"What?! Are you saying that that kind of green stem can manipulate the human body for activity? W-How is this possible?! The fat otaku looked at me in surprise.

"At first, I didn't believe in such nonsense. But then a series of our experiences proved it. These plants do manipulate the brains of many creatures. I looked at him fixedly, and there was no joke in the slightest.

Wang Yi's gaze looked at the stunned players, and then I said, "You should also be aware that the zombies and other mutated creatures in the four regions have completely different intelligences. For example, the zombies that do not return to the forest, they are just walking corpses without thoughts, and they have no other ability than to constantly seek out living creatures to eat. And the zombies who hate the desert have a little more ability to think than the zombies who don't return to the forest. They are more likely to notice the existence of living creatures than zombies in the Forest of No Return, and they will inform their own kind in a strange way when they find them. ”

"But this is a little insignificant compared to the zombies of the permafrost and the mutated brown bears, snow wolves, and even bugs. When we went to the permafrost snowfield, we were surprised to find that all the infected creatures there had slightly higher intelligence than ordinary animals. They begin to analyze their own strength in comparison with the enemy, and thus choose whether to attack or retreat. They begin to fear death, just like other normal animals. Leaders are beginning to appear among them. I glanced at Wang Yi and took a deep breath: "So, since that time, I have been thinking about whether these infected organisms have already appeared some kind of phenomenon similar to evolution." ”

"You mean, infected organisms are also evolving?!" The man in white had a shocked face, as if he couldn't believe his ears.

But his eyes sparkled, as if he remembered something, and he suddenly fell silent.

I glanced at the man in white and smiled, but shook my head.

"Nope. This was just my initial conjecture. Because unlike you, we started from the farthest point of the Forest of No Return and came in the opposite direction to the Devouring Swamp. Therefore, we can clearly feel the changes in the infected organisms in these areas. As I spoke, I turned to the nearest chair and sat down, leaning back in it, before I continued, "When we came to the Devouring Swamp, I felt strange at first. Because in the Devouring Swamp, a single zombie rarely appears, almost none. On the contrary, the number of mutated creatures is staggering. And, at first glance, these mutated creatures don't seem to show much intelligence. It made me wonder if I was wrong in my initial judgment. ”

"It wasn't until we went to the easternmost swamp of the Devouring Swamp and saw a large number of stems burrowing into the ground that I realized. It's not that the infected creatures of the Man-Devouring Swamp are not intelligent, but because they are so intelligent that they have begun to learn to disguise their purpose. I was about to continue, but the Mohicans interrupted me.

"Wait!! You mean, in this game, these plants are the hidden killers?! However, even if they can control the human body to eat living things, that doesn't mean that they have intelligence?! And, even if there is, how did this intelligence come about? Moxigan looked at me suspiciously, with a hint of disbelief in his eyes.

I looked at him with a wry smile.

"You're to the point. The key is how these green stems and vines acquire intelligence, and through what kind of channels they obtain them. I've been thinking about this question for a long time. Until not long ago, Qiqi reminded me. It finally dawned on me. Speaking of this, I looked at Zhao Qiqi, my eyes full of admiration: "At the beginning, these plants. Well...... Let's call them plants!! These things, having gained control of the brain, will only command the human body to gnaw on living things. Because they need a lot of nutrients to grow, and the human body that has been infected with the virus is no longer able to take in nutrients on its own. If they don't control the human body to get other nutrients from the outside world, then soon the human body under their control will be scrapped because the nutrients are depleted. Then the plants that live in the human brain will also die quickly because they cannot get more nutrients. Therefore, they must constantly give instructions to the human brain to get food, so that they can grow at a minimum. ”

"Hearing you say that, do you think it's not the infection of the virus that causes these zombies to eat live creatures, but these green stems?!" Jiang Donghong looked at me blankly.

At this time, even he was a little surprised.

Zhao Qiqi raised his eyelids and glanced at Di Evil, who was speechless: "These things, Di Evil has long been clear, as her follower, you don't know at all?!" Then it's no wonder. It seems that she wants to clear the game alone. We, including all of you, will be victims of her survival. ”

As soon as these words came out, the faces of the three members of Jiang Donghong's team, Gao Qin, and Liu Gouyu became even more ugly.

Although out of fear of Di's evil, they remained silent.

I was secretly amused.

"Let's go back to the question of how these stems and vines acquire intelligence!!" I coughed lightly and drew everyone's attention back: "Of course, these are just our conjectures, just for reference. According to my guess, the human body infected with the virus will not suddenly become a monster that can only eat people, as written in the TV series, but will become a state similar to the living dead. It's literally the real 'living dead'. They retain the most basic functions of the human body, similar to plants, but have lost all consciousness and mobility. However, after this virus is combined with the human body and mutates, it can make the body of the infected person not decay and not deteriorate for a long time. I think that the virus should be extremely viable, and it can sustain itself, as well as the infected body, even with only the thin nutrients in the air. It was precisely because the scientific research institute accidentally discovered the existence of this virus that they had their first experiment, in order to realize an almost absurd dream pursued by countless people - immortality. ”

"Immortal?! At the beginning, the research institute was actually researching this?! That's ridiculous, isn't it?! When the office worker man heard this, his eyes widened suddenly, and he seemed to be completely incredulous.