Chapter 315: Parasitism
"The healing ability is extremely strong, at least to the level of Class A products, there is regenerative ability, the regenerative energy does not come from the body itself, the muscle fiber E level 3, belongs to ordinary people, the body mutation does not change the muscle fibers, but it can increase the strength, that is to say, the healing energy, the regenerative energy and the strength of the body itself all come from other places, and his appearance variation is only a superficial phenomenon. Leo carefully dismembered the prey in front of him, observing the functioning of each organ, and analyzing it to himself.
Right now, the middle-aged man has been completely dismembered, except for the heart, all the internal organs on his body have been removed by Leo, and all the muscles and nerves on his body have also been stripped out.
But even so, the middle-aged man is not dead, but has entered a state of near-hibernation, and the part where the organ was removed is slowly regenerating cells.
According to the rate of regeneration, it will only take half a month at most, and the removed organs will regrow, and the damage to various parts of the body will be restored.
This kind of regenerative ability and vitality cannot be compared to even Leo, who is now a fifth-level psionic ability, and what makes him extremely confused is that even if he conducts a complete dissection of the middle-aged person's body and checks the energy fluctuations on the middle-aged person's body through the spiritual network, he still does not understand where the energy that causes this regenerative ability comes from.
The law of conservation of energy is still an unbreakable energy truth in the universe where the Earth Federation is located, although there have been high-level psionics who have tried to break this truth, but in the end they failed, on the surface, the energy transformed by the person did not consume the energy of the surrounding space, but in fact, some people pointed out that the energy transformed by the person came from the subspace, and at the same time that he extracted the energy of the subspace, the subspace was also extracting the energy of the universe.
The current situation encountered by Leo is somewhat similar to the energy conversion experiment back then, the energy required for regeneration in the middle-aged person's body seems to be out of nowhere, but in fact, Leo and the scientists who participated in the experiment back then do not have enough ability to discover where the other end of the energy transformation is.
In addition to his ability to regenerate, the middle-aged man's muscular energy is also of unknown origin.
When he subdued the middle-aged man just now, he already felt that the strength of the middle-aged man's body was definitely comparable to that of the relatives who had generally undergone deep mutations, but after dissection, he found that the muscle fibers and muscles and bones on this person's body were only the level of ordinary people, but as long as they were slightly stimulated, these muscle fibers that were no different from ordinary people would burst out with strong strength, and the source of energy for the same explosion of this power was also unknown.
Although Leo could not find out the source of the middle-aged man's power by any means he knew, he could guess that the worms in the obsidian badge might be the source of these energies through reasoning.
Thinking of this, Leo took out the obsidian badge in his pocket, observed the few bugs in the liquid through the spiritual net and spiritual vision, and then approached the obsidian badge close to the middle-aged man.
Although at first, the bugs did not react, Leo did not show a disappointed look, but continued the experiment in his hands.
I saw that he took the obsidian badge and carefully moved slowly along the various parts of the middle-aged man's body, touching every part of the middle-aged man's body, until he touched the obsidian badge to the fourth spine on the back of the neck, and the insects in the obsidian badge began to move.
I saw that these insects were all circling in the liquid according to different rules, and at the same time, a faint spiritual energy fluctuation came out of the obsidian, and at the same time, bursts of spiritual energy fluctuations began to come out of the fourth spine of the middle-aged man, as if they were communicating with each other.
At this moment, the middle-aged man who should have been in a state of shock suddenly opened his eyes, looked at Leo in great panic, shook his throat that had been peeled by Leo, and wanted to say something, but he couldn't say anything, he could only look at Leo anxiously and pleadingly, as if he was asking for something.
However, Leo didn't pay attention to the middle-aged man's movements at all, his attention was all attracted by the psionic fluctuations of those bugs, and through the spiritual web, he recorded the frequency of the psionic fluctuations of these bugs and the process of generation, so that he could imitate them with the power of nightmares.
