Chapter 10: Mortal Bones

Sollid is not an innate being, and of course, he is not a biomorph.

How he got the power was by chance.

Many years ago, during a rescue mission behind enemy lines, Sollid and a dozen commandos were surrounded by thousands of enemy troops due to a command error from their superiors...... By the time reinforcements arrived, the enemy had long since left, leaving only dead bodies in the area.

When Solid was found, his entire body was covered in blood, his entire right arm had been blown off, and two bodies crippled on his back; If it weren't for one of the soldiers' sharp eyes that happened to see his fingers moving, he would have died there.

In any case, relying on his tenacious vitality, Sollid was stunned and persevered to the hospital under that kind of injury.

In the 23rd century, the principle of resuscitation of a severed limb is that if the injured person arrives at the hospital within six hours of the amputation, the limb should be rejoined immediately on the premise of ensuring his survival; If the original limb has been damaged, a third party's limb will be called for transplantation; If the limb cannot be transplanted in time, a "nerve stagnation" procedure is performed to treat the wounded nerve and wait for the limb to be delivered.

There was no doubt that Solid met this criterion, so even though he was in a coma when he was admitted to the hospital, the doctors were able to perform the operation on him.

In this era, prosthetic technology (in the twenty-third century of the universe, biochemical/mechanical prostheses with freedom of movement were quite common, and decorative prostheses were only used by the most financially constrained) were well developed, but in principle, it was best to reattach flesh and blood to patients as long as conditions permitted.

As for the "six hours" time limit, it is because the success rate of nerve recovery within six hours after being severed is relatively high, and once this time is exceeded, it is not easy to do...... If the patient is young, rehabilitated and lucky, he or she may be able to recover completely, but most people's nerves cannot return to their original state after the optimal time limit for retrieval is exceeded, and even if they are reluctant to undergo surgery, it will lead to a series of complications, and finally have to remove the limb and modify the prosthesis.

Solid's luck was good, as he was taken to the hospital almost five hours after his broken arm, and the hospital's morgue was filled with a body donor who had recently died, close in age and size...... Coupled with Solid's military background, the doctors assigned by the hospital are naturally highly skilled.

Two days later, when Solid woke up from his hospital bed, his whole body ached, but his limbs were in good shape.

He adapted to his new right arm almost immediately, and with the exception of a few brief rejections in the first few days, the arm became the same as his own.

However, it didn't end there......

It didn't take long for Solid to discover that he had an "ability" on his body, and that he was ...... The source of his power is his right arm.

So, he went back to the hospital and tried to investigate the source of the arm; Because he knew that the hospital had a rule that "no body donor information could be disclosed", he didn't waste time looking for someone, but went directly into the hospital archives and downloaded the materials he wanted to see.

For the "veteran", this level of infiltration...... It's as easy as snatching candy from a child's hand.

Unfortunately, there is nothing special about the contents of the file, the donor is a down-and-out boxer in his twenties, with no fame, let alone money, and the cause of death is suffocation caused by being strangled with a steel wire; Judging from the report from the police (after Solid found out that the donor was murdered, he went to the police station's archives by the way), this kid has been playing black market boxing in recent years, and it is estimated that he has caused some trouble and was killed by the gang that controlled the game.

Judging from the fact that he was strangled to death, I am afraid that this is an innate ability who did not discover that he had a special ability until he died.

In any case, since he couldn't find any names, Solid didn't bother with it anymore, and he regarded it as a kind of luck, a tool given to him by God, to exercise and use.

Today, he is a "strong" ability, and the origin of that ability has gradually transferred to his whole body as the cells of his arm combine with his body.

And Solid's ability is called - mortal bones.

When this ability is activated, it can temporarily cause the substances that the person comes into contact with temporarily lose their "properties"; This "property" can be chemical, physical, or even scientifically inexplicable conceptual qualities, such as...... Abilities.

For example, he can make carbon monoxide lose its "flammability" and become something that does not burn if exposed to an open flame; He can make copper lose its "conductivity" and become an insulator; Of course, he can also make the capable become ordinary people......

Although his ability looks against the sky at first glance, it is not very exaggerated in actual use-

First, the "amount" he can influence at a time is limited, and he encounters huge targets...... For example, the pyramid in front of him, he definitely couldn't deprive the entire pyramid of its "characteristics", with his current ability level, the part that could be "ossified" was only a few cubic meters at most.

Second, the time of deprivation is also limited, and the effect of deprivation of "characteristics" is undoubtedly temporary, and the more complex the "characteristics" of the deprivation, or the more "characteristics" are deprived at a time, the time of deprivation will be correspondingly shortened.

Third, and the most troublesome...... This ability needs to be supported by "knowledge".

Suppose you want to deprive water of its "boiling point" and turn it into a liquid that will not boil no matter how many degrees it is heated, then you must first understand what the "boiling point" is, otherwise you will not be able to complete the deprivation; And Sollid ...... Let's put it this way, I read less books.

Due to the loss of culture, Solid's cultivation of ability to a strong level is the bottleneck, although he has trained his physical fitness to the peak of the strong level, but he rarely uses his ability in actual combat.

Even when confronted with opponents who are also capable of doing so, Sollid prefers to use his tactics and combat skills to solve problems; Because...... During the battle, Sollid discovered that if you want to deprive someone of their "ability", you don't just know that someone else has an ability; Your knowledge of your opponent's abilities, the nature and complexity of their abilities, and the difference in energy and ability levels between the two sides...... will affect the effect of deprivation.

To sum up, Solid generally does not use this kind of tactics with great uncertainty.

However, the pyramid in front of him is not a "person", but a "thing", and he still doesn't mind trying it in the face of a metal outer wall.

Solid's plan was simple, he didn't know how many properties this metal wall had, and he didn't plan to know about it, because even if he did, it would be impossible for him to eliminate multiple complex properties at the same time with his level of ability; Therefore, his decision was...... Punch the metal wall with a run-up and your own full strength, and unleash "Mortal Bone" at the moment of contact, causing the metal wall he hit to lose its "hardness".