Colonial Suit

Ross's concerns were not without reason. In fact, Xue Tong's condition was now more serious than he had imagined.

Due to the excessive use of bullet time and overclocking, the cells in his body were severely damaged. Not only were his muscles torn, but even his internal organs showed signs of failure. All vital signs had dropped to critical levels, making him appear almost dead from the outside.

This was still because of his super-strong physique. If it were an ordinary person, he would have probably decomposed into molecules long ago. The immense destructive power of bullet time not only made enemies despair, but it was also a deadly blade for the user.

At this moment, he was immersed in the nutrient solution of the treatment nest. Xue Tong had lost consciousness, but the enhanced cells from the colony armor unknowingly awakened one by one, and quickly took over the body's functions, devouring a large number of the host's cells while proliferating in a special pattern.

This was the survival instinct of the enhanced cells. Originally, this kind of behavior was not allowed, but since the core fell into dormancy, the enhanced cells in Xue Tong's body lacked the crucial constraint. They would usually lie dormant according to the rules, but now they couldn't help but stir.

They had no consciousness, but they had instincts. Being trapped in a body like Xue Tong's was an insult to these noble cells. Their power was stronger than Xue Tong's. In their eyes, Xue Tong's body cells were as fragile as infants.

They wanted to devour and assimilate, to invade this body from the cellular level and ultimately occupy it.

Unknowingly, the number of enhanced cells in Xue Tong's body increased, gradually occupying his body: 10%, 12%, 15%...

Xue Tong's original cells had no power to fight back against these enhanced cells. They were like an army armed to the teeth, launching a deadly attack on Xue Tong's original cells. Their speed of devouring was so fast, and their proliferation was so frantic, that even Xue Tong's external body changed. His body temperature rose sharply, and sharp protrusions appeared on his skin.

In just a few minutes, Xue Tong's body temperature reached a staggering 130 degrees and was still climbing rapidly.

This anomaly was quickly discovered by Ross, who exclaimed in surprise.

"Oh no, the master's body is about to collapse!"

"What?" Fatty was startled. He was counting on Xue Tong now. If Xue Tong died here, it would be a devastating blow to him. He was so anxious that he almost fainted.

"What should we do? Tell me quickly, what can we do to save the master?"

"I'm thinking... Don't worry, let me think." Ross also spoke incoherently in nervousness, with fine beads of sweat appearing on his forehead.

"Data... The data shows that Master Xue Tong's organs are starting to fail and his vitality is declining rapidly. No, we need a treatment nest, a larger and more advanced treatment nest."

"But where are we going to get a treatment nest?" Fatty roared angrily. "The entire T6 is occupied by space pirates. All the treatment facilities are controlled by them. Sending Master Xue Tong there is like sending him to his death!"

"There's still a way, there must be a way," Ross said through gritted teeth, pacing back and forth anxiously. After a while, his eyes suddenly lit up and he shouted.

"I've got it!"

"Tell me quickly!"

"The Interstellar Commerce Alliance!" Ross shouted. "Only they will have better and larger treatment nests! They are an organization independent of the space pirates. As long as we get their help, we can definitely do it."

"Are you kidding me?" Fatty almost fell over. "I thought you had come up with a good idea. The Interstellar Commerce Alliance, they are just a bunch of ghosts. You can't even find their shadow in this space station!"

"Don't they have a black market?"

"That's fully automated! There are no controllers!" Fatty shouted angrily. "There's only an open platform there. Where do you want me to find their person in charge? For so many years, not to mention us, even the cosmic mercenaries haven't seen them."

"We still have to try," Ross's expression became serious. "If it really doesn't work, we'll buy a treatment nest from the black market."

"Your grandpa! How much does that cost? Can we afford it?" Fatty couldn't wait to blow Ross's head off with a shot to see what was inside.

That's right, the black market has everything, but is a treatment nest an ordinary commodity? That's the crystallization of high technology and the most important facility in a space station. How can it be bought casually? Moreover, what they need is not an ordinary treatment nest, but a large treatment nest. It alone occupies hundreds of cubic meters. How can this kind of thing be transported out of the black market? Does he think the space pirates and death mercenaries are blind?

"I know it's difficult, but believe me, this is the only way we have," Ross turned his head and said seriously to Fatty.

Looking at his serious expression, Fatty's waving hands stopped, and after a while, he lowered his head. "I will sell all my properties and probably raise 700,000 star coins."

