Chapter 106 Jingyuan and the manipulation of bacterial colonies

Tang Xue fell asleep, ate something, and drank some water. Her condition got better, but only a little bit.

Jingyuan was always paying attention to her condition, and at the same time he was constantly thinking.

He controlled the colonies in his body and flowed on his arms. At the same time, he thought of the mutated weaver sparrows and quickly understood how the "small mold colonies" controlled the weaver sparrows.

Although the colonies are integrated with him, "they" still retain their own consciousness. It is not accurate to use consciousness to describe them. "They" have no intelligence and cannot think, just like single-celled organisms like paramecium or cyanobacteria.

But "they" have an instinct to gather together and an instinct to devour.

These are pure "mold colonies" that do not parasitize living organisms. What "they" want to devour and gather are not living creatures, but "their" kind. What the weaver flock has been doing is to take those more recent ones.

The small "bacteria" are brought back and brought to their nests so that the small colonies can gather together and become larger colonies.

These small colonies of bacteria may exist anywhere: in the heads of zombies, growing in wall cracks or soil, or in damp and dark river ditches.

Jingyuan made a rough guess about how the "small mold colony" was formed.

At first, there may only be one or two infected weavers, but gradually, as the mold spreads, more birds become infected. The weavers are driven by the "instinct" of the mold and slowly build nests. Finally,

Become what Jing Yuan saw.

Perhaps because Jingyuan has some special characteristics, or because Jingyuan's intelligence is too high, the instinct of the "colonies" cannot control him. Instead, he can force these "colonies" to serve him at will, and they have completely become Jingyuan's.

It became part of Yuan and became an organ of him.

He took out the map and looked at the distribution map of mutant creatures in Zhoushan City. At the same time, he carefully looked at his character panel for the first time in a long time:

[Character panel.

Name: Jingyuan

Identity: None

Title: None

Current health: 64/64

Status: [Zombie]: You have been infected by fungus.

[Loss of Pain Sense]: You lose the sense of pain and can still move even if you are seriously injured (the health value can be deducted as a negative value, and the negative health value deducted is up to 50% of the maximum health value)

[Like blood food]: You have a crazy desire for blood food;

【Bacterial Awareness】: You desire to control more flora;

Skill:

[Evolution·Snake]: Snake genes make you stronger (endurance, perception, health, defense, strength improvement);

[Evolution·Small Mold Colony]: You have controlled the power of the colony (each attribute has been slightly improved, and you have acquired the skill [Bacteria Control])

[Bacterial colony manipulation (upgradeable)]: You can flexibly control small-scale bacterial colonies (collect more bacterial colonies to upgrade this skill)

[Firearm Mastery]: You are familiar with the length of the gun barrel, just like you are familiar with your dick (when using firearm weapons, the damage is increased);

[Battle-experienced]: You are the only one who survived a hundred battles (increased critical hit rate);

[Fighting Expert]: If you practice black boxing, you will become rich overnight (when empty-handed, the damage will be increased, the critical hit rate will be increased, and there is a chance of [subduing] the enemy);

[Infection]: Your attacks will spread mold;

[Hunting]: You can pursue injured prey;

【Evolution 2】:???

Description: If you see him, you'd better hope that there are still invincible carts on the road he takes.】

The health value has increased by 12 points. Compared with the last time I used snake gallbladder, the health value increased is almost half less. In terms of physical ability, I can't feel any improvement.

The only thing that felt more obvious was his vision. His vision had recovered somewhat, from severe myopia to moderate myopia, and he could probably see things about ten meters away clearly.

Then, there are the bacterial colonies in the body.

These black colonies are really flexible and plastic. They are like pinching a little person. The black liquid in his hand changes endlessly, including Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Tom, and Jerry.

There is no need for him to make any detailed modifications. As long as he imagines the image in his mind, the colony will automatically change. The resulting little man is like an exquisite figure. In addition to the color, even some extremely subtle details can be transformed.

Restoration, lifelike.

Even in the unsolidified state, he can control Jerry in his hand to run, and he can subdivide the colony into two smaller parts. One part changes into Jerry, and the other part changes into Tom, allowing them to run one by one.

, a chase, the action is as smooth as in the animation.

As long as the colony is connected to his body, he can control it finely, but if it is separated, he can only convey some general commands.

If there is a certain distance between him and the isolated colony, the radio-like connection will be completely disconnected, but before it is disconnected, he can pass a command and let the isolated colony act according to that command.

This is the new skill he acquired: [Bacteria Manipulation], a very flexible and powerful skill.

