Chapter 47 Both Sides Suffer
"Will you feel hungry?"
During the physical examination a few months after the pirate suppression campaign, Wu Fuyi also checked his report and touched his chin with suspicion: "Are you sure you didn't forget to eat because you stayed up for three days and three nights to handle official business?"
"Do I look like a creature that will get hungry if I don't eat for three days and three nights?" Deng Baoying asked back.
"......So you actually didn't eat for three days and three nights," Wu Fuyi snapped the file shut, revealing his true face, with a cold expression, "The nutritionists assigned to you by the research institute come to complain to me every week, saying that your diet is irregular and your mental state is not good..."
"I'm in a good mental state." Deng Baoying said calmly.
"Who said that? You called yourself that?" Wu Fuyi, as a doctor's most hated jerk who didn't listen to the doctor's advice, smiled coldly, "What a pity."
The two old monsters, who were almost ten thousand years old, argued with each other for a while, and finally got down to business.
"Let's get back to the point. The progress of the experiments and research on the divine blood is not very... pleasing."
"Even if the experimenters use their imagination, it is difficult to understand why a certain substance can cause you to undergo fundamental changes - you know. I mean, you have at least several genes from different organisms, which completely subverts scientific theory. Not to mention your obviously abnormal self-healing ability and muscle density."
"I thought about it for a long time, and I can only call this state evolution."
"Her divine blood has promoted your gradual evolution towards another species."
"Evolution?" Deng Baoying exhaled slightly, watching the tiny wounds caused by the blood draw gradually heal, "You mean, my primitive, damn desire to kill and eat crazily is gradually flourishing because of evolution?" "
No matter how you look at it, This kind of change that traces back to the most fundamental animal nature is more like degeneration, right? "
"Whether it is evolution or degeneration, it is not up to you and me to decide," Wu Fuyi folded his arms and looked at him coldly, "This is the inevitable price after the gods gave you a second life, and humans cannot change it. Even I can only temporarily relieve your symptoms."
"And you should be happy. The current evolution progress is slow... If it continues to evolve, who knows what will happen?"
As he said, Xuelu slowly took out several new sedatives from the drawer and pushed them to him lightly: "You also know it. You carnivorous subspecies... What other desires do you have besides appetite and killing desire. What is Mannuan thinking..."
Deng Baoying pulled the corner of his mouth and took away the sedative.
Although he didn't say anything, from his expression, he seemed to disagree with the theory that "evolution causes desire."
...
But that was in the past.
Now, when Deng Baoying was holding on to his last bit of sanity, he could still vaguely remember this conversation.
Xuelu was right, evolution can indeed cause desire.
Just like him now.
The surging tide of golden tentacles and the gilded fur were entangled endlessly, without any strategy or tactics at all, leaving only two giant beasts biting and devouring each other, finding every opportunity to swallow more of each other's flesh and blood, until one side devoured the other side completely - this might also be the final way this fight ended.
The huge ruins of the training ground were like an ancient arena, with endless roars and killings, and the entire main city was shaking.
Golden and blue blood spurted everywhere, and the two monsters had gaping holes in their flesh from being torn apart by each other.
One of the wings of the griffon had been torn apart by the binding, and it was even difficult for it to fly, but the beast seemed to be unable to feel the pain at all, and was still almost suicidal and frantically swallowing the tentacles of the soft octopus - he had already torn off several huge tentacles in succession, at the cost of a huge gap in his abdomen.
Above the huge griffin and golden octopus, reinforcements from the Inspectorate and the task force base had already arrived. Countless warships known for their agility flew from high in the sky and dropped laser bullets that were powerful enough to penetrate buildings. However, facing a monster of this magnitude, they were as weak as toys and could not even delay the battle. With
a wave of the huge translucent tentacles, several warships could be shattered and fall down in flames.
——"Captain!! We can't get close to him! His tentacles are too fast... and we can't see him with our naked eyes. We can only use holographic radar to detect his thermal image!"
"Several pilots have reached mental pollution thresholds and have to withdraw."
"The battle is too intense. If they continue like this, both of them will be injured and die of blood loss!"
"We can't use sedatives either! In a fight of this magnitude, if sedatives are used, the president will be bitten to death by the opponent immediately!"
"Where's the research institute? Where are the people from the research institute?"
At this moment.
On the mecha observation deck, the adjutant who was responsible for the overall mission was even more anxious.
Watching those useless mechas and warships passing through the deadly tentacles and wings in the thermal imaging, the channel was filled with the anxious shouts of the team members, as well as the voices from the rear reporting the number of casualties and the extent of the damage to the warships.
Cold sweat had already seeped out from my back, soaking through my military shirt.
"Dean!! You will find a way, right? Dean?"
Green was desperate and half-knelt in front of Wu Fuyi's chair, looking at the snow deer who was also the heir of the gods ten thousand years ago with trembling eyes: "Dean...what else can we do? Should we continue to release sedatives, or concentrate our firepower..."
