When the news of the mutation reached the autopsy room, Wang Ruoxiang and the rest were dissecting the mice that died due to the mutation failure.
About 10 of them had been dissected but they did not get much out of it. The biological structure of these mice was no different from normal mice, the most obvious change was that they had stronger muscles. They did not seem to be able to cross that line, therefore they could not evolve into human-faced mice, winged mice or giant bellied mice.
After receiving the news, Wang Ruoxiang had to put down her work and rush to the conference room.
Soon, she saw the surveillance footage of the incident at a hospital in the countryside of Da Hwa City.
The footage came from different patient rooms. All the patients had received some experimental treatments like Ancient Seal, Raven Seal and so on. They could not be sure whether the treatments were effective or not because the patients' anxiety did not lessen and the mutation still happened.
So far, 136 patients had experienced this kind of explosive mutation after reaching the critical point. 67 patients died after rescue efforts failed, and the other 68 survived. The success rate and failure rate were almost half and half.
Based on the known number of people who had visited the website, this was a scary trend.
In these images, when the mutation occurred, regardless of success or failure, the patients would emit extremely strange and inhuman screams. Then, the failed patients would die in pain due to multiple organ failure. After the successful patients stopped screaming, they would appear to be as hungry as the white mice and would seek large amounts of food. No matter how much food the Phecda members gave them, they would devour it madly. The speed of digestion was incomprehensible, the food would be converted into energy.
They also mutated in multiple directions. Among the 68 successful ones, there were at least 3 different directions and 2 of them were familiar to the Phecda members.
One was the zombies. The patients developed symptoms similar to secondary hyperparathyroidism and their appetite increased.
The other was the Deep Ones. The patients' skin showed signs of mutated scales. The shape, color and appearance were similar to the scales of the Deep Ones.
The other type was the 'Naga' that both Phecda and Mysterium were unfamiliar with. The patients also had scales on their skin but they were a mixture of black and white scales. The patients' bodies did not show any signs of turning into snakes but many organs in their heads were changing, especially the tongue. The patients' tongues were turning into the tongues of snakes.
The power of the zombies and the Deep Ones did not come from the same source. The former was the cult of the zombies and the latter was the R'yleh Cult.
However, the enlightenment website could trigger the mutation of these different powers … Chaos, Disorder, Nyarlathotep.
Since the snake was one of the images of Nyarlathotep, the mutation of the Naga was especially dangerous. They knew the Naga the least.
Currently, the number of patients who successfully mutated into Naga was the fewest, only 5, less than 10%.
Regardless of the direction of mutation, these 'Inhumans' would become incredibly strong and dangerous.
What happened now was just the beginning. If this continued, Xiao Xu calculated for the group, "Using the 100 million visitors around the world, 50% success rate is 50 million. If it's 10% success rate, 5 million Naga and 45 million zombies and Deep Ones will appear in one night."
The meeting room sank into silence. Everyone's brows were tightly locked together.
They knew the real number was much higher than 100 million …
These numbers made Wang Ruoxiang, who was never one to admit defeat, feel powerless. Lou Xiaoning, Uncle Dan, and the rest were rendered speechless. If there were more than 10 million Inhumans appearing around the world … this was not a disaster that could be solved by breaking through a cult's ritual.
Perhaps in the next few days, this situation would become a reality.
"The Age of Cataclysm …" Peacock mumbled. 'So it's finally here …'
Zhou Haorui and Yang Xinxin were not there. They had left earlier to discuss with the crows whether they should cooperate with Phecda and how to deal with it.
Tong Ye was also not there. He was too busy. The current situation involved many factors, no matter which country it was, it would not be easy to deal with.
But they knew what they had to do. With every passing moment, the number of Inhumans and Inhumans would increase …
Whether there would be cries during the mutation was still unconfirmed but the work of notifying the public had begun. Once they heard such cries, they would report it immediately. That way, the relevant personnel would go and apprehend the successful mutators and carry away the bodies of the failed ones.
"It shouldn't be a simple genetic problem, we still have a chance …" Wang Ruoxiang said after some thought.
This was because it was difficult for genes to explain such a mutation speed. Perhaps it was possible, but another reason was that the patients had heard an inexplicable agitated sound in their minds. Based on their experience, there was a dark force behind it, it was either Nyarlathotep or an organization.
Could it be Nyarlathotep? They did not think it was possible, Nyarlathotep would not be interested in so many people.
The ones that really piqued its interest were people like Gu Jun, Wu Shiyu, Yu Chi and Keziah Mason. It did not care about the others.
"Could it be the Society of Negative Choice?" Lou Xiaoning asked. She had just undergone a surgery to remove the mutated bone but she was still in the frontline.
Could it be the Society of Negative Choice?
Lou Xiaoning had this speculation because according to the investigation, many of the strange voices heard by the patients were similar to the messages the Society of Negative Choice used to spread. But they could not be sure because they were just words that could mean different things.
The Society of Negative Choice was the power of the Black Goat but the Black Pharaoh was also the power of the Black Goat …
They had reason to believe that Nyarlathotep's power could morph into any other dark force, it had many incarnations.
"Doesn't look like it." However, Little Xu said, "According to the analysis of the data on the patients, there are a lot of ordinary students, low-income people, and unemployed people, but there are also a lot of talented students, middle-class people, and high-income people. Furthermore, don't you think mutation is a new judgment? "
Xiao Xu scanned the people around the table. "Failure, death, negative choice; success, survival, positive choice; there are no draws."
"From a biological perspective, have you noticed that be it zombies, Deep Ones, or snake people, they are all physically stronger than us normal humans?"
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