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Chapter 648 Devourer's Brain

This is a bizarre world of flesh and blood. A large number of organs were once in this world of flesh and blood, in chaos and orderly manner.

They grow freely in this space using the earth, air, and water as nutrients and sunlight as energy.

These organs have their own functions, and it is very novel to visit the past all the way. It is not too much to describe this flesh-and-blood world as a "biological factory".

"This is... a pure iron block? It is smelted from this organ. It can actually smel steel biologically!" One of the experts discovered a strange organ hidden behind the diaphragm. It can actually smel iron ore into steel. Of course, the quality of these steels is not very good, just like an iron pot, and the carbon content should be not low.

"I don't know what it is to smel these crude steels."

This is the first time people have discovered that creatures that can smel steel.

"What is this? Is sugar? A high-purity energy source."

The measuring instrument of ether value kept ringing, and people discovered a light yellow high-energy substance, which was generated by an organ.

"Did these monsters have developed their intelligence and want to use tools? It shouldn't be like this...it may also be part of the monster's body."

Everyone was puzzled and finally couldn't find the answer after thinking about it, so they had to give up.

"Come here and find it! These should be transparent monsters that have not yet been hatched, right?" Another expert swallowed and said, "It looks like the ovaries of human women..."

"It should be. A more complete parasite is inside!"

People found hundreds of millions of things like eggs in a strange organ like a flower bud.

This number makes people's scalp numb. A "flower bud" alone can corrupt hundreds of millions of monsters. This reproduction ability is really too strong.

The inspection team carefully selected and took an hour to dissect more than 100 unhatched monsters and packed them and took them away.

"It would be great if we could develop drugs for parasites." Li Mingrui was in a very good mood.

There is also a "trail" that can barely be passed through near the buds. This path is like a white transparent leather tube, leading to the deep underground.

According to experts' speculation, it may be the "urethra", or the "vas deferens" or the "fallopian tube", but it is quite clean, not as full of mixed frozen mucus as elsewhere.

Lu Yiming hesitated for a while. The climate in this place was too cold and he did not feel any special danger. He could only enter with his teeth.

"Let's go, I've come here, I have to go in and take a look."

In this tube leading to a darker area, people found a large number of transparent monsters around this area. Even if these guys died, they remained transparent.

However, the damp air sticks to the surface of these monsters and has a thick layer of frost, which can easily be distinguished.

Lu Yiming shrugged his shoulders and asked, "I have a question. Can the skins of these monsters be peeled off directly? "

"No, it's not. We once peeled off the monster's skin and conducted a control experiment. It turned out that after the skin was destroyed, it slowly melted into blood, and there was no way to ensure integrity."

An expert from the Oriental said, "This kind of superpower may be a complex ability, not just distributed in the epidermis, so there is no way to simply copy it."

In short, all kinds of messy corpse specimens were collected.

They were transported back and forth several times in a row, and they were all transported to the anti-gravity spacecraft, and were strictly guarded by the soldiers on duty.

People cut their muscles layer by layer and explored downwards.

Various miscellaneous organs have been observed, and many of the uses are unknown.

The monster's body is very dark and the air is turbid, which makes people not very comfortable. The ultra-low temperature has killed all the lives here. Except for being a little disgusting, it has not been encountered.

It took 16 hours to dig down nearly 200 meters of thickness, and all similar organs such as the heart, liver, pancreas, etc. were discovered many times.

Finally, the soil was dug.

"It's finally over. Even the Antarctic region has a thickness of 200 meters. If it is really an ordinary land, it will take 10 kilometers to dig to the ground." Lu Yiming lowered his body and touched the soil under his feet.

Their current organ seems to be the "stomach", which can secrete strong acids and corrode mucus, corroding the silicon dioxide on the ground.

Fortunately, the strong cold airflow has completely frozen the digestive fluid, and the "stomach" has completely died. Otherwise, all of them are at risk of being dissolved and digested.

