Pirates of the Navy Thunder God

Chapter 709: The Final Song of the Celestial Dragons (12)

The self-healing cells were going berserk, a state Ron was very familiar with.

Just like how his body had experienced autophagy several times due to excessive use of its self-healing ability, this is a self-preservation behavior in which cells, when lacking energy, begin to endlessly devour all the flesh and blood around them to ensure their own survival.

Even though he could survive being cut into pieces by Shanks, he absolutely did not want to experience what would happen if he was completely devoured by self-healing cells. The maddening hunger and burning sensation in his abdomen still make him feel scared when he thinks about it now.

In that state, he felt that he had lost all his rationality and just wanted to eat up everything that stored energy in front of him.

Even... human flesh!

To put it simply, it’s appetite.

An appetite that devours everything!

This is what happened to Priestley.

But it has nothing to do with him as a "person", it is just the spontaneous behavior of that group of cell tissues.

There is a very simple reason, why are self-healing cells self-healing cells?

Because both the phagocytic and healing functions will stop automatically!
After restoring the original tissue to its original state, unless the energy is exhausted and urgently needs to be replenished, the devouring behavior will stop and return to its usual inert state.

Then the question arises…why did it stop?

The answer is obvious.

These are Ron's cells. The memory engraved deep in his genes gives each cell a fixed position and tells it when to "rest". Everything in Ron's body is organized and clear.

However, inside other life forms, the genetic information did not match Ron's at all. The self-healing cells immediately thought that the body was still in a state of serious damage, so they decisively devoured all the energy they could touch around them in an attempt to completely repair the body.

The result is that the self-healing cells go out of control.

"You're setting yourself up for a good death, Vegapunk."

Based on the intelligence, Ron determined that Vegapunk had cloned a copy of himself.

But unlike ordinary clones, he simply provided energy to the blood indefinitely, and then these cells grew naturally and combined into another "Ron".

Ron had not had time to investigate the specific information because he was waiting for Vegapunk to complete his experiment so that he could use this method to have an army of clones.

It's like the relationship between bears and pacifists.

There was nothing wrong with Vegapunk's thinking, and there was nothing wrong with the effect of the universal gene fluid. They just underestimated the terrible phagocytic ability of Ron's cells.

Facing the Styx virus in Priestley's body, it was like a goat waking up a group of hungry wolves. The wolves would not stop until they had eaten up their opponents.

of course……

This is Ron's own business.

The Five Elders did not understand the mystery. After the thumb-thick nutrient solution tube was pulled out, Priestley did not stop changing. He became dramatically thinner and was tending to become skinny.

Seeing this, the five elder stars with long beards shouted loudly.

"He's going to die, Vegapunk, use your smart brain to think of a solution!"

"No, it's... too late..."

With a heavy face, Vegapunk slowly shook his head, then opened a corner of the operating table and pressed the red button.

Bang!Bang!Bang!
Amid the sound of collision, glass walls quickly rose up from all sides of the test bench, and steel plates several centimeters thick fell from them, trapping Priestley inside.

"What are you doing?!"

The bearded Five Elders roared angrily.

"The rampage of self-healing cells is an irreversible process! Stopping the energy supply is only to prevent them from getting enough nutrients and carrying out limited replication!"

Facing the questioning of the Five Elders, Vegapunk replied: "Because you definitely don't want to see... what it will become after receiving unlimited nutrition."

Having said that, he looked through the glass window at the figure sitting on the sofa watching the show.

"Lord Canglong, could you please help kill it?"

"Oh? Of course."

Another purpose of coming here to observe is to prevent accidents. Of course, it also has the meaning of cleaning up the butt.

Ron leaped forward, shattering the glass window and landing on the steel plate the next second.

"We just need to destroy it, right?"

"Yes."

Nodding solemnly, Vegapunk replied: "Please grant him a normal death before he turns into pus."

When the self-healing cells have nothing left to eat, the final result is that they will turn against their host.

Then it completely disintegrated, just like hundreds of other experiments Luo had conducted, exploding into piles of plasma and pus.

"No wonder we need to prepare a steel plate. That's why."

Looking at the metal under his feet, Ron smiled slightly: "Saint Priestley, I'm sorry!"

Three hundred million volts discharge!

Sizzle, sizzle…!!

A sharp and piercing electric sound resounded throughout the laboratory. Ron's palm, shining with blue light, pointed straight down and pierced through the metal plate.

The atmosphere of terror and oppression enveloped everyone's heart. Ron stretched out his hand expressionlessly, and thunder instantly enveloped Priestley, who was getting thinner and thinner, and then...

Bang!
With a dull explosion, countless dense white marks suddenly appeared on the four glass walls that could withstand artillery shells. Priestley did not even feel the slightest pain and was directly dissipated into a cloud of black smoke in the explosion.

Although phagocytic activity is terrifying, cells are just cells after all.

Faced with Ron's now extremely destructive electric current, he was no match for him.

"How...how could this happen..."

The Five Elders looked grim, and stared blankly at Priestley who was annihilated in the thunder.

They didn't speak out to stop Ron immediately because they knew that Vegapunk's judgment would not be wrong.

But even so, he is still a Celestial Dragon!
The supreme celestial dragon!
At this moment, the Five Elder Stars did not feel much anger in their hearts, but only infinite sadness.

Even Vegapunk’s experiment has failed. Is the Celestial Dragon group really going to be extinct?

"You are worthy of being my cell organization. You didn't let me down."

Standing on the steel plate and taking in the expressions of everyone around him, Ron thought calmly.

Then, he looked at the stunned staff and ordered, "Why are you still standing there? Clean up the scene and organize the data!"

"The failure of an experiment does not mean that your method is wrong. Don't let Saint Priestley's sacrifice be in vain. Do you understand?!"

Upon hearing this, the eyes of the people in white coats quickly brightened.

"Yes!!"

After scolding the staff, Ron was about to turn around and leave when he suddenly noticed Caesar's gloomy expression in the corner of the crowd.

Although Vegapunk was in charge of the operation and command of this experiment, that was only because he was the main person in charge. This experiment was led by Caesar's work, and he had an unshirkable responsibility.

However, Caesar's eyes did not look like he was afraid of possible punishment, but rather like he was making some kind of decision.

Some kind of crazy decision!
"interesting!"

Ron turned his head away, pretending not to see it, took a step forward, and disappeared on the spot.

Returning to the room of the Five Elders who were battered and confused, Ron took a deep breath and said solemnly: "...Having said that, we can't be as optimistic as they are."

"Now is not the time for you to continue to be sad!"

"Everyone, I want to have a serious talk with you about the future!"

Don't ask me why, today's story is too hard to describe... I can only say that I will update four times in two days to make up for it. In summary, I can only say that when people are unlucky, even drinking cold water will cause toothache.

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