Chapter 167 (1/2)

Chapter 167: What Was The Use Of This?

Success!

Two different men said the same thing at the same time in their hearts, but their moods were completely different.

The eyes of the man standing at the top of a mountain looking in the direction of New Christchurch were calm, yet it seemed like a violent undercurrent was raging within him. He didn’t know how to describe how he felt inside now; had he not been resolute when he had made his choice back then?

Within his research lab, Ji Hua Qing looked at a special red plant growing in the center of a cultivation pool. This plant looked like a small, unique tree, and under it was a giant cultivation pool, stuffed to the brim with the flesh and blood of evolved lifeforms and humans, and the stolon of plants. This was a thing that was created through the connection between activated cells, a thing that laid between the boundary of plants and animals. Ji Hua Qing couldn’t have succeeded in this research without the help of one the researchers under him, who had given him crucial hints from time to time.

But, just what is the use of this thing?

Ji Hua Qing looked down at the giant cultivation pool below. Although the flesh and blood of evolved lifeforms and humans were plentiful inside, they were apparently not sufficient for this strange plant to absorb them. If he wanted to speed up the growth of this thing, this amount of flesh and blood was clearly not enough. But, if he wanted to make this thing even bigger, it wasn’t something achievable with his current status, and this thing would be exposed as well.

When it came to research, Ji Hua Qing was just a fanatical researcher, and he didn’t care about whether this kind of research was moral or bloody. However, after finishing the research, Ji Hua Qing regained his calm again. Now that he thought about it, that assistant of his seemed to be very extraordinary, she seemed to always provide some important bit of information whenever he reached an obstacle in his thoughts. It was just as if that assistant of his seemed to know the complete procedure.

How is that possible!?

Ji Hua Qing laughed in ridicule at himself, and suddenly thought of the small research facility that he had acquired the information about the connection between activated cells from. When they had reached that place, they found that there had already been people there before them. Moreover, the information about the connection between activated cells they acquired was something recovered by that artificial intelligence. Although that artificial intelligence was very powerful, in the end the data it had recovered still had a very big portion of information missing.

Was this assistant the person who had acquired the research data before him?

Ji Hua Qing decided to get to the bottom of this, but after searching for half a day, he realized that the assistant had taken her leave three days ago when the research was on the brink of success. Ever since then, she hadn’t returned.

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Bai Yi decided to entrust Chinchilla to Betsy and Bellamy, letting them take care of it for the time being. The Binging Stage had been difficult to go through in the past, but food already wasn’t a problem in the Devil Isles any longer. Of course, Bai Yi would provide the two of them with sufficient Devil coins, as at the very least he wasn’t lacking in money. As the number one Hypnotist, Bai Yi enjoyed special status in New Christchurch.

As for the genes that Chinchilla would fuse with, Bai Yi had only picked one type.

Ant!

Animals from the cat family were already upper tier predators in the food chain on Earth, so Chinchilla would already possess sufficient strength just from fusing with ant genes. Moreover, since they’d started out they had also concluded that real top-tier strength basically relied on mutations. Even fusing with a seemingly completely useless gene could result in an abnormally powerful ability. Bai Yi was the best example of this. Who knew that the butterfly genes would result in such a change in Bai Yi’s body?

Since he’d chosen ants, he of course had to pick the best kind. There were very few pure ants that could be found now, so what Bai Yi chose in the end was arguably the most ferocious ant that people had discovered so far… the Golden Marked Flying Ant. This kind of ant totally went against the original hive nature of ants, and had became completely independent. These ants were usually about five to ten centimeters long, and had three pairs of black wings. On these wings were magnificent golden patterns. These ants had incredible strength, abnormally fast speed, powerful poison, and most importantly, their bodies were unbelievably hard. A normal adult human male probably wouldn’t be able to even leave a scratch on a Golden Marked Flying Ant if he hacked at it with a knife using his full force.

Of course, they knew that Chinchilla would only fuse with the lifeform’s original genes, as the genes that the evolved lifeform had fused with in later stages wouldn’t transfer to any other lifeform. However, this ant was relatively stronger, and after all, what if Chinchilla only had one gene fusion chance?

Bai Yi still needed to provide treatment to Betsy and Bellamy, so the mission of capturing this ant fell to Woolf and the others. Vala informed Woolf and the rest, who were outside of New Christchurch, and after that they waited.

Woolf and the others didn’t expect that the little kitten Chinchilla would enter the Binging Stage at this time either, but they still followed Bai Yi’s instructions and started to look for the Golden Marked Flying Ant.

After looking for three days, when Bai Yi’s side was about to leave New Christchurch, Woolf finally sent over a Golden Marked Flying Ant. Fortunately, although this thing was powerful, its size wasn’t particularly big, so it was still able to be imprisoned. Nancy came back with it as well, helping to extract the genes from the Golden Marked Flying Ant and injecting them into Chinchilla.

After giving the injection to Chinchilla, Nancy said to Bai Yi, “Oh right, over this period of time, I’ve discovered that some of the evolved lifeforms around New Christchurch are behaving quite abnormally.”