"A growth potion can help you regain your strength."
Handing the blue potion to him, Lansing observed his expression without blinking: "But you secretly stopped using the growth potion, which caused your normal development to stagnate. Now using a high concentration of growth potion will make you enter the growth period quickly, and the pain will be more than ten times stronger than before."
The little mermaid's teeth were clenched and her light-colored lips were covered with scars.
Even when he was facing death, he never felt so powerless. Looking at Nota, whose face was getting paler and paler, and Ruan Jiao, who was holding onto his sleeve tightly, he took the potion with a determined look.
[Thank you.]
After typing, he unscrewed the medicine bottle and drank it without hesitation.
Ruan Jiao looked at him worriedly.
Instead, Lansing had a strange expression on his face, squinting his eyes to observe the reactions of others.
The tingling sensation first rose from the tail, as if tens of thousands of needles were piercing the tail. The little mermaid was able to remain calm at first, but when the dense and tingling pain spread to the whole body, she could only curl up her body tightly and bite her fingers hard.
The exposed skin turned red, the blood vessels in the flesh bulged, and the whole person seemed to be rolled on a needle board. There was no part of the body that did not hurt.
But even so, it only let out a brief whimper from between its teeth, and curled up tightly with its body hugging its tail.
It hurts so much, even more than when the scales on my tail were plucked out piece by piece.
The dripping sweat soaked the ground.
Ruan Jiao on the side anxiously waved his tentacles, trying to comfort the other person, but as soon as his hands touched the little mermaid's skin, he heard her let out an unbearable cry of pain.
Ruan Jiao was so shocked that he withdrew his hand instantly and looked at him helplessly.
After biting her lip and thinking for a moment, she leaned over and rested her forehead against his.
The tentacles swayed rhythmically, and the little mermaid's painful moans gradually subsided. The bulging blood vessels on her skin gradually smoothed out, and her whole body slowly calmed down.
After a long time, Ruan Jiao straightened up, let out a breath, and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
The scales on the little mermaid's tail gradually faded away, and the beautiful blue tail turned into two long legs put together.
Lansing watched the changes in the two cubs with increasing interest.
Only he himself knew that what he gave 047 was never a growth potion. The laboratory that created the artificial mermaid had long been destroyed, and the growth potion naturally no longer existed. Even if the mermaids still had some in stock, he couldn't carry it with him. What he gave the other party was just a tube of the most ordinary physical supplement.
What supports 047 to break free from the shackles is his strong willpower.
Or to put it another way, it was his mental power that was ignited. This cub of unknown origin, which seemed to be closely related to the Zerg, was able to soothe 047's pain, most likely relying on his mental power.
Throughout the Galactic Empire, research on psychic power has been stagnant, and many people even question the existence of psychic power as pseudoscience.
But only those who have experienced it personally understand that it is a force of a higher level.
"The pain you've gone through is exactly like what I went through. It seems my guess was correct." Lansing murmured in a low voice.
When the laboratory selected me from countless test subjects and sent me to the ancestral land of the mermaids, I realized my predetermined fate - to become the vessel of the Son of God.
Only the strongest person can be the leader of the mermaid tribe. The strongest person will definitely inherit the bloodline of his father and become the next strong person to inherit the position of the leader.
But this Holy Son was a sickly person with congenital deficiencies. The leader of the mermaid tribe kept this matter a secret, and no one else knew about it except the two elders he trusted the most.
In order to restore the Son of God's strong body, the patriarch made countless efforts. Finally, he secretly set up a laboratory and used the Son of God's genes to create countless experimental subjects in an attempt to rebuild a healthy and strong body for the Son of God.
According to what he learned later, the patriarch had mastered a method of extracting spiritual bodies through some channel. He could extract the spiritual body of the Son of God from his body and then inject it into the chosen body.
But they never expected that the sickly man was not only physically weak, but also mentally weak.
When he woke up from the intense pain and realized that someone was trying to devour him, he devoured the other person in return without any hesitation.
It was a very mysterious feeling. The pain of the forced fusion of the spirit body was a hundred times and a thousand times stronger than the pain brought by the flesh. When the other party was completely devoured, it seemed that he had become the other party and had experienced all the experiences of the other party. But when he really woke up, he was completely sure that he was the experimental subject 074, not Lansing Libian.
He possesses all the memories of Lansing Libian.
The subconscious memory at the spiritual level is sometimes longer-lasting and clearer than the surface memory, and his understanding of Lansing Libian is even deeper than that of Lansing Libian himself.
It just so happens that Lansing Libian's identity can allow him to get everything he wants.
Then everything became a matter of course. In those years, he played the role of Lansing Libian very well, and his nominal father, the leader of the mermaid clan, devoted almost everything to train him.
