Doomsday Drifting Begins with Shipbuilding

Chapter 47 Mutant Jellyfish
Under the umbrella-shaped body of the jellyfish, many slender tentacles flutter with the water.

These are both its digestive organs and its weapons.

After experiencing the initial shock, Chen Xuan instinctively wanted to take the jellyfish tentacles away from his body and throw them away.

But he quickly realized that if there was a problem, he would have hung up long ago.

How can I be alive and kicking until now?
According to the description in the documentary, these tentacles are covered with stinging cells like poisonous filaments, which can shoot venom. After the prey is stung, it will quickly paralyze and die.

Before the end of the world, the most poisonous jellyfish can easily poison people to death in an instant.

What about when the end times come and they mutate?

This is not known.

Anyway, although Chen Xuan has been in contact with jellyfish three or five times at this moment, he is still doing well, as if nothing happened.

But it was indeed strange why he was safe and sound.

Could it be that the jellyfish has mutated to be non-toxic and harmless?

Or is the jellyfish in front of me different, sacrificing the ability to release poison and strengthening the ability to hide?
From a biological evolution point of view, this should not be possible.

Poison is the jellyfish's most powerful weapon, and there's no reason why it would give up this ability.

Moreover, from the current point of view, the effect of mutation energy on living things has always been to promote and strengthen.

Even the jellyfish's supposedly limp tentacles have grown so strong.

So it should not become non-toxic, but the toxin should become more violent.

Also, there are some doubts.

For example, how did this jellyfish appear here?

And why can it talk to itself?

It's better to ask these questions directly to the jellyfish, though.

It's no use guessing on your own.

Chen Xuan sent a message to the mutated jellyfish through his mind and asked:

"Where are you from?"

It thought for a while, and pointed to a broken glass cabinet with the other tentacle.

what?
What does this mean?
Because its body was too transparent, Chen Xuan could barely see the whole movement.

But he also saw this glass cabinet yesterday, and it looked like a fish tank used by people in the previous hotel to keep fish.

Could it be that this jellyfish was actually raised by the hotel staff before?
Chen Xuan pondered.

Before his arrival, the only entrance and exit of the hotel lobby was a safe passage, the width of which was no more than 1.5 meters.

The head of this jellyfish is about three meters in diameter.

Judging from this size, even if the body of a jellyfish shrinks when swimming, it is impossible for it to pass through the gate of the safe passage.

So there is basically no possibility of coming in from the outside.

Plus, judging from how close he is to himself.

The possibility that this jellyfish was raised artificially is quite high, because it has been with humans for a long time before, so it will not be particularly defensive against itself.

However, generally speaking, jellyfish should be reared in groups, why there seems to be only one here.

Or were there actually other jellyfish that he didn't know about?

Chen Xuan then asked the mutated jellyfish:
"Are there any other jellyfish?"

This time the jellyfish was a little sad, and it responded with difficulty:

"died……"

"How can a good person die?"

Chen Xuan was puzzled.

The jellyfish explained again with difficulty.

"Failed……"

failure?

What failed?
But looking at this big guy, Chen Xuan suddenly realized.

He then asked the jellyfish:
"Did the mutation fail?"

When the response came, although it could not be a word, Chen Xuan could still understand that this jellyfish should mean yes.

After getting a positive reply from the mutated jellyfish, Chen Xuan felt a little mixed in his heart for a moment.

Mutation, or evolution, is there actually a probability of failure...

So the last time I improved my physique was actually not a very safe process.

Maybe if you are not careful, you will really explode and die.

In the matter of evolution, one step beyond is heaven, and one step beyond that is hell.

It is not so easy to become a superman.

Now that he knows the risk of evolution, what should he do next?

Suddenly, a soft feeling came from his body, interrupting his thoughts.

When Chen Xuan saw it, it turned out that the mutated jellyfish was gently pushing him with its big head.

Maybe it was because Chen Xuan was silent for too long, or maybe he felt the irritability in his heart.

After the mutation, this big guy has become quite human.

After being comforted, Chen Xuan also became more open-minded.

Why worry now?
After all, from the current point of view, as long as you don't advance, there is no such risk for the time being.

And I am still far away from the next advancement.

Maybe he had already arrived at the North Wind Plateau by that time, and those scientists had already developed a way for humans to advance safely.

Shaking his head and clearing up his complicated thoughts, Chen Xuan continued to ask the jellyfish other questions about its experience before and after the end.

After asking a few more questions in a row, Chen Xuan roughly understood the ins and outs of the whole matter.

These jellyfish were originally carefree in the tank, and were watched and fed by humans every day.

Suddenly, the end times came.

Because of the influx of sea water, all the jellyfish swam out of the water tank and mutated after being exposed to the energy brought by the end of the world.

They keep growing and becoming transparent.

But during this process, other jellyfish died due to mutation failure, and only the last jellyfish remained on this layer alone.

Because the body has become very large, it can't go anywhere, and can only wander alone on this floor.

More than ten days passed like this.

And Chen Xuan's sudden arrival made him no longer lonely.

That's why this jellyfish didn't want Chen Xuan to leave.

But it was so stupid that it didn't know that doing so would kill Chen Xuan.

After understanding the reasons and motives behind these actions, Chen Xuan suddenly felt sorry for this big guy.

After all, isn't he a lonely soul?
Then, he asked the jellyfish a question he had cared about for a long time:
"Is there any poison on you?"

"sharp……"

The jellyfish is a little proud.

"Then why didn't you poison me?"

He continued to ask.

This time the jellyfish finally spoke a complete sentence.

"Do no harm..."

"friend……"

It seems that he has regarded human beings as reliable friends after being kept for a long time.

Therefore, during the contact with Chen Xuan, it controlled itself very carefully and did not let the venom be released.

And when Chen Xuan asked why it could communicate with Chen Xuan, it couldn't answer.

After all, this big fellow has only just opened his spiritual aperture, and his mind is like a three-year-old child.

Chen Xuan could only attribute it to the ability brought about by the mutation of jellyfish.

Seeing that everything is connected tightly, except for the glass curtain wall that was basically sealed and intact when he broke it before.

Chen Xuan suddenly had an idea.

Holding the jellyfish's tentacles, Chen Xuan shouted again:
"Big guy, do you want to go out and have a look?"

(End of this chapter)