My beast can't be a demon.

Chapter 287 You guys are worthy of being brothers and sisters

"You seem a little disappointed." Ouyang smiled as he looked at Huahuo who was "playing" with his pet. He seemed very calm, not at all like he had been imprisoned before.

"I'm surprised." Zhou Lu corrected, "Senior, you are in much better condition than I thought."

"That guy is much more restrained than I expected." Ouyang said with a smile, and a look of disappointment inevitably appeared on his face. "It's a pity that I came here after being infected."

Zhou Lu originally wanted to say a few pleasantries and then turn the topic to Ye Qingyu.

He and Ouyang Xiao were not very familiar with each other, and this senior always asked the original body to do some strange things, which made the original body have a bad impression of him.

This perception also affected Zhou Lu to a certain extent.

After much thought, he realized that the only thing he and Ouyang Xiao had in common was probably Ouyang Xiao's fiancée Ye Qingyu.

But before he even started talking, Zhou Lu couldn't hold back when he heard Ouyang Xiao's words.

"The infection you are talking about is..."

Zhou Lu silently took two steps back.

As an expert in the resurrection of ancient beasts, Ouyang Xiao's favorite thing to study is the ancient microorganisms excavated from the ice. The genes of many ancient organisms are screened and extracted from the genes of these microorganisms.

Among them, Ouyang Xiao’s favorite thing to play with is ancient viruses.

When these "little cuties" run into host cells to replicate themselves, they sometimes steal the host's genes into their own genomes - this is also the main source for Ouyang Xiao to find ancient biological genes.

During this process, Ouyang Xiao inevitably had to test the infectious ability of these viruses.

Therefore, when Zhou Lu heard the word "infection", his alertness suddenly increased several degrees.

Ouyang Xiao seemed to have guessed Zhou Lu's fear, and said with a smile: "Relax, I'm not a scourge. This virus is almost the same as rhinovirus for beastmasters. At most... it will give you some rhinitis."

"I feel this is already terrifying." Zhou Lu said helplessly, "I didn't expect that after not seeing you for a few years, you are still doing such a dangerous thing."

"Meow! You pervert!" As Ouyang Xiao spoke, his pet meowed, finally breaking free from Huo Huo's restraints and quickly jumping back onto Ouyang Xiao's shoulder.

Ouyang smiled and rubbed his cat's fur, then said: "My strength is not enough to kill Qi Lin, so I can only avenge my teacher in this way."

Zhou Lu immediately understood Ouyang Xiao's plan: "Could it be that this virus has a special attack against immortals?"

"I call it the delicious virus. I found it from a relic tens of thousands of years ago." Ouyang Xiao said slowly, "It originally could only infect Blattodea. It can make the infected person emit amazing attraction to the same kind, attracting its own kind to attack and eat it, and in the process spread itself among the group. Organisms infected by this virus will die within three days, but the infectivity of the virus will not decrease at all within three years after death."

After a pause, Ouyang smiled and said, "I made a minor genetic adjustment. Now it can infect humans, but the only ones who will be affected by the virus are immortals whose RCS genes have been activated."

"..." After hearing Ouyang Xiao's words, Zhou Lu was silent for a while.

"Madman." He came to the final conclusion.

Although he didn't know what the RCS gene was, he roughly understood Ouyang Xiao's plan, which was to kill all the immortals through viral infection.

These guys who study genes and biology really should not be messed with.

Zhou Lu made up his mind silently.

God knows what these guys will suddenly pull out.

"But the virus is killing too fast now." Ouyang Xiao was still a little dissatisfied. "If it dies in three days, the virus won't be able to spread. But this is not a big problem. The main thing is that I haven't had time to fully verify its impact on unawakened humans and humans with activated beastmaster genes."

When Zhou Lu heard Ouyang Xiao's words, a crazy idea suddenly came to his mind.

He subconsciously wanted to reject it, but considering Ouyang's smiling face and his past actions, he almost said with certainty: "You don't want to let it infect all of humanity, do you?"

Ouyang smiled and stroked the cat, and asked, "Why not? If it is safe enough for normal humans."

In Ouyang Xiao's plan, as long as all human beings are infected with this delicious virus, there will be no room for immortals to survive in this world.

