Chapter 884 Three-State Change

The classification method of "Supernatural Biological Domain" is roughly similar to that of "Natural Biological Domain".

In many cases, just add a "supernatural" prefix in front of each category of natural creatures, and all the species under its jurisdiction will cross to another general domain, even though the corresponding species of the two parallel general domains are very similar in appearance .

Take Joan as an example, it looks like an ordinary human belonging to Mammalia, Primates, Hominids, Homo, Homo sapiens, but this classification method is not accurate.

Because he also has two supernatural bloodlines of "Strangeness" and "Insectization", strictly speaking, he should be included in the "Supernatural Animal Kingdom" and "Supernatural Chordate Phylum" under the "Supernatural Creature Domain"...

To continue the detailed classification, it is necessary to add a "supernatural" prefix in front of subcategories such as "Mammalia", "Primates", "Humanidae" and "Homo".

In the last step, when it is subdivided into "Homo sapiens", in addition to the "supernatural" prefix, it must be noted that he belongs to the "weird subspecies" and "worm subspecies".

If this complicated classification method is seen by humans in the non-magic world, I am afraid it will be difficult to accept.

How can a creature have two subspecies?

In nature, due to the widespread reproductive isolation of cross-species hybridization, this phenomenon is almost impossible to occur.

But in the supernatural world, sometimes a creature's lineage is not entirely from its parents, but may be a mutation caused by magic or supernatural phenomena.

For example, Joan can transform himself into a real "snow monster" from the cellular level by using the "mythical transformation technique". At this time, his biological type has changed, and he needs to add a "cold element subspecies" "Tag of.

And none of his direct blood relatives has the blood of the "cold element subspecies", and the change of his own species is just the effect of magic.

Once the magic disappears and Joan returns to its original form, its species will also return to normal.

For another example, when Joan was first born, the species was a "supernatural humanoid (human, strange subspecies)".

Not long ago, he was infected with "worm disease". Under the influence of this supernatural disease, the body has mutated from the cellular level, and the species has also changed accordingly. Now it is a "supernatural humanoid (human, strange subspecies, Insect subspecies, metamorphosis subspecies)".

...Why is there another "deformation subspecies"?

To answer this question, Qiao An's research will advance to the second link - the "shape change" of insectoid creatures.

After being infected with "worm disease", Joan gained a number of supernatural abilities, the most important of which is "shape change".

Using this ability, Joan can change into a "giant bee" form at will, or a "hybrid" form that is half human and half bee.

In the following time, Joan transformed into these two forms respectively, using the ready-made instruments in the laboratory to measure data such as height and weight.

In human form, Joan stands approximately five feet three inches tall and weighs 101 pounds.

Becomes a "hybrid form" and grows slightly in height, to a full 6 feet without tentacles.

In the "hybrid form", Joan has a lot of human organs and tissues, and additional organs such as bee needles, membranous wings, antennae, and chitinous exoskeleton, as well as many internal organs that cannot be seen on the surface, so The weight increased significantly, becoming 149 lbs.

From this set of measurement data, it is not difficult to find a characteristic of supernatural creatures - it does not conform to the "law of conservation of mass" in nature.

In fact, Qiao An didn't quite understand how the extra flesh and blood tissue obtained after the transformation came out of nowhere, and it could only be attributed to the effect of magic power.

In addition to the above two forms, Joan can also change into the "giant bee" form, which completely gets rid of the human appearance and becomes an insect completely.

In giant bee form, Joann measures about 8 feet from head to tail, and her weight soars to nearly 800 pounds.

In the form of the giant bee, Joan lost all the internal skeleton including the notochord, and had to rely on the strong and hard exoskeleton to support the heavy body. Instead, the body structure became more solid and dense than in the human form.

Joan didn't have an experimental assistant to use. He could only measure intuitive data such as height and weight by himself.

In order to solve this problem, Joan modified the "automatic quill pen" he made, and added drawing and data recording functions.

In order to facilitate the activation of the "magic pen" in the form of the giant bee, Joan specially added an activation spell, which is actually the buzzing sound of the giant bee flapping its wings.

When he turned into a giant bee and hummed, the magic pen was activated and jumped into the ink bottle automatically.

After dipping in the ink, the magic pen jumped back to the table, and painted the form of the master's giant bee on the white paper that Joan had laid out in advance.

After just five minutes, the magic pen completed the drawing work, and the sketch of the giant bee was drawn, which was exactly the same as that drawn by Joan himself.

Joan turned into the "Beeman" form, activated the magic pen in the same way, and ordered it to draw a portrait of his own "Beeman" form.

Next, Joan maintained the beeman form and entered the third research link - speed measurement.

Joan has the ability to fly in both the forms of the bee man and the giant bee, and the flying speed is actually about the same.

Of course, he is not satisfied with perceptual judgments, but also needs to measure the flight speed accurate to the second.

Joan first determined the flight path in advance, and flew around the manor where the villa is located, exactly 1000 yards.

When taking off, Joan activated the magic pen, ordered it to record the time, and then flapped its wings to fly at full speed.

When he returned to the starting point, the magic pen automatically recorded the time at this moment, so that he could get the flight time.

After a simple calculation, Joan calculated that in the form of the bee man and the giant bee, his flying speed was almost 50 miles per hour.

This speed is slightly slower than that of Hawkman, and the long-distance flying ability is even farther away.

In Jotunheim's eagle form, he didn't feel tired after flying for hundreds of miles. Joan was too tired to flap his wings after only flying 2,000 yards.

Of course, the forms of the Beeman and Giant Bee also have a major advantage over the form of the Hawkman, that is, they are more flexible and can perform complex changes of direction like juggling in the air.

Relatively speaking, the mobility of the giant bee form is better than that of the hump man form.

This may be because the body structure of the former is similar to that of an insect, which is more in line with aerodynamic principles, while the humanoid torso of the latter is actually a burden during flight.

This can be seen from the vibration frequencies of the wings of the two forms.

In the form of a giant bee, Joan can easily vibrate his wings more than 10,000 times per minute, but in the form of a bee man, it is difficult to beat the frequency of wings exceeding the 10,000 times mark, and it cannot last for a long time.