In the false history of Buserite, within the territory of a non-existent dynasty, in a valley swept by wind and sand, a tall building stood.
This building originally belonged to a wealthy merchant. When this valley was a mine, the merchant who bought the mining rights built such a large building here as his residence. After the minerals were extracted, it was left idle until someone bought it again more than half a year ago.
At this moment, the building in the valley had intact walls and tiles, and was clean and tidy. People in robes were seen walking through it from time to time. In front of the main gate, there were camels eating feed, loaded with large and small bags, obviously used for transporting supplies. All signs here indicated that there seemed to be traces of long-term human habitation.
Deep within the tall building, in a spacious, windowless but exceptionally bright secret room, Sister Vanya, dressed in a simple white robe, was kneeling on a complex magic circle. At this moment, she had her eyes tightly closed, breathing heavily and covered in sweat. Her exposed skin was covered in many rashes.
With a look of pain, Vanya used the power of the altar and her own strength to heal herself between gasps. Surrounded by a gentle golden light, the pain on Vanya's face gradually lessened, and the rashes on her body also slowly began to disappear.
"Hoo... hoo... How is it? Miss Dorothea, how was the result this time?" Gasping heavily, the clearly weak Vanya wiped her sweat while speaking to Dorothy, who was sitting in front of the laboratory bench. At this time, Dorothy, wearing a white coat and glasses, also turned around and spoke.
"Very good... This time's mutation has strengthened the traits we need almost completely, basically reaching the expected requirements," Dorothy said, taking off her glasses, looking at Vanya in front of her seriously, and smiling.
"All the data has met the standard. Our experiment this time is completed. Next, it's time to return to reality."
"Is that so... Finally... It's finally completed. In that case, everyone is finally saved..." Listening to Dorothy's words, the weak Vanya let out a long sigh of relief, a look of immense joy blooming on her face. Her whole body relaxed, as if a stone that had long been pressing on her heart had finally fallen.
"Mm, you've worked hard during this time, Vanya... Thank you..." Looking at the weak Sister in front of her, Dorothy spoke seriously, and Vanya also shook her head and continued.
"This is all what I should do. Speaking of thanks, I should actually thank Miss Dorothea more for giving me this opportunity to save so many people. If I had to watch so many lives wither and die from the pain of the evil cult's illness and could do nothing, I would probably live forever in the Shadow... It is the great Aka, it is you who gave me this opportunity...
"Oh right, and Sister Evi... If it weren't for the altar and instruments she provided, I probably wouldn't have been able to hold on until now. The saint church has also been supporting me all the way..."
Vanya said this earnestly to Dorothy. Listening to her words, Dorothy waved her hand and replied.
"Alright... We won't say any more now. Go and rest well. After resting for a while and recovering your state, we will go out together and face that monster, that plague, in 'reality' again."
"Mm!" Listening to Dorothy's words, Vanya in the magic circle nodded seriously.
...
Within the Buserite Desert at night, a battle between creature and steel, blazing fire and corrosive fungus, destruction and regeneration was still ongoing. After Dorothy and Vanya left, Evi, who remained alone in the real history, manipulated her steel body, continuing to bomb and suppress Amuyaba with destructive Cannon Barrage.
At this moment, Evi was suspended in the air at an altitude of about 1,500 meters. Below her, it had turned into a large area of green cloud mist. In the continuous combat, the scale of the 'Wasting Decay' bacteria released by Amuyaba had reached an astonishing level. The scale of the bacterial mist had expanded from the level of air pollution caused by factory emissions to meteorological level dense fog. A huge amount of green bacterial mist continuously pressed down on the ground and extended upwards into the sky, gradually rising to an altitude of thousands of meters, slowly approaching Evi's altitude. At this moment, looking down from Evi's ship body, one could see a large layer of bacterial mist like a sea of clouds. This constantly approaching layer of bacterial mist made Evi feel a sense of urgent pressure.
