Watching Chen Jue file his nails with a dagger, sending sparks flying as though he were grinding a sheet of metal with an angle grinder, even Zou Ying, the team's engineer, was dumbstruck and almost speechless. An absurd thought crossed her mind: Did he get a metallic glitter manicure?
Ordinary human nails were made of keratin, after all. Rubbing them against metal could not produce sparks. At most, they would grow hot and be ground into shavings.
But because Chen Jue's body had transformed and evolved, every cell and tissue throughout his body had surpassed human limits. On top of that, he had trained his hands in finger techniques and external hardening arts, making even his nails as hard as iron. Ordinary nail clippers would have their blades dulled on contact.
Although his nails were still made of keratin, examining their composition under a microscope would reveal that their keratin layers had a much denser structure, stacked layer upon layer, with patterns resembling jade-like rock. Both their hardness and toughness rivaled metal, which was why filing them with the dagger's abrasive surface produced sparks and wisps of smoke.
"He really is a Special Grade Candidate!"
"Is even his physical structure different from an ordinary person's?"
"So powerful! So handsome! I wish I had a boyfriend like him!" The young people in the R&D room erupted into chatter.
After testing the dagger's sharpness and its usefulness as a nail file, Chen Jue put it back in its box.
"Chen Jue, come with me. There's also a pair of custom gloves you specifically requested that you need to test yourself." Sensing that the atmosphere in the R&D room was getting a little strange, Zou Ying hurriedly led Chen Jue out under the young women's adoring gazes and into a compartment farther inside.