Zede's physical development route was not actually a 'corpse' in the first place.

His physical talent is indeed very high in Zion, but it is not particularly exaggerated.

In order to find the open source "relic", the young Zed was targeted by the monastery when he first set foot on the land of the old world. Although there is also Asimov, who is also targeted, the three views of the two of them are completely different.

During the time when he was forcibly brought back to the monastery by the monks for reform,

As a doctor, Asimov realized that it is very important that 'simply studying medicine will not save Zion', and if you want to truly keep the human flame alive, it is a very good choice to rely on the source epidemic area of the old world.

In his opinion, once the world infection is completed, it will be difficult for an organization like Zion to maintain its independence, and only by establishing a relationship with the source epidemic area in advance like him and mixing up a certain title in advance can it really rely on the source epidemic area as a background to keep Zion and the organization.

Therefore, Asimov was also very cooperative after being forced to enter the hospital, showing amazing talent and quickly passing the monk test.

He even took the initiative to apply for his own body to be used as a petri dish in chains, trying to cultivate a special chain that suits him best, and he lived up to expectations, and a scalpel chain that took care of both surgery and execution was hatched.

This was the cornerstone for his subsequent ascension to the throne and became the cornerstone of the executioner.

And Zed is unusually 'rigid',

He scoffed at this group of old-world monks who forcibly plundered people without asking for their own opinions, and even Asimov's opinion was not accepted.

In his eyes, the monastery was completely similar to a human trafficking organization, and it was not trustworthy at all.

Most importantly, even if he meets the demands of the monastery and eventually becomes a monk, he will completely sever his relationship with Zion, with the organization, and with humanity, which is absolutely unacceptable in Zed's opinion.

Therefore, he did not obey this group of monks at all, and would try to escape whenever he had the opportunity, of course, it was impossible to escape, and he would be tortured quite tragically after being caught in the end.

Zede suffers three times as much, if not more, of the amount of torture he suffers on a daily basis than Asimov.

This kind of 'superdose' of torture does not bring the same amount of physical growth feedback, but will destroy the body, mash consciousness, and may even make the body completely collapse and no longer feel pain, and eventually become a walking dead without senses and unable to grow physically.

But Zed held on, relying on his simple obsession to return to the organization and see his friends.

Under the torture of the overdose, in order not to completely collapse his consciousness, he also found an absolutely quiet gray refuge in the depths of his consciousness, as long as he put his consciousness there, he would not feel any pain, and even everything would become unaffected.

That was the first time Zed came into contact with the concept of nothingness, and his tormented flesh embraced it.

No matter what kind of torture it is in the future, once it comes, Zed will enter such a realm without expression.

It was not the pain that abandoned him, but the pain he abandoned, and his vision was gray as far as the eye could see.

Zede's peculiarity soon attracted the attention of the monastery's higher-ups,

The attention of this special human being has also been further enhanced, even if he does not cooperate with the relevant assessment of the monk, the above will make a special exception for him to pass, arrange to go to the plantation and try to accept the chain.

Due to Zed's lack of cooperation, it is impossible for him to bury himself in the soil of the plantation and cultivate the chains with his own flesh.

The flesh can only be grafted using planted chains, or chains passed down from dead monks.

In the end, three special chains were selected according to Zed's physique,

1. A standard iron chain with excellent grade and purity of S obtained from conventional plantations.

2. A columnar iron chain obtained from the death row plantation does not have the annular structure of conventional iron chains, but is connected by long cylinders, with purity A+ and contains the will of the death row prisoner.

3. The [Executioner] Toussaint who died hundreds of years ago. The "Toussaint Chain", inherited by Soriano, is a special type of chain that has the feeling of a 'Swiss Army knife'.

It looks unremarkable, the same as a regular chain. Once the chain touches the target, it adaptively changes into a specific structure that is best suited to handle the target.

Zede still didn't cooperate, didn't make a choice,

Therefore, the monastery tried all three kinds of chains on him, and the chain of Toussaint, which no one had been able to control, was embedded in it very safely.

