After the Consciousness Stealer developed from an embryonic state to a fetal state in the life incubator, it began to grow at an exponential rate.
On the first day, it was only the size of a fist, but by the end of the first day, its body had doubled in size and was now the size of a pineapple.
Not only that, but on its originally uneven skin, eyes had completely opened. The monster blinked constantly and looked curiously at the outside world through the tempered glass of the life incubator, seemingly observing every move of the Androids.
Its eyes were like dark crystals, inlaid in a random pattern on a black sarcoma. There were not many of them, only about fifteen of them.
On the third day, the Consciousness Stealer continued to grow. Its body size had reached the size of a winter melon, and on the lower side of its jet-black body, sarcomas began to grow. At the same time, its body slowly elongated from a spherical shape, like a winter melon.
On the side of the winter melon, there were four tiny thorn-like things sticking out...
"This damn thing..."
In the laboratory, eight researchers watched the meatball grow little by little. The rough-looking researcher looked at the reports printed out by the printer next to him. In just half a month, these reports had accumulated to the size of a dictionary, including all the data of the meatball from birth to the present.
"Prepare for an hourly CT scan."
The blonde female researcher looked at her watch and said.
Following this order, the Androids in the laboratory extended several pieces of equipment from the top of the life incubator. It was a device that looked like a bridge. This device wrapped around the monster, and then the contents of the monster's body were revealed bit by bit.
"It's a very simple coelenterate..."
Two images appeared on the screen in front of everyone at the same time. They were the front and side views of the meatball. As the cameras of the two images zoomed in at the same time, it was as if they were penetrating through the body of the meatball, showing the structure of the cross-section of the meatball bit by bit.
"That long strip is indeed the digestive organ..."
"What's that thing that looks like a human liver?"
"I'm not sure, we can do a biopsy..."
"Those tree-like things should be its nervous system..."
"Its body is unexpectedly simple, not even as simple as those lowly creatures like leeches and earthworms..."
"Where's its brain, why don't I see a brain?"
"Idiot, how could a primitive life like this have a brain?"
Everyone was chatting with each other.
"Let's perform a biopsy. I hope this little guy can withstand it."
After talking for a while, an older researcher suddenly ordered.
As he gave the order, a mechanical arm extended from the top of the life incubator. At the very front of the mechanical arm was a thick needle.
As the needle got closer and closer, it finally penetrated deep into the side of the meatball, bit by bit …
The meatball that was trapped in the small CT machine suddenly trembled, and the eyes on its body suddenly widened. At the same time, a vertical slit in the middle of its body suddenly opened as if it was screaming!
"His heartbeat is accelerating. His heart rate is at 1,500 beats per minute!"
The rugged man looked at the data on the screen and exclaimed, "He's afraid? Or do you feel pain? "
No one knew the answer.
After the puncture, all the equipment was retracted, and the meatball was released back into the amniotic fluid.
However, no one noticed that after the other party screamed, tiny cracks had appeared on the walls of the life incubator...
At the same time, the meatball's pitch-black eyes were not reflecting the scene in the laboratory, but the rows of observation windows on the second floor of the laboratory...
On the fourth day, the meatball continued to elongate until it became a cashew nut shape that was wide at the top and narrow at the bottom.
At this point, the meatball could clearly distinguish its abdomen from its chest. The eyes were located on its chest.
On its abdomen, other than the vertical mouth, countless cauliflower-like protrusions began to grow at the bottom.
Through the CT scan, everyone could tell that these cauliflower-like protrusions were its gonads...
Not only that, but the four tiny spikes on both sides of its chest were also rapidly growing. The four spikes began to bend like four young chicken wings, or four animal claws.
Those were the meatball's legs.
Then came the fifth day, the sixth day, the seventh day...
After reaching the fetal stage, in just one week, the meatball in the life incubator had grown from the size of a fist to the size of the life incubator itself.
The space in the life incubator was already very crowded. The group of researchers began to discuss how to transfer the meatball to the larger life incubator used to cultivate Tyrants.
