Knot Chrysalis

Lin Shen was currently experiencing pain that was difficult to describe, pain akin to having his tendons pulled and marrow hammered. If he could make a sound, his throat would likely be raw from screaming.

Unfortunately, he couldn't even move his lips or eyeballs. Forget screaming, he couldn't even blink.

Lin Shen had heard people say before that the process of gene mutation was similar to the process of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly.

The process of an insect transforming into a butterfly is called complete metamorphosis. Its body structure undergoes earth-shattering changes, as if evolving from one life form into another.

Some even say that an insect is actually just a mobile placenta, and the butterfly that grows inside the placenta will dissolve and absorb the placenta when the time is right.

This statement, of course, has no basis. The process of human gene mutation is also a restructuring of the body. The outer shell of the Gene Mutation Egg melts, decomposes, forms threads, and creates a chrysalis. The gene fluid inside integrates with the human body, building a new Steel Body.

This process is similar to grinding rice into powder, then adding other ingredients and mixing them to make rice noodles. The pain is imaginable.

Of course, Knot Chrysalis doesn't require the body to be truly broken down, but the process of the gene fluid integrating throughout the body is also extremely painful, one could say it makes life unbearable.

The higher the quality of the Gene Mutation Egg, the more painful this process is.

Lin Shen had only heard that gene mutation was painful, but he never expected it to be this painful.

White fine threads grew out of his body, intertwined, and gradually formed an oval white chrysalis.

Wei Wufu's expression was somewhat complex. Before Lin Shen, none of the humans who attempted gene mutation using the Fourteenth Original Seed Egg were able to reach the stage of Knot Chrysalis. They all died shortly after swallowing the Original Seed Egg.

Lin Shen being able to form a chrysalis indicated that the outer shell of the Original Seed Egg had melted and decomposed within his body, transforming into a new structure. This was already considered half successful.

Next, it would depend on whether Lin Shen's body could withstand the combination with the gene fluid, which could also be understood as whether he could coexist with the foreign virus.

As Wei Wufu was staring at the chrysalis Lin Shen had formed, he suddenly seemed to sense something and turned to look at the restrained Mutated Creature.

The Mutated Creature began to tremble slightly, which caused Wei Wufu to frown slightly.

After a brief moment of thought, Wei Wufu slammed his hands onto the ground, propelling his body into a leap. Unfortunately, everything below his waist swayed uncontrollably and did not obey his command, greatly affecting his speed.

Wei Wufu pounced in front of the Mutated Creature and fiercely pointed his finger at the indentation on the Mutated Creature's waist, the exact spot Lin Shen had pointed at before.

The force of his finger was immeasurably stronger than Lin Shen's, pressing the indentation even further in.

Unfortunately, when Wei Wufu looked up at the Mutated Creature, he found that the creature's body was still trembling.

"What method did he use? Why can he do it, but I can't?" Wei Wufu sighed inwardly, propped himself up with his hands on the ground, exerted force to leap again, and then slammed his hands together, directly pushing the Mutated Creature's body away.

The Mutated Creature rolled over ten meters on the ground before stopping. The gravity here was too strong, so pushing it that far was already quite difficult.

Wei Wufu just wanted to delay for as long as possible. According to the data, humans who undergo gene mutation using the Original Seed Egg are usually very fast.

They die quickly, and if they succeed, it's also quick. They don't need to stay in the chrysalis for several days or months like with a Gene Mutation Egg.

Most complete the gene mutation within three to ten minutes after forming the chrysalis and can directly break out of it.

Wei Wufu only needed to hold out until Lin Shen broke out of the chrysalis. With Lin Shen's miraculous methods and the Steel Body formed from the Original Seed Egg, defeating this Mutated Creature might be difficult, but the hope of escape would greatly increase.

Wei Wufu looked at the Mutated Creature lying on the ground in the distance, its body constantly trembling, and calculated how much time he could delay if the Mutated Creature recovered its ability to move first.

