Volume 14: Devastation Chapter 719: Application Ability of Fusion Gene
Although the captured instructor also said that after the injection of the seed embryo, there will be about five minutes of sobriety... but before falling into the "violent period", there will be symptoms such as fatigue, hot and cold, dizziness, etc. - these are all normal rejection reactions. If you survive it and take in enough "nutrients", the vaccinee will become a container of "seeds". If you don't survive it, you will die of organ failure and skin ulcers.
But apart from the extremely short period of abnormal fever just now, Ke Lan was as normal as ever, and did not feel like he was about to faint at any time.
What those two instructors took...could it be Xibei goods?
“Bang!!”
Another tentacle passed through the wall and headed straight for Ke Lan. The diameter of this tentacle was as thick as a person could hug, and it could not be cut with an engineering shovel. Ke Lan could only continue to run away.
It is not known whether it is because of the seed embryo or the powerful perception ability of the fusion body, but no matter which corner of the basement Ke Lan runs to, no matter how many walls are between him and the fusion body, the other party can accurately lock his position and launch an attack.
This tentacle twisted like a python and chased after him. During the chase, several human arms grew out of the tentacle and grabbed towards Ke Lan.
"...Can this guy change his body at any time?" The suddenly appearing arms extended the attack range of the tentacles, and the hood of the hoodie that Ke Lan was wearing was caught. He had no choice but to tear open the zipper immediately, retract his arms, and escape.
The discarded hoodie was instantly swallowed by a giant mouth that grew out of the tentacle - and then it was quickly spit out, but the fabric had already been corroded by the highly acidic digestive fluid and was riddled with holes, leaving no trace of its original appearance.
But the next second, the changes that occurred in the fusion body almost made Ke Lan drop his jaw!
I saw a large amount of dark red, plasma-like liquid secreted from the mucous membrane on the surface of the tentacle, which quickly wrapped the entire tentacle, hardened and formed a layer of blood scab-like armor !
"Living armor?!"
Ke Lan only felt his scalp tingling - the fusion body just swallowed the hoodie not because it couldn't tell the difference between food and clothes. Its target was not the clothes from the beginning, but the hair and skin fragments with Ke Lan's genes stuck to the clothes!
"Unique...excellent...genes...superior...top-grade nutrients! Devour...can...become stronger...gain...strength...and fuse..." The whisper of the fused body echoed in this underground space. Although the sentences were not complete, everyone could hear the excitement that could not be suppressed in the tone.
"Why can this guy even simulate living armor?!" Ke Lan thought as he ran away. "Logically speaking, the living armor has been separated from his body... Could it be that the living armor left some information fragments in his genes, which were captured by the fusion body?"
"If it is just information fragments, then the living armor simulated by the fusion body should not be a complete living armor. This thing... is just for show!"
Ke Lan looked back and, as expected, although the hardened blood scabs enhanced the tentacles' defense, they also seriously hindered their mobility... The "genuine" living armor can change at any time with the movement of the body's joints and muscles. It is not in a solid state, but can be transformed into a liquid or semi-fluid state at any time to perfectly fit the host's body.
However, the living armor simulated by the fusion body was just a layer of solidified blood scab. When the tentacles bent or twisted, the blood scab covering it would break and peel off... After a while, the blood scab that originally covered the entire tentacle was less than one-third of the area left.
The fusion body also realized that this evolution was a failure and imperfect, so it simply stopped secreting blood and instead grew more arms in an attempt to catch the fleeing Ke Lan.
These arms continued to extend forward based on tentacles. Many of them had not even grown fully. The incomplete muscles and fascia wrapped around the white bones, and the five bloody fingers were grasping frantically... Ke Lan could feel that it was craving for everything of him. Even if it couldn't grab him immediately, as long as it could pull a few hairs from him or tear off a piece flesh... It wanted to rely on Ke Lan's flesh and blood and genes to alleviate this craving, and at the same time fill its insatiable desire for food and nutrients.
"If we keep running like this, the Chamber of Commerce building will soon collapse..."
Ke Lan turned around and used an engineering shovel to hit the hand that was grabbing his shoulder. The flesh on the hand was instantly scraped off by the sharp edge of the engineering shovel , but the bone inside was shaken so much that the engineering shovel made of Nino alloy directly made a small cut - this kind of bone strength is obviously not something that humans can possess, not even high-level enhanced humans can do.
Cyborgs may be able to achieve this level, but the prerequisite is that the entire body skeleton must be cast with pure Nino alloy.
These arms are not "pure" human limbs. Although they look exactly like human arms, their "material" has been replaced by something else by the fusion body... The main component of these bones is no longer calcium, but a substance with a hardness comparable to that of Nino alloy.
Perhaps because it had copied multiple human brains, the IQ of this fusion body was not low. It knew how to use its own advantages and make the best use of the complex genes it had absorbed... As if to verify Ke Lan's idea, after he slapped this hand away, several bulging glands suddenly grew out in the palms of the other hands and began to spray a white liquid towards Ke Lan.
This white liquid solidified instantly when it came into contact with the air, forming tough silk threads. Although Ke Lan himself was not hit by these silk threads, he clearly saw a silk thread stick to the wall and forcibly pull off a one-meter square cement block from the wall... and the other wall that was hit by four spider silk threads was directly pulled down!
Through the time-stopped footage, Ke Lan could see clearly that the spider silk was not stuck on the surface of the wall, but had penetrated directly into the wall - just like an arrow flying at high speed.
Its stickiness, strength and toughness cannot be measured by normal standards.
This silk-spinning ability obviously comes from some indigenous insect creature, most likely the "Ghost Web Spider" or the "Dragon Hunting Spider" - the former's spider silk is extremely tough and is often used in cables or protective gear. One kilogram of Ghost Web Spider silk can even be sold on the black market for a high price of 500,000 credit points; as for the latter, this spider never weaves a web, but uses the spider silk as a shooting weapon. The force of the spray can even penetrate the chitinous carapace on the surface of the thunder beast!
Of course, it is not ruled out that the "spider silk" ejected by the fusion body has the characteristics of both. Maybe it even carries deadly biological toxins...
"Aya!!" Ke Lan yelled in the communication channel, "How long will you take! I'm being chased by that thing now! That 'trump card' is useless! I'm afraid I can't buy you any more time!!"