At this point, the meatball in the life incubator had grown to a height of two meters and a width of one and a half meters. It did not have a head, and its chest directly replaced its head. Fist-sized black crystals were embedded in its chest, and in the middle of the connection between its chest and abdomen, a vertical mouthpiece could be faintly seen...
Its abdomen was completely filled with cauliflower-like gonads. It looked like a bunch of flesh-colored grapes hanging under its body. People with trypophobia would not be able to look at it directly.
On both sides of its chest, four arches that were longer than its body stuck closely to its body. These four arches looked like the legs of a crab.
What was even more shocking was that at the tips of its limbs, a thick layer of cuticle had formed, just like the hooves of livestock such as cattle and sheep.
The surface of this monster's body was no longer soft and fleshy skin. Instead, it had a wrinkled cuticle that looked like tree bark. Whips began to appear on its legs and abdomen.
At this time, the many researchers in the command room gradually felt a trace of fear as they looked at the monster in the life incubator.
"What the hell is this monster..."
The rugged man directly leaned against the observation window and silently looked at the life incubator on the first floor. The Consciousness Stealer was soaked in amniotic fluid, the flagella on its body slowly squirming with the flow of the water.
"According to the gene expression, this monster can only be regarded as a fetus."
A researcher on the side teased, "If according to the three-month gestation period of a conventional creature, when this monster reaches the birth standard, I'm afraid it will be as big as a building."
"A building is big?"
The blonde woman snorted coldly. "After all, it's an extraterrestrial life. I wouldn't be surprised even if its adult body is as big as a mountain."
"A mountain? That's ridiculous! "
"As this thing grows bigger, the higher-ups are already worried that it will break out of containment and are preparing to move it out..."
The researchers next to them looked at the data and chatted.
Just as they were talking, the needle responsible for puncturing the monster was inserted from the life incubator again. This was a biopsy task that was done once a day. Since the meatball was growing every day, the diameter of the needle had increased from a few millimeters to one centimeter. It looked cold and shiny.
However, today, the monster in the life incubator seemed to be a little restless.
Just as the needle was about to pierce into the body of the meatball again, the meatball suddenly opened the mouth in the middle of its chest and let out a shrill scream —
"Hiss —!"
Following the sound of metal scraping against glass, the life incubator that had trapped the meatball was overwhelmed and shattered!
"Boom!"
Pale yellow amniotic fluid gushed out of the broken life incubator like a torrent and flowed all over the laboratory!
"Oh no!"
Seeing this scene, everyone in the command room was shocked. The person in charge did not hesitate to press the alarm button in the laboratory!
At this time, the meatball-like monster had fallen to the ground along with the broken life incubator. However, it kept moving its limbs and quickly stood up with its own strength.
At this time, the door on the first floor suddenly opened and a group of fully-armed Black Knights rushed in. However, as the monster in front of them was too precious, Little X did not give the order to eliminate it immediately.
However, the monster in front of them only opened its mouth.
"Boom!"
An invisible force appeared, and the group of Black Knights actually exploded from within their bodies without any warning. In an instant, countless pieces of flesh and blood covered the entire laboratory!
As if it had just casually swatted a few flies to death, the next moment, the monster actually puffed out its chest in a very human-like manner and looked at the second floor!
In the command room, the eight researchers gasped when they saw the power of the monster. Some of them even ran toward the door without hesitation.
They could already feel the threat of the monster!
However, they only heard a harsh sound of metal tearing behind them. The rough-looking researcher could not help but turn around, only to see that the monster had torn through the protective layer of the command room and came to the second floor!
At the same time, the gap in the center of its chest instantly opened!
"Chi!"
The eight researchers and a senior researcher were all shattered into countless pieces!
"Hiss —!"
The monster in front of them let out another harsh cry. It took a step forward on all four limbs and in the next second, the half-meter thick steel wall was torn like a piece of paper, revealing the corridor behind the door...
