Chapter 83: Peter Parker (Continued)

Something akin to Satan.

That did fit what the blond foreigner had said about the traits of a species that continued to reproduce.

"Then... what about the V virus?"

"There's no information on the V virus here, but I can tell you this... organisms rewritten by the V virus lose their instincts as living things."

Did he mean they lost the ability to reproduce, or something else?

"They... can no longer be called living things. I once took part directly in an experiment where the V virus was injected into a human. That person..."

As he spoke, fear appeared on the blond foreigner's face.

"You know that Mutant Monsters capture women purely to reproduce. When their own numbers are too low, they often capture human women for reproduction. That's because they were originally transformed from humans. Their DNA is closer to ours than any other species'. In fact, if you ignore their lack of social order, they're still human."

I nodded, signaling for him to continue.

"But the people injected with the V virus all displayed an almost abnormal pursuit of desire. Yet they had no ability to reproduce at all. Their genetic chains completely collapsed, turning them into entirely different creatures. Although they still desired to reproduce with humans, they were completely unable to have offspring. And because their desires were so strong, after mating, they would slaughter everything in sight."

I nodded. The X virus had played a crucial role in changing humans. Although those Mutant Monsters captured human women, they didn't eat them. On the contrary, they did their best to protect them and transform their bodies into machines better suited for reproduction.

It was an instinct to reproduce.

But the changes this guy described as being caused by the V virus were nothing like those in