Once Virus X entered the bodies of the Vis people, it concentrated on stimulating their appetites. Due to the much more complex physiological structure of the Vis compared to the X worms, the ordinary Virus X could not control the spirits of the Vis people all at once like the maternal Virus X could. Therefore, they had to make the Vis people continuously ingest Virus X so that a sufficient number of viruses could evolve to a certain extent within the Vis people's bodies, and then unknowingly seize control of the Vis people's bodies.

On the other hand, Virus X required ample nutrients to support its evolution, and the Vis people, who constantly ate and had extremely strong digestive capabilities, naturally had the ability to provide the soil needed for the evolution of Virus X. Coupled with the fact that the Vis people would have a loophole in their spirits when their appetite was greatly increased, it was only a matter of time before these Broadsword Expeditionary Force members became puppets of Virus X!

"Although the plan to infect the members of the Broadsword Expeditionary Force went very smoothly, and we were pleasantly surprised to find through your routine physical examinations that there is a blind spot in your Vis people's technology and medical level, it is your technology that cannot detect our existence at all. However, in the process of continuously infecting them, we still found something very disturbing," Captain Tim said.

"What is it?" Yun Ge asked while struggling to move his body. At this time, the three chefs had completed the first disinfection of his body and began to shave his entire body.

Seeing Yun Ge's behavior seriously affected the chef who was helping him shave his lower body, Captain Tim reached out and pinched the gunshot wound on Yun Ge's thigh, indicating that if Yun Ge did not cooperate with the chefs' work, he would once again insert his fingers into Yun Ge's wound, making Yun Ge experience that unbearable pain again. Seeing Yun Ge no longer struggling under his threat, Captain Tim was satisfied and retracted his palm, and after licking the bloodstains on his palm clean, he continued to speak.

Due to the extremely complex physiological structure of the Vis people, with a very high upper limit, it also increased the difficulty of Virus X in competing for control of the Vis people's bodies. In order to ensure that they could eventually devour the consciousness of the Vis people and better control the bodies of the Vis people, Virus X had to learn the physiological structure of the occupied Vis people while strengthening its control over the spirit. After Virus X strengthened itself to a certain extent, it not only had the ability to control the Vis people spiritually but also made the salivary glands of the Vis people capable of nurturing the advanced version of Virus X.

However, this unique ability has a time limit. If they cannot spread the advanced Virus X in their saliva to other lives within a limited time, they will no longer be able to copy all their original thoughts to a second person through the advanced Virus X. Under these circumstances, if their bodies die, they, these Virus X, will not be able to infect other lives and will die together with the original body turning to ashes.

"But if a person dies and decays naturally, their body will be decomposed by various fungi, insects, microorganisms, and even scavengers, right? In the process of them decomposing the body, you viruses can attach to them and continue to survive, can't you?" Yun Ge asked. In fact, he didn't want to talk at all, but he had no choice. He had to distract himself from the pain in his thigh through communication.

Captain Tim waved his hand and said, "No. Because once we infect higher organisms, we will evolve according to the characteristics of higher organisms, which helps us evolve into more powerful life forms efficiently. But the downside of this evolution is that we also lose the ability to infect in reverse from higher organisms to lower organisms. In some cases, this drawback will indeed bring us huge hidden dangers. However, fortunately, we can accelerate our own evolution by eating the corpses of the same kind and incorporating the viruses in the same kind into our own viruses."

Then, Captain Tim emphasized, "Although eating the same kind helps us grow, we will not easily eat the same kind for our own growth. We will only do this after the same kind dies naturally, to prevent the viruses in their bodies from dying in vain."

"So you mean that the members of the Broadsword Expeditionary Force were not killed by you, but died naturally?" Yun Ge asked.

Captain Tim sighed and said, "Yes. As I just said, because the Vis people are a highly complex physiological structure of higher life, after we successfully infected everyone in the Broadsword Expeditionary Force, we soon found a very serious problem. That is, although we can use their bodies to evolve, while we control the Vis people's bodies and evolve ourselves, our lives must also undergo huge consumption. This makes us evolve to the point where the salivary glands are capable of nurturing the advanced Virus X, and then die because the original virus and the bodies of the Broadsword Expeditionary Force members are both overloaded and enter a state of frenzy."

