interstellar involution king

Chapter 9 Nature's Imagination Has No Limits

"Imitation? How to imitate? Imitate the shape of corpse fragments?"

Zheng Wan didn't understand for a moment.

Now there is a more realistic question, that is, whether this spaceship can still be obtained.

Lin Yuan was still observing through the scope, and at the same time explained: "To be precise, it imitates the tissue structure of the human body."

"So, this monster is not an illegal modification?"

"Yes, not human."

"what is that?"

"I'm not sure yet. Have you heard of the slime mold complex?"

Zheng Wan shook her head blankly.

"Where's the slime?"

"What nonsense are you talking about?"

Lin Yuan shrugged, it seems that the word slime does not exist in this world.

This involves the concept of interstellar biology, and Zheng Wan obviously has no biological reserves, so Lin Yuan didn't bother to explain.

In fact, he has seen similar creatures in the same environment, and he has studied them carefully, and the performances of the two are also [-]% similar.

Of course, whether the two are the same species requires more careful observation.

"It's hard to get more information just by optical observation. In this way, let's take some cell samples in the past."

"What did you say?!"

Zheng Wan suddenly turned her head to look at Lin Yuan, suspecting that she had auditory hallucinations.

Before she could confirm, Lin Yuan got up and walked towards the hatch of the mining ship.

"Hey~ wait, didn't you see that guy tore up Captain Blood Demon with his bare hands?" Zheng Wan hurriedly stretched out her hand to grab Lin Yuan's arm.

"Of course I did."

Lin Yuan shrugged, pointed at the corpses on the ground and said quickly, "Didn't you realize that the corpses haven't actually decreased?"

"Of course I found it, but if you die, you're dead. Even if the bacteria don't eat the corpse, the attack power is surprisingly strong! Let me tell you, the power it showed just now is at least ten times stronger than mine!"

"So we have to be careful."

Zheng Wan shook her head again and again: "It's useless to be careful. I don't want this spaceship anymore. Let's go and find a way to get out of this ghostly place like Desolate Star!"

She didn't let go, and Lin Yuan couldn't break free. He knew that if he didn't persuade her, he might not be able to get a sample.

After thinking about it, he asked, "You have a long pole in your backpack, no need, there is an alloy pole on the ground over there."

Looking at the appearance of the pole, it is probably a fixed frame scattered from the mining ship. It is more than 4 meters long and the forearm is thick and thin.
hollow tube.

"I see, then what? You expect to use this thing as a weapon?"

"Of course not. Do you know how to fish?"

"Fishing. You mean the after-dinner entertainment for the rich in the space city. Oh~ I see. Are you going to catch some samples?"

That being said, things are a little more believable.

"Yes." Lin Yuan nodded again and again: "Give me a little more plutonium, not too much, a little bigger sesame is enough."

This time Zheng Wan was very cooperative, and immediately cut some for him.

Lin Yuan ran to pick up the alloy tube, fixed the plutonium oxide on one end of the pole, held the other end by himself, and walked carefully towards the spherical slime ball in the distance.

Zheng Wan also followed, tightly holding the Mirror Demon shield in her hand, and blocking Lin Yuan behind her.

This detail made Lin Yuan very satisfied. In the interstellar era, it is a very lucky thing to find a reliable teammate. If this teammate is enough to trust his back, it is even more fortunate.

From the current point of view, Zheng Wan, a waste picker who took the initiative to find her, has the potential to become a long-term collaborator.

Lin Yuan walked unhappily, almost moving, trying not to make any noise, and at the same time shared his observation results with Zheng Wan.

"Suddenly getting energy-rich food will greatly reduce the pressure of survival, and their vigilance will be greatly reduced. As long as we move lightly and slowly enough so that they don't feel threatened, they won't be attacked."

"Understood." Zheng Wan also slowed down as much as possible.

With a distance of more than 20 meters, the two walked for more than 123 minutes. Every time they took a step, they had to watch the reaction of the mucus ball, just like playing [-] wooden figures.

