Steel Bones

As Yi Kai walked, he replied, "It's not really a talent, because that feeling of preparation can be practiced and improved. As for how it's done, the Chief has already guessed it, it's the preparation process."

After a pause, Yi Kai looked at Yue Yuan and smiled, "When you first saw Lao Tie's expression, did you think of something?"

"It looks just like the way someone shakes themselves after urinating!" Yue Yuan blurted out.

"It's not just similar, it is exactly like that," Yi Kai explained with a smile. "However, the commander should have noticed that it only happened to Lao Tie, not the other two. So, that kind of shaking is not something every volunteer needs to experience, but rather Lao Tie's own training method, which is to say, his... well... talent, which isn't very good."

Back in the exhibition area, Yi Kai had Shi Lifen hand a data storage chip to Yue Yuan, and then said, "The mechanism, operating principle, and various changes in the human body during the Human Body Overclocking process and overclocking state are all contained in this chip. The Chief can take a look when he has time."

Yi Kai said he wanted Yue Yuan to take a look, but then he explained, "We found a gene sequence, its corresponding neuronal region, and the function of this neuronal region. I believe everyone here has had this experience: you can control your emotions to get Goosebumps on your skin."

"On the surface, this is a normal physiological reaction of the human body, but upon closer examination, it is not independent. Rather, it is related to the transmission of various micro-signals and neuronal conduction in the human body. The so-called emotional control or emotional adjustment that causes Goosebumps is actually the human body's ability to self-control brainwaves and Human Body Overclocking. Simply put, we have found this reaction mechanism of the human body and then, at the genetic level, replaced the original neural signals that control Goosebumps with signals that activate Overclock Mode."

Listening to Yi Kai's eloquent explanation, one of the accompanying experts couldn't help but ask, "The legendary Mental Power?"

"No, no, no, everyone, this isn't Mental Power. Imagine lifting a stone in your mind, and the stone is lifted—that's what people call Mental Power or telekinesis," Yi Kai said decisively, shaking his head. "No scientific theory has ever clearly proven the existence of Mental Power, so of course we don't have the ability to utilize it. You must understand, we've simply replaced the Goosebumps with entering an overclocking state. We're just utilizing a biological mechanism that naturally exists in the human body! It's a neurotransmission process. We understand its working principle and then applied the technology we developed from the Kuntai People's genetic engineering to it. In other words, people who undergo overclocking modification will not have the ability to get Goosebumps because it has been replaced by Overclock Mode switch."

As you all just witnessed, the three volunteers exhibited different behaviors before entering the overclocking state. This essentially reflects their individual control over the areas where they experience Goosebumps. We cannot change the extent to which each person controls their Goosebumps, but we can alter their genetic makeup to enhance their ability to perceive Goosebumps, allowing them to gradually find the feeling through self-training.

Hearing Yi Kai say this, everyone understood. One of the accompanying soldiers couldn't help but ask, "So, people who can't actively control the Goosebumps can't enter the Human Body Overclocking mode, is that right, Professor Yi?"

After asking the question, the soldier stood there trying to get a feel for it, seemingly testing whether he could get Goosebumps.

Those who heard this secretly tried it out on themselves. Some even started to tremble slightly, just like their Lao Tie had done before.

Yi Kai ignored their actions and replied, "You could say that, but theoretically every human being possesses this ability. The reason we can't do it is because our perception isn't strong enough. Of course, if we really can't do it or don't feel anything at all, then there might really be a problem with our genes."

"Hmm. This isn't a big problem. We already know the relevant gene fragments, so Gene Therapy will suffice. Also, regarding the volunteers' descriptions of their self-control training, we concluded that, theoretically, we can control different areas of our own bodies separately, just as you saw in the different behaviors of the three volunteers you just observed."

"What happened to the hair? And how did it turn back?" a Mechanical Engineering Department expert who accompanied them asked curiously.

"Well, in our observations, the scalp also grows tiny scales, only they are much smaller. The junctions between these scales are the original pores of the scalp." Yi Kai paused, seemingly considering which words would best help everyone understand.

After two breaths, he looked at the expert outside the body and said, "As for turning back, that involves the abnormal development mechanism of the Kuntai People! It's hard to explain in a few words. Simply put, after the overclocking modification, the human body's cells are endowed with a kind of abnormal development ability, which you can think of as the ability to deform."

Under normal circumstances, it will not be activated. It will only be activated after the 'Goosebumps switch' is turned on! What you see as the body returning to normal is actually not a return to normal in the body's change mechanism, but a new round of abnormal development.

What we see are the changes on the epidermal cells, but in fact, the cells inside the body also participate in this process. They each perform their functions according to the rules set by biology over billions of years. Some provide various nutrients for this change, some provide information transmission pathways, and some carry out feedback mechanisms.

"In other words, what we just saw, whether it's transforming into scaly skin or reverting to human skin, is a process of forward metamorphosis. This process isn't reversed. To use an imperfect analogy, it's like turning a light on and off: one press to turn it on, two presses to turn it off."

The words may be rough, but the principle is sound.

Although the analogy was indeed not quite appropriate, everyone nodded in agreement, presumably having their own understanding of it.

Seeing this, Yi Kai continued to talk about some other aspects of Human Body Overclocking: "Everyone saw A Mei's punch just now. In fact, after entering Human Body Overclocking, not only is the ability to withstand blows improved, but there is also a comprehensive improvement in strength, speed, and other aspects. This is just like the difference between the development of Kuntai People before and after their growth."

Since we already have a foundation of physical enhancement, entering Overclock Mode on that basis allows the human body to easily withstand instantaneous impacts of up to 300G.

And can you imagine? Three hundred gigabytes isn't actually the upper limit of overclocking, because what limits it isn't the body altered by overclocking, but rather the unchanged skeleton within the human body! Therefore, the next focus of Life Science will be on bone strengthening. You probably remember those steel-shelled animals in the Wolfe Biosphere, right? That project is ongoing. If all goes well, who knows, one day all of humanity might possess a biologically produced Titanium Alloy skeleton."