Chapter 72: Mutation Complete

The reason Liu Mu wanted to replace Cai Zhenlong, besides wanting to see the Mutation process, was also because the system indicated that these people's conditions were very unstable.

Initially, their vital signs spiked, then rapidly fell, fell, fell, fell...

When the stock market crashes, there is at least a limit-down line, but what the system provided was a parabola with no visible bottom.

"They won't fail, will they?" Liu Mu took out the last few bottles of Nutrient Solution, the ones she had been clutching tightly and not daring to use since Niu Boyi's Mutation last time.

After considering it, she poured half a bottle down each of their throats... she had done all she could!

Li Gang still had to attempt Mutation in a few days; she couldn't leave some for her own people?

Besides, they were all ordinary people undergoing Mutation; drinking too much would be a waste.

The few people, whose bodies had received a little replenishment, finally produced a weak reaction—they moved their eyelids.

Then, they opened their mouths, and inside their slime-covered mouths, two rows of sharp upper and lower teeth were revealed, constantly opening and closing, making chewing motions.

Before they could bite off their own tongues and eat them, Liu Mu stuffed a bag of Compressed Biscuits into each of their mouths—that's right, the kind that hadn't even had the sealed packaging removed.

What a joke, if they had already undergone Mutation and couldn't even digest a piece of packaging, then what the hell kind of Mutation was that!

—Liu Mu thought as much.

Like a paper shredder, no, like a game of Snake, the few of them chewed through a box of Compressed Biscuits with a *crunch, crunch*.

Feeling a bit pained, Boss Liu silently took out a box of Dried Dalieba made by Xu Xiaofeng.

Just like that, after consuming a box of Compressed Biscuits, a box of Dalieba, and a bucket of Niu Bo's Dog Food, these people finally stopped their mechanical eating.

As they stopped, the bones throughout their bodies moved stiffly, emitting *crackling* sounds.

Liu Mu suspected that she might have accidentally created Zombies ahead of schedule.

Fortunately, after they flipped, twisted, crawled, and did the robot dance for a while, they gradually began to look like normal humans again.

"Pain!"

Yang Pingxi was the first to hug himself and cry out in pain; just as he opened his mouth to spit out a word, he also spat out a tongue over a foot long, covered in a White Web.

"Ah, jess shm-what?"

The tongue was too long, hindering his normal speech.

He shook his head, and as the tongue swayed, the White Web on it was actually shaken off.

Yang Pingxi tried to retract his tongue, but several times he let the tongue block his throat, blocking it until he rolled his eyes, and he had to pull it back out.

Too painful to watch, Liu Mu turned her head to examine the others.

Another young man stood blankly, his eyelids opening and closing rapidly like a flickering screen, but his mouth wouldn't open, and as he moved it back and forth, he could only make "mm-mm-mm" sounds.

His hands tried to pry his mouth open, but his fingers grew sharp nails at this moment, rawly carving several parallel gashes into his mouth.

"Mm-ah-ah-ah-ah!"

The blood that flowed out was red, which actually made Liu Mu feel slightly relieved.

Looking at another one, oh my god, was he about to melt in the Black Rain?

He was curled up in a limp heap, with water oozing out all over his body. The key was that the water looked quite clear, and with Liu Mu's sense of smell, she didn't detect any strange odors.

Based on her extensive experience in the apocalypse, this should be an ability to purify water; how should she put it, he was a Human Water Purification Device.

The last one was dead.

His body had completely shrunk into a ball, and bones were piercing out from the bloodless flesh, just like a pile of dirt that had been stabbed with many pieces of wood.

Liu Mu drew her Long Knife, split that lump open with one strike, and covered her nose extremely quickly.

Inside, it was actually full of ketchup-like blood plasma; taking advantage of no one noticing, she used her foot to kick the lump together.

"You three," she turned around calmly and looked at the three who were still in the process of Mutation, "make a sound if you've regained your sanity first."

"Squeak, wha-what's hap-pening...?" Yang Pingxi was almost scared to death by his own tongue; only when Liu Mu shouted did he shift his attention and look at the others.

"What about you?" Liu Mu asked the one who couldn't open his mouth again, "Nod your head, stop clawing at yourself for a second!"

"Mm-mm-mm?" Yang Mang stared at Liu Mu in terror, his pupils showing a blood-red color.

Clearly, he had understood Liu Mu's meaning; on his body, which had grown nearly half as long as before, muscles were undulating.

"Fine, we'll talk later," Liu Mu walked toward the young man who was automatically filtering the Black Rain and kicked him with her foot, "What about you? Can you hear me?"

Yang Shun remained curled up, motionless, as if he were a meditating turtle.

Liu Mu could hear his heartbeat and breathing, so she sighed, "Then you just adapt for a while."

To be honest, she only had a half-understanding of this Mutation business herself, and she really couldn't help much.

In the early days of the apocalypse, the human body was still too fragile; being able to withstand such abnormal physiological changes was already a miracle.

And their changes were still continuing; whether they could fully endure it, she could only keep waiting.

Liu Mu briefly explained their current situation, only telling them to try to stay calm, and that she would continue to monitor their conditions.

He Qizheng and Cai Zhenlong were still carrying people out; Liu Mu picked a rock and sat down, covered by her black Raincoat, looking like a black idol.

Taking advantage of the gap in carrying the women, Cai Zhenlong checked his cousin's condition; her vital signs were obvious, she was just unconscious.

The situation of most of the others was about the same, but some were indeed, as Liu Mu said, already dead.

The only fortunate thing was that he didn't see any half-eaten corpses, nor any that had been infected by Parasitism from fungal threads or were rotting.

However, He Qizheng asked, "That white thing didn't intend to eat them?"

Even he had noticed this point; although Cai Zhenlong was relieved, he had no answer.

Glancing at Liu Mu, who was sitting there motionless, he really wanted to ask how his brothers were doing now.

But Liu Mu clearly had no intention of talking to them, and didn't even provide Raincoats for these poor women.

The heavy rain continued, the carrying continued, and the Mutation continued.

Liu Mu appeared to be sitting motionless, but she was constantly checking the three people's conditions in the system; several times when the three were near death, she used the medicine she had obtained in her previous life in the apocalypse to pull them back from the gates of hell.

Just as He Qizheng had thought before, this experiment was very important data for her.

The conditions that appeared in these people midway were very likely to appear later in others, including Li Gang; if she could master the technology to mutate normal humans before the official authorities did...

Isn't this a heaven-sent fortune delivered right to my doorstep?

Even if it isn't used to make money, strengthening the per capita combat power of the Scrap Station is a very considerable benefit.

Of course, there are still many problems involved in this, such as the fact that she has no way to make more of her stocked medicine for the time being, and... the Concentrated Nutrient Solution.

At present, humanity is still stuck in the stage of searching everywhere for food to satisfy their hunger; they have neither the idea nor the technology to produce Concentrated Nutrient Solution.

【Then why don't you give me the ingredient list and production method for the Concentrated Nutrient Solution? By the way, no durian flavor, thanks.】

Heitao A: 【This is not a secret, see for yourself (attached table).】

After Liu Mu injected the three people with different doses of Adrenaline for the third time, she returned to the rock and sat down, not having the slightest thought of going over to check on those women.

Because... she had already checked them before; it was just a Hallucinogenic Neurotoxin.

After enduring this wave, the Mutation of the three finally stopped.