To Gao Long's surprise, the wrapped piece of flesh not only looked perfectly intact, but even looked somewhat lifelike.
To prove it wasn't his imagination, he pinched the flesh with his fingers and gently squeezed it.
It feels cool to the touch and is very elastic; the stains from the previous dyeing are still visible.
When the ice shards melted, the flesh did not turn to ashes like the pieces of flesh that had been cut off by the glass knife; it remained lifelike, as if it had just been cut from his body.
"What the hell? Could this piece of meat have suddenly come to life?"
Even though it was something on his own body, Gao Feng still felt a little creeped out. Fortunately, he didn't forget what he was supposed to do. He took out his Swiss Army knife and began to vigorously slash at the flesh. He was going to cut the flesh into pieces so that he could easily make slices and observe them under a microscope.
With some effort, Gao Ang finally managed to scrape off a tiny bit of minced meat from the top, and then, based on the knowledge he learned in his junior high school textbook, he sliced the meat into pieces.
After connecting the microscope to the computer and turning on the recording function, Gao Feng went to the microscope.
He had already set up the microscope in advance according to the instructions, and now all he had to do was adjust the light and observe.
Rotate the converter to align the low-power objective lens with the aperture. If you can see a bright white field of view through the eyepiece, it means the light has been successfully focused.
Place the prepared skin and flesh slide specimen onto the stage, hold it in place with a slide, and align the specimen with the center of the light aperture.
Rotate the coarse adjustment knob until the objective lens is close to, but just a tiny bit short of, touching the slide.
Then Gao Ang brought his left eye close to the eyepiece and began to rotate the coarse focus knob, slowly adjusting the distance between himself and the slide. When he could see the content clearly, he slowly adjusted the fine focus knob. Only then did he truly see the real face of his own skin cells.
The first layer should be the stratum corneum, with a honeycomb-like structure, densely packed with dead cells. This shape seems different from what he saw in his high school biology textbook.
There's no time to make comparisons right now, so Gao Ang will continue to observe. Everything he sees will be faithfully recorded by the computer, and there will be plenty of time to make comparisons.
After observing and recording everything from the stratum corneum to the stratum lucidum and stratum granulosum, Gao Ang replaced the slide.
He picked up the glass cutter again and stabbed it hard into his left arm. This time he didn't stop. Gao Ang repeated the same action for more than a minute until he finally managed to tear off a small piece of flesh.
He finally understood why the small piece of skin he had just removed had turned into ashes: it was simply because it was a layer of epidermal cells from the stratum corneum—in other words, it was originally just ashes…
Following the previous experimental procedures, Gao Ang recorded another video of the observation of this new piece of skin.
After finishing all this, he opened a search engine, searched for a medical website on Baidu, downloaded several high-definition images of skin cell structure, and then opened the two previous videos to make a comparison.
The stratum corneum is indeed very different from that of a normal person. The stratum corneum cells of a normal person are flat and accumulate in layers, while the stratum corneum cells of my own are hexagonal and accumulate in a honeycomb pattern.
The hexagonal structure... this shape reminded Gao Ang of a material: graphene.
As a law graduate, he couldn't explain why hexagonal honeycomb-shaped materials were so tough and strong, but that didn't stop him from reasonably explaining why his skin had become so abnormal—it was all because of the shape and stacking structure of the cells.
Graphene is one of the strongest materials known, and it also has excellent toughness; its hardness is even higher than that of diamond.
He also discovered that his cell structure changed gradually.
The stratum corneum of the first piece of skin and flesh that was cut off, although it also had a honeycomb structure, did not have many hexagonal cells. Only the cells closest to the germinal layer had become hexagonal, while the outermost first layer, which is the layer exposed to air, still had a few cells that were still undergoing changes.
This would explain why he had become invulnerable to swords and spears. Gao Feng roughly imagined the scene:
Due to the white sphere, the body itself mutated, and the first thing affected was the cellular structure. Under the influence of external forces, the cellular structure produced a new type of chemical element, similar to chlorophyll but not green, which could replenish its energy through 'photosynthesis-like' processes. At the same time, the cellular structure also began to mutate in a strengthening direction under this external force. The germinal layer cells have the function of producing hexagonal cells. Of course, we cannot rule out the possibility that cells in other parts of the body, such as gastric mucosa cells, are also hexagonal. These can only be tested later when there is time.
This also explains why I can cut my own skin with a glass cutter. One reason is that my cells are still growing and have not yet reached the strength of graphene. Another reason may be the angle of the force.
The first reason is easy to understand, and the second reason can be explained with an example: two objects of the same mass and height, one a piece of wood and the other a stick, the piece of wood cannot penetrate the paper, but the stick can if it is positioned at the right angle.
While Gao Ang was conducting experiments, Xiao Hua watched quietly from the side, occasionally scratching her nose with her paw, a very human-like action.
Seeing Gao Ang sitting there in a daze, Xiao Hua leaped off the bed and jumped onto his shoulder.
"What are you doing? You scared me."
"Meow."
After making that sound, Xiaohua stuck out her tongue and licked her little mouth.
Are you hungry?
"Meow."