At this moment, Evi was suspended about four to five hundred meters above the bacterial mist layer, while using the close-in defense system to intercept the increasing number of keratin arrows and flying explosive worms shot out from the bacterial mist, she was also pouring energy gunfire down towards the bacterial mist below, suppressing the completely monstrous Amuyaba.
Evi's translucent illusion floated on the Gothic spire of the bridge, gazing at the bacterial mist cloud sea below with a serious expression. The increasing close-in defense pressure from below, coupled with the continuously rising bacterial mist layer, caused the pressure on Evi to continuously increase.
At this time, she could actually relieve the pressure she was experiencing by increasing her altitude, but she could not do so, because if she increased her altitude, she would not be able to effectively suppress Amuyaba.
Due to Vanya's departure, Evi's temple ritual site lost its host, and Evi consequently lost an effective, precise, and wide-ranging life detection radar. Although she herself also had a very powerful Spirituality detection radar, that was only for Spirituality and was not specialized in detecting life forms.
A large area around Amuyaba was now completely filled with bacterial mist that had obvious Spirituality. This widespread Spirituality reaction severely interfered with Evi's detection, because when she detected, there were Spirituality reactions everywhere, making it difficult to distinguish.
If Evi was too high above the ground now, her Spirituality radar would only detect a jumbled screen. A large amount of Spirituality reactions were gathered together, making it impossible to distinguish who was who. The altitude Evi was currently at was the highest altitude her Spirituality radar could effectively detect.
Below this altitude, Evi could rely on relatively close-range detection to judge this area of bacterial mist where Spirituality reactions were a mess, determining where the Spirituality was highly concentrated and where it was low, thereby locating Amuyaba's relative position within the bacterial mist and implementing artillery fire. However, this altitude of less than two thousand meters also made her more threatened by Amuyaba's counterattack, and she was starting to feel increasingly overwhelmed.
"A few more minutes... Almost there..."
Looking at the increasingly fierce offensive from below, Evi's illusion murmured seriously. At this moment, she was silently recording a certain time that Dorothy and the others had told her when they left not long ago. When that time came, they would return, bringing back the method to deal with the monster in front of them.
During this waiting and suppression, Evi herself was not just relying on secondary guns to suppress Amuyaba. At this moment, the ram at her bow had opened again, revealing the muzzle of the huge main gun installed on the ship's axis. The muzzle was currently emitting light, and a main gun round was being brewed.
Evi's main gun was extremely powerful. Even though Amuyaba had turned into this state, Evi had the ability to destroy the vast majority of it in one go. However, the problem was that for Amuyaba, which had high-speed regeneration supplied by a huge amount of Spirituality, as long as a tiny bit was left, it would quickly make a comeback. Therefore, if Evi just fired a main gun round at Amuyaba, it would not completely solve the problem. The key to defeating Amuyaba still lay with the soon-to-return Dorothy and Vanya.
Just as the real Evi was accumulating main gun energy and continuously suppressing, Evi's Spirituality radar suddenly detected that within the dense bacterial mist below, the highly aggregated Spirituality reaction representing Amuyaba's main body suddenly began to move, rapidly approaching from the bottom to the top of the bacterial mist. It seemed to have suddenly taken off and started flying from where it was!
"What..."
Just as Evi was feeling surprised, the cloud sea bacterial mist below her suddenly broke open, and a colossal creature rushed out of it. Upon closer inspection, it was clearly a giant flying insect!
Brown-yellow keratinous carapace covered its entire body. Dozens of meters long, with two pairs of semi-transparent membrane wings with dense reticular patterns rapidly fanning behind it, the rear end of its body, which was over 150 meters long, was a sac-like, plump abdomen. On the abdomen were countless dense pores that made people feel nauseous due to trypophobia. From these pores, countless flying wings burst out, and countless bacterial mist sprayed out.
