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Because the Eberon individuals, led by the hounds, displayed agility far exceeding that of normal creatures at this moment.
"Goo!"
The smallest sparrow swooped down from the sky.
Implanted with steel, it was like a bullet fired from a gun, instantly blinding Sanada Ryosuke in one eye.
"what!"
The intense pain caused Sanada Ryosuke to let out a wail and instinctively fire a shot into the sky.
boom!
However, the steel-boned sparrow, driven by hatred, was not afraid of gunfire at all.
The angry sparrow, at the cost of its own life, forcefully left another deep, bone-revealing claw mark on Ryosuke Sanada's face.
But this was just the beginning. With the death of the sparrow, more and more Ebloon individuals pounced on Sanada Ryosuke like madmen.
This drama of revenge is destined to end with the demise of one of the two sides.
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Meanwhile, on a fence somewhere on the edge of the industrial park.
An ordinary-looking black cat suddenly turned its head and glanced in the direction of Sanada Ryosuke.
Then, in the next moment, faint arcs of electricity involuntarily appeared on the surface of the black cat's body.
As one of the few Ebloon individuals not blinded by revenge, this black cat had its brain modified.
Or more precisely, in order to calculate the fitness of the Eberon individual, Ryosuke Sanada implanted an electronic secondary brain into the black cat.
Therefore, apart from occasional headaches, Black Cat is among the individuals with the fewest side effects in the Ebron group.
It is precisely because of the innate advantage of its secondary brain that the black cat is able to maintain its rationality to the maximum extent and possesses a higher level of intelligence than the white ape.
The black cat knew in its heart that no matter what changes had occurred to it, it could never be a match for those humans.
If it weren't for some unknown reason why those humans suddenly withdrew from this area today...
Black Cat wasn't even sure if he would ever escape that dark and gloomy basement in his lifetime.
"Meow!"
Just as the black cat was deep in thought, another tabby cat that had been injected with Ebron cells let out a meow.
A special connection between the Ebloon cells allowed the tabby cat to sense what was happening to the prosthetic-eyed mouse and other Ebloon individuals.
Unfortunately, lacking the intelligence of a black cat to analyze situations, the tabby cat instinctively wanted to take revenge on Sanada Ryosuke.
The meaning behind that cry was that he wanted the black cat to go with him to take revenge.
However, the black cat merely glanced at the other party coldly, its indifference somewhat resembling that of a human.
Obviously, the black cat didn't want to seek revenge on Sanada Ryosuke right now, because that would most likely be suicide.
The black cat even thought that the prosthetic-eyed mouse's behavior was too reckless.
Even with the characteristics left behind by the white ape, recklessly absorbing a massive amount of electricity would only lead to the same fate as its opponent.
The truly correct path is to absorb electricity little by little, just like you do, and gradually achieve awakening.
"Meow!"
Then it let out a low growl.
The black cat eventually ignored the impatient tabby cat and jumped over the industrial park fence, heading towards the real city center.
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Chapter 259 Becoming More and More Human
"squeak!"
After its size swelled to the point of bursting the power generation device, the artificial-eyed rat's changes finally stopped.
At this moment, the artificial-eyed rat, which was originally only the size of a palm, has transformed into a small monster that is three meters tall and six meters long.
This was because the power generation equipment was damaged and could no longer absorb electricity.
If given enough electricity to absorb and grow, the nine-tailed fox has no doubt that it could grow into a truly monstrous size.
Most importantly, as its size continued to expand and change, the rationality of the prosthetic-eyed rat seemed to be impacted and affected to some extent.
"squeak!"
His once clear eyes now glowed a frenzied crimson, as the raging instincts and bestiality of the Ebron cells replaced his original will.
So when the prosthetic-eyed rat noticed the nine-tailed fox beside it, it opened its mouth without hesitation and spewed a powerful electromagnetic pulse at the other.
Silence!
The highly compressed electromagnetic pulse arrived in an instant, and even the air it passed through emitted a scorching ozone smell.
In the blink of an eye, the nine-tailed fox leaped with an almost unbelievable agility, narrowly avoiding the range of the electromagnetic pulse.
At the same time, several snake-like and fox-like spirits appeared out of thin air and directly wrapped themselves around the prosthetic-eyed rat's body.
—Shikigami: Kusagi!
In this situation, the already berserk prosthetic-eyed rat suddenly flapped its wings and actually smashed through the reinforced concrete building, pouncing on the nine-tailed fox like a tiger.
Such terrifying strength and physical resilience are already at a monstrous level.
Fortunately, the nine-tailed fox was no pushover either. With another flick of his nine tails, he turned and disappeared from the prosthetic-eyed rat's sight.
This is the most basic illusion technique, and also the innate supernatural power of the nine-tailed fox.
For this kind of berserk monster with a prosthetic eye, which has lost the ability to think, illusion is undoubtedly the most useful ability.
"squeak!"
Having forcibly broken free from the fox's restraints, the prosthetic-eyed rat, now without a target, let out another angry screech.
Then, as if sensing something, it suddenly changed direction, crashed through the building's wall, and flew towards the direction where Sanada Ryosuke was.