"So this is their real cause of death!" Yun Ge said.

"Well. Those so-called deaths due to the geology of E Star and frequent disasters are actually made up by us. The purpose of us doing this is just to avoid you knowing the truth, so as not to affect our plan. Oh, right. The sudden explosion that occurred in the dock at that time was also planned by us in advance. Because, we must let you stay on E Star for enough time to ensure that you are all infected with Virus X, and ensure that the evolved Virus X can settle down smoothly in your bodies." Captain Tim said.

"So it was our arrival that just happened to save you?" Yun Ge suddenly realized.

Captain Tim nodded and replied, "That's right. Because the bodies of the Broadsword Expeditionary Force members have been occupied by the twice-evolved Virus X, their bodies have adapted and can only adapt to the twice-evolved Virus X. Even if we can evolve again by eating the dead members of the Broadsword Expeditionary Force, the bodies of the Broadsword Expeditionary Force members cannot support the pressure brought about by our evolution, and thus accelerate towards death."

"This is also a drawback of your Vis people's bodies! Although your bodies have very good growth attributes, they are only suitable for slow growth, which leads to your bodies being able to withstand only one major transformation by our Virus X. When we complete the qualitative change through evolution, we must find a brand new pure infection target for the qualitatively changed Virus X, so that the newly cultivated Virus X can continue to survive."

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Captain Tim sighed with emotion and continued, "Ah! You don't know how desperate we were when we found out that after taking over the bodies of the Broadsword Expeditionary Force members, we were about to head towards destruction due to evolution, and we couldn't find suitable targets for sowing offspring in time! Fortunately, you arrived at E Star in time, otherwise, as you can see, once we have epilepsy due to our bodies reaching the limit of endurance, our Virus X will have no future!"

Looking at Captain Tim's pretended frightened demeanor, Yun Ge was furious. However, it was so cruel that even though these Virus X deserved to die, they still survived as they wished. And soon after, they would enter the world of the Vis people and continue to spread the virus, gradually taking control of the Vis civilization without their knowledge.

Thinking of this, Yun Ge wanted to curse these parasites as hateful viruses, but he knew that even if he scolded Captain Tim to the extreme, it would be of no avail. So Yun Ge suppressed the anger in his chest and continued to ask, "Why do you keep saying 'we'?"

"Because our consciousness will enter the new carrier along with the evolved Virus X and become a part of the advanced virus. As for how the thoughts of the viruses originally attached to the members of the Broadsword Expeditionary Force entered the bodies of these sailors, some of it was by mixing saliva rich in advanced Virus X into the food provided by Ailin and others, thus entering your bodies while you were enjoying the delicious food. The other part was by eating the ingredients made from the bodies of the Broadsword Expeditionary Force members, thus allowing us to enter your bodies. In short, although the advanced Virus X we nurture will have a brand new self-awareness, because they will obtain nutrients by eating the corpses of the previous generation of virus parasites, the consciousness of the previous generation of viruses will be preserved forever through the fusion with the new generation of viruses." Captain Tim replied.

Thinking about the fact that the food he had eaten in the E Star town was mixed with the saliva of the Broadsword Expeditionary Force members, Yun Ge felt nauseous. The old saying that illness comes from the mouth is indeed true! Unexpectedly, Virus X actually infected all the sailors of the Express Pioneer through such a simple method, without anyone noticing.

Yun Ge exhaled a long breath to relieve the churning feeling in his stomach and quickly changed the subject to ask, "Phew! You guys are really disgusting! By the way, whose virus thoughts have you inherited?"

Captain Tim spread his arms, made an action with an obvious answer, and replied proudly, "You also saw that all the sailors here obey my command. This is not only because I am the captain of this spaceship, but also because I have inherited the Virus X from that chef and became the new leader of Virus X."

Then Captain Tim explained that after the Virus X merged with the mother worm of the X worms, it gained the mother worm's abilities and began to evolve based on the characteristics of the mother worm, making her evolution far faster than other Virus X. This made the leader virus reach the upper limit of evolution after infecting the chef, causing the chef's physiological system to no longer be able to bear the further evolution of the leader virus and head towards decline.