The front end of the long insect body had several pairs of appendages. The foremost appendages were a pair of incredibly huge chelae, thirty to forty meters long. The front end of the chelae were mantis-like serrated blades, exaggerated weapons constructed of solid keratin. The very front of the insect body had a twisted, gigantic human face, revealing Amuyaba's twisted and ferocious countenance.
During the time it had been hiding in the bacterial mist, Amuyaba had endured Evi's artillery fire and undergone significant growth and mutation, causing its main body to become a giant flying insect, and it had directly flown up to launch a counterattack against Evi.
"Fall! Steel bitch!"
With a heart full of rage and resentment, Amuyaba, transformed into a giant flying insect, swung its huge sickle-like chelae at the front, slashing towards Evi's ship body. Evi's close-in defense system was fine against flying explosive worms and keratin arrows, but it was completely unable to cope with such a large aerial monster. The machine guns, small-caliber cannons, and flamethrowers used for close-in defense simply could not penetrate Amuyaba's solid keratinous carapace.
Fortunately, Evi had already begun to maneuver the ship body as soon as she realized Amuyaba was flying towards her. Before being struck by the front limb scythe, she had already caused the various propulsion nozzles on the ship body, which had previously been silent, to spray out raging flames. These propulsion nozzles, installed at the stern and on both sides of Evi's ship, provided strong additional power to Evi's ship body, which was suspended in the air by some powerful extraordinary anti-gravity device, allowing her to fly to a safe area, evade Amuyaba's scythe attack, and quickly pull away.
After pulling away from Amuyaba, Evi aimed her numerous muzzles at Amuyaba and fired countless shells simultaneously. Because Amuyaba had rushed out of the bacterial mist, Evi directly chose to include a large number of solid rounds in this round of salvo. However, upon seeing Evi open fire, the countless flying wing explosive worms suspended around Amuyaba self-detonated one after another, and the holes on its body also intensified the spraying of bacterial mist, instantly covering Amuyaba's entire body in bacterial mist again.
Due to the interference of the bacterial mist, all the solid rounds fired by Evi became ineffective again. Only energy rounds passed through the bacterial mist and hit Amuyaba, but the damage caused was extremely limited, and Amuyaba quickly regenerated. Then Amuyaba continued to rush towards Evi, and Evi also increased the output of her propulsion nozzles to evade.
In this way, Amuyaba flew while creating bacterial mist, keeping itself constantly enveloped in the mist while continuously rushing towards Evi, launching close-range attacks on Evi herself.
Facing Amuyaba's large flying and colliding cloud of bacterial mist, Evi displayed excellent maneuverability. The four-hundred-meter-long aerial giant ship was even more agile than a one or two-hundred-meter-long capital ship at sea, dodging Amuyaba's attacks with various strange maneuvering movements and counterattacking it at all times. Many of the maneuvers were very large and extreme; if Evi were made of ordinary steel, she would have fallen apart during these maneuvers long ago.
Thus, two giants, both over a hundred meters long and weighing tens of thousands to over a hundred thousand tons, engaged in fierce close-quarters combat in the air, like old fighter jets dogfighting, but with vastly more absurd size and firepower.
In this series of aerial close-quarters engagements, although Evi was not directly hit by Amuyaba, when Amuyaba flew past her side, a considerable amount of the 'Wasting Decay' bacteria on it still scattered onto Evi's ship body. Although Evi's ship body was made of high-strength extraordinary metal, some signs of rust appeared under Amuyaba's bacteria. This was the first time Evi had suffered damage in her battle with Amuyaba.
Her body was starting to rust, but at this moment, Evi was not worried about her own condition, but her main gun. After Amuyaba's main body directly flew up and harassed her, Evi's main gun, which had been accumulating power, became difficult to aim. It is important to know that Evi's main gun was an axial gun, installed on the central axis inside the ship body. Whichever direction the ship's bow was facing, the gun fired in that direction; there were no turrets that could turn. An axial gun was fine for hitting fixed targets or slow-moving ground targets, but it was extremely difficult to aim at a target like Amuyaba that was moving quickly and constantly getting close for melee combat. At this moment, Evi's axial gun was almost fully charged, but it was difficult to aim at Amuyaba.
