Su Ze, who aspires to be a "hexagon warrior", has always been weak in mental strength.
His mental strength is at the level of an ordinary cocoon-breaking stage, and is no better than others.
However, at this stage, it is difficult for him to encounter enemies who possess the ability to attack mentally.
For alien beasts below the third level, only a handful of them have spiritual attack skills. For example, the "Wailer's Head" that Su Ze once owned was derived from the extremely rare second-level alien beast, the Wailing Demon.
Evolvers who are good at mental attacks usually take shape at least in the butterfly stage.
And there is a saying that the later the spiritual evolver is formed, the stronger he will be.
Psychic evolvers are often transitioned from evolutionary researchers, such as Liu Wenyin. She has absorbed many auxiliary research skills, such as "super-capacity brain", "fast memory", "eye of evolution", etc. It will also increase the spiritual power of the evolver.
It can be said that she has been accumulating spiritual power.
When she evolves to the holy level, she absorbs a spiritual attack skill and it takes shape directly.
The later it takes shape, the stronger the accumulated spiritual power is, and the stronger it will naturally be.
Therefore, Su Ze knew that he would definitely encounter spiritual enemies in the future, so he always had the idea of absorbing a spiritual defense skill.
But now this Wen Si Guo can directly increase mental power, which is also a good choice. As long as the mental power is strong enough, the resistance to mental attacks will be stronger.
The method of using Wen Si Guo is even more unique than rootless dodder seeds. It does not need to be taken orally, but is directly lit, and then the burned smoke is inhaled into the body.
In order to prevent the "smoke" from running outside and causing the loss of the efficacy of the Wensi Guo, Su Ze closed all the doors and windows of the bedroom tightly before lighting the Wensi Guo.
Then, he took out a lighter and lit Wen Siguo's "spire" on fire.
A wisp of green smoke curled up.
Su Ze quickly leaned over and inhaled hard, and the wisp of smoke was immediately inhaled into his body.
Facts have proved that Su Ze's previous behavior of closing the doors and windows was really overly worrying.
After he inhaled a wisp of smoke, the remaining smoke continued to penetrate his nose along the same route.
This green smoke is like Luo Fanguo's aloe vera juice. Once it enters his mouth, he can't stop biting it. Even if he controls his nose and doesn't breathe, the smoke will not break.
After smoking for a while, Su Ze felt that he suddenly became quiet, as if he had realized some kind of Zen. His body calmed down, his mind also calmed down, and he entered an ethereal state.
I don't know how long it took for him to quietly puff away the clouds. It wasn't until the Wen Siguo burned out and turned into a pile of waste that Su Ze exited that ethereal state.
The ears and eyes are sharp and the mind is refreshed.
This is how Su Ze feels now.
He closed his eyes and sensed it, and he could indeed feel the increase in spiritual power. Although it was still not as good as researchers like Liu Wenyin at the same level, it was definitely better than other cocoon-breaking stage evolvers.
"Yes, if I can have more treasures like this to continue to increase my mental power, I won't need mental defense skills."
Although he said this, Su Ze also knew that this kind of treasure was firstly precious, and secondly, it would become resistant to medicine if used repeatedly, and its effect would become worse and worse until it was completely ineffective.
Before going to bed, Su Ze contacted Senior Ye Jin and told her that he had returned from Lin Hua Country, and asked her how things were going there and when she would come to Dongli University.
Senior Sister Ye Jin still responded to messages instantly.
[Ye Jin: I may have to wait a while to get over it. The murderer of the case I told you before has not been caught yet. Grandma has been having a headache recently because of this matter. 】
[Su Ze: Haven’t caught it yet? Any progress? 】
Su Ze was also surprised when he heard this. The saint-level overlord personally took action. It has been half a month and the murderer has not been caught.
This murderer also has something.
[Ye Jin: The murderer committed many crimes subsequently. If you look at the recent murders and disappearances, he was responsible for many of them. Judging from the crime route, he seems to have no clear destination and no regular route. Randomly committing crimes in various cities across the country. 】
[Su Ze: Then how are you sure it was the same person? 】
[Ye Jin: Because at the scene of every disappearance case, the body of the previous missing victim will be found. 】
[Su Ze:! ! ! 】
[Su Ze: It’s impossible for him to run across the country with the victim’s body, right? 】
[Ye Jin: So, we guess that the murderer has mastered "parasitism" skills, parasitizing the victim's body, controlling the victim's body movements and committing crimes. After finding the next parasitized target, he will abandon the original victim's body and parasitize into New target inside the body. 】
Su Ze shuddered when he heard this.