The reason is simple,

The Toussaint Chain can adapt to different physical bodies, and any monk who wants to accept it, once touched, the Toussaint Chain will evolve into a structure for the current monk, making it painful, or even killing it, and it is simply unacceptable.

However, the [Nothing] that Zed had comprehended allowed him not to express any characteristics, and the Toussaint Chain did not change when it entered the body.

With the completion of the embedding of this iron chain, Zed also used the iron chain as a relic, and completed the open source under the witness of everyone inside the monastery, and even had a strong resonance with the iron chain, and even the warden was concerned about it.

A rare syndrome was also developed after the source of the disease, which is called "fibromyalgia syndrome".

But

After the open source, Zede collapsed motionless in the plantation like a corpse, breathing extremely shallowly.

After testing, it was determined that Zed was in a rare sub-death state, which may be related to the disease he was suffering from, and this was also the first time that Zed showed the state of [corpse], which is a unique manifestation of [none].

After comprehensive deliberation by the monastery, it was finally decided to meet the needs of Zed, a special talent, and throw it into the corpse storage area of the monastery plantation.

Tens of thousands of corpses were piled up here, some prisoners from the Staircase of Sin, some whole corpses that had died in other parts of the Old World, and were sold to monasteries by corpse traffickers for use as a medium for chain-growing culture.

Time passes,

Not only did Zed's state show no signs of recovery, but instead became closer and closer to [Nothing], and even his shallow breathing disappeared completely.

I stayed in the corpse pile for three years,

The gardener, who began to go to the corpse pile every day to check Zed's status, has gradually become a check-in every three days, and even occasionally forgets about it.

It wasn't until he was asked about Zede's state that the gardener, who hadn't checked it for almost ten days, found that Zede's corpse, which should have been piled on top, was gone, and the chain detector didn't have any sense between the corpses.

The alarm sounds,

The entire monastery began to search for Zed, but Zede was not found in any area, and not even a trace was left.

Due to the gardener's negligence, it is entirely possible that Zed, who had not confirmed the information for ten days, had fled the monastery, and a large number of monks expanded the search area and arranged for personnel to go to the nearest World Passage.

Just as the monastery was conducting a search for the monastery,

In the depths of the corpse accumulation area, Zed, who was buried at the bottom, suddenly opened his eyes,

He deliberately wiped out his own aura completely and mixed it with other corpses, and the "Toussaint Chain" in his body was completely hidden according to the owner's request, without any chain resonance, making everyone mistakenly think that he had left.

Taking advantage of the gap between the daily dispatch of monks to search for the outside world and the opening of the gate, Zed escaped! Become the first person in modern history to escape from the monastery.

But all the [passages] were monitored by the monks, and he could not return smoothly.

Desperate to return home and extremely hateful to the monastery, he found a secret place and wanted to directly withdraw the "Toussaint Chain" embedded in his body and completely cut off the connection with the monastery.

If the stripped "Toussaint's Chain" is left here, the monk who is guarding the entrance of the passage will also be sensed by the chain and rush over, so that he can take the opportunity to escape back.

however

The chain of Toussaint, which has always been 'well-behaved', has become extremely difficult to remove.

It is very reluctant to give up its 'new master', and does not hesitate to use its Swiss Army knife-like role to frantically destroy Zed's body, especially the structure of the brain.

Attempt to wreak havoc on all aspects of the brain, transforming Zed into a walking dead enslaved by it.

Kzade's perseverance is beyond imagination,

At the cost of deprivation of the concept of both eyes, insanity, and cracking of the flesh and skin of the whole body, this iron chain was forcibly pulled out.

Due to the time it takes, the monastic pursuers arrived.

The monks were all shocked when they saw the scene, and even had respect for Zede from the bottom of their hearts, but they immediately suppressed him.

But when they approached Zed, who should have been impossible, the picture in front of them suddenly turned gray, and it felt that life was meaningless.

When they looked at Zed again, they had turned into a ferocious monster, tearing apart the flesh of their fellow monks and tearing their chains.

However, in the gray vision, all this is meaningless.

(End of chapter)