"So troublesome..."
Facing Amuyaba, who had changed tactics, Evi couldn't help but frown and say. At this moment, she was not only constantly entangled with Amuyaba, but also had a clock in her mind at all times, and this clock was about to reach the predetermined time.
"I hope you already have the ability to change all this..."
At the moment when the clock was about to reach the set point, Evi suddenly began to adjust her various thrusters, adjusting her direction and rushing rapidly towards a coordinate in the air. The point where this coordinate was located was not very good in terms of tactical evasion, and Amuyaba immediately saw the opening Evi exposed.
Without hesitation, Amuyaba directly rushed towards Awei who revealed a flaw. Although Awei narrowly avoided Amuyaba's impact, she could not avoid the two explosive bugs that Amuyaba spit out at close range. These two explosive bugs hit the port side of Awei and exploded, splashing a large area of high-concentration green fungal fluid. These fungal fluids began to corrode the moment they touched Awei's hull. Amidst a fine sizzling sound, many of Awei's secondary cannons on the port side were directly disabled, and large areas of rust marks appeared in the corroded areas.
"Ha! You have this day too! Steel bitch!"
Seeing that she had finally caused considerable damage to Awei, Amuyaba couldn't help but shout mockingly in the air with extreme excitement. However, Awei did not pay attention to her at this time. At this moment, she was not displeased because of the serious damage to her port side weapons, but rather breathed a sigh of relief.
Just now, Awei passed the agreed point at the agreed time. At the moment she was hit by Amuyaba's fungal bullet, a figure suddenly appeared out of thin air in the chapel inside her hull. It was a young girl wearing a white Sister's dress. It was Vanya, who had also disappeared inside her hull not long ago.
"How is the situation? Was the experiment successful?"
Looking at Vanya who appeared inside the hull, Awei's phantom appeared directly in front of her and asked. Vanya, who had undergone a great change in temperament and seemed to have matured a little, grabbed the pillar next to her to adapt to the high-speed environment inside the hull at this moment, while saying with a gentle smile.
"Very successful... We succeeded!"
"What about the results?" Awei continued to say seriously to Vanya, and Vanya immediately replied.
"Immediately, in three seconds!"
Not long after Vanya finished speaking inside the hull, outside the hull, Amuyaba, who was preparing to pursue the victory and spit out more fungal bullets to attack Awei, suddenly paused. Her control over her own Spirituality suddenly became very chaotic. The fungal bullets that were about to be spit out suddenly exploded in her mouth due to this chaos. Her entire strange body let out a scream in pain.
"What's going on! My... Spirituality!"
Amuyaba's strange and sharp scream echoed in the night sky, and on a sand dune somewhere in the distance, Dorothy, dressed in a cloak, was standing there. She looked at the chaotic scene in the sky and then at her palm.
At this moment, Dorothy was holding a small petri dish in her hand. In this petri dish, Dorothy could feel the countless microscopic lives rapidly dying inside.
"Wither... die, at the end of your evolution, become extinct here... BS61-1... Your mission is over..."
Looking at the petri dish in her hand, Dorothy whispered silently. What was in this petri dish was nothing else but the pathogenic virus of the "Wasting Decay". In the microscopic world invisible to the naked eye, they were rapidly dying in clusters at this moment, and not only the viruses here, but also in other places in this world, no matter where they were located, all similar viruses.
In Bastis in the distance, in the more distant Buserite tribe, and in the Adus refugee camp almost at the edge of the sky, all patients who were tormented by the "Wasting Decay" and wished they were dead, all showed symptoms of relief at this moment. Their pain was subsiding, because the viruses in their bodies were dying.
"Extreme synchronous evolution brings extreme synchronous extinction... This is the end of BS61-1. I wonder if you can see all this, Jemarr Hai..."
