My Monster Fuses Everything

Chapter 424: Chapter 320 Advancement of the Mother Worm_2
 

All the military leaders from the three corps had arrived, and bottles of Maotai were lined up on the table.

The clinking of cups and the loud encouragement to drink made for a boisterous atmosphere.

Even the injured, Qin Henghu, repeatedly ordered them not to drink, but couldn’t stop them from taking one drink after another.

Was it rude?

Facing two fourth-order monsters, each over seventy or eighty meters tall, with third-order strength, worrying every day about monster attacks, seeing their own men, their comrades die every day, worrying about what to do with the tens of hundreds of thousands of survivors if the Sanjiang Dam were to collapse?

Under such pressure, even if they were a group of soldiers with wills as strong as steel, it was inevitable they felt terribly oppressed in their hearts.

Now that they finally felt a lot more relaxed, how could they not let off some steam?

The one who drank the most fiercely wasn’t anyone else but Ma Yilin, the injured soldier.

He held a cup in one hand and swung an empty sleeve with the other, his neck flushed red, and the wine spilled from his cup due to his trembling body.

He kept muttering, “I told them to retreat, to move away, to move next to Wushan City, it’s safe there… damn stubbornness, talking about Sanjiang being their home, sharing life and death, do I need you to share life and death?… I defend… I keep the Sanjiang Dam from collapsing… that’s my home… my home!” “Thank you, Lord Su, thank you… My life, Ma Yilin, is yours… No, that’s wrong… first it belongs to the country… then I can give it to you…”

Amidst the slurred drunken words, Qin Henghu had the guards take this disgraceful fellow back to the temporary hospital to finally quiet him down.

After three rounds of drinks, the party gradually dispersed, and Qin Henghu, who hadn’t drunk much, found Su Han and handed him a crumpled cigarette.

Su Han declined, and the old man silently lit one for himself.

“Ma Yilin is an immigrant from Sanjiang,” Qin Henghu said as he drew on a cigarette and exhaled a heavy cloud of smoke. “His home is right near the dam. When the water rose, their village was the first to be flooded. That damn kid enlisted in the army back then, and he was the one who persuaded the whole village to move. He always led the charge when something happened, anything related to Sanjiang City, he never took a step back, earthquake resistance, snow disasters… as long as he’s there for a day, he’ll protect his home for a day. But this time, losing an arm has him feeling troubled and agitated.”

Ma Yilin, as a leader and a third-order contractor, would never have gotten this drunk if he hadn’t deliberately drowned his sorrows.

Who didn’t know his pain?

But what could be done? Even with Angel Envoy intact, everyone knew it would take an extraordinarily long time for his arm to recover.

“How many casualties were there defending the Sanjiang Dam this time?” Qin Henghu asked.

“723 warriors dead, 1323 injured, 214 of whom are disabled,” Qin Henghu replied with a heavy heart, remembering every single number.

“I will take care of them; the Armed Forces are vast, and there will always be a place for them. As long as I’m here, they’ll be provided for.”

They were not deserters who feared death; they were warriors injured in the protection of the base, and it was the responsibility of the Armed Forces to take good care of them.@@novelbin@@

“I can attach their severed limbs for them, though there might be some differences from normal people.”

Su Han’s eyes flickered slightly as he slowly spoke.

“What?!” Qin Henghu’s cigarette fell to the ground as he stared into Su Han’s eyes. “Are you serious?”

“Heteromorphic transformation, replacing the amputated limbs with bug-quality limbs resembling human hands and feet, structurally like human limbs but essentially made of special tissues, can function normally,” Su Han looked up slightly, speaking slowly. “You can consider it a special kind of prosthetic.”

“Great stuff, wonderful indeed,” Qin Henghu’s eyes suddenly welled up with tears, and his shoulders trembled slightly. The Southwest Military Preparedness Force had taken down three cities so quickly and established a joint base, and there were far more soldiers with injuries and disabilities than just this number.

Even if it wasn’t limb regeneration, prosthetics represented a new beginning.

“Lord Su, name your price, please. I implore you to include this bug limb project in our deal, I beg you.”

Qin Henghu’s tone was extremely sincere; this was no longer just a trade, but a beacon of hope for many warriors to start anew.

“I’ll pass along the instructions, the exchange price won’t be set too high, but you need to make sure the people fitted with bug limbs are worth it.”

“I stake my life on it.”

Qin Henghu was adamant, standing straight as a pine, his words powerfully resolute.

