"In front of you is the Psychedelic Bacteria Forest. Our local hunters basically don't dare to approach it. At most, they only dare to wander around the periphery, picking up some low-level mutated bacteria and selling them back. As for the depths of the Psychedelic Bacteria Forest, they are in the rain forest. No strange beasts dare to enter," Draco introduced.
Su Ze looked forward and saw patches of colorful mushrooms of different sizes.
Most of them are colorful and have various shapes, including umbrella-shaped, spherical, ear-shaped, arrow-shaped, coral-shaped, flame-shaped...
The big one is tens of meters high, like a big house propped up in the air.
The small one is only as big as a fingernail, compact but delicate.
Such a beautiful scene seems like a fairy tale world.
But beneath this beauty lies murderous intent. The brighter the mushroom, the more dangerous it is, just like a woman.
Mutated bacteria are a very special type of existence. They are neither alien beasts nor spiritual plants.
In people's general impression, they are more like plants, with roots that can absorb nutrients, and many fungi growing in the soil.
In fact, in their evolutionary relationship, they are more animal-like.
However, in terms of evolution, the role of mutant bacteria is still more like spiritual plants. Their extracts cannot be absorbed by humans, but many mutant bacteria can be used as medicine, and some are even precious natural medicines.
Brother Ya grew up in Vita City and knew the Psychedelic Bacteria Forest very well. He said to Su Ze: "Boss, there is at least one fourth-order mutant bacteria in this psychedelic bacteria forest. Maybe there are also fifth-order mutant bacteria." , we’d better be careful.”
Su Ze nodded and did not take it lightly.
The mutant bacteria's attack methods are weird and difficult to guard against. They include toxin attacks, hallucinogenic mental attacks, and can also spray spores to attack.
"First take us to the place where you found the body." Su Ze ordered Draco.
He planned to let Draco show the way and then ask Brother Ya to send Draco back first.
It's really troublesome to carry such a drag bottle.
Draco took the lead and walked in front, and Su Ze followed them into the bacterial forest.
Brother Ya said: "Boss, hold your breath to avoid inhaling the spores."
Draco glanced at Brother Ya in surprise. He didn't expect this man to know so much about the psychedelic bacteria forest and seemed to have rich experience.
Although the psychedelic bacteria forest is dangerous, it is only on the periphery and certainly does not pose any threat to the two overlords, Su Ze and Brother Ya.
During this period, some mutated bacteria used methods such as poisoning and hallucinations, but Su Ze and Brother Ya completely ignored them. Mutated bacteria rarely used physical attacks.
As for Draco, he was not affected in any way under the protection of the two of them, and he easily found the place where he found the body.
"This is it!" Draco said, pointing to an open space.
This place is barely on the outskirts of the Psychedelic Bacteria Forest, surrounded by mostly first- and second-order mutated bacteria.
Su Ze looked around and saw that this place looked no different from anywhere else. More than ten years had passed and there were no traces on the ground.
As for the body, it has long since disappeared.
"Do you have any other information about the corpse at that time? For example, its approximate age, strength, gender..." Su Ze asked.
Draco thought for a moment and replied: "Looking at the size of the skeleton, it's most likely a male. The body is highly decomposed. I'm not sure of its age, and there's no way of knowing its strength. But judging from the levels of the evolutionary items in his storage items Look, he is at least a strong person in the butterfly stage.
"By the way, he's a black man."
"Are the black men from Yandi Continent again?" Su Ze thought thoughtfully.
Next, he asked Draco about the details of the transaction between Draco and the Dirty Earth Organization, including time, place, contact information, etc. Draco answered them all.
Seeing that he couldn't find anything more, Su Ze took out the "Charming Fox Tail" and gently fanned Draco to hypnotize him.
The main effect of "Charming Fox Tail" is to exert a mental influence on the target, which can completely achieve a hypnotic effect. However, this hypnotic effect may not be permanently effective, but for a non-spiritual cocoon-breaking evolver like Draco, The effects last for at least a few months.
A few months was enough. Su Ze didn't intend to hold Draco as a chess piece for a long time. He just wanted to try to use him to fish out some bugs from the dirty organization.
Under the hypnotic effect, Draco temporarily forgot everything that had just happened, and his memory still stayed at the moment when he turned on the TV and watched cartoons.
Draco fell into a deep sleep, and when he woke up, he would find himself still lying on the comfortable big bed in his villa.
