Chapter 444 Infinite Proliferation

At 2:35 p.m., the sky above Haiyan Island was completely covered by dark clouds. A violent storm was raging, and the seas surrounding the island were surging. The air was filled with a strange, murderous smell, as if it was not in the world of the living.

In the low sky, a suspended black train broke through the strong wind and landed on the outer track of the old military base on the outlying island with a dull sound of breaking wind, sparks flying and dust rising.

“That was a close call.”

Chen Sixuan looked at the fluctuations on the driving radar and said with lingering fear, "Something must have been targeting us in the sea just now. Fortunately... we cleared the mark in time."

"This place no longer has the restrictions of day and night; those creatures can roam freely," Lin Xian said. "And they're too densely packed. If we're not careful, it won't just be a monster swarm hunting us."

The door of the abandoned military air-raid shelter opened, and the Infinity slowly drove into the submarine base along the original material transportation channel. The roar of the engine woke up the dust that had accumulated for many years and echoed in the huge cave.

"Are we going to stay on this island tonight?"

In the back, Monica walked into the cockpit, looked at Lin Xian and said, "I've known you for so long, and this is the first time I've seen you so unsure."

Lin Xian shook his head: "We've fallen into the hunting circle of a strange entity, and there's also a world-class one lurking. I really don't have a better plan to lead everyone out of here."

"Perhaps you're just too nervous." Monica's gaze slowly shifted from Chen Sixuan to the front, watching the empty supply track gradually move toward the interior of the mountain. She said, "Even if the volcano erupts or a tsunami floods us, it's just another unavoidable crisis for us. Since Apocalypse Day, we've been living on the line between life and death. Is there any difference now?"

Chen Sixuan raised her eyebrows slightly when she heard this, and then said, "I agree. When you reach a certain point, there is always a way out. We have encountered so many desperate situations. I believe I can survive tonight."

Lin Xian nodded, was silent for a moment, and then smiled faintly.

"That's a really good attitude, okay~"

After that, he called Viola, and Viola quickly walked through the carriage to the cockpit. At this time, Lin Xian began to arrange the road

"Viola, you will take charge of all drones and Falcon Sea Regiment's equipment to set up a defensive line at Sea Rock Prison. By the way, have all of Ryan's men retreat below."

Chen Sixuan looked at him: "All the resistance is done by robots?"

"Yes." Lin Xian said decisively: "The key is not to resist, but to clean up with a purpose."

Lin Xian examined Viola and analyzed, "With so many strange creatures surrounding the island, leaving people to resist is meaningless. Being marked will only become a fuse. So Viola's task is to ensure that the wandering monsters cannot enter the underground base below. If necessary..."

Lin Xian's eyes turned cold: "Blow up the passage between Haiyan Prison and this base and bury us alive!"

Viola tilted her head slightly and immediately responded, "I've understood your deployment requirements and will arrange them immediately."

After saying that, he immediately turned around and took action.

"Yeah." Monica said at this time: "That's not bad, maybe I can have a peaceful night."

Rumble!

Just as he finished speaking, there was a sudden violent vibration. Smoke and dust fell madly in the old material track, the lights flickered, and a roaring sound of air waves that made the eardrums exploded in the Infinity!

"Earthquake?!"

"It should be the Garan Volcano." Lin Xian frowned. The earthquake lasted for about half a minute and did not cause much damage, but the duration and intensity were obviously much higher than before. This was not a good sign.

"It looks like that submarine volcano is on the verge of eruption." Chen Sixuan looked at Lin Xian: "Didn't you say that this is also on a crater?"

"right."

Lin Xian nodded. "It's just a geothermal well, but it should be on the same ridge as the Garan Volcano."

Seeing the smoke and dust in the tunnel slowly stop falling, Lin Xian took a deep breath and continued to drive the Infinity deeper into the tunnel. He soon arrived at the tunnel gate that had the nuclear radiation sign. Just after Lin Xian used his mechanical ability to remotely activate the gate, a stream of scalding hot air suddenly gushed out. The heat immediately evaporated the water vapor on the Infinity!

It's boiling here too!

Lin Xian's eyes darkened slightly as he started the train and entered the passage. The light ahead gradually turned red as the track slowly passed along the edge of the hot well of the huge Deep 3 geothermal nuclear device. Through the portholes, he could see the huge passage below. The red magma light made the entire geothermal well much brighter. Before getting off the train, Lin Xian and everyone else had already felt an astonishing heat.

"As activity increases, the drill and introducer of this device will become overwhelmed and shut down or even break down. As a result, the heat sources deployed in several sea areas around Haiyan Island will disappear." Lin Xian said, "This is the problem."

