Volume 14: Devastation Chapter 718: Raising Gu
"……similar ?"
Ke Lan was slightly stunned. Could it be that because he had absorbed the original embryo of the "seed", this fusion creature considered him to be of the same species as it?
So, it didn't attack itself?
Ke Lan couldn't help but think of a scene he saw in the abyss hatchery - a large number of fusion embryos curled up inside the fleshy spores called "egg shells", the swollen hatching bed swayed slowly with the flow of sea water, and the big guy lurking in the deepest part of the abyss was silently guarding these young bodies that had not yet hatched, and did not devour them.
So, the fusion body will not kill its own offspring? As for the seed embryos obtained by the New Star Chamber of Commerce, they were most likely extracted from the "fusion body plus" in front of him... So, in a sense, I am now also its "offspring"?
Then... do I still have to call her "Mom"?
Although there is an old saying that "there can't be two tigers on one mountain", there is also an old saying that "even a tiger won't eat its own cubs"... If there is such a relationship, I should be safe for the time being, right?
Just as Ke Lan was thinking this, a dozen tentacles covered with white fuzzy mycelium fell from above and enveloped Ke Lan.
The face that originally belonged to Camilla Claudia slowly opened its mouth and spoke in a somewhat ambiguous voice, "Same species... nutritious ... high-quality nutrients... craving... devouring..."
"Fuck!" Ke Lan's heart suddenly started beating wildly!
Wrong guess! Totally wrong!
The reason why the fusion in the Abyss Hatchery didn't devour those embryos was because the genetic information contained in those embryos was pitifully small, and swallowing them wouldn't be of much help to it... But the fusion larvae that had grown up were different...
This is just like the fishermen on Earth who never use nets with too small meshes, just to keep the fry that have not yet grown up...
Ke Lan did not see the second "adult" fusion in the Haiyuan Hatchery, not because the fusion baby left there after they grew up, but because they were all eaten by the big guy!
Rather than calling it a hatchery, it would be more appropriate to say that it was a "gu jar"!
Just like raising a Gu, the fused bodies devour each other and merge with each other... Finally, a most powerful super monster with the most complex genetic sequence is born... Because the genetic information database it possesses is extremely large, this super monster has almost unlimited evolutionary directions... As long as it wants, it can activate any genetic sequence in its body at any time!
This kind of creatures are supposed to devour each other... Only creatures like this can completely use the power of the devoured one for their own benefit...
Although it was a bit inappropriate, Ke Lan's eyes popped up those low-quality web game advertisements with the names of "Strange Beasts from the Classic of Mountains and Seas"... That's right, just like those low-quality web games, this kind of creature survives in the world for only one thing: devour, fuse, and then evolve.
They cannot coexist with other organisms.
The seed embryos implanted in the container are not for the purpose of cultivating new fusion bodies, and their ultimate life or death is not important... because these things are actually "high-end ingredients" prepared for this big guy.
Regardless of whether he absorbed the two seed embryos or not, in the eyes of this fusion creature, he was a delicious meal.
Without warning, Ke Lan swung his left arm violently behind him. The sharp shovel blade immediately cut off several approaching tentacles, and then he leaped up with all his might.
Generally speaking, when facing an enemy that is many times larger than oneself, jumping up is a very stupid behavior. Because in the air, one has nowhere to gain leverage and cannot change one's trajectory, and it is easy for the enemy to capture the final landing point - but for Ke Lan, this is not the case.
He clamped the stolen light machine gun under his armpit, removed the rate-of-fire limiter inserted on the side of the gun with a flick of his finger, and then pulled the trigger to the bottom!
The machine gun suddenly let out a series of roars like the sound of a loom. The huge recoil force pushed Ke Lan in the air to retreat continuously. In a blink of an eye, he had escaped the attack range of the tentacles that were chasing him.
However, when Ke Lan landed on the ground, the machine gun was completely scrapped - after removing the limiter, the gun could empty a 100-round belt in just one second. This rate of fire is more than four times the highest rate of fire of the famous MG42 machine gun in history, and is almost the same as the live-ammunition Phalanx close-in defense gun equipped on battleships... but the price is that while tearing the enemy apart, it also tears apart its own gun barrel.
Ke Lan stabbed the deformed red gun barrel directly at a tentacle that attacked from the side. The high temperature immediately caused a black carbonized layer to form on the surface of the white mycelium, but the tentacle's attack was not blocked. The red gun barrel was directly twisted into a dough and rolled towards Ke Lan.
"damn it!"
Ke Lan cursed viciously, loosened his grip on the butt of the gun, pulled back, and smashed his tentacles onto the concrete floor, instantly creating a shallow pit of nearly half a meter.
"This thing seems to have set its sights on me... so if I can lead it to circle around here, maybe I can buy Aya and the others thirty minutes to evacuate... but the problem is... can I hold on for thirty minutes?" Ke Lan was quickly weighing countermeasures in his mind - the basement of the Nova Chamber of Commerce was very large, and the various passages were intricate, like a maze. If the other party was just an ordinary monster, he might be able to lead it around the maze... but with the power of the fusion body, I'm afraid it won't choose to take the passages built by humans.
In its eyes, these walls were just like paper, and they could not stop its progress at all. It would only choose the shortest path to chase Ke Lan. If there was a wall blocking the way, it would just push it down. If Ke Lan ran to the upper level, it would just open up the ground...
In this pursuit mode, the entire Nova Chamber of Commerce building will collapse in less than five minutes... and when this guy crawls out of the ruins and spreads the spores of the mimicry fungus all around... then everything will be over.
Ke Lan quickly retreated while observing the changes in the fusion body. At the same time, he was observing his own body.
He had already absorbed the seed embryo, and had absorbed the dose for two people at once... However, none of the reaction symptoms described by the captured instructor appeared in Ke Lan.
