Chapter 452: On the ability of neurotic insects to cause trouble

When talking about the Red Flame Taoist Soldiers, we have to mention the various changes they have undergone after being equipped with the nerve worms. Thinking of this, Zhang Wuji sighed. The current Red Flame Taoist Soldiers are at the intersection of being human and not being human, and the boundary is rather blurred.

When the neural worms have accumulated enough energy, they will start to transform the host. The Red Flame Taoist soldiers take the path of elite specialization, but the implementation of the plan will always be somewhat different from expectations.

So Zhang Wuji had the good fortune to see a strange creature who accidentally grew a circle of eyes on his head because he wanted to develop the power of the third eye.

This first-generation neurozoan researcher claimed that he slipped and took the fast track of thinking, and he was responsible for the host, that is, the Red Flame Taoist Soldier, and other people who were frightened.

Taking into account the host's ability to withstand and Zhang Wuji's urgent intervention, he beautified and modified the newly-minted plan to read "Thousand-Eyed Demon God" and write "Thousand-Eyed Taoist Priest".

After all, Zhang Wuji is not planning to lead a group of monsters and demons who will be chased and killed by the righteous path as soon as they show up. At least when he has enough say, such behavior is strictly prohibited. At the very least, he should look like a human being.

Therefore, the neurozoan researcher had to give up the plan of emitting various rays such as petrification, weakening, corrosion, etc. through a thousand eyes, and only added a divine pupil between the eyebrows to emit a sufficiently powerful divine light.

Zhang Wuji also once again realized how dangerous a researcher who was crazy enough and abandoned the most basic humanitarian restraints and moral concepts could be.

From the Thousand-Eyed Demon to the Three-Eyed General, all it takes is a brain spasm and a short circuit in thinking, while the other neuro-worm researchers also show their magical powers.

There are those who are obsessed with illusions, which can stimulate the eye capillaries, causing the host's eyes to become bloodshot and turn red. The left eye has a pattern of three commas, which can change. According to researchers, if this eye ability is cultivated to a deep level, it can summon a giant blue plastic bag to protect the body, and can develop the power to summon meteorites.

In the right eye is a pattern of a flying bird, which has the power to control people's hearts and force them to obey. In fact, it is a variation of illusion and mental power.

There were also neural worms that began to grow alienated flesh, growing a layer of hard scales on the host's body. When Zhang Wuji saw it for the first time, he thought it was a pangolin that had turned into a spirit.

According to researchers, the scales are highly adaptable and can provide targeted defense against incoming attacks. In theory, the more similar attacks it receives, the stronger its ability to deal damage will be, and it will eventually end up being unscathed.

"The same moves are useless against Saints. Whatever doesn't kill me will make me stronger."

The neurotic worm pointed at the scales it had painted golden and spoke with certainty. However, after a series of calculations by a group of researchers, it was concluded that the resources consumed and the cost of growth far exceeded the practicality. It was identified at a glance as having low cost-effectiveness. The resources spent could have been used to create a magical protective weapon.

So Zhang Wuji sealed the project and only used it as a reference to develop a set of protective gear that could resist low-level magic. Some researchers were completely inhumane and began to transform the host body drastically, making it produce blood and flesh fungus blankets, plundering the organisms and inorganic matter on the fungus blankets, and producing a small scale beetle for protection.

However, since this type of fungal mat will cause irreversible damage to the land, once the fungal mat is gone, the nutrients in the soil will be absorbed. This kind of exhausting extraction method makes the remaining yellow-white powdery soil impossible to plant, not to mention crops, even cacti cannot survive, so Zhang Wuji called a halt. He did not want to turn Middle-earth into a barren land and then lead people to live a life of picking up garbage in the wasteland.

Such things, the group of psychos are full of confidence, but at the same time they are in a mess. A good plan often has irreversible harm. Zhang Wuji has been fine-tuning the direction of the experimental project these days, fearing that the world will end as soon as he opens his eyes before he can take any action because of the chaos caused by his psychos. He wants to win and live, but he is not ready to kill the world and everyone together.

Fortunately, although there were many problems, there were indeed some results. One of the neural worms, who claimed to be a senior researcher, attempted to replace the human body's material circulation with photosynthesis when transforming the host body in order to achieve iterative growth in the absorption of spiritual energy.

So, with his diligent and conscientious modification, a vegetative person who looks like a plant, looks like a plant inside, but is just covered with human skin, came into being.

Zhang Wuji went to see it. Its camouflaged skin looked no different from that of ordinary people, except that its hair was a little green and its eyes were a deep blue. Except that when it got excited, the black hair on its head would whip back and forth like willow branches, there was nothing unusual about it.

The true form of this vegetative man is a tree man with a human-like shape, with a crown on his head and roots under his feet. It is said that as long as he stands on the ground, he is a tree god with endless divine power.

When the researchers were stacking boxes to accumulate the combat power of the vegetative patients, Zhang Wuji accidentally discovered a phenomenon. Among the plant organs derived from this vegetative patient, there were several flower buds.

When he was excited, the flower buds actually opened, and then blossomed and bore fruit, with grains falling to the ground. It was a product that looked like rice. After a series of experiments on birds, animals, and finally humans, everyone concluded that this white rice could be eaten as a staple food.

And because of the spiritual power of the vegetative person himself, the crops produced by this kind of thing will contain a trace of spiritual energy. Although it is not much, it is only between ordinary rice and spiritual rice, but the growth cycle is short!

Theoretically, if you dig a hole and plant the vegetative person in it, you can harvest a crop in just a few days. However, the spiritual rice that practitioners carefully tend to will take a year or two, and it also has requirements for the soil and the concentration of spiritual energy. Spiritual rice is precious and it really will die.

Therefore, under the joint suppression of Baiyue and Zhang Wuji, the neurotic worm had to give up the plan of developing a small vegetative person that could grow in three days under the catalysis of the mother body and have the ability to self-destruct, and instead devoted itself to the ocean of crops.

After several adjustments, the adaptability of the seedlings was enhanced, the crop's resistance to disasters and pests was increased, and the growth cycle of the crop was appropriately adjusted. A cost-effective crop that could mature within 30 days emerged. No one thought of a high-sounding name, but just called it white rice. The disadvantage was that it increased the crop yield and growth cycle, causing the white rice to rapidly degenerate within three generations and unable to be planted. It could only be derived and sown by the plant-type host.

(End of this chapter)