Chapter 173: Petri Dish

The scene Xing Lie saw at this time was indeed a little weird, if Xu Mang was still awake, he might not feel anything wrong when he came to see this scene, after all, what his normal eyes could see was only the surface of things. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

In front of Xing Lie, there was a vast space, with light sources on the walls and ceiling, rendering this space as bright as the corridor he had seen before, standing in it, not even a trace of shadow could be reflected.

In this space, there are petri dishes with very complex shapes, and there are dozens of them.

The transparent walls of the vessel were filled with blue-green viscous liquid, and when Xing Lie opened his eyes, these liquids were glowing green, and seemed to be constantly exuding the breath of life.

Many of the vessels are home to a variety of wild beasts and insects, including two palm-sized monkeys, a meter-long centipede, three-headed goats, and fierce beasts such as lions and tigers.

It can be seen that these extraordinary beasts and insects are the products of genetic experiments.

There were also some vessels that had become empty, and both the culture fluid and the beasts and insects in them had disappeared.

The petri dishes were scattered all around, with a finger-thick hose extending from the top, all of which converged in the middle, connected in a thick pipe that led to the roof, and it was unknown where the thick pipe that was hidden in the roof led to it.

However, on this thick pipe, there is an inch-long crack, if you look at it with ordinary eyes, you may not see any clues, but in the eyes of Xing Lie, who opened his eyes, this is the source of radiation, and there is a large stream of radiation energy, which is vented through this small crack.

This also made Xing Lie vaguely understand the reason for the mutation of the creatures in the zoo.

This genetic engineering should be extracting and perfusing animal genes through these petri dishes, and it is precisely because of the leakage of the main pipeline that the substances in it leak out, diffuse the air, act on the human body, and show a negative reaction, and act on the animal, because these radiation contains the animal optimization genes, the optimization reaction will occur.

These petri dishes stand like loyal guards, and directly below the main pipe connecting to the roof in the center is an open field about twenty meters in diameter, which is where Jiang Shuhao is currently located.

That's right, this man with a rickety body and ragged clothes is Jiang Shuhao, who temporarily teamed up with Xing Lie and Xu Mang before, and later fought against the water outside the work area.

At first, Xing Lie was quite surprised when he saw Jiang Shuhao, but after thinking about it, he probably understood the cause and effect.

At that time, Jiang Shuhao's throat was cut, and then his bloody key was taken, which is enough to show that Jiang Shuhao was dead at that time.

It must have been after throwing his body into the ape group at that time, before those mutant apes tore the corpse to pieces, they came to chase the fugitive self and Xu Mang, and later Zhou Xiang brought his puppet to the work area, and found Jiang Shuhao, whose body was already in tatters, so he put his body away, and after some processing, transformed into a puppet.

In other words, the current Jiang Shuhao has also become a walking corpse closely related to Zhou Xiang's body.

If it was just like this, it wouldn't surprise Xing Lie, who had an indifferent temperament, or rather, what surprised Xing Lie the most was Zhou Xiang's means of manipulating the puppet.

At this time, around Jiang Shuhao's body, there were mutated creatures, these creatures were originally very common species in the zoo, and under the careful count, there were as many as thirty of them, hooking each other's shoulders and backs, under the gaze of the white eyes, the same energy body was flowing in the bodies of all the mutated creatures, and they were constantly flowing to each other.

It seems that these mutated creatures have been built by this force as a bridge invisible to the naked eye, and there is a connection between them that Xing Lie does not know very well.

His gaze swept over these mutant creatures who were hooking their shoulders with each other, and the corners of Xing Lie's mouth hooked up a smile, and there was a slight hint of mockery in his smile.

"I can't imagine that your taste is not picky, even Jiang Shuhao's dilapidated body can be used to make a puppet, and delay time by constantly resurrecting from the dead, just to transform these low-end mutated creatures into puppets?"

The ridicule in Xing Lie's words seemed to make Jiang Shuhao, that is, Zhou Xiang's puppet, very dissatisfied, but then he showed a slightly hideous smile and roared in a deep voice: "What do you know, can you know more about puppets than I do?"

After Zhou Xiang's puppet voice fell, he seemed to have just noticed the eight-armed demon ape and the parasitic jellyfish who were following Xing Lie, his complexion changed, and he seemed to see that he was not the only one who understood puppets at the moment.

