"yes, I think you should feel it. In just over half an hour, your body has recovered a lot. Of course, there are also targeted medications that I have prescribed, but the most important thing is your own resilience. ”

As he spoke, Mr. Gu took out a palm-sized watch from the pocket where he had placed the silk scarf before, and the screen of the watch was playing the scene of Ling Feng lying on the bed. The camera focused on Ling Feng's arm covered in wounds, and the sound of conversations between Xiaoxiao and Mr. Gu could be heard from time to time. The video was accelerated, and in the short video of no more than ten minutes, the flesh and skin on Ling Feng's chest and those sparse wounds were recovering at a speed that was visible to the naked eye, and at the end of the video, the wounds on Ling Feng's chest had all scabbed over and began to fall off.

After playing the video, Mr. Gu stuffed the screen back into his pocket and said lightly: "This is a video of your body recovering in about half a day." ”

"This ......"

After watching the video, all the doubts in Ling Feng's heart were dispelled, he raised his arm and clenched his fist, then flipped his arm repeatedly and carefully observed and felt it.

Thinking of the origin of the gauntlet that Mr. Gu had said earlier, as well as his own completely contrary to common sense's recovery power, Ling Feng had already come to a conclusion in his heart that he might be about to become an unspeakable monster in this situation.

"Mr. Gu, have I not been recognized by the gauntlet? So it's starting to be a zero beast? ”

Ling Feng swallowed his saliva, tried his best to calm down, and asked tentatively with a hint of luck.

Mr. Gu pushed his glasses, shook his head first, and then nodded: "What you said is only partially right, your body has indeed begun to change, but you have indeed been recognized by the gauntlet, otherwise this change will not be so slow, and if you don't get recognition, you won't get strength." ”

"Why is that?" Mr. Gu's answer made Ling Feng a little baffled.

"At first, I didn't understand why you had this in you, but then I checked your body and found out what was going on."

Mr. Gu casually turned on the computer next to the hospital bed, and his fingers tapped quickly on the keyboard, and after dozens of seconds, a lot of data and pictures appeared on the computer screen.

Mr. Gu pointed to a line of data and said, "Your body has indeed been strengthened after fusing the gauntlet, and all your abilities have been greatly improved. But if you compare your body data, cell tissue, and DNA samples with those of Zero, the similarity is almost 70% or more. ”

"But except for when I activated my spiritual power, my arm became hideous and terrifying, and the rest of the place is no different from usual?"

Anyone who hears that he may become a monster will not accept it easily, and the same is true for Ling Feng.

"Really? So what's going on in your chest? Hearing this, Mr. Gu sneered and pointed at Ling Feng's chest.

"Chest?"

What can happen to the chest? It doesn't hurt much.

Ling Feng unexplained the corner of the bandage wrapped around his chest, glanced inside, and immediately gasped: "Hiss...... This...... What is this! ”

On the right shoulder, near the heart, a palm-sized black spot appeared at some point, dark in color, and the edges were like a small snake stretching out.

"Yes...... It's that time! ”

After staring at the black spot carefully for a moment, Ling Feng suddenly remembered that when he went back to take a bath in order to save Ling Ya from fusing the gauntlet to defeat the three-headed demon toad, after washing, he found a shallow mark the size of a fingernail on his chest. At the time, he thought that some paint had been left behind by accident, so he didn't pay much attention to it.

How did the shallow imprint, which was no more than the size of a fingernail, suddenly become like this?

"Based on your situation, I have done repeated research, as well as comparing the cases of past attempts to fuse gauntlets, and I have come to a conclusion. This dark spot is an erosion, or rather, it is the price of gaining power. ”

Mr. Gu dragged the mouse with his finger, and a series of images of strange black humanoid monsters suddenly appeared on the computer screen. They either have long horns, or are covered with long black hair, or are covered with scales. In short, each one is terrifying.

"The price? At what cost? Turning into a monster? But didn't you say I got the approval of the gauntlets? Looking at those pictures and thinking that he would become like this, Ling Feng couldn't help but feel a chill.

"Yes, you do get recognition. Because you are the only successful example, although I don't know what the specific conditions are, but there is no free lunch in the world, and there is no power for nothing. ”

Speaking of this, Mr. Gu seemed to be a little excited, his expression was excited, and his eyes were full of remembrance and yearning.

"The reason why people in the spiritual realm can use spiritual power is because of the survival of the fittest. In order to survive, the pioneers and their ancestors mutated, or evolved, in the long struggle against the Zero Beasts. As a result, they gained power, and the children born in the spirit realm inherited this evolution, so they could have power. Of course, it is only possible to use spiritual power, such as Xiaoxiao, she was born so strong? ”

Mr. Gu shook his head and denied: "No, the children of the Spirit Realm still need to go through various exercises to improve in battle again and again before they can have strength. The ancestors paid the price of blood, and Xiaoxiao These children have also gone through several life and death experiences to reach their current level, so what about you? Just by getting the approval of the gauntlet, and suffering when fused, can you have or even surpass Xiaoxiao's power? Do you think this makes sense? ”

"Yes, even if they endure the unimaginable pain of integration, it can't be compared to the pain that Xiaoxiao has suffered since childhood, let alone the efforts of the pioneers. So what does it cost me? ”

Ling Feng took a deep breath and said solemnly.