Wu Fuyi glanced at him with drooping eyelashes, put down the cup, and said lightly: "Withdraw all the warships and drones on the front line. This level of struggle is not something you can participate in. No matter how much combat power you invest, it will only be a drop in the bucket and increase consumption."
"Then, what should we do? Are there any better instruments or weapons of mass destruction in the institute..."
"No."
Snow Deer didn't even raise his head. His voice was extremely rational and calm, completely different from Green's: "There is no way."
The Snake Tribe's adjutant half-knelt in front of his seat, staring at him in a daze, his head buzzing as if hit by a heavy hammer.
His lips were pale, and he heard Snow Deer gasping with his eyes closed. The words he spoke were extremely fast and extremely cold.
"Evolution. The evolution of devouring the other party, once it starts, it cannot be stopped. In the tide of evolution, all rationality will be abandoned."
"Look at the current situation... Look at the crazy Griffin now. Even if you rescue Deng Baoying, can you guarantee that he can still maintain his sanity? If he can't maintain his sanity... who can stop him? With the current capabilities of the Federation, can it kill this monster that violates common sense and rules? Even if it can, how much manpower and resources will be lost?"
"Do you want to send your team members to death? Or do you want to destroy hundreds of years of scientific research results in the institute?"
Wu Fuyi opened his eyes and looked at the dark clouds in the sky. The fingertips holding the cup turned slightly white due to the force.
He seemed tired, too. There was an indescribable tiredness and hoarseness in his eyebrows and voice. He looked not in a good mental state. Snow deer are not a species that are suitable for fighting and killing. The pressure from the shadows and the false spirits alone is enough to make ordinary species collapse several times.
"You mean," Green asked tremblingly and unbelievably after a while, "to let them lose both sides?"
Silence, the silence in the observation tower was dead.
For a moment, there was only the rumbling of artillery fire and the trembling of the entire earth, which was deafening. After a few
seconds, or perhaps a whole century, Wu Fuyi took a deep breath and silently tightened his back teeth, like a broken jar.
"I am the director of the research institute. I am the heir destined by the gods. I am responsible for the entire federation and the entire civilization, and only for the federation."
"The choices I make must be in line with the future interests and destiny of the entire federation civilization."
"We cannot let the tragic situation of the pirate encirclement and suppression war happen again on the capital star."
As he spoke, Xuelu's Adam's apple swallowed and rolled a few times. He did not even allow himself the slightest hesitation. He gritted his teeth and issued the highest-level order in the channel.
"Contact the special training base and let Lynx go directly to support the M31 galaxy."
"Listen carefully, once one of these two monsters loses its vital signs, immediately organize the team to kill or capture the survivor. Even if the survivor is your president."
"This is my order as the director of the institute. Anyone who violates it will be considered a traitor to the Federation."
"..."
Green stood up, as if he was exhausted, and took two staggering steps, leaning his back against the wall of the mecha lookout.
"......No," after a while, his lips moved a few times, "Is there no other way? I mean...what if, what if a miracle appears?"
Wu Fuyi turned to look at him, and for a while, his expression revealed a look of almost mocking pity, as if he pity the young man's idea of pinning his hopes on a miracle.
"Oh, if there is a miracle that can immediately stop the unstoppable evolution of the lamp hugging shadow and kick this broken octopus out of the capital planet," Xuelu said slowly, word by word, "I believe everything will be fine, what do you think?" The
young snake adjutant wanted to answer, but a roar that almost caused all the surrounding high-rise buildings to shake sounded, drowning out what he wanted to say.
Green rushed to the observation tower in two steps, staring at the fight between the giant beasts in the main city with bloodshot eyes.
The false god who had only half of his incarnation descended on the capital planet seemed to be unable to defeat the huge beasts that were biting and killing in a suicidal manner.
The scarred griffon was almost bloodshot, and the false god's limbs that he swallowed and chewed turned into new and more violent energy, which continuously impacted the boiling blood in his body. Her limbs and bones - the evolution process that had been almost stagnant for thousands of years because she could not touch the Lord God, surged in just a few hours.
New bone spurs and ferocious, newly formed limb tentacles slowly grew and emerged on the griffon. More gene cells exploded and split, making it more ferocious and violent, and even more irrational.
Compared to the griffon, that thing really looked more like a monster made up of countless animal genes.
And this monster - obviously, had no reason at all and did not distinguish between friend and foe.
All creatures that invaded his territory would be exterminated and devoured. Devouring, endless eating was his only way to survive.
"..."
Green slowly opened his eyes, too late to react.
Everything seemed to sink into slow motion, time was delayed countless times, and the hysterical screams of Misty Clothes suddenly came from the channel.
"Take action!! Right now - don't let him slow down!! Gather firepower, take action!!!"