Zhou Lu was stunned for a moment, and after thinking for a long time, he finally decided to use his shallow knowledge of biology to struggle a little: "In this way, sooner or later there will be an immortal who is immune to this virus... right?"

"If you want to be immune to this virus, then the RCS gene on your chromosome 16 must mutate. Once this gene mutates... even if only a pair of bases change, you are no longer an immortal by definition, because you have lost the immortal's ability to devour everything and grow."

"I think it should be easy for humans to deal with a loser who is crazy about eating to satisfy himself." Ouyang Xiao touched his chin and nodded, saying, "If we can't even deal with such a guy, it's better for humans to just destroy him."

Zhou Lu felt that he could hardly keep up with Ouyang Xiao's brain waves.

Sure enough, the senior student and he could find common language.

Damn, you two really are worthy of being senior and junior brothers and sisters.

Zhou Lu thought of the bacteria that Wu Xiaoqing was so excited to develop.

He silently mourned for these immortals in his heart. Having provoked these two great demons, they might not even live up to the average human lifespan, let alone the average immortal lifespan.

After finding Ouyang Xiao, the matter of Suizhou came to an end.

Qi Lin was too ruthless. Except for the few who left with Tian Buzhi, the high-level officials of the Immortal Kingdom were basically wiped out.

It’s a pity that Qi Lin didn’t leave a single person alive, otherwise Death Nightmare might have been able to kill these guys in one fell swoop by entering their dreams.

However, now that the fairyland has been found, there is no value in Yan Gui's existence.

As Zhou Lu and Ouyang Xiao were on their way to the Veterans' Home, the branches near Phoenix Island revealed their disguise as seaweed and duckweed under the control of Fireworks.

"This common-sense fairy looks very strange." Ouyang Xiao didn't know that two people on the side were strangling the immortal Yang Gui, and was observing the Qiudao Wood with great interest.

While he was observing the Qiudao Tree, the Qiudao Tree was also observing him.

Ouyang smiled.

Qiu Dao Mu can be said to have a deep memory.

Not to mention the proposal letter, the way this guy looked at the experimental samples when he came to the Invalides for the first and only time was really uncomfortable.

Although Qiu Daomu really disliked Ouyang Xiao's personality, he could even say that he hated it.

However, it did not use its power as a divine beast to suppress Ouyang Xiao.

This researcher with peculiar thinking is the insurance in Qiu Daomu's mind and a powerful medicine to save mankind.

If the cultivation of Meng Yu Hua fails, then Ouyang Xiao will be activated, and they will risk destroying all mankind to see if they can solve the problem of Meng Yu Hua Fairy from a scientific perspective.

Qiu Daomu actually has no hope for this because she can't see such a future.

However, its capabilities are limited.

It can only see the future that it can understand. In other words, it can only observe when the trajectory of future destiny conforms to the worldview constructed by its own knowledge.

This is also the reason why Qiudaomu is madly absorbing knowledge.

It needs to make itself as close to omniscience as possible so that it can see all the possibilities of the future.

Is it possible for Ouyang Xiao to completely solve the problem of the immortal and Mengyuhuaxian? Of course it is possible, but the method he used must be unknown to Qiudaomu.

Qiu Daomu was no longer surprised by this.

Ever since the explosion of human beast taming technology two hundred years ago, this group of intelligent creatures has been constantly refreshing Qiudaomu's cognition.

During that period, disruptive knowledge was born almost every year.

It is precisely because of the addition of this knowledge that Qiu Daomu has a clearer and clearer view of his future destiny and possibilities.

It is indeed true that human beings are now inseparable from the beast taming system with the Qiudao Wood as its core.

But to be honest, Qiudaomu has become somewhat dependent on humans.

It requires humans to produce massive amounts of new knowledge every year to maintain accurate predictions about the future.

"You are a seeker of the way wood, not a general fairy." Ouyang Xiao observed for a long time and finally came to a conclusion.

Qiu Dao Mu simply stopped pretending and crossed his arms, "Yeah, I didn't expect you to do something so crazy, this is not like you."

In Qiu Daomu's impression, Ouyang Xiao is an extremely calm researcher who strictly abides by the guidelines of human researchers.

His behavior of injecting the virus into his own body clearly violated the basic principles of a researcher.

