Chapter 499: Are We the Same Kind?

You should really find someone with good mental endurance to do something as exciting as opening a box in the future. Anyway, I won’t open a box next time.

The moment I opened the box just now, I saw a red, squeaky thing suddenly jump out of it, and then it jumped on me, and then I felt like I was pushed out by a huge force. This one was as powerful as a bulldozer. I was so strong that I almost didn't block it. Thanks to Ling's support from behind, I was able to stabilize my body. Then I used Ling's power through the psychic network. Their perspective saw what was hanging on me.

This is something that I can't even describe. To put it simply, it's a monster. The whole body is red, like a skinned animal, and obvious muscle fibers and white ligaments can be seen. In addition, this thing is slightly larger than a human body. It may be about two and a half meters tall, but because the whole thing is hanging on my body now, I can’t tell how tall it is. It’s just bigger than a human anyway.

This thing has a pair of hind limbs similar to those of a canine, which are of course large in size and quite strong. As for the forelimbs... In addition to the two legs, this thing also has something like arms, five on the left and four on the right. The positions are asymmetrical, and the size and length are different, but the difference is not big.

These arms are very similar to human arms, but the structure is not right. The forearm part of the arm is much longer than the upper arm. The palm is small, but the fingers are extremely long. There are short but very sharp claws on the fingertips.

This thing also has a head, but its shape is not very obvious because its neck is very thick and its head is relatively small, so if you don't pay attention, you will think it is part of the body. This head looks like two walnuts spliced ​​together, with an obvious crack in the middle. There is no musculature on the outside of this head. Instead, it is completely wrapped in white bones. No visual organs can be seen on it. Instead, a few small holes can be seen. I don’t know what they are for.

In addition to these strange structures, this thing also has a tail, but the shape of this tail is even weirder. It felt like half of a big catfish's body was cut off and then directly installed on the monster's butt.

This tail obviously belongs to some kind of aquatic animal, because it not only has fins standing up, but also has scales and complete skin tissue unlike other parts.

We have no idea why these guys would bring this monster with them at the last moment of their escape, but what I need to pay attention to right now is how to get this thing off of me.

After this thing jumped on me, it started scratching my armor continuously. During this period, it successfully caught the protrusion in the gap of my chest armor, and then tried hard to pull it off. Thanks to the tight seal of my power armor, it wasn't pulled open.

I felt like this thing was trying to find weak points everywhere on my body. I could only desperately try to get it off, but it was so slippery that I couldn't use my hands hard. But I am not alone here, but there are also my subordinates. So while I was struggling, I suddenly heard a gunshot, and then I felt that the thing on my body was pulled to the side by a force, but this guy held on to me tightly. It seemed like he wanted to fly away with me, but I reacted immediately. He twisted around just in time to break free from its control, and the monster flew out on its own.

After getting rid of this thing, I was about to go up and solve it when I suddenly noticed that the indicators on the five boxes next to me suddenly jumped from red to green. We had only tried to open one box before, but the rest had not been touched yet. Unexpectedly, all these boxes were opened suddenly. Then everything inside came out at once.

Originally, I thought there would be five such monsters in here, but it turned out that the things coming out of the other five boxes were different.

Except for the unknown monster in front of me, there is a monster in each of the remaining five boxes.

The first is a creature that looks 90% similar to humans. It is basically the shape of a human, but its skin color is blue-gray, a bit like a corpse that has been dead for a long time, but there is no sign of decay. It does sound a little bit like a zombie. But this thing is obviously not a zombie, because its eyes are very bright and black, and it is moving around. In addition, the fists of this thing are very big, and it feels like a child has a pair of adult fists on its arms. Of course, it’s not that its size is small, but that its fist is too big.

Except for the abnormal color of the fist and skin, this thing is basically a human shape. However, it has no hair and no clothes on it, but this just allows you to see its super-developed muscles, which are simply more exaggerated than a bodybuilder. But it makes sense to think about it, this is a monster after all.

The second monster crawled out of that particularly large box. This thing is a bit weirder than the previous one. Its main body is a huge meat ball with a circle of more than a dozen ruby-like compound eyes. In other words, this thing has a 360-degree viewing angle with no blind spots at all.

In addition to its spherical body, this thing also has more than thirty tentacles on its body. These tentacles themselves are all fleshy and should have no bone structure, because they seem to move very smoothly. These tentacles are not cylindrical, but are shaped like triangular prisms, with rows of barbs on the three angular lines. But this is not the key. The key is that the tips of this thing's tentacles have sharp bone spurs and shine silver. This thing can flexibly control its tentacles to move at high speeds on the ground, and can perform complex actions such as jumping and flipping attacks.

The third monster looks the most beautiful among all the monsters here, because it looks like a female warrior wearing power armor, but the thing on it is an exoskeleton that it grew on itself instead of armor. But the shape is very beautiful, but the color is not very good-looking, it is actually earthy yellow. In addition, this is the only monster with weapons here, because this guy has a long gun in his hand, and it is a man-made thing, obviously not grown by itself.

The fourth monster is simple, it looks a lot like a big dog, but it has no skin like the monster I just encountered, and the teeth of this dog are also a bit too big. However, in addition to its relatively large size, it has no outer skin. In addition to having very long teeth, this thing basically maintains the basic characteristics of a dog.

