From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

"brute!"

Elisa snatched the plasma pistol from Red Girl's hand (Red Girl had let go of it willingly, otherwise, not even twenty Elisas could take the weapon from her), and kept pulling the trigger at Benjamin's headless corpse. High-temperature plasma beams destroyed his flesh and blood, followed by plumes of black smoke.

But no one present tried to stop this almost insane act of "whipping the corpse."

Without him.

Even the Buddha would be angered by such depraved individuals, let alone those who are merely practitioners.

Once the plasma pistol in Alyssa's hand ran out of power, Jiang Liu said, "Mark, temporarily store the life essence of those corpses into your spiritual seed. Oh, and leave Benjamin's corpse behind for observation."

"Ah."

Mark nodded and walked past Elisa and Vincent. With a rhythmic movement of his nine orifices, his aura emanated outward, covering the corpses except for Benjamin's. He opened his left hand, and streams of blue-white Qi emanated from the corpses, gathering in Mark's palm and storing in his spiritual seed.

"You! Him?"

Elisa was extremely nervous and pointed her gun at Jiang Liu, believing that he had ordered the tall monster to desecrate the crew's bodies and souls.

"Don't be nervous. We are recovering their life essence. Perhaps in the distant future, they may be able to be resurrected."

It was Bai Yuekui who spoke.

Hong Guniang then showed the two a video of Ran Bingfu being resurrected using bio-3D printing technology.

Whether they believe it or not, at least they can keep a thought in mind and calm their emotions.

Elisa and Vincent were skeptical, but as they watched the corpses gradually turn into statues of flesh and earth, a chill ran down their spines.

The other party did not lie!

If they wanted to kill them, they wouldn't need lies at all!

In a short while, the entire hibernation chamber, except for Benjamin's body, had turned into flesh and soil, resembling a frozen three-dimensional sculpture of a murder scene.

After that, everyone's attention turned to Benjamin's mangled body.

A minute later, the blood began to flow, pooling together and forming streaks that flowed upstream towards the remains of the corpse.

Two minutes later, the skin began to wriggle and split open, growing irregular teeth, nails, bone spurs, and so on, as if genes were recombinating, but it was like an irregular expression.

Three minutes later, the fragments of the corpse, which had sprouted extra tentacles, claws, and bone spurs, began to move closer together, combining and gradually forming an abstract humanoid shape.

Although its shape is strange, it is indeed a development from disorder to order.

"What a disgusting thing!"

Zhang Zhiwei frowned and gave his assessment, "A corpse mutant? Such a creature shouldn't exist in this world!"

"To be able to modify dead body cells using electromagnetic fields... that's even more bizarre than the Mana ecosystem!" Lu Jin agreed with Zhang Zhiwei.

But Jiang Liu had a different opinion...

Chapter 1270 Corpse Mutation (Part 2)

What is a necromancy variant?

As the name suggests, it refers to a corpse that has undergone a transformation into a zombie, and is considered similar to a zombie or a living corpse, but there are significant differences between the three.

Zombies are corpses parasitized by corpse worms.

Zombies are bodies controlled by a virus.

And the corpse variant—

In Jiang Liu's eyes, they were more like special living beings that had transformed from individuals into a collective.

When a whale falls, all things are born.

The birth of the corpse variant is the embodiment of this abstraction...

Under the special "darkness" of the divine seal, when a person dies and their individual consciousness dissipates, the body's cells are "liberated." That is, the genetic material of each cell is altered, giving it the ability to survive independently, similar to a single-celled organism.

But these cells instinctively chose to gather together, coalescing into a necromancy variant, completely transforming from a single individual into a collective.

No core!

Because every single cell is the core!

No weaknesses!

Because every single cell is a weakness!

In short, you can't truly kill the opponent without destroying all of the necromancy's cells.

Fortunately, a single cell is very fragile and not as outrageous as the freak in the movie "The Thing" that Jiang Liu had seen in his previous life. It cannot directly assimilate normal human cells with mutated cells, and may even be cleared away by immune cells in normal human bodies.

therefore.

Compared to Zhang Zhiwei and Lu Jin's disgust and vigilance towards the birth process of the corpse variant, Jiang Liu, who saw more, gave a different evaluation: "A warm sea of ​​corpses."

"What do you mean?"

Bai Yuekui's family does have a game called "Warm Sea of ​​Corpses," but she's certain it's not the same thing Jiang Liu is talking about.

"That's my definition of this corpse variant."

After saying that, Jiang Liu passed on the information he had seen to the five people other than Elisa and Vincent, so that they could understand the nature of the mutant.

The individual is the collective!

It can survive alone!

Living in groups is even more perfect!

It's like—

people!

Single-celled organisms, such as bacteria, while exhibiting social behavior, could never aggregate into such a massive form.

Bai Yuekui frowned.

Compared to Mana's will, the will within this spaceship may have chosen a different path! The path of matter!

Jiang Liu explained to everyone.

