book of old days

Chapter 242 Martin's Discovery

"Haha, that's great. It seems that we have a new member in our big family. Welcome brother, my blood relative!" Jack hugged the man as he said, and the man also embraced him enthusiastically. he.

"I am also very happy to join everyone. For the first time, I felt warmth, intimacy, and friendship. It is really unbelievable. There are such feelings in this world. What kind of life did I live in the past. "The man sighed, as if he had realized something, and he seemed to have finally found the organization.

Listening to the conversation between the two, Sean felt an unspeakable weirdness in his heart. He originally thought that this thing was just to transform the human body and strengthen the human physique, but now it seems that it also has a great impact on thinking. , this kind of influence is not simply to control the mind, but more like some kind of spiritual enlightenment.

Although the man in front of him has changed a lot, he doesn't seem to have lost his mind or madness. Judging from Jack's previous conversation with himself, Jack also maintains his original memory and thinking, and has no Become a puppet who can only obey orders.

The same is true of the man with a sunny and kind face in front of him. He seems to regard Jack as a good friend, even a relative, but his speech and behavior still maintain the original personality and consciousness, just a mental outlook. Has been completely sublimated.

It was as if he had realized everything in an instant.

Just how did this thing do it?Let a villain who was still vicious just now become a guy who is full of family warmth and family and friendliness in the blink of an eye.

Does this thing really have no side effects?Then this is really a good thing.

But Xiao En always felt that this matter looked a bit evil. Although the person seemed to be the same person, the change in personality always felt too abrupt.

When he was doubtful, Jack had already discussed other things with the man, just like a good brother who was acquainted with life and death, without any distinction or estrangement at all.

"What about those upstairs?"

"Let them join in together."

"Well, it's their honor. It's my honor to add a few more members to this big family. Come on, I'll take you up."

The two walked out of the basement as they spoke.

When Xiao En went out with him, the few people outside were already lying on the ground. The two people's methods were quite neat. They were all attacked in the back of the head and knocked unconscious. Jack was feeding them meat one by one. ball.

After eating it for a while, they all woke up one after another, and they became their own without any nonsense.

"Then what about him?" After feeding everyone, the man looked at Sean.

Sean looked at the other party indifferently, ready to strike at any time.

But Jack shook his head and said, "No, he has other tasks to do, which were arranged by the professor, and now is not the time."

That person seemed to accept the explanation instantly, without even asking who the so-called 'professor' was. There seemed to be some way of communication between them that Sean couldn't see, and they could convey information beyond the literal meaning.

Jack walked up to Sean, "Professor Sean, have you selected the corpse you want? I'll let them transport it out for you." When Jack was speaking, those people had already stood beside him, looking at the same corpse. Looking at Sean, the five people's movements and expressions were exactly the same, which made Xiao En's heart shudder.

"I have already chosen, so please help me deliver it to this place."

He gave Jack the address of the apartment, and fled the hell out of there.

Although the people here have all become "our own people", Xiao En feels that it is even more eerie than when he came here.

The body won't arrive until tomorrow, and Sean didn't stay in the apartment to wait, but went directly to Martin Warnes' home.

Arriving outside the door of Martin's house, Sean knocked on the door impatiently, and the door was opened after a while. Martin saw that he seemed a little surprised, and quickly let him in.

"You came just in time, I was just about to find you, where did those bugs you gave me come from, they are really amazing!"

"Why, have you researched the results?"

"It can be regarded as a little harvest."

As Martin spoke, he dragged Sean into a room inside. The windows of this room were all blocked, and it was very dark. The bugs here were obviously sensitive to light. In a worm box, Sean could see The group of worms were greedily eating a piece of raw pork, and the sound of pinching made it sound a little itchy.

Martin picked up the magnifying glass, appreciating the picture in front of him with satisfaction, and explained in a tone like popular science, "There is one thing I have to correct first, they are not thread worms, in fact they are very different, they are not of the same kind at all. Creatures, even I suspect they are some brand new species! See, see!" he said, pointing at the worms.

Sean was a little confused, so, "What did you see?"

"They're eating, they're eating with their mouths, they have teeth, they're organs that predators have, normal parasitic worms can only survive by absorbing bodily fluids, but they're different, and there's reason to believe that even if you throw them into the wild , They can also survive, and this is not the most amazing place.

As Martin said, he carefully opened a gap in the cover one by one, and used a metal clip to pinch a worm out of it.

