Novels online

Chapter 3

A trace of white gas emerged from the corpse of a rabbit-like creature and was absorbed into Wang Yuan's body. Sensing the situation of the white gas outside his body, Wang Yuan estimated how long the white gas could last and set off again.

Along the way, Wang Yuan made a lot of new discoveries.

The most important of which was the test of the 13 crows.

As Wang Yuan expected, the 13 crows still carried the mutated bacteria in their body fluids. They were the 13 pathogens, as long as an animal's wound came into contact with the crows' body fluids, it would be infected by the bacteria.

Along the way, he constantly instructed the crows to capture other animals to carry out infection experiments. So far, he has carried out hundreds of experiments.

After these animals were infected by the bacteria, they would die within half an hour to a day. Of course, this could also be due to the lack of experimental subjects.

In these days, Wang Yuan also found a large number of creatures different from those on Earth, but they also couldn't escape the 13 mutated crows' hunt. They carried deadly bacteria, as long as they were pecked by them, it would be difficult to escape death.

However, the symptoms of these experimental bodies after being infected by the virus were all different. Among them, the time of death of mammals after being infected was about the same as Wang Yuan's. There were herbivores similar to rabbits, carnivores similar to tigers with sharp fangs, as well as monkey-like omnivores.

They first had nosebleeds, weakness in their limbs, then vomiting and diarrhea, and finally fell to the ground, dying. The whole process took about half an hour to an hour, and omnivores generally lasted longer.

Insects were even worse, after touching the crows' feces, they would struggle for more than 10 minutes before dying, and the amount of white gas they provided was pitifully small. Therefore, Wang Yuan has completely given up on the study of insects.

Only birds had the strongest resistance to the mutated bacteria. After more than a dozen birds were infected with the bacteria, they survived for an average of 18 hours. The bird that survived the longest even underwent a mutation similar to the crows, its whole body fell off and began to grow new feathers, but unfortunately, it still died at 27 hours, the mutation was not successful.

Back then, Wang Yuan had died in just a few minutes, mainly because of multiple germs acting up at the same time, as well as the various environmental factors in this world. Now, the germs in Crow's body had mutated several times, and were no longer the same as the ones that killed Wang Yuan.

Even now, the germs were still mutating. Wang Yuan did not know if it was an illusion, but he could vaguely sense the existence of these germs.

"The white aura is being consumed too quickly." Wang Yuan stopped in a cave. It was a sunny day outside. The autumn sun was not strong, but once Wang Yuan appeared under the sun, the white gas on his body would quickly melt. There was not much white gas left, so Wang Yuan did not plan to waste it.

In his previous life, the theory that ghosts would not appear during the day was based on a certain theory. According to Wang Yuan's conjecture, the white gas had the effect of protecting his body, so it could protect his soul.

The 13 crows kept flying out to capture animals and bring them back to the cave. The infected animals struggled for a while in the cave before dying. Wisps of white gas rose from their bodies, replenishing the loss of the white gas.

The crows also kept providing the cool air. Finally, Wang Yuan felt his soul become more complete. He felt like he was a leaking balloon, and he kept using other things to fill the hole so that the air inside would not escape.

Using a metaphor, his body was the balloon, and his soul was the air inside. Now that the balloon had burst, the air inside had mostly escaped, so he kept using other things to keep the air inside.

Strictly speaking, the current him was no longer the same person as the human he was before. In fact, part of his soul came from the crow, he was nothing more than an incomplete remnant soul, even though he had inherited the majority of Wang Yuan's memories and soul.

"I need a stable supply of white gas. If possible, I need more crows to provide more aura to replenish my soul." Wang Yuan thought to himself. Although the 13 mutated crows were constantly providing him with cool air, it was still far from enough.

"Perhaps after I replenish my soul, I won't have to worry about running out of white gas and exposing my soul."

"It won't be long before winter arrives. Although I don't need to worry about the temperature, the crows do."

"The germs are still mutating. Who knows when these 13 crows will die due to the mutation of the germs."

"Once the crows die, I won't have them to help me catch other creatures to replenish my white gas. The only thing that awaits me will be death."

"I need to find intelligent creatures as soon as possible. Only then will I be able to expand my organization." Wang Yuan stayed in the cave, unable to walk, so he could only think about his future path.

He was feeling a strong sense of urgency, because he was currently constantly on the verge of death. If he wasn't careful, he would die, and this time, there wouldn't be anything left of him.

As the sky slowly darkened, Wang Yuan once again set out on his journey. The 13 crows scattered in all directions, searching for traces of humans. Wang Yuan lightly floated forward, he had a feeling that as soon as he found humans, many of the problems he was currently facing would be easily solved.

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"Comoros, be careful" A bearded uncle carefully used a dagger to pry the spider off the shoulder of a young man in front of him, then stomped it to death.

"Thank you, uncle Dax" The young man called Comoros seemed to be around 14-15 years old, there was still a hint of fear on his young face as he hurriedly thanked the bearded uncle.

"Save your gratitude for Menas, I wonder if she's watching us. It's been three days since we entered the mountain, but we only managed to catch so little prey" the bearded uncle Dax put his dagger away and stroked his beard. The bearded Dax put his dagger away, stroked his beard and sighed. Maynus was the Cauchy people's Goddess of Misfortune.

The village didn't have enough food, and they had to deal with the annoying Kent tribe as well. The reason they formed this hunting party was in the hopes of bringing back enough food to last through the winter and help the village survive.

"Caw caw caw …" a strange voice came from afar as a slightly larger crow landed on a branch, tilting its head to look at the group of people below.

"Damn it, followers of Negri, so it was you who brought misfortune" A member of the hunting party saw the crow standing on the branch and scowled. In the Cauchy people's language, 'Negri' carried the meaning of filth, disease, darkness, inauspiciousness, etc. At the same time, it was also the name of a God. Because crows were completely black, had a horrible caw, and were scavengers, they were also called followers of Negri.

According to legends, all crows worshiped this God called Negri, spreading disease and misfortune in his stead.