Soon, the thing that looked like a lump of stone and mud, after wriggling for a while, stood up in Chen Xiao's sight!
It looked just like the pill bugs Chen Xiao had seen in the summer when he was a child. When its body was curled up, its shell looked like mud and stones, but once it stretched out, it turned into a monster!
It stood upright. Judging from its appearance, this thing was nearly two meters tall. Its shell looked very hard, and its head, which was inverted triangular, had two large eyes, making it resemble some kind of insect.
Its entire body was covered with countless black spots of all sizes.
What surprised Chen Xiao even more was... the monster's appearance was simply...
It looks like it was pieced together!
The pair of lower limbs supporting its standing at this moment, the left foot is covered with black fur, and in terms of shape, it looks like the hind leg of a wolf. The other right leg is covered with plum blossom-like patterns, as if it were transplanted from a sika deer!
Behind it, there was a hard layer of keratinous skin... just like a crocodile!
And its upper limbs...
Its upper limbs don't seem to have been transplanted from any animal; rather, they appear to be "original."
But it is precisely these two upper limbs that are even more horrifying!
Its slender forelimbs may not appear robust, but they are covered with a hard shell, and at the end are two long, blade-like bone spurs, about a meter long!
It's like...
"A praying mantis?" Chen Xiao couldn't help but whisper.
That's right!
This monster looked like a praying mantis nearly two meters tall! It held two large, mantis-like swords in its hands!
“It’s not a praying mantis.” The white-gloved man smiled slightly. “To be precise, 35 percent of its genes come from the praying mantis. As for the rest, they come from six different organisms, including… a portion of human genes.”
Chapter 130 [Farewell]
Genes? Humans?
This thing actually contains some human genes?!
Chen Xiao felt that whoever created this monster must be insane!
The man in the white glove's tone was somewhat excited: "See its body? It looks like it's pieced together, right? That's right! It is indeed pieced together! And it pieced itself together! This bio-beast possesses an extremely special ability, a mutation resulting from the integration of genes from multiple organisms! Its ability is cell fusion! It can fuse cells from any different species! You can see that many parts of its body are pieced together. Hmm... it made them all itself! It seems it's having a lot of fun in this zoo... Look, it chose the hind legs of wolves and deer as its legs because the hind legs of these two animals are strong and powerful, and their shape and proportions are most suitable! It chose crocodile skin as its skin because such skin is tough enough and elastic enough not to hinder its agility. Oh my god!!"
White Gloves suddenly burst into laughter: "Did you notice its head? Haha! What a clever fellow! It's given itself gills! Haha, it must have hunted some large aquatic animal and transplanted it onto its body! Turning itself into an amphibious creature!"
The man in white gloves laughed excitedly, while Chen Xiao watched the mantis-like monster in the distance, unsure of what to feel.
He felt as if he had entered the world of a science fiction movie...
Although both are bio-engineered beasts, the previous Owl Bear was more like an animal... but this giant mantis that walks like a human... is really quite frightening!
Hmm... Can it freely reassemble its own body? Does it have the ability to fuse cells from other species?
Chen Xiao immediately recalled the day Officer Xu took him to the autopsy room and saw the carcasses of dead animals. Indeed, it was said that many dead animals had parts missing from their remains… Now that he thought about it, they were probably taken by this monster to be “assembled”…
The giant praying mantis seemed completely unconcerned about the car in front of it, instead following the scent of urine from afar with a somewhat restless air, slowly approaching the lion in the distance.
Its gait was slightly clumsy, but it was, after all, walking upright! Under the moonlight, it resembled a butcher carrying a cleaver, slowly approaching.
When it got within ten meters of the lion, the lion was clearly becoming impatient. Although the druid driver kept chanting some kind of spell, as if trying to calm the lion's agitation, the lion had already arched its back, growling incessantly at the giant praying mantis in the distance, its claws digging deeply into the ground.
What suddenly struck Chen Xiao was... the lion's low growl. It seemed that, besides wariness and anger... there was also a hint of... fear?
Yes! That's right! Chen Xiao listened intently with confidence. Although the feeling was strange, he was certain that he could hear a certain fear in the lion's roar.
This is unbelievable! The lion, the king of beasts, is actually afraid of a praying mantis?!
The lion had already stood up, opened its mouth wide, and revealed its fangs, but it still dared not pounce directly, and was even retreating inch by inch.
The druid driver chanted the spells faster and faster, and a series of difficult and strange notes burst from his mouth.
Finally, he suddenly pulled out a strange black powder from his pocket and quickly sprinkled it on the lion...
boom!
Suddenly, a ball of green flame shot out from the lion's body! The green flame-like substance didn't seem to be burning; rather, it was some kind of luminous powder. But seeing a lion suddenly glowing green in the darkness was still quite frightening.
As if enveloped in a green glow from the powder, the lion suddenly unleashed all its ferocity and fighting spirit! No longer timid or fearful, it suddenly raised its head and roared, baring its fangs. With its blood-spitting maw wide open, it lunged forward!
The lion's pounce was incredibly swift, while the praying mantis, staggering and clumsy, seemed destined to fall as the lion pounced. But then, the mantis made a move that left Chen Xiao completely stunned!
The two long bony blades on the mantis's two forelimbs suddenly crossed in front of it, forming a cross shape, and then the mantis immediately bent its body slightly downwards...
This...this is clearly a gesture of desperate resistance!!
Bang!
The lion pounced directly onto the mantis's forelegs, but to Chen Xiao's surprise, the mantis was not knocked down. Its two forelegs pushed forward with all its might, and then the lion was thrown away by the enormous force!
It looked as if a kitten, rather than a lion, had been thrown out!
What immense power!
Chen Xiao's eyes lit up immediately!
Then, looking at the mantis monster's pair of sharp bone knives, he immediately recalled the animal carcasses he had seen before, with their sharp and clean cuts... At that time, he guessed that the "person" who made the cuts must have possessed extremely strong strength!
It now seems that although this praying mantis is not human, its strength is truly terrifying!