In the darkness of the night, two huge birds were fighting fiercely.
The one flapping its wings on the ground is a mutant rooster.
Circling in the sky was a giant crow.
Alan looked up at the night sky.
I remember that more than two months ago, that huge crow like a black dragon once briefly stopped on the roof of the gas station.
In the days that followed, Alan caught glimpses of this mutant raptor in other places in town.
Always grabbing prey at amazing speed and flying high!
For some reason, the rooster and the crow came into conflict.
The rooster flapped its wings vigorously and glided between the abandoned buildings, chasing the crows.
Such clumsy flying ability is obviously no match for the crows that can fly flexibly in the air.
The crow takes full advantage of its aerial advantage and observes the rooster's actions from high above.
When it finds an opportunity, it will pounce on it and tear it apart with its sharp claws.
The bloody feathers fluttered in the night wind.
Unable to catch the cunning crow, the rooster crowed angrily at his opponent.
A powerful shock wave blasted out from its mouth.
Unfortunately, the crow was prepared for this move.
Seeing the rooster stretching its neck and crowing into the sky, I immediately flapped my wings at a high frequency.
The huge body covered with jet-black feathers disappeared into the night, accompanied by a wave of magical power that distorted space.
The next moment, the crow suddenly appeared beside the rooster.
While the opponent was concentrating on spitting out shockwaves, he pecked it hard on the face.
puff!
The crow flew away with a bloody eyeball in its mouth.
The rooster tilted its head and let out a painful and unwilling cry.
Blood kept flowing from the empty eye socket on the right side.
Alan stood in the shadow of the corner, watching the crow fight the rooster.
Judging from the current situation, the rooster is not far from death.
Alan had no sympathy for this ferocious mutant raptor.
However, now that the rooster is dead, I will no longer hear the crowing to wake me up on time in the morning, which is somewhat of a pity.
Alan didn't want to disrupt his accustomed life routine.
So he pulled out a vial of mutant jellyfish toxin that had been preserved by magic, and prayed to cast a spell.
"Lumbor!"
Alan grabbed the crow and teleported, appearing behind the rooster at the moment, and whispered a spell.
Bang!
Accompanied by a slight explosion, a large pink cloud enveloped the crows and the roosters.
After the fight, both the crow and the rooster had wounds of varying sizes.
The neurotoxins contained in the fog can be transmitted through skin contact.
If the skin barrier is lost, toxins will directly enter the blood circulation through the wound, and the toxicity will occur faster and more violently!
The poisoned crow used its last bit of strength to teleport to the maximum height.
This instinctive act of self-rescue accelerated its death.
Intense exercise speeds up your heart rate.
The toxins in the blood invade the heart at a faster rate, causing paralysis of the whole body.
Thousands of feet up in the night, the mournful cries of crows were heard.
The huge bird of prey was unable to flap its wings and was circling and falling like a helicopter out of control.
He fell heavily on the street, splashing up a cloud of dust.
Roosters that were also infected with the toxin showed greater endurance and will for revenge.
He took staggering steps, supported himself and walked to the crow, pecked the head of his old enemy, and then collapsed to the ground, the light in his eyes gradually dimming.
Alan observed for a while.
Only when the crow exploded with its brains all over the ground and the dying rooster was too weak to get up did they move forward to reap the fruits of victory.
Dissect the crow's body and obtain a light blue crystal.
Both in appearance and properties, it looks very much like the Wind Demon Stone.
By hunting various mutant creatures, Allen summed up a rule.
Mutated creatures, most of which have magic crystals in their bodies.
Apart from physical mutations, these creatures do not have any other superpowers, and the crystals in their bodies usually have no special properties, similar to the attributeless magic stones in the warlock world.
Mutated creatures that have evolved superpowers often have attribute crystals corresponding to their abilities in their bodies.
For example, the mutant carp is good at mental attacks, and the crystals in its body contain spiritual magic.
The mutated jellyfish is good at discharging electricity and has electrical crystals in its body.
The mutant crow's ability to teleport is probably related to the crystal in its body that contains a high concentration of wind magic.
Alan put the cyan crystal in his pocket and turned to look at the dying rooster.
Judging from its ability to spit out supersonic shock waves, it probably contains wind or lightning magic crystals in its body.
However, Allen felt it was a waste to kill the rooster for a magic crystal.
It would be better to tame this bird of prey and use it as a guard.
After making up his mind, he cast the "Prayer" again, simulating the "Advanced Beast Transformation" to cast permanent charm on the rooster.
