Wasteland: My items are infinitely upgraded.

Chapter 222 Wolf Tribe Heritage Trial, Evolution and Transformation

"Child, do you want to shoulder the great responsibility of revitalizing the wolf tribe?"

A giant wolf head, as big as a mountain, slowly condensed from a black mist in the dim world of consciousness in the divine dog's mind, and emitted the howling sound of the wolf clan.

This is the language of the wolf tribe and an instinct engraved in the genes of all descendants of the tribe.

The divine dog understood the literal meaning of this sentence, but could not understand its true meaning.

It’s like when you’re used to speaking Mandarin and suddenly hear a dialect with a familiar tone.

The wasteland wolf clan, which has evolved for thousands of years, is actually very different from the wolf clan led by the third-level wolf king Ao back then.

To adapt to the harsh wasteland environment, the original wolf tribe has gone through dozens of generations of evolution. Each generation of evolved wolves would change their evolutionary direction to better survive, especially enduring the arid and scorching wasteland and hunting the most numerous rockhorn horses...

Initially, there were only two heat dissipation organs in the body, the soles of the feet and the tongue, which gradually evolved into hard metallic hair all over the body.

After becoming an evolved wild beast, starting from the mane on the neck, the fur of the wasteland wolf will gradually turn into biological alloy, just like the alienated fine steel wolf fangs.

Metals with the best thermal conductivity can promptly dissipate the excess heat accumulated by the body's rapid metabolism.

Metallized fur can also provide a certain degree of defense against the impact and counterattack of prey.

Therefore, the blood relationship between the descendants of the wolf clan like the Divine Dog and the first generation of Wolf King is so weak that they can't understand what the other party says.

They can only understand basic information from ordinary roars and low growls, such as summoning wolves, launching attacks, and low-pitched threatening warnings.

Like the complex and profound long sentences at this moment, the divine dog could only tilt its neck and make very puzzled whimpering sounds in its self-awareness.

But from another perspective, the divine dog is only at level nine. Although the upper limit of its intelligence development has been raised, its life experience is equal to zero.

His current IQ is roughly the same as that of a five or six-year-old human child, and he can understand some basic instructions.

Moreover, the divine dog was adopted by Lin Feng from the moment it opened its eyes. All the creatures around it were humans, and the words it heard were all human language.

Underwent the influence of human culture.

In its limited memory, it understands humans better than other wolves.

At this moment, Wolf King Ao, who had condensed into a wolf head, frowned slightly, revealing a hint of displeasure.

Even though the Wolf King was timid and silent in front of Lin Feng and Zong Shiyue, he was a true ancestor in front of his descendants.

Take the current cross-level evolution of the divine dog as an example. As long as the wolf king is willing, he can distort its evolution process at will. Just by changing a few gene fragments, he can make it fail in its transformation and explode to death.

Of course, the Wolf King would never do such a thing, especially to his own descendants.

I hope that one of them can mutate into an individual that reverts to its ancestral form and inherit my bloodline and legacy.

Lead the wolf tribe to prosperity.

It’s just that the most promising candidate right now seems to be a not-so-bright fool.

If Lin Feng had not chosen it, Wolf King Ao would not even look at this rapidly matured individual in the Wolf King Tomb.

There is no other way at the moment. Since I can't understand the normal wolf language for communication, I will prove it with actual actions.

After a cold snort, Wolf King Ao immediately let out a basic wolf howl, and this howl conveyed only the simplest and briefest concept:

"kill!"

Then, before the divine dog could react, the huge wolf head that had condensed suddenly dissipated, and the black smoke gradually turned into a wasteland world.

The divine dog instantly became nervous. Although he didn't know what was going on, the wolf howl made by the huge wolf head before it disappeared awakened the instinct deep in the divine dog's heart.

The desire to kill is rising.

This is the wolf's bloodthirsty genetic instinct.

At this moment, the divine dog was also affected. The wolf skin on both sides of its mouth was unconsciously pulled up, revealing the sharp white wolf fangs on its gums.

While baring his teeth, he kept making low growls in his throat, then lowered his entire body, half-bent over, shortened his neck, and stood up his mane.

He looked like he was facing a formidable enemy.

Because the divine dog could clearly feel that after the giant wolf head said "kill", it was not only itself that was aroused with the desire to kill, but also the wasteland in front of it that was conjured up.

Although it has not shown any aggressiveness at the moment, the murderous intent has spread all around, and is even so strong that it is almost taking shape.

