Chapter 603 - 574: Lizard Rage Component Type II

This place was indeed nice. By late night, those who needed to rest had done so, and Lille walked into a room prepared just for him.

The entire floor had an abandoned, outdated Thunder Power engine serving as the power generator; with a different group of people, they could have just barely managed to generate power.

However, things were different with Lille here. He had thoroughly researched the old models of Thunder Power engines, replaced a few worn-out parts, added a bottle of oil, and the device could operate at full capacity.

At the same time, the Animal Gang also had two vehicles stuffed with graphene batteries, equipped with stabilizers, uninterrupted power supplies, surge protectors, filters, transformers, and voltage regulators.

The current was sent to a communications vehicle overseeing network surveillance, serving as a communication base, and into this room to supply various manufacturing equipment, turning this place into a well-equipped small base.

The equipment Lille had bought from Allen was mainly biotechnological: stem cell cultivation and augmentation devices, cell detection and screening equipment, and a biological printer.

With these devices, Lille was able to use a small amount of Lizard Serum, mixed with a small tube of bone marrow extracted from the bodies of Jack and Matt, cultivated through a bioreactor, and then load the cultivated cells batch by batch into what was termed "cell adapted" prosthetics.

This type of prosthetic primarily aided in better binding of epidermal prosthetics to subdermal cells, enhancing the effectiveness of epidermal prosthetics and reducing immune reactions. The smaller the material scale, the better the performance.

Therefore, this type of prosthetic was foundational for casting human Lizard muscle prosthetics — at Atlas Group, Professor Conners and Peter had already mass-produced them based on Biotechnology company’s Molecular Sieve. However, on this side, purchasing activities were easily traceable, so one had to either buy stealthily or just seize them directly.

Cultivating human cells took only half an hour, but encapsulating cell adaptation for muscle cell screening was much more troublesome—

Without a complete production line and adapted equipment, Lille had to manually use precision mechanical hands for encapsulation.

Thus, the whole process lasted all night.

Encapsulating, then using the biological printer to weave the needed muscles and connective tissues on titanium alloy skeletons and bionic joints, and finally, using a threading machine to arrange artificial blood vessels inside, which were used to transport prosthetics maintenance fluids, blood, and similar bodily fluids; conductive bio-cables.

The bio-cables made of Spider Silk were encased in specially designed isolation containers to ensure stability and functionally stimulate artificial muscles, also serving as high-strength insurance fibers to prevent muscle tears or limb distortions.

Such prosthetics were based on the structure of a human body, but improved on some outdated parts, for instance, changing a single joint structure of a motion axis to an integrated multi-joint integrating multiple motion axes, enhancing force transmission mechanisms and increasing flexibility;

Add staggered muscle arrangements in appropriate places to improve the situation of overly concentrated force, increase the toughness of artificial muscles, and reduce the involvement of Lizard Serum.

As for the shell... Lizard cells almost had no immune reaction, allowing one to consider the practicality of the shell to the greatest extent.

Thus, Lille directly integrated armor into the surface of the muscles, adopting a modular design similar to a gorilla’s arm for the skin surface. Since this design didn’t require many motors and transmission shafts, it freed up considerable space, supporting more extensive surface prosthetic systems.

These designs had already become the standard for the second-generation prosthetics at Atlas Group, representing the essence of advanced prosthetic research labs. Personally, going through this process deepened Lille’s understanding of these prosthetics significantly.

This was for Jack, so both arms were entirely replaced, while other parts mainly replaced muscles, optimized skeletal structures for bearing loads, but preserved his native nervous system.

The Lizard Berserk components were then readjusted to reroute supply lines, no longer using an auxiliary heart but integrating into an additional spine. A separate circulatory system was used to supply these artificial muscles, further significantly reducing the likelihood of serum affecting the brain.

This was a meticulous surgical process, and this entire system was custom-designed second-generation Lizard Berserk components for Jack.

(Unarmored version)

[Technology Implemented]

[Lizard Berserk Components Model II]

[Description: A further application of all explored technologies, more sophisticated design, and better performance, along with lower risk.]

[Reward Technology Points: 500]

[Current Technology Points: 22000]

Early in the morning, as soon as Jack woke up, Lille called him into the operating room, and quickly completed the prosthetic implantation.

The Lizard Serum decompressor at his spine operated, and with only the heart needed to supply the brain and some nerves, Jack felt...

He felt an unprecedented clarity in his brain, almost as if he was breathing oxygen.

The intense urge to eat that had begun at some unknown point after adopting the Lizard Serum suddenly vanished. He no longer needed to bear the inexplicable hunger, instead, increased oxygen supply to his brain made him more alert.

The superiority of this synthetic muscle lay in the fact that it was composed of his own cells, thus, immune reactions were almost negligible.

In this world, everyone with prosthetics had to face the problem of their body rejecting the prosthetic parts, the difference was only in severity.

The Lizard Man synthetic muscles were extremely light, one could say almost non-existent.

Jack raised his hand and moved his arm...

"Strange... It feels like my hand has returned," as the Lizard Man cells woke and the anesthesia metabolized quickly, Jack only felt clearer, "and... it feels like I am back to my childhood."

"Theoretically, it indeed has come back, each muscle is actually made from your cells, and because there is none of the aggressive inequality that existed in the first version, the precision has greatly improved," Lille concluded.

Lille put away the surgical equipment, and Jack sat up... looking at Lille with a complex expression.

Different from him reusing his own muscles, Lille’s two hands...

were using distinctly more primitive mechanical prosthetics.

This scene made V frown deeply: "What are you proving? Jack gets the best and you use this... junk?"

"This is not junk; it’s high-end stuff made from parts worth over sixty thousand dollars," Lille grasped his hand.

Indeed, it was a mechanical prosthetic, but not junk; on the contrary, it was quite high-end—

It was a special mechanical arm that he and Munemasa had assembled personally, inheriting tools that a prosthetic doctor and technology expert might use, considered the power needed and the precision of the tools to create this purely mechanical prosthetic.

It’s less of a prosthetic and more of an ultra-precise industrial arm capable of performing prosthetic surgery at the cellular level.

However, due to the material limitations of the industrial arm itself, while it reduced Lille’s need for Lizard Serum, it did cause an immune reaction at the human-machine interface.

So now Lille had greatly reduced the need for Lizard Serum and added several dedicated pipelines for injecting Chlorobilin Immunosuppressant.

"These arms are just a bit too heavy; if nothing else, I might need to often sit in a wheelchair,"

Lille moved his electric wheelchair—

Little Octopus jumped out, settling on Lille’s head and gently caressed with pity:

[Little Octopus: Big brother is working too hard, I will never call big brother weak again.]

But then a three-wheeled vehicle appeared in their view, beeping twice.

Clearly, it was a toned-down version of Da Mai, because the equipment was subpar causing its cyber appearance to transform into a three-wheeler.

Lille shrugged his shoulders and tapped the wheelchair he was pressing: "A sixty-thousand-dollar wheelchair, thankfully Da Mai doesn’t demand much from the central processor."

"Is this about money?" V folded his arms, his face unfriendly as he leaned into Lille’s face, "What if a fight breaks out? Are you going to race through the streets in a wheelchair?"

"When the time comes, you’ll understand. This wheelchair’s performance is truly not weak."

Lille pushed away V’s dissatisfied face and looked towards the door: "Next!"