Chapter 401 Crystallization of the Inner World (Ch 401)

“The amount of bleeding has decreased significantly, the pain has dulled, and fibrosis has appeared in the surrounding tissues. These may be early symptoms of crystallization…”

Suna used a crystal blade to cut open the skin on her right shoulder. While trying to remove the wound, she recorded the abnormalities she saw in the system log.

A piece of skin with a crystal attached was peeled off and discarded, revealing the skeleton underneath, translucent, emitting a crystal-like sheen, surrounded by muscle and flushed with blood.

“The bones are more crystallized and may be where the disease first occurs.”

Suna tried to move her shoulder joint. She was able to move it temporarily, but there was a slight foreign body sensation and pain.

She did not remove the bone because she did not have the right tools and her situation did not allow her to do so.

After removing the surface layer of skin with attached crystals and some of the crystallized and severely fibrotic muscles, she bandaged the wound with the few remaining strips of cloth and then stood up.

The wound was not disinfected because the conditions were not right, so one could only hope that her super regenerative ability would work.

The next day.

Suna checks the wound.

Her super regenerative ability worked. The wound did not get infected, and even recovered by 70% to 80%, with new skin growing.

There is no sign of crystallization on the surface of the newly formed skin.

She further examined the inside of the wound and found that the muscles showed symptoms of crystallization or fibrosis, but they were much milder than before, and there was no obvious abnormality in joint movement.

“Timely removal of the lesion can have a certain effect in delaying the disease, and the newly grown tissue is still flesh and blood tissue.

However, the continuous removal of diseased tissue will cause serious damage to the patient’s body and mind, and it also requires a high level of physical recovery from the patient.”

Suna regarded herself as an experimental subject, put herself in the doctor’s perspective, recorded the information, and moved on.

It would be nice to have experimental tools available so that more experiments can be done.

Day 7.

As soon as Suna woke up, she found something wrong. The little finger on her right hand had no sensation and could not be bent, but from the surface, there was nothing abnormal.

She cut open the skin and soon touched a hard foreign object. It was highly crystallized muscle that had lost its elasticity and contraction effect, and it was even more impossible to pull the bone joints to move.

Beneath the muscles is a crystal-like skeleton that can be seen directly through the transparent muscles and blood vessels.

There is also red blood flowing in the transparent blood vessels, which looks quite beautiful at first glance.

Suna stared at it for a while, then checked the other joints on her right hand, including the knee and ankle joints on her right leg where she felt abnormal.

These joints all showed signs of crystallization to varying degrees. The speed at which the disease progressed was beyond Suna’s expectations, which might be related to the environment.

After all, since yesterday, the number of crystal people around has increased. Some have been broken, with incomplete limbs, and some are left with only torsos without heads.

Suna simply treated it, cut off some of the diseased tissue, and continued moving forward.

Day 10.

The “snowflakes” falling from the sky are obviously getting smaller. Maybe the “snow” here will stop, otherwise the snow on the ground would not be only twenty centimeters thick.

The field of vision has also improved a lot, with visibility exceeding 100 meters. There are living crystal sculptures everywhere around, including humans and other species.

The ones that Suna knew included Cyclops, Siren, Vampire, and Deep Diver. In addition, there were some creatures that could not be named. Some of them were huge, even over 20 meters tall, and their bodies were covered with scales.

But these seemingly powerful creatures were all turned into crystal sculptures without exception.

Suna came to a human crystal sculpture, breathing slightly, looking a little tired.

This human sculpture is wearing sophisticated armor and holding a long sword, but its head is missing. It may have been knocked off by someone, because the cross-section looks like the crystal surface of broken glass.

Moreover, all of his equipment, without exception, became transparent crystal and could be directly removed.

Suna took the sword, not to use it as a weapon, but because its length was perfect for supporting the ground and maintaining balance.

Three days later, her crystal disease has further worsened. Her right arm and right leg have become severely crystallized and cannot be bent. Suna is considering whether to amputate them and whether amputation will make subsequent actions difficult.

After all, the amputation wound needs to be treated, otherwise the heavy blood loss will inevitably affect subsequent activities.

Although his right leg had crystallized, it could still be used for support and he could barely stand.

She checked her properties panel.

Status: Crystal disease [moderate] “A large human body pattern with many yellow spots on the body, the right arm and right leg are dark yellow”, height 165cm, weight 81KG

[Crystallization Disease: A special plague with extremely strong and terrible transmission ability. It is a subspecies of the Death Plague. It can infect most entities and is not infectious to non-entity organisms.

After the infection occurs, the body’s internal organs, bones, muscles, skin and other structures will gradually transform into crystals, and eventually become an immobile living crystal statue.

The higher the mental attribute, the slower the disease progresses.

Currently in moderate condition, many parts of the body have been transformed into crystals, movement is severely restricted, Agility -4, Constitution +2, senses are dulled, energy consumption is reduced, no longer needs to eat, and vital parts will not die immediately if damaged. 】

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Suna recorded all this information in the system’s chat channel to avoid forgetting it. She continued to move forward with her sword in hand, using a hammer to clear a path ahead and smash some obstacles in her way.

Suddenly, a strong wind blew, and the snow-like crystal particles on the ground were blown away, revealing the broken crystal statue buried underneath.

There were not only those living crystals that were standing. Many of them had fallen down and shattered, becoming the uneven ground under Suna’s feet.

So Suna was actually walking on a pile of corpses, even though these “crystal corpses” were not dead and could not be used as flesh and blood material for the stitched monster.

Day 12.

Suna discovered that her clothes were also beginning to crystallize.

“If I was infected at the beginning, the crystallization of the non-living entity would appear in about ten days.”

Day 14.

Suna’s condition was even worse. The right half of her body was almost completely crystallized and had spread to her right face.

She could only lean on the left half of her body, using her long sword to support herself on the ground, and walked very slowly.

And since today, she has had symptoms of auditory hallucination. She can always hear some vague and meaningless sounds coming from her surroundings, especially from under her feet, as if someone is talking.

If you listen carefully, you can understand a few words.

“Death…I…”

“Time…must end…”

“One more step…”

“go ahead…….”

Suna shook her head, feeling a strong sense of dizziness in her brain and her rationality decreased.

Her right eye was blind, her lips could not open or close, and she hardly needed to breathe.

“Sanity 57…”

She checked her sanity level, then decided to just give up and continue listening to these vague and ethereal voices.

Ten seconds later.

Her hair turned completely white, and the surrounding crystalline particles, including some broken crystal statues, floated up.

And Suna herself also left the ground and floated forward at an extremely fast speed.