Transformation Begins!

After giving a brief introduction to the experiment, William Stryker looked at James lying on the water tank below and whispered to Dr. Carol Foster beside him.

Let's begin!

Dr. Carol Foster nodded slightly and then pressed a button on the control panel.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone present, the steel platform above the water tank slowly began to descend, sinking to the bottom of the tank along with James, who was lying on it.

Dr. Carol Foster looked down at the monitoring data on the console. Heart rate, blood pressure, respiration, and blood oxygen levels were all normal, and the brain CT scan showed no problems.

Next, a staff member wearing a heat-resistant suit manually opened a valve, and silvery liquid Adamantium, like mercury, flowed out from a constant-temperature furnace at one end of the laboratory, flowing along a transparent pipe to a device next to the water tank.

This device is connected to a dozen or so robotic arms mounted on a steel platform that has been submerged in the water tank via dozens of pipelines. As a row of button switches on the device are turned on, silver liquid Adamantium is quickly injected from the device into the robotic arms, and the transparent containers above the robotic arms are soon filled with silver Adamantium.

Seeing that everything was ready below, Dr. Carol Foster, who was in front of the control panel on the second floor, lowered his head and pressed the drill start switch on the control panel. With a "humming" mechanical sound, at the front of more than a dozen robotic arms, a series of slender drills slowly extended from the robotic arms and were quickly heated up, soon turning red-hot.

Dr. Carol Foster then pressed the maximum speed button on the drill bit controller, and the drill bit's rotation speed instantly increased significantly, with the "humming" sound becoming much louder.

As the drill bit spun at high speed, the robotic arm slowly moved downwards, pushing all the drill bits to within a centimeter of James's body, hovering above his skin and spinning rapidly.

The real-time X-ray images of James' entire body displayed on the monitor clearly show that all the drills were precisely aimed at the bones of various parts of James' body.

Lying in the water tank, even with the cold water blocking his way, James could still feel the scorching heat from the dozen or so high-temperature drill bits distributed throughout his body.

Two drill bits were positioned right on his cheeks. James glanced sideways at the rapidly spinning, blazing red drill bits in front of him. Even with his immense confidence in his self-healing abilities, a trace of unease inevitably arose in his heart.

However, without giving him time to think further, Dr. Carol Foster checked James's physical data again, confirmed that everything was normal, and then turned to look at William Stryker beside her.

William Stryker nodded slightly to her, and Dr. Carol Foster then pressed the final start button!

The high-speed spinning drill bit pierced downwards, penetrating James's tough skin and quickly drilling into James steel-like bones.

Although these drill bits are not made of precious Adamantium, ordinary steel cannot stop them.

James winced as the scorching drill bits pierced his body, but that was all. While it was painful to have his bones drilled through, the pain was only slightly more intense than being riddled with bullets from a heavy machine gun, and still within his tolerance.

That's all there is to it!

The thought had barely formed in James's mind when the Adamantium began to be injected. A pain far more intense than before, a pain that pierced to the bone, suddenly shot through his entire body, causing his eyes to widen instantly.

It hurts!

James felt as if his bones had been thrown into a scorching furnace and were being roasted. In addition to the burning sensation, there was an unprecedented pain coming from his bone marrow. This pain was more intense and more unbearable than any pain he had ever felt before!

Moreover, the heat and pain were rapidly spreading throughout his body, until his entire body was completely overwhelmed by the intense pain. James finally understood what Dr. Carol Foster had said earlier; it seemed he was still too young!

Damn! That hurts so much!

However, he still remembered that he was being enhanced, so he tried his best to control himself and not struggle. Even so, under the intense pain, James' body still trembled involuntarily.

At this moment, through real-time X-ray imaging, it can be clearly seen that where more than a dozen drill bits pierced the bone, a bright yellow light is spreading in the bone. This is the source of the pain that James felt: liquid Adamantium with a temperature of up to 1500 degrees Fahrenheit!

The transparent container above the robotic arm was slowly emptying of the silver liquid Adamantium, while the bright yellow light on James' body was spreading to all his bones in the X-ray image.

Why is he moving around? Why wasn't he anesthetized?

General Munson frowned as he looked at James, whose body was trembling violently in the water tank below, and walked to the control panel. Standing behind William Stryker, he asked in a deep voice.

"The rehabilitation process was extremely painful, but the anesthetic was ineffective for him, so he had to endure it on his own."

William Stryker answered General Munson's questions, his gaze fixed on James.

"Body temperature 42 degrees Celsius, and continuing to rise!"

"Heart rate 190, 195!"

Reports echoed through the laboratory, and the atmosphere grew increasingly tense.

"Can he pull through?"

General Munson stood on the control panel, his military cap tucked under his arm, and asked with a stern expression.

"Certainly!"

William Stryker nodded without hesitation, but his clenched hands betrayed his nervousness. He couldn't bear to think about the possibility of the experiment failing! He couldn't accept the outcome!

"Heartbeat 200!"

The reports continued to come in, and James's various vital signs kept soaring and never stabilized, which also indicated that James's physical condition was rapidly deteriorating.

At this moment, while James was overwhelmed by intense pain throughout his body, memories from his childhood surfaced clearly in his mind.

The cry of "Son!" he uttered when he killed his biological father Thomas Logan.

When Victor caught up with them during their escape from the manor, he said, "We're brothers!"

And when they were being chased and had nowhere to run, Chen Mo said to them, "Get in the car!"