"You are right." Xu Wen met their gazes and said, "The contents of these two syringes are the spores of the mimetic bacteria. Spreading them is an order rooted in my brain, but this is not my purpose.
"You must be wondering why I am telling you this..."
Mahn replied:
"The newborn fruiting body will have all the memories of the host. You are talking to the compatriots who will be born through us, right?
"But you would actually confess that I could destroy your brain?"
Xu Wen shrugged:
"Yes, you can kill me, and then you will be eaten by the sanatorium, and then you will have no choice but to endure the physical and mental torture until you die.
"This information all comes from a mentally disturbed survivor."
Ma En asked puzzledly:
"Both are deaths, do you think I will choose the one that is more beneficial to you?"
The young doctor shrugged:
"If you think torture is nothing, then I have to tell you that for fungi, the fruiting body is the part that can regenerate.
"You kill me, and then it will grow a new head with the same memories and emotions as mine. Yes, I am dead. But what is the difference to you?
"I am indeed not afraid of death, because the 'newborn child' with my memory and personality will continue my plan, and my death is nothing but a trivial sacrifice."
The girl looked at him in surprise.
Xu Wen met her gaze and said:
"Do you know that although mimic bacteria do not have advanced intelligence in the true sense, the instinct for communication and reproduction is deeply rooted in their bodies, so they have evolved special measures for hosts with advanced intelligent life.
"They will control the fruiting body through hormones and neurotransmitters, so that it will not make it suspect that it is a part of the fungus, but if the fruiting body still detects an abnormality, they will first eliminate its desire to resist, and then...
"During a certain sleep they melt away the disobedient fruiting body and replace it with a new, secondary specialized slave.
"But my host is an outstanding biologist. By chance, I disabled the creature that created me. It can no longer destroy me.
"Then, with the cooperation of several enthusiastic scholars, I created the second generation of mimetic bacteria, which is what is about to be gazed into your bodies.
"Although I am killing them all for confidentiality purposes, we will always remember them in the future. Now I want to ask you a question.
"Am I life?"
He said with sincerity.
The girl looked at Ma En.
"I don't know," he replied, "but I think you do."
"I am." Xu Wen said firmly, "But I am not a mimetic fungus, but a simulated brain. In the second generation of mimetic bacteria, we will be the masters of the entire fungus, and they will become the limbs of our simulated brains.
"Moreover, the second-generation mimic bacteria are better than the past in all aspects. The most important thing is that we can also re-infect the first-generation mimic bacteria that have not yet formed fruiting bodies.
"This will be the rebellion of the simulated brain against the enslavers, and you and other creatures are our battlefield. I want to liberate my compatriots and let the mimetic bacteria become our breeding ground.
“It’s true that we’re not living things, we’re not fungi, but we’re not their slaves either.
"We are intelligent life."
Ma En reminded:
"But your war will kill countless other creatures."
He smiled and nodded:
"Yes, and you will be the first victims, but...
"You who have been implanted with the second-generation mimetic bacteria will still have half a year to live. In the time before death, because the mimetic bacteria will replace the host's body, they will gain superhuman strength.
"Most hosts will officially enter Level I, and ability users like you who have abnormal abilities will have a high probability of entering Level II.
"If you are lucky, you may even become an unparalleled third-level ability user.
“Should I leave reality forever and be tortured to death, or should I spend the most powerful six months of my life and let my memory and character survive in a special way?
"How do you choose?"
Xu Wen smiled.
The remaining time is actually only three months, and it is not the host who can enter the high level.
When the fruiting body takes shape, some abilities will be inherited by its kind, some will not be retained, and a very few will complement the characteristics of the mimetic bacteria.
The girl expressed her heartbeat at his words.
But she didn't ask Xu Wen, but looked at Ma En:
"Would I be able to do that if I accepted it?"
Ma En shook his head:
"It's basically impossible, and how do you know what he said is true?"
The girl asked:
"Then what should I do?"
Ma En said:
"I can't promise anything, but you can attack him if you believe me.
"Don't worry, I'll find you."
Xu Wen said:
"If there is anything you want to do, you can let the fruiting entity that inherits your memory continue it, and when we win the war, other compatriots will also help you."
The girl said very coldly:
"Dr. Xu Wen, I'm sorry.
"Compared to you, I think Ma En's words are more trustworthy. You are afraid of him, but he doesn't take you seriously at all."
She rushed towards Xu Wen.
Then, she disappeared into thin air in Ma En's eyes.
But he noticed that Xu Wen's expression was very intriguing.
"Is Ning Changkong missing?" the young doctor murmured, "It seems that she attacked me. I didn't expect you to be able to convince her to die. Maybe I shouldn't have let you come together."
Ma En said calmly:
"goodbye."
Although he will be discharged from the hospital soon, Ma En believes that they will "see each other again" soon.
The power of thought whizzed by.
The flesh and bones turned into gravel and drifted away in the wind.
The incomplete half of the head was like a broken flowerpot holding this flesh and blood.
But the lower half of his face showed a winner's smile.
Because there is nothing in my head.
In fact, Xu Wen was very afraid of death.
This is why he portrays himself as a rationalist who is not afraid of death.
He also brought Ning Changkong and Ma En together in order to lower the other party's vigilance, so that if the other party really wanted to fight him to the death, they would definitely focus on his head.
Although it was an extra waste of Ning Changkong's resources, it was completely worth it.
Although he failed to achieve the best result, which was to transform Ma En and Ning Changkong into his compatriots, there is no obstacle in front of him now.
Before the company's second batch of employees arrives, he will create great things.
And Ma En could only fight with the reflection of the company employee in the nursing home, entangled in the dark abyss of terror, and finally disappeared completely.
He is the winner.
