Chapter 527 [Chapter Hidden in the Abyss] Seventy-one: The destination of life

The sudden change caught everyone off guard.

Except for Jack Baldo, everyone else has always believed that the spherical Tunguska was Chen Yan's pet and a tool to assist them in underground exploration.

The little thing seemed to be familiar with the environment here. Holding Chen Yan's finger in its mouth, it jumped into the dense forest of ruins and disappeared in an instant.

In the vision of "a certain soul" in the spherical Tunguska body, everything in front of him is strange and familiar.

It's strange because it hasn't been back for many years and the place has changed a lot.

Familiar because this was once its hometown and the habitat of it and thousands of other members of the tribe.

Many years ago, when it was taken away from here by Swam, it was just a young and uncivilized individual, chaotic and ignorant.

Until it met the spherical Tunguska, it parasitized in the body of the spherical Tunguska and underwent adaptive assimilation with "evolution" as its essence.

When the evolution is complete, it has an independent soul.

Spherical Tunguska discovered its existence. At first, Spherical Tunguska was panicked and thought he was going to die.

Until it showed its kindness, Spherical Tunguska finally let go of some of its wariness and began to communicate with it.

It learned many things from the mouth of Spherical Tungus, including this world that was completely different from its hometown, including everything that happened underground.

It lives in harmony with the spherical Tunguska. They share the same body, their souls blend with each other, and they are connected with each other.

But they soon faced a problem:

The parasite's life activities come at the cost of consuming the host's vitality. Even if its parasitism makes the spherical Tunguska stronger, it still accelerates the passage of life.

A few years after the parasitism occurred, the life of the spherical Tunguska was about to come to an end.

It doesn't want the spherical Tunguska to die, nor does it want to find a new host.

The knowledge in the genes tells it that a ritual called "The Engagement" once appeared in the long evolution of the bacterial community. As long as it finds a witness of the same species - a spore with consciousness, it can be witnessed by the spore.

, complete the "engagement" and extend your life.

Therefore, when the spherical Tunguska was about to reach the end of its life, it once returned to the ruins of the city with the spherical Tunguska in an attempt to find the surviving spores.

They are lucky.

Deep in the waste abyss, among some ruins, under a collapsed house, they found a parasitic gramophone.

How could a phonograph be parasitic?

What they didn't know was that the gramophones of that era still had wooden sleeper structures to stabilize the sound, and the surviving strains were parasitic on the wooden sleepers.

Under the witness of the spores on the wooden sleeper, it completed the engagement with it. [Note 1]

Since then, Spherical Tunguska has begun to understand the history of its people:

They were born in the radiation after natural disasters, experienced countless years of evolution, and finally awakened the will of the group.

Each of them is like a neuron, and countless neurons form a huge bacterial colony structure. The bioelectrical communication between each other gives birth to the wisdom of the "group" unit.

They once lived here and lived a life that was so monotonous that it would not change even at the end of the world, day after day, year after year.

They are flora. The humans in Yanan City once called them [brain ball strains]. The survivors in the natural disaster world called them [evil descendant flora]. Only they know it. They have no names. They are just in the natural disaster world.

It's just a weak life that struggles to survive and becomes a little stronger due to accidental factors.

In order to survive in a world of natural disasters, they adapted to the environment and evolved, and adapted to the environment and developed strong adaptability. They prepared for this for many, many years, and the specific time was so long that even traces of it were lost in their genes.

While running in the ruins of the dense forest, the spherical Tunguska was always "talking to himself".

"Where are you going!? Didn't we agree that we would enter the ruins, find the "Engagement", cancel the "Engagement", and then we both go our separate ways?! Success is so close now, what on earth are you doing?!"

"But... I'm already back home! This is home! There's no need for us to cancel the "engagement"!"

"You! What are you talking about!"

"Serena... I'm sorry... I don't want to go back... Let's find our big family together, and let's live together in the future, okay?!"

"Who the hell wants to live with you! I want to go back! I'm going to die! I'm going to die!"

"Death is by no means the end of life. Xiaowei, listen to me and try it once, okay? I have already felt it for you. As long as we return to the flora, you will definitely experience the unique beauty in the world, which is the most beautiful form of life.

, is the unity of all things..."

"So, I have to die first or abandon my independent will before I can experience these things, right?"

"Yes."

"Fuck you! Stop it!"

The spherical Tunguska's fast-moving body suddenly stopped at this moment. The running body was thrown out by the inertia, and hit the rubble pile of a concrete building, immediately suffering a bloody head injury.

"Xiaowei... don't be like this... you are about to die... you know, before you went underground, you had very little vitality left. I compressed that vitality so that you would not look senile... You didn't notice

? You can no longer control your body, because your life has begun to slowly go out like the remaining candlelight in the wind."

"What the hell..."

"You have no time left, you can only return to the flora with me! That is also a kind of eternal life!"

"You...you are right, let's...let's go."

"Really Serena! I love you!"

"I love you too. Let's go find the flora. Can you give me back control of my body?"

"Yeah!"

The next moment, the spherical Tunguska rushed towards a rusty and broken steel bar exposed in the ruins beside him.

The steel bar pierced his body, and the spherical Tunguska lost all strength, and the yellow scales all over his body turned gray in less than a second.

But it is not dead, it is clinging on to its own life, and for some unknown reason, it still refuses to close its eyes.

Chen Yan and others who were chasing after him also arrived at this time. He came to the spherical Tunguska, picked up the broken finger on the ground and took off the black opal ring.

Chen Yan was able to complete this movement smoothly, not because he was strong-willed and could endure the pain, but because his bitten off finger had grown back - the index finger was only one-fifth the size of an ordinary finger.

It looks like a pink sprout, but it is indeed growing.

Chen Yan attributed this miraculous phenomenon to the previous restoration of his body by the Messiah.

He put the black opal ring on the middle finger of his right hand and asked for Jack Baldo's gloves to put it on, and then looked at the spherical Tunguska who was raising his head tremblingly.

【Note 1】

Spherical Tunguska's description of this period of history is in "Chapter 435: Past Events in the Center of the Earth 3: Born to Die"

The dialogue between the strain and Spherical Tunguska occurred in "Chapter 443 The Secret of Spherical Tunguska"

Comparison shows that the spherical Tunguska is lying.

It can be seen from the plot that it concealed many things from Chen Yan, such as the true purpose of going underground, the transaction with Leonard Adams, and the content of the engagement in this chapter.

I wrote out some of the plots, and I didn't understand others, but I can still guess them.

There is actually no problem if you guess incorrectly. Some plots are just for guessing. Whatever happens can happen as long as it is within reason.
Chapter completed!