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The chat screenshot came to an abrupt end, Li Sheng leaned back, leaned on the back of the chair, and frowned unconsciously.

In this screenshot, the words [Lord of the Insects] and [God's Evil] were clearly mentioned. It was consistent with what the Special Affairs Bureau mentioned last night.

But the screenshot did not go further to explain how to save yourself if you are infected by the Lord of Insects.

"We must first find out whether this screenshot is true or false."

Li Sheng thought of something, enlarged the screenshot again and again, and stared at the so-called Mothman photo posted by the host HaccKer.

The monster in the photo was hidden in the shadows of the trees and was blurry. But the night sky as the background was still clear.

With his understanding of astronomy, he could identify Mercury, Mars, Venus, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, M22 globular cluster, etc.

Enough.

Li Sheng immediately opened the star map website, searched for the star map of the previous night according to the date of the chat screenshot, and began to calculate.

Convert the right ascension of the planet into the hour angle under the horizontal coordinates, convert the North Pole of the equatorial coordinates into the horizontal coordinates, and obtain the latitude, longitude, and local time.

Found it, along the Rabbit River in the northwest corner of South Dakota, USA.

Li Sheng rubbed his temples. The error of this starry sky positioning method is about 20 kilometers. If it is in a densely populated urban area, it is difficult to accurately lock the position of the photographer.

Fortunately, South Dakota is vast and sparsely populated. With an area of ​​199,747 square kilometers and a total population of less than one million, there are only a few settlements, which is enough to narrow the scope to a small town with several farms.

Li Sheng entered the name of the town to search for news, and indeed found a piece of news-half a month ago, a local farmer's family was robbed by robbers, and a fierce gunfight broke out between the two sides. In the end, only the child of the farmer's family survived and was sent to a mental hospital for treatment.

Below the news, there is a gun advertisement from Prometheus Labs.

A beautiful blond white girl holds a semi-automatic shotgun with a drum magazine and says seriously: "In the Midwest of the United States, it takes 20 minutes for the police to arrive after you call the police. In these 20 minutes, who can protect you except the gun?"

This gun advertisement is pervasive. It is true that the United States has its own national conditions.

Li Sheng closed the webpage and basically confirmed that the content of the chat screenshot was true. "Considering that there is a special affairs bureau in China and the United States has the FBI's special incidents department, each country must have established a professional organization to deal with abnormal events. They must have accumulated a lot of experience.

There must be a way to deal with the so-called [Lord of the Insects] infection, but I haven't found enough information now. I don't know enough about that world."

After thinking it over again and again, he unplugged the USB drive, turned off the computer, took out a pen and paper from his schoolbag, and began to record in detail.

The content includes but is not limited to the total amount of calories consumed that day, his current height, weight, waist circumference, body fat percentage, body temperature, etc.

Then he started exercising.

Push-ups, 25 reps each, squats, 25 reps each, sit-ups, 25 reps each, burpees, 25 reps each.

Do this cycle until your muscles start to ache and your breathing becomes rapid, then stop.

"My muscle endurance has improved significantly compared to before, but it's not as exaggerated as my muscle explosiveness."

Li Sheng also recorded the fitness data on paper and thought about it seriously.

It was mentioned in elementary school textbooks that ants can lift objects hundreds of times heavier than themselves, and are the strongmen of the insect world.

So, if an ant is enlarged to human size, can it lift heavy objects such as cars and trucks?

The answer is no. Even if we exclude factors such as oxygen content and chitin joint bearing capacity, it is absolutely impossible.

The reason is simple. When the size of an organism changes, the length changes linearly, the area changes in a square ratio, and the volume changes in a cubic ratio.

If an ant is enlarged 250 times, its muscle cross-section will be 62,500 times the original, and its weight will be 15,625,000 times the original.

First, it cannot exert its original strength, and second, it will be crushed to death by its own weight.

So, ants have no merits at all?

That is not the case.

When ants exercise, their muscles will produce special enzymes and hormone proteins, causing ATP (adenosine triphosphate, the most direct energy source of organisms) to change dramatically, releasing huge energy, causing the long filament molecules of muscle protein to contract rapidly, achieving the effect of muscle explosion.

If Li Sheng guessed correctly, what he absorbed was this ability - extreme explosion.

Hunger came again, Li Sheng pulled out the snack box from under the bed, and nibbled the chocolate balls one bite at a time.

"There is another question, why did the taxi driver mutate so quickly and grow compound eyes and fangs immediately? The changes in me are not so drastic?"

"Is it because his blood was sucked away by the bee monster, and I was just stung? Or did I come into contact with the red blood amber on the bee monster's forehead?"

There was too little information in hand, and no matter how hard I thought, I couldn't get the answer. I ate a lot of snacks again without realizing it, but the hunger still did not subside. The needle hairs under his arm also pricked out again.

Is this a state of [Gene Hunger]?

According to the screenshot, new genes must be absorbed to stabilize the mutation, otherwise it will become a monster.

Li Sheng looked at the time. It was already one o'clock in the morning and everyone in the family was asleep.

He wrapped his entire right hand with a towel, put on a forehead thermometer, quietly opened the bedroom door, left home, and came to the green belt downstairs in the community.

After a day of desiccant absorbing water, the phone can now be turned on. He turned on the flashlight on his phone and searched for the target in the bushes.

This is it!

He stretched out his left hand, grabbed a green Chinese mantis, and placed it in his palm.

The skin on his palm moved, hooking the mantis's legs and arms, making it unable to break free.

The skin slowly absorbed the blood cells in the mantis' body, and at the same time, it also transfused some of Li Sheng's blood back into the mantis' body, preventing it from dying immediately.

Hot! Scalding hot!

The heat that he felt when he climbed out of the canal swept through his body again, and Li Sheng's whole body was emitting hot steam, especially his left hand holding the mantis.

He subconsciously took a deep breath, but a long white breath spurted out, like a swimming dragon. The temperature in the body is definitely not just the 45 degrees shown by the electronic forehead thermometer.

The heat comes quickly and goes quickly.

Half a minute later, the skin on the palm of the left hand automatically returned to normal, the needle hairs on the right hand were dormant again, and the mantis stood up again, staggeringly, without any abnormality.

There was still some vague connection with Li Sheng.

"Is this completed?"

His expression was solemn, and the strong hunger in his stomach gradually subsided. It seemed that a set of cycles of [Gene Hunger] had been completed.

Occasionally, someone would pass by downstairs in the community late at night. He did not stay for long. He gently held the mantis and returned to his home upstairs. He locked the mantis in a plastic box with a vent, tightened the lid with wire, and hid it under the bed.

Then he examined himself. There was no obvious change in height, he lost one kilogram in weight, his waist circumference was reduced, his body fat decreased, and his strength increased slightly.

"If I got needle hairs and power bursts from the grass paving ants, then what did I get from this gene extraction?"

After a moment of hesitation, Li Sheng raised his arm and tightened his muscles.

Clang!

Two long and narrow bone knives suddenly popped out from the lower ends of his left and right forearms, cutting through the air with a sharp sound.