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Chapter 2048, Section 2.46: The Hydra Lady

The Mayan pyramid has a four-story frozen human blood bank and serum laboratory.

The female intelligence officer, whose head had been shaved, was helped onto the experimental chair by the Chen brothers, who then secured her limbs.

Meanwhile, the entire blonde scalp tissue shed by the female mutant Ophelia Salgistein was also ready for thawing.

"What should we do next?" Chen Xian couldn't help but ask.

“A simple head skin graft.” With that, Dr. Lizard skillfully drew surgical lines on the female intelligence officer’s bald head with a medical gentian violet marker. Each line was a precise incision made with a scalpel. It seemed he would have to remove the entire scalp of the female intelligence officer and replace it with a whole blonde scalp shed by the female mutant Ophelia Salgistein.

But can such a simple and crude surgery really be successful?

Not to mention Wu Chen, who witnessed the whole thing through the "eyes and ears" of the female warrior who helped him, even the Chen brothers present were full of suspicion.

“I understand what you’re thinking.” How could Dr. Lizard tolerate his professional skills being questioned by two gangsters? “Wouldn’t such a rudimentary surgery cause a rejection reaction?”

Skin graft rejection refers to the immune response in which the body's immune system recognizes transplanted skin as a foreign substance and launches an attack. This is a key factor affecting the survival of skin grafts. Essentially, skin graft rejection is a reaction of the recipient's immune system to differences in human leukocyte antigens (HLA) from the donor skin, primarily involving T-lymphocyte-mediated cellular immunity and humoral immunity generated by B cells. When transplanted skin enters the recipient's body, if its HLA antigens differ from the recipient's own antigens, the immune system activates T cells to attack the graft, leading to inflammation and tissue damage.

Besides, skin grafting failure can also be related to factors such as infection, insufficient blood supply, improper postoperative care, and poor control of underlying diseases. Therefore, for similar surgeries, healthy skin tissue is often taken from other parts of the patient's body. Simply put, it's like grafting skin onto yourself. This significantly reduces the risk of rejection and greatly increases the success rate of the surgery.

It's important to note that the female mutant and the female intelligence officer are the same person from different timelines. Ignoring their respective storyline attributes, it's equivalent to self-skin grafting. Generally, there shouldn't be any rejection issues. However, "cross-storyline infection" is the biggest risk to consider.

The character card attributes supported by the Shattered Laws, the sanctuary after the star's fall, have minimized the risk of "cross-story infection" to the greatest extent.

That's right. Essentially, all the characters in the story who enter the city with the player who completes the 404 Road of Destruction and arrives at the Broken City are character cards.

Under the power of the "Broken Laws", the state can be updated.

For example, Wu Chen once used the "card burning" method to combine multiple "single cards" into a "combination card".

As for breaking the frame and upgrading stars, these are positive status updates.

In fact, the "cyber transformation technique" popular in the Lowlands Spiral is a kind of character card "major modification surgery" that can change the plot attributes.

Therefore, by incorporating card attributes, this "skin grafting surgery" that spans across storylines and timelines is highly likely to succeed.

The surgery began quickly. The laser scalpel precisely followed the drawn lines, cutting away the female intelligence officer's entire scalp. Because it was a minimally invasive laser procedure, there were only faint traces of blood at the incision site; not a single drop of blood flowed. Dr. Lizard used a remote-controlled glove to manipulate a robotic arm, perfectly fitting the entire shed blonde scalp of the female mutant Ophelia Salgistein onto the incision. Then, robotic fingers continuously pressed the scalp, making the subcutaneous tissue adhere even more tightly.

That's not all. Just like after all hair transplant surgeries, minoxidil is sprayed to promote hair growth.

After completing the head skin graft surgery, Dr. Lizard injected a specially developed drug evenly into the skin tissue that had just awakened from its dormant state.

The change happened quickly. Starting from between her eyebrows, emerald green scales began to appear. Then they rapidly spread throughout her body, enveloping the female test subject in a "cocoon".

If a rejection reaction occurs, the "pupa" will disintegrate from the inside out, turning into a pool of pus. However, because it is a heterotopic isotope, the immune system within this "mutant biochemical pupa" does not continuously activate and regenerate T cells to attack the "graft (female experimental subject)." Instead, it rapidly undergoes cell fusion, inducing gene mutations.

Generally speaking, gene mutations are divided into "natural mutations" that occur under natural conditions and "induced mutations" that are induced under artificial conditions.

Genetic mutations dominated by variant genes, strictly speaking, fall between "natural mutations" and "induced mutations." Players refer to them as "spontaneous mutations."

Furthermore, "spontaneous mutations" driven by mutant genes also follow some characteristics of gene variation, such as being largely controllable and localized. Just as cloning technology cannot perfectly replicate an individual, "spontaneous mutations" driven by mutant genes will not create mutants that are exactly the same as the "mutant gene originator" (please note).

This means that even as an alternate version of Ophelia, the female agent Irina cannot possess the exact same abilities as the female mutant Ophelia Salgistein.

Time ticked by. As the new mutants emerged from their cocoons, the four-frame mutant "Madame Hydra" Irina gained the upper hand in the brutal competition of the isotope battle royale.

"Super Agent": Proficient in firearms, hand-to-hand combat and sabotage techniques, as well as a strategist, senior spy, and expert in infiltration.

"Super Boss": With his innate leadership qualities, he skillfully controls various criminal organizations and enjoys a high reputation among criminal groups around the world.

"Master of Toxins": Lady Hydra's most commonly used weapon is a whip, but her most deadly weapon is toxins. Due to her own resistance to toxins, she is very knowledgeable about the properties and uses of various poisons on Earth. In addition to biochemical toxins, she is also good at inventing toxins herself. Her teeth are hollow and contain various deadly toxins. She is also good at using darts covered in venom.

"Extraordinary Seduction": She knows how to use her perfect looks and figure to achieve her goals, so much so that even the most steadfast heroes have fallen at her feet.

"My lord, did that 'Guardian of the Food Ring' shed its skin before or after meeting you?" Captain Nine-Tails asked, touching on a crucial plot point.

If this simple skin grafting surgery used skin shed before becoming a "Guardian of the Food Ring," it's highly unlikely there would be any plot connection with Wu Chen. However, if it was skin shed after becoming a "Guardian of the Food Ring," the plot's direction would be entirely beyond the control of the lizard doctor currently obsessed with his most perfect creation.

"Well, let me think about that..." However, the dazzling microcosm had no related memories, yet it flooded into Wu Chen's mind out of nowhere. Everything before him was still a mystery.

"Hmm?" Just then, a sudden, alert mental fluctuation locked onto the direction the Shockwave Squad was stealthily moving in. "Madam Hydra," Irina, had clearly sensed the Nine-Tailed Fox captain's spying. Her newly acquired mutant abilities were rapidly awakening and activating on their own. Her super-sensory perception of dangerous environments was clearly one of them.

"Don't move." A warm feeling suddenly rose in Wu Chen's heart. It seemed that the question that Captain Nine-Tails had asked earlier had been answered.