Chapter 13 The Road Medium
Genes are the key to biological evolution, how can nothing happen if they are absorbed and digested indiscriminately? Even those dark species with the ability to absorb are very limited, they need to filter out all genetic fragments that are incompatible with themselves, and there is a strict upper limit on the level of absorption ability.
Calculating the time, it has been a few months since he escaped from Dragon City, and Su has also absorbed a large number of xenogenes, including many genes with high-level abilities, and even the eighth-order Extreme Breakthrough. In the Dark Dragoon's data, the highest success record for sucking genes is only the fifth order. Until now, there has been nothing wrong with Sue's body, and there is no sign of genetic disintegration. Under the instinctive organization, all the absorbed genes were completely broken down and completely integrated with Su's original body.
The road still looks wonderful, at least for now, but where will it end?
The expression on Su's face, which was buried deep under the ice, moved slightly, as if he was smiling, and then sealed all his worries and doubts, waiting for them to be solved one by one when the time came. The work of dismantling Pandora's bones has been going on, and so far only 1o% of the progress has been unlocked, which is to peel off the thinnest part of the outermost layer. Sue was very interested in her skeletal structure, and if she were to build an exoskeleton with this structure, it would be equivalent to wearing a heavy alloy armor and would be insulated from detection. It can also deflect, transmit, and weaken a variety of force fields and waves, and with a slight change, it should have a strong defensive effect against energy attacks.
The primary cracking of the bone structure can be applied to the bone blade and the bone particles that are hidden under the skin. If the transformation is successful, Su's bone blade will reach the standard of the Dark Dragoon Military Composite Short Knife in terms of physical performance indicators last time. The body's defense will also be greatly enhanced, with his current defense strengthening power of only the fifth order, combined with the bone armor defense of key parts, it can already achieve the effect equivalent to the seventh order. Moreover, the bone armor is temporarily spliced by the particles inside the body during the battle, which does not affect the mobility.
Pandora's blood and genes contain more mysteries than bones. Numerous deductions and analyses have revealed that her genes contain an entirely new structure that is completely different from known organisms. According to the preliminary analysis results, this spatial structure is somewhat similar to the mysterious area that Su detected in the center of the fish-man's brain, where energy or information is stored in the form of fields or waves, and this structure can be activated in a specific way, so as to release energy or restore information. Whether it is information or energy, stored in this spatial structure, the stock may be thousands of times that of ordinary life forms.
Just the information and energy released in an instant from a small space in a fish-man's brain was so huge that it almost made Su fall. Although this is mainly because it broke the restrictions of time and space in an instant, allowing Su's spiritual body and Puridkora to connect together, it is also extremely difficult to do this. At least not a dozen fish-men can do it together.
In his slumber, Su suddenly had an idea that if the processing centers in the brain were reconstructed with this structure, then each center would be able to reach at least the wisdom of an ordinary brain. At that time, it would be equivalent to thousands of people living in Su's body and advising him together.
This is no ordinary mess.
But now that you have this idea, it's very likely to be realized. It's just that in this way, we are even farther away from humanity on the road of evolution. Su smiled bitterly, waved these boring worries to the back of her head, and fell into the deepest sleep.
As Su's own consciousness went into a dormant state, instinct began to take over the body in its entirety, and the body's stored energy began to decompose to supply the operation of hundreds of real yĆ n and thousands of processing centers. The Heart of Darkness was also pulsating slowly but strongly, supplying a tidal wave of energy to all parts of the body. However, the energy required for such a large-scale evolution is terrifying, and the energy provided by the Heart of Darkness can only account for one-third of the energy consumed. Although Sue has incorporated the Heart of Darkness into her body, she has only cracked a small part of its functions, and the energy that can be extracted from it is limited. Now the heart's pulsation is at its limit. Therefore, the instinct began to mobilize all the energy reserves in the body to serve the cracking and evolution this time.
Instinct has a clear order to do everything, and improving the combat power of the body has always had the highest priority. A large amount of heat is dissipated from the surface of the body, constantly melting the surrounding snow and ice. These calories are wasted, and instinctively this waste is intolerable. This shows that the current scale of evolution seems to have reached the limit of what instinct can control, so that there is no time to stop the loss of energy.
