"This damn place looks really creepy."
Looking at the street illuminated by the sun, Fangzheng shook his head and muttered to himself.
Just as the ancestral tablet said, after the sun rose, the zombies that were originally wandering around disappeared without a trace. The entire street was empty, not even a single animal could be seen. To be honest, this kind of scene did not give people a good feeling.
If this was a city that had been abandoned for a long time, it might be better. The overgrown streets might look messy, but at least it was a sign that nature was active. But now, this city had maintained the appearance of a city for a long time. But as far as the eye could see, not a single person could be seen. This kind of feeling even made people feel that this city was just a prop, like a "scene map" in "The Truman Show". This would more or less make people feel a little uneasy and even afraid, as if they were the only … .some kind of prop that was abandoned here. After seeing it for a long time, one would even suspect that the world itself seemed to be just a big toy box, and the owner of this box seemed to have given up on this toy.
Although it seemed like the empty street allowed Fangzheng to drive the Need for Speed as much as he wanted, the fact was that it wasn't that dangerous.
One could even say … .it was very high.
"Whoosh — —!"
Just as Fangzheng turned the corner of the street, a thin black shadow suddenly jumped from the eaves next to him. It spread its arms and pounced on Fangzheng. Its speed was quite fast, almost the same as a hunting cheetah. In the blink of an eye, the black shadow arrived in front of Fangzheng. An arrow shot out and pierced through its body. It screamed and flew back, nailed to the wall next to him. The black shadow struggled a few times, then gradually lowered its head and no longer made a sound.
"It really is a Hunter."
Fangzheng walked to the wall and squinted at the monster in front of him. It also looked like a zombie, but unlike the zombies that moved at night before, this zombie's skin was full of healed scars. It was a little short, with long arms and short legs. From the looks of it, it was closer to the form of a gibbon.
However, Fangzheng was more interested in the scars on its body.
"As expected, this is also an evolved body?"
Fangzheng took out his personal terminal, scanned the monster in front of him, and compared the data.
"What do you think? Big Brother? "
At this time, Xiao Hei also came to Fangzheng's side and carefully looked at the monster. At the same time, it looked curiously at Fangzheng's personal terminal.
"It seems that my conjecture is correct. All the mutants we've encountered so far are evolved zombies.... Look, this zombie also has signs of skin ulceration due to direct sunlight, but its wounds have all healed. This is enough to tell you something."
Fangzheng lifted his head and gazed at the scorching sun in the sky.
He and Xiao Hei had been searching around the station for the whole morning. During this period, Fangzheng and Xiao Hei had encountered several strong mutants. However, contrary to Fangzheng's conjecture, after coming into contact with these mutants, Fangzheng was surprised to find that these mutants were not social creatures like he had imagined. On the contrary, these mutants all acted alone, and they seemed to have some kind of territorial awareness. They would attack creatures that entered their territory.
Not only that, through dissecting and scanning these mutants, Fangzheng also discovered another rule. These mutants had all "evolved" from ordinary zombies. As for the source of their evolution.... although Fangzheng did not want to admit it, for now, there was only one answer.
And that was the sun.
So far, Fangzheng had encountered a total of four mutants. All of their bodies showed signs of skin ulceration after being exposed to the sun and then healing. This also meant that after these mutants became normal zombies, they were exposed to sunlight and underwent a second mutation. That was how they evolved into what they were now.
Now, Fangzheng was just not sure whether this evolution was conscious or just accidental. After all, the mutants he had seen before had evolved in a different direction. And more importantly....
"This should be enough to collect samples."
While saying that, Fangzheng reached out his hand, cut a small sample from the corpse in front of him, and put it in a glass box.
"Let's go back, Xiao Hei."
"Okay, big brother."
Hearing Fangzheng's words, Xiao Hei threw a piece of chocolate into his mouth and nodded.
When Fangzheng and Xiao Hei returned to the station that was used as a stronghold, the place had changed completely. One had to admit that Cuihe Ancestral Tablet was very considerate. At least when Fangzheng walked in and saw the bright and clean hall and the clean and tidy furniture in front of him, his mood was much better than before.
