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Chapter 14

The first group of hunters had already returned. They didn't catch any crows, but they did bring back some crow eggs.

Looking at the grayish-green, spotted crow eggs, there were a total of five of them. They were placed behind the village on a big tree, where Wang Yuan's two mutated crows had already built their nests.

The incubation period for crow eggs was 16-18 days. It was unknown how many days these crow eggs had been incubated for, but under Wang Yuan's command, the two mutated crows took over the incubation, so it wouldn't be long before new crows hatched.

Ever since Comoros had a falling out with his family, he had built a new house at the back of the village and lived there, taking care of some chores every day. The Village Head was dead, as was Jacques, who was regarded as the next Village Head, so Comoros was the one with the most authority in the village. In the past, everyone would at most live their own lives, but now that the glory of Negri had shrouded the entire village, no one knew if some of their past actions had angered the great Negri.

For example, if a family's sheep died of illness, they would eat it as long as they could eat it, if they couldn't, they would find a place to bury it to increase the fertility of the soil. But now that Negary was watching this sheep, they didn't dare to casually dispose of it.

Watching Comoros chase away the people who came to ask questions, Wang Yuan floated to the big tree behind the village to observe the crow eggs.

"I wonder if these new crows can adapt to the [Progenitor Germs]" Wang Yuan silently thought. The current germs had already mutated countless times.

The original germs were probably a type of avian germs that Wang Yuan brought over from his world. In his world, it was naturally harmless to people who had been vaccinated.

But after coming to this low-magic world, the germs began to mutate due to a new inducement, directly killing Wang Yuan. However, it unexpectedly formed a symbiotic relationship with the crows, causing the crows to mutate in a positive way.

The original germs that these crows carried were called the [Progenitor Germs]. The current function of the [Progenitor Germs] was to allow the mutated crows to form a stable mental connection with themselves, but when used on other living beings, they would die due to their constitution.

Other than that, Wang Yuan named a few things. For example, the white mist that leaked out after a living being died was named 'Life Qi' by Wang Yuan, while the cool mist was named 'Soul Essence'. Other germs that mutated from the [Progenitor Germs] were named according to their characteristics, while others were numbered according to their bodies.

Many of these mutated germs came from the contributions of the Cauchy people in the village. The village now had a new rule, that was that those who were sick must go to the back of the village to receive the grace of Negri's messengers.

Once they were confirmed to be sick, they would be sent to the messengers at the back of the village to receive the grace of Negri, which was to be infected with the [Progenitor Germs]. Wang Yuan would then continue to observe the germs' changes in these people's bodies.

For example, the common flu germs would be consumed by the [Progenitor Germs] and undergo a new round of mutation. Wang Yuan would observe the effects of these mutated germs on the human body, then ensure that the carriers of these germs wouldn't die and collect any valuable germs.

Some diseases that were completely unrelated to the germs would also be implanted with the germs and turned into a normal human petri dish to observe the germs' changes in different people. Fortunately, Wang Yuan was able to suppress the germs' growth rate so that the infected wouldn't die, nor would they become completely immune to the germs.

One of the most noteworthy cases was a villager who contracted a disease similar to cancer. Since Wang Yuan wasn't a medical student, he didn't know much about this, but his field of perception noticed that the dying villager had a tumor inside his body that was rapidly growing.

After Wang Yuan's germs entered the villager's body, they quickly mutated due to the tumor. The mutated germs went out of Wang Yuan's control and grew at an insane rate, soon enough, a large number of black spots appeared on the villager's body.

And these black spots continued to grow until the villager's entire body turned into a 'black man'. Black crow feathers began to grow on his skin, but before the black feathers could fully grow, he was already dead.

In the end, this mutated germs were preserved by Wang Yuan, feeding it from time to time in order to maintain the activity of this germ named 'Black Crow'.

When the patient mutated, he displayed all sorts of things that were impossible for humans to do. Originally, he was just a dying patient, but during the mutation, he could easily jump 5-6 meters and break the beam of a house with a single punch. Wang Yuan believed that this' Black Crow 'germs were necessary to be cultivated, but they still needed to be improved.

Aside from the 'Black Crow', there was another germ worthy of Wang Yuan's collection. This germ came from Comoros, who had been infected with the germs for the longest time.

Perhaps because the progenitor germs had been suppressed in Comoros's body for too long, it had undergone a strange mutation and gradually entered a dormant state. However, once Wang Yuan took control of the germs, they would stimulate Comoros to secrete two different substances. One of these substances would cause Comoros to feel happy, while the other would cause him to feel extreme fear.

As for which substance was secreted, it was completely under Wang Yuan's control. In fact, if Wang Yuan did not interfere, Comoros would not have died from the germs.

This kind of germs that could cause both joy and fear were named by Wang Yuan as the 'Domination' germs, meaning that once infected, they would not be able to escape from Wang Yuan's control. More importantly, Comoros was now like a mutated crow, able to provide Wang Yuan with Soul Essence, which was a cooling aura.

Unlike the crow, the Soul Essence provided by Comoros was similar to the Soul Essence absorbed from human corpses, containing emotions and some memory impurities.

This is somewhat similar to the belief gods I saw in my previous life. Could it be that the true name of the Soul Essence is the power of belief? Wang Yuan thought, but Wang Yuan gave up on the Soul Essence provided by Comoros.

Wang Yuan did not want to become one of those belief gods. Although such gods seemed to dominate everything, they were actually dominated by their many believers. This was something Wang Yuan could not tolerate. He could accept changing his personality on his own initiative, but he could not accept being modified passively.

As for his goal, Wang Yuan's definition was to be a ruler, not a god. If it was such a god, then Wang Yuan also wanted to dominate it one day.

This' Domination 'germs are still very useful, but unfortunately, its infectivity has become extremely weak, so it cannot be spread on a large scale. Currently, only Comoros has it. Wang Yuan sighed, then continued to check on the growth and mutation of the progenitor germs in the various hosts.