The rooster, which was in a coma and on the verge of death, had no will to resist and was easily seduced by Alan.
Alan used the last "Prayer" of the day to simulate the 7th-ring "Regeneration".
A soft glow emanates from the fingertips, soothing the rooster's wounds.
In the blink of an eye, the bruised and battered rooster recovered.
The feathers that fell off during the battle, and even the eye that was pecked out by a crow, grew back.
Allen is pleased with the results of the treatment.
He continued to dissect the mutant crow with a knife, cutting off the flesh and organs remaining after the self-explosion and throwing them to the rooster to eat.
The rooster buried its head in the food and gobbled it voraciously. After a hearty meal, it approached Alan and crowed softly, its eyes full of gratitude.
Alan caressed the rooster's neck. The gorgeous golden-red feathers felt soft and silky to the touch, like the finest satin.
At the same time, Alan sensed the rooster's mental fluctuations.
The other party seemed to be seeking to communicate with him mentally.
Allen is no stranger to this situation.
In fact, the mutant creatures in this world can awaken telepathy as long as their intelligence reaches a certain level.
However, due to the limitations of their respective cognitive levels, communication may not be smooth.
Alan once tried to communicate telepathically with a stray cat , but the cat was not interested in anything except catching mice.
Alan was unable to obtain any valuable information from the minds of these intellectually retarded mutant animals.
However, mutant roosters are an exception.
Mutated cells that invaded the brain seemed to promote its intellectual evolution.
Although its ability to express and understand is still far from the normal level of humans, it can still communicate.
Through telepathy, Alan learned that the rooster was actually a purebred fighting cock.
Before the mutation, it had been carefully raised and trained by its original owner, who hoped that it would make a big splash and win a large prize for him in the cockfighting arena.
Its owner, who had high hopes for it, even gave it a majestic name!
"Phoenix?"
Alan laughed to himself.
Try calling a rooster by this name.
"Phoenix!"
"Coo, coo, coo!"
As expected, the rooster responded, jumping for joy and looking very happy.
It is indeed an excellent fighting cock.
Unfortunately, before they could even get into the fight, a catastrophe struck.
Phoenix couldn't understand why this disaster came.
I just remember that the owner didn't come to feed it that morning.
I endured hunger until evening, but still didn't see the owner.
Phoenix was so hungry that he ran out to find food.
From that moment on, the world as we knew it before collapsed.
For some unknown reason, overnight, the air and water were contaminated by some mysterious pathogen.
After the disaster, the residents of the town fled and tried to make a living.
Phoenix, along with other animals that were too late to migrate, remained in the town to fend for themselves.
In this abandoned land, mysterious germs are everywhere and can penetrate any hole.
Sooner or later all animals and plants will become sick and mutate into monsters.
Phoenix has no clear concept of time, and doesn't know how many years he has lived in the town after the disaster.
But it still remembered that almost all the poultry and livestock it was familiar with died before it.
Some were hunted by other mutant creatures, and more died from self-explosion.
He was walking on the road just fine a second ago.
The next second, it exploded without any warning!
These horrific and puzzling scenes left Phoenix with psychological trauma.
I am worried that in the near future, I will suffer the same tragic death.
Allen knew that Phoenix's concerns were not unfounded.
During the days he settled in the ruins of Kang Town, he spent a lot of energy studying the mysterious bacteria that caused biological mutations.
Any organism infected with pathogens will have its cell tissues mutated.
When the number of mutated cells exceeds a certain limit and enters the cancer stage, the host will lose mental control and become enlarged.
If left untreated, the cancer will explode and kill itself in the late stage.
Alan found a lot of usable medical equipment in the abandoned hospital in the town.
Back in the underground warehouse, they used a syringe to draw blood from Phoenix for testing.
The result left him feeling heavy-hearted.
The mutated cells in Phoenix's body are proliferating wildly and uncontrollably and are already in the middle stage of cancer.
If this trend continues, within half a year, its life will come to an end with the roar of flesh and blood exploding.
How to save Phoenix?
Alan thought of two options.
The first one is the simplest.
Using "prayer" to simulate the 6th-level "healing" or 7th-level "advanced restoration" can immediately eliminate all mutated cells in Phoenix's body.
However, there is a drawback to this approach.
While Phoenix recovers, he will also lose the super powers gained from cell mutation and turn back into the ordinary fighting cock he originally was.
It is conceivable that in this apocalypse where mutant monsters are rampant, Phoenix, who has returned to his original form, has no ability to protect himself at all.