At the same time, because the Express Pioneer was still on the way to E Star, the leader virus could not infect new Vis people. Therefore, the leader virus had to settle for integrating itself into the five Vis people selected from the Broadsword Expeditionary Force members who were most suitable to carry her, hoping that one of the five successors could perfectly integrate with Virus X and evolve into the new generation of Virus X leaders.

"The five successors chosen by the leader virus include Ailin, Old Zhou, and three other Broadsword Expeditionary Force members. Among them, Ailin merged relatively more perfectly with the leader virus, and she was also the head chef of the Broadsword Expeditionary Force, which could better stimulate the appetite of the team members and provide great help for other Virus X to better control this group of Vis people, and use their bodies to complete evolution and other aspects. Therefore, she naturally became the best choice for the temporary leader of Virus X. Later, when Ailin saw me for the first time, she immediately identified me as her best successor. So, they immediately started hunting me."

Captain Tim chuckled and said, "Hehehe! In fact, the so-called hunting is to infect me with the leader virus through food. And the food, of course, is those people who have merged with the leader virus. Of course, because Ailin and Old Zhou played an important role in the process of Virus X infecting the Express Pioneer sailors, I only need to eat the other three people first, and then eat the two of them after we escape from E Star."

"Ah! In the process of using the bodies of the Broadsword Expeditionary Force members, not only did it further improve our speed of capturing the mental system of the Express Pioneer sailors, but it also evolved a unique ability for us. That is, we can understand your body's secrets by tasting the taste of the Vis people, and thus strengthen ourselves in evolution according to your body's defects, to ensure that we will not have accidents during the infection process, and to increase your body's tolerance limit for us. In short, encountering you Vis people with such a high physiological upper limit is a great blessing for our Virus X!" Captain Tim said with emotion.

Then, Captain Tim looked at Yun Ge with some disappointment and said, "This is also why we hope you and Grace can have a new life. We know that the way you Vis people give birth to offspring is far more magical than that of X worms, so we are very hopeful that you can hurry back to the world of the Vis people before us, and use the efficient breeding ability we obtained from the X worms to create a child as soon as possible. In this way, we can find out in advance whether the offspring born after being infected with Virus X will carry Virus X, or will be born with antibodies against Virus X. This is also a very important thing for our plan to spread the virus on a large scale in the world of the Vis people."

"Ah! It's a pity that the relationship between you is not only developing slowly, but also accidentally learned about our existence, which messed up our plan to let you graze and get pregnant as soon as possible. Forget it! In that case, we can only study how you two resisted the temptation of food, leading to our inability to effectively infect you? So that we can find a way to prevent such things from happening again. As for the matter of having offspring, we will have to wait until we enter the world of the Vis people!" Captain Tim said and got up to end the conversation. Because Liu Da hammer and the others had already pushed a CPAP ventilator in with two doctors.

"Report to the captain, I have brought everything you want," Liu Da hammer reported after entering the room. Then, after pushing the ventilator to Yun Ge's side, he handed a black bag to Captain Tim.

Captain Tim took the bag and took out the things inside in front of Yun Ge. Yun Ge couldn't help but exclaim when he saw what Captain Tim was holding in his hand: "Grace?! You animals! I must kill you!"

The reason why Yun Ge suddenly went berserk was that what Captain Tim took out of the black bag was Grace's head. However, Grace's head had been burned to charcoal black at this time, so Yun Ge turned his head away after taking a glance, unable to bear to see this terrible scene again.

"Oh! Can't you be quiet! Besides, Grace was blown to pieces by a high-explosive bomb that she hid in the energy conversion module. Da hammer and the others just picked up the relatively intact parts of Grace's body. Or it should be said, he picked up the parts of Grace that can barely be eaten." Captain Tim put Grace's severely damaged head on the table and then signaled others to help Yun Ge control his emotions.

So, a chef pressed his hand heavily on the wound on Yun Ge's thigh, forcing Yun Ge to turn his cursing into a series of more piercing howls. Soon, Yun Ge was tortured out of strength again, and could only lie on the operating table to relieve the constant pain from his thigh through rapid breathing.