A month ago

"The king called me here......" Ye Chen whispered in the ear of a white-robed old man, "He said that I want to find the blessing of the gods here......"

The old man, who had not spoken a word before, suddenly raised his head to look at Ye Chen, and kept looking at him, as if Ye Chen had suddenly turned into a hot girl: "King Heaton? Young man, did he tell you anything about him? ”

His middle name is Prudence. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" Ye Chen quickly understood that this old man was testing him.

"Okay." The old man stood up from the wooden bench and said, "Follow me." ”

Ye Chen hurriedly ran to the side of the door, opened the wooden door, and leaned out half of his body: "You wait for me, I'll call you in for a while." ”

"Okay." Everyone outside the door answered in unison.

"If you die inside......" The expression on Yan Yi's face became a little excited.

"Then I'll let Hanks kill you and bury me." Ye Chen's face collapsed in an instant, "Before I come back, stay good, understand?" ”

"Would you really do that?" Yan Yi turned his head to look at Hanks.

“Oui，jepeux.” As if he were joking, Hanks said a standard French sentence with a serious expression, "The meaning of this sentence is to say, I will." ”

"Why did he just bypass the translation pill!" Yan Yi turned his head to look at Ye Chen in horror again, "It's impossible to expire!" I just took a pill yesterday! ”

"I did a little experiment." Ye Chen closed the door directly and choked the answer in his throat.

"Young man, this is a piece of advice of mine, if you keep that person in your team, sooner or later he will kill you." The old man, who had seen everything, was still standing in place.

"Thank you, old man." The expression on Ye Chen's face did not change because of this, but became even more cold, "I may do this in the future, but I think I still need him very much now." ”

"Ahem, preferably as soon as possible." The old man coughed, crouched down, and lifted an old, dirty carpet on the ground.

Underneath the carpet was a trapdoor, and the iron ring was as dirty as the carpet above, but the old man pulled it up with his hands without hesitation, and jumped into the cave under the trapdoor with his dexterous hands.

Ye Chen walked over, followed the old man's example, and jumped directly towards the deep hole.

The old man was waiting for him at the bottom of the cave entrance, and when he saw Ye Chen jump down without hesitation, he couldn't help but be a little surprised when he was well-informed: "Young man, are your eyes broken?" ”

"No, and my brain isn't broken, so you don't have to ask." Ye Chen's tone seemed to be very contemptuous, but for him it was just a statement, "I did this not because I believe in you, but because I believe in Heaton." ”

"Ahem...... Impolite young people...... Ahem" The old man hiding under the hood was a little embarrassed, so he had to cover it up with a cough "Forget it, you will cry in a while." ”

Ye Chen followed the old man in front of him all the way, and the soles of his feet kept making the sound of the soles of his shoes rubbing against the sand: "Sir, what ......do you mean by crying and shouting?" ”

"The process of 'awakening power' was so painful that some people even died because of it. But the power that has awakened is very strong, so people always flock to it. And everyone's potential power is different, and there are always small differences. The old man patiently explained to Ye Chen, not in the slightest affected by Ye Chen's indifferent treatment before, "Are you a special group of people in the East who call 'closed disciples'?" It looks like you're ignorant of the world. ”

"I'll tell you the truth, I just lost my memory some time ago." Ye Chen said tepidly, always sounding a little angry, "I don't remember anything after waking up in Moir Grassland. Language, identity, worldview...... All was forgotten. ”

"Oh...... Such. There was a sense of sudden realization in the old man's tone, and his words increased, "Then it's no wonder you, but it's really pitiful to have amnesia at this age, after all, people in their thirties ......"

"I'm twenty years old, and I remember that." Ye Chen, who was still walking before, suddenly stopped, "Sir, are you sarcastic about me?" ”

The old man also stopped, and looked back at Ye Chen in surprise: "Oh? Oh! Oh......"

Then the old man shook his head pityingly: "Tsk, poor child......"

Ye Chen felt that he had been hurt again, and he couldn't help but cover his heart: "Sir, how long are we still there?" ”

After experiencing those things just now, the old man's words just now became less and less: "It's not far ahead." ”

"Hmm." Ye Chen nodded, and his actions finally brought a little emotion - embarrassment.

"Here we are." As the old man said, it is not far ahead, "Before I begin, I would like to ask, do you have any other creatures—preferably the blood or hair of a ferocious beast?" ”

Ye Chen looked at the strange-shaped symbols on the ground in front of him suspiciously, and took out a small pill from his arms: "I made the blood of Medusa into a pill...... Does it work? ”

"As long as there is." The old man also took out a book with a wooden cover from his bosom, opened it to the bookmarked page, and began to chant slowly.

A moment later, a sudden gust of nameless wind blew through the narrow cavern. The ground painted with symbols was blown clean by the gust of wind, revealing a perfectly circular area.

The strange thing is that the circular area is clean and spotless, and it is as clean as if it has been carefully wiped by someone, even though it was dusty just now. It can be said that Ye Chen will not feel dirty when he sleeps on it naked.

"Take off your clothes and lie down on them." The old man kept chanting obscure incantations in his mouth, and said a word to Ye Chen when he saw the stitches.

Ye Chen was naturally a little embarrassed: "Why...... Is it all, old man? ”

"It's okay if you don't take it off, and you'll tear it yourself with your hands after a while." The old man slammed the book in his hand and put it back in his clothes, "Young man, listen to me. ”

"Of course." Ye Chen replied without a head or tail, and then began to take off his clothes.

Ye Chen is very tidy, he took off his clothes and folded them back in a regular manner, and put them in a slightly clean place in the cave, and then walked to the center of the circular area and sat down cross-legged.

"Tsk." The old man looked at Ye Chen, his eyes revealed a sense of helplessness, and he immediately took out a small crystal bottle from his clothes, which was filled with a cloudy white liquid.

