Evolution game, nothing more than that!

Boom boom boom boom! ! !

Several bombs exploded above Yi Shen and the other man almost simultaneously, and the blazing fireballs and thick smoke instantly engulfed their figures.

Chapter 21: Hiding Underground, Broken Arm Transformed into a Snake

The horrific explosion even dragged in the alien species behind that had not yet been killed by the lightning. The violent shock wave, accompanied by high temperature and fragments, brought a bloody storm to the place in an instant.

However, when the smoke and dust cleared, what reappeared were two figures still standing!

"It can actually break my shield!"

Yi Shen supported Yamasaki An, who was a little unsteady, with a serious expression.

The glittering elemental shield around him was no longer there.

There was no way. After all, shields had a limit to their defensive power. Faced with the simultaneous explosion of several bombs at close range, even the elemental shield that had just been strengthened reached its limit and was shattered.

Fortunately, even if the shield was broken, he still had the more defensive cellular force field, which was enough to keep himself safe.

As for Yamasaki An, although the enhanced suit can protect her body from the damage of the explosion, her head cannot be protected by the suit.

Even though the shock wave from the explosion had been weakened by the shield, her head was still buzzing and she felt dizzy.

Of course, thanks to the bulletproof helmet that Yi Shen chose for her, the lethality of the shock wave was further weakened, so that she only felt a little uncomfortable and did not suffer more damage.

"Are you OK?"

Yi Shen asked the girl beside him.

"I, I'm fine..."

The girl shook her head, trying to recover from the dizziness as quickly as possible.

Seeing that she was still able to speak, Yi Shen nodded and said nothing more.

Threads of lightning began to appear around him, and the elemental shield that had just been shattered quickly re-condensed.

Thanks to the fact that reality is different from games, there is no so-called "cooling time" when using Yi Shen's elemental skills. As long as his body can hold on and carry the flow of elemental power, he can use them unlimitedly.

He put up the shield again, which gave him a sense of security. He waited for a long time, but in the end no new alien species appeared.

He relaxed a little, and looked at the alien corpses all over the ground, feeling a little confused.

If he counted correctly, from the first alien he killed to now, at least more than fifty aliens have died in his hands.

But in this chicken-eating game, the total number of participants seemed to be no more than fifty.

What's going on with these extra species?

Could it be that the alien mother will give birth to several offspring at once, or that a male alien has appeared and started to reproduce without control with the mother?

If it was the former, it would be fine, it would just be a matter of killing a few more alien species, but if it was the latter...

He felt a chill when he thought that there might be two alien species hiding somewhere, reproducing endlessly and giving birth to an endless army of alien species.

No! We must find a way to find the aliens' lair and kill them all!

only……

He raised his head and looked at the light curtain in the sky not too far away.

By the ninth day, the scope of the survival zone had shrunk very small. The only building in the area was this camp. Apart from that, there was an endless flat wilderness with few trees. Where could the alien species hide?

"If we can't find it on the ground, then there's only one possibility - underground!"

"Underground? What underground?"

Yamasaki An, who was standing by, had just recovered from her dizziness when she heard Yi Shen mumbling to himself, and couldn't help but ask curiously.

"The location of the alien species' lair."

Yi Shen glanced at her and replied:

"They must be hiding underground. No wonder neither I nor the Winter Soldier noticed them before. They must have come out directly from underground. If we look around, we're sure we can find an entrance to the underground!"

Upon hearing this, Yamasaki An nodded immediately and followed Yi Shen carefully, her eyes constantly observing the ground around her.

Soon, they made a discovery.

Not far from the battlefield, a manhole cover used to collect rainwater was opened, and footprints made of water marks could be seen around it, radiating outwards from the center of the manhole cover.

Obviously, this is where the aliens came out of the ground!

However, facing this narrow entrance, Yamasaki An looked troubled:

"Um...are we really going to go in there?"

Although it is a rainwater well rather than a sewage well, the claustrophobic and dark environment itself is disturbing enough, not to mention the countless inhuman monsters hiding inside.