As the psionic fluctuations emitted by the insects intensified, the fear, pleading, and anxiety on the faces of the middle-aged people had completely disappeared, and all that remained was despair, and extreme pain was revealed.
Seeing that the middle-aged man whose body was dissected without showing a painful expression showed such a strong expression of pain at this moment, Leo felt that there should be a change, so he focused even more.
Soon a large bag bulged out at the fourth spine of the middle-aged man's neck, and slowly a ball of viscous blood overflowed from the pores on the big bag, and this blood did not spread, but condensed into a fist-sized ball of blood jelly.
At the same time, the middle-aged man who had lost his blood didn't have time to let out a scream, and his body began to emit heat as if it had been burned by an invisible fire, and then the surface of his body bubbled, followed by a scorching smell from the cremation corpse that filled the entire room, and finally the middle-aged man's entire body, including the organs that were taken out, turned into ashes, leaving only some clothes still intact and scattered on the table.
The middle-aged man's abnormality didn't attract much attention from Leo, and his attention was all focused on the sticky blood mass that came out of the middle-aged man's body.
Although some of his vision was blocked by the turbid and viscous blood in the blood mass, Leo still found the insects swimming in the blood mass through his spiritual vision with the help of the spiritual network.
The appearance of this bug is roughly the same as the bug in the obsidian badge in Leo's hand, the difference is that the bug is stronger than the other four bugs, and the appearance is more hideous, such as the horns on the tip of the bug, the body also has some spikes, and there is an extra character on the surface of the bug that Leo can't read.
Under Leo's spiritual network, he found that most of the psionic fluctuations on the bug's body came from the rune that Leo couldn't understand, although he didn't know what the true meaning of this rune was, but he could see some variants of the Gamorei language from this rune.
Just as Leo was observing the details of the worm in the blood, the worm suddenly opened its sucker-like mouth, and instantly sucked the viscous blood that wrapped its body into its stomach, and its body shape did not change, it was still small, but it had a pair of wings on its back.
I saw the little insect flapping its wings, flying into the air, hovering in front of Leo.
Leo didn't catch the bug or chase it away, just quietly watched the tiny cell-like bug.
However, for the sake of safety, he still carefully released a Kunn Fa seal to form a layer of protection around his body, and also spread the devouring power of the chaotic stomach around his body, once the small insect tried to parasitize him, the devouring power could also devour and digest it.
It's just that the little bug seems to be able to sense the dangerous aura emanating from Leo's body, and instead of choosing to parasitize Leo, it rushes towards the obsidian badge that Leo is holding in his hand.
The moment the little bug came into contact with the obsidian badge, the obsidian instantly turned from solid to virtual, as if it had become an illusion, allowing the little bug to penetrate and fall into the drop, and then quickly found the small bugs that were already in the blood, trying to devour them one by one.
However, being hideous does not mean being absolutely powerful, and when the small foreign bugs tried to devour the small bugs that were already in the liquid, the little bugs also tried to devour the outsider.
So a bug war unfolded inside the obsidian badge, a little liquid the size of a fingernail. In this big battle, no one can help anyone, the foreign insects are strong, but they are not strong enough to be invincible, and the few small insects in the liquid, although relatively weak, know how to cooperate with each other, the two are deadlocked, and it seems that it will take a long time to finally produce a winner.
At this time, the sky outside had gradually darkened, and at the same time, the bell sounded again in the stone house, and the moment the bell rang, Leo found that several small insects in the obsidian were affected, no longer biting each other, but staggering and swimming irregularly as if drunk.
Leo walked over to the window, opening the closed window and looking out.
It was not the old man who had brought him earlier, but a giant who was five meters tall.
The giant was dressed in a robe with a distinctly religious atmosphere, a wide-brimmed high hat on his head, and a cane made of obsidian in his hand, with a groove at the front of the cane, and a viscous cloud of lava in the groove, and a huge bell in the other hand shaking repeatedly.