The difference is that this game is more cruel, you can only do it once, once you fail, you have to pay the price of your life.

Fortunately, Lin Yuan's judgment was correct, until the two of them walked near the mucus ball, they did not cause any abnormal reaction from each other.

The situation becomes clearer as we get closer.

It is brownish black, somewhat translucent, like a blob of jelly.

The surface of this ball of jelly has been 'vibrating' slightly, and upon careful observation, it is found that it is actually flowing, circulating in a circular manner, allowing every part of the mucus to have a chance to contact the plutonium oxide in the center.

This is like an Antarctic penguin facing a snowstorm, constantly turning in circles, so that every individual has a chance to get warm.

equal opportunity.

Lin Yuan began to carefully stretch the alloy pipe over.

Although it is only four meters away, this operation will directly alarm 'Jelly', whether it is good or bad, Lin Yuan can't fully guarantee it.

Zheng Wan tightly grasped the handle of the shield, her nerves were already tense.

About 10 minutes later, Lin Yuan handed the alloy tube 10 centimeters near the spherical 'jelly'.

Then, 'Jelly' started to move.

From the end close to the alloy tube, a thin wire slowly protruded out, like a snail's tentacles. 'Careful' to move forward.

Lin Yuan held his breath and kept the alloy tube as still as possible.

About 2 minutes later, the 'tentacle' touched the alloy tube, and the brown-black jelly flowed into the alloy tube along the 'tentacle', wrapping the rice-sized plutonium oxide bound to the tube, forming a peanut Big 'little jelly balls'.

At the same time, the connection between the two balls of 'jelly', one big and one small, became thinner and thinner, and finally broke completely.

In other words, the 'jelly' on the alloy tube has become an independent existence.

'It worked! '

Lin Yuan took a deep breath and retracted the alloy tube bit by bit.

The 'jelly' on the head of the alloy tube didn't move. They focused on the food in front of them and didn't notice the change in the position of the alloy tube. Or, they had already noticed it, but they didn't feel threatened.

After that, the two retreated little by little. It took more than half an hour to retreat to 100 meters away again.

"Zheng Wan, do you have a bottle? It's better to be transparent."

Zheng Wan sighed: "You really think I have everything."

Having said that, she still opened the box on her back and actually took out a transparent bottle with a long neck and round belly.

"Here~ The volumetric bottle is made of high-strength transparent alloy, very strong."

"good stuff."

Lin Yuan carefully inserted the alloy tube into the volumetric flask, and shook it vigorously to shake the plutonium oxide fixed on the tube into the cup.

The group of 'jelly' followed immediately.

"Quickly put the lid on!"

Needless to say, Zheng Wan has already corked the bottle.

Not long after it was plugged in, the 'jelly' in the volumetric flask finally sensed that something was wrong, and changed shape rapidly. In less than 4 seconds, it turned into a 'little man' as tall as a matchstick.

The 'little man' bounced back and forth in the volumetric flask, bouncing back and forth like a rubber ball, bouncing the volumetric flask 'bang bang'.

Zheng Wan's heart skipped a beat when she saw it: "It's so powerful, my hands are a little numb."

"Don't worry about it so much, let's evacuate quickly and find a quiet place. I want to study this thing carefully."

The two turned around and ran towards the distance, running for several kilometers, before stopping behind a huge brownish-yellow boulder.

"See how it goes?"

"It's quiet again, motionless."

Zheng Wan handed the volumetric flask to Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan observed carefully, and found that it had turned into a ball of 'jelly' again, with the sesame-sized plutonium oxide wrapped in the center. He didn't know whether it had adapted to the new environment, or was accumulating energy, planning to fight again. .

Seeing that he was looking at it seriously, Zheng Wan couldn't help asking: "This thing is very dangerous, how are you going to study it?"

Lin Yuan gently placed the volumetric flask on the ground, and began to adjust the communicator of the spacesuit, using the communicator as a signal transmitter.