Brother Ya was responsible for sending Draco back, while Su Ze was waiting for Brother Ya to come back.
He was not idle either, using his sensory tentacles to explore the surroundings, gradually covering the entire psychedelic forest.
The area of the psychedelic forest is not small, but Su Ze's sensory tentacles can still cover it easily. According to Brother Ya, there are at most fifth-level mutated bacteria in this forest. He is not worried about his sensory tentacles being discovered. .
The psychedelic bacterial forest sensed by the sensory tentacles is very different from what is observed with the naked eye. The air deep in the bacterial forest is filled with various spores.
Even where he was, there were clusters of spores approaching him from time to time, but he made a little use of gravity to keep these spores away.
There are almost no strange beasts in the bacterial forest, not even ordinary animals, but there are many big trees, and these big trees are spiritual plants.
But in the bacterial forest, they are just a medium parasitized by various mutated bacteria.
Deep in the bacterial forest, there are several huge mutated bacteria, which are very difficult to deal with at first sight.
There are pure white spherical puffballs with a diameter of tens of meters, huge mushrooms as big as a courtyard house, jianshouqing as big as a building, and large chicken fir trees nearly 100 meters high...
To be on the safe side, Su Ze did not provoke them, and his sensory tentacles avoided them.
Su Ze carefully checked every place in the bacterial forest, trying to find some clues, but after a rough search, he found nothing.
He did not rush deep into the bacterial forest, and was ready to wait until Brother Ya came back to explore again.
In less than ten minutes, Brother Ya left and returned.
Su Ze told Brother Ya about his guess about the origin of "Nothingness".
Brother Ya nodded repeatedly, agreeing with Su Ze's speculation, and asked: "Brother, what are your plans? It was more than ten years ago that Draco found the body. There are no clues in this forest now, right?" "
Fungi are decomposers in nature. In this forest of mutated bacteria, no matter what clues there are, there will definitely be no trace after so many years.
Su Ze did not answer, but asked instead: "Brother Ya, do you feel that your 'Void' skill has some abilities that you cannot sense, or is it a hidden effect?"
"Of course there is. For example, it's strange that I can't absorb attack skills." Brother Ya scratched his head and said, "Obviously, the effect of the 'Void' skill does not insulate me from attack skills, or prevent me from saving my life." Skill affinity, but I feel that this is not my innate physique, but a side effect of me absorbing the 'Void' skill."
"Is there anything else?" Su Ze asked.
Brother Ya thought about it seriously and said: "Also, it seems that I can use the same life-saving and escape skills better than others. Take the earth escape skill as an example, I can escape faster than others, and I can escape faster than others." Deep, even with flying skills, I can fly faster than others."
Su Ze said: "My 'Evolution Divine Grace' skill was like this before it was completed. It has many abilities beyond the skill effects. I don't know where they came from. But after I absorbed the complete golden blood crystal, Understand that these abilities do not come from the 'Evolution Divine Grace' skill, but from the blood crystal."
Brother Ya's expression changed slightly and he said: "Boss, you mean, my 'Void' skill is also incomplete?"
Su Ze nodded: "To be precise, you may not have absorbed the complete blood crystal.
"The bloodline crystal you absorbed should be of the same type as my golden bloodline crystal, but you may have absorbed more than mine, so even if you become a saint-level overlord, your skills will not be hindered.
"There's another reason why I guessed this. I don't know if you noticed it. Draco said that when he found the rotting corpse, it was mutilated, only half of it!"
Brother Ya immediately understood what Su Ze meant.
If the corpse was divided into two parts before the blood crystals were separated, then the blood crystals separated from the corpse should also be divided into two parts and scattered in two places.
And the blood crystals he absorbed through the coprophagic extract may only be part of it.
Brother Ya thought carefully, then nodded and said: "Boss, if you say so, I do have a feeling sometimes that my 'Void' skill seems to have some effects that have not yet been discovered.
"After I completed the fourth evolution, I have been looking for materials to upgrade other skills. Only the 'Void' skill does not need to be upgraded. It originally transcends the scope of fourth-level or even fifth-level skills, but I can feel that when I become After reaching the Saint level, this skill should have the effect of 'bringing people into virtual reality', but I failed several attempts."
