Review?!" Zhang Xun's face darkened immediately, "Who said that?"

"The Round Table issued a notice today!"

Zhang Xun immediately knew who Miller was coming to see. He didn't notice that his fists were clenched tightly and his face was so gloomy that it was exactly the same as his father's expression.