"Hmph, I admit that these experimental subjects as mutated creatures, the degree of mutation is not very perfect, and they cannot be compared with those mutated beasts on the ground, after all, the radiation leaked out contains optimized genes extracted from the bodies of various beasts, so the mutation effect will be very good, but these creatures as experimental subjects, although their strength may be inferior, but there is one thing that those mutated creatures on the ground cannot match, that is, the similarity of genes between each other!"

Zhou Xiang's puppet's words may sound a little unclear to ordinary people, but with Xing Lie's understanding of the puppet, coupled with the energy substances circulating in these low-end mutant organisms through his white eyes, he can faintly understand the word 'genetic approximation' in his mouth.

"Xing Lie, if you are also a master in manipulating puppets, you should be able to understand that many of these more than thirty low-end mutated creatures have now become my puppets, and the way I make puppets is to complete the control of puppets through the sharing, transmission, and assimilation of body genes. Assimilation, and the transformation of more than twenty mutated creatures into puppets, it only took me less than an hour, as long as there are another three or five minutes, all thirty mutated creatures will be transformed into my puppets, this is something you can't stop!"

There is one thing that Zhou Xiang didn't say, but Xing Lie can also guess that the reason why he would choose these low-end creatures as puppets is the most important point, that is, quantity!

The genes are not the same between people and between animals, but Zhou Xiang's way of transforming puppets is to assimilate the target's genes with himself through the transmission and tampering of genes, which can be regarded as successful.

This also explains why he is an old student in the panic college, but so far there are only two puppets, which shows the difficulty of transforming genes.

However, these mutated creatures, after the genetic complementarity between each other, the genes are almost identical, so that in the face of this creature, Zhou Xiang transforms one, and transforms a hundred, and the time and energy are the same.

Zhou Xiang didn't say this, but Xing Lie figured it out, but he didn't mention it.

However, Zhou Xiang's words just now did sound shocking, if it was an ordinary puppeteer, saying these words might only surprise people that he could have thirty puppets, but Zhou Xiang was different, the ability he controlled the puppets was Xing Lie's own attainments in puppet art, and they were all red-eyed.

By sacrificing the life of any puppet, the ability to bring all puppets back to life is not an exaggeration to describe it as a miraculous skill.

It is conceivable that although the puppets that these low-end mutated creatures have become do not seem to have too strong combat power, and they will not show much effect if they are controlled by the rest of the puppeteers, but Zhou Xiang is different, if the two sides go to war, they will try their best to kill all thirty-three puppets, including Zhou Xiang's body, as well as the short-haired woman and the puppet transformed into Jiang Shuhao in front of him, and kill thirty-two of them, leaving only the last puppet, which was sacrificed by Zhou Xiang, so what will be the result?

As unbelievable as it sounds, the answer is that the remaining thirty-two dead golems will all come back to life and return to their peak state!

The answer is simple: what is the price paid for such a reversal? The answer is simple, it is only the life of a puppet who is considered low-end, useless, and ridiculously powerful......

After thinking everything through, Xing Lie finally understood how terrible Zhou Xiang was, but Xing Lie's complexion did not change in the slightest, which made Zhou Xiang, who had always wanted to figure out Xing Lie's thoughts through the changes in his complexion, couldn't help but feel disappointed.

"Zhou Xiang, you are building momentum for yourself, do you want to make conditions and make me pay some price, so as to avoid the possibility of fighting between us?"

Xing Lie suddenly said such a sentence, although from the current situation, Xing Lie seemed extremely passive everywhere, but this sentence still made Zhou Xiang's puppet's face change slightly, and then his expression eased and sighed.

"Xing Lie, even if your personal combat power and puppet combat power are very strong, but I think you have to recognize the situation, if we fight, maybe with the combat power of my mutant biological puppets, I can't take you down for a while, but if I insist on delaying time, what can you do? After all, your body will only deteriorate more and more after radiation, but I am different, by sacrificing the life of a puppet, even if you die, you can be reborn, how can this radiation affect me?"

Zhou Xiang finished speaking in one breath, paused, and continued in a slow tone: "You are a smart person, you must also know that I am telling you this, not to delay time, I only have one request, that is, we can cooperate to lower the gate outside, so that the spread of radiation can be blocked, which means that the main quest has been completed, and when the time comes, you will immediately leave the world of this mission and return to the university." ā€

Zhou Xiang's puppet's tone was already tough at the end with no bargaining.

After speaking, his eyes were fixed on Xing Lie, waiting for an answer that would affect the next development.