Prototypes and Infected

"It wasn't strange. It was Orochimaru, after all—he ran at the first sign of trouble."

Zhi Zhang shook his head.

"But at least we still had Manda. After eating Manda, who knew how much Natural Energy we could absorb!"

Zhi Zhang continued.

"Sigh, do you think we should tell Captain and the others that eating animals can grant Natural Energy?"

Bai Chi asked Zhi Zhang.

"Hehe, what do you think?"

Zhi Zhang chuckled without answering.

They were all Blacklight Virus infected, not Prototypes. What was the point of playing mind games?

They had eaten so many people already that even someone without brains would have grown some.

"We should tell them."

After thinking it over, Bai Chi spoke.

"Why?"

Zhi Zhang asked curiously. They were not truly one team, merely a temporary group. More importantly, their captain was very likely a Prototype.

In other words, a "virus," not a "human."

There was a huge difference between Blacklight Virus infected, Adaptors, and Prototypes.

The Blacklight Virus had existed on Earth since the beginning of life and was the foundation of evolution.

Although there was still no definitive conclusion as to whether the Blacklight Virus was the origin of Earth's life in the worldview of Prototype 1, or rather, what its relationship with Earth's life was, or even whether it was the oldest Earth organism in that entire worldview.

It was still the fundamental cause and source of evolution for every organism in that worldview.

PS: It was somewhat like the Getter Rays in Getter SAGA, or the Demon Beasts in True Demon Beast Frontline—special existences closely tied to evolution and running through the central theme of the entire story.

The virus “inserted” itself into and activated non-coding genetic regions within the target, causing biological changes that created—and recreated—sentient organisms, producing infected