From a distance, you can see that cracks suddenly appear on the flat ice surface, and then the cracks become more and more dense. Then the central area of the ice crack began to crack, and a cloud of steam erupted from it. The steam cools and falls in the air, but the steam beneath the ice is pouring out and dissolving and widening the rifts. The ice is breaking more and more, and the steam under the snow is still coming out.
After a few minutes, the thick ice suddenly collapsed, and it turned out that a snow pit had appeared under the ice. The snow pit continued to expand and melt, gradually revealing a humanoid silhouette at the bottom of the pit, finally revealing Sue's sleeping body.
The snow water continued to flow down, soaking on Su's ** body, and was immediately transpired into hot steam, rising up, and melting more ice and snow.
An hour later, Sue slowly opened her eyes, and the first feeling she felt when she woke up was overwhelming hunger.
At this time, the situation of the near boiling in Su's body had basically calmed down, and only a few dozen of the thousands of thinking centers in the brain area were still running, which was the minimum to maintain the accuracy of body control. The organ containing the fragments of Pandora's bones is still functioning, but its activity has been reduced to one-tenth of its peak. The heart maintains a rate of pulsations every two minutes and is the standard for daily activities.
Sue's body temperature was rapidly dropping, soon dropping to around zero, which is his normal body temperature during the winter months, and the best balance to ensure mobility and reduce energy expenditure. Although her body temperature dropped, Su still felt the cold, so she stood up and began to observe her surroundings.
Although he had been prepared, Su couldn't help but smile bitterly when he saw the huge snow pit with a radius of ten meters, no wonder he was so hungry, it turned out that a large amount of high-energy nutrients accumulated in his body had been consumed. It seems that this evolutionary transformation is really a big move. Most of the energy is spent in the process of analyzing and cracking, and there is not much that is really used to form its own abilities.
The resulting three improvements were the modification of the structure of the blade and the armor, as well as the adjustment of the structure of the muscles and joints based on the results of the analysis, resulting in an increase of approximately 15% of the strength. All the improvements are aimed at directly improving the immediate combat effectiveness, and time has not allowed Su to make improvements slowly.
He stood up, moving his already stiff body, several bone blades popping out of the outside of his arm and retracting. The shape of the bone blade has not changed, but the color has added a dull silver glow. As his mind turned, his chest, lower abdomen and other vital points, as well as the shoulders, arms, legs and knees and other parts used for tackling tough problems, also had a dull silver layer on his skin. Most of the bone under the skin has been transformed, and if needed, it can form a protective bone armor within a minute.
Sue walked out of the snow pit, found the clothes that had been put away, put them on one by one, and walked towards the predetermined meeting point.
Medirri sat in front of the campfire a little bored, staring at the leaping flames, not knowing what to think. Sylvanas was standing tall and thin, dismembering the corpse of a fish-man, removing the fat, roasting it with a spell-like flame before throwing it into the campfire. That bonfire is actually fueled by fish-man fat. This dirty work of slaughter is now done by Sylvanas. In Medirli's words, the boy is basically a blank sheet of paper, so white that he can't survive in this era, so he has to dye it black. She's an expert when it comes to blackening.
Although the fish-man is dead, his body is still tough, and it is even more difficult to deal with after freezing, and he has to fight with car tires. Sylvanas was not allowed to use any tools, and it was naturally difficult to deal with. He first controlled the temperature of the flames, softened the corpse of the fish-man, and then used his ice ability to maintain the ice blade, dismembering the fish-man little by little. Maintaining two diametrically opposed abilities at the same time is something that only someone like him with elemental affinities can do, but it's also very difficult. The Fish-Man is actually a very powerful enemy, and it is only when he encounters the two perverts Sue and Medirli that he is vulnerable. For example, this fish-man patrol, a total of seven fighters, was instantly put down by Medirri, leaving two for him to practice, but Sylvanas managed to kill two, but in the process of narrowly revitalizing, if Medirli hadn't intervened at the last moment, he would have killed the last fishman at the cost of serious injuries, which was a tragic victory. The process of dissecting the fish-man is actually the process of understanding the enemy, and only by clearly understanding the body structure can it be fatal in one hit.
