basement.

Turing sat up in a daze, with a slightly unconscious look in her slightly opened eyes.

As if he remembered something, he touched his back and stood up.

"Swish!!"

A strange sound came from his ears, and Turing suddenly turned around and stood there in a daze.

The corners, walls, floors, ceilings, and the entire basement are covered with messy steel touches. While waving them gently, they also speed up from time to time, whipping in the air like a whip.

“What’s going on?”

Thinking of the mechanical proliferation that was selected on the technology tree before fainting, Turing turned his back and looked at the mirror to see the changes in his phantom limbs.

In the mirror, the area of ​​the phantom limbs covers is no different from before. The breathing light of the signal transceiver slowly flashes darkly and lit up as he breathes heavily.

But it seems that there is no difference at all.

After a closer look, Turing found that the structure of the phantom limbs became more compact.

He controlled the eight phantom limbs on his back and came to his eyes. The entire spinal structure became more fine, and the degree of engagement and flexibility were better than before.

The three-fingered steel claws on the top have increased their size and become thicker. At the same time, many complex joints are extended on the tip, which seems to be able to adapt to more precise manipulation.

"There are some changes...but what happened to these things? Did it give birth to a baby?"

Turing walked towards a phantom limb that grew out of the wall. As he approached, the phantom limb, which was originally slightly anxious, gradually calmed down and hung quietly on the wall.

Touched the phantom limbs on the wall, and then checked several other phantom limbs that grew, Turing tried to order them.

These sub-body immediately started to move.

"The verbal commands are valid, and the signal transceiver reacts to them..."

Looking at his phantom limbs that were stretched and twirled under his command, Turing grabbed a place and looked at it carefully.

"From the structural point of view, it looks more like before the phantom limb climbs and mechanical proliferation, and there are no steel claws on the top, it is a pure tentacle."

Pointing the top of the phantom limb, Turing opened the tech tree:

[Phantom limb-growth period]—— [Mechanical proliferation]—— [Second-level mechanical proliferation]

“Growth period?”

The name of the phantom limb has changed and has become [Phantom limb-growth stage]. Behind the [Mechanical Proliferation] that has been connected to the golden lines, a new gray grid [Second-level Mechanical Proliferation] has emerged.

"From the name, after climbing the special technology of mechanical proliferation, the phantom limb has entered a new stage..."

Turing quickly recalls the four stages of the description of demonic weapons in Geller Sting's notes.

If we refer to the research records in the notes, the phantom limb should have reached the second stage of the demonic weapon.

Thinking of this, Turing looked down the stairs. The five rats found that their master had woken up, so they carefully walked around the phantom limbs and ran to Turing.

"Then these sub-body is the new ability of mechanical proliferation?"

Looking at the drooping steel tentacles, Turing stretched out his phantom limbs with some sense and poked lightly on the ground in front of him.

A small piece of metal split out and rolled to the ground.

Then, the fine metal strips burst out like seeds and pierced into the ground.

Kakkakakakakaka———

A sound of mechanical bounce and engaging came from front of me, and metal tentacles of varying lengths broke out from the ground!

"Splits are carried out......... planting?"

Turing held it in for a second before extracting the verb from the vocabulary of his brain.

He looked at the cluster of new phantom limbs in front of him with interest, and thought of the predecessor of the phantom limb: ivy.

Or, plants.

Most of the seeds of plants exist in the plant itself. Judging from the current situation, after entering the growth stage, ivy seems to be able to be planted through this proliferation and division.

If this can be called planting.

"So what's the use of this ability? Be a sentinel?"

Intuition tells Turing that this thing should be more than that.

After scanning the messy basement, there were shadows of mechanical tentacles everywhere. After touching the edge of the flesh and blood on the back of his head and the symbiosis of the phantom limbs, a guess popped up in his mind:

"Since you can plant it in places like floors and walls, what if it is flesh and blood?"

Just as I thought of this, Turing saw a sub-body phantom limb stretching out suddenly, and a sharp scream of "squeaking" came into Turing's ears-

A thin little mouse was captured by a sperm limb and was swept hard in it and struggled wildly.

