Chapter 6: Bacteria and Giants

On the calm sea, the large three-masted cargo ship "Fin Whale" is slowly sailing on the surface of the sea with a gentle breeze.

Three days have passed since the previous thrilling battle, but the crew of the ship is still talking about it.

Sailing is actually quite boring, the endless sea is mostly empty with nothing, in this case, the ship's crew in addition to drinking, the greatest pleasure is to find a topic to chat.

In the past few days, the story they talked about the most was naturally the story about Xue Hua's battle against the six-armed giant, which has now been completely detached from the original version and has begun to develop in the direction of mythological stories.

However, although Xue Hua's story was circulating on the ship, there was a tragic encounter with a sad unlucky crew member, but no one dared to disturb Xue Hua himself, and even the crew who brought him food every day just put the meal at the door of his room, then knocked on the door, and then ran away.

For this situation, although Xue Hua felt very helpless, he was also happy to be quiet.

Unlike ordinary crew members on sea ships, Xue Hua can find a lot of fun through the mind of the main nest.

For example, now, he used the incarnation of the will clone skill to taste a delicious sand ice brew in a famous tavern in Lugoin~

The feeling of the sweet and frosty wine flowing down the throat and into the stomach, combined with the scorching desert climate around it, oh!

Not to mention how cool it is......

This is a delicacy that cannot be tasted on a sea boat~

Just as Xue Hua was immersed in the slight drunkenness brought by the wine, in the mind of the main nest, Abasser's voice suddenly sounded.

"Experimental analysis of Subject 2 (Giant) has been completed, do you need to check the report?"

"Oh? Well, I'll take a look ......" Xue Hua immediately severed his sensory connection with the incarnation of will, rolled over from the hammock and sat up, and began to read the experiment report sent by the master evolution.

He was still interested in the giant that the Amazons called "the squire of the Storm Goddess", especially the green blood in its body that seemed to be self-aware.

Abasser's report details the giant's biological composition and the arrangement of its genetic sequences.

Xue Hua skimmed through the genetic data like a book in the sky and directly found Abbather's experimental conclusion.

The Evolutionary Master's experimental conclusions revealed the true face of the giant - the body tissues of this giant, except for the blood, were very ordinary, just some kind of gigantic ordinary sea beast.

The reason why it has become so close to the size of a human is simply because of the distortion of green blood.

Rather, those unusual green blood is the source of the giant's essence and all its power.

Its body was nothing more than a shell transformed from an abyssal behemoth.

Abbather mentioned in the report that the essence of the green blood stored in the giant's body is actually a collection of very small microorganisms and bacteria, the maximum size of a single body type of this bacterium is no larger than a single blood cell, and when separated from the group by a single group, their self-awareness is very weak, or even completely immobile.

However, when these bacteria are grouped together in large numbers, they activate a special chemical secretion system that allows the bacteria to assemble their independent wills and form a group consciousness with a very considerable autonomy.

This manifestation of consciousness is somewhat like that of ants, but more closely connected than ant colonies.

However, when a small part of the bacterial community is stripped out of the larger group (the total number of bacteria in the community must be more than 100,000), this part of the bacterial community will begin to multiply rapidly, and make every effort to move closer to the larger group of bacteria in the vicinity.

It is important to note that once these bacteria are assembled into a whole, they will have many advantages and characteristics that only rudimentary sapient organisms will have, but at the same time, they will also add many defects.

For example, these bacteria must attach themselves to a fixed form of animal in order to maintain their swarm, but when they successfully attach themselves to an animal, they will quickly replace the original circulatory system of the organism and become their blood, tissue fluid, and even brain plasma.

These bacteria then begin to modify the form of their hosts, and for some reason bring their morphology closer to that of humans.

At the same time, they also proliferate proliferating within the host and release dozens of special chemicals that cause the host to grow wildly.

However, when the host size of these selected host bacteria increases to a certain extent, there will be a proliferative disorder, and the population of the entire population will completely stabilize within a few days, neither increasing nor decreasing for no reason.

When the host's body is completely stabilized, these bacteria begin to take on another characteristic.

They cast hormones to modify their host, giving them a specialized psionic reserve that can only affect energy in the form of water and lightning, and cannot be converted into other energies out of thin air, as is the case with normal psionic energy.

The host can only use this psionic energy to cause a storm at sea, and use the power of the storm and the ocean to cast their own psionic attack.

This is an indirect psionic channeling mechanism, and units that use psionic energy use this mechanism have almost unlimited psionic energy reserves, but they are completely unable to perfect their psionic skills and how to use them.

This is the reason why Xue Hua felt that this giant had a large reserve of psionic energy in battle, but the way he used psionic energy was very rude.

These bacteria cannot be destroyed while the host is still alive, and their proliferative capacity is very strong and the individual is extremely viable.

However, once the host is completely dead, these bacteria must find the next qualified host within an hour, otherwise they will die quickly and massively because they cannot adapt to the complex environment of the outside world.

At the same time, these bacteria are also very vulnerable when the entire colony is completely exposed to the host, and any powerful psionic attack is enough to trigger a chain reaction of the entire colony, resulting in the death of all bacteria in the entire host system.

Abbather is trying to revitalize and modify these bacteria, hoping to improve their tissues, compensate for their shortcomings, enhance their strengths, and make them usable by the colony.

If this experiment comes to fruition, it will be possible for all units in the swarm to gain a new internal circulatory system, and even at the worst level, Abbather will be able to create a new swarm unit.

After reading the report, Xue Hua reached out and touched his chin, and then asked Abbather, "Have you found the source of these bacteria in your research?"

Are they native creatures, or are they the result of acquired genetic surgery? ”

"Dissection experiments have found that the bacteria has a large number of redundant genetic passages in its body, and no signs of genetic modification have been found, and they should have evolved from native organisms through natural evolution."

Abbather's words made Xue Hua breathe a sigh of relief.

"You go ahead, and let me know as soon as there is any result."

After sending Abashur away, Xue Hua lay down in the hammock again, and was just about to take a nap to relieve his fatigue, Isha's voice once again sounded in the mind of the main nest.

"Juggernaut, the swarm has been assembled outside the area codenamed 'Mysterious Dune', and will soon launch a clearance and attack on the area, do you need to keep an eye on the battle situation?"