"This monster is reproduced according to the organs of humans or animals. The stomach of the devourer is tightly attached to the earth and digests the entire planet. In fact, it has more than one stomach. Its stomach is about two or three kilometers away, and a new set of organs will appear... I understand that those organs that smelter steel are similar to our hair and nails!"

An expert made a sudden realization, "If a creature wants to grow normally, it will definitely metabolize and discharge a large amount of waste elements. However, the digestive ability of this devourer is too strong. Normal carbon elements are used again after metabolism, but its demand for metal elements is not very high, so the organs of smelting steel appeared."

"In fact, it's not smelting steel, it's evacuating waste elements."

“It sounds quite reasonable…”

"It's really strange that so many scattered organs can be combined and worked together."

"The colorless transparent monster we encountered is indeed just the immune function of this huge living body. The production of transparent monsters only accounts for less than one percent of all organs. It is really incredible."

What I saw and heard this time really opened my eyes. This monster called the Devourer, the structure of the internal organs, completely imitated normal organisms. It even had kidney stones and gallstones.

"What does this mean? The evolution of biology over billions of years has indeed had its own unique truth. We have not yet thoroughly explored the principles. There are still many potentials that have not yet been developed. For example, cancer cells that can proliferate infinitely, why do normal cells transform into cancer cells? Cancer cells will also transform into normal cells in a few cases..."

"Yes, in some laboratories during the Earth Civilization Period, it is indeed a wonderful thing that cancer cells are converted into normal cells under certain special mechanisms."

These experts actually discussed some difficulties in biology and discussed whether the appearance of this monster would bring a series of reference significance.

They collected a small number of biological specimens in each organ, loaded them in a petri dish, and carefully preserved them.

"Wait a minute, everyone! There are all kinds of organs here, but there is no brain!" An expert from the Oriental seemed to have thought of something and clapped his hands hard: "Everyone, think about it carefully, is this very suspicious? What does not mean without a brain? It means it does not have any wisdom... Does it have no ability to evolve the most complex brain?"

"No...if it reproduces according to the body structure of humans or animals, it is impossible to have no brains. Even smaller brains should exist. Even insects and ants have brains, how can it not exist!"

Except for single-celled organisms, as long as they are multicellular animals, they all have brains.

Colonel Li Mingrui's reaction was also very fast. He immediately said: "There is more likely because... the brain is not here! This is just a small part of its body."

"Maybe there is only one brain in the Devourer?! As long as we destroy the brain, can we completely destroy this monster!"

"Its brain is likely to be alive and hiding in a corner of the planet. We have to find a way to find it!"

The suggestion of this conjecture surprised everyone for a while.

The Oriental fleet has a deep hatred with this monster, and a large number of soldiers died due to the attacks of the monster. Therefore, it is naturally the best to be able to kill this monster, and it is also considered to be revenge for the deceased compatriots.

"It is indeed possible." Lu Yiming frowned, able to understand what these people think, "but its brain may not be only one, maybe like the heart and stomach, there are millions. If there are too many, we will not be able to destroy the brain."

"Or...will we look for the location of our brain?"

After proposing this conjecture, everyone searched for this complex flesh-and-blood world for 6 hours, and dug out many thin and long ice holes with engineer shovels. In the end, they still did not find the monster's brain, but found long calcium-shaped substances like optical cables, which looked like the "bone" of the devourer.

Each organ has tiny neurons that connect to these calcium-like substances.

Each of these calcium-like substances is several kilometers long, and it is terrible. Even if you use a rune knife, it is very laborious to cut it open.

These bones are very slender, only 10 cm in diameter, and are laid in the cavity like optical cables. There are slender ligaments connecting the bones.

Cut it with a rune knife and you can find that a large number of neurons are hidden in the middle of slender bones. These neurons are very large in size, and their slender nerve endings are as thin as hair, and extend further away under the protection of bones.
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