760. Mysterious Virus Body X

"This ghostly place looks really infiltrating."

Looking at the street illuminated by the sun, Fangzheng shook his head and whispered to himself.

As Ancestral Hall Gui said, after the sun rose, the zombies that had been wandering around disappeared without a trace. The whole street was empty, not even a single animal could be seen. To be honest, the sight doesn't feel very good.

If this is a city that has been abandoned for a long time, it might be better. The overgrown streets may look disorganized, but at least it is a signal that nature is active. But now, the city has maintained what a city should look like for a long time, but when you look around, you can't even see half of the people. This kind of feeling even makes people feel that this city is just a set prop , a "scene map" similar to "The Truman Show". This somewhat makes people feel uneasy or even fearful, as if he is the only one abandoned here...some kind of prop. After seeing a lot, I even suspect that this world itself seems to be nothing more than a big toy box, and right now, the owner of this box seems to have given up on this toy.

Although it seems that this empty street allows Fang Zheng to play Need for Speed ​​as he pleases, but in fact, the danger here is not low.

It can even be said... very high.

"Whoosh!"

Just as Fangzheng was passing the corner of the street, suddenly a thin black figure jumped up from the eaves next to him, and threw his arms wide open towards Fangzheng. Its speed is quite fast, almost the same as that of a preying cheetah. In the blink of an eye, that black shadow came to Fangzheng's body in this way—then was pierced by a spurting arrow, and flew out screaming and nailed to the wall next to him. The black shadow struggled a few times, then gradually lowered its head and fell silent.

"Sure enough, it's HUNTER."

Fangzheng walked to the wall, squinted his eyes and stared carefully at the monster in front of him. It also looked like a zombie, but unlike the zombies that moved at night before, this zombie had healed scars all over its skin. It is somewhat short in stature, with long arms and rather short legs. It seems that it is closer to the form of a gibbon.

But what Fangzheng paid more attention to were the scars on its body.

"Sure enough, is this also an evolutionary body?"

Fangzheng took out his personal terminal, scanned the monster in front of him, and compared the data.

"How is it? Big brother?"

At this time, Xiao Hei also came to Fang Zheng's side, looked at the monster carefully, and at the same time looked curiously at Fang Zheng's personal terminal.

"It seems that my guess is correct. So far, all the mutants we have encountered are evolutions of zombies... You see, this zombie also has signs of skin ulceration due to direct sunlight, but it The wounds of the wounds have healed, which can already explain the problem."

Having said this, Fangzheng raised his head and looked at the scorching hot sun in the sky in front of him.

He and Xiao Hei had been searching around the station all morning, during which Fangzheng and Xiao Hei also encountered several powerful mutants. However, unlike what Fang Zheng had guessed, after contacting these mutants, Fang Zheng was surprised to find that these mutants were not gregarious creatures as he imagined, on the contrary, all of these mutants acted alone, and they seemed to have certain Territorial awareness, it will attack creatures that enter its own territory.

Not only that, through the dissection and scanning of these mutants, Fang Zheng also discovered another rule. That is, all these mutants "evolved" from ordinary zombies. As for the source of their evolution... Although Fang Zheng didn't want to admit it, as far as the current situation is concerned, there is only one answer.

That is the sun.

So far, Fangzheng has encountered a total of four mutants, and their bodies, without exception, show signs of skin ulceration after being exposed to the sun, and then recovery. This also means that these mutants evolved into what they are now after being exposed to sunlight to produce a secondary mutation after they became ordinary zombies.

Now Fangzheng is just not sure whether this evolution is conscious or just accidental. After all, the evolution directions of the several mutants he saw before are not the same, and the important thing is...

"To collect samples, these are more or less enough."

While talking, Fangzheng stretched out his hand, cut a small sample from the corpse in front of him, and put it into 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, then nodded.

When Fangzheng and Xiaohei returned to the station as their stronghold, the place was already completely new. I have to admit that Cui and Ancestral Hall Gui are still very hardworking. At least when Fangzheng walked in, looking at the hall with clear windows and clean furniture, his mood was much better than before.

