Chapter 171 Genetic Mutation
Lin Xia closed her eyes and carefully sensed everything she had just seen. Spatial travel was the fastest way; she hadn't fully grasped the feeling when she used [Teleportation] before.
The woman just now led her through space. She could feel that after the space was torn apart, there were layers upon layers of space. If she couldn't find the space level she had just come from, she might get lost in those layers of space.
Lin Xia carefully recalled what had just happened, as if the events were replaying in her mental energy in slow motion. Finally, she discovered that the woman's mental energy was always fixed at one point, and that point never changed no matter how the battle went.
It's like an anchor point, preventing her from getting lost in space.
Lin Xia tried it out. Although mental power was as easy to control as an arm, it was very difficult to fix it like an anchor point.
Her spiritual power can penetrate the dream space because it is naturally friendly to her; she belongs there, it is the place where they all belong.
But the real space is not like that; it is extremely difficult for mental energy to penetrate space.
Mental strength can be flexible, supple, and resilient. In Lin Xia's understanding, it's like a whip—flexible yet sharp. But how do you make it sharp...?
Mental energy can certainly be very sharp, but not sharp enough to penetrate space.
Lin Xia recalled again and again how, in the center of the lake in front of her, a clump of water suddenly separated from the other lake water and slowly rose.
The mental energy traveled through the water. Suddenly, the water clump stopped, and with a 'bang,' it splashed and exploded.
Lin Xia opened her eyes, and her figure instantly appeared above the lake. She smiled as she looked around. Why did she have to penetrate space? Her spiritual power had always been in harmony with all things, so why couldn't she merge with space?
It seems she was right. By integrating a sliver of her spiritual energy into this space, she could become an anchor point and easily find her origin among the layered spaces.
With a thought, she could appear anywhere she wanted, and as she was happily enjoying this, her private messages started beeping.
This was an emergency she had set up, and she immediately opened her private messages.
Ah Tong's urgent voice came through: "Island Master, something has happened, please come quickly."
When Lin Xia opened the video she sent, she saw that scales, like fish scales, were growing on the injured person's body and were slowly spreading at the wound. The scales secreted mucus, and someone was frantically trying to pull out the fish scales, leaving the flesh a bloody mess, but to no avail, as the scales would continue to grow from the wound.
"Island Master, I've checked, it's a genetic mutation!" A-Tong's expression was grim.
Lin Xia teleported to A Tong's side in a few moments and saw her directing people to isolate all the injured people separately.
Ji Wei, standing beside him, asked with a grave expression, "What will happen to them? Will they turn into fish?"
"I don't know, but it seems very likely at the moment."
Xie Cheng got out of the car and walked over: "After several rounds of testing, Professor Tong and the others speculated that if their whole bodies were covered with scales, they would likely turn into fish. Now we mainly need to observe the changes in their heads."
"Where's your mind? Where are your legs? What are you, a mermaid?" Ji Wei asked hurriedly.
Xie Cheng's expression was solemn. These people already seemed to enjoy being in the water. Countless others around the world had been injured. If they all turned into mermaids... the consequences would be unimaginable.
Lin Xia scanned their bodies with her mental energy and saw that changes were already taking place inside their bodies, and this mutation seemed irreversible.
"Look at the chat channel," Xie Cheng said, his face grim.
"Hello everyone, I am Boyan. Don't be afraid. Our world has become a water world. Evolving into mermaids is the right direction for us. In the water, we are not afraid of severe cold or scorching heat, not afraid of food shortages, not afraid of water shortages, and not afraid of disgusting human attacks."
"We will build an underwater kingdom, create our new home in the ocean, and build the legendary 'Crystal Palace.' The underwater resources are more abundant than anyone can imagine, and the energy concentration in the water is several times that on the surface!"
"Look everyone, some of us have already taken the lead and evolved fish tails, which is the right direction for us!"
In one video, you can see many people with fish tails swimming in the sea, and you can hear their cheerful laughter from time to time...
After the video was released, many people who had been bitten seemed to have found a lifeline, and they asked about precautions, the most important of which was how to stay conscious.
Although many people have doubts, how can someone who has already been bitten listen to reason? As long as they can stay conscious and alive, who would want to die?
"Is this really a direction for evolution?" Ji Wei murmured to himself.
Lin Xia couldn't answer that either. The speed of human evolution is actually very fast, and no one knows whether there has been any external interference in the development to this point.
For Lin Xia, the body is not that important; consciousness and mental strength are the most important.
But she didn't know if this mutation would have any adverse effects on a person's consciousness or mental strength.
Lin Xia observed the injured people and discovered that many of them had given up resisting because they believed Boyan's claims online. Apart from eating fish every day, they stayed in the water and let the fish scales grow.
But some people didn't believe it and kept tearing at the fish scales.
At this time, no authoritative figures came out to explain the situation, and everything was under investigation. Researchers carried instruments and measured data every day.
Lin Xia observed a young couple; the girl had been bitten on the back, while the boy had been bitten on the leg.
Every day, the girl asked the boy to help her remove the scales from her back, and the same went for the boy's legs.
One day, the boy woke up to find his legs joined together. His face was contorted in pain. The girl cried as she pulled out the scales, while the boy, with a piece of wood in his mouth, pulled them out without hesitation.
Lin Xia gave them a stack of treatment cards, and the two thanked her repeatedly. They continued to treat each other while pulling out the tubes, and finally managed to separate their legs again.
The boy stood there stunned for a moment, then hesitantly called out to Lin Xia, who was about to leave.
"Island Master, I have a very strange feeling," the boy said hesitantly, somewhat regretting calling out to the Island Master, perhaps it was just his imagination.
"How does it feel? Tell me."
Seeing that Lin Xia was very interested, the boy breathed a sigh of relief, gritted his teeth, and said, "I pluck the scales every day, and I feel like my mind becomes clearer."
The girl nodded repeatedly, saying that she felt the same way; if she didn't remove it, her head would feel increasingly dizzy.
The three of them looked at the person in the pool next to them. He had been in the pool for a long time and rarely came out of the water except when he was hungry. He said that he found it unbearable and could not breathe.
"When I spread my legs just now, I felt a sense of control..." The boy blushed, feeling that what he said was very childish.
Lin Xia scanned his body with her mental energy and found that the mutations inside his body had stopped and were slowly disappearing.
After the researchers brought their equipment and examined him, they got the same result: the fish-like transformation could be stopped, but the pain would be excruciating.
Higashi Narushima immediately published this statement on the world channel, and with the boy's consent, said that he would reveal the boy's evolutionary progress every day.
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