Chapter 263 - 194: The Shadow of the Tree (Part One)
Malin rested for a while, about five minutes, before he walked out of the train, using a World Tree Sapling as a hook to drag two Insectoid bodies back to the front of the train.
Compared to the body of the young man they found earlier, these two bodies looked more like monsters, giving Malin the illusion ’they were evolving’. Extracting his dagger, Malin didn’t rush to dissect the large body; instead, he first pried open its mouthpart—yes, its mouthpart. According to what the young man had said, if this had happened four days ago, then Darwin himself would probably have gone mad on the spot.
Everything here was evolving at a rate that defied Darwin’s laws of evolution.
"Profound distortion, we’re in big trouble," Meckel, the mentor, approached.
Malin nodded, and then made a cut in the chest of the Insectoid with his knife. Unexpectedly, it did not open. The cut clothing revealed a texture unique to a shell.
Tearing the clothes open, Malin shook his head at the completely mutated carapace: "I can’t imagine this happened just four days ago."
After saying that, Malin inserted his knife into the gap between the carapace. The blade, made of orihalcum steel, pierced through the gap, and with force, he pried open the shell.
Green blood flowed out, revealing to Malin’s sight a sticky secretion, organs unlike any human’s. Most importantly, Malin saw a small cyst-like object near its chest and a tiny insect larva at the center.