"You guys are back, Brother Fangzheng, Sister Xiaohei..."

Seeing Fang Zheng and Xiao Hei coming back, Cui hurried up to greet them, looking at them with a smile on her face.

"I'm back, Cui."

Looking at the cat-eared girl in front of him, Fang Zheng smiled and reached out to touch Cui's head, and at the same time rubbed her soft cat ears.

"How's the situation? Any response?"

"Xia Shi hasn't responded yet, Miss Gui from the ancestral hall is helping..."

"I see."

Hearing this, Fangzheng was not surprised. The city has become like this now, which is comparable to hell. Fang Zheng believed that even if he randomly brought a survivor from Resident Evil, whether he could survive a day in this ghost place would be a problem. Of course, Alice might be an exception...or maybe not, who knows?

"I'm going to do some research work, you and Xiao Hei go to rest first."

As he spoke, Fang Zheng walked to a closed compartment next to it—it was originally used as a storage room for train maintenance equipment, but Fang Zheng has now regarded 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 opened his personal terminal and began to carefully scan and study the viruses inside.

Fang Zheng is not a biologist. In fact, his understanding of biology was at a very basic level when he was in college. But that doesn't mean he's been fooling around all these years. Especially after mastering the talent of Time Dragon, Fangzheng found that many things that he used to look like heavenly scriptures can be easily understood now... Well, thanks to this talent, Fangzheng tasted Xueba for the first time in his life. happy.

And now, he can finally "apply what he has learned".

Among the current five samples, two samples were taken by Fang Zheng from "common zombies", and the remaining three samples came from three different mutants. Now Fangzheng wants to see, in a thoroughly mixed "biochemical world", how does this world "justify itself"?

However, the results of the test surprised Fangzheng involuntarily.

After comparing the "basic virus" samples collected from ordinary zombies with the "mutated virus" samples collected from mutants, Fang Zheng was surprised to find that the structure of the two had undergone completely different changes. It can even be said to be something completely different!

If the "basic virus" is compared to a handful of soil, then the "mutated virus" is like burning soil into bricks, clay sculptures or even ceramics. Although the "raw materials" are all the same thing, the "finished products" themselves are very different.

Not only that, these "mutated viruses" themselves are still not in a complete state. After analysis and research, Founder found that these viruses are still "evolving and upgrading", but because their hosts were killed, the evolution process was interrupted. That's all.

In the end, Fangzheng finally figured out what happened to the virus in this biochemical world.

According to current observations, the initial "basic virus" will spread through water, air and blood, and infect other people. At the same time, it rapidly mutates and erodes the host's body. The human immune system reacts violently, and the two sides start fighting. In the beginning, the immune system may have the upper hand, but eventually the "basic virus" will destroy the immune system, kill the host, and transform it into a zombie.

At this stage, zombies will be full of strong desire to eat due to virus activity, thus attacking other living organisms. At the same time, they are also afraid of the sun and try to avoid it.

But if the zombies are unfortunately exposed to the sun, the "basic virus" in their bodies will start to mutate crazily twice to resist the damage caused by the sun. Their mutation itself seems random as far as it goes. Take the mutants that Fangzheng encountered before as an example. Although they all have the ability to resist sunlight, their behavior, hunting methods, and body size are all very different.

Not only that, Fangzheng also discovered that during the secondary mutation process, the evolution of these viruses was irregular and completely random.

It's as if the calculation result is 9, no matter you choose 4+5, 1+8 or 3X3, as long as you can get the result of "9", there is no unity in the middle process!

From a certain point of view, this virus is somewhat similar to the Zerg, but the difference is that the evolution of the Zerg is integrated by "taking the best of a hundred schools of thought". And the evolution process of this virus is more like "rolling the dice a hundred times, as long as one of them is a double six, then I win"...

From a certain point of view, this virus is even more troublesome than the T virus...