Seeing the bonfire piled up by the fish-people, I couldn't help but be stunned. Unexpectedly, in the hour when he was completely asleep, there was actually another team of fish-man patrols, and it seems that there are really a lot of subordinates of the Lord of the Ice Ocean. The fish-man fat is very resistant to burning, and it seems that it is not a problem to burn it overnight, and the burning flame emits a faint aroma, which makes people smell very comfortable. Su sniffed the aroma and was sure that it was non-toxic, so he could be relieved. One more glance at the fish-man corpses piled up in the distance, and pressed the idea of eating them. Although the appearance of the fish-people is very similar to fish, they are also intelligent beings, and out of traditional thinking, it is difficult for Su to treat them as simple fish.
If you don't eat fish people, you won't have anything to eat for a while. In this endless ice field, you can't even find anything to burn, so if you want to make a fire, you have to cut the fat of the fish-man.
Sue sat down for a moment, and the feeling of hunger swept over him once again.
"Gotta get something to eat." Su muttered to herself. As soon as these words came out, I suddenly saw that the eyes of Medirri and Sylvanas lit up, especially the young man's gaze was simply burning. He didn't say anything, but his expression betrayed him.
Abilities all require energy support, so the ability eats a lot of food, and high-level abilities like Su and Medierli are even more terrifying. Sylvanas had exhausted his body in the battle just now, and he had to be responsible for cleaning up the corpses of the fishmen, cutting the fat to make a fire, and he was already dizzy with hunger, and his whole body was weak, but he didn't dare to say anything under the strong oppression of Medirri.
Su stood up and said, "You guys wait for me in this area, I'll go get something to eat, and it will probably take a day to come back." ā
"I'll go too!" I don't know if it's hunger, or what, Sylvanas blurted out.
As soon as the words came out, he knew that something was wrong. On the ice field, it is only possible to find food in the ice ocean, how can he have that ability? Moreover, it was Prydekra's territory, and the two fish-man warriors on the water were a miserable victory, and even if there was only one fish-man underwater, he would only have to be turned into fish food.
Su shook his head with a smile and said, "It's useless for you to go, wait for me here." As he spoke, he glanced at Medirli again, frowned slightly, and thought about it, "Don't always bully him." ā
"It's for his good." Medirri glanced at Sylvanas flutteringly, looking unprepared. Sue's brows furrowed again, but he didn't say anything, and walked north alone.
Underneath the ice sheet is a hard, frozen rock that will not enter the ice ocean even further north for tens of kilometers. Su began to run evenly, and in about half an hour he could enter the ice ocean, and the ice sheet would continue to extend deeper. This kind of running is basically not physically draining, and the heart of darkness provides enough energy to handle low-intensity combat. Sue has always been very patient, even if she runs for a day and a night, she will not feel bored. But now, somehow, there is an indescribable vague irritability, but I can't find the cause of the trouble.
The icy wind whistled past Sue with a faint anger. This is the anger of Pridekra, the Lord of the Ice Ocean is already helpless about Sulai's behavior in his own territory, even Pandora has been defeated, and no matter how many fish-man warriors he comes, they will only be sent to death, unless he does it himself.
Su surprisingly didn't feel the anger of the Lord of the Ice Ocean, he felt that his current state was very strange, his chest was tightening slightly, the instructions to his heart were chaotic, and his perception of the outside world was constantly weakening, but there was a flame rising in his heart, burning him unpeacefully.
Strange sensations lingered, and even the body instinctively initiated a self-examination, but failed to find any problems, so it fell silent again. But the irritability that haunted Su was always there, haunting him like a ghost, making him lose his cool little by little.
"What's wrong with me?" Su Suo stood still and asked himself silently. Of course, he couldn't get any answers, and there were very few signs of life in the panorama coverage, so naturally there would be no reaction from the enemy's approaching vicinity.
And those who are close to Su, Medirri's combat power is already about the same as his, and of course there will be no danger now. Persephone, the major general of the Dark Dragoon, is powerful and cunning, and with the secret support of her family, she should be fine.
As for Helen...... Helen still needs him to worry about? H