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Chapter 23: Phagocytosis

  The mutant woman's face was smashed into a bloody pulp, like a wounded beast, crawling on the ground with limbs, her blood-red eyes revealing resentful and hateful gaze, while also becoming cautious, not daring to launch an attack recklessly, her fierce gaze fixed on Mu Xiao.

  "This is bad! The mutant creature has actually developed emotions and a decent IQ!" Mu Xiao was in a difficult situation, and it was the worst-case scenario. If he ran away now, he would immediately be attacked by this cunning mutant human. If he didn't run, his body would become hungrier and hungrier, and he wouldn't know if he could hold on to kill the mutant woman. And if another mutant appeared, he would definitely die.

  Because Mu Xiao was in a secret room on the fifth floor and personally saw a guardian evolve into a mutant, but it wasn't this female mutant.

  However, under normal circumstances, mutants and mutants cannot stay in the same place for too long. They also have a desire to devour each other's flesh and blood among their own kind. Once they encounter each other, they will engage in battle. Therefore, the probability of Mu Shuo encountering two mutants is not high, but now he is in an unfavorable situation, and he cannot help but worry.

  It's impossible to scare it away, the blood-red eyes are full of hatred, and they're absolutely unrelenting!

  "It's all over!"

  Mokuso takes the initiative to attack, his body is like a bow, his mental strength is concentrated in his legs, and his muscles are like springs compressed to the limit, suddenly bursting out violently!

  His bullet-like body shot out extremely fast, carrying a desperate and crazy will, his fists were filled with spiritual power, and he struck the head of the mutated woman again.

  Mù Xiāo, at the moment when he was close to the mutated woman, knew that it had a quick reaction, so he overdrawn his mental power output, bursting out several invisible lines, entwining her limbs and restricting her dodging speed.

  A loud muffled sound!

  One punch landed on flesh, and the mutant woman's face fell off in several pieces of minced meat. Her entire body flew backwards like a rag doll and slammed into the ground.

  Overexerting his mental strength, Mu Xiao's face turned pale, his belly caved in, and he felt a bit hungry to the point of his stomach sticking to his back. But he knew he had to quickly resolve the mutated woman, otherwise, it would be him who would end up dead.

  The mutated woman's brain was buzzing with noise, but she was just a newly evolved mutant, and her powers hadn't been fully developed yet, so she was beaten up like this by Mu Xiao.

  Although the mutated woman has intelligence, it is limited to basic thinking ability and has not yet recovered her memory and wisdom. However, her physical resistance and attack power are significantly higher than those of Mu Xiao. If it weren't for the mutated woman's blade-like fingernails, she wouldn't have been able to cut into Mu Xiao's muscles so easily, like cutting tofu.

  At this time, Mu Xiao had no combat skills, flew quickly forward, simply and directly violently grabbed the white-haired mutant woman's hair, pressed her hard against the wall, intensified the output of mental energy to form a sharp object wrapped around his fist, and frantically pounded the mutant woman's head!

  "Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"...

  Cracks appeared on the wall. Mu Xiao's mechanical pounding was as tough as steel wire, and the variant woman's hair was also as tough as steel wire, and it didn't break no matter how hard Mu Xiao pulled.

  The mutant woman's face was unrecognizable, with chunks of flesh and blood scattered everywhere, her eyeballs burst open. Mu Xiao's fist ached and felt numb, but he knew the mutant woman wasn't dead yet. The mutant's flesh and blood were extremely thick and bright red, also very pungent, but not as dark and putrid as that of zombies.

  Muxiao's belly was again subjected to the mutant woman's counterattack, her knife-like fingernails scratched, and his skin was torn apart. If it weren't for his peculiar body that didn't bleed, his intestines would have spilled out. But Muxiao wasn't doing well either, the pain of being sliced open made him feel like his intestines were all cut to pieces inside his belly.

  Gritting his teeth and clenching his fists, he endured the pain, transforming it into strength. His willpower turned into a hammer that struck with all its might, pounding him mercilessly like meat paste!

  He only barely cultivated the "Mind Power", which is a very crude martial art, simply using mental power and spiritual power as one attack and one assist, but both are also one of the effects of Mind Power, so it's impossible to cultivate without mental power, and mental power can't exert too much powerful force, only when the boundary is improved, Mind Power will be properly improved.

  Mù Xiāo started evolving into a new human from the beginning, with only a deep cultivation experience, but unable to quickly transform into his own combat power, so he would have such a passive situation.

  Sometimes, knowing too much is not a good thing. There are often preconceived notions, and cultivation should be done in an orderly and gradual manner. If one cultivates without considering the consequences, their blood vessels, genes, and soul consciousness cannot withstand the impact of energy, and the outcome will only be destruction of the body and annihilation of the soul.