Mr. Gu turned his head to look at Ling Feng who was lying on the bed, and he was very satisfied with Ling Feng's attitude. There are too many people who always want to get something for nothing. He dragged the mouse again, and a virtual body image of Ling Feng appeared on the screen, and the dark spot on his chest was slowly squirming.

"I speculate that the gauntlets were forged from the arm of a powerful humanoid Zerobeast, due to an accident in the process of refining it by the Harbinger. Rather than moving in the direction that the pioneers had envisioned as a protective user of the armor, the gauntlet became a symbiotic armor with a certain amount of activity. The so-called fusion is to form a symbiotic relationship, but how can ordinary humans coexist with the arms of king-level zero beasts on an equal footing? What's more, it has also been refined by pioneers, so many people in the spiritual realm have failed. I can't see for the time being, where you have special properties and a symbiotic relationship with the gauntlet. But it figured out the price of your power. ”

Speaking of this, Mr. Gu knocked down the space bar on the keyboard, and the virtual image on the screen suddenly changed, and red things flowed in the meridians, Ling Feng could see that this was spiritual power, and as the spiritual power flowed, the black spot on his chest would slowly become larger.

"The gauntlet forms a symbiotic relationship with you, in fact, it is sharing your life, when you are just running spiritual power at an ordinary speed, the consumption of life force is negligible. Occasional overload is okay, and this consumption can be replenished by eating large amounts of food. But once you're overloaded, your spiritual power ......"

Mr. Gu continuously tapped the spacebar, and the speed of spiritual energy flow suddenly increased, and the black spot began to squirm and grow larger at a speed visible to the naked eye.

When Mr. Gu held down the spacebar and did not move, his spiritual power became extremely violent, and even when flames formed around the virtual image's body, the black spot expanded and covered Ling Feng's entire body in the blink of an eye. The virtual image goes black, and the change comes to an abrupt end.

"Overloading your spiritual power will cause irreversible depletion of your life force, and the erosion of your gauntlets will become very fast, until finally your life force is completely devoured, at which time you will die, but the gauntlets that devoured your life will survive. That is to say, it becomes an unspeakable monster. In addition, the recovery speed of a non-human like yours also comes at the cost of life force. ”

"That's why I have such a big dark spot on my chest."

Ling Feng, who suddenly realized, touched the black spots on his chest through the bandage, and swallowed and spit. Previously, he fought to the death with Black Yakino Vine in the playground, then stopped the roller coaster from flying off the track and fell into the waterfall, and rescued people. I have indeed overdrawn my potential and reached my limit. These actions must have consumed a lot of his life force. If those parents don't rush over to help in the end, they may be like the virtual image on the screen. Ling Feng couldn't help but feel a little afraid.

But while he was frightened, he also felt happy. Fortunately, it was discovered early, only the size of the palm of a hand. If you ask him if he regrets it, he doesn't regret it at all, as long as he can save his sister, what can he get by paying some vitality?

It's just that in the future, you have to do what you can to save others. Even if it's not for himself, in order to take care of his sister, he can't work so hard.

"This is for you, this is a special monitor for you, of course, there are other functions, you can figure it out yourself. Its most important function is to monitor the symbiosis between you and the Gauntlet. ”

Mr. Gu took out the watch from his pocket again, pressed the button on the watch body, and a flashing green circle appeared on the screen.

"You wear it, and the monitor comes in three colors, green, yellow, red. Green is the safe state, yellow has two levels of light yellow is the state that can be restored, but once it becomes dark yellow, it means that your vitality has been irreversibly depleted. Don't let red appear, once it appears, it means that your life is in danger. ”

Tapping the monitor on the cabinet at the head of the bed, Mr. Gu pushed open the door and walked out.

Ling Ya, who was waiting anxiously outside the door, hurriedly ran in and asked, "How is my brother?" There won't be any after-effects, right? ”

"Ling Feng, what did Mr. Gu say?"

Xiaoxiao walked to the side of the cabinet, grabbed the monitor and looked at the green circle of light that jumped on the screen, and asked curiously: "What is this?" ”

Ling Feng, who was lying on the bed, snatched the monitor and said, "It's nothing, Mr. Gu said that I recovered quickly and I can go home in two days." You guys go out first, I want to take a break. ”

After Ling Ya and the others left, in the dimly lit room, Ling Feng lay flat and raised the monitor with one hand, his eyes staring at the beating green circle of light, and his thoughts gradually faded away......