Su Ze nodded slightly and continued: "If my guess is true, then we can speculate on the location of the other blood crystals. First, they were found and taken away by the short black man. Second, they were left in the mystery. In the psychedelic forest, it was swallowed and absorbed by some strange beast, and thirdly, it is still buried somewhere in the psychedelic forest."
Regarding his most important skill, Brother Ya also paid attention to it and followed Su Ze to look for clues in the surrounding area.
He and Su Ze divided their work. Su Ze was responsible for searching the surface above the ground and the shallow underground with his sensory tentacles, while Ya Ge was responsible for searching deep underground.
But the two searched the entire psychedelic forest and found nothing.
Except for the few big guys in the core area, they did not get close to search.
Brother Ya smiled bitterly and said: "It seems that he is no longer here. He was probably eaten by a strange beast, or was found and taken away by the dirty black man."
Su Ze pointed in the direction of the core area and said, "We haven't searched around those big guys yet."
Brother Ya shook his head and said: "The core area is too dangerous, let's forget it. When I was underground just now, I thought about going to the core area to explore, but the underground soil is covered with dense mycelium, which is even thicker than on the ground. Danger.
"Those big guys are all at least level 4 mutated bacteria, and there may even be level 5 mutants. Let's explore them later when we are stronger."
Su Ze said: "Since the underground is more dangerous, we will enter from the front. You can tell me the fortune first to see if there is any danger."
After hearing this, Brother Ya no longer persisted and decided to progress into the core area based on the results of fortune telling.
As the master of the "danger warning" skill, he does not need to tell his fortune. He will sense every time danger comes.
Now he doesn't feel any danger, which at least proves that the huge mutated bacteria in the core area cannot threaten his life.
The main thing is to test and see if Su Ze is in danger.
A faint red light lit up from the center of Su Ze's eyebrows...
This red light is very weak, which means there is danger, but the danger is not great and can be resolved and overcome.
"How about forget it." Brother Ya shook his head.
He didn't want Su Ze to put himself in danger for his sake.
"What are you afraid of with this little danger? If you don't take risks, there will be no gains. Let's give it a try first." Su Ze said, "And with you protecting me, unless I am a legendary strong man, who can kill me? Even if I am really unlucky and die, There are also flesh and blood statues that can be resurrected.”
Seeing what Su Ze said, Brother Ya stopped trying to persuade him. The two of them made some preparations and headed towards the core of the psychedelic forest.
Along the way, mutated bacteria continued to attack the two of them. Su Ze's momentum immediately exploded. The life pressure of the saint-level overlord made these mutated bacteria that had not reached the saint level tremble and huddle up in a ball.
There were those who were not afraid of death and dared to attack them, so he went directly to "pick mushrooms", transformed into a young man picking mushrooms, and pulled out five or six mutated bacteria in a row, which immediately silenced the entire bacterial forest.
These mutated bacteria also have certain intelligence. When they realize that the enemy is powerful, they will not actively seek death.
Finally, the two of them walked all the way outside the core area.
Looking at the giant mutated bacteria in front of him, Su Ze did not attack rashly.
He wasn't here to pick mushrooms, he was just here to help Brother Ya find the remaining blood crystals. But if these mushrooms stopped him, he would have no choice but to destroy them.
Su Ze was actually not afraid of the fourth-level mutant bacteria. He was just not sure whether there were any fifth-level mutant bacteria among these giant mutant bacteria.
Su Ze and the others made a lot of noise along the way. These giant mutant bacteria must have known about their existence for a long time, but at this time they were all quiet and did not take the initiative to attack Su Ze and Brother Ya.
Su Ze did not step into the core area, but covered the core area with sensory tentacles and searched little by little. This was actually a kind of trial.
He not only wants to explore the surface, but also explores the underground with his sensory tentacles, and even penetrates into these mutated bacteria to explore.
Each of the mutant bacteria of such a large size is equivalent to a small house, which can store a lot of things. Maybe the half of the blood crystals that Brother Ya needs are hidden in the folds of the umbrella of a certain mutant bacteria.
Generally speaking, these mutant bacteria cannot sense Su Ze's sensory tentacles, but if they invade the opponent's body, they will inevitably be noticed.
But what surprised Su Ze was that his sensory tentacles were blocked back!
Exploring underground was blocked by invisible energy, and penetrating into the mutated bacteria was also blocked.
This situation is not common.