When the giant entered the stone house, the doors and windows of the buildings on both sides of the stone house were tightly closed, and none of the windows were opened out of curiosity except for Leo.
The giant shook the bell, took a step forward, and walked under a brazier that hung from the end of the stone roof, raised the obsidian cane in his hand, and lit the contents of the brazier, and a faint smell of incense immediately wafted out of the burning brazier and spread in all directions.
After that, the giant lit the other braziers in turn, filling the entire stone house with the smell of smoke, and when he lit the brazier opposite Leo, he suddenly stopped, and then turned his head sharply to look at Leo.
In the same way, Leo saw the giant's face obscured by his wide-brimmed hat.
I saw that this giant was completely a dead face that had been dead for many days, but there was no decay, there was no blood on the face, and the skin was cracked, and some small filamentous insects could be seen coming out of the cracks from time to time, and the giant's eyes were a pair of obsidian eyes, and some liquid-like substances could be vaguely seen flowing in the eyes.
If it was an ordinary person who was already frightened when he saw this giant, it was no wonder that the surrounding doors and windows were closed when the giant appeared.
It can be seen that Leo, who has seen a more ancient monster, has no feeling for the image of the giant, but instead opens the window completely, and uses his spiritual vision to observe the various features of the other party's body while he is looking at him.
The giant stared at Leo for a moment, and did not make any further aggressive moves, but lowered his head again, turned around, and continued the work of lighting the incense in the basin as if it were his work that had to be done.
Leo looked thoughtfully at the giant's back, his face contemplative, until the giant's figure disappeared from the entrance at the other end of the stone house, he closed the window, turned around, returned to the table, sat down on the chair beside him, tapped his fingers on the table, and muttered, "Another ordinary person." ”
Just now, Leo discovered through the spiritual vision and spirit network that this giant that seemed to have infinite deterrent power, the actual situation of his body was similar to the middle-aged man on the table who had turned into ashes, just the body of an ordinary person, and it was through the power of that little insect that the body of an ordinary person produced extremely powerful power. The only difference is that there is a difference in the strength of the two.
Obviously, in front of that giant, the middle-aged man who had been dissected by Leo before had the same power as an ant, and even Leo sensed a strong energy fluctuation from the giant's obsidian eyeballs, which was not psionic energy, but more like some kind of radiant energy.
I don't know if it's because of the giant just now, Leo found that in the obsidian in his hand, the bugs that were still fighting to the death just now were like the warring sides who had signed a peace agreement, each occupying a part of the liquid, and no longer attacking each other.
This discovery made Leo realize that these little bugs were not just lower creatures that acted on instinct, but that they probably possessed the intelligence of some higher creatures.
"Clan!" Leo's mind suddenly flashed with inspiration, and some of the Netweaver's knowledge about the Clans came to mind.
In the past, all the dependents that Leo had seen were mutated humans affected by the power of the gods, no matter what form they became and what kind of mutations their blood genes produced, they were all human beings at the beginning, so Leo always subconsciously connected the dependents with humans.
However, from the knowledge of the weavers, Leo found that not all clans are humans, and the power of some ancient gods will inadvertently affect some non-human creatures when they are not controlled, so that they have the identity of the clan, and there are also a lot of bugs that have obtained the identity of the clan, such as flies are the earliest clan of the plague god.
In addition, in the universe where the Earth Federation is located, there are also some parasitic aliens, such as the Canan worm that caused the cosmic insect plague.
The vast majority of parasitic aliens like this are very fragile before parasitism, and have no intelligence to speak of, not much different from ordinary lower creatures.
But once parasitic into a living body, the strength and intelligence of such aliens will increase exponentially.
There are some weak aliens in the universe who are even willing to accept this kind of parasitism in order to gain great power and compete for the qualification to survive in the chaotic universe.
Right now, the humans in Yam City seem to be somewhat similar to those aliens.