Feeling the situation in Bastis in the distance, Dorothy said with a sigh. Her experiment was successful. BS61-1 was all collectively dying, and this credit belonged to Vanya, to Dorothy, to the saviors of the Savior Sect, to Jemarr...
Dorothy's experiment to solve the BS61-1 virus was based on Jemarr's research results. In a series of studies, she discovered many characteristics of BS61-1, among which several points were the most important.
The first is that BS61-1 has high-speed autonomous evolution capabilities. The second is that the evolution direction of BS61-1 follows the order of adaptation, spread, and pathogenicity. The third is the phenomenon of periodic synchronous evolution of BS61-1.
After knowing these three points, Dorothy began to formulate her experiment. She first brought the BS61-1 virus into the virtual history world. In the virtual history world, the introduced BS61-1 was isolated from the main group of BS61-1 in real history. The BS61-1 in the virtual history world independently formed a separate group, and the evolution that occurred on it would not be synchronized to the real world.
After that, Vanya injected herself with BS61-1, using herself as a breeding ground for the virus to reproduce, and then used her ability to strengthen her own immunity to kill the virus. During this process, she trained the virus and accelerated the mutation and evolution of the virus.
The evolutionary law of viruses follows the principle of adaptability first, that is to say, adaptability is the most prioritized evolutionary project for viruses. Viruses will prioritize strengthening their ability to resist other microorganisms, and survive as much as possible under the attack of the enhanced immune system.
Vanya allowed BS61-1 to reproduce on her body, then killed it with immunity, and continued the cycle of injection, reproduction, and killing shortly after the killing ended, constantly repeating this process. This kept the BS61-1 in the virtual history world under survival pressure, constantly prioritizing the evolution of its adaptability.
Until even with the ritual bonus and self-treatment, Vanya could not kill the BS61-1 that had evolved countless times on its own with her own immunity, Vanya then injected herself with other bacteria and used her ability to enhance them, allowing other types of external bacteria to continue to put survival pressure on BS61-1.
Dorothy's goal was to continuously put pressure on BS61-1 for survival, making it constantly evolve its adaptability and its ability to fight against immunity and even other bacteria. If BS61-1 was playing a game, Dorothy, as the game's producer, was forcing the "player" BS61-1 to put all its "skill points" into adaptability.
However, biological evolution is not completely without limitations. The evolution of viruses has its own limits. BS61-1 is always a virus with limited volume. It cannot evolve all of its "body" structures to adapt to the environment. After a person picks up a sword with both hands, if they want to continue holding a weapon, they must use their mouth or feet, but using their feet to hold a weapon means that the person cannot walk.
Under the endless survival pressure given by Dorothy, BS61-1 evolved its redundant structures to the extreme, evolving all of them into "weapons" to fight against other microorganisms and enhance its adaptability. However, even under these circumstances, if the survival pressure does not disappear, BS61-1 can only continue to evolve, but when it does not have enough free structure to evolve adaptability and equip more "weapons", it can only take out the structural areas responsible for other functions in its overall body, use them for evolving adaptability, and for holding "weapons", but this will also cause BS61-1 to lose the function that was taken out.
This is like a player adding skill points. After adding all the skill points, adding a lot to strength, and still feeling it's not enough, they can only refund all the skill points in agility, intelligence, and stamina, and pile them all onto strength.
In order to make room for the evolution of adaptability, BS61-1 began to "refund skill points" for its other abilities. BS61-1 initially degenerated its pathogenicity, making people basically asymptomatic after infection and losing the ability to absorb Spirituality. Then it degenerated its transmissibility, making it almost impossible to transmit between people. Then it also degenerated its reproductive capacity, making it even unable to reproduce and spread within the human body through replication.
