Chapter 598: Don't Walk Gently Into That Good Night (2)

Noah took more than 20 core members of the Yarum Sect and firmly clinged to the controlled lifeform Unes, and Unes, who transformed into an octopus form, led them to dive into the sea and quickly advance towards the islands of the Great Western Continent.

Among the more than 20 Yarum cultists, only Noah, Anka, and another female priest named Feng Wei had a complete amphibious form, so under the order of the anxious Noah, the three of them broke away from the large army and rushed to their destination first.

Speaking of the amphibious form of Noah and others, it is quite mysterious and has a lot of stories, so it is necessary to explain one or two here. Thanks to the Empire's magical "crystal" and a few techniques passed down from the Prison Keepers, Noah and his colleagues have been immersed in biochemical technology for hundreds of years, and finally they have found a way to induce mutations in catastrophic organisms.

Although they don't know what genetics is, what DNA is, and they don't even have the instruments to observe the cellular scale, these crazy people have clearly figured out the way through live experiments one after another. They documented and summarized what kind of species, with which conditions or stimuli were added, and what consequences would occur when exposed to the "crystals" for different durations and intensities.

When this strange and cruel experiment matured, they found that the species that were most susceptible to mutation and had the highest chance of surviving after mutation were various organisms classified by later generations as cnidarians, including jellyfish, hydroids, leeches, polyps, and so on.

After experimenting to create a large number of monsters such as Unez, the technology matured, and then the direction of research turned to human experiments in vivo. Speaking of this, it is really the darkest stain on Yarum.

Since human experiments could not be conducted on their own civilians, they turned their attention to the people of the mainland. As a result, the number of Yarum sects sent people to the sea has greatly increased, and on the surface they claim to be indoctrination to help the uncivilized people of the mainland, but in fact they secretly carry out inhumane and cruel experiments. After killing an unknown number of innocent lives, Noah and others discovered that there was an unsolvable problem in the experiment: the human body could not fuse with all the mutation-inducing sources (the Cnidium organisms specially treated by 'crystals').

Isn't that nonsense? The cells of humans and those disgusting mollusks are fundamentally different things, and it would hell be compatible with each other.

Seeing that the experiment was at a dead end, Noah had no choice but to pray and ask the goddess, the Warden Attia, in the hope of getting answers from the kind goddess who had been helping to take care of the people of Atlantis.

Atia is a graduate of a prestigious school in the Empire, and the subject of life and biochemistry is one of the basic skills, although Noah's expression is messy, but Atia still sees at a glance where the problem of the experiment is, and instantly thinks of a countermeasure. At this time, the innocent and kind-hearted Atia had no idea that the "children" she had always cared for had secretly resisted the tyranny of the guards for many years, and that the struggle between the two sides had reached a white-hot level.

As a result, the goddess gave Noah a clear answer: the only way to solve the problem of assimilation and integration between two completely different species is evolution. In other words, as soon as the subject reaches the first stage of evolution, all problems will be solved. Because of the evolution of first-order lifeforms, its psychic force field can control at least all the functions at the scale of its own carrier cells. This includes the most important units for cell viability and genetics: the mitochondria and the nucleus.

Even if the cell genetic material between two species cannot be fused and matched independently, the first-order evolutionary can forcibly make the two compatible through the psychic force field, and minimize the fusion rejection through its powerful carrier function and heart core energy.

At the same time, the confused Atila didn't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, and by discussing this issue, she actually explained to Noah in detail the principles and methods of the evolution of life carriers and the evolution of the mind.

This was really unexpected, after learning the answer that far exceeded expectations, Noah, who was already a psychic force fielder, found a deep-sea cave with a lot of knowledge and began to retreat and cultivate, and went all out to impact the first evolution. The emperor lived up to his painstaking efforts, or perhaps it was the arrangement of fate in the dark, many years later, Noah successfully advanced and exited, and immediately began to experiment on himself. So without encountering any difficulties and bottlenecks, Noah finally made himself look like a half-man and half-fish, and was proud of it.

With Noah's precedent, the Aroy, the cornerstone of the Yarum Sect, followed suit, and only a handful of them succeeded over the course of tens of thousands of years. After all, the first level of evolution is a super hurdle for these people to face.

