Strange, have you grown photoreceptor cells to the surface of the meat? But I didn't react when I was exposed to the light before......

Xuanzang took a few steps back and threw the flashlight sent by the zombie to the other side, but the tentacles did not change direction.

Seeing that the tentacles were getting closer and closer, he was still calmly thinking about countermeasures, and the gamma ray meter in his hand was also firmly aimed at the same place, and he did not give up trying.

By the way, it is not a living creature in the first place, and it does not rely on the receptors that grow on the flesh at all!

Xuanzang decisively took out the solvent to kill the spores, sprayed it around his body, and then moved a small step.

The tentacle entered the range of the spray, and quickly became sluggish, and it probed blankly a few times, but did not find a target close at hand, so it had to retreat again.

I see, I was sensed by the spores in the air. In other words, they have formed a whole network of information transmission, and even the spores are part of it?

Xuanzang raised his eyebrows in a little surprise, and then returned his attention to the place where the gamma rays were acting.

The tentacles that had retracted into place were once again part of the flesh, and after a tremble, they finally reacted.

There seemed to be many bubbles popping up under the lump of meat, bulging up lumpy tissue. The dull surface suddenly changed color, becoming like fresh flesh, and skin grew rapidly.

The face of a baby emerges above the lump of flesh, with its eyes closed, and although lifelike, there is no sign of vital activity. The white face grew in a second, becoming a teenager, then a youth, then a young man, then beginning to grow spots and wrinkles, and finally decaying again as an old face.

What is this? Xuanzang looked at this strange picture, and his expression became more and more serious.

The rotting flesh turned into a pool of blood, but the white branches inside were still intact, and the pink petal-like things on top of them burst into balls in the blink of an eye, and the spores that flew into the air were soon gone. The white branch also retracted under the nearby blanket of flesh, nowhere to be found.

It takes too long, and it will cause it to spread more spores, which may not work.

Xuanzang was about to bring Wukong and Jingliuli back and discuss countermeasures with them, but he saw that there was a sudden drastic change in those monsters.

As if receiving some kind of signal, they withdrew from the battle one after another, gathering to the rear. Their hands instantly turned into writhing whiskers, waving above their heads, and their extremely chaotic and irrational movements made the viewer feel a strong sense of disgust from the bottom of their hearts.

Also changing is the meat blanket on the ground, from which a large number of tentacles stretch out and dance wildly, and the whole picture is simply mentally polluted.

Seeing this, Wukong retreated, frowning: "What happened?" ”

"I attacked part of it with gamma rays, probably for this reason." Xuanzang said, "In terms of the reaction I saw, it didn't hurt much. But it doesn't seem to think so. ”

A burst of light flashed, and Jing Liuli also retreated to their side, observed it with his auxiliary eye for a few seconds, and said, "The meat is cooling down." ”

"That means ......," Goku said, staring at the rapidly decaying pieces of flesh, "the energy is shifting." ”

"It's going to get real." Xuanzang whispered.

The tentacles that writhed and rotted stopped at the same time, then straightened neatly, spitting out countless white branches. They come together at one point and intertwine at incredible speed.

The unknown organism hidden under the flesh and blood finally shook off the rotten shell at this moment, revealing its true colors.

The four-legged creature of white branches intertwined with each other was not as big as the original pile of corpses. The shredded branches, about the size of a car, seemed to have not yet adapted to their new forms, and were shaking restlessly.

"Is it an animal or a plant?" Goku asked.

Xuanzang said: "It may be a mixture of the two, or it may not be both." After all, it's just a mimicry...... Get ready for the battle. ”

The new monster looks like a rattan doll, but it doesn't match the small and cute doll at all, and it's a mimicry of vipers and big cats, and it's clearly a ferocious killing machine.

The monster bowed down and made a small swing, and the serpentine rattan on its head was raised, which was a signal to attack.

"Up!"

Wukong shouted, and the man had already dodged and flew out, and the crowbar hit the monster in front of the door.

Joruri also rushed out, picking up a sniper rifle as she moved, and attacking the monster's forelimbs.

However, the monster was faster than the two of them, and it swept away, and in an instant it turned into scattered rattans and dodged it, and the attack of the two of them only knocked down a small part of it, and it was not painful.

In the next second, it had reconstructed its body on the other side and pounced directly on Xuanzang!

Xuanzang decisively turned to the direction where the monster was attacking and threw himself forward.

This counterintuitive move bought him precious time, and the displacement and time difference caused by the relative motion of the two sides caused the monster to pounce into the air, just in time to crash into Goku, who turned back like lightning, and was punched through the neck by his fist, tilted to the side.

Wukong shouted angrily, and the fist inserted into the monster's body shot out thousands of degrees of heat, causing some of the white branches to instantly turn golden red. It then slammed its entire body into a wall thirty meters away, shattering the burned rattan into ashes.

The monsters that were hit scattered again, and the rattans crossed the border like a group of snakes, bypassing Wukong's body and rushing towards Xuanzang again.

Countless rattans slammed into the ground, only to brush past a cloud of purple light.

Jing Liuli flashed to Xuanzang, who was pushed away, waved his left hand at the moment he landed, and launched a sniper rifle with one hand.

Almost as soon as she moved, the monster dispersed again, dodged the bullets, and regrouped into a predator's mimic at a different angle. It turned its body towards Xuanzang, who was rescued by Jing Liuli, and maintained a vigilant posture, but there was a cautious pause.

Both sides stopped attacking and waited for each other's flaws.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Xuanzang took out a few bottles of special solvent from his pocket and said to Wukong, "Make fog." ”

Wukong comprehended, took the bottle and flew into the air, hitting each other with both palms, and the energy released caused an explosion, instantly blasting the solvent in the bottle into a large cloud of mist.

At first, the monster still had a featureless face at them, hesitating to attack again. After a while, they suddenly became confused, and began to turn their bodies elsewhere, and then scurried around, looking for their location.

When it spun around and was about to explore where Xuanzang and them were, Wukong in mid-air flashed down and stepped on its head.

This time it couldn't move any further, and was slammed into the ground by its sturdy head, scattering a large number of broken branches, writhing on the ground a few times, and quickly withering and turning to ashes.

The monster's body outside the head immediately scattered and fled, hovering in the wide underground space for a while, pouring into a small door.

"What an interesting creature." Xuanzang commented with interest.

Goku disagreed: "After abandoning the protection of the corpse parts, our attack began to work, but it also became more dangerous, and we may not be able to protect you with such a quick attack." Let's go back and straighten things out first. ”

"No, we'll continue the pursuit." Xuanzang said with confidence, "After using gamma rays, it obviously began to panic, otherwise it would not change its form." Do you know what I just saw? ”

After listening to his description of the face that quickly walked through his life, Wukong suddenly said, "Stem cells? I've seen something similar in the lab in Tiangong. ”

"That's right. The nature of the spores seems to have spread to the flesh they controlled, transforming them into stem cells. Or maybe it's some other way...... And the unidentified organism will be affected by gamma rays, which will stimulate the rapid differentiation and division of cells, a similar phenomenon we have seen in the Nine-Tails. ”

"You mean ......"

"Yes, there's probably a connection. We can only get the answer if we chase the past. ”