Chapter 423: Chapter 307: Bones Evolving into the Hardest Metal (Part 2)

After healing, Wang Ye moved his little finger.

In terms of both size and feeling, it was almost no different from before the amputation.

This made him heave a sigh of relief, glad that there were no bugs. 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

This shows that his current evolution indeed includes the gene for limb regeneration.

Perhaps, aside from limb regeneration, there are many latent evolutionary genes that he has yet to discover.

These things will have to be explored slowly in the future.

Wang Ye reviewed the time it took for the limb to regenerate. The entire process took about two minutes, with bone recovery taking up ninety percent of the time, which indirectly indicates that bone recovery is indeed the most difficult step. The main components of bones are the hardest nutrients for the human body to absorb; as the saying goes, it takes a hundred days to heal a bone injury, and even a minor fracture requires several months of rest to barely recover.

He managed to regenerate a broken bone in two minutes, which is astonishing. He can’t even calculate how many thousands of times faster this recovery speed is compared to normal people.

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After a short rest, Wang Ye refocused on the table.

Since the limb had perfectly regenerated, it was time for him to proceed with the next step: bone composition analysis.

He took the finger wrapped in alcohol wipes to the bathroom, scrubbed it, and rinsed away the remaining flesh and blood. He then dried it with a paper towel and returned to the living room for the next part of the analysis.

Sitting at the table, he placed the bone under the spectrometer, which felt completely different from an ordinary person’s bone.

He then operated the computer and pressed the trigger button.

Immediately, the spectrometer emitted a buzzing sound indicating that it was analyzing.

After a brief half minute, the first analysis was completed.

Since the principle of a spectrometer is to decompose the composite light emitted by a light source into monochromatic lights arranged in order of wavelength and record them, it’s easily interfered with by impurities. Thus, each analysis results in some deviation, necessitating multiple analyses to obtain relatively accurate and precise data.

So, Wang Ye repositioned the bone by the testing port and pressed the trigger button again with his mouse for a second analysis. After a few dozen seconds, he repeated the process for a third analysis.

Finally, a line of data gradually appeared on the screen — the average data from the three analyses.

Wang Ye suppressed his excitement and carefully observed the figures on the screen.

The first column listed the element (Cr) Chromium, which accounted for about 40%.

Chromium is the hardest metal in nature, with a hardness rating of 9 on the Mohs scale, just slightly less hard than diamonds, which are rated 10.

Its hardness and weight surpass the tungsten element Wang Ye once used to make weight vests. However, corresponding to that, chromium’s strength is low due to its brittleness, making it prone to breaking or fracturing.

Thus, pure chromium used as bone could break or cause internal organ damage if subjected to strong impacts. In terms of organ protection, calcium performs much better than elements like chromium and tungsten, as its shock-absorbing properties are superior despite its lower hardness.

For most people, hardness equates to protection; however, hardness does not equal protective performance. In fact, the higher the hardness, the lower the protective performance. The simplest examples are helmets and bulletproof vests, both made from materials that aren’t the hardest metals but are instead plastics and ceramics. These materials perform excellently in absorbing and dispersing forces during impact, absorbing a large amount of kinetic energy at the moment of fracture.

Bones work similarly; hollow and fragile bones can actually better protect internal organs.

However, this principle can only guard against low-intensity impacts, becoming ineffective against powerful crushing forces like those of a hydraulic press.

Thus, Wang Ye’s bones are gradually evolving into harder metals.

Knowing that 40% of his bones are now composed of chromium made Wang Ye smile with joy.

No wonder his bones are now so tough to break; 40% of them have become the hardest metal element.

This bone composition, combined with the bones’ high-stress structure, could likely withstand the force of a twenty-ton hydraulic press for some time.

In his excitement, Wang Ye continued inspecting the second and third lines of metal elements. He found that besides the majority (Cr) Chromium, there were smaller proportions of Titanium (Ti), Iron (Fe), Aluminum (Al), Phosphorus (P), etc., all being around 10% or 5%, very low. Calcium (Ca), which should be the most common element in bones, only accounted for about 3%.

This indicates that the calcium in his bones has been gradually replaced by other elements during his evolution, now reduced to almost insignificant levels.

Flipping through the data, Wang Ye discovered that the spectrometer could only analyze approximately 80% of the material; the remaining 20% was beyond its capabilities.

However, Wang Ye didn’t think this was some mysterious metal; he speculated that this remaining 20% was likely organic matter, like collagen, which gives bones their toughness. In normal bones, inorganic matter—hydroxyapatite—accounts for about 60%, providing hardness, while the remaining 40% mainly consists of collagen fibers and proteoglycans, giving bones elasticity and toughness.

The fact that his organic material only accounts for 20% is already very little, possibly due to the testing site being the little finger bone.

He recorded his bone composition table in his mind and then shut down the computer; this bone composition table would come in handy for him. In future evolutions, he can refer to it to observe his bone evolution trends, whether it’s moving towards hardness, toughness, or stress. Moreover, he can supplement metal elements based on the evolutionary trend, improving his evolutionary efficiency. Once his laboratory is fully equipped, he can conduct a series of experiments based on his bones.

Most importantly, upon learning the primary components of his bones, he felt more guided in practicing the Bone Shrinking Skill,

knowing that the current Bone Shrinking Skill is primarily designed for training people with calcium-based bone composition. However, now that Wang Ye’s bone composition has changed entirely, many existing concepts and training methods can be altered.

After completing the analysis, Wang Ye immediately began training the Bone Shrinking Skill in the villa’s living room, specifically bone shrinking, softening, and hardening of certain bone areas.

He trained while experimenting with improvements to the Bone Shrinking Skill based on newfound inspirations in his mind, gradually breaking through previous thought barriers and discovering a new training method suitable for himself.

At the same time, unnoticed by him, the skill level of Bone Shrinking on the system panel was rapidly increasing.

Initially at level lv4,

the skill level was rising rapidly at a rate of 1% every five minutes.

After a morning of four hours, the skill level of Bone Shrinking reached perfection.

Just as Wang Ye was maneuvering his dislocated arms, a panel suddenly appeared before his eyes.

[You practiced the Bone Shrinking Skill, gaining insight, skill level increased by 1.5%.]

[Your Bone Shrinking Skill has reached full proficiency, upgraded from lv4 to lv5.]

[Bone Shrinking Skill lv5 (0.5%)]

[Traits: Bone development efficiency increased by 10%.]