So, this is not a perfect treatment plan.
So, is it possible to retain some of the mutated cells in Phoenix's body, while curbing the cancer and retaining the strong physique and superpowers after the mutation?
Guided by this line of thought, Alan thought of himself.
He himself possesses the divinity of poison and is immune to all germs and toxins in the world.
His blood, the blood of a demigod, also has the miraculous effect of killing bacteria and viruses.
In theory, giving Phoenix his blood would help curb the growth of cancer.
However, Allen didn't know what dose to give it.
The dose is too small and the therapeutic effect is poor.
Too large a dose and the result would be the same as applying medical magic.
To do this, Allen needed to conduct a series of experiments.
In the following days, with the assistance of Phoenix, Allen captured various mutant creatures in the town as experimental materials.
In fact, he and Phoenix teamed up to be able to walk across the entire town.
Later, the wild cats and dogs in the town saw the majestic rooster and the boy riding on the rooster's back from afar, and they were all scared and turned and ran away.
After two months and hundreds of experiments, Allen finally came to a definite conclusion.
A drop of his blood, injected into the mutant organism, can immediately kill all the mutated cells and restore it to its pre-mutation state.
After the blood is diluted with clean water, the effect of killing mutant cells decreases with the concentration.
Specifically, a drop of Allen's blood (about 0.1 ml) + one liter of water, a solvent diluted ten thousand times, injected into mutant organisms weighing no more than 100 kg and in the middle and late stages of cancer, can significantly curb the deterioration of the disease.
At the same time, it will not destroy the mutant creatures' superpowers.
The injection dose is positively correlated with the weight of the mutant organism.
Allen tried injecting Phoenix with three units of blood solvent, which was very effective.
The cancerous tissue in the rooster's body will stop spreading and there is no need to worry about the disease worsening for at least ten years.
For a chicken, this is considered a long life .
Allen felt that the disaster that befell Kang Town was not accidental.
The world outside Kangzhen is probably also filled with mysterious germs and has long been reduced to ruins.
In the wasteland after the catastrophe, will the surviving humans also have to face the super powers brought by mutations and the curse of cancer at the same time like Phoenix?
If this is true, Allen has reason to believe that anti-cancer drugs made from one's own blood will be of great use in this world.
With this thought, Alan felt the urge to leave the ruins of Kang Town and venture into the outside world.
However, he is no longer the passionate young man he once was, and he knows very well that this world may be more dangerous than he expected.
The experience of being swallowed by the mutant fish at the Finger Lakes was still vivid in Alan's mind, and he didn't want to shorten his life any further.
The Sword God has not yet been trained, so it is too early to leave Shilipo.
Suppressing the urge to go out for adventure, Alan continued to devote himself to his boring daily practice.
Day after day, half a year passed in a flash.
It has been a whole year since Allen came into this world.
Now, his warlock level has reached the early fourth level.
Not long ago, he successfully upgraded his bloodline talent from a hill giant to a stone giant.
From now on, Alan's ancestral form changed from a stupid hill giant to a stone giant with shiny dark skin and angular features like a sculpture.
The change from the ogre bloodline to the hill giant bloodline is still in the stage of quantitative change, it is simply becoming bigger and stronger.
However, the evolution from the hill giant bloodline to the stone giant bloodline can be called a qualitative change!
After upgrading, in addition to improving physical attributes, the growth of mental attributes is also greatly enhanced.
After all, stone giants are not simple-minded guys with strong limbs. They are stone carving artists known as giants, philosophers who meditate in the dark, and they are even smarter than humans.
In addition to the growth of his spiritual attributes, Allen also awakened two stone giant blood talents.
One is "tremor perception", commonly known as blindsight.
Blindsight is a higher level of supernatural sense than darkvision.
Even with your eyes closed, you can still sense the slightest movement around you through your sensitive ears and skin, and then form a clear picture in your mind.
The second ability is the "underground escape" that comes from the earth-related bloodline, which is also vividly called "earth diving."
In his atavism form, Allen transforms into an earth giant and can travel freely deep in the earth.
Neither mud nor solid rock can stop the earth giants. It is like swimming in the water, leaving no tunnels or traces of digging behind them.
What’s even more amazing is that when Eren is in Earth Giant form, he will not feel suffocated even if he dives deep into solid rock formations.
With this ability, when you explore the outside world in the future and encounter danger, you can sneak underground at the first time and your safety will be guaranteed.