If he devoured ten grams or even one hundred grams of uranium at once?

The accumulated toxins would probably be enough to kill him directly.

Moreover, the process of expelling the toxins is extremely time-consuming.

During this time, he could completely engage in other, more efficient training.

Instead of sitting idly in the dormitory, practicing the Creation Skill while detoxifying.

Just as Wang Ye was planning to make some preparations to go out for a while of training,

suddenly,

his dormitory door was knocked.

Wang Ye opened the door,

and only then did he know that the graphite ore he requested from Old Yi this morning had been delivered.

He followed the soldier who delivered the message downstairs,

and found several fully-loaded trucks parked below,

filled with pitch-black graphite ore.

Subsequently, the soldiers transported the graphite ore to a warehouse about ten kilometers away from the barracks. This area, including the warehouse, was already abandoned, but has now become Wang Ye’s laboratory under the orders from the higher-ups, dedicated to his energy experiments.

After the soldiers left, Wang Ye stood in the warehouse, picking up a fist-sized piece of graphite ore. The graphite ore was entirely pitch-black, with relatively low hardness, and could even be considered soft, as ordinary people could leave noticeable marks on it with their fingernails.

The texture was somewhat similar to coal, although this natural carbon mineral and coal are both carriers of carbon elements, they differ significantly in many ways. In terms of composition, natural carbon minerals are mainly composed of pure carbon, whereas coal is a complex mixture composed of multiple elements like carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, sulfur, etc.

The reason Wang Ye needed so much graphite ore was actually for the carbon atoms it contained.

Speaking of carbon atoms, one cannot help but mention the hardest material currently in the world—carbon acetylene.

It was synthesized in a laboratory by the United States in 2013 as a new material.

How hard is it?

According to relevant research papers, its strength is more than 200 times that of steel, 40 times that of diamond, and twice the tensile strength of graphene.

And this material is not naturally formed, but a man-made material. It is formed by chains of carbon atoms gathered together, connected by double bonds or alternating single and triple bonds. Due to its complex production process and current insufficient technology, a method for mass-producing carbon acetylene has not yet been found.

The reason Wang Ye requested such a large amount of carbon elements from the military was to manufacture this so-called carbon acetylene,

because he discovered in this battle that the hardness of his chromium element skeleton was no longer sufficient to support high-intensity sports and combat. He could sustain nearly indefinite explosive movements by devouring enough energy, such as one gram of uranium containing twenty billion calories.

But the hardness of chromium is only twice that of iron, and his skeleton is not purely made of chromium; there are other elements yet to be purified as impurities present in the bones, so the hardness is very low. If he exerts a bit of force to run at supersonic speed, his legs will fracture instantly. Although with his recovery ability, a fracture-level injury heals within half a second, it still inevitably slows him down, reducing his explosiveness. If it weren’t for Wang Ye’s high muscle density and strong recovery ability, he would have at least suffered thousands of comminuted fractures in this battle.

Simply recovering from bone injuries consumes a lot of energy, and the consumption speed of chromium is also very fast. After a battle, the hundreds of kilograms of chromium stored in his body are consumed by half at once.

Wang Ye’s weight is also down to a paltry three hundred kilograms.

Moreover, his muscle strength was actually also insufficient. The human body, after all, is composed of natural elements, especially muscles, which are tissues mainly composed of proteins, and their density cannot be infinitely increased unless the material of the muscle itself is changed.

Wang Ye’s idea is to directly change the composition of the muscles like the skeleton, namely to replace the muscle proteins with other more resilient materials. For example, replace the myosin heavy chains with carbon nanotube titanium alloy fibers and sarcoplasmic reticulations with graphene capacitors, directly increasing the energy storage density by a hundred times.

But these ideas are hard to implement,

because bodily evolution is ultimately about adapting to environmental changes. Moreover, having demands is not enough, one also needs raw materials. After all, even the cleverest housewife cannot cook without rice; without adequate raw materials, the body will only "evolve" to become weaker and weaker, consuming less and less energy to adapt to environmental changes.

Just like those small animals, most will evolve to become smaller, reducing their dietary intake to ensure their survival, while creatures that evolve poison glands will also become smaller to reduce consumption.

Predatory creatures, on the other hand, will evolve to become larger because they generally have ample food and need combat organs like claws and fangs.

In other words, when the element is absent from Wang Ye’s body, the body will not evolve in this direction,

in other words,

if Wang Ye deliberately devours this element,

the body will quickly replace the main body tissue components with this element.

This is why Wang Ye requested so much carbon from Old Yi. His first step was to change the bone structure by devouring a large amount of carbon. It’s just a pity those soldiers didn’t seem to transport diamonds, which have a higher carbon atom density. Devouring diamonds would undoubtedly allow Wang Ye’s skeletal evolution to be faster than simply consuming graphite ore.

As for muscle evolution, Wang Ye plans to wait until the bones have completely evolved before considering it, since muscle is fundamentally tissue attached to bones. Bones are the source of body strength and the root of support. Replacing the material of the bones with a stronger material will make subsequent evolution no longer a problem.

However, Wang Ye still faces many issues at the moment.

Just devouring carbon atoms won’t directly synthesize carbon acetylene inside his body.

The carbon acetylene currently created by humans is mainly synthesized in laboratories using specific chemical methods. At present, scientists use a method of pressing two layers of graphene together, then rolling it into double-walled carbon nanotubes, using nanotubes to encapsulate atoms and protect the carbon chain from disintegration.

That is to say, the production process requires extremely high precision. Even making it in a laboratory is quite difficult, given the advanced technology of humanity today, the production is incredibly challenging.

But Wang Ye intends to synthesize this element inside his body, which is naturally quite difficult.

Fortunately, after mastering the Creation Skill, he acquired a skill called [Reconstruction of All Things].

This skill can change the structure of matter at the atomic level, which means as long as Wang Ye knows the internal structure of the material in his hand and the internal structure of the material about to change, he can arbitrarily transform any substance, like turning fire into water, turning water into earth.

Therefore, Wang Ye plans to devour as much graphite ore as possible during this time, and use the Reconstruction of All Things skill to attempt to build the hardest material, carbon acetylene, in his bones.

Wang Ye closed the warehouse door, sat cross-legged on the ground, and began to chew a piece of graphite ore,

creak, creak.

A teeth-grinding sound echoed, as the mud-like graphite ore was chewed into powder by Wang Ye’s teeth and difficultly swallowed into his stomach.

The taste and texture of graphite ore are somewhat similar to wall plaster, extremely hard to swallow, with almost no taste, and when it meets saliva, it sticks to the inside of the mouth and throat. Fortunately, Wang Ye currently has little water in his body, and the amount of saliva is much less than before,

so he forcefully swallowed it into his stomach.

Once the graphite ore fragments entered the stomach, they began to be digested by stomach acid,

and became pure carbon atoms entering Wang Ye’s body.

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(Overtime on New Year’s Eve without taking leave, let’s see who dares to call me lazy dog.)