Neither Mana's will nor the zombie gene is a chaotic entity in the macrocosm.

The ecology of Mana goes without saying. The hierarchy of Devouring Beasts, the regular payment of rent to Mana Flowers, and the use of Blood Vortex to promote collective evolution are all orderly and extremely efficient.

And what about the mutated corpses inside the Lalaya?

The absence of individual consciousness and the formation of collective instincts is also a process of moving from disorder to order!

Comparing the two, it's as if they've gone to two completely different extremes.

Mana's will follows the path of life essence. Although she relies on the Devouring Beast to help her seize the life essence of all things, for her, no matter how powerful the physical body is, it is just a shell, dispensable and not important. As long as there are still material particles in the world, she can always recreate them by slowly planning.

And what about the zombie gene?

They abandoned consciousness and chose the instinct to survive, maximizing the cellular survival capabilities at the material level.

This also explains why Jiang Liu couldn't sense the will of the Divine Seal... Based on this inference, the Divine Seal should be a complete, materialized gene. Before it obtains matter, aggregates into the "Blood Moon," and forms planetary-level "cells," it is difficult to express even the greatest intelligence.

However, the Divine Seal can also communicate with humans, but what communicates with humans is not the will of the Divine Seal itself, but another self generated by the brain affected by the electromagnetic signals of the Divine Seal, a "self" that presents the people it knows based on its original memories.

Once such a "self" is formed, it is essentially equivalent to a split personality. Moreover, this personality can connect with the magnetic field of the divine seal through the brain magnetism of the original body, and then transmit some information from the divine seal to the brain of the original body... Yeleladi was able to replicate the divine seal, probably through such means!

Similarly, the electromagnetic signals of the Divine Seal can also affect electronic programs, such as ASH inside the Lalaiye! Or perhaps it's because the artificial intelligence code brought by Bai Yuekui is too advanced, causing ASH to appear overly intelligent under the influence of the Divine Seal's electromagnetic signals.

One walks the path of eternal will, seeking to transform the human world into a playground; the other chooses the path of material aggregation, aiming to assimilate all organic matter in the world...

The girl in red seemed thoughtful, suspecting that Mana's will might be related to the zombie gene to some extent.

[Possibly.]

Jiang Liu did not deny this conjecture, and instructed Mark, "Try absorbing the life essence of this corpse variant."

Without saying a word, Mark activated his nine orifices and aimed his left hand at the nearly formed corpse variant, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't absorb even a trace of life essence.

This shocked Bai Yuekui: "Could it be that this thing doesn't possess any life essence?"

[It's impossible for it to be absent; all things possess primordial energy, otherwise no life activities could occur.]

Zhang Zhiwei denied this speculation.

Furthermore.

This corpse variant is a collection of about 40 trillion cells! Although he doesn't understand biology very well, it's impossible that just because the genes have changed, the life activities of the cells no longer need the participation of innate Qi, right?

If so, then this thing is not flesh and blood, but a mechanical creation similar to the humanoid form of the Lighthouse ASH.

Even though the flesh and blood of the Devouring Beast will turn into the Breath Soil and merge into the ground after death, it can still be classified as a carbon-based life form when tested from living cells.

“I cannot absorb it; to be precise, I cannot absorb their life essence.” Mark said, then conveyed that he could sense a faint, abstract consciousness within the mutated corpses, but it was as solid as a diamond, impossible to touch.

“Cultivation is about controlling one’s own aura, and this corpse variant can be said to have reached the level of ‘cellular aura’. However, in terms of combat power, it is not very strong. Ordinary people can use modern weapons to restrict its movement.”

At this moment, the corpse transformation was fully formed. Although it had gone from disorder to order, it was perhaps not completely transformed. It looked extremely ugly, or even abstract.

At the very least, it doesn't conform to human aesthetics.

The ghoul had a hideous face, its body covered in flesh and blood, its arms bent into an "M" shape, with a pair of sharp bone spurs growing from its palms, its head almost reaching its chest, its abdomen split open, revealing no intestines or stomach, but instead growing a pair of small claws.

Once formed, the mutated corpse rushed towards Jiang Liu and the others, its arms flipping and slicing through the air as it slashed straight at Elisa's head.

Before Alyssa could fire, Jiang Liu gently slapped her, channeling his inner energy and activating his power. In an instant, he shattered the corpse-mutant's form into particles, annihilating it into the air without leaving a trace.

This scene left Elisa and Vincent speechless and somewhat at a loss.

How could the immortal corpse variant be dealt with so easily?

Or reduced to ashes?

"Gentlemen, please lead the way. We need to further determine the function of the divine seal."

Jiang Liu's shout brought the two of them back to their senses.

Having witnessed Jiang Liu's abilities, the two of them dared not be negligent and immediately led the way, guiding them to the mine where the divine seal was located.

But when she reached the hatch, Elisa hesitated...

Chapter 1271 Corrupted Body