And the next moment, the murderous intent that was about to boil over showed its fangs.

From the wasteland, a group of wasteland wolves, almost the same size as the divine dogs, emerged. Their appearances were very vague, but it could be seen that they were all at the ninth level of enhancement.

The number is densely packed from far to near.

The divine dog took a quick look and saw that there were probably tens of thousands of level nine wasteland wolves.

Their numbers were so large that they gradually filled the entire wasteland, and were still increasing in the distance.

Before the divine dog could react, the five level nine enhanced wasteland wolves closest to it pounced directly.

The divine dog dodged, used the terrain to create distance, and climbed to the top of a pile of boulders, thus breaking the encirclement and only having to deal with one or two of them at a time.

But it also blocked his own retreat.

Only by killing the wild wolf in front of him can he delay the countdown to his own death.

Because it is impossible to kill them all.

Fortunately, these illusions condensed by murderous intent are not real level nine wasteland wolves. They only have basic attributes enhanced at level nine. A well-fed divine dog can burst out the upper limit of level nine, infinitely close to the level of evolution of level ten.

So, at just one encounter, the divine dog used its brand new fangs to bite the target's neck tightly.

The exploding jaw muscles bring amazing bite force, directly biting off the enemy's cervical vertebrae.

With the advantage of explosive speed and strength, he killed the first target easily.

However, before the divine dog could catch its breath, another murderous wasteland wolf pounced on it.

Fortunately, the previous kill created a safe space for the divine dog, allowing it to turn around and dodge.

He jerked away, dodging the attack, then lunged forward with his hind legs, completing the second kill.

After killing two wasteland wolves of the same level in one breath, the divine dog discovered that although their bodies disappeared, the murderous intent in them remained in its mouth and flowed into its body through the wolf's mouth.

As the two murderous intentions entered the body, not only did the divine dog's physical strength not be consumed, but it also made up for the losses from the previous attack and returned to its best condition.

Seeing this, the murderous intent in the divine dog's eyes grew stronger, and it began to take the initiative to attack, directly pouncing on three wasteland wolves of the same level that had just crawled onto a huge rock below.

At this moment, the fierce battle filled with murderous intent broke out completely. One after another, the wasteland wolves, which were condensed from fantasy, died under the fangs and big mouth of the divine dog.

And its condition is getting better and better.

It was not until the hundredth phantom wasteland wolf was killed that the divine dog suddenly felt that the murderous intent in his body had risen to a certain limit and pushed the limit further higher.

The resulting impact and change was that the upper limit of his own explosive strength was also raised a few points. Just like the original upper limit of 0.95 was now at 0.951.

As expected, so many phantom wasteland wolves were not killed in vain. Not only could they restore his condition, but they could also break through the upper limit of his strength when accumulated to a certain level.

Feeling the slight increase in strength, the murderous intent in the divine dog's eyes suddenly became more intense.

The wolf saw a vast ocean and a dark illusion in front of it. In its eyes, it was a stepping stone on the road to evolution.

At the same time, the real world outside the iron cage.

With the help of her assistant, Ding Yi was attaching detection electrodes to the divine dog's body, and occasionally extracting some tiny amounts of blood from the needle wound where the Steppenwolf Essence was injected.

Place it under a microscope and observe it.

Cell changes in the blood can best reflect the condition of the surgical subjects.

In the initial blood, cells were affected by the source substance and most of them died after the invasion. Only less than 10% of the cells could withstand the drastic transformation of the source substance and proliferate and divide into new cell bodies, which are the next generation of more advanced and powerful cells.

After the new cells are born, they will feed on the old cells that are very weak after division, and kill the deformed and weak defective individuals in this batch, restore their state, accumulate enough strength, and continue the next proliferation and division.

This process will grow exponentially at 2n...

In just a dozen minutes, dozens of generations of cells proliferate and transform.

Among the original level eight or nine enhanced cells, a small number will successfully complete qualitative evolution in this great change, become evolved cells, absorb the remaining source matter, and then continue to complete the transformation.

However, the subsequent evolutionary process is not as intense as the first metamorphosis. On the one hand, it is due to the lack of source material, and on the other hand, it is due to the scarcity of energy.

Evolved cells require more energy to divide into advanced cells of the same level.

In order to ensure the survival of the host, generally after 10% of the cells have metamorphosed, the intense metamorphosis reaction will ease and calm down.

