11 The Female Physician—Li Wei (1/2)
Lu Zhiyu entered the painting space and immediately discovered that the very first queen insect had died. It was jointly attacked by a few other queen insects that appeared later on, dragged out from its nest, and died a horrible death.
It was precisely at the moment the queen insect died that the measure of the Source Form in Lu Zhiyu's brain increased. Lu Zhiyu then brought his consciousness into the painting space and gradually discovered that the Source Form's increase did not only occur when the queen insect died. In fact, every time a living thing died, the measure of the Source Form would increase subtly.
He did notice that there was a great difference between an ordinary insect and a queen insect. As the changes were minimal for ordinary insects, Lu Zhiyu had not noticed the difference before. It was only when the queen insect died, and the measure shot up, that this great difference caught his attention.
The entire space in the painting became the playground of the insects. These insects were extremely different from the ants that Lu Zhiyu had placed in it earlier. In fact, various very strange-looking insects, which had never existed before in the real world, popped up continuously. Moreover, they were seen everywhere, in the sky, on land, and in the sea. Among them, there were dozens of queen insects which possessed intelligence and mind powers.
The development of the insects was way beyond Lu Zhiyu's imagination. The internal structure of the different insect colonies kept developing. At the beginning, the different insect worker types were around a dozen, but then it evolved into hundreds or even thousands of worker types. In addition, these insects were getting increasingly intelligent as well. They started to communicate, cooperate, conquer, develop, research, and create different weapons. Lu Zhiyu felt that they could even be called ”the civilization of the insects!”
Lu Zhiyu saw the insects that were flying in the sky like airships throw acid into a few nests, immediately setting them ablaze. There were beetles that looked like armored vehicles firing missiles into the sky. The battle and collaboration among the insects were actually very modernized.
Lu Zhiyu found this all very scary. If not for the confined space and restrictions of the painting space, the insects would have come into the world of mankind. If this happened, it would absolutely destruct humanity!
The lifespan of a queen ant was around 20 years in the painting space, but in real life, it was less than a day. However, from the birth of the first queen insect to the current moment, 27 days had past, which meant that this queen insect had lived around 700 years. What's more, it did not die a natural death; it was killed by its enemy!
Lu Zhiyu found this amazing, wondering how the queen insect could live for so long. Lu Zhiyu took out his notebook once again and recorded down the information of these queen insects. As he did so, he realized that when the mind powers of the queen insects had reached a certain level, their mind powers started to get more refined and made it possible for the queen insects to observe and control their own genes.
These queen insects had actually been modifying and developing their own genes. These insects were way ahead of mankind, at least in terms of genetic development.
If the strength is equivalent to one Source Form unit (SFU), when my mind power was initially awakened, after practicing medication for such a long while, my mind power should have reached six SFU. It probably needs seven SFU in order to break through the bottleneck, and reach the point where I am able to freely control the power and therefore influence the external world just like the queen insects.
Lu Zhiyu estimated that, if he gave it his all, he would be able to break through in five days. He was excited to think about experiencing what it felt like to have a mind power that would allow him to observe his genes!
Other than taking medical classes, Lu Zhiyu also got the curriculums of the Department of Biology of Jiangcheng University, and went to the classes daily. In addition, he bought some books on biology to increase his competency in this area.
As he was auditing the classes only, Lu Zhiyu did not disturb the lecturer or the other students. He sat quietly at the back of the classroom, trying to remain incognito. However, he still could not stop the girls from swarming around him. Lu Zhiyu did enjoy the special treatment, though, as he had never had anything like it during his previous college years.
In fact, from the moment he had stepped into the classroom, all eyes were fixed on him. Many girls screamed with excitement, but the guys only looked at him with animosity. This made Lu Zhiyu feel embarrassed.
”Hi, are you a biology student? Why is it that I have never seen you before?” The moment Lu Zhiyu sat down and turned to the page that he had bookmarked previously, a few girls gathered, surrounding him and bombarding him with questions. They were pretty and all seemed quite confident—otherwise, they would not have come over to chat him up.
”No. I'm only auditing the class. I'm here because I have an interest in this subject!” he said.