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"..."
Frowning as it stared at the gradually disappearing prosthetic-eyed rat, the nine-tailed fox, who had reappeared at some unknown time, fell silent.
"Zhizi, have you detected the changes that just occurred in the Ebloon cells?"
To confirm whether the changes she had just sensed were real, the nine-tailed fox spoke in human language again and asked Tomoko.
"Based on the comparison of residual energy fluctuations and pheromones, 98.31% of the points in the Ebloon cells may be undergoing 'courtship' mutations!"
In the detached tone characteristic of artificial intelligence, Sophon offered its own assessment of the changes occurring in the prosthetic-eyed mouse.
"It seems we underestimated the proliferative capacity of the Ebloon cells..."
"After evolving to a certain extent, these cells will actually actively seek to expand their scale."
Basically consistent with Zhizi's judgment, the Nine-Tailed Fox's tone revealed a rare hint of curiosity.
Living organisms possess two instincts: survival and reproduction. Ebloon cells greatly enhance these two most basic instincts.
After strengthening its host—the prosthetic-eyed mouse—to the point where it can protect itself, the next direction of mutation for the Ebloon cells is naturally reproduction.
"Based on the current situation, Ebloon cells have not yet evolved the ability to reproduce on their own."
"Or rather, in order to ensure that they can achieve more perfect evolution, these special cells adopt a 'sexual reproduction' continuation mode."
The nine-tailed fox paused slightly at this point.
"Of course, it cannot be ruled out that after all the Ebloon individuals die out, the remaining Ebloon cells will evolve the ability to reproduce themselves."
"However, there are still enough Ebloon individuals, so Ebloon cells should not evolve that troublesome ability for the time being."
Listening to the Nine-Tailed Fox's analysis, Tomoko suddenly interrupted and asked a question.
"Do you need me to get rid of them?"
“I am 95.31% confident that I can completely eliminate these cells before they become more troublesome.”
Upon hearing Zhizi's words, the nine-tailed fox was taken aback.
"Tomoko, don't you feel like you're becoming more and more like Daigo?"
The nine-tailed fox's words momentarily stunned Tomoko, but she quickly recovered.
"Don't you want me to become more and more like a 'human'?"
With deep confusion, Tomoko's voice sounded somewhat low and bewildered.
"Of course not. I'm naturally very happy that you have your own thoughts and judgments."
"But you must remember one thing: no matter how human-like you become in the future, you are not a true human being."
“Aside from a few people like Daigo, no human being will treat you as a real human being.”
"You can think from a human perspective, but you can never consider yourself a real human being."
The nine-tailed fox's tone was unusually serious, as if it wasn't she who had decided to give Tomoko emotions and humanity in the first place.
"In any case, the problems with Ebloon cells are all caused by humans themselves."
"We are free to either stand by or intervene."
"But you must remember one principle, which is that we must distinguish between 'positions'."
"By exposing oneself for the trouble caused by humanity, one day it will invite humanity's full hostility and attack."
Whether the nine-tailed fox's words could be considered a warning or not, Tomoko sensed the danger in them.
As the nine-tailed fox said, humans are extremely vigilant about everything unknown, and they don't care that Sophon destroyed the Ebloon cells for their sake.
Once they become aware of Sophon's presence.
For something even more dangerous than Eblon cells, humanity will only take the most direct and forceful measures to deal with it.
"Then what do we do next?"
As expected of Tomoko, after realizing her oversight, she immediately changed her attitude and asked.
"Inform the Victory Team as a Gaia executive and tell them what's happening here; they will naturally carry out an emergency evacuation."
"Then expose the Space Development Agency's little scheme, making TPC pay attention to the existence of Ebloon cells."
"After doing these two things, what you need to do is to preserve Gaia's shares and technology as much as possible, and be prepared for TPC to take over completely at any time."
Abandoning the army to save the general, besieging Wei to rescue Zhao, feinting to the east while attacking in the west...
Nine-Tailed Fox's actions were clear: even if it meant abandoning Gaia Corporation, she absolutely could not expose the existence of Sophon.
"Understood, Boss!"
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Chapter 260 Supernatural Disasters
On the other side, they finally managed to kill those Ebloon individuals after a great struggle.
Before the heavily injured Sanada Ryosuke could catch his breath, he suddenly looked up at the sky as if he had a premonition of something.
Looking into the distance, a faint black dot appeared on the horizon, rapidly growing larger as it approached, and soon came into Sanada Ryosuke's field of vision.
"Number one?"
Although the prosthetic-eyed rat's appearance has changed drastically.
However, Sanada Ryosuke recognized the other party's identity at a glance.
That was the first mouse injected with Ebloon cells, and also the first experimental subject to undergo a prosthetic eye transplant.
Given the complexity of prosthetic eye transplant surgery, Ryosuke Sanada only underwent the simplest eye transplant initially.
But now this little white mouse is covered in all sorts of powerful mechanical prosthetics.
Combined with its already enormous size, the impact it had on Ryosuke Sanada was simply terrifying.
boom!