Chapter 584: Chapter 388: Displaying Divine Power
Several trucks were parked inside the large shed.
Wang Ye made a few effortless leaps,
landing on top of the trucks.
At this time, the graphite ore, like a small mountain,
was piled up inside the cargo trucks.
Wang Ye stood steadily on top, picking up a piece of graphite with his hand.
Under the confused gazes of Li Weimin and the engineer behind him,
he directly swallowed it into his stomach.
Crunch... Crunch...
"Dude... you...?"
The two people behind were dumbfounded.
They thought Wang Ye would, at the very least, use his hands to crush the graphite ore into carbon fiber.
However, they hadn’t expected that Wang Ye’s way of handling this graphite ore was to swallow it directly.
Swallowing this stuff, would it really not harm the body?
Could it be that Wang Ye’s digestive system has evolved to digest these peculiar things?
And even if he could swallow and digest it,
what use would it be?
Surely Wang Ye couldn’t use his body as a furnace to produce carbon fiber.
Li Weimin was about to speak up to stop him,
but suddenly discovered,
that standing on top of the truck, Wang Ye’s palm was emitting a faint black glow.
At the same time, his body was also emitting a high temperature of nearly a thousand degrees Celsius,
forcing Li Weimin and the engineer to take dozens of steps back.
"Why is it so hot?" the engineer asked in shock.
"You’re asking me? Who am I supposed to ask?" Li Weimin replied, equally perplexed.
"Could it be that Wang Ye’s body temperature has increased?" the engineer speculated.
"It seems so, but to produce such scorching high temperatures, the core must at least be several thousand degrees Celsius. Putting aside why he can raise his body temperature to this level, I’m curious about how his body withstands such high temperatures," Li Weimin analyzed, frowning.
Temperatures of several thousand degrees Celsius are not to be taken lightly.
If an ordinary person’s body temperature were to instantly rise to several thousand degrees, approximately sixty percent of the body’s water would completely vaporize within 0.01 seconds, turning the person into a dry corpse with only bones and some nonflammable substances remaining. At the same time, various combustible substances in the body would burst into flames, meaning the body would instantly become a human torch due to the high temperature.
Additionally, bones would liquefy under high temperatures, releasing toxic gases because the melting point of hydroxyapatite, the main component of bones, is around 1650 degrees Celsius.
In other words, an ordinary person would melt into a puddle of charred material in less than five seconds under such high temperatures.
Even if Wang Ye’s muscle density and bone density were exceptionally strong, this fate couldn’t be avoided since the strength limits of these materials are only so high,
unless,
Wang Ye’s bones and muscles were no longer purely composed of proteins or hydroxyapatite,
but rather from materials with higher heat resistance and greater toughness.
But how could that be possible?
The elements that form bones or muscles are the result of billions of years of natural selection on Earth; it’s safe to say that most living organisms we see today have similar body compositions, with bones made of hydroxyapatite and muscles made of proteins.
Even with a billion more years of evolution on Earth, the composition would likely remain the same without significant changes because this composition is already the best choice on Earth; unless better and more common materials beneficial for replenishment are discovered, human evolution will likely be limited in body basics.
Having frequent contact with Wang Ye, Li Weimin
naturally knew that Wang Ye referred to his own changes as evolution.
Li Weimin was seventy percent convinced and thirty percent skeptical of this explanation,
because summarizing Wang Ye’s changes as evolution was indeed a bit far-fetched.
Biological evolution is ultimately based on environmental changes.
The limits of the environment also determine the limits of biological evolution.
Now, Wang Ye’s physical strength clearly exceeded Earth’s limits,
which means Wang Ye must be hiding other secrets.
After witnessing Wang Ye’s body composition being entirely different from Earth’s organisms, Li Weimin’s conviction was further strengthened.
The evolution of Wang Ye’s body now was definitely not as simple as natural evolution.
Perhaps...
Wang Ye might now even be capable of controlling the changes in his own body freely.
And the ability to devour graphite might be the fundamental reason he controls his body.
Li Weimin squinted his eyes.
Once a science student himself, he naturally knew that
humans, and indeed all life on Earth, are carbon-based life.
Being carbon-based means that the molecules in living creatures are primarily composed of carbon atoms.
In short, mastering carbon atoms means essentially mastering one’s own life.
Although Li Weimin could not yet confirm whether Wang Ye could truly manipulate carbon atoms,
judging by Wang Ye’s performance, his conjecture was likely ninety percent correct.
At this moment.
Wang Ye stood atop the truck,
still consuming large amounts of graphite.
In the blink of an eye, several hundred kilograms of graphite had gradually been ingested by Wang Ye,
digested by the stomach acid into pure carbon atoms stored in various parts of the body.
His body size continued to grow,
with muscles visibly expanding,
similar to the metamorphosis Wang Ye experienced during fermentation metabolism.
After about three minutes,
Wang Ye felt that his body had completely absorbed enough carbon atoms,
then jumped off the truck and began producing carbon fiber.
The process of creating carbon fiber is much more complex than that of diamonds,
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