Richard carefully felt the physical condition after taking the medicine. After a moment, he lowered his head and looked at his hands.
You can see that without any external interference, his hands quickly turned black and black. It was as if an invisible rope was used to strangle the blood vessels in the wrist. Within a few seconds, the blood in the hands lost their color, and they looked disabled. The surface was extremely cold, like ice cubes.
Afterwards, as soon as Richard had a thought, he felt a slight tingling sensation, and a large amount of blood poured into his hands, and he returned to normal in an instant.
Richard raised his eyebrows and looked away from his hands, falling on his arms. The next moment, like magic, the arms did not move at all, but the muscles on them swelled one after another, and then quickly flattened back to normal.
"Hoo-ho-"
After looking at it, Richard took a deep breath and smiled, confirming the first change brought about by the "blood of a high-level god", which was: it increased his ability to control his body.
Yes, it increases the ability to control the body. Specifically, it means that he can use the body with a higher degree of freedom.
You must understand that although everyone's body belongs only to themselves, this does not mean that a person can fully control his body to do anything.
To give a simple example, a person can never commit suicide by holding his breath under normal conditions. Even if you hold your breath to the point of suffocation and coma, once you faint, the lower nerve center of the brain will take over the respiratory function and maintain normal breathing on its own.
To give another example, when a person walks, he needs to mobilize the triceps femoris, quadriceps femoris, and 13 large muscle groups of the waist and abdomen to complete the walking action. This is an extremely complex collaborative process that requires precise coordination. .
But for a normal person to walk, it will not be so strenuous at all. As long as the corresponding signal is transmitted to the brain, the relevant brain partitions will automatically execute and call the corresponding functions to complete walking.
Many functions of the human body are not 100% controlled by human free consciousness. Most of them are set in advance and performed by brain partitions.
This can be seen as the human body is like a computer equipped with a system. If you click a few times in the system, the system will help you operate the various hardware (muscles, bones, etc.) of the computer.
This is obviously very convenient and can be regarded as a correct way of evolution. After all, it can bring out the advanced thinking functions of the brain and not be burdened with a series of cumbersome things such as "controlling breathing", "controlling heartbeat", "controlling hormone secretion in the body" etc. occupy.
Otherwise, just walking, which requires thinking and coordinating the many muscle groups, can make a person collapse.
Can you imagine that just taking two steps in daily life, you have to think about the various states of thirteen major muscle groups, which is similar to having to solve a thirteen-dimensional equation all the time. Moreover, this equation keeps changing as the road conditions change. If you try to run or climb a mountain, the difficulty will increase significantly.
It is precisely because of the evolution of the human brain that specific partitions are responsible for some basic functions, so there are no such worries.
Speaking of which, the process of human or biological evolution is a process of functional differentiation. From the initial single-celled organism, it gradually became more and more complex, and differentiated into many different structures, each responsible for different functions, and finally became an advanced biology.
In other words, it is the subcontracting and subcontracting of the "big project" of the human body that creates the advanced level of human beings.
Thanks for subcontracting and subcontracting.
However, having said that, although such evolution has made humans become advanced creatures, it has also lost the ability to absolutely control body parts and a lot of freedom.
On one hand, this is to protect human beings. In order to protect humans from injury, humans cannot secrete a specific hormone in the body at will, cannot stop the heart, and cannot directly control the death of a certain part of the cells.
This kind of protection can ensure that no one in the human group will die out of curiosity about how fast their heart can beat, allowing the human race to continue better.
On the other hand, to a certain extent, this prevents stronger individuals within human beings from exerting their abilities - the same restriction is protection for weaker objects, but it is a restriction for stronger objects.
After all, sometimes, it is more efficient to leave some functions to low-level nerve centers for processing rigidly than to let people with strong abilities use high-level nerve centers to process them.
In this way, under special circumstances, a person with strong abilities can pay the price of injuring his body and explode with stronger power and faster speed to achieve a specific goal and escape from a certain danger.
To give an example: When humans fight, they always secrete adrenaline under extremely dangerous and exciting situations, doubling their abilities, completing extreme counterattacks, and averting danger.
However, if a person can control the secretion of adrenaline on his own, he can secrete adrenaline at the beginning of the battle, gain an increase in ability, and defeat his opponent simply and neatly.
In comparison, there is no difference in the amount of adrenaline secreted between the two, but the latter successfully makes the problems of danger and dangerous situations disappear and makes things simpler.
Richard now has this ability through medicine. To a certain extent, he can bypass certain divisions of the brain and directly control the activities of basic parts of the body.
Therefore, the blood flow in both hands can be suddenly cut off, and the muscles in both arms can be made to beat in sequence.
Borrowing terminology from the mobile phone industry on earth, and summing it up in one sentence, that is, Richard successfully rooted his body.
Yes, rooted.
He successfully obtained the super user rights of the operating system of the "mobile phone" in his body, which allowed him to bypass the restrictions of the "mobile phone manufacturer" (biological mechanism) and perform various operations more freely.
This is not necessarily a good thing for other people, especially some "newbies" who can easily delete important parts of their body's "mobile phone", leading to damage (death). However, for Richard, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, and he can do many things more conveniently.
Some things he usually needs to use drugs or external instruments to achieve, but now he only needs to control his body to accomplish them.
For example, if you can't fall asleep, you need to take sleeping aids. Now you can fall asleep in just a second if you just think about it. Then the brain's biological clock automatically times the time, and wakes up accurately and automatically after a set number of hours.
In addition, with an upgrade, the brain can divide a certain area, keep time, and know what time it is at any time.
Furthermore, the brain can precisely monitor changes in any part of the body. Inflammation, bone hyperplasia, tumor cells, etc. can be detected and dealt with promptly once they appear.
Furthermore, the brain can control cells in certain parts of the body to accelerate division and promote recovery from injuries. It can also control the collective death of cells in certain parts of the body, similar to the gecko's ability to "cut off its tail to survive."
Of course, these examples become more difficult to achieve the further back they go. Richard determined that he could only achieve the first type at present. As for the latter types, he needed to configure and take more "blood of advanced gods" to achieve it.
But no matter what, the effect of the "blood of high-level gods" is indeed powerful, and this is only the first aspect.