He has heard of parasitic skills, but has never seen them.
There are so many types of parasites in the world. Although it is very difficult for such animals to evolve, some of them have evolved into alien beasts.
However, not every parasite that evolves into an alien beast can still retain the ability to "parasitize", and it is even rarer to have "parasitism" skills that can appear in extracts for humans to absorb.
In short, this is a very scary, weird, and evil skill.
Basically, if the officials know that someone has mastered the parasitic skill, even if they have no criminal record, they will register the person and confirm his/her whereabouts from time to time.
[Su Ze: Can you now determine whether the murderer is an evolver with parasitic skills or a parasitic beast? 】
[Ye Jin: We are not sure yet, but we have found some patterns based on all the victim information. 】
[Ye Jin: First of all, the victims are all men, and secondly, they are all evolvers. Then, the strength of these victims gradually increases in the order of killing, which means that the murderer is constantly parasitizing more powerful male evolvers. 】
[Su Ze: I will ask my sister tomorrow to see if she can think of any valuable clues based on this information. 】
[Ye Jin: Okay, thank you so much, junior, how was your trip to Lin Hua Country? Is there anything gained? 】
As always, Ye Jin would not end the chat and would start a new topic.
[Su Ze: Forget it. I’m almost exhausted from going back and forth. I’m going to bed again. I haven’t slept well in the past few days. Now I can’t even open my eyes. I want to go to bed. 】
Su Ze successfully ended the chat with Ye Jin using "Sleep Escape" and closed the chat interface after saying good night to each other.
Immediately, he turned on his phone and searched for recent homicides and disappearances, and found that there were indeed quite a few.
In the country of Dongli, where the security is relatively good, this is abnormal enough.
Su Ze looked over one by one and found that just as Ye Jin said, these victims had nothing to do with each other. They even lived in places all over the world.
The strength of the victims is indeed stronger than the last. The latest missing victim has already entered the butterfly stage!
Even in the butterfly stage, he was poisoned, so what kind of strength must the murderer have?
Su Ze felt the seriousness of this matter and decided to have a chat with Liu Wenyin tomorrow.
…
The next day, Su Ze followed Liu Wenyin to the laboratory early in the morning.
On the way, Su Ze and Liu Wenyin talked about the recent missing homicide case and the "parasitism" skill.
Su Ze started from the disappearance of two soldiers in the naval base, and then went to the owner of the evolution store...
One by one, all the way to the Butterfly Stage that disappeared recently.
By the time he finished speaking, the two of them had already walked to the laboratory.
Liu Wenyin listened carefully, nodded and said, "It sounds like the murderer has indeed mastered parasitic skills."
Su Ze said: "Why are the victims all male? Is there any parasitic skill that is only effective for men?"
Liu Wenyin sat on the chair in the laboratory, held her chin up and thought for a moment, and said: "There are currently no known parasitic skills that can be mastered by human evolvers that match this, but... listening to your description, I remembered it. An animal."
"Animal?" Su Ze noticed that Liu Wenyin's wording was not an alien beast, but an animal, indicating that there was no precedent for this kind of animal to evolve into an alien beast.
"To be precise, it's a parasite called 'crab slave'. I wonder if you've heard of it." Liu Wenyin said, taking out a cup of milk tea, inserting the straw in and taking a sip, showing a satisfied look.
Su Ze had just bought this for her in the morning because Su Ze promised to treat her to milk tea for a month.
Su Ze shook his head. He had never heard of Crab Slave.
Liu Wenyin gave him some popular science: "Crab slaves are actually a kind of barnacle in the sea. Female crab slaves have the ability to be parasitic. They will parasitize crabs, and they especially prefer male crabs.
"The parasitized crab will lose its self-awareness and be completely controlled by the crab slave, becoming a puppet. Most of the nutrients in the crab's body are absorbed by the crab slave, leaving only a small amount to maintain the crab's life.
