Don't Starve, my pickaxe can be upgraded

Chapter 83: Test Tube Demon Egg

Liu Hen roughly understood: "The thing in your belly is probably not a fetus, but was put in by someone. It should grow. Even without the deterrent of the bonfire, you will most likely be in danger."

The danger to one person is a small matter, but this thing is a time bomb and must be dealt with.

"Sir, save me!" Zhang Mianmian immediately knelt on the ground with a look of fear on her face.

"It's either a caesarean section or an induced labor, but you have no signs of pregnancy, so an induced labor is unlikely."

Liu Hen said: "This thing will become a hidden danger sooner or later. The only way is to cut open the abdomen and remove it, but the injury..."

"I can give her a place as a soldier. The process of pardoning her will stimulate her vitality and allow her wounds to heal on their own."

Chang Xin said: "But that vitality doesn't appear out of thin air. It requires a lot of food conversion."

So far, she has only given out three pardons, one to Chen Ye, one to Zong Ni, and one to Tai Youwei.

There are still ninety-eight places left, so it’s okay to give up one place, but this person must make enough contributions in the future, otherwise it will be difficult to convince the public.

"Thank you, Chief!" Zhang Mianmian was overjoyed. She obviously didn't expect that it would be a blessing in disguise.

"Enough food."

Liu Hen directly took out dozens of carbohydrate porridges and said to Zhang Mianmian, "Eat it, eat as much as you can."

"Thank you, sir!"

Zhang Mianmian immediately picked up the bowl and drank from it in big gulps until she was full.

"I'm ready, sir. What do I need you to do?" She took a deep breath and asked with a firm expression.

Although it is definitely dangerous to cut open the abdomen and take out the contents, as long as you can get through this, there will be a bright future.

"Lift your clothes over your midriff, or take them off altogether, and then lie on your back."

Liu Hen took out a Tang Dynasty sword and said, "I don't have any anesthetic here, you have to bear with it."

"I am not afraid of pain!"

Zhang Mianmian immediately lifted up her clothes, took off her covering, and then lay on the ground.

It was not visible before because she was wearing clothes, but now that she was no longer covered by clothes, Liu Hen and Chang Xin were surprised to find that half of her body was made of metal.

It was as if half of the body had been cut off and pieced together with a metal prosthesis.

However, through the scanning of the power of the earth, Liu Hen knew that the other party's half-metal body was not entirely made of metal, and some necessary organs were still there.

Seeing that the other party was ready, Liu Hen started the operation directly.

He had never studied medicine and had no relevant knowledge. His movements were quite clumsy, even rough. He directly cut open Zhang Mianmian's lower abdomen and pried open the metal inside.

Zhang Mianmian was also very tough. Although her body was twitching with pain, she gritted her teeth and said nothing.

The scene was extremely bloody, and Liu Hen was a little uncomfortable, but he still continued to work.

What made him frown was that the area around the other person's uterus was filled with very hard metal parts, as if they had been specially reinforced to protect the ball inside the uterus.

With a "clang" sound, Tang Hengdao was pried off, but he was unable to open the metal protective layer.

"...It seems that the thing in your belly is not simple."

Liu Hen directly took out the All-Kind Pickaxe and said, "Ordinary tools cannot destroy the metal in this place. Next, I will completely dismantle the metal organs in this place."

Zhang Mianmian looked at Chang Xin helplessly.

"I'll grant you amnesty later. Whether you can survive depends on your luck."

Chang Xin said: "Of course you can refuse and leave, but then there will be no more places for soldiers."

There was no way she would allow such a hidden danger to exist within her own power.

It has come to this, how can I leave?

Zhang Mianmian gritted her teeth and said, "Master Liu Hen, go ahead!"

"Then hold on."

Liu Hen gently swung the pickaxe and hit the metal in this area.

Some fine cracks gradually appeared at the struck locations.

Because he didn't dare to use too much force, he couldn't calculate according to the normal collection speed.

After two full minutes, when Zhang Mianmian's blood was almost drained, the metal was finally collected.

[Mithril Fragment +3]

"Mithril?"

Liu Hen raised his eyebrows, but did not dare to delay. He quickly used the broken Tang Heng knife to cut open the outer membrane of the uterus and took out a silver-white sphere the size of a ping-pong ball that looked like it had countless facets.

As soon as the sphere was taken out, without the isolation of Zhang Mianmian's body, the light in the entire home building suddenly dimmed, and the light of the campfire seemed to be suppressed for a moment.

Liu Hen was surprised to find that the fuel consumption rate of the bonfire suddenly skyrocketed, and one second would consume an hour of continuous burning time.

The confrontation finally disappeared until he put the sphere into his space backpack.

