Chapter 475
Chapter 475 Biological Laboratory
A talent-stealing bug!
The Chip’s experimental data showed that these bugs could only perform one instance of talent-stealing through their entire lives. It triggered at the moment they transformed from larvae into an actual insect.
Moreover, the bug’s talent-stealing ability had its limits.
Seventeen percent of genetic segments was the upper limit on the amount of talent that the bug could steal from its host. Any more than this limit and the excessive foreign genetic segments would cause the bug’s own genes to tilt towards instability and result in the chain collapse of its genetic structure.
That obviously didn’t reach Greem’s goal of being able to obtain 100% of a lifeform’s genetic chain!
The World of Adepts was so large and prosperous. Even Greem himself would not believe it if you claimed that no adept had ever discovered the unique ability of this strange bug. However, as the World of Adepts had yet to develop a complete microscopic system, even the most potent adept of this world could only extend their magical abilities to the level of molecules.
Any further, where magical research reached the levels of the atom, and even the high-grade adepts could not do anything.
Playing dead?
That should be a survival ability that only lifeforms of average intelligence should have access to, shouldn’t it?!
Could this insignificant piece of flesh already possess intelligence that rivaled ordinary lifeforms?
Greem sighed silently.
The mysticality of the life systems in the World of Adepts was beyond the limits of his imagination. Any of his past understanding and rules were going to be in the way of his future research and exploration. Getting rid of his fixed mindset was the most important thing if he wanted to improve in this brand new system and study the arcane arts.
Greem silently drew a rune in the air and shot it into the moss carpet below him.
The vessels surrounding the membrane trembled slightly, and concentrated life potion injected into the membrane. Greem leaned on the cocoon and stared unblinkingly at the piece of flesh to look for a response.
The piece of flesh that had been playing dead started to tremble tremendously under the stimulation of the powerful nutrient solution. The one dozen appendages shrunk back into its body as it began to swell and transform.
In Greem’s spiritual senses and the clear scans that the Chip was feeding to him, the piece of flesh continually absorbed the nutrient solution into its body, quickly turning the nutrients into tissue structures and internal organs. Some muscles and bones appeared out of nowhere. They were gradually growing and shaping up while being pulled to their appropriate positions by the attached muscles and fibers. These bones and muscles were being pieced together into the skeleton of a strange bug.
This process was mystical and miraculous. It had both the rigidity of the biological sciences and the wonder of arcane arts. Greem couldn’t help but be impressed as he watched.
Yet, at the moment the strange bug’s skeletal structure was about to be completed, An unknown genetic quake suddenly destroyed everything.
Several chains snapped at the genetic level, causing the evolving bug to explode into a bloody paste.
The explosion was so uniform that not a single piece of the lifeform’s flesh remained in the cocoon. All the tissue had been ground into a paste, coloring the membrane of the cocoon a blinding crimson color.
Greem straightened his body in disappointment.
Multiple notifications from the Chip popped up in his mind.
[Beep. Sample cloning attempt 125 failed. Reason for failure: a fracture in genetic chains. It is recommended to destroy the remains of the sample.]