19 Differentiation

◎Officially become a sentry, salute!◎

After two months of intense training, everyone was left with only two feelings: open their eyes or fall asleep. Time flies, and the New Year is here in the blink of an eye.

Fortunately, the New Year was barely over.

On the second day, you need to catalyze differentiation and keep your spirits up. After excessive training, your body will be overdrawn and unable to digest the effects of the medicine, which may cause problems during differentiation.

Canxing still had the New Year holiday, and just like usual, they were busy putting up couplets and hanging lanterns. In the evening, they set off firecrackers and exploded small poppers, and watched the ground military district setting off fireworks on the ground from the broadcast screen.

Only the southern military region was allowed to set off fireworks. There, there was no wind or sand, so the fireworks wouldn't be lost in the yellow sand, but it was very cold, like a freezer where immortal objects were stored.

The military uniforms were heavily armed, and a thin layer of ice still formed on the exoskeleton. The fireworks exploded brilliantly, flickering with the starry sky, and fell with a long tail.

It is said that when humans were still living on earth, they had to take at least a week-long vacation and spend several days in batches, with things to do every day. Unlike them, they can do everything in one afternoon.

Yan Xunzhi grimaced, "It's because the Federation is too stingy... They're only willing to give me a day off!"

He complained again, "Isn't it a worship of gods and ghosts? I don't think they believe in them that much, otherwise they wouldn't give them a day off. Why, they decorate their house with lights and invite them over for dinner, and then send them away in the evening? That's disrespectful at all."

Shu Chi wrinkled his nose and silently moved the ladder to the side, "...Don't die and splatter my blood."

Yan Xunzhi laughed out loud.

After laughing, he was quite proud and said, "That's nothing!"

After the storms and waves that Instructor Kong had faced, this little bump wasn't enough to capsize her boat...

They were given three dumplings for dinner, and although they didn't know what the filling was, the canteen said it was vegetable. This was a rare improvement in their food all year, and everyone was eager to chew the dumplings until they were fully digested before swallowing them.

Occasionally, Ping Yihuai would look melancholy and say, "Tomorrow..."

She hadn't even finished uttering the first word when Shu Chi slammed her back, "Don't spoil the fun!"

When the long-awaited day finally arrived, everyone tacitly agreed not to mention it.

After the differentiation, there was a second simulation. Two weeks after the simulation, the team officially matched up. After the matching, they began to adapt to their new partners and prepare for the ground work. A month later, the experimental class officially moved to the ground, while the others moved to the ground in the Baita area.

The novelty of trying things out was completely worn out by the recent stifling training. Yan Xunzhi even wondered if they were the generation with the least hope for going to the ground - the experimental class went to the ground first before they were differentiated, and announced the cruelty of the ground with an injury rate of nearly half.

The most common way to describe the pain of a knife cut is fear. Some brave people may even try to show off by brandishing knives and guns, but they won't feel the pain until the knife actually pierces their flesh and blood.

Most people want to go to the surface and serve the Federation, but they don't want to die.

It was as if Yan Xunzhi had initially begged Kong Wei to get to the surface... Now he was dragging the auxiliary exoskeleton that he couldn't take off yet, sighing, and there was a dull pain at the place where the bones were reconnected.

Is that contradictory? No.

It’s cool to play with a knife, but it really hurts to get cut by it!

After dinner, there were some fun activities, including performances, raffles, and various games. It wasn't until 10 pm that the event ended and the hall was cleaned up.

After all the celebrations, there's always a sense of emptiness. After packing up the holiday items, Yirong gathered a table of people inside to play cards.

Their single room was small, as they didn't need to live in it. There was only a narrow aisle next to the single bed. Three people sat on the bed, and three people stood beside it. They played cards made of stacked waste paper and glued together.

"Go!"

At twelve o'clock, they were forced to go back to their rooms to rest. Fearing that they were too excited to sleep, the dormitory manager in charge of the floor even knocked on the door and gave them sleeping pills in each room.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the assembly bell rang and the students gathered in the monitoring room.

Differentiation, unlike mental matching, didn't involve numerous steps or rehearsals. The trainees simply placed the conductive patches on their body monitors one by one, then sat down and waited for a specialist to inject the drug.

First, general anesthesia was injected. Each person had a fist-sized IV drip, the back half of which contained a catalytic drug.

Not sure if it was because of the repair growth solution or a psychological effect, but Yan Xunzhi always felt that she was not as sensitive to Canxing's anesthetic after that.

Perhaps this is another way of saying that it is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but difficult to go from luxury to frugality...

This time it was general anesthesia, with a much larger injection than before. After the first shot, Yan Xunzhi felt a little sleepy. He glanced at the student next to him, who was already groggy and about to pass out.

She felt as if the dose of general anesthesia was not enough for her, so she rang the handbell next to her, wanting another one, "I..."

Because of their early arrival on the ground and the high-intensity training in preparation for differentiation, the Medical Department has naturally had a lot of pending matters recently. When divided among each medical staff, the workload has doubled.

The work was already annoying enough, and the medical officer was in a bad mood and interrupted me as soon as I started to speak, "Wait! Just wait a minute! It hasn't even finished dripping yet, how can you faint after just one injection!"

After saying that, he turned around and went to attack the next one.

Yan Xunzhi felt a little embarrassed. He touched his nose awkwardly and decided to wait until she finished playing a circle and came back.

By then, everyone around her was fast asleep, and she was the only one awake. Even a fool could tell something was wrong.

Unexpectedly, after one round of fighting, the medical staff all left through the rear exit.

