Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 816: Killing Meat Mud

"What is this?" asked Modice.

"The dead meat of killing living things. Recently, it was mentioned that a translation of it was completed two hundred years ago. A few years ago, someone completed another renovation of this translation and gave it a more convenient name, called killing meat—"

Modise: "Boy, let's get to the point. Do you think we are the kind of people who have time to listen to your lectures?"

Murong Shangjin blushed and explained, "This thing is dead."

"Dead? So it's a corpse?"

"Yes, it's a corpse... Let's call it a corpse, but since it can move, it doesn't make sense to say it's dead."

"It's like a zombie, right? A zombie is dead, but it can move, and by attacking it, it can stop moving again and become a truly peaceful corpse. This can also be considered a second kill.

What you mean is that although it is now considered dead, it is not dead in the conventional sense, and it can still be killed a second time, right?" Modise said.

Murong Shangjin nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, yes!

The Killing Meat Paste is in this state, but unlike a zombie, it cannot be stopped by attacking.

In fact, no matter how hard you attack it, cut it into pieces, or burn it to ashes, it will never stop moving, but will always maintain the form of a cluster waving whip-like tentacles. "

"You mean, it has the ability to recover infinitely?"

"No, it won't recover. Any attack will leave irreversible damage on it. Bullets can literally turn it into pulp, fire can burn it to ashes, and even more powerful means should be able to break it into quarks at the atomic level.

But even if it breaks into quarks, it will not recover and will always maintain the state after being broken into pieces!" Murong Shangjin added.

"Interesting." Modis became interested. "If it becomes like that, its size won't change? When a portion of liquid evaporates into water vapor, it becomes a gaseous water with the same volume and mass?"

"It should be, but I'm just guessing based on the description in the literature. It mentioned that someone once burned it into a concentrated fire."

"This is interesting." Modis took a deep breath.

In secular science, quarks that are smaller than protons cannot exist alone because of "quark confinement". Although quarks can be separated with the help of some extraordinary powers, they cannot be observed. Just like electrons, although the indirect effects of electrons can be observed, the electrons themselves cannot be directly observed.

Objects are made up of atoms. Although atoms are surrounded by electrons, it cannot be said that humans can see the electrons. What the human eye sees is actually molecules composed of atoms, and various compounds composed of molecules gather into a large object.

To give an example that is not very vivid, there is an apple on the table. Although there is air between the apple and the human eye, a normal person would not say that he sees the air, but rather the apple.

So...if this meat paste made from killing animals can really be aggregated together in a state of ultra-fine particles composed entirely of quarks as Murong Shangjin said, then what kind of scene will be seen when observed with the naked eye?

Will it be like air, where I can't see anything?

No! It shouldn't be, because the basic unit that makes up this monster is smaller than a proton, but the volume it forms has not changed, and its density has not changed. This is a state that is even more powerful than ordinary elementalization!
Maybe, we can even use this sample to study the difference between ghosts and real objects. Modice has always had such a conjecture that the existence of spiritual creatures is essentially the splitting of objects beyond a certain limit.

We can even be more bold and say that spirits also have mass, but just as plasma flames have substance but are considered to be insubstantial and massless, spirits are just a little more extreme than this.

Modis was still letting his thoughts run wild, when Shangguan Yan spoke up and continued to push the topic forward:

"So this thing cannot be killed by physical means. No matter how it is destroyed, it will still remain in a cohesive state. Even annihilation won't work?"

“It shouldn’t work. Many people have tried to destroy the Killing Meat Paste, but they just kept changing it into various forms. Even when it turned into energy and ghost state, it still looked like a mass of thing waving a whip, and mental attacks were completely ineffective. This thing has no soul… So, at least people in the past said it was dead.

However, while ordinary attacks cannot stop it from moving, allowing the meat paste to slaughter ordinary animals can turn it back to its original form, which was when the host was alive."

"Wait, host? What's going on here?"

"Meat paste is not a living thing, it will never exist in isolation, it is very much like a parasitic phenomenon. Note that I said the "phenomenon" of parasitism, not the parasitic phenomenon.

It is an abnormal phenomenon that needs to parasitize normal living animals!

When the parasitized animal is killed, the animal's corpse will turn into killing meat paste, and the killing meat paste will slowly turn into the appearance of the animal when it was alive after continuously slaughtering living things.

I, I know this is a little difficult to understand. In short, the death of an ordinary animal can be regarded as the birth of the killing meat paste, and the death of the killing meat paste is the resurrection of the parasitic animal. Its definition of life and death is completely opposite to ours. Once parasitized, life and death can continue to cycle.

Just like water turns into water vapor after boiling, and water vapor turns into water again after cooling, the death and corpse of a normal animal is the process of water turning into water vapor. However, after the water vapor dissipates, even if it condenses somewhere else, it is no longer the original water.

The corpse rots, nourishing the earth, and finally new creatures absorb the nutrients and are reborn. Although the matter comes from the corpse itself, the new life is no longer the original one.

The killing meat paste is a special cooling step, it will always condense the evaporated water vapor back to the original water!"

"What a wonderful metaphor, but I understand. Boy, your ability to express yourself is terrible. You need to practice it in the future."

Modise snapped his fingers, and then succinctly summarized Murong Shangjin's meaning into one sentence: "To put it simply, this thing can't die. If you kill this meat paste, it will turn into the previous abnormal body, and if you kill the abnormal body, it will turn into this meat paste again."

"How about letting her come over and take a look?" Shangguan Yan looked at Modise, as if hinting at something.

Modise understood Shangguan Yan's thoughts instantly, knowing that the "she" he was referring to was Su Yue, who had the Mystic Eyes that could allow her to see through death.

Modis pursed his lips, obviously trying to suppress a smile. He was very interested in Shangguan Yan's suggestion, but did not want to show such childish expectations on his face, so he adjusted his expression and gave a serious opinion with the attitude that a scientist should have.

"Okay, at least it's worth a try."

(End of this chapter)