  So after Mu Xiao was reborn, he wholeheartedly wanted to cultivate quickly and couldn't help but feel anxious, unable to calm down.

  However, if he were to combine his mental and spiritual powers before attacking, it would definitely be stronger than using just one of them. But his physical body couldn't support the output of such an overwhelming power that exceeded his limits. Therefore, Muxiao could only try his best to save himself and fight desperately.

  Moreover, his physique is only SSS-level, and it's clear that this variant human physique has already reached the 'top' primary level, which is one level higher than him. This is also the reason why he was beaten so badly. However, Muxiao's body has its own advantages, barely able to withstand the impact of a 'top' physique and continue fighting normally.

  "I've died once, evolved in agony, and now I'm still afraid of pain!"

  The pain he endured during his previous transformation is nothing compared to what he's going through now.

  The bones of the variant woman were like a tortoise shell, and Mu Xiao didn't know how many hammerings he had endured. Even the flesh on his face was almost completely knocked off, revealing white bones, but they still hadn't shattered. Astonishingly, she hadn't died either, and would occasionally grab and slash at Mu Xiao's abdomen, only to be knocked dizzy by a punch, repeating this intermittent process.

  The vitality of visible mutants is so strong.

  However, Mu Xiao had a ruthless and vicious strength that could burst the head of the mutant woman. He grabbed the mutant woman's hair, his veins bulging with anger, without any looseness.

  "No way! If I don't smash its head open, I'll be exhausted to death!!"

  Wooden tongue is anxious like burning, face color pale and colorless.

  "Overdraft again!"

  His face twisted in anguish, resolute.

  Suddenly, a faint golden blood thread filled Mu Xiao's eyes, and the furious spiritual power surged out like a tidal wave. The hunger in his body was as if it had devoured his intestines.

  His mind was filled with a sense of hunger and pain, the entire world seemed to fall silent for an instant, time slowed down extremely.

  Her golden eyes saw clearly the objects in front of her, flesh shredded and blood splattered, white skull, spiritual power and mental power merged into a thought in an instant, like a tide covering the head of the changing woman.

  A sense of enlightenment resonated within Mu Xiao's heart.

  Moku Shō switches to mental power, highly concentrated into a conical shape attached to his fist, "Open."

  Calm and icy words echoed.

  With one punch, it went through smoothly and directly into the skull of the mutant woman. In an instant, the fist felt a warm and sticky brain matter wrapping around it, making one's heart feel extremely refreshing.

  The Variant Woman's breath quickly dissipated, and a thicker-than-usual 'Evolutionary Source' merged into Mu Shao's body.

  A warm and pleasant feeling spread through Mu Shao's body, his tense spirit relaxed, and he almost fainted to the ground.

  In less than five minutes, Mu Xiao had recovered from his physical and mental exhaustion.

  Twentyfold gene resonance, equivalent to twenty levels of variant humans. This moment gave Muxiao a triple jump in evolutionary power source, directly upgrading to the eighteenth gene resonance.

  The Sea of Consciousness further refined a rich and pure source, and Mu Xiao also realized the gap between his physical body and that of the Variant. He continued to add the source to his strengthened physique, transforming it into gentle energy that continuously nourished the injuries his body had sustained, gradually healing several deep wounds.

  He has already stepped into the physique of a top-notch new human, mainly because he just overused his complete mental power, resulting in side effects. After all, his body hasn't truly optimized to the "Foundation Building" realm, and forcibly using the mental power of martial arts cultivation, his body and soul haven't collapsed, which is already quite special for his bloodline.

  So, Mu Xiao's overall condition has improved somewhat, but he still looks spiritless and pale, with a half-dead expression, his whole body weak. This is the consequence of him suddenly using 'Mind Power' as his main attack method, resulting in adverse side effects.

  Suddenly, his nose caught a wave of drooling and intense fragrance, ignoring the existence of a group of ability source springs.

  That fragrance was actually drifting from the shattered head of the mutant woman, with thick, dark red blood clots flowing slowly down.

  Engulf! Engulf! Engulf!...

  Like a devil's tempting voice, it echoed in Mu Shao's mind with a high frequency.

  "The blood of this devil has a great temptation for me."

  Mu Xiao didn't feel dizzy from hunger, her mind was extremely clear.

  After all, as a human being, swallowing one's own kind is neither too much nor too little, and there will be a sense of resistance.

  It's like the rustling of trees.

  "It's really delicious!" Mu Xiao's devouring thoughts are becoming more and more intense.

  "Damn genes!"