Yan Xunzhi stretched his neck, not even having the chance to shout. He watched helplessly as the medical staff left him at a great distance, their footsteps like shadows, their figures disappearing quickly behind the door, eager to leave.

Hey! Don’t you even check?

According to Kong Wei at the time, the purpose of anesthesia was to relieve pain, allow them to complete the injection and differentiation without knowing it, and not fight against the drugs, maximizing cell activation to avoid casting a shadow on these things and affecting the effect.

Yan Xunzhi knew that he might not be lucky enough to faint, so he just hoped that the anesthetic would be effective and that... the catalytic drug would not be so painful.

Sure enough, human luck is conserved.

If you enjoy the sweetness, you will have to pay it back one day.

In fact, it is not the medical staff's fault. Although they are incubated uniformly, the genes provided are different, the choices are also different, and everyone's physique is different. Some are more resistant to drugs, so we have to wait before they respond.

And such an advanced thing as the repair growth liquid... let alone being willing to give it to the students, the number of people in the entire White Tower of Canxing who have seen the real thing is probably not enough to fill a whole class.

Although Yan Xunzhi had registered this during his last treatment, the shocking news instantly ignited the entire medical department. Everyone knew that a student in the experimental class had been injected with such a high-level drug. However, no one connected this undifferentiated student, ranked last, seemingly unaccomplished, and unremarkable, with the experimental class student who had been personally injected with the drug by the chief instructor.

The medical staff who gave her the injection happened to have never seen Yan Xunzhi before. He felt a little familiar with the name and thought he had seen it when dispensing medicine.

Confirm the name, tick it, inject it, and the task is completed.

The tasks of rescue and care have been heavy enough recently, and she is too lazy to spend any more time thinking about easy tasks like injecting medicine.

As the anesthesia slowly dripped away, Yan Xunzhi began to feel sleepy. His head couldn't help but droop down, and he leaned back slightly.

It seems it is still useful... she thought in confusion.

The drug's effect burst out in the blood. At first, it was a bit like the usual EV drug injection. There was no feeling, only the body temperature rose, which seemed to be a catalyst.

But the temperature kept rising uncontrollably. Yan Xunzhi felt a little chest tightness in a half-awake state, as if he was thrown into a narrow, closed room with no ventilation, and a pot of boiling water next to him that was constantly heating up.

Subconsciously, she grabbed her training suit and pulled it down, widening the collar a little, but the tightness in her chest remained unabated, and even became more intense, as if boiling water was placed in her abdominal cavity, and the steam was about to cook her internal organs.

The joints creaked and the bones ached from the inside out.

The data on the monitoring instrument were all normal, but Yan Xunzhi couldn't help struggling to escape. His movements were too big and a conductive patch on the back of his hand was torn off.

Her machine suddenly sounded an alarm.

A team of medical staff rushed in from the back door, carrying a metal box. Seeing Yan Xunzhi twisting uncomfortably in the chair, they opened the box on the spot, disinfected it, and took out an anesthetic and injected it into him.

Yan Xunzhi still felt uncomfortable sitting on the chair, but his five senses seemed to be gradually fading away, and the discomfort was like light feathers.

The medical officer pinched her for a minute, and seeing that she was not yet completely asleep, he gave her another injection.

Yan Xunzhi was completely swallowed into the boundless darkness along with the feather.

She was finally completely anesthetized, and the conductive patch was reapplied. The medical captain came forward to check and confirmed everything was fine. With a gloomy face, he began to ask for the blame, "Who gave her the injection?"

The medical officer who was administering the follow-up shot flipped through the injection record and said, "Number 17."

"Tell her to come to me." The medical captain's tone was unfriendly. No one would be happy about a job that came out of nowhere. "Let's check if this student has any special medical history and what the genetic test results are. This injection volume is clearly beyond the range."

The backup medic agreed, packed up his toolbox, and suddenly thought of something. He paused and looked at the student's name tag.

Yan Xunzhi.

She was stunned for a moment, "Captain..." The captain turned around and she pointed at the name tag, "This looks like Yan Xunzhi, the one who registered for the repair growth liquid."

The medical captain turned back to check her name tag and hummed.

After a moment, he waved his hand and said, "Alright. That's it. No need to let No. 17 come to find me."

There are very few drugs that can cause significant resistance to anesthesia - Edge of the White Tower, this is probably the only time that you will make a mistake that will kill you in your lifetime.

He didn't feel anything, it seemed like only a second had passed since he closed his eyes, and then Yan Xunzhi was woken up by the slap.

The differentiation was complete. She had been injected with an overdose of anesthesia and her head was still a little dizzy. She jumped down from the chair woodenly as instructed.

The anesthesia had not worn off yet, my legs were weak, and I almost fell to the ground.

Yan Xunzhi has become very proficient in wearing the exoskeleton to assist walking these days. She subconsciously uses the exoskeleton to support herself, but then she remembers that she has not yet connected it.

He woke up instantly, closed his eyes in pain, and waited to be torn apart.

No.

After just a stretch, she was surprised to find her leg was completely healed. She jumped twice in place, and her leg didn't hurt. Instead, her muscles felt stronger, and she jumped more easily and higher.

Unleash your mental power, and the vigorous and surging mental power will push the spiritual realm to continuously expand outward. The fluctuations are gentle, but the energy is more condensed.

The overall physical fitness has been significantly improved. Yan Xunzhi was amazed at this qualitative change. If every day training is like differentiation...

【Author’s words】

Kong Wei: You are just dreaming (sweating like soybeans).