Chapter 241: Symbiosis
As time passed by minute by minute, the sun became hotter and hotter. But Chen Jiayi was always exposed to the scorching sun, as if she had completely petrified.
It was not until Wang Shishi called out tentatively that her body suddenly moved, as if she had come alive.
She was stunned for a while, then turned around quickly. It was a moss-covered face. The five senses on her face were blurred, with only a pair of bright and dark eyes, looking at everyone in surprise.
Everyone subconsciously took a step back, with a hint of fear on their faces, including her friends coming with her, Deng Chao and Zhong Chuqiang.
Chen Jiayi's bright eyes instantly dimmed, and a hint of inferiority and worry flashed in her heart.
Luo Yuan put Chen Jiayi's expression and movements into his eyes. He breathed a sigh of relief. Her reaction was normal, which showed that her reason had not been lost. This was very different from the mutant.
"How are you feeling now?"
"I feel warm all over, very comfortable, but I'm a little thirsty!" Seeing Luo Yuan ask, Chen Jiayi hurriedly said.
In front of Luo Yuan, she did not dare to lie and said honestly, but she was a little panicked. She had seen Chen Xianfeng's fate. Will it be her turn now? She has been abandoned once and does not want to be abandoned again.
It seemed that photosynthesis could be performed. Luo Yuan thought to himself, and then said to Wang Shishi: "Go and get a glass of water."
Wang Shishi responded and hurried to get the water!
He turned around and faced Chen Jiayi again. At her age, she would not hide her emotions. Everything was reflected on her face. Seeing her worried and scared, he said gently: "Don't be afraid, I just know your situation."
Seeing that Chen Jiayi's expression was slowing down, Luo Yuan continued to ask: "Can you take these things back?"
"Is it the moss on my body?" she asked for a moment, but there was no taboo at all. Seeing Luo Yuan nodding, she closed her eyes, and soon all the moss was taken back, revealing her light green skin.
Her figure became a little thin, and obviously parasitic consumed a certain amount of her fat, but the most concerned thing was her skin. At this time, her skin became extremely smooth, so that in the sun, there was a slight reflection.
Coupled with the strange color, the whole person exuded a mysterious charm, which made Luo Yuan couldn't help but take a few more glances.
A hint of surprise flashed in his heart. This was the first time he saw this phenomenon. He did not die after being parasitized by organisms, and it also formed a symbiotic phenomenon. Perhaps only plants can be so gentle.
Now it depends on whether it is contagious. He doesn't want to walk around with his green skin. Luo Yuan tried to use a "detection technique". The detection results were still quite rigid, and the information was exactly the same as that of a normal woman. He could only use indirect methods.
"Okay, you can release the moss again now." Luo Yuan said.
Chen Jiayi obediently said "um" and soon, her body was covered with moss again. She seemed to like this state very much, and her eyes were a little shiny.
"Get some moss for me!" Luo Yuan said.
Chen Jiayi did not refuse, and pulled out a cluster of pain and forcefully, as if she was stimulated. A large area of moss nearby quickly shrank into her body, and it was not exposed again after a while.
Luo Yuan kept cautious and did not answer, let her put it on the ground, and then used the identification technique:
“Green parasitic moss;”
“Rarity: light blue;”
“Weight: 3g;”
"Status: Parasitized;"
"Additional capability: None;"
"Evaluation: This is a rare parasite that can survive alone, or achieve a perfect symbiosis with certain species of special blood types, and can weakly improve the host's main attributes. The parasitic green parasites lose the ability to parasitize again until the host dies."
When he saw that he had no parasitic ability anymore, he looked at Chen Jiayi and was not much alert.
Seeing that Luo Yuan was about to touch the cluster of moss, Huang Jiahui hurriedly stopped him and said, "Don't touch him."
"It's okay!" Luo Yuan waved his hand. He picked up the moss and rubbed it gently. The cluster of moss still maintained quite vitality. When it was stimulating, he immediately curled up into a ball.