The fifth monster is similar to the creature I was in Handu. It is a deformed monster. The upper body of this thing looks like the structure of the upper body of a human being, but the arms start from the elbow joint and turn into something like crab claws, and the head looks like an alien, with a hollow in the middle. There is a tall protrusion on both sides, and then there are two eyes on the tip of the protrusion. However, the lower body of this thing has an insect-like structure. The green body has three pairs of gastropods, the last pair of which are as super developed as the hind legs of a locust, and this thing also has wings, but they look like they are just decorations. It's better not to get up.

Plus that monster I just shook off. There are a total of six monsters, which were previously locked in six boxes.

Everyone on our side was very surprised when we saw these monsters, and because this is a peripheral area, the police force has always been on guard here, so they also saw the monsters after they came out.

After all, we are used to seeing monsters. So there was no reaction at all, but the police were quite frightened, but they were military personnel anyway, so their resistance was pretty good. It's just that the ordinary people behind them who haven't had time to evacuate are in complete chaos. The screams suddenly became loud.

As soon as the screams started coming over there, I knew something bad was going to happen, and sure enough. The next second those monsters abandoned us and rushed towards the police blockade over there.

In fact, the moment the monsters came out, we scanned the structure of the monsters, and then Nuwa took one second to complete the data analysis, and then sent us back a briefing.

Because the data is sent directly using the psychic network. Therefore, it is much faster than talking. In less than a second, we understand the origin of the things in front of us.

Speaking of which, these things have a lot to do with us, because they are actually ordinary organisms infected with B13 cells.

The B13 virus itself is a genetic virus and has no cellular structure. However, this should be a naked state for the B13 virus, which means that the genetic information is simplified to the minimum and the protective layer is removed to form the most direct genetic virus. This viral form of B13 should be said to be the most basic form that is easy to research and manufacture, and the B13 organism is actually an artificial life form, which is different from any species on the earth. The biggest feature of B13 life form is that it can switch between viruses, bacteria, multicellular organisms and complex organisms. This is why the genetic blueprint of our dragon clan is obviously the same, but Ling and I are both in human form, but Yeyue has a snake tail, and Lucky is in the form of a huge dragon. It’s not that our genes are different, it’s that our gene expression is different. In fact, internally, we are all the same. This is why we say we are dragons, because although we all look different, we are all organisms based on the B13 genome.

In fact, even the B13 virus can be considered a dragon individual, because we are the same at the genetic level.

Of course, because the B13 virus is too diffusible, for the sake of safety during research, Longyuan Gene Laboratory designed a DNA-free cell matrix, and then allowed the B13 virus to combine with it, and then B13 cells were formed.

Compared with B13 virus, B13 cells have very low infectivity, but will undergo matrix erosion and replacement. To put it simply, if B13 cells are injected into a certain creature, the creature will soon turn into a dragon life form covered by the B13 gene.

However, there is something to note here.

Dragon transformation is not just about turning people into zombies by infecting viruses like in biochemical movies. It is a very complicated process, which is why dragon transformation requires corresponding equipment.

It is not impossible to carry out dragon transformation in the wild, but at least two dragon members need to be present to guide the transformed individual. During this process, a large amount of energy and material must be supplied to the transformed individual, otherwise the transformation will fail. As for the six monsters in front of me...unfortunately, they are all the products of failed dragon gene transformation.

That's right, these things that look so ugly that they have no friends are the same beings as our dragons. They are the products of dragon genes, but the transformation failed.

The dragon genome carries a large amount of genetic information, which can instantly evolve corresponding organs or coping capabilities according to different environments. For example, if we enter the water, we will quickly grow gills. This is an appropriate adjustment to adapt to the underwater environment. This kind of genome itself is found in dragon genes, but it is generally not expressed. , unless they originally evolved according to aquatic life.

When an ordinary creature comes into contact with dragon genes, because the dragon genes are so powerful, they will copy and replace all the host's cell tissues without any hindrance. Of course, this process takes time, and it will not cause a change in consciousness. .

In fact, human cells are dying all the time, but because cells divide and regenerate, the two are basically in a state of balance. Although human cells have been replaced countless times in a lifetime, this person is still the same person, and this will not change. The same principle applies to the replacement of dragon genes. It will not have any impact on the human consciousness. The replacement is a gentle gradual replacement. Of course, this is also the reason why it is best to use large equipment, because during the replacement process, large amounts of inert solution can be injected into the large equipment to slow down the replacement process, so that the effect after the conversion is completed will be better. Of course, if there are no conditions, everything can be kept simple, as long as two members of the dragon clan help stabilize the genes.

According to the information found by Nuwa, an armed transport vehicle at our base was involved in a car accident and rolled over a cliff. After that, the search team recovered most of the cargo on the vehicle. However, because there is a mud ditch under the cliff, some things may be It sank to the bottom of the mud pit and could not be found. In the end, about thirty dragon transformation potions were lost.

Of course, it was generally confirmed that these things should be buried under the soil. After all, there were landslides and heavy rains at the time, so the search was too difficult and it was normal that they could not be found. However, now it seems that these lost transformation potions were found by others, and they knew what these things were for, and used six of them.

It's a shame these people don't know enough. Although they knew what these things were for, they didn't know that dragon transformation required guidance, or that their equipment could not meet the requirements. Anyway, the guidance failed, and the experimental subjects that were eventually injected turned into these things due to gene expression errors.

Of course, because dragon genes are self-disciplined, although these monsters become strange, they do not die. This is very different from ordinary genetic experiments. Therefore, the dragon gene is very strong. Even if something goes wrong, it will not die, but will become a monster.

Now that we understand what these things are, we are even more worried, because since those things are dragons, their combat power must be extremely exaggerated. Once they enter the crowd over there... the consequences will be disastrous! (To be continued ~^~)