"So you're sure that without this thing, the monster would attack Garan Volcano, causing the extinct volcano to revive?" Monica asked

Lin Xian sighed. "I don't really care whether the anomaly at Garlan Volcano is related to the strange entity's activity, or whether these ridiculous experiments conducted by the Foundation are related."

At this time, the Infinity entered the material loading and unloading platform of the nuclear submarine base. Lin Xian stopped the train and turned to walk towards the rear carriage while saying to Monica

"But one thing is certain. While this device is here, we're fishing. Without it, we'll be standing on top of a natural fishing bait. Even without the Dark Mark, we won't be able to escape."

Lin Xian walked through the carriages and came to carriage No. 3. When he entered the carriage, he did not see Ding Junyi. Instead, he saw her in carriage No. 4, busy with something next to several tomato seedlings. Just when he was about to ask, he saw that the small flower on Ding Junyi's head was swaying gently and emitting a faint light of some kind of supernatural power.

Lin Xian couldn't help but move closer, and the next moment his eyes suddenly fixed on the tomato seedlings in front of Ding Junyi. Many tender green vines of some kind of melon appeared on them, climbing and entwining at a speed visible to the naked eye. Under Ding Junyi's control, the tips of the vines suddenly grew into some extremely sharp blood thorns. Those vines were like human hands, deforming and growing at a very fast speed. After sticking to the wall of the culture chamber, they instantly covered the wall and even completely blocked out the light!

"Your plant-related abilities have developed so quickly?" Lin Xian said.

"Actually, what you saw was only a small part." Ding Junyi had noticed Lin Xian's arrival a long time ago, but she seemed very grateful that Lin Xian did not interrupt her. At this time, the vines suddenly began to shrink and wither after wandering around, and a large amount of light green breath was released. Ding Junyi raised her hand and a dark green bud grew out of thin air in the palm of her hand, which quickly absorbed the light green breath.

Seeing this scene, Lin Xian was quite surprised. Unexpectedly, the next moment, Ding Junyi did something that caught him off guard. After absorbing the light green breath, Ding Junyi suddenly turned around and blew a breath towards Lin Xian. Lin Xian only felt a cool breath like mint wind coming towards him, and then his vision began to blur, his ears tinnitus, and the beautiful face of Ding Junyi in front of him kept double-reflecting.

He shook his head, and after a few seconds, his mind returned to normal. Lin Xian was stunned for a moment and quickly looked at Ding Junyi.

"this……"

"Solanaceae plants can produce scopolamine, which can cause excited hallucinations, mental confusion, and distorted perception of time and space. In the past, it was used to make anesthetics, but an overdose can cause coma or even death."

Ding Junyi looked at Lin Xian calmly, "I've been studying the evolution of strange creatures lately. Those biological force fields don't seem like some kind of supernatural power, but more like evolutionary programs woven into their DNA, as if... they already possess it. But we all know that those ordinary strange creatures aren't living creatures at all, but rather manufactured living tools."

Lin Xian frowned slightly when he heard this: "Is there any connection between the two?"

Ding Junyi continued, "Aren't you curious? When we were in Xilan City, only that S-class creature had this kind of bio-force field. How come in such a short time, even the most common strange creatures now have bio-force fields? What causes them to have this ability?"

"Don't they say monsters are evolving too?"

Ding Junyi shook her head. "We did find that dark creatures evolve and adapt, but there's always been a misunderstanding. For example, the ones that can survive under the snow are snow demons and snow devils, and the ones that can appear in the daytime on Haiyan Island are the likes of Split Tail and Red Bone. But we haven't found any fog spiders that can appear in the daytime, or centipedes that can appear in the snow. Do you understand what I mean?"

Lin Xian frowned. After hearing Ding Junyi's words, he fell into deep thought and forgot the purpose of coming to see Ding Junyi.

Seeing that he remained silent, Ding Junyi spoke directly, "My argument is that this evolution occurs upstream, not downstream. In other words, the intelligent beings responsible for creating the strange bodies, or the more advanced beings of the dark civilization, are constantly learning, evolving, and repairing themselves. Then, through some kind of DNA compilation method, they give the newly created strange bodies this evolutionary power. Ordinary strange bodies do not have this evolutionary mechanism on their own."

Lin Xian was stunned when he heard this: "I understand. What does this have to do with what you said..."

Scopolamine

"right."

"What I'm saying is that the dark civilization might be completely different from what we imagine. These strange entities we see might be, like our mechas and drones, [equipment] created by that civilization using the carbon-based biological tissues of humans and Blue Star creatures. They are [flesh and blood equipment] for war and colonization. If you look at it this way, A-level or S-level entities might be of this kind. Because I believe that beings with the power of this advanced civilization should be in the form of intelligent entities, not those Cthulhu monsters."

