Thread:Shabook/@comment-26917787-20160622214920/@comment-26917787-20160623011038

Well you would think that he absorbed the Kree, seeing as how his true form turned from brown to a bluish color, as seen with his wounded arm and the revelation of his face to Coulson.

That aside, yes, there is no way to assure a definite connection between the two, but we never see regenerative healing until the incident, even when he was wounded. But after the Kree, we suddenly see Hive regenerate himself without parasites on numerous occasions.

I'm not saying either of the descriptions are wrong, but saying it occurred after the Kree is just more specific and requires a bit of deduction.