Life in North America, you call this an autopsy officer?!-Chapter 483 - 273: Exaggerated Effects of Blood Fruit_2

"I’ve added them to the experiment, along with the special microbe I developed before, and finally I got this thing."

Speaking of which,

Alpha pulled out a photo from his pocket and handed it to Brian.

Seeing the photo, Brian had reason to doubt whether Alpha had been playing a Plants vs. Zombies game.

The real Cannibal Flower, also known as the Corpse Flower,

this thing grows in the tropical rainforest, looking like a large flower with a big disk in the middle, with several particularly plump petals on the disk. When mature, it can be as big as half an adult and also has a garish appearance. However, when it blooms, it gives off a stench similar to that of rotting corpses, and this smell can drift very far.

The name Cannibal Flower is largely influenced by the smell of decay.

In fact, it can only capture small insects like flies and butterflies as food with its secretions, and it’s not really capable of eating people.

But the Cannibal Flower in Alpha’s photo was completely different from a proper Cannibal Flower:

Isn’t this dreadful thing the image of a Cannibal Flower from the mini-game Plants vs. Zombies!

Brian looked at Alpha with a surprised gaze, "Are you sure you’re not joking?"

Alpha nodded his head:

"The final product was kept in my backyard before.

When I initially bred it, it was only the size of a ping pong ball, and it looked not much different from a normal Cannibal Flower.

I was worried at first that it wouldn’t adapt to the climate in Los Angeles.

Turned out I was too naive.

After feeding it for about a week, it bloomed, and it didn’t have the stench of a normal Cannibal Flower, but instead a sweet smell.

It attracted a large number of insects that willingly became its food.

A normal Cannibal Flower, after blooming, would wither in a few days, and it would produce a semi-rotten fruit.

But it was different.

Instead of withering, it started growing a trunk with a fruit from the hollow center of the flower, and it increased its demand for food.

After about another three weeks,

It grew into the roughly two-meter creature in the photo, with this frightening appearance.

But all that’s fake.

Those things that look like teeth are actually sensory organs.

As soon as a creature is attracted by the scent of its flower, it can instantly sense it and secrete digestive juices to break down the creature into nutrients, which it absorbs quickly. It also forms excess nutrients into blood-colored fruits on its surface.

So I guess this must be its mature phase.

As for the purpose of those blood-colored fruits, I’ve mentioned it to you, boss, before.

Just a little bit is enough to meet the body’s needs of a lab mouse for a week; too much and they start showing symptoms like nosebleed, excess energy, and difficulty in digestion.

I was planning to apply for primate experiments, but then there was an issue at the research institute.

Worried about potential mishaps with my findings, I physically destroyed my research records and destroyed the mature Cannibal Flower in the backyard, then I hid this incident until my sister’s child met with an accident, and I decided to use this as leverage to find you, boss!"

Listening to the last sentence, Brian was somewhat pleasantly surprised, "You mean, this research project is only known to you at present?"

Alpha shook his head: "Some colleagues have known about it for a long time, but because there were no results, everyone stopped paying attention to me, and now I can’t be sure."

He pushed the USB drive, where he stored the data from his research, back across the table:

"Boss, you’d better keep this.

It might not be safe with me.

Some people from the headquarters approached me after I contacted you.

They asked me what research technology I had given you and took away the research data from my institute’s computer.

Of course, I didn’t tell them anything."

Hearing this, Brian’s brow furrowed.

People from Black Light Biotechnology Company appeared to have been watching him.

He pointed at the photo, "Are you sure they haven’t discovered this?"

Alpha shook his head: freewebnoveℓ.com

"I’m sure!

I destroyed the backyard’s Cannibal Flower when the institute was in chaos.

Despite its large appearance, it actually grows very quickly.

It usually releases its scent to trap prey at night in response to light, and I fed it special pet food, mainly made up of animal innards, and I also had a large dog, so it didn’t attract much attention."

Great!

Hearing Alpha’s response, Brian could hardly wait to give him a warm hug.

Indeed, he was a research talent cultivated in the United States.

One may not understand the niceties of human relationships, but the awareness of knowledge protection is truly ingrained into their bones.

Brian loved employees like that, who think about their boss!

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According to Alpha’s current research,

the Blood-colored Cannibal Flower he created was not picky about food; any flesh would do. Once its basic needs were satisfied, the remaining energy would automatically turn into tiny blood-colored fruits.

The fresher the meat, the lower the cost.

On average, the cost of one fruit didn’t exceed the equivalent of twenty pounds of fresh meat.

But the energy provided to a creature was about fifteen times that of the same amount of meat.

It wasn’t that the energy increased, but that the digestion and absorption efficiencies were different between eating the Blood Fruit and eating meat.

With the Blood-colored Cannibal Flower’s system conversion process,

this thing was that amazing.

The only problem was the digestion limit of the Blood-colored Cannibal Flower—only ten pounds of fresh meat per day, which meant it could only grow a Blood Fruit every two days. The efficiency was somewhat low, and it couldn’t compare to modern technological assembly lines.