The colonies residing in his body can either cover the body surface and be used for defense, or they can be solidified into weapons for attack. On certain occasions, they can also be transformed into repair tools such as screwdrivers and wrenches, which can be used in a variety of ways.

It's almost a perfect skill, but it also has shortcomings.

First, these bacterial colonies seem to be non-renewable, or the regeneration rate is extremely slow.

Secondly, the number of bacterial colonies is too small. Even if it is fully used, it can only cover the position of his forearm, and it is impossible to mold a large weapon. At most, it can only be a slender, fencing-like small thorn.

They are very hard, but if they become long thorns, there is still a risk of being broken.

Although the flora that escapes his body can be recovered again, if it falls too far away, it will cut off the connection with him and may not be recovered.

The number of bacterial colonies is already very small. If another part is lost, this skill will basically be useless.

He experienced the new ability carefully, but the more he understood it, the more anxious he became.

This is just a combat skill, a multi-functional skill, and has nothing to do with treatment or anything like that.

He pursed his lips and took back the colony, sighed, and once again wiped Tang Xue's sweat with a towel and applied alcohol to cool her down.

Fungal infection, it was the first time he saw a real person infected by fungus. Before that, he had only glimpsed it in the description of the macho big brother.

He felt a little strange. He had read the notes left by Big Brother Macho and found that Big Brother Macho was also infected.

After wiping Tang Xue's body, he turned out the small book. There was still the ring in the book. He had kept this book well.

This is basically a ledger that counts the materials owned by Big Brother. Only on the last page is written the last words of Big Brother:

"I got infected, I don't know what happened, it was only for three hours, I felt like my head was going to explode, I took a lot of antibiotics, but it didn't help at all, maybe I was going to die, I'm sorry.

"

There is no doubt that the physical fitness of the macho eldest brother is much stronger than that of Tang Xue, but he showed obvious symptoms of infection within three hours, and Tang Xue said that it takes fourteen days for infected people to show obvious fever.

Is it because mold in the city center is much more infectious than in the fringes?

Jingyuan's thoughts were in a mess. He didn't know what the use of thinking about them was. Even if he thought about it clearly, so what, it wouldn't make Tang Xue feel better.

Tang Xue once smeared zombie blood on her wounds. Did she have a chance to survive such direct contact?

Or can she become a mutant that retains consciousness like herself?

That chance was zero. Jingyuan wandered around the large Zhoushan City for ninety days, but he still couldn't find any mutant that could retain human memory and consciousness like him.

The only one who has such a tendency is Xiao Yun'er. She is the only one who seems to have retained some emotions from the human period. But Xiao Yun'er may be the most advanced mutant in Zhoushan City, and even she doesn't remember who she is.

What was born from that body was a brand new personality, not the "Su Yun" of the human period.

Jingyuan opened his palms, and black colonies gathered in his palms. Those colonies squirmed irregularly, as restless as his heart.

But suddenly, when all the colonies came together, he felt an almost inaudible connection, like a needle gently falling to the bottom of the sea.

It came from Tang Xue. He felt the "gathering" and "devouring" instincts of the colonies.

He was stunned for a moment, then suddenly became excited. Tang Xue was infected by mold. Can he use the characteristics of mold to remove all the mold in her body?

He held the colony and approached Tang Xue, but that feeling no longer occurred, even when he was very close.

Could it be an illusion? Is it self-deception in his irritable thoughts?

He waited for a while, but there was no response. It seemed that it was really his imagination.

No. Wrong

The instinct of "gathering" and "eating" of mold does exist. It must be that the bacterial colonies in his body are too few and not strong enough, so there is no way to sense the very small part of the mold in Tang Xue's body.

After all, Tang Xue is still in an infection stage, her immune system has not failed yet, and she is still fighting the mold. The amount of mold in her body is very small.

Even among zombies that have been infected for several years, only a small part of the bacterial colonies in their bodies have accumulated. The "small mold colonies" found in the nests of the sparrows may be the result of six years of hard work by a large group of sparrows.

If Jingyuan can gather larger and more bacterial colonies, if the bacterial colonies can be strong enough to automatically attract the mold out of Tang Xue's body, it will suck out the mold like a magnet sucking up iron powder.

Maybe we can save her

Yes, he wants to do this, he can only do this, this is the only hope and possibility he has found.

He had to look for mutants like the mutated sparrow and devour more bacteria. This was the only way he could think of.

It was still dark outside, with snow still falling, and countless monsters seemed to be hidden in the darkness.

But there is nothing to be afraid of, because he is also a monster.
Chapter completed!