The Consciousness Stealer had completely broken through the containment!
...
Late at night, Chen Chen was lying on a recliner with his eyes closed. He had slept very little these days because every time he closed his eyes, he would see that strange dream.
In the dream, a voice kept bewitching him, urging him to find other infected people and fuse with them.
However, at this moment, he suddenly heard Little X's urgent voice in his ear. "Sir Godfather, the Consciousness Stealer has broken through the level-5 biosafety laboratory!"
This voice came out of nowhere. Chen Chen quickly opened his eyes and looked at Little X. "It broke through the defense?"
"Yes!"
Little X looked anxious and immediately after that, a surveillance image immediately appeared in front of her. In the image, they saw a four-legged monster with a densely packed abdomen rush out of the half-meter thick steel wall and charge left and right inside the Spire. Any Black Knights and researchers who stood in its way were directly blown up from the inside!
Seeing this scene, Chen Chen could not help but frown. "What kind of power is that?"
However, not even Little X could answer this question. In the next second, they only saw the monster suddenly leap, directly breaking through the top of the Spire and rushing out of the Spire!
In an instant, the image changed again to the outside of the Spire, but the figure of the monster could not be seen in the entire underground cave. Only countless researchers were screaming and running out of the Spire.
Screams, roars, cries for help... The entire experimental base was in chaos!
"Where is it?"
Chen Chen kept switching between the surveillance images. His forehead was dripping with cold sweat, but no matter how hard he looked, he could not find the figure of the monster.
"It, it's up there!"
Little X suddenly said. She switched the image to the perspective of a Black Knight and saw that there was a pitch-black hole at the top of the Spire. At the same time, a large amount of rock debris and soil fell from the hole!
"It's escaping to the surface!"
Little X looked even more shocked. "Sir Godfather, should we use a backup plan?"
"Don't stop it!"
Chen Chen gritted his teeth. He stood up directly and walked toward the position of the black Gantz sphere not far behind him without thinking. "The Eco Science City is above the Spire. It must not be allowed to cause trouble in the city, I must personally lure it away!"
"However, it has some kind of extremely strange power. Anyone who looks at it will explode on the spot."
Little X quickly advised, "Also, you've been infected with its consciousness virus..."
"..."
Chen Chen did not say anything. He just stood directly in front of the black sphere. In the next second, the black sphere flickered with a blue light and illuminated Chen Chen.
In an instant, Chen Chen's body began to disappear!
"But, apart from me, there's no one else who can fight it..."
A second before disappearing in front of the black sphere, Chen Chen said in a low voice, "I know what I'm doing."
After that, Chen Chen only saw a flash of blue light before he appeared in the Spire Experimental Base.
At this point, he could clearly see that more than a third of the Spire building had been destroyed. The fire started directly from the top of the Spire, but there were already Black Knights and Androids organizing to put out the fire. As for the researchers who escaped from the Spire building, the Black Knights pointed their guns at them and held them in place to prevent them from escaping.
These people might have already been infected!
Chen Chen only glanced at them briefly before looking away. The follow-up work would be done by Little X. What he had to deal with now was the alien monster bred from the protoplasmic liquid!
The Consciousness Stealer!
Chen Chen narrowed his eyes. His body rose into the air and flew through the giant hole dug by the monster above him. Pieces of rocks and soil fell from the hole. Anyone who tried to rush in would be smashed into pieces and would not be able to give chase. However, this did not include Chen Chen.
As soon as the rocks fell, they were automatically intercepted by Chen Chen's Field energy. He continued to rise through the hole dug by the monster. However, the hole was not vertical. Therefore, Chen Chen could only move up bit by bit at a slow pace. He could not catch up to the monster at once.
"Boom!"
When Chen Chen rose about five or six hundred meters, all the gravel and soil above his head suddenly stopped falling. Chen Chen's heart skipped a beat because he knew that this meant that the other party had dug through the soil layer and reached the surface from the spire!
That monster had really run away!
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