To be honest, Yamasaki An didn't want to go down at all.

In fact, Yi Shen didn't want to either.

On the ground, he can advance or retreat. Even if he is besieged by multiple enemies, the elemental shield and large-scale thunder bursts are enough to ensure his own safety.

But it was different underground, just like when he was in the building before. If the enemy blew up the ground and buried him under thick soil and rocks, even he would find it difficult to survive.

However, he was unwilling to give up on exterminating the alien species.

It’s not that he has a strong sense of responsibility and wants to eliminate the cancer of human civilization in this world and many future worlds, but he is very unhappy that he can get away with provoking his enemies.

and so……

"We must go down, but not us!"

Yi Shen said this, obviously he had a plan.

"not us?"

Yamasaki An was very confused, and then she saw Yi Shen stretched out his left hand, and then with his right hand he pulled out the samurai sword that he had been carrying with him and had not thrown away, and suddenly swung the sword down!

Swish!

The sharp blade cut off Yi Shen's left arm in an instant, which made the girl terrified.

"Ah, what are you doing!"

She hurried forward, wanting to catch the severed arm and put it back on Yi Shen. With his regenerative ability, he should be able to reattach it!

However, when she got closer, she found that there was no bleeding from Yi Shen's broken arm?

Looking more closely, I found that a layer of skin and flesh had already grown at the broken end, wrapping up the bones, muscles and blood vessels inside.

This is not only true for the broken arm, but also for the severed end of the arm.

It was as if this was not a hand that had just grown on a person, but a very realistic arm model.

But the still warm temperature told her that this was indeed Yi Shen's hand, which had just been chopped off by him personally!

Of course, for Yi Shen, it would be more accurate to say that he controlled and separated his hand rather than chopped it off.

Long before he swung the knife, he had already manipulated the cells at the broken end of his arm, dividing the muscles, bones, blood vessels, nerves and other tissues into two parts, and generating additional skin tissue in the middle.

The knife he used only cut through the thick layer of skin tissue in the middle, allowing the lower part to completely separate from the body.

But this is just the beginning—

The broken arm held in Yamasaki An's hand began to deform rapidly. The originally long section of bones began to break into pieces, like a spine. The muscles covering the outside began to rearrange themselves, arranged in layers according to the body segments. The skin on the surface also grew a thick stratum corneum, turning into a scale-like appearance. The five fingers at the end of the arm gradually closed and disappeared in the process, and then grew into a shape similar to a triangular cone, and even grew two eyes on it!

Yes, in just over ten seconds, Yi Shen's broken arm turned into the shape of a snake!

Chapter 22: Snake Body Reconnaissance, Alien Species Retreat

"ah!"

Seeing that the severed arm in her hand suddenly turned into a snake, Yamasaki An screamed and subconsciously threw it to the ground.

And this "snake" was just like a real snake. After wriggling on the ground for a few times, it began to crawl swaying its body. Its movements became more and more skillful and its speed became faster and faster.

"This, this is...?!"

Yamasaki An looked at the snake, then at Yi Shen, her face full of fear.

"Don't worry, I'm just using my own abilities to mimic my flesh and blood into a snake. It's still my hand in essence. Look, it's completely under my control and won't hurt you!"

Yi Shen stretched out his only remaining hand and placed it in front of the "snake". The latter immediately climbed up very obediently, then raised its head and nodded to Yamasaki An like a human being.

This slightly reduced the girl's fear, but her surprise remained unchanged.

"Ju, do you still have this ability?"

She looked at Yi Shen as if she was meeting him for the first time.

In response to this, Yi Shen just shrugged his shoulders - he had just come up with this idea.

After all, if you want to find the alien species' nest, you must first explore the underground situation.

However, in order to ensure that they would not be buried alive by the enemy by exploding the ground, they had to use methods other than personal reconnaissance.

They need a scout!

Drones, or elemental creations like Fischl's Oz.

