Chapter 104 Bloodline Anatomy

In the script mission world, it seems that vampires can only develop subordinates through the Embrace ritual (where vampires feed their blood back to ordinary people).

Logically, either the Embrace is a mystical ritual with extraordinary power, or there is something wrong with the vampires' blood.

Felix's blood has been sucked dry by the New Worms, so we won't consider him for now.

However, the corpses of several vampire nobles are full of blood.

For safety's sake, before dissecting the vampire nobles, Li Ang specially set up a simple plastic curtain sterile isolation operating room by the lake,

and sealed all the blood in laboratory containers.

As early as when he became a Lv10 player, Li Ang had a question in his mind.

What exactly is the essence of extraordinary abilities?

If the Ripple power, which can dissolve souls and enhance physical strength, can be barely explained with the materialistic idea of "activating the energy of the living body itself by breathing and moving blood,"

then how do you explain the special effect ability of the Flesh Cutting Machine, which eliminates the enemy's flesh out of thin air?

The spatial scaling of the Automated Pet Feeder?

No one can defeat me in my own BGM's forced air suspension?

With the existing scientific system of humans on Earth, it is difficult to explain the working principle of these extraordinary elements, but this does not mean that science is powerless and useless in the face of the extraordinary.

Science is a system of ordered knowledge based on verifiable explanations and predictions of the form, organization, etc. of objective things,

studying the objective material world, enabling mankind to make accurate assertions about objective reality and understand its internal connections.

As an ordinary Eastern youth with a simple worldview, Li Ang, like most of his compatriots on this land, refused to believe in the existence of a personal god.

Theology was a tool from the beginning, a spiritual framework spontaneously generated by a group for survival, continuation, and expansion, used to unify the values and concepts between different individuals.

In order to take care of those simple-minded members of the group, this spiritual framework must be monotonous and prejudiced, and must be exclusive, so as not to make people (especially the large number of simple-minded people) fall into confusion and chaos.

Li Ang despises this spiritual framework. Compared with science, this spiritual framework is backward, stale, dull, utilitarian, and morally dishonest, encouraging people to deceive themselves.

Even after being selected as a player in the Killing Field game and witnessing all kinds of incredible things, Li Ang still did not give up his trust in rationalism and materialism.

Science, like theology, mysticism, and metaphysics, is a tool used by humans to understand themselves and the world, and to transform themselves and the world. In some fields, science may even lag behind theology, mysticism, and metaphysics because it is too cautious and cumbersome.

The only difference is that science does not have absolute "truth," and there is no personal god in the theory that can explain everything that cannot be explained.

Scientific research is a continuous process of self-doubt, speculation, hypothesis, experimentation, demonstration, deduction, and analysis to make the theory consistent with the observation results, and then self-doubt, speculation, hypothesis again...

Endlessly repeating this process to approach the relative truth of the real world.

Compared to other arrogant and prejudiced tools, Li Ang still trusts science more—just like he trusts cold and impersonal mathematics.

Before finding the vampire corpse, Li Ang did not have sufficient conditions to explore the essence of cognitive complex transcendent factors—

Whether it is the Flesh Cutting Machine or the Automated Pet Feeder, their essence is too profound to be effectively analyzed with scientific theories.

However, the vampires, who are born with extraordinary abilities, opened a new door to a new world for him, a door connecting rational materialism and extraordinary elements.

"All clothing on the vampires is normal, consistent with modern Earth's regular suits. It has been stored in the inventory for isolation before dissection, and should be incinerated after dissection."

"From the autopsy results, the flat bones of all four vampire nobles have mild medullary cavity symptoms, scarce red bone marrow tissue, and smaller liver and spleen volumes than normal people. It is speculated that the vampire's hematopoietic ability has degenerated and they cannot produce blood themselves, and must suck human blood to survive."

"From the blood type test results, the four vampire nobles plus Felix Miller are all AB-type universal recipients, and it is not ruled out that there are genetic defects in all vampires. There are no abnormalities in blood parameters such as red blood cells in the blood."

"In the dermis of most of the vampire's skin, hair follicles different from normal body hair were found. These hair follicles are larger in volume and are driven by arrector pili muscles. It is speculated that these large-volume hair follicles can be triggered under special conditions to form black hair in a half-human, half-bat form."

"No special organs for vampires to control blood from a distance or release blood energy have been found yet."

"Ripple energy has no special lethality to blood and flesh separated from the corpse."

"The four vampire nobles, like Felix, all have small sac-like digestive organs. The growth status of these organs varies, and it is not ruled out that these organs are the vampire's source of energy."

"According to the psychic detection feedback from Cat's Eye, these small sac-like digestive organs have a strong psychic reaction. Ripple energy and the stomach pouch have an extremely strong repulsive reaction. It is speculated that a small amount of Ripple energy can induce the stomach pouch to bàozhà (explode)."

"From the information obtained so far, the source of the vampires' power should be these small stomach pouches... Is fresh blood the currency of the soul?"

"If the stomach pouch is the source, then how does the Embrace ritual take effect? From the observation results of laboratory instruments, there is no evidence of special viruses, bacteria, or mitochondria in the vampire blood cells."

"Or, the stomach pouch itself has a mystical meaning, and as long as the ritual is performed, the same organ can be induced in the blood slave?"

"Tsk, so annoying. It would be great if Felix hadn't died. It's too troublesome to just guess by myself."

"Felix, you're so weak! So rubbish! You can't even bite a mere worm to death, what are you doing?"

"Huff, calm down."

Li Ang, wearing a full set of hazmat suits, threw the scalpel into a square stainless steel tray, wrapped the five stomach pouches and five vampire corpses in plastic sealed bags respectively, and put them into the backpack column.

He walked out of the surgical isolation room and disinfected and cleaned the hazmat suit on his body.

In any case, with these five stomach pouches that carry the source of the vampires' power, Li Ang can use the biological template to try some sāo (flamboyant, showy) operations that were impossible before.

For example, creating artificial vampire creatures.