The world enters the age of myth

This is a bizarre world of flesh and blood. A large number of organs once operated in this world of flesh and blood in an orderly manner amidst chaos.

They use the earth, air, and water as nutrients and sunlight as energy to grow wantonly in this space.

Each of these organs has its own function, and it is so novel for people to visit them. It is not an exaggeration to even describe this world of flesh and blood as a "biological factory."

"This is... pure iron? It is smelted from this organ. It can actually smelt steel biologically!" One of the experts discovered a strange organ hidden behind the diaphragm, which can actually smelt iron ore. into steel. Of course, the quality of these steels is not very good. It is as black as an iron pot, and the carbon content should not be low.

"I don't know what the use of smelting these crude steels is."

This is the first time that people have discovered a creature that can smelt steel biologically.

"What is this? Sugar? A high-purity energy source."

The ether value measuring instrument kept ringing, and people discovered a light yellow high-energy substance, which was produced by an organ.

"Could it be that these monsters have developed intelligence and want to use tools? That shouldn't be the case...it could also be part of the monster's body."

Everyone was puzzled and finally couldn't find the answer after much deliberation, so they had no choice but to give up.

"Come here, we found it! These should be transparent monsters that have not yet hatched, right?" Another expert swallowed and said, "They look like human female ovaries..."

"It should be. The more complete parasite is inside!"

People found hundreds of millions of egg-like objects in a strange organ like a flower bud.

This number is mind-numbing. Just one "bud" can hatch hundreds of millions of monsters. This kind of reproductive ability is really too strong.

The inspection team carefully selected and spent an hour dissecting more than a hundred unhatched monsters and packing them away.

"It would be great if we could develop drugs against parasites." Li Mingrui was in a good mood.

There is a barely passable "trail" near the flower buds. This trail is like a white and transparent leather tube, leading to the deep underground.

According to the experts' guess, it might be the "urethra", or it might be the "vas deferens" or "fallopian tube". It is actually quite clean and not filled with miscellaneous frozen mucus like other places.

Lu Yiming hesitated for a while. The climate in this place was too cold and he didn't feel any particular danger, so he had no choice but to enter.

"Let's go, we're here, we have to go in and take a look."

This pipe leads to a darker area, and people found a large number of corpses of transparent monsters around here. Even if these guys died, they remained transparent.

However, the moist air stuck to the surface of these monsters and formed a thick layer of frost, making it easy to distinguish them.

Lu Yiming shrugged his shoulders and asked, "I have a question. The skin of these monsters has a certain degree of transparency. Can we directly achieve optical invisibility by peeling off the skin?"

"No, it's not possible. We once peeled off the monster's entire skin and conducted a controlled experiment. It turned out that after this layer of skin was destroyed, it slowly melted into blood, and there was no way to ensure its integrity."

A Vostok expert said, "This kind of superpower may be a complex ability that is not just distributed in the skin, so it cannot be simply copied."

All in all, a large collection of various messy corpse specimens.

They went back and forth several times and transported them all to the anti-gravity spacecraft, under strict supervision by soldiers on duty.

People cut through the muscles layer by layer and explored downwards.

Various miscellaneous organs were observed, many of which had unknown uses.

The monster's body is very dark and the air is turbid, which makes people uncomfortable. The ultra-low temperature has killed all life here. Apart from being a little nauseated, there is no danger.

It took 16 hours to dig down to a depth of nearly 200 meters. The heart, liver, pancreas and other similar organs were all discovered many times.

Finally the soil was dug.

"It's finally over. Even the Antarctic region is two hundred meters thick. If it were really ordinary land, we would have to dig a full 10 kilometers to reach the ground." Lu Yiming lowered his body and touched the soil under his feet.

Their current organ seems to be a "stomach", which can secrete strong acid and corrosive mucus, corroding the silica on the ground.

Fortunately, the strong cold air flow has completely frozen these digestive juices, and the "stomach" has completely died. Otherwise all of them run the risk of being dissolved and digested.