"Not enough," Wei Wufu looked at the watch on his wrist and muttered to himself.

The Mutated Creature's body was trembling with increasing intensity, looking like it could regain its ability to move at any moment.

Less than a minute had passed since Lin Shen formed the chrysalis. No matter how fast Lin Shen was, it would still take at least three minutes.

Wei Wufu pressed his hands against the ground again and crawled towards the mutated creature in the distance.

Reaching the side of the violently shaking mutated creature, Wei Wufu pushed its body, continuing to shove it further away.

Not long after pushing, the mutated creature's body suddenly jolted, then its arm lifted, and its body followed suit, though it looked somewhat stiff, like a robot performing breakdancing.

Without a word, Wei Wufu immediately rolled behind the mutated creature and locked its neck in a rear-naked choke with both arms.

This move, when used on a person, can apply pressure to the carotid arteries, causing the brain to lack blood supply and fall into a coma in a short time.

Using it on a mutated creature naturally wouldn't have such a good effect. Coupled with the fact that Wei Wufu's legs couldn't exert force to wrap around the mutated creature, the effect was even smaller.

This was also Wei Wufu's last resort; fighting the mutated creature head-on was not advisable and would only lead to a quicker death.

Behind it, at least its claws and legs wouldn't easily reach Wei Wufu. Like a human, its arms couldn't twist backward, at least not completely.

Wei Wufu only hoped to stall for as long as possible, just until Lin Shen broke out of the chrysalis.

The mutated creature's body quickly returned to normal. Ignoring Wei Wufu's chokehold from behind, it used one hand to pull out the Leaf Blade stuck in its eye and threw it aside.

As the Leaf Blade was pulled out, the injury to the mutated creature's eye healed at a speed visible to the naked eye, quickly recovering completely as before.

This was why Wei Wufu said it couldn't be killed. When he fought the mutated creature in the sea, he had severely injured it multiple times.

However, the mutated creature's recovery speed was too fast; it simply couldn't be killed.

In the end, Wei Wufu used his life-saving ability to severely injure the mutated creature's body to the point of being almost torn apart, making it difficult for it to recover for a while. Only then did he temporarily scare the mutated creature away.

It was a pity that Wei Wufu's own body also had problems due to using that power. After crawling onto the beach, he fell unconscious, and his legs were also difficult to recover for a time.

The mutated creature reached back with one hand to grab Wei Wufu's head. Its sharp, dagger-like nails scraped against Wei Wufu's cheek and dug into the sand.

Wei Wufu, still choking it, swayed his body left and right, dodging the mutated creature's repeated grabs.

The mutated creature's other hand dropped the fork and also reached for Wei Wufu behind it.

Seeing that he couldn't dodge, Wei Wufu could only release the arm locking its neck, pressed hard on the sandy ground, and rolled out.

"Come, kill me." Wei Wufu tried to provoke it with words, attracting the mutated creature's attention.

Mutated creatures also have emotions. Logically, with Wei Wufu doing this to it, it should want to kill Wei Wufu first.

But for some reason, after glancing at Wei Wufu, the mutated creature picked up the Red Fork on the ground and, without hesitation, turned and charged towards the chrysalis Lin Shen had formed.

This was beyond Wei Wufu's expectation. His reaction was also quick enough. Pressing his hands to the ground, he burst forth with all his strength, like a cannonball flying low to the ground, catching up to the mutated creature. He wrapped his arms around one of its legs, twisted hard, and threw the mutated creature to the ground.

The mutated creature kicked back with its other leg. Wei Wufu's legs had no mobility and couldn't dodge at all. He could only release one hand and grab its other leg.

He thought that after being tormented by Wei Wufu like this, the mutated creature would surely be enraged and fight him to the death.

Who knew that the mutated creature, with its legs held by Wei Wufu, would raise the Red Fork in its hand and, instead of stabbing the Wei Wufu holding its legs, would throw it with all its might? The Red Fork tore through the air and stabbed towards the chrysalis Lin Shen had formed.