Chapter 5 Evolution
Author: The kitten who stole cat food
"System, show my status." Bai Shi thought silently in his heart.
Immediately, a familiar translucent panel appeared:
[Host: Shiraishi
Age:2/60↓
--Basic properties--
Strength:0.1
Agility:0.1
Constitution:0.1
Intelligence:0.7↑(3.0)
--Special enhancement--
Cell adaptability:Ⅰ(98.9%)↑
--Abnormal state--
Warning 1: The unknown agent is taking effect, and the activity of xenogeneic cells is reduced by 80%. The estimated duration is: 7 days, 21 hours, 14 minutes and 30 seconds!
Warning 2: Xenogeneic cells are being eroded (90.3%), estimated time of loss of control: 9 days, 6 hours, 47 minutes and 12 seconds!]
It can be seen that the estimated time for the 'system' to lose control has been reduced to less than ten days. Although it can still last until eight days later when the inhibitor is replenished, it will definitely not survive the next time.
In other words, within twenty days at most, he will die from losing control just like the experimental subject.
However, this result was obtained without variables, and what Shiraishi has been doing is to create variables.
His eyes moved upward and finally locked on [Cell Adaptability].
Looking at its 98.9% progress, I secretly gave the order: "Start evolution!"
[Evolution has started...]
The familiar coolness flowed into his cells, and Shiraishi felt as if he had returned to his mother's body, with warmth all over his body.
At this moment, he forgot about time and pain, and only felt an indescribable sense of relief in his heart.
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"Ding! The goal has been achieved and the evolution has been suspended!"
With a cold notification sound, Shiraishi woke up from the pleasure of evolution.
Because the evolution was stopped early, although Shiraishi still felt very weak this time, he did not fall asleep directly like before.
Pulling himself together, he reopened the panel with great anticipation.
As he expected, [Cellular Adaptability] has been promoted. Not only that, the special enhancement column also has two more abilities, as follows:
[Host: Shiraishi
Age:2/60↓
--Basic properties--
Strength:0.1
Agility:0.1
Constitution:0.1
Intelligence:0.7(3.0)
--Special enhancement--
Cell adaptability:Ⅱ(0.1%)↑
Chakra Affinity: Water: I (1.5%) ↑ Earth: I (1.6%) ↑
Wood Release:Ⅰ(0.2%)↑
--Abnormal state--
Warning 1: The unknown agent is taking effect, and the activity of xenogeneic cells is reduced by 80%. The estimated duration is: 7 days, 21 hours, 9 minutes and 16 seconds!
Warning 2: The xenogeneic cells are being eroded (89.3%), and the estimated time of loss of control is: 9 days, 18 hours, 27 minutes and 35 seconds!
Warning 3: Fusion of heterogeneous cells (0.1%), estimated time required: 99 days, 15 hours, 16 minutes and 12 seconds!]
[Warning 3] on the panel clearly shows the impact that [Cellular Adaptability] will have on him after being promoted.
That is, with the help of cytostatics, his cells and Hashirama's cells have already fused.
And this will be the basis for him to get out of the predicament.
In addition, due to the fusion of cells, he also inherited Hashirama's blood inheritance limit, which is the wood escape ability.
It's just that it's still in the early stages of fusion, and the genes are not very stable, so there is a risk of losing control at any time.
This can be seen from the basically unchanged out-of-control time.
Fortunately, new inhibitors will be added in eight days, so there is still enough time.
As long as he gets through this dangerous period, with his current cell adaptability, the erosion rate of Hashirama's cells will continue to decrease.
After reaching a certain critical point, the degree of erosion will gradually decrease.
In this way, his body will return to normal before long.
In addition, because he inherited the Wood Release, his body also developed a special affinity for the chakra of the two attributes of water and earth.
It is foreseeable that it will be much easier to learn related ninjutsu in the future.
After having a clear understanding of his own situation, Shiraishi began to think about the next direction of strengthening.
There is no doubt that the most important thing at the moment is to solve the erosion problem of cells between columns so as to get through this dangerous period.
If you can't hold on until your body gets better, then no matter what you talk about, it's just a castle in the air.
To solve this problem, there are currently two ways. One is to continue to strengthen [cell adaptability], by enhancing the adaptability of one's own cells, and gradually accepting and merging the cells between the pillars.
Choosing this path has obvious advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is stability and safety, while the disadvantage is that it takes too long.
As for the second way, that is to directly strengthen the [Wood Escape] ability.
If he chooses this path, the cells in his body will quickly replicate and evolve based on those cells that have completed the fusion.
In this way, his resistance to Hashirama's cells will be greatly enhanced, and he may be able to turn around and eliminate the opponent in a short period of time.
However, if you do this, the risk is really not small.
After all, Hashirama's cells have eroded him very deeply. If he rashly turns the tug-of-war into a decisive battle, his body may collapse first.
Therefore, after thinking about it for a long time, Shiraishi gave up this tempting idea and decided to solve the erosion problem of Hashirama cells step by step.
Anyway, he wouldn't be able to get out in a short time, so he might as well choose a safer option.
What's more, when [Cell Adaptability] is strengthened, his [Wood Escape] ability will also benefit, killing two birds with one stone, wouldn't it be better?
With the decision made, Shiraishi no longer wasted time and went straight to start a new round of evolution.
Although the evolution just now consumed a lot of energy, he still persisted for a long time before falling into a coma.
As for the reason, it is very simple. After acquiring the ability of [Wood Release], even if he does not deliberately refine chakra, his physical energy will mix with spiritual energy on its own, thereby producing chakra.
It is these chakras that extend his evolution time.
Moreover, it is foreseeable that chakra will become the main source of energy for his future evolution.
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In a blink of an eye, eight days passed, and it was time to replenish inhibitors.
However, not every experimental subject can wait until this time.
In the past eight days, five more experimental subjects have gone out of control.
In fact, one of them was right next to him.
Looking at the empty and broken culture tanks in front of him, Shiraishi couldn't help but feel a sense of sadness in his heart.
He still remembered that he woke up from his sleep yesterday, only to find a mess in front of him. He didn't even know when the other party died.
When he watched the anime before, he didn't think there was anything wrong with this experiment, but only after he became a member of it did he understand the cruelty involved.
Similar experiments are being carried out not only in Konoha, but also in other ninja villages. You can imagine how many innocent people have died as a result.
This is just a part of the ninja world. The great ninja wars that happen every few decades or even more than ten years involve countless people.
"It's no wonder that everyone in the ninja world wants to be the savior..." Shiraishi shook his head and sighed secretly.
Chapter completed!