Chapter 353

The red and white thin threads had been inside Zhang Lin's body for a while now; after he finished explaining the long lifespan of these things, he had Yang Lusi take out the eye-shaped coal essence.

At this moment, Yang Lusi placed the coal essence in her hand.

Looking at this piece of coal essence, which was larger than a palm and shaped like an eye, Yang Lusi inexplicably felt somewhat uncomfortable.

She asked with some confusion: "Senior Brother, you just said that the red and white thin threads might also be a type of symbiotic organism; could it be that their symbiont is this eye?"

This guess was logical, but Zhang Lin shook his head.

"No, strictly speaking, these two things need each other!"

Yang Lusi was stunned for a moment, then felt that what Zhang Lin said made sense.

"Then what should we do now? Hand this coal essence to you?"

"I feel this thing is so eerie; holding it in my hand makes me feel very uncomfortable."

Zhang Lin did not speak, but instead took the coal essence from Yang Lusi's hand and threw it directly onto the ground.

Boom—

After a sound, the coal essence was shattered!

But the fragmentation one would imagine did not occur.

The outer shell of this coal essence cracked, and something like juice flowed out from inside.

Yang Lusi let out an "Eek" and prepared to squat down to touch that puddle of liquid.

But she was stopped by Zhang Lin!

"Don't move! Look at what that is!"

Yang Lusi pulled her hand back and immediately noticed that the liquid flowing out from the shell began to split and squirm.

Subsequently, a shocking scene appeared!

These splitting and squirming things had actually turned into individual eyes!

They were elastic like some kind of gummy candy, and they jumped toward Zhang Lin and Yang Lusi.

It seemed that breaking the outer shell of the coal essence was equivalent to releasing these monsters.

The current scene was extremely bizarre; although these eye-creatures were jumping around, they made no sound.

But both Zhang Lin and Yang Lusi couldn't help but feel their scalps tingle!

Zhang Lin blocked Yang Lusi behind him and said: "You cannot let these things jump onto you."

Yang Lusi swallowed a mouthful of saliva and asked: "What will happen if they jump onto me?"

"I don't know either," Zhang Lin said as he reached out his hand toward the nearest eye, "they might land and take root on your skin."

Upon hearing this, Yang Lusi shuddered all over; skin covered in eyes?

Just imagining it was unbearable!

So she grabbed Zhang Lin and said somewhat excitedly: "This is so dangerous, what are you doing?"

Zhang Lin, however, had a calm expression and patted Yang Lusi's hand.

"Don't worry, they cannot harm me."

While the two were talking, all the eyes that had been born had already jumped onto Zhang Lin's arm.

Just as he had guessed, every single eye was trying its best to burrow into his skin.

But these things were different from the red and white thin threads; they did not completely submerge into the skin.

Instead, they were embedded one by one on the surface of Zhang Lin's skin!

For a moment, he looked like a multi-eyed monster, with eyes growing all over his body.

Every eye was lifelike, and Yang Lusi watched from the side.

She felt that the pupil of every single eye was staring at her!

In her entire life, she had never seen a more terrifying scene than this!

"Senior Brother, what should we do? These things are growing on your body!"

Yang Lusi's tone was anxious; looking at the eyes bulging from Zhang Lin's skin, she wished she could take a knife and help him gouge them out.

She also vaguely felt like vomiting; looking down, she saw the hair on her own arms standing up.

At this moment, Yang Lusi finally understood what trypophobia felt like!

That kind of discomfort made her feel that if she couldn't pick these eyes off, she would want to scratch her own skin violently!

Yang Lusi was anxious, but Zhang Lin was not panicked at all.

He said calmly: "Don't worry, there will be a change in a moment."

No sooner had Zhang Lin finished speaking than a wisp of red and white thin threads suddenly emerged from the center of each eye's pupil.

The red and white thin threads pulled all the eyes embedded in Zhang Lin's skin inside!

For a moment, Yang Lusi couldn't see what these two organisms were doing at all.

As the owner of the body, Zhang Lin could clearly feel these two organisms fighting crazily inside him.

They were like natural enemies, devouring and plundering each other!

This was not symbiosis at all, but a competition.

It was very different from the symbiosis Zhang Lin had guessed before!

The rejection reaction brought about by the two organisms fighting each other was intense; even Zhang Lin couldn't help but feel dizzy and in pain all over.

Just at this moment, the Zhang Qilin bloodline in his body was suddenly awakened.

Like a neutralizing agent, the two organisms that had been fighting and slaughtering without mercy suddenly quieted down.

They were suppressed by the Zhang Qilin bloodline to a certain place in Zhang Lin's body.

The discomfort in Zhang Lin's body disappeared instantly!

And he also received the information feedback brought by these two things.

The result shocked him greatly!

Seeing his expression, Yang Lusi could no longer care about anything else; she supported Zhang Lin and told him to sit down quickly.

"Senior Brother! Are you alright?"

Zhang Lin shook his head and only said after a long while: "I should know where the Fuxi and Nuwa symbiosis technique was learned from."

Yang Lusi was also very interested in this point.

Seeing that Zhang Lin's state seemed fine, she asked curiously: "Where was it learned from? Could it be related to these two organisms?"

Zhang Lin nodded, the shock in his heart not yet dissipated.

As someone who had traveled to this world, logically speaking, he should be the most knowledgeable about the Laojiu Sect and every monster that appeared in the Grave Robbers' Chronicles world!

But he hadn't expected that these red and white thin threads and eyes would actually become such critical things.

"The Fuxi and Nuwa symbiosis technique was learned from these red and white thin threads."

"They possess long lifespans and are the most suitable species to act as symbionts!"

Yang Lusi nodded; from the red and white thin threads saying that their memory of the Blue Star was from when life first began on the Blue Star.

These things could be said to be immortal!

Their age was similar to that of a planet; in a sense, it was what the Daoists called living as long as heaven.

Compared to the lifespans of these red and white thin threads, the thousand-year lifespans of Fuxi and Nuwa were really not worth mentioning.

Zhang Lin continued: "Ancient humans discovered these organisms and found that they were immortal bodies and also parasites, so they had the idea of symbiosis with them to obtain a long lifespan."

"But these red and white thin threads are extremely special; although the red threads and white threads are a whole as they entangle with each other, these two things are also devouring each other at every moment."

Yang Lusi's heart stirred, and she said uncertainly: "This is the reason why the human body gets a fever after these things enter it, right?"

"They fight each other, but they use the human body as a battlefield."

"For human immune cells, they are viruses, so the immune cells activate a defense mechanism, wanting to kill them by raising the body temperature!"

Yang Lusi's analysis was very accurate; basically, from a scientific perspective, she explained the reason for Li Weisi's fever back then.

Wasn't there a joke that said when the human immune system activates its defense mechanism, it doesn't care about the consequences of causing a fever to kill the virus.

To them, only one can survive: the virus or you!

Zhang Lin continued: "Correct, the red and white threads fight each other; for ordinary people, the body cannot withstand it."

"And the red and white thin threads themselves don't want to continue this fighting, so they need to find a symbiont that can suppress the slaughter."

"This perfect symbiont is these eyes in the coal essence!"

Yang Lusi suddenly understood; she basically understood why the red and white thin threads felt a craving for the eyes.

Strictly speaking, only by combining these two things could everything become calm.

But what necessary reason did these eyes in the coal essence have to be symbiotic with the red and white thin threads?

Zhang Lin explained: "For this group of eyes, they are the same as us, craving the immortality of the red and white thin threads!"