"This monster is reproduced based on the organs of humans or animals. The Devourer's stomach is close to the earth, digesting the entire planet. In fact, it has more than just this stomach, it is about two or three kilometers apart , a new set of organs will appear...I understand, those organs that smelt steel are similar to our hair and nails!"

An expert looked suddenly enlightened, "If a living thing wants to grow normally, it will definitely metabolize and excrete a large amount of waste elements. It's just that the digestion ability of this devourer is too strong, and normal carbon elements will be used again after metabolism. , but its demand for metal elements was not very high, so an organ for smelting steel appeared."

“Instead of actually smelting the steel, you’re expelling the waste elements.”

"Sounds quite reasonable..."

"It's really strange that so many scattered organs can be combined to work together."

"The colorless and transparent monster we encountered is indeed just the immune function of this huge living body. The production of transparent monsters only accounts for less than one percent of all organs. It is really incredible."

What I saw and heard this time was really eye-opening. The structure of the internal organs of this monster named Devourer actually completely imitated a normal creature. It even has the same problems as kidney stones and gallstones.

"What does this mean? Billions of years of evolution of living things indeed have their own unique principles. We have not yet fully explored the principles. There are still many potentials that have not yet been developed. For example, why do cancer cells that can proliferate indefinitely? Will normal cells transform into cancer cells? Cancer cells can also transform into normal cells in a few cases..."

"Yes, in some laboratories during the earth's civilization, cancer cells were transformed into normal cells under certain special mechanisms. It is indeed a wonderful thing."

These experts actually discussed some difficult points in biology, and discussed whether the appearance of this monster would bring a series of reference implications.

They collected a small number of biological specimens from various organs, loaded them in petri dishes, and carefully preserved them.

"Wait a minute, everyone! There are all kinds of organs here, but there is no brain!" A Vostok expert seemed to have thought of something and clapped his hands fiercely: "Everyone, think about it carefully, is this very suspicious? ?What does it mean to have no brain? It means that it does not have any intelligence...Does it mean that it does not have the ability to evolve the most complex brain?"

"No...if it reproduces according to the body structure of humans or animals, it cannot have a brain. Even a smaller brain should exist. Even insects and ants have brains, how could it not have one!"

Except for single-celled organisms, all multi-celled animals have brains.

Colonel Li Mingrui's reaction speed was also extremely fast. He immediately said: "The brain was not found. It is more likely because... the brain is not here! This is only a small part of its body."

"Maybe the Devourer only has one brain?! As long as we destroy the brain, can we completely eliminate this monster!"

"Its brain is most likely still alive and hiding somewhere on the planet. We have to find a way to find it!"

The suggestion of this conjecture surprised everyone for a while.

The Eastern fleet had a deep hatred for this monster, and a large number of soldiers died due to the monster's attack. Therefore, it is naturally best to kill this monster within one's ability, which can also be regarded as revenge for the lost compatriots.

"It is indeed possible." Lu Yiming frowned and could understand the thoughts of these people, "But it does not necessarily have only one brain, maybe there are millions of them like the heart and stomach. If the number is too large Even if there are too many, we can’t destroy all the brains.”

"How about... let's find the location of the brain again?"

After putting forward this conjecture, everyone searched for another 6 hours in this intricate world of flesh and blood, using engineering shovels to dig out many long and thin ice caves. In the end, the monster's brain was still not found, but long strips of calcium-like material like optical cables were found, which looked like the "bones" of the Devourer.

Every organ has tiny neurons that are interconnected with these calcium-like substances.

Each of these calcium-like substances is several kilometers long and is so hard that it is very laborious to cut it open even with a rune knife.

These bones are very thin, only 10 centimeters in diameter, and are laid in the cavity like optical cables. Bones are connected to each other by slender ligaments.

Cut it open with a rune knife and you will find a large number of neurons hidden among the slender bones. These neurons are very large, and their slender nerve endings are as thin and long as hair. They are protected by bones and extend farther.

This discovery is mind-blowing!