The final gentleman

Zed's physical development path was actually not a 'corpse' at the beginning.

His physical talent is indeed very high in Zion, but it does not reach a particularly exaggerated level.

In search of open-source "relics", young Zed was targeted by the monastery when he first set foot on the land of the old world. Although Asimov was also targeted, their views were completely different.

While being forced by the monks to take him back to the monastery for transformation,

Asimov, as a doctor, realized a very important point, "Simply studying medicine cannot save Zion." If you want to truly continue the human fire, relying on the epidemic areas of the old world is a very good choice.

In his opinion, once the world infection is completed, it will be difficult for organizations like Zion to maintain their independence. Only by establishing a relationship with the epidemic area in advance and getting certain titles in advance like him can we truly rely on the epidemic area as a background. Save Zion, save the organization.

Therefore, Asimov cooperated very well after being forced into the hospital, showing amazing talent and quickly passing the monk test.

He even took the initiative to apply to use his own body as a chain culture dish to try to cultivate a special chain that was most suitable for him. It also lived up to expectations, and a scalpel chain that was both surgical and execution was hatched.

This laid the foundation for his subsequent rise to the position of executioner.

But Zed is extremely ‘rigid’;

He scorned this group of old-world monks who plundered people without asking for independent opinions, and even Asimov's opinions were not accepted.

In his eyes, the monastery is completely similar to a human trafficking organization and is not worthy of trust at all.

The most important point is that even if you meet the requirements of the monastery and eventually become a monk, you will completely cut off your relationship with Zion, the organization, and humanity, which is absolutely unacceptable to Zed.

Therefore, he did not accept the monks at all and would try to escape whenever he had the chance. Of course, it would be impossible to escape. When he was finally caught, he would be tortured quite brutally.

The amount of torture Zed endured on a daily basis was three times, if not more, than Asimov's.

This kind of 'overdose' torture will not bring about the same amount of physical growth feedback. Instead, it will destroy the physical body, crush the consciousness, and may even completely collapse the physical body and no longer be able to feel pain, and eventually reduce it to a person without senses. A walking zombie whose body cannot grow.

But Zed held on, relying on his simple obsession to return to the organization and see his friends.

Under the torture of an overdose, in order to prevent his consciousness from completely collapsing, he also found an absolutely quiet gray refuge deep in his consciousness. As long as he placed his consciousness there, he would not feel any pain, and even everything would become nothing. Influence.

That was the first time Zed came into contact with the concept of [nothing], and his body that had been tortured into a human shape also accepted this concept.

No matter what kind of torture follows, once it comes, Zed will enter such a state without any expression.

It wasn't that the pain abandoned him, it was that he abandoned the pain and everything he saw was gray.

Zed's special characteristics quickly attracted the attention of the monastery's senior officials.

The attention of the higher authorities on this special human being was also further enhanced. Even if he did not cooperate with the monk-related assessment, the higher authorities made a special case to let him pass and arranged to go to the plantation to try to accept the iron chain.

Due to Zed's lack of cooperation, it was impossible for him to bury himself in the soil of the plantation and cultivate the iron chain with his own body.

Only planted iron chains or iron chains passed down by dead monks can be used for physical grafting.

Finally, three special iron chains were selected based on Zed's physique.

1. A standard iron chain with an excellent rating and a purity of S obtained from a conventional plantation.

2. A columnar iron chain obtained from the death row plantation does not have the ring structure of a conventional iron chain, but is connected by long columns. It has a purity of A+ and contains the will of the death row prisoner.

3. The "Toussaint's Chain" passed down by [Executioner] Toussaint Soriano who died hundreds of years ago is a special type of chain that feels like a 'Swiss Army Knife'.

It looks unremarkable, just like a regular chain. Once this iron chain comes into contact with a target, it will adapt and change into a specific structure that is best suited to handle the target.

Zed still refused to cooperate and made no choice;

Therefore, the monastery tried all three types of chains on him, and the Toussaint Chain, which no one had ever been able to control, was actually embedded in it very securely.

the reason is simple,

The Chain of Dusan can adapt to different bodies. Once touched by any monk who wants to accept it, the Chain of Dusan will evolve a structure specific to the current monk, making it miserable and even killing him. It's simply unacceptable.