The target of the launch is naturally the 'jelly' in the bottle.

He kept switching the frequency, amplitude, and phase of the signal, and at the same time explained his thoughts to Zheng Wan: "The macroscopic shape of this creature changes very quickly. It is absolutely impossible to do this simply by relying on the diffusion of chemical semiomones."

Zheng Wan is also a smart person, and immediately understood: "So, you suspect that the communication method between cells is electromagnetic waves? Uh~~ Your guess is very reasonable, I found that as long as you get close to them, the background noise of the communicator is very loud. "

"That's right, it's electromagnetic waves."

As soon as the voice fell, Lin Yuan just tuned to a new frequency, and when this frequency appeared, the 'jelly' in the bottle suddenly melted.

It was originally spherical, and when it moved, it trembled and was very resilient, but at this time, it turned into a puddle of brown-black liquid with almost no viscosity.

Seeing this, Lin Yuan laughed loudly: "Sure enough, there is no perfect evolution in this world, only the evolution that best adapts to the environment."

The pressure of natural selection gave this group of strange cells a powerful cooperative fighting ability, but it also left a system bug.And as long as there is a bug, it will definitely be stuck!

Zheng Wan sat down on the ground, her tense nerves relaxed: "You guessed it."

Her spaceship is at play again.

It'll be fine next time.

Lin Yuan went back and forth to this group of strange cells, tossing and turning, and tirelessly doing various experiments. All the data obtained were handed over to Hope for analysis and comparison with the data in storage.

In the blink of an eye, 2 hours passed, and Lin Yuan also studied this group of mutated cells clearly.

He guessed right, the underlying principle of this group of strange cells is exactly the same as the sample in the database.

It is also carbon-based life, the genetic material is also DNA, and the main body is still protein. The only difference between them and normal life is that there is an extra organelle called 'nuclear body'.

Normal cells get their energy through the mitochondria.

Mutated cells rely on nuclear energy bodies.

It can absorb radioactive substances into nuclear energy bodies, wrap them layer by layer with a strange metalloprotein, intercept energy from radiated high-energy particles, and convert them into chemical energy.

It can be said that each nuclear energy body is a miniature fission reactor, and each mutant cell is a nuclear reaction factory, and the energy utilization rate is very high. In a sense, it is even higher than the limit efficiency of "boiling water".

Zheng Wan was already bored waiting, seeing Lin Yuan 'recovering his senses', she hurriedly asked: "Then what should I do next?"

Lin Yuan smiled slightly: "According to the time, the little girl at the door of the mining ship should have eaten enough. If there is no accident, it should have left."

"gone?"

"Yes, after consuming the resources in one place, of course the next step is to find new resources. Are you still staying where you are and starving to death?"

"That's right. Speaking of which, these mutated cells not only helped us eliminate our opponents, but also eliminated the residual radiation on the mining ship."

Lin Yuan laughed loudly: "So, misfortune is what blessings depend on, and blessings are where misfortune lies."

He first stepped out from behind the boulder, ready to return to the mining ship, but after taking two steps, he immediately shrank back and hid behind the boulder.

Zheng Wan was originally following behind him, but when she saw him retreating, she immediately retreated too.

"What happened?"

"Look over there!"

Lin Yuan pointed to the gap between the stones, and then he leaned into the gap to look, and Zheng Wan also leaned over to look curiously.

Through the gap, you can see a cute little girl about 200 meters behind the boulder.

She is completely different from the weird human figure that appeared at the door of the mining cabin. She has clearly visible human features on her face, and her body

The skin on his body didn't have the weird squirming like a swarm of insects.

At first glance, she looks exactly like a normal person, the only abnormal thing is that she is not wearing a spacesuit, to be precise, she is not wearing anything at all.

"What the hell are you doing! God-level masters also come to Desolate Star to pick up trash? They're still running naked!"

At this moment, Zheng Wan, a deep victim of the introverted society, finally couldn't take it anymore and broke her defenses.

(End of this chapter)