Ye Chen on the side saw the bottle, and immediately had a new understanding of the craftsmanship of this world. Such a beautiful bottle cannot be made by a few small blacksmiths.

"Be prepared, it may be painful to follow." The old man threw the bottle to Ye Chen, "Drink it, and the rest of the matter is not something I can help you." ”

Ye Chen took the bottle and shook the bottle, but saw that the liquid inside was getting more and more turbid.

"Is there any sediment...... Ye Chen thought, then opened the cap of the bottle and poured the liquid in the bottle in one go.

When the liquid first entered his mouth, there was a faint fragrance, and the answer that Ye Chen searched for in his mind was rice juice.

"Rice juice? What do they want rice juice for? Ye Chen quickly thought before the onset of pain, "Rice juice has a high nutritional content, and the taste is fragrant......

"Could it be ......" At this time, two possibilities appeared in Ye Chen's mind, "First, it seems that this mysterious old guy is playing tricks on himself, and second, the rice juice that is a good culture medium contains a large number of viruses - or bacteria. ”

In fact, Ye Chen guessed half right. There are bacteria in this rice juice, but they are not bacteria, they are just "food" to keep the phage active. Specially bred phages will mutate steadily into symbionts when they encounter human cells. That's when it comes to it.

Ye Chen, whose IQ is not low, naturally guessed seven, seven, eighty, eight. But at this point, he just thought that the bacteria were symbiotic in his large intestine or something. As for the phage thing, he probably couldn't guess anyway.

Ye Chen was still meditating naked in place, a little nervously waiting for the strange liquid to take effect. The cold temperature of the cave and the round platform gave his body dense goosebumps.

“yo！” Ye Chen's closed eyes suddenly opened, and his eyes, which were normal before, were now covered with bloodshots.

"Ahh Ye Chen couldn't help but scream, and cold sweat dripped down his head drop by drop.

Pain, full of variety, rich layers of pain. Ye Chen felt that there were countless small insects crawling under his skin, and the tips of his fingers seemed to have been hit by a hammer; His eyes twitched, and his stomach looked like a towel being wrung out; His anus was like a ball of iron thorns, and the brain he had been relying on for a living had lost 30% of its function at the moment.

"What's going on?" Ye Chen was still trying to think hard in the process of constant pain, so that he could stay awake, "Could it be that this bacterium is transforming my body and rewriting my genes?" ”

"Ahh Ye Chen fell on the disc, and couldn't help but cry out in his mouth, "A few little bugs with DNA only a single helix, do you want to kill me!" ”

Strange to say, Ye Chen's roar, those phages stopped working as if they had an intermission. The soreness in Ye Chen's whole body disappeared more than half of it at once.

"Quick! Eat Medusa's blood! Right now! The old man gave an order to Ye Chen in a steady voice on the side.

When Ye Chen heard this, he quickly opened his mouth and threw the pill that had already been placed in the palm of his right hand into his mouth. However, before he could do it, the pain hit his body again, and the pill was in his mouth, but he didn't have time to swallow it.

"Click...... Click...... "Ye Chen's jaw kept twitching because of the pain, and the left side of his face fell to the ground, his mouth was half open, and he kept drooling...... Click... ......"

His eyes rolled and his whole body twitched.

Ye Chen suddenly felt that his body was light, and all the pain in his body disappeared.

His brain could function normally, but it couldn't command his body; He could smoothly calculate the addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of about 100,000, but he couldn't let his eyes keep rolling back to the same place - Ye Chen suddenly had a bad premonition.

No, no, no. It's not a return to the light, I haven't reached this point yet. But where does this inexplicable sense of ease come from? Adrenaline doesn't cause such a weird condition.

"Ah......%+¥?ˉ+" Ye Chen tried to squirm his tongue, trying to keep the pill close to his throat.

I don't know if it's the endless road, at this moment, Ye Chen's body once again ushered in a short intermission. He swallowed the pill quickly, trying to prop himself up.

"And ...... How long! Ye Chen shouted hard at the old man not far away, not caring at all about the saliva he sprayed far away.

"Soon, there's another easy tendon!" The old man calmly shouted at Ye Chen, "Don't worry, you can't die now." ”

"Roar!" Before Ye Chen could make a further response, his body had mutated again.

This time, the pain was much purer, but it was also a little more intense on the basis of the original. The muscles in Ye Chen's whole body were constantly twisting at this moment.

Yes, all muscles, including biceps, abs, masticators. And some of the key muscles, the laryngeal muscles that manage the cartilage of the epiglottis, twitched at this point. Generally speaking, Ye Chen was already dead at this time.

But he didn't, he didn't choke on saliva into the alveoli and suffocated, he didn't die because of the impact of blood rushing into his brain, and he didn't beat himself to death because of the incessant twitching of his limbs. His body was now like it was being managed by something, his muscles twitching, but he was still functioning as well.

Who else? Ye Chen's brain came up with a difficult answer: symbiote.

"Poof-" Ye Chen suddenly spurted out a mouthful of blood, staining the entire round platform red.

At the moment when blood spurted out, Ye Chen's whole body became refreshed. The pain of the past is gone, like dry ice that has been put into boiling water at 100 degrees Celsius.

He stood up and felt his body filled with strength.

Ye Chen kept writhing, checking his new body. But these movements look a little disgusting to him.

After looking at it for a while, Ye Chen's summary of his body is - muscular man.

Certainly not as exaggerated as those greasy guys in fitness magazines, his muscles are more well-proportioned than developed. It is as beautiful as the ancient Roman statue of Auracon. His skin became whiter, presumably due to the symbiote's excretion of melanin. His body was full of strength at this moment, and his whole person was bigger.

Of course, his appearance is still not flattering.