Chapter 26: Evolution

On the way to track the man in black in the cloak, Qin Ziyang explained that just now she didn't just see what the small animals could see, but looked through the memories stored in their brains like reading documents, and obtained information through their calls, to put it bluntly, it was to let them tell her where the target was, so this consumption was much greater than the usual emotional establishment.

Along the way, dance Mei Yan and Jin Ke. Kidd found a lot of clues, and through these clues, they guessed that one of them was very tall, the other was short, one of them had sharp claws, it should be that his feet had been specialized into claws, and the footprints were very similar to the footprints of an ostrich, and the other was normal, wearing boots, about 1.8 meters.

After Qin Ziyang gradually recovered, they sped up. Wu Meiyan and Jin Ke. Kidd ran in front, about ten meters away from them, and Fan Li accompanied Qin Ziyang, using the hunting knife conjured by the spirit to cut through the obstructive branches and leaves along the way.

"I found a brick house in front of me, it seems to be a forest ranger." Wu Meiyan's voice came over the radio.

Soon, they saw the brick house she had spoken of, on the dirt slope on the left, two hundred meters away, on a higher ground.

"Let's go over and see, running like this is not the solution." Qin Ziyang proposed.

When they walked into the brick house, there was a foul smell in front of them, which made Qin Ziyang and Fan Li's noses cover. Qin Ziyang covered his nose and pointed to the door of the brick house.

"Hurry, hurry!"

Wu Meiyan quickly raised her foot and kicked open the brick house, and a group of bats suddenly flew out of it, and many strange insects crawled out of the ground.

"Corpse bugs?" Fan Li looked down and took a step back. Several people looked at Fan Li's feet, and sure enough, the insects crawling under his feet each had strong paws and were very large.

"It's actually a specialized mantis, are they ......?"

"There's a corpse inside, but it's just rotting, and only half of it has been eaten." Wu Meiyan said.

"I knew it was so disgusting, so I let Xie Ling come." Qin Ziyang complained. Then he covered his nose tightly with his hands and followed Wu Meiyan into the door, and Fan Li also learned from her to follow up.

A person in front of him was lying in the midst of all kinds of debris, half-lying on the ground, leaning against a bag of rice behind him, the rice had also rotted, there were a lot of insects and eggs in it, it should have been affected by the corpse, and the full particles were all black.

The corpse's eyes, nose, and mouth had been gnawed and mutilated, and there were insect repellent crawling out of the corpse's eyes. Judging by what he was wearing and how he looked, he should have been a man. And it's likely to be a ranger who came to detect.

"I don't see how lethal it is." Jin Ke. Kidd said, staring at the bugs.

"The maggot mouthparts on his body have become similar to those of adults, which means that this worm is born because of carnivorousness, and I guess the bat has also changed." Qin Ziyang squatted down and stretched out his hand to the corpse, and a fly flew out of somewhere in the corpse and landed on her fingertips.

"Look at the fly's licking and sucking mouthparts, which are specialized into chewing mouthparts, and like other insects, the upper jaw is specialized out. Turning into a meat slice cutter, I think the feeding habits of the flies have also changed, and the rotten meat gives off a smell that attracts them to come and eat. Qin Ziyang took out a test tube with holes from his pocket, and at this time, the fly obediently ran into the test tube. Qin Ziyang cut off a small piece of meat, put it in a test tube, and then closed the lid.

"No, if you die because of a swarm of insects. But why are there no animal carcasses around? Fan asked curiously.

"That's right, I think there's a problem too, turn over." Qin Ziyang looked up at Wu Meiyan and Jin Ke. Kyd. Kidd walked over to the side of the body. Stepping on the shoulders of a corpse, the corpse rushed down and lay on the ground, and suddenly countless flies came out of his back and flew towards the window.

It was not the flies that hid behind the corpses that attracted those present, but the strange backs of the corpses. If you are a soldier, it is impossible for your back to be like this, and the person in front of you has a clearly bulging back, as if two wings are about to come out of the back.

"Make a mark and let them take it back to study." After Qin Ziyang finished speaking, he walked towards the door, and when he walked out of the exit door, he put down the hand covering his mouth and took a deep breath of fresh air.

"Qin Ziyang, look?" Fan pointed to the swarm of flies, which were entrenched on the roof of the house, and when everyone had come out, some of them returned to the room, and some of them flew towards the ground.

Fan Lixi walked to the place where the fly flew in and stepped on it, but it was empty underneath.

"There's a pit down there." Fan Li said.

"It's not going to be authentic again." Wu Meiyan said with a look of disgust.

"No, I guess there's something buried underneath, because the hardness underneath is different from the normal soil layer, it's like it's buried artificially, and it's not for a long time." As he spoke, Fan Li's conjure up a shovel with the spirit and began to dig, about five or six shovels went down, and a blood-red hand was revealed underneath, probably because it was buried in the soil, and the degree of decay of the bloody hand was not as high as the corpse in the house.

