89. Products of gene editing
Liu Bu and Luo Xinyu looked over there in surprise, when they were brought back, the Qing Consortium combat unit seemed to be still dealing with the "experimental subject", so the current movement was that the combat troops brought the experimental subject back.
To be honest, the two of them were also curious about what that test subject was.
But the next moment they were all stunned, only to see a multi-layered reinforced steel cage being carried over, and a gray ...... was lying inside. Person!
The gray was not the man's original skin color, but the color of dust and dirt that adhered to the skin.
Liu Bu looked at the person in the cage in disbelief, the other party had been shot several times, but there was no large amount of blood flowing out of the muzzle, it seemed that the moment the bullet burst into the body, they controlled the skin and muscles, and closed their wounds.
This is unimaginable for ordinary people, because everyone cannot fully control their bodies.
And the arms and legs of this gray figure are chained!
The chain was meant to hold the man in a certain place, but he broke free. So Liu Bu, did the sound of chains they heard that night come from this person?
At this moment, Liu Bu remembered Xu Xia's broken corpse, the human tooth marks on the corpse, and he vomited out, before Xu Xianchu said that it was a human being who bit Xu Xia's corpse, and he didn't believe it, but now he couldn't help but believe it.
The huge feeling of fear and nausea seemed to be holding Liu Bu's stomach with a big hand all the time, pinching everything out of his stomach.
He didn't have much food in his stomach, so all he vomited was a mixture of pale green gastric juice and bile.
Qing Zhen looked at Liu Bu with interest: "It seems that you also know something about it, have you seen the corpse it has bitten?"
Luo Xinyu's reaction at this time was stronger than Liu Bu's, and she asked as if she had calmed down: "What the hell is this......
"Since it's called an experimental subject, of course it's something used for experiments," Qing Zhen said, "Don't get me wrong, this thing has nothing to do with our Qing Clan, they are a product of the pre-cataclysm, and we only recently learned about their existence." ”
"Before the catastrophe?" Luo Xinyu seemed to be a little shocked: "How long has it been since before the catastrophe, can they live so long......?"
At this time, Luo Xinyu suddenly realized that there might be more than one ghost thing!
Qing Zhen carefully looked at the "person" in the cage, and he said: "They seem to have recently broken free from the confines of the laboratory, and even I am curious about how they survived until now, this is a living specimen." ”
Liu Bu shuddered, this Qing Zhen actually regarded a living person as a specimen, even if that person was no longer a human or a ghost.
Suddenly, Luo Xinyu realized why the Qing Consortium came here in this realm, and they even mobilized a large number of engineering equipment, not hesitating to spend manpower and material resources, just to find the laboratory that once imprisoned these ghost things!
When they realized that there was more than one subject, they realized why the combat unit immediately called for support as soon as they encountered the subject.
It's a concern that it still has its kind nearby!
"How many test subjects did you encounter just now, and how many casualties did you suffer when you captured him?" asked Qingzhen.
Someone on the side said: "I only encountered this one, and 5 combat teams were mobilized, 3 dead and 13 wounded." ”
Qing Zhen shook his head: "It's enough to catch an experimental subject, and then if you encounter it, you can live or die later, and destroy it directly, don't increase the casualties in vain." ”
"Understood," replied the officer of the combat unit of the Consortium.
The test subjects in the cage were obviously not dead, as Luo Xinyu and they could still see the heaving of his chest as he breathed.
It's just that she was a little puzzled: "How come it is hundreds of years since the catastrophe now, why are they still alive?"
This is the most incomprehensible thing, the lifespan of a normal human is only a few decades, a little more than a hundred years, and if this test subject is a product of the catastrophe, then how did they survive in the underground laboratory until now?
Even if the lifespan can be extended, what do these subjects eat in the underground laboratory?
Qing Zhen stood in front of the cage and said with a smile: "Isn't it precisely for this secret that I want to catch them? For example, multicellular organisms like humans use cell division as the basis for growth and reproduction. It stands to reason that cell division should be infinite, after all, if you can divide the first time, you can divide the second time or even more, but the strange thing is that all human cells come to an abrupt end when they divide an average of fifty times, and then go to irreversible decay. ”
This is where human aging and death come from, when cells divide about 50 times, the cells will stop dividing, and then the human organs will fail until they die.
Qing Zhen looked at the man in the cage and continued, "I suspect that this laboratory may have mastered the method of allowing cells to divide indefinitely, as a way to improve the metabolic cycle and longevity of the human body. But they didn't know what the price would be. ”
Qing Zhen called the creatures in this cage human ghosts, not human and not ghosts. In his opinion, these ghosts have completely lost their sanity as human beings, and their IQ is not much different from that of beasts.
But compared to their IQ, these ghosts are far more physically powerful and flexible than normal humans, and even wild beasts can't match them.
Moreover, the beasts all obey the order, as Ren Xiaosu said, the species still have their order.
This test subject is different, they have no order.
At this moment, the test subject, who had received four or five gunshot wounds, woke up again, and suddenly arched himself to slam the steel cage, as if trying to break the cage with brute force!
As a result, this cage seems to have been specially made by the Qing Consortium, and no matter how he hits it, the cage is only slightly deformed but never broken by him.
The experimental subject slowly stopped trying, but stared fiercely at Qing Zhen in front of him, at this time Luo Xinyu and they found that no matter how fierce the experimental subject struggled just now, this Qing Zhen was as calm as a sculpture, and never took a step back out of fear.
Qing Zhen withdrew a pistol and threw it into the cage, but the test subject actually bit the gun and smashed the gun made of steel!
Qing Zhen looked at the test subject, and he suddenly said: "Records, teeth have evolved, pupils are narrow, and they are used to crawling, which no longer belongs to the category of humans, and it is suspected that they are the products of gene editing." This laboratory is suspected to have been the secret experimental base of Tinder Corporation before the cataclysm. ”
Someone next to him immediately took out a pen and paper and recorded what Qing Zhen said as it was, on the other hand, Luo Xinyu and Liu Bu were surprised, and the others seemed to have long been accustomed to Qing Jin's composure.