Chapter 1213: Absolute Adaptation, Infinite Evolution

As more and more roots poured into the underground, Chu Changqing gritted his teeth and rushed toward the root limb on the ground!

Forget it,

get through this hurdle first!

Chu Changqing rushed through the crowd and took the root limb in his hand. A faint green light like a gemstone flickered from the bottom of his eyes, as if he were sensing the cell structure of this thing through touch...

"Chu Changqing!!"

"I know! My ability takes time to activate!!"

Hearing Su Zhiwei's urging again from afar, Chu Changqing could only bite the bullet and reply.

At this moment, Chu Changqing's mind was blank, just like when he was cultivating those spiders in the restroom. Biological codes poured into his consciousness like a torrent. He couldn't explain any fragment of it using existing human scientific theories, but he could perceive its characteristics... just like a Creator standing high at the end of the biological chain, looking down at all living things.

Gradually, the panic and anxiety in Chu Changqing's heart were smoothed out, and his whole person entered an indescribable flow state. Those emerald green pupils were like the emotionless eyes of a god, staring at the root limb in his hand...

Then,

he slammed its sharp end into his own blood vessels!

The limb from the Gray Realm calamity merged with human flesh and blood of this era for the first time. Although the wriggling plant tissue had lost its activity, Chu Changqing's own blood vessels seemed to come alive, and they actually began to devour the root...

He was using a human body to devour a calamity!

As the calamity tissue from the Bitter Flesh Turbid Forest was devoured and decomposed by Chu Changqing's blood vessels bit by bit, his whole person underwent visible alienation...

First, a deep green shell like a plant appeared on the surface of his skin, then his ten fingers kept growing thin and slender, like willow branches, and also like grass tips. Roots pierced through his shoes and dug deep into the earth. At a glance, he looked like a half-human, half-calamity monster!

"...Chu Changqing?"

Lu Xun, who had been watching this place from afar, saw this scene, and a look of shock appeared in his eyes.

Not only him, but the people who were originally around Chu Changqing also screamed in terror when they saw this, frantically starting to stay away from the half-human, half-tree monster. But Chu Changqing himself seemed to have no reaction to this; his consciousness was still immersed in the process of biological decoding...

……

"Professor Ye... I don't understand, why did they return my paper?"

College student Chu Changqing, wearing a plaid sweater and black-rimmed glasses, held a thick stack of materials in his hand, his eyes full of resentment as he looked at Professor Ye.

By the playground in the sun, Professor Ye finished flipping through the last page of the paper and smiled helplessly.

He flipped the paper back to the cover, and a few large black characters appeared before his eyes:

——"King of Cryptobiosis: A Cross-Dimensional Analysis of the Extreme Environment Adaptation Mechanism of Tardigrades"

"You wrote it very well." Professor Ye praised sincerely. "The theory of anti-dehydration molecular machines, the quantum biology hypothesis of radiation resistance, and even the quite bold space-time folding model of cryptobiotic metabolism... every point is written very well. But from the perspective of traditional cell biology, your entry point is wrong."

"Where is it wrong??"

Chu Changqing was very unconvinced. "Tardigrades can adapt to various extreme environments and can even survive in a vacuum. It is the most powerful creature on Earth, no problem!"

"Tardigrades are the strongest creatures on Earth; I have no objection to that." Professor Ye paused for a moment. "But why do you think it can be the strongest? Is it just because it can survive in a vacuum? Or because it can withstand 1.14 GPa of impact?"

Chu Changqing opened his mouth but didn't know how to refute.

"Let me ask it another way... What do you think the strongest creature is like?"

Chu Changqing thought for a moment. "Able to adapt to various extreme environments, no need to ingest energy in the traditional sense... No, if it can directly absorb dark matter as energy, that would be best. Large body size, strong regenerative ability, and also..."

"Too many." Professor Ye shook his head. "I only need two words to create the strongest creature."

"What??"

"Absolute adaptation, infinite evolution."

Professor Ye put the paper aside and spoke unhurriedly. "As long as it is a creature, there will be weaknesses. For example, the tardigrades of the past did not have the ability to resist ultraviolet rays. But two years ago in India, a scientist discovered a new tardigrade that evolved a fluorescent protective shield, which can resist four times the lethal dose of ultraviolet rays...

Imagine, if a creature has the ability to evolve in a very short time, if you throw it into the sun, it can evolve skin capable of resisting 5500 degrees Celsius; if you throw it into a hydraulic press, after being crushed in a corner, it can evolve a shell that can withstand tens of thousands of tons of pressure; even if you throw it into a black hole, it can absorb energy from dark matter to evolve itself...

At first, there is no absolute strongest creature. But when a creature can evolve to the point where everything it comes into contact with—other environments or other creatures—is weaker than itself, then the relative strongest becomes the absolute strongest."

Professor Ye looked at his proud student who was lost in thought and smiled slightly. "Now, do you know where the best entry point for this paper is?"

Chu Changqing's eyes lit up slightly.

As if he had thought of something, he spoke without hesitation:

"The Evolutionary Revolution of Horizontal Gene Transfer."

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"More and more... Damn it!"

Su Zhiwei felt the plant roots surging from all directions, and sweat kept seeping from her forehead.

Lu Xun's starlight was precarious, causing Su Zhiwei's pressure to soar. If she were really allowed to let go, she could indeed clear away these roots... But Lu Xun said that no one would die here today.

Su Zhiwei knew very well that there must be no casualties among the people in this shelter, otherwise panic would spread rapidly, and the image Lu Xun had worked so hard to build would also be shattered. What she had to maintain was not just the three words "Lord Tian Shu," but the people's confidence in them.

However, no matter how good Su Zhiwei was at fighting, she couldn't be in two places at once. With so many refugees here and so many calamity roots, how could she clear them all by herself?

That guy Chu Changqing is slow again... really useless!

Bang—!!

Su Zhiwei blasted a few terrifying roots apart with another punch. The next second, roots actually started to emerge from the soles of her feet, coiling around her body like pythons.

"Oh no..." Su Zhiwei's heart skipped a beat.

Just then, those roots that had coiled up suddenly seemed to be pulled by some force, actually struggling wildly, directly breaking free from Su Zhiwei's body and being forcibly dragged back into the ground!

Su Zhiwei was stunned. Before she could react, the surrounding earth exploded!

Super roots, several times thicker than the other roots, extended from under Su Zhiwei's feet, emitting a green light, and rushed toward those calamities in an overwhelming manner!