However, the [Nothingness] that Zed understood prevented him from expressing any characteristics, and the Chain of Toussaint did not change when it entered the body.

As the embedding of the iron chain was completed, Zed also used the iron chain as a relic, and completed the open source under the witness of everyone inside the monastery. It even resonated strongly with the iron chain, and even the warden was paying attention to this matter.

After open source, a rare syndrome was also discovered, called "fibromyalgia syndrome".

but,

After the open source, Zed fell motionless in the plantation like a corpse, breathing extremely shallowly.

After testing, it was determined that Zed was in a rare sub-death state, which may be related to the disease he suffered from. This was also the first time that Zed showed the state of [Corpse], which is a unique manifestation of [None].

After comprehensive deliberation in the monastery, it was finally decided to comply with the needs of Zed, a special talent, and throw it into the corpse storage area of ​​the monastery plantation.

Tens of thousands of corpses are piled up here, some of them are prisoners from the Stairs of Sin, and some are complete corpses that died in other areas of the old world. Because of their better quality, they were sold to monasteries by corpse traffickers to be used as cultivation for iron chain cultivation. base.

Time passes day by day,

Not only did Zed's state show no signs of recovery, but it was getting closer and closer to [None], and even his shallow breathing had completely disappeared.

I stayed in the pile of corpses like this for three full years.

The gardener who initially went to the corpse pile to check on Zed's condition every day gradually changed to checking once every three days, and even occasionally forgot about it.

It wasn't until the superiors asked about Zed's status that the gardener, who had not checked for almost ten days, discovered that Zed's body that should have been piled on top was missing, and the chain detector did not detect anything among the piles of corpses.

The alarm sounded,

The entire monastery began to search for Zed, but Zed was not found in any area, and not even a trace was left.

Due to the gardener's negligence, it is entirely possible that Zed, who had not confirmed information for ten days, had escaped from the monastery. A large number of monks expanded the search area and arranged for people to go to the nearest world passage.

Just as the monastery launched an external search operation,

Deep in the corpse accumulation area, Zed, who was buried at the bottom, suddenly opened his eyes.

He deliberately completely erased his own breath and mixed it with other corpses. The "Chain of Toussaint" in his body also complied with the owner's request and was completely hidden, without any chain resonance, making everyone mistakenly think that he had left.

Taking advantage of the monastery's daily arrangement of monks to search the outside world and the opening of the door, Zed escaped! Became the first person in modern history to escape from the monastery.

But all [passages] are monitored by monks, and he cannot return smoothly.

Desperate to go home and extremely hostile to the monastery, he found a secret place and wanted to directly pull out the "Chain of Toussaint" embedded in his body and completely cut off his connection with the monastery.

If the stripped "Toussaint's Chain" is left here, the nearby monk guarding the entrance of the passage will be sensed by the chain and rush over, and he can take the opportunity to escape back.

However,

The always 'well-behaved' Toussaint's Chain has become extremely difficult to remove.

It was very reluctant to abandon its 'new master', and it did not hesitate to use its Swiss Army Knife-like function to crazily destroy Zed's body, especially the brain structure.

Attempts to destroy the brain in all directions and transform Zed into a walking zombie enslaved by it.

But Zed’s perseverance is beyond imagination;

At the cost of being deprived of concepts in his eyes, suffering from mental confusion, and cracked skin all over his body, he pulled out the iron chain abruptly.

Since it took a lot of time, the monastery's pursuers also arrived.

These monks were all shocked when they saw the situation at the scene. They even had respect for Zed from deep in their hearts, but they still suppressed him immediately.

But when they approached Zed, who should have been unable to move, the scene in front of them suddenly turned gray, and they felt that living was meaningless.

When these people looked at Zed again, he had turned into a ferocious monster, tearing apart the bodies of fellow monks and tearing off their chains.

However, in the gray vision, all this is meaningless.