My beast can't be a demon.

Chapter 207 Artificial Fungi

Wu Xiaoqing came very quickly.

Maybe it's because she has free time.

After jumping off the bird, Wu Xiaoqing immediately asked about Zhou Lu's situation.

"Are you okay?" She checked Zhou Lu's body without hesitation.

"Don't worry, Sister Xiaoqing, I'm fine." Zhou Lu said with a smile, "It should be a pathogen that specifically infects poultry."

"Be careful then."

As she spoke, Wu Xiaoqing summoned her cursed frog.

The cursed frog opened its bloody mouth towards Zhou Lu.

Zhou Lu immediately understood what Wu Xiaoqing meant.

“No more…” Zhou Lu subconsciously took a step back.

Although he knew that Wu Xiaoqing was going to use purification on him, Zhou Lu still couldn't accept the thought of being eaten by a big frog, chewed a few times and then spit out physically.

"Hurry up!" Wu Xiaoqing rarely showed a serious expression.

Zhou Lu was also shocked by Wu Xiaoqing's rare seriousness and let the cursed frog swallow him.

Not only Zhou Lu, but also Huahuo and Benben enjoyed the same treatment.

The purification of the curse frog is somewhat different from that of the red leaf fruit, especially the purification after swallowing the individual directly into the stomach.

It can really remove all negative effects and harmful substances from an individual.

However, the feeling of being covered in mucus made Zhou Lu very uncomfortable.
So I took Hanabi to the nearest waterfall and took a bath.

Little Caocao seems to have a special longing for taking a bath with his owner.

After Zhou Lu suggested taking a shower, Hua Huo had already put the folded bath towel and daily necessities on her head.

Xiao Caocao even took a soft-bristled brush and insisted that Zhou Lu brush its body with the brush.

[Other owners wash and care for their pets in this way!]
Hua Huo patted Zhou Lu's hands with leaves to urge him on.

"That's because those pets are furry, and if they are not cleaned and cared for on a daily basis, they will have parasites."

[I have parasites too!]
"Why did I not see it……"

Hua Huo was stunned for a while, then angrily said to Zhou Lu: [Wait for me to catch some aphids.]
After roughly understanding what Hua Huo meant, Zhou Lu smiled helplessly, rubbed Hua Huo's head and said, "Okay, okay, I'll wash it for you, I'll wash it for you."

Xiao Caocao immediately turned on the happy mode.

When Zhou Lu's brush fell on it, it twisted happily.

The joy of the fireworks seemed to infect the surrounding vegetation.

Zhou Lu even felt that the air around him had become fresher.

The fireworks after the third stage seem to have more than just growth in attributes.

Zhou Lu said in his heart.

Living things are very peculiar.

There are many things that you can't even fully explain with scientific theories.

This is even more true when it comes to spiritual beasts.

So far, the academic community has not formed a unified theory to scientifically prove the reasons for the emergence of extraordinary powers of spiritual pets and the theoretical basis of the evolutionary system.

Zhou Lu actually once doubted the necessity of such research.

A large number of scientists have spent decades on this research without any results.

But Wu Xiaoqing has great respect for this kind of research.

When Zhou Lu finished washing and returned to the temporary camp for Shanque's recuperation, Wu Xiaoqing looked at the laptop screen with a serious face. A large number of samples were already placed beside her.

The little tit that Hua Huo brought from Qu Di had been dissected by Wu Xiaoqing.

"It's a fungus that specifically attacks chickadees."

When Wu Xiaoqing saw Zhou Lu coming back, she went straight to the point.

"Specially attacking little tits?" Zhou Lu was stunned.

"It is also highly contagious and has a very high mortality rate," Wu Xiaoqing said. "Once it spreads, the tits in the entire mountain secret realm will be extinct within half a month."

The senior student's face looked very ugly, even with strong anger.

"Besides that." Wu Xiaoqing snapped her computer shut. "It's a strain of bacteria that was artificially gene-edited."

"Manual editing?" Zhou Lu was instantly upset when he heard this. "Sister Xiaoqing, are you sure?"

Wu Xiaoqing glanced at Zhou Lu and said, "I often do this kind of thing. I can tell the traces of artificiality at a glance."

"The other party's work was very crude, and they knocked out an extra gene." Wu Xiaoqing knew that Zhou Lu would not understand overly profound theories, so she said very simply, "After the gene is expressed, a special receptor will appear on the surface of this type of fungus."

"I'll set something up later. They'll interact with these receptors and turn on the fungus' suicide mode."

"It's so contagious, and with only a little medicine I'm afraid..." Zhou Lu was a little nervous.

Wu Xiaoqing laughed and said, "Don't worry, I have an idea. Since they want to use this kind of fungus to infect the little tits and make them die quickly, can't I make them a fungus that can infect them with this kind of fungus?"

"I want to show them what it means to show off one's skills before an expert!"

As she spoke, Wu Xiaoqing began to rummage through the package.

"Wow~ The mother plant should be carefully selected, one that reproduces quickly and has strong infectiousness..."

"Oh, please give more details next time." Wu Xiaoqing said casually, "I didn't bring any of the mother copies that were too dangerous."

As she spoke, Wu Xiaoqing took out a bottle filled with yellow liquid from her bag.

"It's decided, let's use this one." Wu Xiaoqing said.

Zhou Lu looked at the bottle with special symbols on it in Wu Xiaoqing's hand and felt it was very subtle.

"what is this?"

"Plague Archaea." Wu Xiaoqing said, "It is said to be the pathogenic bacteria that destroyed the Second Era Cultivation Civilization. I dug it out from under the glacier with great difficulty..."

"Shit! You carry such a dangerous thing with you!" Zhou Lu was so frightened that he took several steps back.

According to modern archaeology, people have divided the verifiable immortal era into five eras, and the second era existed more than 10,000 years ago.

Wu Xiaoqing couldn't help but roll her eyes when she saw Zhou Lu's panic. She said, "Why are you so scared? This kind of archaea can't infect you at all now. Humans who can survive from that era are resistant to this kind of archaea."

Fungi are extremely difficult to mutate under natural conditions.

Zhou Lu reluctantly believed Wu Xiaoqing's words, but still kept his distance from the bottle of yellow liquid.

"If you are so scared, just do something else. I still need some time here." Wu Xiaoqing said to Zhou Lu while debugging the equipment.

Other things...

Seeing Zhou Lu's confusion, Wu Xiaoqing said, "Didn't you find the pathogen in someone else's camp?"

"If we prevent them from releasing these sick birds, we might be able to prevent too many chickadees from dying."

Zhou Lu understood immediately: "Okay, I'll go right away."

"Be careful to hide it." Wu Xiaoqing advised, "Professors like this are usually sponsored by big companies. They want to exterminate wild chickadees. I'm afraid that the spiritual pets they promote occupy the same ecological niche as chickadees, and the free chickadees prevent them from making money."

"In order to promote your own spiritual pet, you actually exterminate an entire species?!" Zhou Lu felt a nameless anger in his heart.

Wu Xiaoqing laughed and said, "There are many such cases. Why do you think there have been so many cases of wild spirit beasts becoming extinct in the past hundred years?"

(End of this chapter)