Author: The kitten who stole cat food

Crunch~

When the door to the experimental area was closed again, Shiraishi opened his eyes as before.

Different from the past few days, this time his eyes were less impatient and more calm.

"System, show my status." Baishi muttered silently.

Immediately, a familiar translucent panel appeared:

[Host: Shiraishi

Age:2／61↓

--Basic properties--

Strength:0.1

Agility:0.1

Physique:0.1↓(0.2↓)

Intelligence:0.6(3.0)

--Special enhancement--

Cell adaptability:Ⅰ(62.2%)↑

--Abnormal state--

Warning 1: The unknown agent is taking effect, and the activity of xenogeneic cells is reduced by 80%. The estimated duration is: 9 days, 13 hours, 45 minutes and 20 seconds!

Warning 2: Xenogeneic cells are being eroded (57.3%), estimated time of loss of control: 15 days, 2 hours, 31 minutes and 16 seconds!】

Looking at the time of loss of control estimated by the system, Shiraishi finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Before, he had been thinking about how Yamato survived because Hashirama's cells were so corrosive. Now he has the answer. The secret lies in the unknown potion.

"Heh~, we first spent a year cultivating [Cell Adaptability] for all children, so that everyone has the foundation to fight against Hashirama's cells.

Next, the columnar cell extract was injected. After the erosion reached a certain level, inhibitors were then injected to suppress the aggressiveness of the columnar cells and give all experimental subjects a chance to breathe.

As a result, there will be a tug of war between Hashirama's cells and the experimental subject's own cells.

During this period, the cellular adaptability of the experimental subject will continue to increase.

As long as the qualifications are sufficient, or the affinity with the pillar cells is good, then there is a certain possibility that the fusion can be successful before the pillar cells completely get out of control.

It’s really a good idea!”

Shiraishi finally figured out Orochimaru's thoughts, and from this, he could be sure that the medicine that inhibited Hashirama's cell activity would not be broken in a short period of time.

Currently, he can evolve once a day, which can increase [Cell Adaptability] by 1.2% and reduce the erosion rate of alien cells by 0.2%.

According to the records of the past few days, without inhibitors, the degree of xenogeneic cell erosion will increase by about 6% every day.

Now that there are inhibitors, the daily increase in erosion will be reduced to almost 1.2%.

Subtracting the effect of each evolution, this value should become 1%.

In this way, as long as the inhibitor can be renewed, Shiraishi won't have to worry about losing control for at least a month and a half.

What he has to do is to increase the level of [Cell Adaptability] within this period of time. Only in this way can he survive longer.

With this thought in mind, Shiraishi stopped wasting time and focused his attention on [Cell Adaptability], starting a new round of evolution.

The familiar feeling of coolness came, and Shiraishi's cells began adaptive evolution again.

When the energy was exhausted, evolution stopped, a feeling of emptiness came as expected, and Shiraishi fell into a coma without any surprise.

After several times, Shiraishi has understood that what restricts his evolution speed is the lack of energy in his body.

Although sharpening a knife is a good way to chop wood, logically speaking, he should first evolve the ability to quickly absorb energy and sharpen the knife well, but the reality is that conditions do not allow it.

Based on the current environment he is in, it is estimated that the firewood will be gone before the knife is sharpened, so he can only make do with it. After all, saving his life is the most important thing.

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In the dim experimental area, it was impossible to distinguish between day and night. Shiraishi could only tell that ten days had passed based on the time recorded by the system.

Just as he thought, Orochimaru refilled everyone's mind with inhibitory potions.

When the door to the experimental area closed again, Shiraishi opened his eyes again.

As soon as I thought about it, a familiar translucent panel appeared:

[Host: Shiraishi

Age:2／61↓

--Basic properties--

Strength:0.1

Agility:0.1

Physique:0.1↓(0.1↓)

Intelligence:0.6(3.0)

--Special enhancement--

Cell adaptability:Ⅰ(74.3%)↑

--Abnormal state--

Warning 1: The unknown agent is taking effect, and the activity of xenogeneic cells is reduced by 80%. The estimated duration is: 9 days, 14 hours, 3 minutes and 17 seconds!

Warning 2: Xenogeneic cells are being eroded (68.4%), estimated time of loss of control: 14 days, 13 hours, 27 minutes and 31 seconds!】

Compared to ten days ago, Hashirama's cells had eroded him to a deeper extent.

Although it did not directly jump by dozens of percentage points like the first ten days, it also increased by 11.1% to 68.4%, and even the out-of-control time was reduced by more than ten hours.

Once the estimated time of losing control is reduced to less than ten days, he may not be able to wait for the inhibitor to be renewed and will lose control first.

Now, Shiraishi is racing against time to see whether Hashirama's cells will go out of control first, or whether he will increase the level of [Cell Adaptability] first.

Currently, his cell adaptability is I (74.3%), and he will be able to upgrade as long as he lasts about 25 more years.

By then, the situation should have improved.

After one last glance at the panel, Shiraishi stopped wasting time and started a new evolution.

To his expectation, this evolution actually reduced the erosion rate of Hashirama's cells by 0.3%.

Seeing that the effect of strengthening [Cell Adaptability] was beginning to show, Shiraishi fell asleep with satisfaction.

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In a flash, another ten days passed.

Unknowingly, the experiment had been going on for a month, and Shiraishi had also received the third injection of cytostatics.

Thanks to the improvement of [Cell Adaptability], the erosion rate of Hashirama's cells against him has only increased by 10.2% in the past ten days.

However, the corrosion rate as high as 78.6% still caused considerable damage to his body.

The most obvious one is the physical attribute, which has been directly changed from the original 0.3 to 0.1, and the upper limit of life span has also been reduced by one year.

It is even expected that this number will continue to grow.

On the other hand, the intelligence attribute, whether due to physical growth or the influence of Shiraishi's soul, increased by 0.1 and became 0.7.

In addition, after ten days of evolution, his cell adaptability has improved a bit, reaching level I (86.4%), and he is not far away from being promoted.

Although the time for him to lose control has been shortened this time, the current progress is enough for him to complete a transformation before losing control.

"Keep up the good work!"

After cheering himself up in his heart, Shiraishi began a new round of evolution.

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In this way, time passed day by day.

Shiraishi successfully received the fourth injection of cell inhibitors. Although the degree of heterogeneous cell erosion increased by nearly ten percentage points, his [Cell Adaptability] also reached the critical point for promotion.

Just when he thought he would get through this dangerous period quietly, only one day later, the tranquility was broken.

Crackling~

Along with the sound of glass breaking, an experimental subject lost control.

Twisted vines came out of the child's body, bursting the culture tank, and covering an area several meters in diameter as he breathed.

On the forty-second day of the experiment, the first death occurred.

Feeling the rapidly weakening breath of life, Shiraishi felt awe-inspiring in his heart and muttered to himself: "Without the 'system', I'm afraid it won't be long before I end up with the same fate."
Chapter completed!