He found another empty glass box and threw the worms into it. Then, he took out a grass-green locust from another worm box.

He threw the locust into the glass jar. The locust was obviously not used to this strange environment. It hid in the corner, blankly, but the worm seemed to sense something and climbed up towards the locust.

The locust tentatively tried, as if trying to figure out how dangerous the worm was. However, the moment the two touched each other, a spiral-shaped mouth appeared on the top of the worm, and it bit the locust at once, wriggling , slowly got into the locust's body.

The locust struggled a few times at first, but soon gave up resistance. The wound pierced by the worm healed quickly. The locust flapped its wings twice, and flew up, hitting the cover of the worm box It fell down again, and its skin began to have a weird oily sheen, and a pair of thin wing membranes appeared under its wings. Although it was still a locust, it seemed to have changed slightly.

"Is it parasitic?"

"To be precise, it's a mutation." Martin said, and he took out another praying mantis from a worm box. This mantis was huge, almost twice the size of the locust, and had two huge sickle legs. It looked very ferocious.

This is the Big Hunter Mantis, a very ferocious predatory insect that loves to eat all kinds of insects, beetles and sometimes even small lizards.

Martin continued in his Cope tone, and dropped the mantis into the jar.

The locust and the praying mantis confronted each other for a while, and rushed towards each other at the same time. The mantis launched a swift and fierce attack with a pair of huge sickle legs, but the locust seemed to have some kind of telepathy, easily dodged the proof's attack, and jumped onto the back of the mantis , Biting on the mantis' neck, the sharp mouthparts instantly bit off the mantis' neck.

Then he hugged the corpse and ate it with big mouthfuls.

"It's amazing. You know, this is a plant-feeding locust, which lives on vegetable leaves and grass leaves, but after being changed by the worm, it seems to become stronger and wilder, and even has the ability to prey."

Sean thought of Jack. In a sense, what happened to Jack was not much different from the locust in front of him.

"Do you know about wireworms?" Martin asked suddenly.

Sean nodded. He did know about iron nematodes. Iron nematodes are also a kind of parasite. When these insects are swallowed by large arthropods such as praying mantises and locusts, the larvae will continue to develop in these arthropods. And gradually control the behavior of the host. When the larva grows into an adult, it will control the host to find a water source to drown the host and then drill out of the host.

"Then you should understand that for parasites, the host is just food. In other words, for parasites, the life and death of the host is not in its consideration. Its only purpose is to reproduce and survive, and the host is just food." victims in the process.

But this is the strangest thing. Strictly speaking, this worm is not a parasite. It seems to exist specifically to help the host. These worms seem to form a symbiotic relationship with the host. "

Martin said excitedly, and pinched the locust out again. The locust had become very fierce at this time, and its huge mouthparts kept biting the shelf, but unfortunately, the mutated tone was still difficult to resist the huge metal pincers.

Martin secured the locusts to a specimen board with steel pins.

Then use a small knife to cut the whole body of the locust from the middle, revealing a very standard cross-section.

With no imaginary sap splatter happening, the locust looks almost neat inside.

To Sean's surprise, there was no body of the worm inside the locust.

"What about the worm?" he asked in surprise.

"See those yellow tissues?"

Sean nodded, there are indeed some yellow glands in the locust's body.

"These glands are transformed by worms. Normal locusts do not have such biological tissues. In other words, these worms are not parasites in the general sense. After entering the locust's body, they are transformed into a part of the locust's body tissue. , a brand new organ that makes the locust powerful enough to defeat predators like the praying mantis.

Do you know what that means! "

Martin's excited look made Sean a little nervous, "You don't think you want to experiment on yourself, do you?"

Martin froze for a moment, seemingly surprised by Sean's keenness.

"Haha, for a professor of literature, you are really perceptive. Yes, I do have similar thoughts. Since it can form new organs in insects, it may also be effective in other creatures, even humans.

By the way, didn't you say that someone told you that this bug can make people stronger?I think this may be true, and if it can be done, it will be a huge amazing discovery!Biologically bizarre evolution is even possible. "

Sean hurriedly said: "Stop, stop, stop, I warn you, don't act recklessly, don't carry out experiments on the human body, maybe you will create some kind of terrifying mutant monster."

"Haha, don't worry, this is just an idea. I'm not that crazy yet. I will use some animals for experiments first. Even if I want to do human experiments, I will use other people's bodies."

(End of this chapter)