"You're back, big brother Fangzheng, big sister Xiao Hei...."
Seeing that Fangzheng and Xiao Hei had returned, Cuihe hurriedly came up to greet them with a smile.
"I'm back, Cuihe."
Looking at the cat-eared girl in front of him, Fangzheng smiled and stretched out his hand to pat Cuihe's head. At the same time, he rubbed her soft cat ears.
"How's the situation? Is there any response? "
"There's no response from Xia Shi yet. Miss Gui is helping out...."
"Got it."
Hearing this, Fangzheng was not surprised. The city had become like this, it was comparable to hell. Fangzheng was sure that even a random survivor from Resident Evil wouldn't be able to survive a day in this godforsaken place. Of course, Alice might be an exception.... or maybe not, who knows?
"I'm going to do some research next. You and Xiao Hei can go and rest first."
While saying that, Fangzheng walked to a closed compartment next to him. This was originally used as a storage room for train maintenance equipment, but now Fangzheng had used it as his own laboratory.
After closing the door, Fangzheng took out five glass boxes from his pocket and placed them on the table. Then, he turned on his personal terminal and began to carefully scan and study the viruses inside.
Fangzheng was not a biologist. In fact, his understanding of biology was only at a very basic level when he was in college. But this did not mean that he had wasted all these years. Especially after mastering the Time Dragon's talent, Fangzheng found that many things that he used to look like heavenly books could now be easily understood.... Well, thanks to this talent, Fangzheng tasted the joy of being a top student for the first time in his life.
And now, he could finally "put what he had learned to use".
Among the five samples, two of them were extracted by Fangzheng from "ordinary zombies", while the remaining three samples came from three different mutants. Now, Fangzheng wanted to see, in a "biochemical world" that had been completely mixed, how could this world "justify itself"?
And the results of the test left Fangzheng somewhat astonished.
After comparing the "basic virus" samples collected from ordinary zombies with the "mutant virus" samples collected from the mutants, Fangzheng was surprised to find that the structure of the two had changed completely. They could even be said to be completely different things!
If the "basic virus" was compared to a handful of soil, then the "mutant virus" was like burning the soil into bricks, making clay sculptures, or even making ceramics. Although the "raw materials" were the same thing, the "finished product" itself was very different.
Not only that, these "mutant viruses" themselves were still not in a complete state. After analysis and research, Fangzheng found that these viruses were actually further "evolving and upgrading", but because their host was killed, this evolution process was interrupted.
And finally, Fangzheng finally figured out what was going on with the virus in this biochemical world.
According to the current observation, the initial "basic virus" would spread through water, air, and blood, infecting others. At the same time, it would rapidly mutate and erode the host's body. And the human immune system would react violently to this, and the two sides would begin to fight. At the beginning, the immune system might have the upper hand, but in the end, the "basic virus" would destroy the immune system, kill the host, and turn them into zombies.
At this stage, the zombies would be full of a strong desire to eat because of the virus activity, and thus attack other living beings. At the same time, they would also be afraid of sunlight and try to avoid it.
But if the zombies were unlucky enough to be exposed to sunlight, then the "basic virus" in their body would begin to crazily carry out a second mutation to resist the damage caused by sunlight. From the current situation, their mutation itself seemed to be random. Take the few mutants that Fangzheng encountered before, for example. Although they all had the ability to resist sunlight, their movement, hunting methods, and body size were very different.
Not only that, Fangzheng also found that during the second mutation process, the evolution of these viruses was completely random.
It was like calculating the result of 9. Whether you chose 4 + 5, 1 + 8, or 3 x 3, as long as you could get the result of 9, there was no uniformity in the process in between!
From a certain point of view, this virus was somewhat similar to the Zerg, but the difference was that the Zerg's evolution was through "combining the strengths of various races" into one. The evolution process of this virus was more like "rolling a hundred dice, as long as the result is a double six, I win" ….
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