Transmigrator's Guide to Conquering Another World-Chapter 483 - 447: Human Spine!!!

"The muscle fibers in the flesh are suspected to have significantly disappeared during the Thunder Tribulation, leading to a decrease in the overall density of the flesh, meaning the sample has become lighter?"

Inside the laboratory.

Yang Tianwen was holding a report in one hand and adjusting his glasses with the other, softly reading out the results from the experimental report:

"The density of the remaining flesh samples is approximately 3.1~3.5g/cm³, which is about three times the density of water?"

Generally speaking, the density of most local meats is very close to that of water.

For example, chicken meat has a density of 1g/cm³, and beef has a density of around 1.2/cm³.

Pork has the lowest density, fluctuating around 0.97/cm³.

The snake centipede sample, even with its altered density, still remains quite high, though much lower than its original density of over 20 tons.

And this is actually an abnormal phenomenon.

Because, in theory, the Thunder Tribulation does not possess the function of 'slimming' on a microscopic level.

Its known effects are quite direct:

Either it completely obliterates all flesh, leaving nothing but debris.

Or, it causes some kind of chemical reaction, producing unknown solid fat substances.

This situation of reducing the density of meat is the first of its kind so far.

Then Yang Tianwen flipped the report and glanced at the next page.

After looking at it for only a moment, he exclaimed softly:

"Hmm? The spine of the snake centipede also shrank?

But the internal structure and material ratio have almost no change?"

Luo Feng nodded, with a puzzled expression on his face:

"That's right, the spine looks like it has been shrunk by some shrinking ray, both in a macro and micro sense, it has reduced several times in size."

Yang Tianwen pondered for a moment, then suddenly said:

"Xiaoluo, what do you think would happen if we continued?"

Luo Feng blinked, not quite following his teacher's train of thought:

"Elder Yang, when you say continue, you mean…?"

"Continue to bombard it with the Thunder Tribulation and see what the spine ultimately becomes."

Luo Feng was taken aback by his words, but soon his eyes lit up.

Indeed.

Since the snake centipede's flesh doesn't completely dissipate under the Thunder Tribulation, we can further increase the bombardment frequency or energy and observe what happens under extreme conditions.

After all, the worst-case scenario is it all turning into ash, just a piece of flesh sample, there can be hundreds of pieces cut from a snake centipede anyway.

To use a current online lingo, it's basically...

Increase the intensity!

As the chief in charge of the laboratory, Yang Tianwen naturally has considerable autonomy in experiments.

Therefore, once he proposed his idea, the team immediately began preparations.

Soon, a new piece of flesh sample with the spine was placed on the test bench.

The subsequent procedure involved transferring and dropping the energy from the Thunder Tribulation.

The switch was pressed.

Boom——

This time.

A Thunder Tribulation, both in energy level and duration substantially longer, struck heavily onto the flesh sample.

Five seconds later.

The Thunder Tribulation ceased.

At this moment, on the test bench.

The flesh in the snake centipede sample had long since disappeared, but that section of the spine—or rather, the spinal bone appeared even more pristine.

Soon.

This section of the spinal bone was removed from the test bench and sent to the sample analysis room for the next stage of research.

Another hour passed.

Luo Feng came over with the analysis report, and his hurried pace indicated that the young man's mood was far from calm at the moment:

"Elder Yang, the results are in!"

Yang Tianwen lifted his eyelids to glance at his student, vaguely sensing something.

However, as a dignified academician, he maintained a calm expression:

"What are the results?"

Luo Feng swallowed heavily before speaking:

"Elder Yang, the original spinal bone in the snake centipede was about thirteen meters in length and twenty-eight centimeters in horizontal width.

After the bombardment by the Thunder Tribulation, the length of the spinal bone unit was reduced to 6% of its original size, and the width was reduced to 3.6 centimeters.

Furthermore,

we analyzed the curvature, facet joints, and inner and outer edges of the spinal bone and found.....

something similar to human spinous processes.

Based on the analysis of the current sample, we have reached a startling conclusion....."

After summarizing, Luo Feng paused and took a deep breath to conclude:

"This section of the spinal bone is highly suspected to be... a human thoracic vertebra."

Anyone who has dissected a human—er, medical students should know.

The adult human spine is made up of 26 vertebrae.

Specifically, seven cervical, twelve thoracic, five lumbar, one sacral, and one coccygeal, connected by ligaments, joints, and intervertebral discs.

Besides.

The human spine has curvatures of cervical lordosis, thoracic kyphosis, lumbar lordosis, and sacral kyphosis.

Combining some other characteristic details,

the features of the human spine are quite distinct, especially when compared to other vertebrates.

Even creatures like monkeys, apes, and baboons have obvious differences compared to humans in their spines.

If that's the case for apes and monkeys,

then it's even more different for snake centipedes or centipedes.

Upon hearing Luo Feng's report, the expression on Yang Tianwen's face gradually became serious.

In the past period of time,

the frontier camp has conducted extensive research on Tier Three demon beasts.

Not to mention anything distant,

just during the time at Xiaolianzi Mountain, the killing of seven Tier Three demon beasts alone provided the rabbits with over a hundred opportunities for analysis.

But whether it was the Tiger Demon or the mantis larvae,

there has never been a detection of a human-like spine structure in their remains, otherwise, the camp would have been turned upside down.

This suggests that,

there seems to be certain special differences between the local beasts and those of the Demon Realm.

Then suddenly Yang Tianwen thought of something:

"Wait, it's said that the Wu Long can transform into human form, could this be related to this spine?"

Luo Feng was taken aback by his words and soon fell into deep thought as well.

It was mentioned before,

that with the discovery of the snake centipede remnants, "The Investiture of the Gods" seems to no longer be just a purely fictional novel.

As a literary work, conducting secondary creation or exaggeration to a certain degree is quite normal.

But portraying a dozen-meter-long demon beast as a human form contradicts the norms of literary creation.

Thus, in theory, there's a possibility:

At some point, Wu Long indeed appeared in human form—or at worst, in a furry form.

And with demon beasts transforming into a human appearance, this involves the concept of:

Shape transformation.

With the detection of such a suspected human-like spine inside the snake centipede, could it be related to shape transformation?

If this is indeed the case, then the question arises:

What role does the Thunder Tribulation play in this process?

Does it restore the spine to its original state, or does it promote the change in the spine?

It's important to know, these two scenarios are entirely different concepts.

The former could be seen as a catgirl becoming a cat, the latter is a cat turning into a catgirl.

"Something's not right...."

During his contemplation, Yang Tianwen suddenly realized another point:

"Xiaoluo, for this spine to withstand the Thunder Tribulation, it should be of Tier Four or Nascent Soul-level material, right?"

Luo Feng seemed slightly unsure but nodded:

"Correct."

Then Yang Tianwen picked up a Tier Three scalpel imbued with charms from the table and spun it under the light:

"But why could our Tier Three scalpel cut this spine material into two segments?"

Luo Feng was instantly stunned.

Yang Tianwen continued:

"If the spinal bones of a Tier Four demon beast were this easy to sever, wouldn't the realm of the demons just stab them with knives easily?

If the age has dulled the bones, theoretically the Thunder Tribulation could blast it into powder, right?

Or is it...

This spine possesses a special property that allows it to react with the Thunder Tribulation, regardless of how many years have passed?"

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