Chapter 6: Artificial Skin
Skin repair is actually a tedious and painful process.
Artificial skin is a skin substitute artificially developed in vitro using the principles and methods of engineering and cell biology to repair and replace defective skin tissue.
Artificial skin has two layers: the top layer and the inner layer. The top layer is made of a thin film of silicone rubber that blocks the attack of bacteria. The lining is a special medium that helps injured skin grow.
Artificial skin is used to provide a base layer for transplanted skin. Artificial skin is made from polymers (a long-chain molecule) combined with other chemicals, including those extracted from shark cartilage. Historically, the first person to use artificial skin was Giannis, a war physician who treated third-degree burns during the Vietnam War in 1957.
Not only does the skin protect you from dirt or bacteria, but it also keeps moisture from escaping.
For a cyborg like Seth, the skin can actually be very protective, such as preventing fine particles from entering the body, resisting corrosive liquids, and holding or dissipating heat.
Of course, the ultimate goal is to disguise his identity.
To do this, Seth had to accept the hot protein solution that had been poured over his body.
"Are all the mechanical humans, the people of the old Atum like this?"
"No, only a part, no matter how much Yatum preached the mechanization of the human body back then, there were also many natural people who gave up immortality in order to reproduce."
Private medical treatment, of course, is also available in the ship city, and Seth paid a high price to find out from others. As for the official hospital in the ship city, Seth definitely won't go there, he doesn't want anyone to look at him with special eyes, or someone else steals the mechanization transformation technology unique to the old Atum from him.
In the entire solar system, only the old Yatum can mechanize humans.
Of course, the currently known technology is not enough to completely transform people into machines, and in addition to the brain, there will be at least a small number of original human cells and organs left in the body.
There is only the Golden Emperor in the entire solar system of fully mechanized human beings, and the Golden Emperor is probably not the human beings transformed by the old Yatum, maybe it is the real product of the Earth Federation, or it is the real product of the commercial community of the solar system, whatever?
"Okay, if you're doing well, you might need fourteen days."
The attending doctor smiled and put the corroded skin, which was reduced to a small fragment, into the cold storage.
"How about I take a small piece for a collection? After all, it's Seth's stuff. β
"That's my skin when I was human, I'll give it to you if you want it. What happens if the new skin is not restored? "Half of Seth's body is his own skin, and the other half is skin tissue that has been corroded by the acid of the soft shell and can no longer regenerate.
"If the condition is not good, there will be color difference between the skins, but the chance of this happening is very small, as long as you lie down well."
With that, the attending doctor threw a syringe to Seth, packed his bags and left Seth's house.
"It's a gift, if there is an emergency, the injection can instantly strengthen your skin layer, but you don't know what the side effects are. Goodbye, Seth. β
Do you have a gift? Seth smiled, but immediately realized that the new half of his face was still unstable, and if he smiled, he might crack, so he quickly lay down expressionlessly.
He was to spend fourteen days doing nothing.
"Seth, are you at home?"
"Just go straight to the door."
Alice's voice came from outside the door, and the match was even faster, it seems that what the Golden Emperor hid from Alice has affected Alice's heart.
It's better that Seth is waiting for Alice, and he's going to pry this corner away.
"Just you? Are you grafting skin? β
"The rest of the crew went out to work and have fun, and it's an artificial micron skin."
Alice sat on the edge of Seth's bed, and the two of them were silent, as if they could not find a conversation box, and it was a long time before Alice spoke.
"I want to ......"
"You want to know what else the Golden Emperor is hiding from you? I don't know much. β
That's it, step by step, the unreliable image of the Golden Emperor was nailed into Alice's heart, making her believe that following the Golden Emperor would no longer have a sense of security, and Seth was the best support.
"You are also a member of the old Atum Constellation, and so am I, but none of us have heard of what happened before the Golden Emperor was twenty years old, no matter how much we inquire, the only thing we can know is that he has no father or mother since he was a child, and he lives ...... by himself."
There are only rumors about the past of the Golden Emperor, but before the age of twenty, no news of the Golden Emperor is known, and he appears as if he appeared in the old Yatum out of thin air.
Because the old Yatum is not big, just half a steel planet, the planet is hollow, the center is an artificial micro-shaped sun, the interior is divided into several layers, and people live on the surface of the planet's interior in an upside-down way.
Due to the difference in temperature between the inner and outer layers, mechanical humans live in the inner layer of Old Yatum, while humans live in the outer layer where the temperature is relatively stable and suitable for human survival.
But no matter where it is, there is no trace or news of the life of the Golden Emperor.
"But the Golden Emperor sued me ......"
"I tell you that he grew up in an orphanage in the middle layer of Yatum, sorry, you are a human so you haven't even seen the middle layer with your own eyes, the middle level of Yatum is a military zone, there has never been any orphanage, and the middle level is suspended and moved at a fixed point, and it is completely impossible to set foot without permission. His rhetoric is a complete lie. β
"But he's my captain."
"Once, did you really trust him with your life? A liar full of lies who doesn't know when he will betray himself? Save it, you might as well give me your life, the crew of the Settian Condolence Regiment will always know what their captain will do next, and I will always give them enough trust. β
"I'll think about it."
Looking at Alice, who hesitated, Seth knew that he had succeeded. Alice is a close confidant of the Golden Emperor, even if she doesn't know the past of the Golden Emperor, she will have a certain understanding of the habits of the Golden Emperor, and hand over her habits to the crew, which is fatal to the captain, because in the Heavenly Condolence Group, except for so many guys who they trust, who dares to guarantee that they will not betray themselves because of interests in the next second.
When the Golden Emperor finds a way to escape from the calamity, Seth can directly use Alice to plot against the Golden Emperor, and behind his back, he will get back the share of his left hand.
"Emperor Jin, you are still too naΓ―ve."