Chapter 49: Awakened Intelligence (1/2)
Chapter 49: Awakened Intelligence
“But if you are talking about superior breed, isn’t the one that wounded you and Doctor Mavis stronger?” Heloise asked.
“It’s not like that. Just now both birds dodged my first strike, but I suddenly felt at that moment that this one was a greater threat, so I moved to stop it. The second one only took advantage of the situation. I have a feeling that the one that rammed into my sword was a little stronger, though… it’s just a feeling, so I have no basis behind it.” Bai Yi explained.
“S-sorry! It’s all my fault, if only I didn’t open the door!” Woolf was at quite at a loss.
“It’s not your fault, I let you open the door. It’s my miscalculation instead; I never expected that these hummingbirds would be so intelligent. They actually knew how to wait in ambush of us.” Bai Yi looked at Woolf blaming himself and patted his arm to console him.
“Bai Yi, what did you say just now?” Heloise suddenly asked when she heard Bai Yi.
“It’s not your fault, I let you open the door. It’s my miscalculation instead; I never expected that these hummingbirds would be so intelligent. They actually knew how to wait in ambush of us.” From just a look at Heloise’s expression, Bai Yi could guess that she’d thought of something and immediately repeated himself again. Woolf wanted to say something, but Bai Yi waved his hand at him, warning him not to disturb Heloise at this time. This rare moment of inspiration could result in some very important information.
“Intelligent. Yes, these evolved lifeforms are too intelligent!” Heloise finally said to everybody excitedly after thinking for a moment.
“Bai Yi, I noticed recently that Sharpei seems to be able to understand human speech. Was he always so intelligent?” Heloise asked.
“Actually, Sharpei has always been very smart, and it seems to be able to understand what Momo says. But now that you mention it, Sharpei really seems to have become more intelligent.” Bai Yi suddenly recalled how Sharpei got the other dog that they met on the way to Otorohanga Middle School to back off.
“Actually, it isn’t just Sharpei. Even Little Warner’s pet pig, don’t you think that it’s a little too intelligent?”
Everyone immediately thought of the two pets in their team. Normally they just thought that both Sharpei and Pupu were quite smart and they didn’t mess around like normal animals. However, now that Heloise mentioned it, it really seemed like they were extremely intelligent. However, wasn’t it a good thing? If the pets were smarter then it would be easier to control them, otherwise it would be troublesome if they ran amok.
“Activated cells!” Bai Yi said gravely.
“En, activated cells!” Heloise.
“Just what are you guys talking about?” Woolf asked.
“It’s the influence of the activated cells. We have concluded so far that activated cells have 3 abilities - 1. Activated Capabilities, 2. Gene Fusion, 3. Chain Infection. If my deduction is correct, then we have to add another ability to that…” Heloise looked at Woolf’s blank face and explained.
“Becoming smarter!”
“Intelligence enhancement!”
“Awakened Intelligence!”
The three of them spoke at the same time. although they didn’t say the same thing, the meanings of it were the same.
“Really, activated cells still have this capability? Why don’t I feel anything?” Woolf couldn’t help but scratch his head and said dumbly after hearing the three of them.
“You can’t be saved, really, even the power of activated cells can’t make you smarter!” Bai Yi joked.
“Hahahaha!” Everyone immediately burst out laughing after hearing Bai Yi.
“Anyway, let’s just record this down as a guess of ours. As for whether it’s true or not, we’ll find out after we encounter other evolved lifeforms in the future.” Bai Yi said.
At this time, Mavis had already finished wrapping up the wound on her thigh. From the start till end Mavis didn’t speak much, but she didn’t whine and cry like what a normal girl would do. Mavis, who had already lived to middle age, had plenty of life experience which caused her to become more mature and calm.
“Give me your left hand!” Mavis said to Bai Yi.
“En!”
“Your left hand has really been through many calamities, really, do you not want your left hand anymore?” Mavis looked at Bai Yi’s left hand and said. A single sentence left Bai Yi speechless, ever since Te Awamutu his left hand had been continuously getting injured. His left arm even fractured in the battle against Yu Han a few days ago; now that it got injured it really seemed like he didn’t want his left hand anymore.
“It couldn’t be helped, hehehe…” Bai Yi said meekly.
Very quickly, Bai Yi’s palm was bandaged. He took out the communicator and tested it; the distance wasn’t too far so they could still communicate.
After the communicator got through, Bai Yi told Hong Qi Hua about their mishap in the ecological park and reminded them to be careful. They had to be wary of not just large animals now, but the smaller animals and insects were just as dangerous.