Chapter 326: Infinite Possibilities of Ever-Changing
You should know that the total number of hairs on an average person's head is about 100,000. Let's not get involved with baldness and hair loss.
The weight of each hair of a short-haired man is about 400 micrograms. Even if all the hair is shaved off, it will only weigh about 40 grams, less than one or two taels.
However, due to Chen Jue's high attributes and huge energy content in his body, his body density is comparable to that of metal elements such as mercury.
In previous physical tests, his weight alone was nearly 1 ton, so you can imagine how heavy the 10 hairs pulled out from his head were.
It feels like putting 10 gold wires of 99.99% purity into a sampling test tube. It will naturally feel heavy in your hand.
"It is certain that he is strong. Comrade Chen Jue has the physical quality to do so."
"Hurry up and send the hair samples for testing!" Academician Huang saw that several sampling staff were startled and hurriedly explained.
Chen Jue smiled slightly when he saw this. He thought about the Monkey King in Journey to the West. He could perform 72 transformations by just plucking a piece of monkey hair. If there was no corresponding energy and mass to support it, he would not be able to achieve such a myriad of transformations.
But after thinking about it carefully, Chen Jue seemed to have understood something, as if he had caught some inspiration: "The Great Sage can grab a handful of monkey hair and it can change into a thousand different forms. If my hair also returns to the state of stem cells, can it also achieve the possibility of division and differentiation?"
What Chen Jue thought was not unreasonable, because human hair is a kind of accessory tissue of human skin and is also derived from cell differentiation.
The hair in different areas of the human body has different functions. Body hair can reduce heat loss, head hair can protect the scalp from sunburn, eyelashes and eyebrows can protect the eyes from damage by the sun, dust, and sweat, and nose hair can reduce the inhalation of dust and foreign matter into the nasal cavity.
Most hair serves to protect the human body, just like the ever-changing monkey hair, but this is only compared to ordinary people.
Once the quality and strength of hair have evolved to the level of Chen Jue, there will be absolutely no problem in plucking a hair and using it as a "needle".
Just imagine that Chen Jue shook his head, and with the force and his own control, his hair fell off in an instant, and at the same time, he shot his hair out like a hidden weapon, like a rain of pear blossom needles. It is estimated that few people in this world can withstand it.
Of course, this idea was not something Chen Jue came up with on his own. For example, the quills on hedgehogs and porcupines in the animal kingdom are actually the same as human hair, but they have evolved to be harder and more thorough.
"The secret of life evolution is to change the morphology of human tissues according to the environment and adapt to it."
“Just like my practice, I continuously enhance my physical attributes, prolong my lifespan, and make my body better adaptable to the environment of the earth... the environment of space... No, I can even say that I adapt to most environments in this universe!” Chen Jue’s mind was racing, and he felt that the dimension of his thinking had risen several levels higher than before.
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At this time, the hair sampling was completed, and Academician Huang pulled the distracted Chen Jue into the next sample collection area.
"Hair and nails are both made of keratin, but the strength of the two cannot be compared."
"When I first arrived at the base, I heard people in the technical department mention your previous feat. This ordinary nail clipper will not work on you." Academician Huang said with a smile.
The feat he was talking about was the funny thing that happened when Chen Jue rubbed his nails with a special dagger, causing sparks to fly.
With the help of [Golden Needle and Iron Fingers] and hard skills, Chen Jue's fingers had long been as hard as diamonds. Although his nails looked no different from those of ordinary people at first glance, a closer look would reveal that the luster of his nails was like the finest Hetian jade.
The whole nail has a light jade texture in its white color, without the uneven layers of ordinary people's nails. It looks like it has undergone the most complicated manicure process, exuding a perfect atmosphere inside and out.
If you want to cut off a piece of such perfect nails as a sample, it is probably impossible to cut it off without a hydraulic pliers weighing several tons to apply pressure.
"This nail clipper really doesn't work for me."
"But it's not that troublesome for me to cut my nails now." Chen Jue smiled, took the nail clippers handed to him by the staff, played with them for a while, then raised his index finger and placed it on the sampling dish.
I saw a very thin red-gold energy as thin as a hair rising from Chen Jue's fingertips, but the direction of it was not along the fingertips.
Instead, it was perpendicular to the direction of the index finger at 90 degrees, like a laser cutting machine at work, spinning along the tip of his index finger nail, pulling out an extremely beautiful arc and very delicately cutting off the excess nail.
Academician Huang and the sampling staff standing by were stunned by the delicate operation.
They had also imagined the scene of Chen Jue cutting his nails in their minds, but they never thought it would be done in such an incredible way!
Of course, the reason why this kind of operation happened was because Chen Jue's thoughts were racing and his imagination was opening up, which led to a leap forward in the control of the martial arts energy in his body.
In Chen Jue's opinion, since even hair has the potential to be as changeable as the Monkey King's monkey hair, then the "energy" that can be transformed, such as martial arts qi, is even simpler.
If we say that using martial arts energy to cut the Izumo aircraft carrier into two halves was using martial arts energy as a high-power laser cutting machine, it was a "rough" application.
So this time, the operation of cutting your own nails is a "subtle" operation of the internal energy.
Once this energy is applied to the human body in a "microscopic" way, it is not limited to cutting nails, but can be used to derive operations such as minimally invasive surgical scalpels, body sutures, and even cutting and suturing at the cellular and genetic levels.
Just like Mingo who ate the String-String Fruit in One Piece , once injured, he can use the power of the String-String Fruit to directly suture the wounds in his body.
However, this was just Chen Jue's initial idea. If he wanted to miniaturize the martial arts energy again and reach the point where he could use it at will, he would have to try more and practice makes perfect.
"I didn't expect that you could use martial arts energy to this extent!"
"It's really eye-opening!" Academician Huang was stunned for a long time before he exclaimed.
As an expert in human body research, Academician Huang naturally saw the many possibilities of this "microscopic" operation at a glance.
Once all of humanity has mastered this energy of Gangchi, many surgical instruments may completely disappear from the stage of history one day in the future.
"I just get a sudden inspiration sometimes." Chen Jue smiled and didn't explain too much. He put the cut nails into the glass dish and asked, "What's the next project?"
Academician Huang pushed up his reading glasses and said, "The next step is to collect body fluids!"
