After defeating Szayelaporro Granz, who had foolishly used 'Gabriel' on Nemu Kurotsuchi, with the help of the Superhuman Drug he had placed in her body, Mayuri Kurotsuchi obtained a great deal of valuable data from Szayelaporro's laboratory. He later turned Szayelaporro's remains into a specimen and placed it in the R&D Department.
It was with this precious data that Mayuri's research level soared, especially in special research topics such as the cycle of life and death, and modification and resurrection. Szayelaporro's contribution to Mayuri could be said to be immense.
Faced with the current dire situation in Soul Society, Mayuri had the idea of modifying corpses into zombies to serve as combat power. He had never had any morals.
Even the Head-Captain of the Soul Reapers, Shigekuni Yamamoto-Genryūsai, had a forbidden technique to awaken the ashes of the dead into a skeleton army. An evil scientist like Mayuri, who was indifferent to life, naturally evil, and had no bottom line, would naturally not shy away from this.
Unfortunately, Head-Captain Yamamoto's body was gone. Even if he wanted to resurrect the old man as a great general to protect the Seireitei, he was powerless.
And Akon, who had been blown into a million pieces by Kensei Muguruma, though not as completely gone as the Head-Captain, it was still as difficult as climbing to heaven to find all his pieces, sew them together, and then modify him into a resurrected zombie.
So, Mayuri was extremely furious, even considering whether to just strangle the just-rescued Kensei Muguruma and turn him into a zombie.
In his eyes, Kensei's injuries were severe. It was almost impossible for him to wake up with the medical level of the Seireitei. Even if he did wake up, with such injuries, he could not continue to serve as a qualified warrior to guard the Seireitei. It would be better for him to just kill him and then modify him into a resurrected zombie to protect the Seireitei.
Of course, Mayuri had absolutely no intention of carrying out a personal vendetta, nor was he biased.
He had no designs on the equally comatose Byakuya Kuchiki and Kenpachi Zaraki for the time being, absolutely not because of some special reasons, or because he felt their personalities and backgrounds were too troublesome and they would be difficult to control after resurrection.
However, if they all really died and their bodies were left, Mayuri would absolutely not waste them.
And what made Mayuri even more furious now was that the Szayelaporro specimen hanging in his laboratory, some of the Arrancar corpse samples he had brought back from Hueco Mundo, and a large amount of research data he had stored in the past had all completely disappeared.
Although it seemed that Kensei's Bankai had caused too much destruction, in reality, Mayuri could guess that someone was taking advantage of the fire to loot.
Because Mayuri had spread many surveillance bacteria, and the R&D Department itself had many monitoring devices, but all these surveillance means he used to gather intelligence had failed. Such targeted actions could not have been done by the mindless, controlled Kensei.
Generally speaking, in this situation, one would think it was the Quincy. But there were too many scoundrels among the Soul Reapers. Even Mayuri couldn't be sure whether it was the enemy's doing, or someone was secretly taking advantage of the fire, or if several groups had visited his den.
However, Akon's sacrifice was not entirely without benefit. At least it had uncovered a lot of intelligence for the Seireitei.
For example, Kensei Muguruma's Bankai could not be stolen by the Quincy. The biggest variable between him and ordinary Soul Reapers was that he had once been subjected to Aizen's Hollowfication experiments and had Hollow power within him.
Combined with Ichigo Kurosaki's case, a rough conclusion could be drawn: 'Hollowfication' could counter the Quincy's ability to steal Bankai.
Of course, this was just a deduction based on the results and could not be considered a final conclusion.
True confirmation would require obtaining the corpse of an enemy and the metal disc equipment they used to steal Bankai for analysis. A accurate result could only be obtained after multi-faceted verification.
And even if they knew that 'Hollowfication' could render the Quincy's means of stealing Bankai ineffective, normal Soul Reapers would not want to mix Hollow components into their souls.
Soul Reapers were beings who purified Hollows. To become a Hollow oneself was the biggest joke in the world, not in line with the political correctness of the Seireitei. A hundred years ago, such an unclean person with Hollow components in their body would have been ordered to be executed by the old geezers of Central 46.
The reason these 'Visored' members like Kensei Muguruma could return to Soul Society was not because their names were cleared, but because Aizen's rebellion had caused major losses to Soul Society, and they urgently needed combat power to make up for the losses.
And most importantly, a batch of the stubborn old sages of Central 46 had been slaughtered by Aizen.
Although the new ones who came to power were still disgustingly evil and corrupt, they were a bit more human than the previous ones. At least they could compromise and accept a few Hollowfied captains, as long as they didn't show their Hollow powers in public.
Of course, this batch of Central 46 sages also suffered heavy losses in this Quincy raid, with many of them being shot down.
However, the Seireitei was never short of nobles who wanted to climb up. The vacancies of the 'sages' in Central 46 would soon be filled.
Even if he understood that Hollowfication might have a miraculous effect on the Quincy, Mayuri's original research focus was not on soul Hollowfication and breaking boundaries. Even if he wanted to carry out Hollowfication modifications on other captains, he didn't have the ability, at least not in the short term, to research a method for Soul Reapers to safely Hollowfy from scratch.
But he had obtained a lot of experimental data and a large amount of information on Hollows from Szayelaporro. And in his early years, he had tortured and dissected a large number of Quincy in his laboratory, so he had a deep understanding of the Quincy race. So, Mayuri changed his thinking and a vicious idea sprouted in his heart.
Since safe Hollowfication of Soul Reapers was not feasible in the short term, and it was difficult to change the mindset of those idiots in the Gotei 13, it would be better to follow the path of the Hollowfication experiments and conduct some large-scale Hollowfication experiments without ensuring safety, similar to large-scale drug trials with bacteria bombs or poison gas, to infect the test subjects with Hollowfication.
Those Quincy were the perfect test subjects. They could both disgust and kill the enemy, and also provide some new experimental data.
However, if he wanted to mass-produce it, a large number of Hollow souls were indispensable raw materials.
Mayuri had many specimens of various races in his laboratory, but he had not previously focused on Hollowfication experiments. To apply it on a large scale in the war, he needed more raw materials. So, after a moment's thought, he decided to go to Hueco Mundo to restock after the drug samples were made.
As for the fact that Hueco Mundo had fallen, it didn't matter. Hueco Mundo was vast, and the number of Hollows was as numerous as cattle. He just had to avoid the areas openly supervised by the Quincy.
And the fact that Kisuke Urahara and Ichigo Kurosaki had been defeated in Hueco Mundo, that the Quincy there were strong enough to confront and capture Ichigo's companions, and even took away Urahara's Soul Reaper power, and then deliberately let him go, also greatly interested Mayuri.
He had a hunch that the Quincy's means of stealing Bankai and that Quincy's ability to take away Urahara's power were highly related. That Quincy in Hueco Mundo was a key target in this war. He had to find a way to capture that Quincy and study him up close. Even if he couldn't capture him, he had to monitor him.
Of course, Mayuri would not act blindly.
The fact that that person could make Urahara suffer was undoubtedly a pleasant thing for him.
Although Urahara probably suffered because he was caught off guard by a lack of intelligence, the fact that that Quincy could kill an Espada with one hand and confront Ichigo Kurosaki head-on also showed that besides his strange ability, his frontal combat skills were also very strong. He had to be outsmarted, and direct confrontation had to be avoided.
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