Starting with dissecting ghost stories

Shen Xing took a new scalpel with his left hand and made a small incision above the flexor muscles of his right fingers.

This time, the opening won't be made at the fingertips, thus avoiding the pain of that muscle drilling into the arm.

Shen Xing rolled up his shirt sleeves, revealing his right arm, and used tweezers in his left hand to pick up the sample numbered [0141].

After it left the stainless steel countertop, the surface noise pulsed even more violently, emitting an extremely faint buzzing sound similar to tinnitus, and began to twist again.

The tip of the muscle slowly touched his still-bleeding wound.

The moment the wound touched the muscle, Shen Xing's mind buzzed as before, but this time it was shorter and quieter, as if his body had gradually adapted to it.

After it burrowed into my arm, a familiar burning sensation began to ignite in my right arm, and then, as if on the same frequency, a warm current also surged in my left hand.

This feeling lasted only a moment. The next instant, everything returned to normal, much faster than the first time they merged, and there was no pain at all.

The small one-centimeter incision on his right arm had completely closed, and Shen Xing's right arm had also gained the ability to heal quickly.

Shen Xing picked up the electronic hand gripper he brought from home and squeezed it with all his might using his right hand.

51.4KG

It was actually lower than the previous two tests.

Does it take some time to adapt?

The fusion process went exceptionally smoothly, so smoothly that Shen Xing didn't even feel it was real. With his right arm completely healed, if it weren't for the slight blood still remaining on his skin, Shen Xing would have doubted whether he had actually put [0141] inside.

Should we continue?

Shen Xing turned his attention to the remaining two iron buckets.

He could clearly feel that compared to the first fusion, he still had a lot of "room for maneuver" and he could feel that he could continue.

This is not an illusion caused by abnormal muscles, but a feeling he gets from his own physical experience.

Shen Xing's personal inclination is to continue.

He can't just strengthen the muscles in his left and right arms.

Previously, only his left arm had absorbed [0111], and Shen Xing had already sensed the potential hidden dangers brought about by this imbalance.

That's the visual difference caused by a large difference in strength between the left and right arms.

It may not be very noticeable now, but as your muscle strength increases, the hidden dangers will emerge.

For example, on a physiological level.

Muscles work in pairs. When you bend your arm, your biceps contract, while the corresponding muscles on the back of your arm, your triceps, must stretch and relax.

If the force from the front is too great for the muscles in the back to withstand, it will directly tear the muscles in the back apart.

Even if all the muscles in one's body are strengthened in a balanced and complete manner, after a certain point, one's bones will not be able to withstand the strength of the muscles, and may tear the bones at the attachment points at the moment the muscles contract.

Most importantly, the imbalance of strength could cause Shen Xing to lose control over his fine motor skills.

This is unacceptable to Shen Xing.

Since I've already undergone fusion and enhancement from the beginning, there's no turning back.

Shen Xing wouldn't look back. Since he'd started, he'd see it through to the end and do it to the best of his ability.

The whole body must keep up.

Moreover, there just happened to be a complete set of muscles available for Shen Xing to use.

That is [0131], which was peeled off from the human muscle diagram and now has both sides pieced together to form a "muscle man" without bones.

Shen Xing picked out the clump of muscle that had stuck together and placed it on the operating table.

This humanoid muscle mass, which contains almost all the muscle groups in the human body, is currently lying on the stainless steel workbench in front of Shen Xing.

They are so small that some muscles can only be clamped with mosquito forceps.

Fortunately, Shen Xing only needed to clamp them up; no delicate operations were required, and he didn't have any mosquito pliers at the moment.

You can use toothed tweezers that you happen to have, as they can grip the muscle and prevent it from slipping out of your hand.

Shen Xing picked out the superficial flexor muscles of the right hand of the muscular man and set them aside.

This time, he made a shallow cut less than half a centimeter long on the flexor digitorum superficialis muscle of his right arm, and put that small piece of the flexor digitorum superficialis muscle into it.

A slight, pricking pain came through.

Just like yesterday [0111], which started drilling into my left index finger, I felt the pain and slight heat of the muscles drilling into my arm.

It's just that the time was relatively short.

Sure enough, the pain and duration of pain vary depending on the location... These muscles all have the same specific fusion location as shown in the illustration, and if the location is accurate, there will be no pain at all.

We can only place it precisely in the correct position. Although this is slower, the fusion efficiency will be higher and the potential damage will be less.

On the control panel, Shen Xing was completely focused, separating each tiny muscle and arranging them from left to right like building blocks.

These muscles were so small that Shen Xing would have no way of recognizing what kind of muscles they were without the aid of a magnifying glass.

So Shen Xing simply arranged the muscle diagrams according to the positions he had memorized, just like he had memorized them when he was in school.

Next, Shen Xing picked up a scalpel and began to make another incision on his left arm. Each time, the scalpel would make a tiny cut, and then the muscle would be placed near the wound.

One cut... two cuts... three cuts...

The wound that had been inserted into the muscle began to heal slowly. Because the incision Shen Xing made was very shallow, there was not much bleeding. Even if he had torn himself to pieces like this, Shen Xing should not have lost a lot of blood.

Shen Xing's movements were precise and patient. He repeatedly cut open his body, inserted muscle tissue, and waited for it to slowly recover.

Although the recovery speed is not fast, it can generally be achieved to the point that the first incision has almost healed by the time Shen Xing places the fourth muscle.

Even on the back, Shen Xing can accurately locate the target muscles and perform surgery.

There are 639 skeletal muscles in the human body. Of course, Shen Xing couldn't have cut himself more than 600 times, because some muscles are deep muscles in the same location.

He categorized the incisions according to the major muscle groups, placing multiple muscles in one incision, and the final total number of incisions did not exceed 50.

Especially for the left and right arms, which have extremely strong recovery capabilities, he made a long incision on the surface and placed a whole row of muscles directly, which is much faster.

Even so, it took Shen Xing almost an hour to complete the placement of all the target muscles.

After finishing everything, Shen Xing put down the scalpel and let out a long sigh of relief.

He didn't feel anything physically, except that his face felt a little numb—more specifically, his jaw muscles were a bit sore.

It's caused by unconsciously clenching your teeth.

Shen Xing's entire body underwent a comprehensive, albeit minor, strengthening of his muscles.

How will these overall enhancements manifest themselves?

What testing method should I use?

After the last incision healed, Shen Xing's physical sensations began to change.

At this moment, Shen Xing felt warm all over, a rare experience... like standing naked in the warm sun, being exposed to sunlight from all 360 degrees.

He could feel that his perception of all the muscle groups was beginning to connect.

Under his perception, the muscles no longer seemed like muscles; Shen Xing could feel a flowing, surging sensation under his skin and on his bones.

This feeling made him feel like he could control his muscles... not just in simple contraction and extension, but...

Shen Xing slowly raised his right hand, and under his control, the skin on his arm began to undulate.

On his arm, a dozen or so narrow, elongated cuts appeared silently.

Only a little blood seeped out, and along with the blood emerging from the wound were several twisted, dark red to black clumps of muscle, their original shape completely unrecognizable, shimmering with grayish-white specks...

Muscle bundles.

Or to use a more vivid word.

Beard.

They emerged from Shen Xing's wound, swaying and writhing.

Shen Xing slowly raised his left arm, and under the light of the incandescent bulb, he looked up at the things that were emerging from his arm.

His face remained expressionless, but the subtle, involuntary twitching of his muscles conveyed a sense of "smile."

"incredible......"

If Shen Yuan saw his expression right now, she might be so frightened that she would burst into tears.