Speechless, I found a bag of dried yellow croaker in the refrigerator, tore open the packaging, and then found a garbage bag to put on the floor. "Eat up, eat slowly, don't make a mess on the floor, or I'll have to mop it for you."
He was puzzled as to why Xiaohua could understand what he was saying, but he couldn't understand what Xiaohua was trying to express.
You have to guess what it's going to do based on its movements. When it's hungry, it licks its little mouth; when it wants to pee, it lifts its legs... Where did it learn all this from?
Xia Weiwei, dragging her tired body home, saw Gao Ang playing with Xiao Hua as soon as she entered the door and said with displeasure:
"Didn't I say that I can't keep pets?"
"Xiaohua, say hello to the landlord!" Gao Ang didn't speak directly; he had to take a roundabout approach.
"Meow."
Little Flower called out softly, jumped off the sofa, ran around Xia Weiwei twice, wagging its tail and tilting its little head up to try and win Xia Weiwei's approval.
Xia Weiwei squinted at Xiaohua's performance, unable to discern any emotional fluctuations from her cold face, and Gao Feng was unsure whether she was buying it.
It's said that girls are made of water, so if she really hardens her heart and refuses Xiaohua's move-in, he'll have to find another place to live.
Villas are valuable, but beautiful women are even more expensive;
If they are of the same kind, both can be discarded.
More than a minute passed, until Little Flower's tail could barely wag anymore, and her initially joyful face gradually turned pitiful, before Xia Weiwei finally spoke:
"Take good care of it."
I don't know if it means to take good care of Xiaohua, or to keep an eye on it and not make a mess of the house.
Watching Xia Weiwei gracefully ascend the stairs, Gao Ang held up five fingers to Xiao Hua. Xiao Hua leaped onto the back of the sofa and gave him a 'Give Me Five' with her paw.
"Dude, you're really something else!"
He taught it this move that afternoon, and Gao Feng simply couldn't understand why a cat's intelligence could become so high.
During dinner, Xia Weiwei remained silent. She showed neither dislike nor particular joy at Xiao Hua's arrival, most likely because she was still preoccupied with the case.
"How's the case going?" Gao Feng asked, trying to make conversation.
"Thank you!" The unexpected thank you left Gao Feng a little bewildered.
"Zhang Jianping's human tissue was found in the sewers..."
After Xia Weiwei's brief explanation, Gao Ang finally understood the whole story.
He could only smell Zhang Jianping's extremely strong odor molecules in the sewer, but he couldn't smell how he was victimized or how he was dumped there.
"I never imagined that a housewife could have such ruthless methods. Truly, the most poisonous heart is that of a woman!"
Gao Ang shook his head and sighed, while his right hand was still stroking the little flower.
"Hmm?" Xia Weiwei glared at her with displeasure.
"Uh, I wasn't talking about you, it was a slip of the tongue," Gao Ang quickly explained, but in his heart he was thinking: Besides, you're not a woman.
"The team leader and his men did not get any results from the interrogation."
"Isn't that just a matter of time? As long as the motive exists and the chain of evidence is complete, she can still be prosecuted, and she can't escape the death penalty."
Gao Ang said dismissively, "The net of heaven is vast, and though its meshes are wide, nothing escapes it. No matter how evil is committed, it will ultimately not escape the punishment of the law, let alone such a cruel and heinous case. No matter the reason, the criminals should be punished."
“But I feel like Wu Mei isn’t lying,” Xia Weiwei said hesitantly, a sentence she had kept to herself for a long time.
While at the station, she watched the interrogation of Wu Mei by Captain Hou. All of Wu Mei's expressions and actions were vivid in her mind. Her nervousness and confusion did not seem to be feigned.
The tension might stem from why she was arrested, while the confusion likely arises from why she was identified as the murderer.
Moreover, no matter how much Captain Hou helped her recall the details of the crime, she had no memory of it at all, just like an innocent person who knew nothing.
“You can’t show sympathy just because she’s a woman. Any criminal will initially deny it when faced with severe legal punishment, let alone such a heinous crime. It’s normal for her to deny it. If she had admitted it outright, it would have raised suspicions.”
Despite Xia Weiwei's explanation, Gao Ang did not lessen his suspicions about Wu Mei.
He doesn't believe in innocence, only in evidence. Faced with irrefutable evidence, any pretense is a meaningless struggle.
“But there are still many doubts in this case.” Xia Weiwei frowned, still sticking to her judgment.
"That's your problem. You should rest first. I'll take Xiaohua out for a walk."
He waved to Xiaohua, and Xiaohua immediately jumped up and perched on his shoulder, acting as if she were an eagle.
It was almost 10 p.m., and everyone who should be resting had already gone to bed. Going to Vanke Apartments to look for clues at this time would probably not attract much attention.
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P.S.
A couple of complaints:
Suddenly, for some reason, a lot of fake accounts started sending one recommendation. I don't know if they're real readers or if they've been sabotaged by other authors...
Looking at the records, most of them have a prefix or suffix like "Benben," which clearly indicates a large-scale army operation.
I'm a little panicked...
P.S.: There's an extra chapter today!
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