At this time, these evolutionary cells that have completed metamorphosis will gather into clusters and gather in a certain part of the body to form a piece of evolutionary tissue.

That is, the evolved flesh of evolved life forms.

Not only does it contain a large amount of life source, but the clustering of evolutionary cells will also activate the characteristic parts of the gene fragments.

Then awakened superpowers are born.

In fact, it is a special feature of a living organism that is strengthened during evolution, from a microscopic dominant gene fragment to a special ability at the macro level.

This ability has both racial characteristics, such as different evolved wild beasts have different abilities, and differences between individuals.

This is particularly evident among humans.

The main reason is that after humans became the overlord of the earth, their genes have been replaced at the fastest rate, and they have been constantly absorbing genetic fragments from other species.

For example, when getting vaccinated, the antibodies in the vaccine are essentially weakened viruses. After being absorbed by the body, the cells of the immune system can recognize the presence of the virus and kill it.

Coupled with population mobility, genetic exchange between human groups is relatively sufficient.

Unlike other lower beasts, the genes of a population in a region are fixed. Without human intervention, even for hundreds or thousands of years, there will be no branches from other regions to bring in new bloodlines.

Therefore, differences in personality lead to a wide variety of dominant gene expressions in humans. There are hundreds of types of superpowers that have been recorded.

There are also many unrecorded superpowers because the evolvers who possessed them died early in the catastrophe, resulting in the loss of this precious resource.

Such a large number of superpowers, categorized into different types, allow humans to use them in a variety of different environments.

Therefore, even during the catastrophe era of the old earth, humans eventually returned to the top of the food chain. Even the king beasts of the sea that first rose up did not dare to provoke their relatives who originally ruled the land.

These mammals are losers in the competition on land. Even if they take the lead in evolution, they can only establish dominance in the deep sea at most.

The rise of wolves is the stumbling block they leave for humans, hoping to slow down the pace of human evolution.

Now time flies, and the world has changed dramatically...

The former overlord of the ocean has disappeared without a trace.

Even if there are a few survivors, they are probably hiding deep underground in some remote corner and dare not leave the underground water source easily.

But the legacy they left behind still has value for secondary use.

At this moment, Ding Yi has preserved the entire process of the wolf clan's enhanced cells transforming into evolved cells, and each of the different stages is of great research value.

At the same time, macroscopic monitoring of the divine dog also recorded the entire transformation process.

This will be of great reference significance when injecting the wild wolf evolution agent into humans later.

After all, directly transforming ordinary people into evolvers is more difficult and challenging than asking evolvers to take the wasteland wolf essence and change their evolutionary path.

"Its evolutionary process is extremely slow, with evolutionary cells undergoing transformations generation after generation, with changes occurring almost every generation."

"Therefore, the rate of energy consumption is several times higher than that of human evolution. One must consume at least a quarter of their own body weight in ninth-level food, while also developing a primordial pouch in their abdomen, in order to complete the transformation."

Han Yuyu observed the images under the microscope and recorded the conclusions of the transformation.

The pouch is the fat on the abdomen of cats, usually used to store excess nutrients. It is actually a small belly where fat accumulates.

For carnivores, this primitive pouch can help them survive ten days of hunger and is the best way to cope with prey shortage seasons in the wild.

When prey is plentiful, eat more to accumulate energy and ensure you can survive the harsh season.

This is especially evident in bears, who rely entirely on their fat bodies to hibernate.

In today's evolutionary era, this primitive bag is a means to meet evolutionary consumption.

Ding Yi nodded at the side, seeing that an hour had passed in the world, and the physical characteristics of the divine dog had become stable, and the most intense transformation stage was over.

Immediately he said:

"I'll leave the rest to you. I'll go to Holy Spring Village first. When the divine dog wakes up, just feed it some water and ninth-level dried meat. Don't let it out yet."

Han Yuyu nodded in response.

Shen Yue then left the laboratory on the first floor of the carriage and went to the culture room on the second floor to take out the concentrated venom that had been accumulated over the past few days.

A full one hundred milliliters.

Thousands of poisonous insects were squeezed dry, and then filtered and concentrated three times to obtain a bottle of pure venom.

Carrying the venom, Ding Yi asked A Lian to accompany her and entered Shengquan Village.

Under the guidance of the guard, we found Father Suan who had just walked out of the laboratory.

Seeing the two people in front of him, the haggard Father Suan smiled.

"I brought what you asked for!"

(End of this chapter)