His identity as the Holy Son of the Mermaid Tribe made it easier for him to study spiritual entities.
The long-held speculation is correct. When the spiritual body is strong enough, it can break the constraints of the flesh.
"You succeeded." Lansing leaned over, looked down at the other person, and said mockingly, "It is the most foolish thing to rely on others when you are in danger."
He also recalled how unwilling he felt when he returned to the mermaid tribe and learned through indirect methods that the laboratory had been destroyed and all the experimental subjects had been dealt with.
Throwing a coat on the little mermaid who had completely transformed into a human form, he stood up and picked up the unconscious little fox, urging him, "Now that you've recovered, come with me."
The little mermaid had not yet recovered from the shock of having two legs. She hurriedly picked up her coat and tied it around her waist, moving her legs unskillfully and stumbling behind him.
When passing by the locker room, Lansing stopped and looked at the dishevelled appearance of the man with a frown: "Go find some clothes yourself."
The little mermaid nodded awkwardly and rushed into the locker room in a panic.
The locker room was mainly used by teachers. The little mermaid shamelessly dug out a set of black men's sportswear and put it on.
After the fish tail turned into a pair of legs, his body also grew taller. The loose sportswear was put on him. Except for being a little too loose, the length was just right.
He pulled his clothes uncomfortably and walked out.
Looking at Lan Xin holding the unconscious little fox, he said, "We have to find medicine to treat her wound first."
"The infirmary is too far away, and it's inconvenient to take them with us." Lan Xin glanced at Ruan Jiao, who followed closely beside 047, and narrowed his eyes and said, "Send them to the shelter first, and then find medicine." After saying that, he glanced at the ignorant little mermaid with a half-smile: "You don't think this is the end, do you?"
"What?" The little mermaid looked at him blankly.
Lansing pulled out the long knife from his back and threw it to him: "Next, you have to learn to go outside and kill insects." He raised his lips deliberately in a malicious tone: "Actually, it's very simple. Killing a bug is no harder than killing a person."
The little mermaid’s face turned pale, but she still held the knife tightly.
On the way to find a shelter for the cubs, the three met the teacher who was searching carefully everywhere.
The teacher breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Ruan Jiao and strode towards him.
The previous transfer was too hasty and they didn't notice when a few cubs fell behind. After they settled the other cubs and counted the number of people, they found that three were missing. Then they carefully avoided the Zerg and came out to search.
"We moved to another basement." She looked at the little mermaid who had become a teenager, and then at the unconscious and obviously injured little fox. She opened her mouth but didn't know how to ask.
"Take us there first." Lansing said.
The teacher nodded, hurried ahead, and led us to the basement for temporary shelter.
After handing the little fox to the teacher who stayed behind and asked Ruan Jiao to take good care of the little fox, the little mermaid followed Lan Xin and walked out step by step.
On the other side, Mori had already rushed to the factory with all his men to meet with Ruan Shiqing.
The factory's protective shield had been fully opened, and the Zerg could not attack for the time being. Mori counted the weapons in the warehouse, distributed them all, and then led his men to start a counterattack.
They have a lot of people and are equipped with powerful weapons, so they are more confident when killing the Zerg.
Ruan Shiqing sat in the control room, keeping an eye on the situation around the factory so that he could notify Mo Xi at any time.
The army released batches of reconnaissance robots. As soon as the robots came out of the protective shield, they were trampled or knocked down by the Zerg. However, many surviving robots flew to higher places and became the army's eyes.
The entire outer city was filled with Zerg. The sky and the ground were filled with Zerg flying or crawling. Their hard shells and limbs collided and rubbed against each other, making a very mentally polluting noise.
Ruan Shiqing kept switching perspectives to understand the situation everywhere.
After a long time, he narrowed his eyes and opened the communication channel with Marin: "Those Zerg are circling around the cub school. Mr. Rong and Hector are over there."
Mori looked at the real-time images transmitted from him—densely packed Zerg spread out in a spiral shape, and the center of the spiral was the cub school.
He hissed softly and said, "There are too many. Even if Mr. Rong and Hector are here, they won't be able to hold out for long. We can't kill them all."
Ruan Shiqing switched the interface to the anti-reconnaissance system. Looking at the dense Zerg rushing into B3024 from the dark universe, he said, "We must find a way to cut off the Zerg's follow-up forces. B3024 has a space station, so there should be a protection system, right? The asteroid-level protective shield should be able to temporarily withstand the Zerg's follow-up offensive."
"Yes." Mori thought for a moment and said, "In the inner city."
Ruan Shiqing's eyes darkened: "Then let's go to the inner city."