Wu Sheng: I can adapt to evolution

Chapter 1: Unlocking Hyper-Adaptive Evolution
"Pfft."

In the deep night, a splash of water was stirred up.

The freezing cold river water suddenly enveloped Lu Ming's body. He suddenly opened his eyes. Although he was still unconscious, the river water rushed into his mouth and nose.

The terrible suffocation made him struggle desperately, and his chest seemed to burst.
But he despaired to find that his hands were tied behind his back with ropes, and there was even a huge rock tied to his legs, pulling him deeper into the river.

Lu Ming's eyes were wide open and bloodshot, his mind was blank. In such a desperate situation, the only thing waiting for him was death.

"No, I don't want to die!"

This crazy thought was the only thing left in Lu Ming's mind. However, the more he struggled, the more his body consumed oxygen. Covered by the cold river water, his consciousness began to fade away little by little.

"Tear."

But at this moment, the back of his ears suddenly tore open, and three bright red gills like those of fish grew on each side.

He opened his mouth and the river water poured into his mouth and then flowed out through his gills.

But during this process, oxygen dissolved in the water quickly diffuses into the blood through the thin membrane on the surface of the gill lamellae.

Lu Ming felt his body lighten. The suffocating feeling he had felt disappeared without a trace, and the burning sensation also subsided.

He felt as if he had turned into a fish. The river water in front of him could no longer kill him, and he could even adapt to living here.

A layer of mucus seemed to appear on the surface of his skin, and his arms, which were originally tightly bound, were freed with just a slight pull.

He quickly bent down and untied the ropes on his legs. At first, because the river water was as deep as ink, he could not untie the knot quickly.

But after a while, a layer of film seemed to cover his pupils, allowing him to gradually see the underwater environment clearly.

As time went by, he could see his surroundings more and more clearly.

Lu Ming quickly untied the rope and floated to the surface of the river. When the cold air from outside blew on his face, he felt like he had survived a disaster.

"Cuckoo."

But soon, he felt an intense hunger in his stomach, as if he had not eaten for a month. His whole body was almost exhausted, and the clothes that had originally fit him now seemed unusually loose.

He raised his arms with difficulty and found that only a layer of skin was left covering the bones, as if all the flesh and blood had disappeared.

After just a few breaths, his symptoms of weakness disappeared, but his thinking became extremely slow. All his thoughts began to disappear, leaving only the thought of eating.

“Eat…eat…”

His movements slowed down and he sank to the bottom of the water again.

He slowly grabbed the water plants around him and unconsciously stuffed them into his mouth. Normal humans cannot digest cellulose, but because of his strong desire to survive, enzymes similar to those of ruminants evolved in his stomach, allowing him to convert cellulose into sugar.

Although this amount of energy was only a drop in the bucket for his body, it allowed him to recover little by little from his near-death state.

…“Crash.”

No one knew how much time had passed before a skinny figure crawled out from the deep river. He was vaguely human-like, but his body and limbs were extremely slender, looking strange and disharmony.

If you get closer, you will find that it seems to be a real person.

But her skin was pale, as bloodless as a corpse's. Her long, untied hair fell to her waist, a faint layer of algae-like fungi surfacing on it. Behind her ears, she had three gills, each of which looked like they had been cut by a knife, making her look like a river monster.

In his skinny, sharp hands was a several-foot-long fish, his sharp nails deeply embedded in the fish's body, and no matter how hard he struggled, he couldn't break free.

"Hahahaha, I'm finally alive!"

Lu Ming lay on the shore and ate the fish raw in a few bites, laughing crazily.

Damn, I was just having dinner and drinking with friends, and when I suddenly woke up after getting drunk, I found that I had been drowned at the bottom of the river.

Considering that I have always been kind to others in the past thirty years, how could someone want to kill me?
But it seems like a blessing in disguise. Have I awakened some kind of supernatural power?

Lu Ming reached out and stroked the gills behind his ears, pondering in his heart and calculating carefully in his mind.

First of all, he found that he seemed to have awakened some ability to evolve rapidly, and the more dangerous and harsh the environment, the faster and more ferocious the evolution. Not only did gills appear on his body after sinking, but he now also had the ability to see in the dark and his skin could secrete mucus.

But the price of this evolution is the consumption of his body's energy, which makes him extremely hungry, and even makes him skinny in order to provide energy for evolution.

But at the same time, in order to avoid starving to death, his body gradually evolved into a low-energy consumption state and the ability to absorb energy from plants. It seemed that his hair had a certain degree of photosynthesis, which could forcibly obtain power from the sun.

As for the others, there are many very subtle evolutions, such as tiny webbed feet and sharper nails, which allow him to better adapt to underwater hunting.

Lu Ming thought back to what had happened before and after. He thought that he was lucky. If the environment he faced was a little worse, or if he could not take in energy for a long time, he would have starved to death. After all, even in the most low-energy living state, it is impossible to consume no energy at all.

But I have evolved into this horrible appearance. Anyone who sees me will know that I am a monster...

He reached out and touched his cheek behind his ear. Could it be that he would live in water forever and become a water monkey?
But just as this thought arose in his mind, the gills behind his ears suddenly closed, so tightly that even if you looked closely, it was difficult to see any difference. And the thin webs on his palms also clung to the skin of his fingers like closed umbrellas.

Then the sharp nails faded, and the green color in the hair changed slightly, turning black again.

At this moment, apart from the fact that his body looked extremely thin, like a skeleton covered with skin, he was not much different from a normal person.

But as long as he thought about it, his evolved organs could still unfold and continue to function.

"Oh, that's fine. Now I don't have to worry about not being able to integrate into society."

"But I've been missing for so long, I'm afraid everyone thinks I'm dead. I need to come up with an explanation when I go back."

Lu Ming looked around, and all he saw was a mighty river flowing through a wasteland. He couldn't really tell where he was, so he could only follow the river, moving forward bit by bit.

Perhaps because he felt that he was walking a little slowly and his body was really weak, he dived into the water and swam quickly like a fish.

(End of this chapter)