Chapter 27: The Fourth Horseman
The familiar assembly screen appeared before Blaze once again. Having learned from his past mistake, he didn’t dissect the mauler and sprinter parts.
As absurd as it sounded, Blaze treated the zombies as if they were alive and he was operating on them. Thankfully, the system made everything too easy for him.
With a click, he made clean cuts to the mauler’s side, making a path to its spinal cord. Next, he separated the skin of the two sprinters’ limbs and attached them to the mauler’s side.
The system did the rest by connecting the residual nerves and creating new ones from the discarded limbs to attach the limbs to the mauler’s side.
The bodies rejected each other at first, which was expected, but then tissues burst from the Mauler’s spine. Blaze raised an eyebrow as the tendril-like tissues wrapped around the sprinter’s arms.
[Organ compatibility: 89%]
[Overriding natural resistance.]
[Stabilization... successful.]
The mauler’s body shook before his eyes, but the next moment it calmed down. Not wanting to lose the momentum, Blaze kept at it, replacing the Mauler’s bulky legs with sprinter’s and fed them a bit of extra tendons and muscles.
It was far more difficult than attaching arms. A single misplaced muscle tissue, or dislocated tendon, could ruin the entire project beyond recognition.
Blaze’s movements, even on the screen, were clumsy at best. So much so that the system had to step in often to stabilize the undead.