"Don't worry, I have some ability to identify biological characteristics. After this thing is parasitic, it has no ability to parasitize again, and it has little impact on her personality. Apart from the weird skin color, it is a good thing."
In fact, many people know that Luo Yuan has such ability, but he just hasn't confirmed it. Now that he saw him say this, everyone suddenly felt relieved.
Among all, the most exciting thing was Chen Jiayi. She had been worried before, just like a prisoner who stepped into the trial table. At this time, she finally heard the judge's acquittal, and the big rock hanging in her heart also fell down. She covered her mouth and cried with joy!
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After her mood stabilized a little, Luo Yuan then conducted related tests on Chen Jiayi, such as strength and agility. Finally, in order to test her self-healing ability, with her consent, she also cut a small knife on her forearm.
He found that after parasitization, her strength and agility were inferior to Huang Jiahui, but considering that she was twelve years old and was still far from underage, this improvement was already obvious.
But Luo Yuan was most surprised by her self-healing and skin defense ability. When she cut her skin, she could clearly feel the resistance on the knife. He found that under her skin was a dense layer of light green filaments like a network. The gap between the filaments was almost difficult to distinguish with the naked eye and was closely connected to the bottom of the skin.
Even he has such a defensive power.
What is even more surprising is that after the wound was incised, she didn't bleed much. As soon as the knife left, countless thin threads in her skin began to wriggle and stick together. After half a minute, when he wiped the blood on his arm, he found that her wound had disappeared, leaving only a shallow blood mark.
This self-healing ability is almost as good as Lin Xiaoji. Luo Yuan subconsciously glanced at Lin Xiaoji who was watching and found that his face was already a little dark.
However, Luo Yuan also knew that this self-healing is an illusion, essentially just a forced closure of the wound, which is completely incomparable to the true self-healing.
But no matter what, this parasitic effect is extremely powerful, and the most important thing is that the parasitic moss is only light blue, which has great potential for improvement. For ordinary people, once parasitic, it can be comparable to ordinary evolvers.
Of course, you have to endure the green skin and the strange gaze of others.
However, when Luo Yuan proposed to let everyone try to have a life, he thought that few people would accept it. But in fact, it was beyond his expectations. Not to mention the few soldiers who had experienced the cruel battlefield, even Huang Jiahui and Cao Lin were a little moved.
He seriously underestimated the desire for power for ordinary people. In this cruel end of the world, the survival pressure and mental depression of ordinary people are unimaginable. In this cruel and bad situation, no one cares about the details of his skin color. As long as he is strong, even if he becomes a monster and does not lose his mind, there are probably many people.
But what is disappointing is that parasites are not so easy. Even if some people cut their wounds and stuff the parasites into the wounds, it is useless. They will soon escape with disgust.
Judging from the identification, this seems to require some rare blood type.
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Yesterday's storm did not affect the temperature change. When it was noon, the temperature was still above fifty degrees. The forest, which was moistened by the water all night, seemed a bit green, and violently transpirated under the scorching of high temperatures. The air above the forest was extremely distorted, making people feel like they were in an illusion.
However, such high temperatures were very pleasant to Chen Jiayi. She sat directly under the scorching sun without moving. From the test at 9 a.m. until now, she didn't even eat lunch except for drinking water a few times when she was thirsty.
Perhaps it was the side effect of parasitic moss that gave her the illusion of treating herself as a plant, and she could easily sit for hours unless someone woke her up.
Under such high temperatures, the firewood was already dry before noon. All the dry firewood was moved into the grotto by everyone, and a hill was piled up. Luo Yuan took out a lighter and lit the fluffy hay used to set the fire.
The fire soon burned, and the flames rushed directly to the top of the cave, and even the door was filled with fire.
The moss that was affected by the flames was burned to death in an instant.
The moss on the edge sensed the danger and quickly compressed into a thin layer, pressing against the ground, squirming towards the cool corners like running water, as if trying to escape the high temperature here.
But their movement speed was obviously too slow. In a short while, the surface became dry and yellow, completely losing vitality!
Chapter completed!