Ouyang Xiao smiled helplessly and said, "I tried to calm myself down. But the teacher is my guide. He found the direction for my future. When I knew that I could kill the immortal, I couldn't judge the consequences of this matter rationally."

As he spoke, Ouyang Xiao spread his hands and smiled: "Well, at least the result is not as bad as I imagined."

"You should be thankful that this virus is a very stable double-stranded virus." Qiu Daomu said helplessly.

"Huh? Do you also know this virus?" Zhou Lu said with a little surprise.

Qiu Daomu glanced at Zhou Lu and said, "This virus has been discovered and submitted by different research institutes six times. Of course I know that."

The delicious virus, as the name suggests, can make those it infects delicious.

What Qiu Daomu didn't say was that Ouyang Xiao was not the only one doing gene editing research on this virus.

Unlike Ouyang Xiao's writing direction of pursuing killing, several research institutes are studying how to use the delicious genes of viruses to make human-raised meat livestock more delicious.

"That's great." Ouyang Xiao suddenly said, "Then please help me review this paper."

As he spoke, he took out the edited paper on the delicious virus and told Qiu Daomu about his plan.

"I can't complete the research on the side effects of this infection by myself. It requires research from the whole world." Ouyang Xiao said.

"Have you ever thought that this would make all human beings extremely delicious in the eyes of immortals? In the three days after infection, a crazy immortal would kill a large number of innocent civilians." Qiu Daomu said as he examined the paper.

"Sometimes you can only choose the less bad option between two bad options." Ouyang Xiao's expression did not change at all.

"I will help you coordinate." Qiu Daomu nodded and finally accepted Ouyang Xiao's paper.

She asked this question not to oppose the plan.

In fact, as long as this batch of modern immortals are all eliminated, Ouyang Xiao's plan can fundamentally destroy the soil for the birth of immortals - the premise is that this special delicious virus has passed the research on side effects and is confirmed to be a virus that can coexist with humans.

Zhou Lu did not participate in the conversation between the two. He was encircling and suppressing the last remnants of Yan Gui through the perspective of fenzhi.

The conclusion reached by the immortal Yangui was similar to that reached by Zhou Lu.

Huohua only sent out one clone, and under the cover of a large number of ordinary clones, it successfully suppressed the resistance on Phoenix Island.

When the group arrived at the Veterans' Home, Yangui had almost been wiped out by Zhou Lu.

Ye Qingyu had already received Zhou Lu's message and was waiting at the gate of the Rongjunyuan early.

This was also the first time Zhou Lu saw the gate of the Veterans Home from the outside.

[Meritorious Spiritual Pet Recreation Center].

This is the official name of the Invalides.

But most people still prefer to call it the Invalides.

Ye Qingyu and Ouyang Xiao haven't seen each other for a long time, and Zhou Lu doesn't have the habit of being a light bulb here.

He pulled Hanabi, who was curiously watching the friendly interaction between men and women, and followed Qiu Daomu into the Veterans Home.

The aura on Manman's body dissipated, and a sapling appeared in front of Zhou Lu.

The sapling grew quickly and eventually grew into a graceful figure.

Different from what we saw before, this time Qiu Dao Mu actually appeared in the form of a loli... Well, of course, she was a loli to the tree man, and her height was actually almost the same as Zhou Lu.

This is probably to have a better conversation with Zhou Lu.

"I plan to re-select the beastmasters in three months." Qiu Daomu said on the way, "You have to come and participate then."

Zhou Lu was shocked when he heard Qiu Daomu's words: "Heavenly King Yuan..."

"Don't worry, he's not dead yet." Qiu Daomu said, "But since he's seriously ill, the authorities need to make preparations for a successor."

Zhou Lu nodded.

"I already know where Tian Buzhi and his men are going." Qiu Daomu suddenly said, "They found the seal of Meng Yu Hua Xian and are on their way to unlock it."

"what?!"

Zhou Lu was suddenly shocked.

Qiu Daomu smiled and said, "Don't be so surprised. I'm not in a hurry. The seal is not that easy to break. You should be able to make it in time if you rush over now."

Zhou Lu finally felt relieved, but he didn't notice the complicated emotions in Qiu Daomu's eyes at all.

(End of this chapter)