"I'm guessing it's a corpse pit, and it's supposed to be a research base. I had seen the man in the black cloak stuff the body into a specific pit, and I think that's why. ”

"Then why is that body in the house?" Fan Lixi continued to dig, and Qin Ziyang looked at the house in a daze.

After Fan exhumed a complete corpse, they dragged it up. Different from what he had seen in the corpse pit before, this corpse was a skinned corpse, and its eyes had been eaten clean, leaving only a pair of black eye sockets, but Fan Li always felt that no matter what angle he was standing at, this corpse always looked at him.

"I have studied the research process of the man in black before, and found that most of the corpses in the corpse pit are corpses that have not changed, or corpses that have undergone initial changes, I think those corpses that have not changed may not be experimental subjects, but victims who have been killed, and the corpses that have undergone preliminary changes have not shed their skin, and have piercing fatal wounds on their bodies, what do you think?" Qin Ziyang said this with a smile, and she looked at Fan Li, as if she already knew the answer.

"What do you think?" Fan Li shook his head.

"I'm thinking about it from the spiritual realm, it may be flawed, but it's worth thinking about. If you think about it, whether it's Lanpa, me, or this man in black cloak, the first requirement for using magic energy to create soldiers is controllability, otherwise creating an uncontrolled monster is to make trouble for yourself. Therefore, I think that this person first made full contact with the human body by peeling the skin in the process of research. After all, the human skin is the first line of immune defense. If the affected creature is controllable, he will stay, or else he needs to be killed, and the corpse we see later is still affected without being skinned, probably because he later adopted a more effective way. ”

Qin Ziyang asked Fan Li to conjure another shovel, and the two began to dig together, because the Regent could only become a physical tool in Qin Ziyang's hands, so Wu Meiyan and Jin Ke could only stand aside and be on guard, unable to help.

After about an hour, the two men had already exhumed six bodies. Four of them were mutilated, barely recognizable as human.

Qin Ziyang arranged them in a row and observed them carefully.

"All the bodies were skinned, these three were broken off at the waist, and the lower half of the body should still be in the soil, which should have been caused by man. I've studied magical energy, and the altering properties of magical energy are not purely to alter a person's DNA or mimic DNA to create new traits, unless the magical energy is purified through a device like filtration, otherwise it will change the human being as a whole. In layman's terms. It's that if you're affected by the primordial magic energy, your entire body may change, just like Chu Xingfeng. Magical energy is the reprocessing of living things, not the creation of humans. Although I would prefer it to create species. If a person is affected by demonic energy, he will not go against physiology to kill himself, so the corpses in front of him are all artificially killed, and it is possible that the things created are uncontrollable. Let the man in black be killed. ”

Qin Ziyang pulled out his waist knife and cut a piece of meat on a certain corpse, which contained some insect eggs.

"Mantis and locusts lay their eggs in soil or plants. But how can there be eggs here, it can only be said that the mantis are affected by magic energy, and even the way of laying eggs has changed. Is it really because of the corpse, that these insects have eaten the flesh of the corpse, or that the environment has caused changes, and finally attacked the ranger through some kind of control? Watching Qin Ziyang put the eggs into another test tube, Fan Li was puzzled, she couldn't understand her words at all.

"You think these insects have a consciousness of their own?" Wu Meiyan interjected.

"No, I think that these insects, under the influence of magical energy, have inadvertently formed a system, perhaps their respective ways of reproduction remain the same, but they tend to be a system in terms of feeding and instinct, in other words, they have all become ...... Family? I've done experiments in the past, and primordial magic energy is an objective energy that drives biological evolution, and we humans and animals also have their own annihilation systems to prevent such changes, such as programmed cell death or protein death markers. So I guess that the area of this corpse pit will not be too small, because there are magic energy that emerges from the corpse all year round, causing some effects, and the first thing to change is the simplest insect, which can make it have a more developed nervous system than before, and then show a systematic control. They need to eat meat, and the ranger is a successful entity that has been changed by magical energy, and has the residual signal of magical energy on his body, and of course these insects will attack him in unison, not the surrounding animals. ”

"The corpse left by this man in black cloak inadvertently killed the guards he left behind, it seems that he is really too clever to kill his own people in the end." Fan Li looked at the empty eyes of the corpse, he really didn't know why, he was obviously a person who had been dead for a long time, but he just felt that he was looking at himself, which made him feel furious in his heart.

"I always feel that the magic power strengthens the IQ of this commander, but since he doesn't have the relevant basic knowledge as a background, it is inevitable that he will take a detour." Qin Ziyang stood up and put the test tube in his pocket. "This proves that before he was changed, he didn't have much attainment in science, and he was even a scientific idiot."

Qin Ziyang's words attracted Fan Li's attention, because he knew Xiao Yun very well, Xiao Yun was that kind of rough person, although he knew a lot about the knowledge of stealing spirits and going to tombs, but for life science, he was illiterate. (To be continued......)