But unfortunately, firstly, they didn't have any drones, and secondly, Yi Shen's attainments in elemental power were far from the level to create such an elemental creature.

So he had to find another way.

And it just so happened that, in addition to elemental power, his other ability seemed to come in handy.

Cell control is more than just the ability of high-speed regeneration. It has many uses. When Yi Shen first used his bones as weapons, it was just a trial run.

He can control his cells to undergo reverse differentiation and redifferentiation, rearranging the morphology of his body tissues and organs. When it reaches the extreme level, just like now, he can separate part of his limbs and turn it into an individual who can move independently.

This is actually the inspiration that Yi Shen got from JOJO. Since he can control the deformation of his own muscles and bones like the Pillar Man, why can't he transform his limbs into other animals like the Ultimate Creature?

It just so happened that he had caught a few snakes while hunting before. In the process of skinning and cooking them, he had gotten a pretty good idea of ​​the skeletal and muscle structure of snakes, so it wasn't difficult for him to roughly imitate some of them.

Of course, this transformed "snake" is essentially still Yi Shen's arm, its genes are still human genes, and its cells are still human cells. It is just that its macroscopic structure is roughly similar to that of a real snake. After all, it is still not as powerful as the ultimate creatures that can change even their gene expression.

Moreover, in order to save trouble, Yi Shen deleted most of the internal organs except the heart, lungs and blood circulation system when creating his own "snake" - it doesn't even have a complete digestive tract and cannot replenish nutrition and energy through eating.

As a result, the energy supply required for its movement depends entirely on the fat tissue stored in the body. Once it is exhausted, it can only consume the nutrients of other tissue cells themselves.

Of course, Yi Shen only needs this "snake" to conduct short-term reconnaissance and does not need it to survive independently for a long time. This defect is not a defect at all, and can even be called an "optimization."

As for the control issue, there is no need to worry about it either.

Yi Shen's ability to control cells does not rely on physical connection, but is a kind of spiritual control. Even if the limbs are separated from the body, they are still under his complete control.

Yi Shen put the "snake" back on the ground, and it immediately crawled to the open rainwater well and slid down with a "swoosh".

Pfft!

Yi Shen felt that his "clone" had fallen into a puddle of water.

Its slender body floats in the water with its head raised. Its two big eyes, which look cute at first glance, also adjust the number of internal photoreceptor cells in real time, enhancing its night vision ability.

Through the eyes of the "snake", Yi Shen quickly discovered that there was a huge crack on one side of the well wall of this rainwater well, and some long and thin claw marks could be seen on the edge of the crack.

"Did they dig through it by relying on the alien's own powerful body functions?"

Yi Shen couldn't help but sigh again at the physical strength of the alien creature.

However, despite his emotion, his movements, or rather the movements of the "snake", did not stop.

The snake swam in the water, quietly and quickly drilling into the crack, and then continued to explore forward along the uneven and rough rock wall.

However, as we went deeper into the passage, the light became dimmer and dimmer. Later on, even our eyes that had been specially enhanced for night vision could no longer see clearly.

Therefore, Yi Shen could only modify the skin below the eyes of the "snake", that is, in the temporal fossa, to make it covered with dense temperature receptors. This special nerve ending was originally used to sense temperature changes in the human body, but now he densely arranged it, just like the retina in the eyeball, forming a primitive heat-sensing organ.

It is certainly not comparable to the highly specialized infrared receptors of snakes that have evolved over hundreds of millions of years, but it is sufficient for temporary emergencies.

Relying on this heat-sensing organ that can only sense roughly, the "snake" continued to go deeper into the crack.

It was not until more than ten minutes later that it finally passed through the crack and arrived at an underground cave with a wider space.

In the dark and lightless environment, Yi Shen sensed multiple heat sources through the "snake".

Although I can't see it as clearly as with my eyes, I can sense that these heat sources are living things.

There is no doubt that this is the remaining alien species!

There were only a few of them left, and only four were visible, all lying motionless on the rock wall next to the cave entrance.