  Mù xiāo clearly felt the genes in his body, all of which were acting out of character and extremely active. They showed a strong desire to evolve, and he had a feeling that it was as if he had triggered the 'Miraculous Bloodline' trait.

  To know, in the future evolutionary era, how great the characteristics of this 'non-existent bloodline' on his body are, no one knows. He also returned to this era and created this 'miraculous BUG bloodline' that countless people in the future cannot do. Of course, he is not clear whether his own mind is normal or not.

  This 'miracle bloodline formula' is a desperate existence, because of the infinitely terrifying guy Shui Bai Lan, and she comes and goes without a trace, sometimes disappearing for a very long time, and every time she appears, it's a bloody massacre, gradually no one dares to provoke this female killing god.

  Even those pseudo-gods on the Moon are extremely wary of Shui Bailan's existence, but both sides have a tacit understanding, as if there is some kind of agreement, and conflicts rarely occur.

  But now Muxiao possesses this 'bug bloodline in the miracle'... It is composed of the initial blood gene of Shui Bailan, and then merged with Muxiao's own blood gene, fully reorganizing unknown changes.

  After all, everyone's bloodline genes are different, so after taking the Miracle Bloodline formula, there will be different reaction effects. For example, the changes that are happening to Mu Shuo's body now may not happen on someone else's body. As for what kind of abilities his own body has, he can only slowly explore them later.

  Mu Xiao had all sorts of doubts, making him somewhat uncertain in his heart whether it was an opportunity to unlock his own bloodline.

  "I absorb the blood of this heart, extremely likely to greatly accelerate the upgrade."

  "One mutant is already making me like this, what if there were two or three? They are constantly evolving, absolutely faster than the new humans, and there will be even greater crises in the future. I must also speed up my genetic optimization and cultivation! Otherwise, it will be difficult to take a step in this chaotic world!"

  "Now that I'm absorbing blood, it's beneficial for me. These mutated humans aren't considered real humans anymore, so drinking their blood won't give me any nausea or guilt. And the Blood Pearls, Blood Crystals, and Crystal Cores are also obtained from these mutants and zombies, not formed through blood coagulation, right? So directly drinking blood shouldn't be a problem either?"

  "Evolution is a food chain. Zombies eat humans, mutants also eat humans, mutant beasts also eat humans, new humans kill zombies and take blood pearls, it's the same principle as eating mutant beast flesh..."

  Muxiao comforted himself, alleviating the resistance in his heart, to ensure safety and put his mind at ease, he released a wisp of spiritual energy onto the corpse of the mutated person for examination.

  Although the wood spirit's depletion was severe, it could still condense and squeeze out some spiritual energy in a small range, at the cost of hunger pangs coming on even more fiercely.

  His face was pale and haggard, his lips dry, as if he had aged several years, but his eyes were still bright, completely forgetting about his physical condition. His spiritual power extended along the Variant's rotten head, entering its interior, and then his spirit split into threads to examine it.

  "After the mutant's death, signs of decay appeared on his skin and bones all over his body." His mind simply fed back a piece of information.

  As they dug deeper, suddenly, Mu Xiao overturned the previous information again.

  "No! Energy transfer is occurring all over the body and it's all converging on the heart! This blood is all flowing out of the heart!"

  Muxiao ignored his own life and death, increasing his spiritual power scan.

  "As expected, the mutant's genes are far more powerful than those of a zombie, with extremely extreme genes and immense evolutionary potential!"

  Mu Xi had expected it in her heart, but she couldn't help feeling a little surprised when she confirmed it personally.

  "It must be swallowed!!"

  Mù Xiāo no longer had any hesitation, firstly to determine his physical bloodline and secondly to enhance his strength.

  Killing zombies is effortless, but the existence of mutants poses an intangible threat, especially now that he's injured. Even if he eats all the food, it's hard to repair the hidden damage on his body. On the other hand, swallowing the mutant woman's heart filled with rich blood, he feels like he can completely break through physical limitations.

  He released his psychic powers, wrapping the heart of the mutant's blood source, then severed all the blood vessels, striking and shattering the weak flesh that had lost its defenses, with the heart bursting out of the chest.

  The heart is a deep red color, about the size of a baby's head, and resembles a ruby, heavy and beautiful.

  His skin was as pale as if he had lost all his color, and his spirit was slightly depressed, but his eyes were burning with an unparalleled heat as he stared at this extremely delicious heart.

  "I have a feeling that eating it will definitely increase strength." Mu Xiao licked his dry lips, using his mind to hold the heart above his head.

  The navel slowly retracts, squeezing the crimson heart, a dense bloodline hangs down, and slowly falls into the wooden Xiao's mouth.

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