"I don't have any money, but I have an idea. Maybe we don't need to buy it, just rent it."

"Okay, then I'll go over there now," Fatty waved his hand fiercely and said through gritted teeth.

He was desperate...

With the current situation in T6, everyone knew that his trip would be full of dangers. Not to mention whether he could get a treatment nest, even if he revealed this intention, he would attract the attention of the space pirates. But he had no choice. If Xue Tong couldn't wake up, then his wealth and life would be lost.

The biggest reason Fatty could be the boss of the T1 district was that he was straightforward enough. When it was time to make a decision, he was definitely more ruthless than anyone else.

Watching his quickly departing figure, Ross sighed worriedly. He turned his head and glanced at Xue Tong in the treatment nest again.

I wonder if Fatty can succeed, and if Master Xue Tong can hold on until that time?

He sat down weakly on the ground, took out a crumpled cigarette from his pocket, and put it to his mouth, but couldn't light it no matter what...

At this time, the crisis in Xue Tong's body was even more serious.

The enhanced cells had already occupied nearly half of his body. These crazy little guys were like primitive beasts, frantically devouring every non-congener. If at first they were just a hazy stirring, then now they were an army with a collective consciousness, with a very clear goal.

Unknowingly, their actions actually became unified, and they began to gradually erode Xue Tong's body. Everywhere they passed, Xue Tong completely lost control of his body.

From the outside, Xue Tong's lower limbs had begun to twist, turning into a soft, octopus-like form, with countless blister-like protrusions scattered all over, and countless tentacles extending from his body.

He was like a seaweed, frantically absorbing energy in the nutrient solution.

This was an extremely dangerous sign, because the energy absorbed at this moment was no longer supplied to himself, but to the enhanced cells. And these terrifying little guys would proliferate at high speed after obtaining this energy, constantly replicating the same body, making their number stronger and more quickly devouring the original cells.

This was war, a war at the cellular level!

No one knew that in the distant past, when the great Krodir first modulated these enhanced cells in a petri dish, he was startled by these crazy little guys.

They were too aggressive.

At that time, thousands of other cells were also modulated, but when the enhanced cells appeared, all the other cells became its prey, its food.

It devoured all the aliens in the petri dish in less than an hour, and then began to self-proliferate. Because the petri dish was filled with ultra-standard nutrient solution, it grew into a behemoth in more than ten minutes, a monster without wisdom, only knowing destruction.

In order to eliminate this monster, Krodir paid the price of thousands of warriors. But after the battle ended, they discovered a terrifying fact, that the enhanced cells had not died. Every fragment of the monster's flesh began to self-proliferate and self-reproduce.

Looking at these flesh tissues that could grow into giant monsters from a small piece of meat, every Krodir felt a kind of fear, a kind of tremor in their hearts!

Afterwards, Krodir immediately issued a ban and added the first sequence rule to the control center. One of them was that at no time was it allowed to let the enhanced cells self-proliferate.

Because that represented destruction...

And Xue Tong was in such a situation now.

Without the constraints of the control center, the enhanced cells in his body had begun to riot, quickly occupying his body. In the eyes of these terrifying cells, Xue Tong's original cells became their best food. More importantly, they wanted to complete self-modulation and re-converge into a conscious individual.

This was the instinct of living things! If they were still fighting on their own in cellular form, then when they devoured all of Xue Tong's cells and completely gathered together, they would have a new form. It also meant the birth of a brand new life in the universe.

In the treatment nest, bubbles gurgled from Xue Tong's body. The nutrient solution began to become turbid, and with the naked eye, tiny strands of meat appeared in the nutrient solution, which were derivatives of enhanced cells. These little things would die in a few seconds after losing nutrients, but in this process, they could absorb a lot of energy to supply the enhanced cells.

This was a cycle. Although the enhanced cells did not have consciousness, they began to produce this behavior by instinct. And as their occupied area increased, Xue Tong would eventually become their mother, completely hollowed out by them.

The core was still dormant, as if it didn't know what was happening. And the enhanced cells seemed to carefully avoid Xue Tong's head, so as not to awaken their only nemesis.

Strangely enough, although they were unconscious, the behavior of the enhanced cells seemed to have wisdom, cleverly achieving the greatest effect.

Just then, Xue Tong opened his eyes...