Chapter 1186: Spine
Let us turn back the clock, to the cave before the dragon boat arrived.
In fact.
The prolonged battle at the bottom of the cave had already ended ten hours before the dragon boat's arrival.
Without injuring the spine, Han Dong's body, controlled by the Earl's consciousness, had utterly defeated the Corpse Demon Ape head-on.
By continuously destroying its body and exhausting the corpse qi accumulated within it, Dr. Swollen finally secretly released his brain tentacles. They entered through the broken opening in the ape's neck, invaded, and disrupted its nervous system.
It completely lost its ability to move.
Before the Earl could even take credit, a powerful consciousness directly squeezed him aside.
Next came Han Dong and the doctor's happy time—conducting a full physical analysis of the Corpse Demon Ape. The extraction of corpse essence would wait until the very end.
"Hm? What kind of technique is this... Mechanical Planting?"
During the dissection, a special technique shocked both Han Dong and the doctor.
The Mechanical Pillars on the ape's body had not been connected to its flesh through external attachment or embedded technology... They seemed more like they had grown amid the meat.
The doctor connected his cranial nerves to the nerve strands near a Mechanical Pillar and nodded. "It really does seem as though they were planted. Mechanical Pillars were externally implanted when the corpse ape was young... During its subsequent growth, the Mechanical Pillars grew together with the individual."
"Can the manor's Steam Technology accomplish this?"
"Mechanical growth belongs to an entirely new field... Or perhaps it is a technology unique to this world. If we can bring it back, it could elevate the manor's Mechanical Technology into a completely new field.
"We could even perform Mechanical Planting on ghouls during their embryonic stage.