There was a man's coughing sound in the woods, and then he heard, "Bah, it's really unlucky, and I made a mouthful of dirt." ”

The team members were overjoyed and heard that the person who spoke was Nie Tian.

Nie Tian patted the dust on his body and walked out of the forest slowly.

The little prince was pleasantly surprised, and excitedly stepped forward.

Some timid and cautious classmates stopped and watched, looking at Nie Tian vigilantly.

The little prince stepped forward and grabbed Nie Tian, and asked with concern, "Are you okay?" ”

Nie Tian was leisurely and smug, grinning: "It's okay!" Didn't you see me well? ”

The little prince frowned, stretched out, breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "It's okay!" ”

Nie Tian looked around, looked at everyone's tired faces, and asked with concern, "How are you doing?" ”

The little prince took the lead and said happily: "It's all good, I haven't encountered any monsters again!" Then he was full of questions and asked Nie Tian, "Why did you fall from the sky?" ”

Nie Tian told the story that he and the centipede were entangled in the process of falling.

After a few flips in the air, just as he was about to land, Nie Tian finally rode on the back of the centipede.

At the last moment, in order to protect itself, the centipede actually opened the shell on its back and displayed eight pairs of transparent wings.

A rapid fan, along the air flow of the valley, slid into the mountain forest.

The centipede was in the mountains and forests, constantly twisting its body, hitting the trees, trying to throw Nie Tian off its body.

Nie Tian knew that as long as he fell off the centipede's body, he would face its huge poisonous jaws, so he tightly grabbed the gap between the centipede's carapace and the centipede's will to consume each other.

I don't know how long it took, just when Nie Tian felt that he couldn't hold it anymore, and the hand holding the carapace gradually let go, a bunch of clouds penetrated into the deep valley, and the cliff shone brightly.

In the blink of an eye, the clouds of the mountains and forests dissipated, and the red leaves of the mountains were mixed with greenery, covering the ancient plank road on the mountainside.

The sun shone on the centipede, and its blood-red body instantly burst out of red mist, roaring hoarsely, spreading its wings and skimming the treetops, soaring into the sky.

The valley grew brighter and brighter, the red mist on the centipede's body gradually faded, and its body became more and more transparent.

Hearing this, the students suddenly realized that it was not Nie Tian who mutated to fly in the sky, but was carried by the mutated centipede, just because the centipede became transparent and invisible.

Those classmates who thought that Nie Tian had mutated and were vigilant let down their guard and moved closer.

The little prince was fascinated by what he heard, patted Nie Tian on the shoulder, and said, "I thought you kid had become an immortal!" It turned out that the flying centipede with a tailwind was rided! Yours is it! ”

Then he asked, "Then why did it fall off?" ”

Nie Tian pondered for a moment, and then continued.

At the beginning, overlooking the peaks from a high altitude, the white clouds are misty, the clouds and mist are shrouded, and the mountain tops covered with red leaves poke out of the clouds and mist, like a hibiscus out of the water, which is beautiful.

When the sun rose and the golden light shone, the blood-colored mist in the valley gathered or dispersed, churning and surging.

At this moment, the centipede was completely transparent and weak, rushed out of the blood mist, and planted headlong towards the top of the mountain.

After the little prince smiled heartily, he sincerely admired Nie Tian: "That is, you, if you change to someone else, it is estimated that you have already fallen into all your organs!" ”

Nie Tian was still calm and said to everyone: "According to my analysis, the formation of blood mist in this valley is the same as that of mutant centipedes, which are all formed by the blood mist that spreads out from the bodies of mutated creatures under the irradiation of the sun.

Since the mutant centipede lost its life after it was born in the blood mist, then the other mutant creatures should be the same. ”

When the students heard this, they looked at each other.

The little prince patted his thigh and said, "That is to say, there is no threat of mutant creatures, and we can go down the mountain now!" ”

Nie Tian nodded slightly and said, "You can say that, but that blood mist is poisonous!" At that time, I was on the back of a centipede, but I held my breath the whole time to escape. ”

The little prince he, hey, raised the gas mask around his waist.

Nie Tian touched his chin and said, "Don't you think that blood mist is very similar to the spores of fungi?" ”

The little prince scratched his head, looked at Nie Tian suspiciously, and asked, "Do you mean that these creatures were all parasitic by some kind of fungus and mutated?" ”

Nie Tian saw a cloud of blood mist appear in front of his eyes, shook his head, looked clear in front of him, and said: "Just now on the back of the centipede, I saw the blood mist that it spits out of its mouth, and it feels very similar to the spores that erupt when the mushroom is ripe. It's just my conjecture, not for sure. ”

The little prince was thoughtful, and after a while, he analyzed: "It's also possible that what you said, isn't Cordyceps sinensis just a fungus-parasitic insect that finally turns into grass?" ”

At this time, the female military doctor with a haggard face sitting on the side continued: "I know a little about Cordyceps, it is a fungal plant that combines fungi and insects, and the fungal spores are eaten by the larvae and will not be digested.

At this time, the spores will feed on the nutrients in the larvae's body, and gradually begin to germinate hyphae until the hyphae occupy all the larvae's body.

When the larvae find that the environment is starting to warm, they begin to grow purplish-red sprouts and grass from the larvae's head or mouth. ”

When the little prince heard this, he far-fetched to link the blood mist with the fungus of Cordyceps sinensis, and said: "That's right, the red mist fungus is parasitic in the body of living organisms, and the organisms are controlled by fungi.

Killing and devouring food to get enough nutrients to encourage the fungus to grow rapidly in its body.

When the sun rises and the environment is suitable, it leaves the host and forms a spore blood mist. And when the host's mission is completed, it burps and colds. ”

The female military doctor's name is Wu Li, a northerner, tall, with exquisite facial features, and a military uniform, which looks particularly dignified, but it can't hide her inner charm, graduated from graduate school, and her perennial professionalism makes her disagree with the analysis of the little prince.

He asked the little prince, "Then why can the mutated creatures fuse and become completely new creatures?" Is this a genetic recombinant variant?

The combination of the two genes is a recombinant mutation, and its process is complex, the mechanism is complex, and it is quite unstable.

The mutated organisms we encounter are very stable, and it can be said that genomic DNA molecules form heritable variations. ”

When everyone heard this, they were in a fog, especially the little prince who opened his mouth wide and was speechless.

Nie Tian suddenly asked, "Doctor Wu, what you mean is that this may be a man-made monster!" Or is all this a genetic modification project? ”

Wu Li was silent for a while, nodded, and said, "There is indeed zero possibility of such a mutation in nature!" ”

Nie Tian's mind jumped out of the conversation with the humanoid snake body monster, "Human beings are still in the passive stage of natural evolution and civilization, and in the eyes of our gods, they are even smaller than ants!" ”

I asked myself, is he playing ghost again?

The little prince suddenly felt enlightened and said loudly: "I understand! ”

Everyone was attracted by the little prince and cast inquiring glances.

The little prince enjoyed the eyes of everyone and talked eloquently, "There is only one truth, we will connect all the clues and get the only truth." ”

Nie Tian couldn't stand his grinding, and urged: "Don't talk about uselessness, go straight to the point." ”

The little prince gave Nie Tian a roll of his eyes, obviously dissatisfied with his interruption of his performance, and continued: "What's in this town of Guanshan? ”