We see a 12 year old boy with pink hair, pale skin that has seen no sun. The boy opened his eyes to see his reflection on the inside of a glass tank. He also saw a group of people in white lab coats.
'Where am I?' the boy thought, his mind still groggy.
"Quickly let li yanming know test subject 5 has survived." one of the scientists shouted.
"Vitals stabilizing. Test subject 5 of project Shiva survived. Further tests recommended." another scientist said.
'What is happening, last i remember i was rereading the legendary mechanic again. Why are a bunch of people in lab coats around me?' the boy thought, rather confused by the situation.
Information came crashing into the boy's head, giving a headache.
'So I transmigrated into the legendary mechanic and my name is Shengsi Heng.' the boy now named shengsi heng thought.
'Interface!' he shouted in his mind, trying to summon it… nothing happened. He tried a few more times, but still nothing happened.
' guess I have no system, but I've always trusted my intuition, so I can definitely survive. As long as I get out of here anyway.
The door to the lab opened and a new scientist entered clearly the li yanming they were talking about. Li yanming scrutinized the boy then showed a smile.
"The shiva project might be a success, now we need to see if hila and her sister's esper abilities merged in this boy" li yanming said looking forward to the result.
'What did he just say? they not just want to control which esper ability i get which is crazy enough, but also combine two s rank potential rating abilities!' Shengsi Heng was taken aback by how ambitious Germinal was.
"Have him trained to become an esper, we need to see if he inherited one of the sister's abilities, if they combined, or something else entirely." li yanming ordered. Then he drained the liquid from the tank holding Shengsi Heng and threw some clothing at a nearby scientist.
"clothe him." After hearing this the scientist with the clothes rushed to clothe shengsi heng.shengsi heng stayed silent while the scientist clothed him. He was looking forward to getting an esper ability, and if the experiment worked he would get a super powerful ability with a high ceiling. He followed the scientists to another lab; he was strapped to a lab table . Li yanming injected him with a liquid.
"I've injected him with a serum to unlock the esper ability. We see now if all our work was worth it."
Shengsi heng was writhing in pain then nothing. He passed out. A while later a pink energy swirled around him. Then he woke up. He intuitively knew it succeeded. He has an esper ability, and its called cycle of life and death, potential rating x. Shengsi heng was inwardly ecstatic, he now had the potential to survive in this world.
'Now i need to figure out how to leave germinal alive.maybe i should wait for han xiao and leave with him somehow.'
The scientists brought shengsi heng to do physical training. After that they brought him to a room full of corpses and plants. This room trains sensing both types of energy, life and death. After that the scientist had him kill something to see if he inherited hila's power, he did. Then something unexpected happened. The person he killed came back to life then knelt before shengsi heng. Shengsi heng felt a connection form between himself and this person. He felt he could command him and he would faithfully fulfill the command. He felt that he could have 4 more faithful servants. The scientists were shocked by this outcome. They were also ecstatic and intrigued. After figuring out that shengsi could revive loyal soldiers the scientists decied to see if he could revive supers, so they tested it. They found that shengsi could revive supers but only up to one grade above himself. They tried killing the mortal servant, but the unexpected happened again. After dying the servant immediately revived, so the scientists tested the limits of this ability. Finding out they can revive 5 times before dying. The scientists decided to give shengsi 5 dead supers to turn into servants to test how many servants he can revive.
Elsewhere, we see the leader of germinal talking to li yanming about shengsi heng.
"So, he can revive 5 loyal soldiers that can be supers one level above himself." the leader says thoughtfully. "Do you think he could control more at higher grades?" he asks li yanming.
"Based on my predictions, I think so." li yanming answers.
"We must make sure he remains loyal to germinal, he is just a boy, so no need for harsh brainwashing. Just continue to subtly brainwash him into believing he owes germinal. We can have an army of loyal solders." you can practically hear how happy he is with project shiva's results.
Back with shengsi heng, we see shengsi practicing and experimenting with manifesting and controlling life and death energy. He found they have to be balanced while manifested, but he can decompress one while compressing the other. The decompressed energy becomes the dominant one. For example he can compress the death energy and decompress the life energy to heal. But they must be balanced in power meaning whatever touches the compressed death energy will corrode and decay faster than normal. So shengsi will have to be very proficient with his energy control. One time while practicing he lost control of the death energy, leading to injuries, but the damage was not there. Then he noticed his servants got injured instead, but not as much as he thought, so he came to the concussion that any damage coming to him will be intercepted and shared between his servants. He also noticed as he got stronger so did his servants. He meditated on comprehending his esper ability, he noticed an unused ability he hadn't figured out yet. He intuitively felt that he could revive just like his servants. He intuitively felt that he could revive 5 times an hour.
'So as long as I don't die 6 times within an hour I am immortal.' The thought brought a smile to his face.
He continued the training routine for years while also trying to listen to gossip to see if han xiao left yet. One fateful day he was listening in on a conversation.
"Did you hear, zero apparently defected after killing a bunch of squads?"
" yeah, i thought he was brain washed"
" apparently not"
"…" he tuned out after that and went to li yanming. He found li yanming and asked a question that shocked li yanming.
"Can I be on the squad to capture zero? I just don't believe someone could be so ungrateful to defect from the great germinal." Shengsi said with anger, but not real anger. He is acting angry.
" Where did you hear about that?" li yanming asked.
"In the mess hall. I overheard people talking about it."
"I'll talk to the leader."
"Ok li yanming."
Elsewhere, Li Yanming and the germinal leader are talking.
"Shiva wants to hunt down zero and I think we should let him."
"Why do you think that? You know how important he is."
"It will make him feel that he is helpful to Germinal and also help to not feel like a prisoner."
"Hmmm, you make a good point, let him go, but send a squad and one with him. One also wants to hunt zero down."
With shengsi heng, shengsi heng waits for li yanming to report back from his talk with the boss. Li yanming shows up with a smile and tells shengsi heng that the boss agreed but with a condition.
"You are to go with one and his squad to hunt zero down."
Shengsi heng beams and says, "I will not let germinal down."
Li yanming smiles at that and makes the arrangements, while shengsi gets his mission gear. At a gate to the germinal base shengsi met with one and his squad.
"you better not hold me back boy." one sneers at shengsi.
Shengsi just smiled and shrugged, which only infuriated one further.. But remembering that he was told to protect shengsi at all costs, he swallowed his anger. Then Shengsi, One and the rest went after Han Xiao. while on the way to han xiao's location they were ambushed just like in the original story with han xiao angered by germinal's actions. Everything went according to the story until han xiao and shengsi heng and his 10 servants were all that was left. Yes 10, he is now a grade d super, almost c grade, while his servants are grade c, every 2 grades his abilities upgrade apparently. Han xiao tried to inspect shengsi, and it came out as extremely fatal with a bunch of question marks, he did the same to the servants. The same thing happened. He was visibly panicking until he heard shengsi speak.
"Took you long enough." shengsi says with a friendly smile. Which kinda relaxed Han Xiao a little. Han Xiao stayed quiet for a bit then asked a question.
"What do you mean, who are you?"
"Im shengsi, i've been waiting for a chance to leave germinal for a while. You gave me that chance. Now that you killed these people, I can just fake my death."
"Oh…"
"Now that that's cleared up, you want to help gather the bodies? Don't want Germinal to find out about my defection."
"uhh, sure…" they then gather all the bodies then shengsi uses the power of death to corrode the bodies into nothingness. Then threw c4 around to blow up once they left.