The End of the Paleozoic Era Chapter 2014: Transformation

"I've been caught here for many days. They occasionally give us some food, but most of the time they ignore us."

"We can only stay in a small bubble, but I am not depressed. I am watching their actions very carefully."

"According to my observation, most of them have almost no intelligence, and there are only a few intelligent individuals... The average individuals cannot think, they only obey the orders of the intelligent individuals."

"It is those intelligent individuals who are commanding large numbers of troops to continuously attack us and capture us..."

"When there is no command, the unintelligent individuals will just wander around mechanically. I think this is something I should take advantage of."

"…Although I thought so, I didn't find a chance to escape. I stayed here for too long, so long that I even saw their purpose of capturing us."

"Their goal is to turn us into one of them, into the same...mummy."

"They captured us one by one and transformed us into their own kind. I was no exception. I was captured by them."

"But maybe they didn't expect that I was carrying some special equipment."

"After they took me out of the bubble, I found a way to use my equipment to escape from their control and escape from their valley."

"When I returned to the research station, I found it had been destroyed and all my colleagues had been captured."

“But I stayed here and stayed here…watching the changes in myself.”

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“I wonder who will find out…”

Lin was looking at a...screaming creature in front of her.

This is a research station.

In this abandoned research station, scattered items, overturned vehicles and houses with cracks can be seen everywhere.

Lin is now standing in a house, holding a device for recording images in her hand.

In the three-dimensional image, you can see an Ershimin falling to the ground in pain, making miserable sounds and trying to crawl to the table next to it.

In its hand it holds a small bottle of glowing liquid, and it appears to be trying to place the bottle on the table.

However, it failed to do so in the end, it fell to the ground and the bottle rolled to the side.

Turning her head, Lin could see the dead Ershimin right next to her... and now he had turned into a skeleton.

But the bottle it threw away was not here. It might have been taken away by someone, perhaps those "corpses".

All that was left were the images recorded by the Ershi people and its bones.

Lin could learn a lot from the images.

As far as Lin knows, it is the only Ershi people who was captured by the "Corpse Clan" and then escaped. Apart from it, no other Ershi people...including the two that Lin and Bilu had planned to rescue before, were able to escape.

But those two died mainly of cold, because after the car drove out of the valley, the surrounding temperature became too low, and their bubbles had no heat-insulating function at all, so... they couldn't hold on for long.

However, Lin felt that even if they were not suffering from the cold, they would not be able to last long.

Because there are some other reasons.

The zombies did not chase after them, perhaps because they felt it was unnecessary, or... their intelligence level was not very high.

Because, it is mentioned in the records of the only Ershi people who escaped.

This Ershimin has done a lot of research on the corpse clan, and most of the research was conducted when it was captured.

"Veronica-san! Communication is restored!"

While Lin was listening to the recording, Bilu suddenly ran in from outside and said, "It seems that we have been able to contact the exhibition hall!"

"Take a look at this first." Lin continued to look at the information on the video.

The following information is about the transformation process of the Ershi people.

This is also the most valuable research here.

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"I found them, in my blood. These things are not ordinary organisms, nor are they carbon-based organisms... nor are they local species. They are a completely new type of microorganism."

"The first day, they were quite active in my blood... and killing my cells."

"The next day, their numbers were increasing and I couldn't kill them. It was impossible with the equipment I had."

"On the third day... I felt like they were talking in my head, like they were drilling into my brain."

"On the fourth day... my body... is shrinking..."

“…”

...Although the voice recording was rather blurry, Lin found that the text inside was quite detailed.

In short, after it was captured and transformed by the zombies, it escaped on the way and found that its body was infected with a group of special microorganisms.

These microorganisms grow inside its body and kill its cells...even drying up the water inside its body.

Later, it could no longer make any sound, but it still recorded the whole process by hand.

Under the influence of this group of microorganisms, its body slowly transformed into a 'corpse race'.

The whole process is that the microorganisms slowly kill its cells, change its bone structure, and absorb its water.

But in doing so, the microbes also strengthen its skin and skeleton.

In the end, its entire body shrank to less than one meter in height, and it became a shriveled creature like the zombies.

Actually it was not recorded till the end.

Because halfway through the process, it almost died.

So the subsequent process is its speculation, but it should be like this, it is slowly transforming.

When it felt that it was about to die, it collected some corpse microorganisms from its body, which it believed to be...'the most critical'.

At the same time, it also swallowed a...highly toxic substance.

It thought that if it committed suicide before it was completely mummified, it might not become a mummy.

Its idea seems to have succeeded, as its body can now be seen.

It did not turn into a zombie but died here, but the bottle of microorganisms it left behind disappeared.

Lin could only see the data it recorded and some of the things it did recently through its video recording.

So, what exactly is this microorganism?

They are not cellular organisms. What they mainly do is to dry up the Ershi people and then rebuild a mechanical-like skeleton in their body to make it move again.

This process seems to depend on whether the Ershimin is alive, and cannot be completed if not.

And then there is the dream energy...

Although the Ershi people did not discover it, Lin felt that the microorganisms would produce dream energy in the process of drying up the Ershi people.

Some zombies also carry some dream energy, so a lot of it can be felt in their valleys.