My name is Zhou Gong and I was born into a family of alchemists.

My father, Zhou Li, and two older brothers are both well-known armed gunsmiths in the town, while my mother is a puppeteer.

In the eyes of others, alchemists are a very noble profession, but they can't see the bitterness behind it.

I didn't have a childhood, and I didn't have a dream called that. Ever since I became aware of this world, I have been inextricably linked to alchemy.

Every day, from morning to evening, my father and brother took turns teaching me, and it was as if I had filled my mind with knowledge.

Actually, I envy my peers, they can go to play football together after school, they can catch up and play together, and I can only be locked up in this house every day, watching the same people and doing the same things.

One day, I asked my father what vindictiveness was, but in exchange for a thick slap.

"Don't mention the word vindictive spirit in front of me again, remember, you are going to learn alchemy. My father's words aroused my strong interest in vindictiveness.

I even sacrificed my sleep time and secretly went to the study to check the information about Douqi, it turned out that there is such a profession as a fighter in this world, which is divided into one to nine levels, and each level can release a fighting skill.

Fighters have four classes, Weapon Master, Battle Fist Master, Battle Formation Master, and Archer Master.

It was at this time that I had a bold dream that I wanted to become a fighter and become a famous boxer.

"No wonder you often wander in class, Gong'er, it turns out that you are reading this kind of bad book here. ”

I was so engrossed in reading that I didn't even know that my father had put his face on the back of my head.

"Gong'er, this is not a book that should be read, and fighting is not the direction you are going. "My father put his hands on my shoulders, but it seemed to strangle my neck.

"You know, your grandfather is an alchemist, I am an alchemist, and your mother is an alchemist, so your two older brothers are alchemists, and you should also be an alchemist. ”

"Father, I want to be a fighter... ”

"Pap", "Pap", "Pap".

Three slaps in quick succession hit me in the face, and the force of my machined body sent me to the ground, vomiting blood from the corners of my mouth.

That was the first time I tasted blood, it was bitter and astringent.

"Come on, burn all the books about vindictiveness here!!" My father flicked his sleeves angrily and left, and I got up, and the people had already come over and pulled out the books one by one.

"I'm sorry to offend, Third Young Master. "Even if the people said such things to me, I felt that they were all cold people, and they were just pawns in my father's hands.

I came home alone, lying on the bed, and I thought to myself, I can't be controlled by my father anymore, I'm going to teach myself to be vindictive, I'm going to prove it to him, and I can too.

Since then, there have always been two men on the left and right of the door of my room, day and night.

No matter how ambitious I was, I could no match the deep shackles that my father's heart had given me. The following days were the most painful years of my life.

"What, you actually want Gong'er to undergo mechanization surgery, he's only five years old now!!" I overheard the argument between Mom and Dad.

"His knowledge of alchemy is too low, you know? He actually told me that he wanted to be a fighter. ”

"If it's true, he can't let her go any longer, great alchemy is the philosophy he should pursue. ”

"I'll arrange this as soon as possible, and take him out to relax in the next few days, you know, you can't get out of bed for a year after the operation. ”

I can understand why my mom was so worshipful of alchemy. Because an accidental fire brought her to the brink of death, she suffered severe burns all over her body, and finally underwent alchemy's mechanized surgery and successfully survived.

However, the mechanization of the whole body is as high as eighty percent, which is not acceptable to ordinary people, and it took three years to recuperate.

My father was 60 percent mechanized, and my two older brothers were 50 percent.

And this time, it's finally my turn.

A few days before the surgery, I was finally able to go out and see the outside world, even in the company of a group of subordinates and my mother.

I knew that there were very few opportunities to come out, so I took advantage of their inattention to buy a few books on cultivating Dou Qi and secretly hid them in the secret compartment of my clothes.

However, time passed quickly, and I went to places in this town that I had never been, ate food that I had never eaten before, and I was already satisfied.

Even though I knew I would have surgery in a few days, I still read those vindictive books voraciously. Mechanized surgery is a painful thing to do, and it is generally best performed at the age of eight to ten, but I didn't resist.

Because I know that it is futile to resist. If you can't do anything, then let things come naturally.

My father performed the surgery himself, with my two older brothers as assistants, and when I was pushed into the operating room under anesthesia, I felt that my whole life would be changed.

The so-called mechanization surgery is the replacement of bones, skin, and even organs with a machine, and a layer of memory metal is attached to it, so that the mechanized part will grow with age.

However, even if the anesthetic injection is applied, the practitioner will still feel extreme pain, because the cutting of musculoskeletal nerves is not a joke, and in the end, it is necessary to connect a series of complex wires, and have to toss and turn.

Therefore, anesthetic needles are actually just a kind of psychological comfort, but it is better to have than nothing.

The mechanization plan for this surgery is 30%, mainly focusing on the upper body.

The reason why it is not mechanized in the lower body is that most of the important organs are concentrated in the upper body, which is the choice of the alchemist's general direction.

At the beginning of the operation, my father and brother kept reassuring me that having to undergo mechanization at the age of five was a lingering nightmare for anyone.

I heard the sound of bones parting, I heard the sound of blood dripping like a fountain, and I didn't choose to look at it, because I felt even more broken when I saw it.

This is something that every armed gunsmith needs to face, just like every fighter has to learn the art of fighting.

But I didn't accept my fate, since alchemy was destined to be learned. What about vindictiveness? I like it!

Then I'll learn both, and I'll be proficient in both.

Back to reality, after all, I was only five years old at the time, and of course I couldn't bear the pain of life worse than death, and I howled in the operating room for ten hours. If my two brothers hadn't pressed me to death, I would have fallen from the operating table hundreds of times.

But I had a different idea, and I felt that after this mechanization surgery, I would be a different version of myself.

The surgery was over and I was sent back to my room. I felt like my arms and chest were not my own, because in addition to the pain, there was a real sense of oppression.

Because some of them have been replaced with cold mechanical parts.

For the next period of time, I recovered under strict monitoring and did rehabilitation exercises in bed almost every day.

My mechanized part must be fused with the flesh in order for the operation to be successful.

Unfortunately, there is no such thing as a failure, because if it fails, my modified body will never come back.

After a year, I was completely recovered, and the mechanized parts fit perfectly into my body. In this way, my starting point is already much higher than that of the vast majority of alchemists.

I became the person my father often talked about, and people said that the Zhou family had produced another excellent alchemist.