This is a mouse that has not been cleaned up in this house. Now it should be the experimental material for buying a house.

Turing controlled the phantom limbs on his back and gently grabbed the little mouse. The fine joints on the top of the steel claws accurately pinched its tail and hung it in front of him.

"Since my eight main phantom limbs can split the body and plant it, the small tentacles that proliferate from the hind brain should be OK."

With a thought, a mechanical tentacle several millimeters in diameter came out from behind Turing.

"The proliferation ability has been directly strengthened, and the proliferating phantom limbs have become thinner."

In the past, the thinnest phantom limb could only reach the thickness of a Turing little finger, but now it looks like the cross-sectional radius is about a few millimeters.

After observing the thin tentacle, Turing controlled it to stab the mouse's body.

"Squeak squeak squeak—!!!"

The little mouse made a sharp scream, which attracted five demon weapons to look up from below.

The next moment, a cluster of tiny mechanical tentacles exploded out of the mouse's body. The five demon weapons were shocked and rushed to Turing's heels.

Turing pulled the little mouse with a baby tentacle closer and found that although the mouse was screaming, it was very active.

Even after Turing put it on the ground, he tried to crawl towards the original rat's nest, but he was tied up like a rice dumpling by the phantom limbs growing on his body.

"The rats are not dead, they are even very energetic... Is this symbiosis? Or... "

Turing gave the mouse a command to "grow" the phantom limbs.

In an instant, the mouse struggled wildly, and the flesh and blood were shriveling and shrinking at a rapid speed, while the phantom limbs continued to grow wildly!

Finally, the mouse turned into a shriveled corpse, and even the bones quickly turned yellow, and soon turned into scum under a crisp sound.

And Turing was able to see the whole picture of the seed planting-

The dead rats have fine metal wires rooted in large numbers of sub-proliferation, but looking closer, you can still find the shape of the spine.

"Did the mouse be rooted in a large amount of roots in the body of the mouse instantly suck the mouse...?"

But the scene in front of him reminded Turing of something else and his expression changed.

"If the phantom limbs are also rooted in my body like this..."

The picture is a bit too scary and unimaginable.

After looking at the eight phantom limbs in front of him, Turing thought about it in his mind.

"The phantom limbs have the ability to absorb energy, so they will not take root in me very deeply, but if they have really developed to that point..."

"No matter what, I have to find an opportunity to do a full-body test for myself in the future. I will definitely not be able to go to the hospital for a CT."

Turing was thinking, but the changes on the mouse continued.

The phantom limbs that have lost their carrier are still very energetic, but after a period of time, they gradually shrink and collapse inside, and eventually turn into a pile of rusted metal.

Turing paused thinking, squatted down and touched it, but unexpectedly, the pile of wreckage suddenly dissipated into debris and gradually drifted into the air.

"Lost the source of energy and withered quickly like a plant."

Turing, who had a conclusion, took out his cell phone and looked at the phantom limbs on the wall:

"There is a missed call... In terms of time, I was in a coma for four hours. So why did these guys exist for so long?"

When he asked the phantom limbs to help him lift the wall and saw the phantom limbs wrapped around the wires inside, Turing immediately understood.

"It's true that it's getting energy from the circuit."

After a series of simple experiments, Turing has roughly figured out the new ability of the illusion limbs in the growth period, and according to convention, gave this new ability a name:

【Inorganic Parasitic】

After a brief experiment, Turing found that these sub-body can be controlled to accelerate metabolism, which allowed most of the sub-body to dissipate and die, leaving only a part of the basement door.

"It should be able to act as a good post or even guard."

After looking at the basement door with satisfaction, Turing settled the five demonic weapons and came to the empty living room.

He stepped on the soft carpet under his feet and lay down for several hours and his body was slightly stiff. After Turing moved a little, he heard a "gurgling" sound in his stomach.

"Today's experiment was a bit long, so I have to eat something."

After rubbing his stomach, he glanced at the slightly empty house for a week, and then looked at the direction of the second floor.

"There are two empty rooms on the second floor, so you can get some fitness equipment and convert it into a gym or something."
To be continued...