"What's even weirder is that crab slaves will affect the hormone secretion of male crabs, causing the physical signs of male crabs to change towards female crabs. Their claws will become smaller, and their abdomen will gradually stretch and flatten, making them look the same as female crabs."
Su Ze was stunned when he heard this: "Isn't this sex change?"
Liu Wenyin said: "It can be understood this way, but the parasitized crab has lost its ability to reproduce."
"I understand, it's like a man went to Thailand and looked like a woman, but he couldn't have children." Su Ze suddenly understood.
"Thailand? Where is that?" Liu Wenyin didn't understand what Su Ze was talking about.
"Oh, it's nothing." Su Ze responded perfunctorily, "So why did the crab slave make these male crabs change their gender?"
Liu Wenyin said: "These male crabs turn into female crabs and attract other male crabs to mate with them. Some crab slaves also complete parasitism again in the process."
Su Ze shuddered a little, this thing is really abnormal.
"Wait a minute, sister, you don't think that the murderer has mastered the crab slave's parasitic skills, do you?"
Liu Wenyin shook her head: "From your description, it looks very similar to a crab slave, but so far I haven't heard of a crab slave evolving into a strange beast, so it's just my guess, and it's unlikely."
But Su Ze suddenly thought of the coral island that appeared before.
A fourth-order coral polyp appeared on the coral island.
"You said before that the possibility of coral polyps evolving to the fourth level is very small, but it appeared some time ago. You all think that it was the influence of some external factors that caused the coral polyps to evolve, and this parasitic murderer committed a crime for the first time. time, that is, a few days after the siege of Coral Island..."
Liu Wenyin understood the meaning of Su Ze's words and frowned unconsciously, saying, "Do you think it's possible that the crab slave was also affected by the same external factors and evolved into a strange beast?"
"Is this possible?" Su Ze asked, "After all, the two events happened at the same time, and the place where the parasitic murderer first committed his crime was at the Lihai City Naval Base. It would be too coincidental."
Liu Wenyin thought for a while and admitted that this possibility existed. She said: "If this is true, it means that some kind of 'adventure' occurred in the ocean, which promoted the evolution of marine beasts and allowed some animals that were unlikely to evolve in the first place. , strange beasts have evolved one after another, which is terrible.
"Some biological abilities are actually very powerful, but due to the constraints of nature, they have various flaws, such as small size, short lifespan, etc. The probability of such creatures evolving into alien beasts is extremely low, but if they really If it evolves successfully and makes up for its own shortcomings, it will be unimaginably powerful."
Su Ze thought about it and it was indeed the case. If nothing else, it would be quite terrifying if this crab slave really evolved into a strange beast and could parasitize humans.
If this parasitic skill is acquired by human evolvers with evil intentions, it will be even more nerve-wracking.
Su Ze analyzed: "If the murderer really mastered the parasitic ability of the crab slave, then there are two possibilities. One is that the crab slave alien beast parasitized the navy soldiers to commit the crime, and the other possibility is that the human evolver absorbed the crab slave. Parasitic skills."
Liu Wenyin said: "If it's the former, it'll be better, but if it's the latter, it will only be more difficult."
Human beings are always more difficult to deal with than alien beasts.
Next, based on the characteristics of the ordinary crab slave's parasitic ability, the two speculated on the possible characteristics of the parasitic skill if the crab slave evolved into an alien beast.
1. Only female crab slaves can master the parasitism skill. If it is transferred to humans, it is boldly speculated that either only female evolvers can master this skill, or male evolvers will become women after mastering this skill;
2. If it parasitizes a male organism, its gender will be changed;
3. It will absorb energy from the host body to strengthen itself;
4. If it is a mutant crab slave, after changing the gender of the host, it will attract other males to mate, and use this to achieve the purpose of parasitism again. If it is a human evolver... it depends on personal preference whether they will do this.
Su Ze wrote down these points and planned to send them to Senior Ye Jin when he went back in the evening.
He only dared to chat with Ye Jin at night.
After talking about this topic, Liu Wenyin just finished drinking a cup of milk tea. She stood up, looked at Su Ze's chest, and said, "Take off your clothes. It's time to get to the main topic today."
Su Ze instantly felt like he was a guinea pig to be dissected.
However, he obediently followed Liu Wenyin into the sterile room, took off his shirt, and lay down on the operating table.
(End of chapter)