At this time, Chang Xin had already started the ceremony: "Zhang Mianmian, are you willing to become my fourth general?" "I... am willing..." Although Zhang Mianmian was about to go into shock due to excessive blood loss, he still answered in a strong voice with excited eyes.

"In the name of the Silver-Armored Queen, I grant you permanent pardons and seals!"

Chang Xin pointed her finger, and a drop of liquid emitting a silver-white glow flew out from her fingertips and sank into Zhang Mianmian's body.

The next moment, a piece of illusory armor appeared on Zhang Mianmian's body. At the same time, the wound on her abdomen slowly squirmed, her vitality was stimulated, and began to repair the injury.

"Your pardon consumes your blood?" Liu Hen smelled an unusual smell of blood.

"Not at all."

Chang Xin explained: "This is the carrier of the contract that has been integrated into my blood."

As she spoke, she picked up the carbohydrate porridge next to her and handed it to Zhang Mianmian: "Eat more while you still have energy. The first pardon will stimulate your vitality. You will need to practice and improve it later."

'Contract carrier?'

Liu Hen suddenly realized it, then walked to the side and looked at the space backpack's description of the diamond-like silver-white ball with a serious expression:
[Mithril Egg (Test Tube Demon Egg): A naturally born mithril egg, cultivated using secret methods and placed within a female body of pure yin constitution for a period of time. When the egg matures, it will assimilate into the mother. Killing the mother will strip away the demonic attributes, granting a 'mithril lattice'. By merging with a 'mithril lattice' and forming a biological contract with a silver vein, one can gain the power to control a mountain.]

"..."

The identification information provided by the space backpack this time can be said to be quite detailed.

From this we can also see the rarity and amazingness of this so-called Mithril Egg.

"Mithril Grid, a special level?"

Liu Hen looked solemn, suspecting that the destruction of the "Green Cloud City" that Zhang Mianmian mentioned might be related to this mithril egg.

It is very likely that the humans in Green Cloud City seized the blood of the demons and were eventually massacred by the enraged demons.

The silver mine that Tai Youwei mentioned might be near Lvxia City.

"If that's the case, it's going to be a bit troublesome."

The power that was able to build a huge city on the surface was definitely very powerful, but it was also destroyed by demons.

That area is probably more dangerous than you think.

"But the humans in this world are not simple either. They were able to create something like a mithril grid, and they almost succeeded."

But now that I have interrupted the process, this Mithril Egg is likely to become a dead egg.

"Test tube demon eggs... Demon eggs can actually be grown in test tubes?"

The technology in this world may have been more advanced than we can imagine.

But unfortunately, such means are only in the hands of a very small number of people, and most people in this world cannot afford enough food to eat or clothes to wear.

At this time, Chang Xin came over and asked, "You look so serious, is that thing special?"

"A demon egg, and it shouldn't be an ordinary demon egg."

Liu Hen explained: "Just from the confrontation between this demon egg and the bonfire just now, even if this demon egg is not hatched, its power is no less than that of the demon that summoned the skeleton."

Chang Xin was secretly surprised: "It's so powerful before it hatches, what will it be like after it hatches? This thing must be destroyed."

"It was already half-destroyed after I took it out. It's useless to implant it into a female body."

Liu Hen said, "Now it's just a special material. What I'm really worried about is whether the person who implanted this demon egg into Zhang Mianmian's body is still alive. If he is still alive, there might be trouble then... Hmm?"

He suddenly looked at Zhang Mianmian, and saw that the body of this female transformed person suddenly solidified into ice cubes, but those ice cubes shattered and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

"Kakaka..."

"Crack, bang, bang!"

At the same time, there was a cracking sound coming from the opponent's body, and it was not known whether it was the sound of bones breaking or metal parts breaking.

Under the astonished gaze of Liu Hen and Chang Xin, the exposed skin of the female cyborg kept undulating, and a layer of frost appeared and disappeared around it.

Not only on the ground, but also on the surrounding walls, frost appeared and disappeared, flickering, giving people a feeling of poor contact.

It was at this moment that the healing speed of Zhang Mianmian's abdominal wound suddenly increased dramatically.

The metal parts that Liu Hen had disassembled and thrown aside suddenly melted, turned into liquid and flowed over, and were absorbed by Zhang Mianmian's body.

"She's awakening her powers!"

Chang Xin was shocked.

"Is this awakening?" Liu Hen was also surprised.

“It’s kind of like an awakening process, but a little weird.”

Chang Xin was not sure either. One reason was that the abilities were different, so the awakening process might be different.

The other is——

Zhang Mianmian's condition at the moment was intermittent, as if something unexpected had happened, which was different from the process of her awakening.
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