The cries of the mice in the lab grew louder. There was an indescribable strangeness to it.
Among the hundred white mice, some of them suddenly collapsed in pain, twitching in the cage for a while before dying.
However, there were still quite a few that survived. Some of their faces had mutated, and they did not look like white mice. Instead, they seemed to be developing into the silhouette of a different kind of creature. It was the silhouette of a human, a human-faced mouse.
Some of the mice had their skin flipped. Their bones broke through and something else grew, something that looked like a pair of wings, the winged mice.
Others had their abdomen expanding into a ball. It was filled with ascites of unknown origin. Black liquid flowed on their skin.
These rats were mutating at a frightening speed, and to continue to mutate required more nutrients, so these rats became hungry. They needed food, and they constantly attacked and bit at the rat cage. Normal mice would not be able to break through the cage but the human-faced mice had their teeth enlarged like the fangs of a giant beast. They bit at the cage so hard that it almost broke.
The researchers, who were closely monitoring the situation, arrived before they really escaped and used tools to control them without touching them.
All the white mice that were still alive were locked in even sturdier cages. However, it was later proven that the steel cages were unable to trap the human-faced mice. The hungrier they became, the more pained they became, and the more violent they became. They even wanted to swallow the steel cages into their stomachs.
"They are still mutating. Without enough nutrients, they will die soon …"
Many people had gathered in the control room. Tong Ye, Wang Ruoxiang, Chen Jiahwa, Xiao Xu were all there. Zhou Haorui and Yang Xinxin were there as well.
They were the first to arrive. So far, 46 of the 100 mice had died and the remaining 54 showed obvious signs of mutation.
The dead mice appeared to be the victims of the failed mutation. Their bodies were waiting to be dissected for further research.
The 54 successfully mutated mice could be categorized into 3 types. They were named human-faced mice, winged mice and giant bellied mice. They evolved from normal creatures to abnormal creatures. Among them, the human-faced mice attracted the most attention.
Gu Jun had heard of this mutated creature before. It was a legend he heard in the Massachusetts World. Keziah Mason's Witch House was haunted by these mutated rats.
According to Gu Jun, he had never seen it in person and had only heard about it.
However, Keziah Mason was the emissary of Nyarlathotep and the Enlightenment Website originated from this force …
Because of this, everyone determined that this type of mutated rat that hadn't completely mutated was the so-called "human-faced rat".
On the other hand, there was a lack of information on the Winged Rat and the Giant Belly Rat. Even the Mysterium World had not seen them.
Apparently, they had built some kind of connection with the dark forces from the Enlightenment Website. It was not just a spiritual connection. Their genetic tests had shown that their genetic mutation was very active. It should be the genetic mutation in their physiology and the unknown spiritual connection that caused them to mutate rapidly when they reached a critical point. The success rate and failure rate of the mutation was almost fifty-fifty.
If the mice could mutate, what about the other experimental animals? Where are the humans?
These were the big questions but there was an urgent problem before them, how to deal with these mutated rats.
If it was purely for the sake of the experiment, they should let them survive, feed them, and let them continue to mutate. The experimenters would continue to observe and obtain more data and samples. This way, whether it was genetic testing, dissection, or other experiments, they would have a more complete picture.
However, at this time, everyone was still looking at the monitor screen. Facing the increasingly mature human faces growing on the bodies of the rats, they all had an inexplicable feeling.
Heretics like that should not exist in this world …
"We think," Zhou Haorui whispered to Yang Xinxin before giving the crow's opinion, "We should eliminate all these mutated rats and sterilize them. Studying them is like opening Pandora's box. The more we study them, the more darkness we will be tainted by and they will attract a more powerful presence. "
Like Keziah Mason?
Everyone knew that Zhou Haorui wasn't being alarmist. It was entirely possible, even inevitable.
However, Xiao Xu said calmly, "If we are the only ones with these mutated rats, then that makes sense. But are we the only ones? That website is open to anyone. Anyone can use mice or other animals to conduct this kind of experiment. Of course, our enemies can too and I believe they will do that. "
Zhou Haorui thought about it and agreed. He did not insist, "If we want to keep them … then we have to be confident that they won't go out of control."
"Keep them for research." Wang Ruoxiang nodded. "We might encounter these mutated creatures soon. Studying them will help us deal with them."
Were the human-faced rats afraid of the Ancient Seal? Could they be killed with guns? Could they be drowned? Could they be burned? These questions needed to be answered through experiments.
Once they had the answers to these questions, the initial contact with these mutated creatures would greatly reduce the casualties.
The lives of many soldiers could have been saved long ago in the laboratory.
"Tong Ye, leave these mice to me." Wang Ruoxiang accepted the responsibility. She was one of the leaders of the lab.
"You have to be careful." Tong Ye agreed. The joy from the appearance of the crows had been washed away.
This was the tip of the iceberg of a more chaotic era.
Would the humans who visited the website mutate as well? What would they mutate into?
The mice were simple so they mutated first. Perhaps in a few days, humanity would reach the tipping point …
Currently it was known that more than a hundred million people had visited the website … and only a small portion of them were being monitored. Be it Phecda or FBM, neither had the resources nor the ability to monitor the entire world. There were so many countries with so many different conditions, it was impossible to work together …
If the probability of human mutation was 50/50, then half of the dead would cause a global upheaval. What would happen to the other half of the 'mutated humans'?
Once they thought about these questions, it felt like there was a giant boulder pressing down on their heads, a boulder that had just been pushed up from the hillside only to tumble back down again.
"Did the crows say anything about this?" Tong Ye asked Zhou Haorui with anticipation. 'Is there any solution? Even a single direction would be good. '
"Maybe …" Zhou Haorui sighed. "It said that some chaos will inevitably happen, and we will all have to face the test."
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