….

In three days, the Mother Worm had completed the live Fusion of two Black Sturgeon Beasts, although it had undergone some lizardization, the essence was still that of the Black Sturgeon Beast, therefore the two were of the same nature.

The Fusion progress of the Black Sturgeon Beast had reached 63%. The progress was not low, but it had not reached completion.

However, monster carcasses from the entire Sanjiang area continued to be delivered non-stop, totaling 340,000.

Qin Henghu could be said to have given his full support to Su Han’s requests.

There were still more monster carcasses in Wushan City and Tang City. Qin Henghu had already ordered them to be gathered, but Su Han stopped him.

Because once the live Fusion was complete, they could Fusion the local monster carcasses as materials. He could then directly take the Mother Worm back to Wushan City without much hassle.

After another two days, under the terrifying Fusion speed of the Mother Worm, the Fusion progress of the Black Sturgeon Beast reached 91%.

Five days had passed, and Sanjiang City had also gotten back on track. New Recruits 2nd Regiment, 81st Regiment were redeployed, and Liu Wenchuan was officially appointed as the city’s defense chief, overseeing all of Sanjiang City’s affairs.

The inspection and repair of the Sanjiang Dam were complete; damaged units were being fixed. Any structural damages were immediately repaired, and the trade with the Tree Domain was expedited – the Black Rock Tree Monsters had to be prioritized.

In a few more days, once the Sanjiang Dam was repaired and operational, the power supply of the Wushan Base would become extremely abundant. Such an energy source could not only be used for industrial production.

If used properly, perhaps it could be converted into something related to Spiritual Energy, becoming a powerful force to push the development forward.

This, however, depended on the capabilities of the Wushan City’s scientific researchers.

In the five days Su Han was away, Yan Meiyu, Bai Qiuwen, and others weren’t idle. The former had roughly established the proportion and method of trade with Zhou Wentao, even stipulating details about the tunnel construction project.

Although over a thousand kilometers is a long distance, Linshui City, Minshan City, and Xiajiang City are all under the control of the Southwest Military Preparedness Force. With the three cities as key nodes, each tunnel section would only be two to three hundred kilometers at most.

This was an acceptable distance and indeed something the Tunnel Giant Worm could accomplish.

As for reinforcing the tunnels, the workload was greater than digging the tunnels, but Zhou Wentao expressed that he could deploy a large number of sappers, logistics troops, and construction teams to take care of early reinforcement and material preparation, facilitating the Tree Domain’s construction teams to reinforce the site.

Moreover, after the initial trade for the Black Rock Tree Monsters, the construction team of the Southwest Military Preparedness Force equipped with Black Rock Tree Monsters would be the first to be engaged in tunnel reinforcement.

In other words, the foundation of the basic trade between the two sides was already set.

When Su Han and Qin Henghu returned, although a temporary project was added, it didn’t cause any significant issues.

Bai Qiuwen was three times busier than Yan Meiyu. Whether it was seminars, afternoon tea, or morning tea, he was practically immersed in the research center without leaving.

Both the Armed Forces of the Southwest and the Tree Domain were full of curiosity about each other’s research directions, so the exchange of information was particularly vast. If not for Bai Qiuwen being a Third Order Contractor, his body probably couldn’t have withstood it.

But the intense exchange brought him many benefits, at least in terms of Breeding Armor Mechas and pharmaceutics research he gained many new insights.

Although Zhao Yaqian came as a guard, she virtually tried out all the existing Psychic heavy cannons, Psychic exoskeleton Mechas, Psychic Shoulder-launched Cannons, etc., during her dealings with Lone Wolf, Xiao Zishan, and others, getting to the bottom of Psychic equipment. After the trade, it would be her who mastered them the quickest.

Moreover, she could then pass these Skills to the warrior of the Tree Domain.

In Wushan City, preparations for the monster carcasses were also made before Su Han’s return, with a staggering 400,000 monster carcasses piled up, resembling a mountain of bodies.

Su Han was unabashed upon seeing this, and let the Mother Worm out immediately to begin further Fusion.

After another three days, having Fused nearly ten monster carcasses, the final Fusion puzzle piece was put into place.

[Black Sturgeon Beast 100% Fusion complete, Mother Worm advanced to Fourth Order Superior, acquired Skills: LV1 Tentacled Insect Queen, Skill Advancement: LV3 Bug Quality, LV3 Bug Nest]