Chapter 77 Gene Invasion 3

Chapter Seventy-Seven

"I saw you went to the pharmacy just now. Please, could you give me some medicine? Just some alcohol and anti-inflammatory medicine will do." The person knocking on the door said anxiously when no one answered.

In his excitement, the blister on his hand popped with a "pop".

Pus flowed out, along with a clump of black stuff. It rolled several times on the ground before dispersing. Once it was completely dispersed, Lin Xia could see that it was clearly made up of tiny, thin insects, many of which had crawled in through the crack in the door.

Just thinking about the person outside the door made Lin Xia's hair stand on end and gave her goosebumps. She took out insecticide and sprayed it repeatedly into the cracks in the door.

After a while, the insects stopped moving, but Lin Xia still felt uncomfortable all over.

Hearing the commotion inside, the person outside knocked even harder.

A small fireball, under Lin Xia's control, scorched the ground at the doorway, burning out through the crack in the door. It didn't burn the door or the carpet at the doorway, but instead scorched the person directly.

The man at the door was initially very excited, but upon seeing the fire, he jumped back in fright. After extinguishing the fire, he was filled with doubt and uncertainty. However, after looking at the blisters on his body, he went to the next room and knocked on the door.

Lin Xia sprayed insecticide vigorously at the door, window cracks, and near the sewer, and then tightly closed the bathroom door before feeling a little more comfortable.

When those little black insects were clustered together, they were easy to see, but when they were one by one, they were really easy to miss. Lin Xia used her mental power to examine the entire room inch by inch.

Thinking of the [Special Deworming Medicine] she had drawn, Lin Xia took out one. As soon as she took it out, Lin Xia almost vomited. The taste was disgusting.

Looking at the brown pill the size of a soybean in her palm, Lin Xia took out a bottle of water. As soon as she put the pill in her mouth, she started to gag, but she swallowed it while enduring the nausea.

As soon as she swallowed it, she felt as if the blood in her body was boiling. Her spiritual power saw thin, transparent worms frantically gathering together. After they gathered along her blood vessels, they became slightly black and traveled all the way to her left index finger.

Lin Xia cut her finger, and the little insects scrambled out and fell into the fireball below, where they were burned to death. Only after she bled and there were no more insects did Lin Xia stop the bleeding.

Her face was pale. The thought of so many worms in her body sent chills down her spine. It was fortunate that she discovered it early; if it had been any later, she would have ended up like the person outside the door.

Looking down into the hallway with her spiritual power, she saw that the insects that had fallen off the person had actually bypassed her doorway and hadn't come in.

Lin Xia frowned as she smelled the odor on her body. Although it smelled bad, it could repel insects, which was better than anything else!

The insect-man outside the door was fighting with the dog-mouthed man next door. Lin Xia saw him staring blankly at his fist, then glanced at the insect-man stuck to the wall, and slammed the door shut.

He stared at his fist for a long time, then looked at his leg, and with a strong push, he almost crashed into the roof.

Then, a half-smile, half-crying expression appeared on his face, and he didn't notice that the little insects fell off his body and went straight out.

The insects outside the door didn't enter his room; they went around it.

So, after being bitten and mutated, it can automatically become immune to the parasitic black insect?

Looking at the dog face on the man's body, Lin Xia decided to observe him further. He paused for a moment, then took out a biscuit to eat. However, he spat it out as soon as he put it in his mouth, and his face changed drastically, becoming extremely ugly.

Have tastes changed too?

The dog-faced man gritted his teeth and ate the biscuit bite by bite, gagging as he ate. When he took out the beef jerky to eat, his expression was noticeably more relaxed.

Lin Xia began recording again: Being bitten will cause the body to mutate. Currently, the mutation is controllable, but it is very likely that not everyone can control it. It will also improve a person's physical fitness, change a person's habits, and make them more like the animal that caused the wound.

Lin Xia observed the dog-faced man next door again. She didn't know him and couldn't judge whether his nature would become cruel. It was still pending.

This completely alters a person's genes! Lin Xia realized with shock. If genes have changed, are they still human? The possibility of not being able to return to the original world is too great.

Gene invasion? Or fusion? It's uncertain whether the body can resist it; this remains to be seen.

Looking at the outside world, Lin Xia felt a great terror in this tranquil forest for the first time, because she didn't know if she had accidentally done something that would invade her genes, so she had to be extremely careful.

Without even thinking about going out to find clothes, Lin Xia quickly exchanged for a camouflage windbreaker, put on the waterproof boots she had exchanged in Thunderstorm World, tucked the cuffs of her pants into the boots, and tied them tightly with a rope.

He wore a hooded, tight-fitting, quick-drying shirt underneath his top, and tucked his gloves into the cuffs, securing them tightly.

Once you redeem the [Special Mask], you have to weld it to your face. One mask costs 100 survival points, and you can get 1000 points in 10 days. You can't skimp on this.

There are 27 players in this world. She wonders what effective items they have. Then she remembered that Ji Wei said her physique has reached 100.

She opened the panel and saw that Ji Wei had indeed sent her a message.

She also came from this world, but neither of them knew where they were; they simply exchanged information.

Ji Wei's place has a person who was bitten by a cow. The cow stopped eating grass and started eating meat instead. Moreover, the person who was bitten mutated rapidly. In just one hour, he actually turned into a cow and also only eats meat.

Someone got bitten by a mosquito, and within two hours, their body was covered in blisters, from which many baby mosquitoes hatched...

And then there's the [special deworming medicine] she drew.

It seems that being bitten by an animal can lead to death or even alienation.

Lin Xia told her about the dog-faced man and the black bugs, and recounted her experience using the "special insecticide."

It was only the first day. They agreed to exchange information and look for news about safe zones, and then they all went about their own business.

Lin Xia seized the time to train her body. She knew she couldn't stay in this place for long, and it was hard to say where she would find a safe place to settle down next.

As darkness fell, the increasingly lush trees blocked most of the moonlight, leaving only a few scattered points of light visible.

Lin Xia drank the nutrient solution and water, looked at the bed, took out a deworming pill, crushed it and sprinkled it around the room. She gagged for a long time before she could suppress the nausea. Compared to being covered in bugs, this was still bearable.

As soon as the insecticide was sprayed, the buzzing outside the window instantly subsided. Lin Xia frowned. Going out like this would be a death sentence. Large animals were fine, they were big targets and she could deal with them, but how could she prevent these mosquitoes and other insects she didn't recognize?

It's important to know that insects are the most diverse, numerous, and widely distributed group in the animal kingdom. There are so many that we don't recognize or have never seen before, making it impossible to guard against them all.

Most importantly, the dangers of the mutation are unknown, so all we can do is take precautions. At least we can recognize mosquitoes, but we have no idea where these little black insects came from.

It's another post-apocalyptic world where there's no way to survive... Lin Xia suddenly looked next door. No, it wasn't. But that might be a way out for the natives, but it certainly wasn't for the players.