"Secondly, using this knowledge, I've combined it with my biological knowledge to explore the genetic power of plants and animals within the Blue Star ecosystem. This will give me a lot of room to develop plant-based abilities. Of course... the first point is the key point. The second point is just to show you how much stronger I've become. If you encounter a critical situation, I now have the ability to control the battlefield, which should be able to help you."

Lin Xian was shocked after hearing the previous part. It was not like he had not thought about this idea before. The Phoenix Society had also thought about it a long time ago. However, this was the first time someone described the strange body and [Mecha Equipment] in this way, which shocked him.

The second point Ding Junyi mentioned also surprised him a little. Can plant-based abilities be used in this way?

"Release the plant's properties to stun and control the enemy?"

"There's a lot more. If you need to know more, I can start with the plant family classification."

"No need." Lin Xian was sweating profusely. How long would this talk end? However, he also understood what Ding Junyi said, that is, the plant abilities she developed had many other characteristics.

Ding Junyi put her hands in her pockets and looked at Lin Xian calmly: "I essentially want to gain some recognition from you for my work during this period."

“I totally agree!”

"Thank you." Ding Junyi smiled slightly.

Lin Xian was embarrassed: "Teacher Chen told me that you said the blood vine has changed, right?"

Ding Junyi nodded. "Through my supernatural powers, I discovered that this disaster plant is very different from other disaster plants. Perhaps it has something to do with its characteristics. This blood vine has the ability to multiply almost infinitely."

Lin Xian was completely bewildered. "Unlimited proliferation, what's the use of this feature?"

"Strictly speaking," Ding Junyi said calmly, "it's useless."

Lin Xian: ...

Ding Junyi brought Lin Xian to carriage No. 3 at this time. She opened the culture chamber containing the blood vine. This culture chamber was larger than the culture chambers of the Silver Dragon Hundred Thousand Cuos and the Hell Black Chrysanthemum, and was placed separately by Ding Junyi.

The blood vine was in the culture chamber at this time, and its red thorns emitted a cold light that was different from that of plants. It looked like a cold metal edge. The strangest thing was that after Ding Junyi opened the light shield, the blood vine suddenly began to twist slightly, as if it was some kind of living thing.

This situation was completely different from when Lin Xian first brought it back from Baicheng. Looking at this scene, Lin Xian immediately understood what Chen Sixuan meant when she said that this thing was alive. It was completely literal, and it made people's scalps tingle.

Ding Junyi saw Lin Xian's expression, walked up to him, raised her hand and touched the incubator, and said

"Immortal proliferation means that this plant can break through the limits of plant cells and expand and grow indefinitely. I have tried multiple rounds of division experiments and found that this plant has no boundaries."

Before she finished speaking, as her fingers touched the incubator, the blood vine suddenly began to rapidly grow to the side of the cabin wall, and then began to expand violently under Ding Junyi's operation, gradually growing from the thickness of a finger to the thickness of a bowl. The sharp spikes on it also began to become more and more numerous and deeper. As the blood vine expanded, Lin now even saw some weak force field arcs beginning to appear on it!

This made Lin Xian confused. "You mean, this thing can grow bigger than a skyscraper?"

Ding Junyi nodded: "Yes."

"Then it's useless?" Lin Xian said immediately: "If this thing can be eaten, wouldn't it mean there is an infinite amount of starch to eat?"

Ding Junyi was stunned when she heard this, then she said, "Well, I think the characteristic is something that can help you change the situation in battle, just like the Silver Dragon's Hundred Thousand Mistakes."

"That's easy." Lin Xian looked at Ding Junyi and said directly, "You can use this blood vine as a weapon and study it at the same time. Wouldn't it be of great use?"

Ding Junyi raised her eyes slightly when she heard this, and looked at Lin Xian. She thought for two seconds, then put her fingers back in her pocket and looked at Lin Xian seriously: "That's a good idea, I will seriously consider it."

Lin Xian breathed a sigh of relief. It was good news at the moment, so he was about to talk to Ding Junyi about his plan. But Ding Junyi suddenly said

"In fact, the infinite proliferation of the blood vine has led me to a new discovery. The infinite proliferation of this disaster plant is not based on plants or genes, but on another aspect. This makes me hypothesize a brand new question, which is the source of the unique power of all disaster plants and taboo objects..."

Lin Xian felt his head swell up. "Then tell me."

Ding Junyi did not notice the anxiety in Lin Xian's tone, but continued to speak calmly.

"Through some experiments, I discovered that the infinite proliferation of the blood vine is likely in a certain time or space dimension, and this is not something we can interact with directly. If this speculation is correct, then it means... this plant..."

"Not on a three-dimensional level!"

(End of this chapter)