The most ruthless thing is... After nearly half a year of experiments, Dorothy made BS61-1 degenerate its vital capacity. BS61-1 could not even absorb and use nutrients to maintain its own survival. It was Vanya who used her ability to "heal" BS61-1, giving these viruses her own "cup" extra, so that these viruses could survive, turning this virus from actively absorbing Spirituality into something that needed to actively contribute Spirituality to survive.
The moment this virus, whose own vital capacity had degenerated, mutated and split off, it was like a severely deformed infant born without respiratory organs. It should have died quickly and had no chance to wait for the time of synchronous evolution to arrive. However, after they were born, they were immediately "healed" by Vanya. Vanya used external force to forcibly prolong the lives of these deformed viruses, allowing those with stronger adaptability to survive, and in the subsequent synchronous time. All BS61-1 in virtual history were synchronized to its version. As this experiment became more and more frequent, the finally iterated BS61-1 became more and more deformed, and the environmental requirements for survival became higher and higher. This was a deformed mutation specifically selected by Dorothy and Vanya.
To this extent, the BS61-1 in the virtual history world has become a severely deformed virus that can only survive under external supply and only in a laboratory environment. Once it leaves the laboratory environment, it will die immediately, but the adaptability of this deformed virus... or rather, its biological resistance is extremely high, which is very consistent with the evolutionary priority of BS61-1.
BS61-1 synchronizes its evolution every hour. Therefore, after Dorothy and Vanya brought the BS61-1 from the virtual history world back to real history at the right time, the BS61-1 in the virtual history world re-established contact with the large group in real history, and at the moment of synchronization, it synchronized its "advanced" version with super high adaptability to all BS61-1 pathogens in real history, making all of them severely deformed infants, becoming beings that cannot survive without additional Spirituality contribution and outside the laboratory environment.
Naturally, ordinary patients cannot contribute Spirituality to these viruses, and their bodies are not a comfortable laboratory environment. Therefore, at the moment the synchronization was completed, all the viruses began to die in batches. In just a few seconds, the BS61-1 virus epidemic that was prevalent throughout the world was wiped out, and the entire plague ended instantly. Amuyaba had not yet reacted to what happened, and her huge Spirituality supply was directly interrupted, which led to the direct loss of control of her Spirituality.
At this moment, throughout Buserite, countless people who were suffering from the "Wasting Decay" suddenly felt the pain disappear. Those who were originally lying on the ground stood up in disbelief, looking around weakly but incredibly in villages, streets, and tents, and then smiles appeared on everyone's faces.
"It's gone... It doesn't hurt anymore! What's going on?"
"Am I better? Am I better?! Incredible, what on earth happened? Lord, did you save us?"
"Ancestors... Thank you for your blessing."
"God! Thank you for your salvation!"
At this moment in Buserite, millions of people were happy, celebrating, and grateful. Their objects of gratitude and words were different, but the emotions of gratitude of everyone seemed to be echoing in Vanya's heart at this moment.
"Everyone... are you all recovered? That's great... All this is worth it..."
In the chapel inside Awei's body, Vanya closed her eyes and covered her chest, whispering as she felt the myriad voices in her heart. At this moment, in the night sky outside the hull, another sharp howl sounded.
"What have you all done? Steel bitch!"
Roaring angrily, Amuyaba charged towards Awei at high speed. Seeing this, Awei said to Vanya.
"Sister Vanya, please immediately go to a safe cabin for shelter. I am going to fight that guy. Our engagement distance is very close, and it is not safe here."
Listening to Awei's words, Vanya opened her eyes and looked into the distance. A faint golden light emanated from her eyes, as if she could see Amuyaba rapidly approaching in the air through the steel walls.
"Sister Awei... Now is not the time for me to escape. Please allow me to be with you and eradicate the source of the disaster that is harming this land.
"In the name of the compassionate saint..." Along with Vanya's words, a holy soft light burst out from her body, illuminating the entire chapel.
After saving millions of Buserite patients from the "Wasting Decay", Vanya finally completed her salvation and completed the promotion ceremony.