Through continuous optimization of evolution and mutation, Noah and others not only have the amphibious function of breathing on land and water, but also most of the body's tissues have been defibrosis and mutated into a multicortical soft body structure, which can be expanded and deformed at will, while the bones of the whole body are retained, and they have also evolved a foldable and telescopic exoskeleton system, that is, something that covers the whole body like scales.

In order to better adapt to the underwater environment, all the hair and other body hair of these people have degenerated and disappeared, and the skin has mutated into keratinization, making it more flexible and smooth. The protrusions of the previously resistive voids in the human body are all filled with keratinized skin fascia.

When they are not in the water, they are similar to normal human forms, with a clear division of labor between the skull, torso, and limbs, and once the diving mode is turned on, the skin immediately tightens and swells, causing the entire body to deform into a flat spindle. At the same time, the lower abdomen and legs are softly twisted and entangled, extending and elongating to form a long tail, and the edge of the long tail continues to expand and transform into fins, which are used to swing and stroke.

In general, the one in Aloy who has a fully amphibious form, standing on the ground, is a man covered in scales, and when he goes down into the water, he will turn into a monster with a snake head and a fish's tail!

At this moment, Noah, Anka, and Feng Wei were like this, like three sea snakes with human heads and arms, and their long tails only flicked a few times, and then disappeared into the darkness at a speed far faster than Unez's swimming.

It stands to reason that the three of them, who are of the first order of evolution, don't have to be so troublesome, because they can fly. But considering the haze of those pseudo-gods, in order to keep it secret, Noah and the others have never dared to use their flying ability since they stepped into the first level of evolution, and no matter what they do, they are no different from ordinary people.

On this life-and-death night, Noah and the others did not dare to be careless, but he cared about the empire, and risked the possibility of being discovered by the false gods, so he was forced to show his aquatic form and rushed to Attedonias desperately.

When the three of them approached the coastline of Daxizhou, they saw countless huge cracks on the bottom of the sea, and red magma accompanied by patches of bubbles slowly gushed out from those cracks.

Noah's grief and indignation were even worse when he saw this scene: It wasn't enough for these false gods to cause a volcano to destroy our home?

Damn it!

The divine servant Feng Wei swam to Noah's side and said to the patriarch with a special voice and gesture: "The terrain has been damaged so badly, I'm afraid it's too late to go ashore directly, so it's better to take the secret waterway." ”

Noah nodded in agreement, gestured, and the three of them changed direction and swam towards another part of the ocean.

After a short time, the three of them came to an underwater cliff, and when they saw the whole cliff swaying left and right, covered with cracks, they couldn't help but worry. Because the entrance and exit of the secret waterway is hidden somewhere on the cliff, and the impact of the earthquake is so severe, who can guarantee that the waterway is still intact?

But at the moment, there is no other way, and you have to bite the bullet. The three of them found the entrance to the secret passage, and after several attempts to use the key, they could not open the entrance mechanism.

In a hurry, Anka's divine servant didn't care much, and used gestures to send a message quickly: There is no way, you can only use your special ability to blast open the entrance to the secret passage.

Noah thought to himself that since the entire cliff was continuously squeezed and deformed by the earthquake, it was reasonable for the mechanism of the secret passage to be destroyed. The secret waterway is still strong and wide, and it may not have collapsed yet, and if you don't hurry up, this secret waterway may be abandoned at some point.

Thinking of this, Noah signaled Ankka to do it. Anka's Divine Servant is also a first-order evolutionary body, so it is natural to use some ability to break through the entrance of the secret passage. After the entrance to the secret passage was forcibly opened, Anka took the lead, swinging his tail fin, and rushed into the dark and deep waterway.

Noah and Feng Wei followed, and the three of them were swimming forward at full speed, when suddenly the entire waterway began to shake violently. The tunnel finally collapsed, countless large and small stones fell off like rain, and fine cracks appeared in the stone walls of the waterway, which continued to extend and spread.

In a hurry, Feng Jiaojiao let out a sigh and used her secret technique to prop up a three-meter-diameter ball of light and wrap Noah and Ankka in it.

The two of them naturally understood, and they didn't say much, under the protection of Feng Wei, they braved the danger that the waterway might collapse and shatter at any time, and swam wildly towards the end of the road together......