There are not many things that can block his sensory tentacles. After the "Eye of Reality" skill was upgraded, only the barrier propped up by the New King Sponge could withstand his sensory tentacles.
Is it possible that there are sixth-level or even god-level mutated bacteria here?
Su Ze thought it was unlikely.
He expanded his body, separated out a liquid clone, and flowed towards the core area.
This clone maintained its liquid form, turned into a puddle of water and spread on the ground, and continued to spread, covering an increasingly wider area.
Since the sensory tentacles cannot be explored, he uses the simplest method to sense and explore with his own body.
At this moment, those giant mutant bacteria finally couldn't bear it any longer and began to attack.
Under the ground, hyphae drilled out and penetrated into the liquid clone body, extracting all the energy in the clone body.
Su Ze also controlled the liquid clone to explode directly, split into three, and quickly dispersed.
The three liquid clones expanded their size again, and at the same time used "Ten Thousands of Furious Waves", the billowing air waves raged, covering several mutated bacteria in the core area.
The green light of evolution lit up in these mutant bacteria one after another, and they used various means to defend themselves and withstand the "raging waves" of air attacks.
And at the same time, he also launched a counterattack against Su Ze's liquid clone.
Countless hyphae wrapped around the three liquid clones, and the mutant bacteria spit out a series of spores, which took root in the liquid clones and sucked them all dry in the blink of an eye.
The loss of the liquid clone also affected Su Ze, but he was relieved at this time. The giant mutated bacteria he tested turned out to be only the fourth level.
At level four, he can hang a hammer.
However, there are still two or three giant mutated bacteria that were not attacked by his liquid clone just now, so their strength is not yet certain.
Will there be a fifth-level existence among those two or three giant mutant bacteria?
Su Ze suddenly looked at a corner, where there was an ordinary-looking little mushroom.
It was only as big as a fist and not brightly colored. It looked almost the same as the mushrooms people usually eat.
But Su Ze clearly remembered that there were no mushrooms in that location!
He thought for a moment and realized that it was an invisible mushroom.
Because the mutated bacteria in the core area could block Su Ze's sensory tentacles from exploring, Su Ze had not noticed this little mushroom before.
After the upgrade of "Ten Thousand Wraths", it has the effect of making invisible units visible, which directly makes this invisible mushroom reveal its original shape.
At this moment, the little mushroom disappeared again and returned to its invisible state.
However, Su Ze's sensory tentacles clearly sensed that the invisible mushroom was rising from the ground, stabbing towards Su Ze like a sharp sword.
It’s also a mobile assassin mushroom!
A crystal sword appeared in Su Ze's hand, and he slashed towards the invisible mushroom.
There was a bang, and Su Ze's mouth went numb. Unexpectedly, this little mushroom was very strong and hard enough, and the crystal sword could not hurt it.
The invisible mushroom was extremely fast, like a well-trained assassin, and stabbed Su Ze again at a tricky angle.
Su Ze activated "Ant Power" and used "Needle Strike" with the crystal sword to stab the invisible mushroom.
But at this moment, the invisible mushroom suddenly disappeared from Su Ze's perception!
It seemed to disappear out of thin air, and even the sensory tentacles could not capture its existence.
Su Ze's heart trembled, and his whole body immediately liquefied. At the same time, he felt a small mushroom quickly condense on top of his head and stabbed towards the back of his head.
The invisible mushroom pierced Su Ze's head, but Su Ze was now in liquid form. In this state, he had strong resistance to physical attacks.
The invisible mushroom passed through Su Ze's body. The strong impact and friction caused part of Su Ze's body to be vaporized, but it was a minor injury at best and had no impact on him.
Missing a single hit and traveling thousands of miles away, the invisible mushroom flew towards the core like a bolt of lightning.
"Brother Ya, hold it!" Su Ze shouted quickly, and at the same time released an electric current to track the invisible mushroom and guide Brother Ya.
The hand that made the invisible mushroom just now reminded Su Ze of Brother Ya's "voiding" skill.
Only the "Void" skill can disappear in front of him, making it impossible for his sensory tentacles to catch it.
This convinced Su Ze that the remaining blood crystals were probably inside this invisible mushroom!
However, the "Void" skill also has a flaw, that is, it has a long CD and cannot be used again for a short period of time after it has been used.
Therefore, they must take advantage of the cooldown period of this skill to get the invisible mushroom.
(End of chapter)
