Chapter 11: Parasitism
Su Chen's intuition was correct.
Because the thing that had been following behind his car (although Su Chen had never noticed its existence due to the perfect isolation of the peace charm) was the real culprit.
Its name is dodder rice. Coutar rice is not a creature that originally existed with Blue Star, but an alien invader that descended to the surface with the previous meteor shower. For its natural predators, it is a tasty, nutritious food. Unfortunately, among the Blue Star natives, it has no natural predators.
Most of the time, it looks like a blue star snake, a hairy-footed worm, or a vine plant.
The energy in flesh and blood is its main food.
Its main way of eating is to break through the protection of the surface of the food skin through its tender tentacles, and then burrow into the food body and parasitize.
And the creatures parasitized by the carrot, after experiencing a slight pain similar to a cold and fever, not only do not feel uncomfortable, but will produce hallucinatory pleasure as they are anesthetized, and as the life force passes, the corners of the mouths of these poor victims often raise a strange smile.
As a cultivator, Su Chen's flesh and blood contained more pure energy than the flesh and blood of ordinary people.
For dodder rice, it has a stronger appeal.
Therefore, although he tried many times, he couldn't break through the defense of Su Chen's car, and he was still unwilling to let go of the big lump of fragrant food in front of him.
Although it can break its delicate "legs" by directly chasing the car, it still refuses to give up no matter what.
Although the speed of the car that entered the autopilot program has been very stable, not very fast, it is already very difficult to chase.
The car drove into a thriving street, with a laughing crowd and a bustling pet on a leash.
For the carrot, the temptation of so much fresh blood food seemed to be no less than the delicious food that was always untainable and made it want to go crazy.
What a difficult choice.
Dodder rice is already very tired.
As a creature that feeds and grows mainly on parasites, running marathons is definitely not its strong point.
In the end, its tenacious will succumbed to its fragile body, and it randomly chose a puppy to play on the side of the road, and began a new round of its parasitic life.
The poor puppy, who was chasing his tail with great interest, remained motionless as if it had been suddenly pressed the stop button.
Its owner, a woman with gray hair, a mediocre face, and a fat body like a beer barrel, was looking at it with a loving face, and at this time he also realized that something was wrong, and hurriedly walked up to it and squatted down, stretched out his hands, anxiously stroked its head and body, and shouted loudly: "Baby, baby, what's wrong with you?" What happened to you? ”
There were also a few idle and bored passers-by who hurriedly surrounded them.
They had no idea what kind of disaster this momentary curiosity would bring to them.
Su Chen glanced at the crowd that suddenly gathered on the side of the road, and didn't care. Blue Star people love to watch the excitement, and there is nothing in the entire Galaxy Federation that does not know about this.
He is uploading the photos of the people he took casually before to the Galaxy Federation Information Sharing Network through the crystal screen of the car for help.
As a member of the Galaxy Federation, although Blue Star is the bottom in all aspects, except for paying taxes, of course, it can more or less touch the light of the Galaxy Federation.
For example, now, Su Chen just uploaded a few photos to "Mi Niang Aiqing" and raised his own questions, and immediately got a response from alien netizens.
Enthusiastic alien netizens not only answered Su Chen's doubts for the first time, pointing out that the crowd in the farmers' market was parasitized by dodder rice, but also illustrated the various characteristics of dodder rice.
After learning about the characteristics of dodder rice, Su Chen broke out in a cold sweat.
This strange creature seems to be a very strange, very bullish, almost perfect, typical parasitic creature.
It is able to quickly break through the host's skin without attracting the attention of the host, and for humans whose skin defenses are very weak, it is almost more frustrating than the Blue Star natives such as skin flies.
And when the carrot rice turns from a messy strange form into a string of thin silk threads that are not implicated with each other, and after entering the host body, sometimes they will scatter each other, and sometimes they will become entangled with each other one by one, and they will be knotted together again.
On the one hand, it will secrete a large amount of digestive juices to digest the host's flesh and blood, absorb the nutrients and energy in it, and on the other hand, it will also secrete a large number of toxins that affect the host's nerve center, causing the host to be anesthetized, and even produce happy hallucinations, like drunkenness, with a creepy and weird smile on his face.
And the parasitic process was so short and rapid that the host's body, aside from the eerie smile and frozen posture, was not apparently anomalous.
Once the dodder has achieved its goal, it will quickly leave the host and immediately find the next host for itself.
Luckily, it's not very mobile, at least not good at long distances, and can't keep moving at high speeds for long periods of time.
Luckily, it's not very fertile either.
It takes about four stages of metamorphosis before it is able to enter the mature body, and after entering the mature body, it is able to reproduce sexually. And the way this thing reproduces is the same as that of mammals, especially highly intelligent mammals like humans.
To put it in layman's terms, without a suitable partner, Carrot would rather remain single than blindly reproduce.
It's a magical existence that defies biological instincts!
Thank goodness for the magical will of the universe!
If it weren't for such a weird feature. Isn't this thing going to any planet, and which planet is going to die out all over the world?
Su Chen finished complaining silently, and was grateful for his grandfather's foresight, and was glad that he could escape with the blessing of the peace charm.
However, this experience also sounded the alarm for Su Chen.
It seems that if there is no strong protective effect of the peace charm, I am afraid that I will not be able to escape this catastrophe. A very urgent feeling gripped Su Chen's heart.
With a meteor shower, the blue star is no longer calm.
All kinds of cheating crises can erupt in anyone, anytime, anywhere.
Su Chen knew that in order to realize his idea of taking his family and friends and living well in the last days, the only thing he could do was to constantly strengthen his strength.
So far, it has been proven that the most effective means are almost all related to the art of talisman making.
Therefore, although things such as collecting materials are also important, it is obviously more important to drill and develop talismans and accumulate as many finished talismans as possible that can strengthen combat effectiveness.
Just like today at the farmer's market, I spent a lot of time, and in the end I just collected a truckload of supplies, and there was no place to put any more.
And if you have mastered the method of making the talisman, then almost all the materials in the entire farmers' market today can be easily collected and taken away as you like.
Even if he is kind-hearted and kind-Su Chen silently gave himself a thumbs up without blushing--he is willing to leave enough materials for the latecomers, if he can bring a sufficient number of talismans in the process of collecting materials, he can also greatly reduce the time consumed by this process, and he can also greatly reduce the danger he faces.
Su Chen was immersed in his own thoughts, time flew by, and the farmers' market was not far from the hive community, he felt that he had not walked for a few minutes, and he had arrived.
The car parked in the underground parking lot with the route that had been set by the driving program.