Chapter 864 Insectization (Ⅰ)

Joan quickly remembered one thing.

Yesterday was May 15th, which happened to be the night of the full moon, the most active time for the "worm virus".

"No wonder last night, when I saw the moonlight, I felt very uncomfortable. It turned out that the worm virus in my body was causing trouble."

Joan murmured in his heart.

Knowing the reason for becoming a "giant bee", Qiao An continued to think: when and where did he get infected with "worm disease"?

From "worm disease", Joan thought of "worm-like people", and then naturally remembered that not long ago on the top of Mount Bailun, he had conflicts with three worm-like people from the "primitive religious order".

In that conflict, neither Mantid Monk Shaun nor Spider-Man Assassin Peter had a direct fight with Joan, but the Wasp Jenny had a fierce fight with him, and even turned into a giant bee form, using her sharp tail to fight Joan. The needle cut a wound on his shoulder.

At that time, Joan's mind was all on the battle. After the injury, he checked it hastily, and found that the wound was not deep, and there was no obvious sign of poisoning, so he didn't take it seriously.

Looking back now, I was still too careless at the time.

The tail needle of the Wasp contains not only bee venom, but also "worming virus".

Joan's neglect of treatment after the injury gave the virus an opportunity to lurk in his body until last night.

This incident sounded the alarm in Qiao An's heart.

After taking Liyanan's herbal porridge made from "Snake Dragon Girl Egg", he has acquired the physique to resist viruses. He thought he was invulnerable to all poisons, but it turned out not to be the case.

Li Yanan had warned him at the beginning that the bowl of herbal porridge could only help him resist naturally occurring diseases and toxins, such as smallpox and bee venom. For supernatural viruses such as "worm disease", it could only strengthen his resistance, but it could not Complete immunity.

In the battle of Bailun Mountain, Joan was unlucky, and his anti-virus physique failed to stop the infection of "worm disease", which finally caused him to become a giant bee at this moment.

Joan was lying on the bed, recalling the image of Jenny the Wasp transformed into a giant bee. It was almost exactly the same as the image reflected in the mirror at this moment. It seemed that the culprit was that crazy woman!

Suppressing her resentment towards the Wasp, Joan secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

As long as you know that your "giant bee" form is caused by vermin, the next problem becomes very simple.

"Insects" infected with this supernatural disease will automatically acquire a supernatural ability called "shape change", which can freely transform among the three forms of "giant worm", "half worm, half human" and "human" .

Since he has also become a "worm-like human", he should be able to return to his original human form.

Thinking of this, Joan closed his compound eyes, entered a state of meditation, and searched for the method of transformation in the prior knowledge derived from genetics.

After just two minutes, he opened his eyes, and the pupils composed of countless hexagonal small eye faces glowed with joy, flapped his wings, and hummed happily.

Following the method found in memory, Joan tried to use ideas to change his form.

The giant bee's body glowed with golden magic power, and it quickly distorted and deformed. In the blink of an eye, it changed from a giant bee to a half-human, half-bee "hybrid" form.

The "hybrid form" is the form of the "Insect Trio" when it appeared on the top of Bailun Mountain. It has both the body shape of a human and the limb characteristics of an insect. The head is also the image of an insect, which is most suitable for hiding its true identity. .

The hybrid form Joan turned into can be simply called "Beeman".

Counting the tentacles on the top of the head, it is about six feet high. The seemingly smooth skin is actually a hard exoskeleton, which is like a layer of natural armor, with circles of yellow and black interlaced textures emerging.

There is a pair of membranous wings on the back of the "Beeman". Joan tried to spread his wings to fly, and felt that his flying ability was a little clumsier than that of the giant bee, but it was still much stronger than that of the Hawkman, and he could still hover in the air. Free to advance and retreat.

In the end, Joan also noticed that his head had completely turned into the appearance of a giant bee, and he couldn't see the original image at all.

It's a bit scary at first glance, but after getting used to it, it doesn't feel so ugly.

Joan got acquainted with the hybrid body for a while, and then sent out another thought, and the body completely returned to the normal human form.

Walking to the mirror, Joan observed his own appearance.

At first glance, there is no difference from before being infected with "worm disease".

However, when he got closer to the mirror and carefully observed the pupil of his left eye, he could vaguely see that there were many small hexagonal eye surfaces fitting into each other deep in the pupil—this is exactly the characteristic of compound eyes of insects.

Fortunately, this detail is not obvious. Unless someone sticks to his face, it is difficult to find abnormal signs deep in the pupil.

After successfully transforming back into a human form, the stone that had weighed on Qiao An's heart for a long time finally fell to the ground.

Compared with the impact of "worm disease" on health, Qiao An is now more curious about what changes have taken place in his body after he became a "worm person".

With his current knowledge reserve, he still can't answer these questions, so it is necessary to conduct some special research.

Driven by curiosity and thirst for knowledge, Joan didn't want to wait a minute longer, went downstairs quickly, ate breakfast at the speed of wind and clouds, and flew directly to school as an eagle.

Five minutes later, Joan landed in the silent campus forest shrouded in morning light, changed back into a human form, hurried to the Austrian Law Library, and buried himself in the research literature on "worm disease".

Joan spent the whole day in the library, and didn't look away from the yellowed paper until it was getting late, rubbed his sore eyes, and closed them to rest.

During the whole day, he read no less than hundreds of journal papers and monographs.

He already has a relatively comprehensive understanding of the research status of "worm disease" in the academic world. He has learned a lot and inspired a lot, but he is even more disappointed.

Generally speaking, there are too few related studies on "worm-like disease" in the academic circles of Austrian law, and the mechanism of occurrence and spread of this supernatural disease is not clear, and the physiological research on "worm-like people" is even blank.

Compared with "worm disease", scholars are obviously more interested in the "close relative" of this disease - "lycanthropy disease".

Joan can understand why the academic world favors these two similar diseases.

Cases of "worm disease" are too rare to obtain research samples.

Judging from historical records, large-scale outbreaks of "worm disease" are also very rare. There has not been a related outbreak since this century, so that some people are optimistic that this supernatural disease is going extinct.

On the other hand, it is quite different to look at "lycanthropy".

Just as people often regard "smallpox" and "plague" as representatives of severe infectious diseases in nature, in the field of supernatural diseases, "lycanthropy" is an undisputed hot topic.