Chapter 3: Stronger Variation
After several discussions, it was decided to launch a general offensive one night a few days later, but Buffett did not say anything, and remained silent almost the whole time, noticing that something was not quite right about him, and the punisher found him after the meeting.
"I'm worried about two things, first, we haven't caught a single live mouth so far, we don't know anything about the specific actions of the Reaper, and all the plans are based on the battlefield reactions of both sides during this period of time, and you know better than me how unreliable this subjective analysis is.
Second, judging from the recent combat data, our consumption is getting bigger and bigger, I just looked at the logistics data, all the increase in consumption comes from silver bullets and garlic grenades, the consumption is more than four times as much as before, but our results are getting less and less, what do you think this means?"
Buffett rests his elbows on the table, supports his chin with the back of his hand, and speaks in an unpredictable voice, which has recently become more and more affected by the voice change period, although this voice should be closer and closer to his body size, but this process makes people feel more weird.
"The strength of the enemy is getting stronger and stronger, and the rest are all elites, and those inferior products have been eliminated by us, but even so, a four-fold increase is too exaggerated. Do you say ......"
The Punisher is an old man with a lot of combat experience, and although he was taken aback by this statistic, he still immediately understood what Buffeement was worried about.
"The vampires also say that they became different because they were infected with a certain virus, and now it seems that the virus has evolved, and I sent a small team of knights before, hoping that they can catch someone useful. ”
"If the silver and garlic are gone, then only sunlight will remain, and we don't have much to prepare for the UV grenades, not even enough for everyone, but fortunately there are still a few days left. In any case, tilt all the production forces towards ultraviolet grenades, anyway, silver bullets and garlic grenades are enough for our storage. ”
The punisher's decision was made quickly, and he still had a relatively large say in the deployment of this strategic material, because everyone had been defeated by his men in the usual sand table deductions, and he was an excellent commander, and no one would oppose his proposal unless it was a major contradiction.
Buffyment and the Punisher each dealt with the matter at hand, and it wasn't until the next day that the news came from the lab asking them to go and the Reaper's test report finally came out.
The report was hosted by Blade's girlfriend Kaylin Zhan, who rarely had the opportunity to be on her own after studying with Dr. Connors, but she was still a well-deserved expert in vampire research, so this time, she got the opportunity to take the lead.
When Buffyment arrived, unsurprisingly, the blade was already there, but his temporary allies were nowhere to be found, and it was obvious that he couldn't trust the other party and had no intention of sharing information.
There is an insignificant corpse lying on the operating table, for vampires, a complete corpse is very rare, whether it is silver or garlic essence, it will cause the carbonization of vampires, not to mention the ultraviolet rays of the sun, which really turn into ashes when it shines directly on the body.
There is a small hole in the heart of this corpse, and a thin wooden peg is stuck in it, which is a very ancient method, usually used to find the sleeping vampire in the tomb and prevent him from being resurrected, I don't know how the knights managed to get him.
"We've caught three live animals, one of them has been dissected and destroyed by a mistake, and one is immobilized, and we're taking fluids from them and doing some endocrine experiments.
This is only intended to be dissected, we have to understand the structure of this creature in detail, in fact we found a lot of only on the last corpse, this time for demonstration, but to determine if their changes are group characteristics - to say in advance, I will never admit that this creature is a vampire. ”
Seeing that the punisher had also arrived, Zhan Kailin put on her mask, put on gloves, and cleaned up the surgical instruments next to her while expressing her opinion to the three strong men who were stabbing and cooing around the corpse.
"Why do you say that?"
The punisher scrutinized his face on the operating table, pinching his chin and not knowing what he was thinking.
"They don't have blood, they don't have any blood, red blood cells, white blood cells, everything that blood has, they don't have it, they don't need to breathe, the lungs have started to degenerate, they basically lose their function.
The nasal cavity becomes shorter, and the sniffing cells in it become very abundant, and in this regard, their nose may be better than the eyes, but it may be that their brain is temporarily insufficient, because the actual change from visual animals to olfactory animals is very complex, and it takes a longer time for the brain to change. ”
Zhan Kailin used a scalpel to make a long mark on the corpse, and sure enough, what oozed was a bright yellow, viscous liquid like tuberculosis effusion, which looked very disgusting.
"The biggest change is in their mouths, in fact, this can no longer be called mouths, only mouthparts. ”
Zhan Kailin opened the mouth of the four hooves, put her hands in, and tore them hard at the eyes of the three men, and the change in the corpse made several people gasp.
Along the midline of the body, from the lower jaw to the sternal stem, a huge slit was neatly torn open, and the gap was filled with needle-like tentacles, tangled in a mess.
The entire lower jaw is separated to the sides, the mandible bone is separated by two pieces, and the skin under the neck is also separated by pulling on the left and right, forming a huge mouthpart of the butterfly spreading its wings at the position of the collarbone.
The reason why it is said to be mouthparts is not only because it is covered with needles and whiskers, but also because there are two rows of hollow fangs in the original esophagus, the longest reaching five centimeters, and the shortest one is about two centimeters.
Zhan Kailin lifted one of them slightly, and the hollow teeth immediately dripped out of a pale yellow liquid, similar to the "blood" flowing from the body, but the color was much lighter and not sticky.
"It's an anesthetic liquid, similar to a vampire's toxin, but with a stronger effect, not only in terms of anesthetia, but also in the thrill of being sucked into blood.
These tentacles total more than fifty, and they don't need to be familiar with the human anatomy, as long as they are inserted into blood vessels, they can draw a person into a dry corpse in ten seconds. ”
Zhan Kailin fiddled with these special organs, the expression on her face was full of disgust, which was completely different from her usual, even in the face of vampires in the past, she was polite, at most a little bit of the frenzy of scientific researchers looking at experimental materials.
"As for what Mr. Buffeement is worried about, we did the test as soon as possible, and the results are not optimistic, these reapers, who have undergone obvious changes, have no allergic reaction to silver weapons, and garlic essence is also useless.
In addition, we found a strange thing, there are no females in our kill database, so I spoke to His Excellency Daredevil, who is in charge of reconnaissance on the front line, and he replied to me: there are no females.
They multiply by contagion, gentlemen, virally invasively, just like the 'children of the plague' we were working on earlier.
I then sent the pathogen from the corpse to Dr. Connors for examination, and the doctor concluded that they were the same virus, except that the Reaper virus had mutated twice, becoming more violent and difficult to resist, but the mutation was not without benefits.
The Reapers' strength is stronger, which is one aspect of the beneficial mutation, and the other aspect, which compensates for the vampire's deadly allergies to silver and garlic, and according to our guess, it is likely that after a period of mutation, the Reapers will not even be afraid of the sun.
The above is beneficial for vampires, and there is another mutation that I don't know if it is a good one, the contagiousness of the Reaper is only for vampires, and it is useless for ordinary people.
In other words, if a normal person, such as me, wants to become a reaper, I have to first become a blood collection bag, and then be bitten to death by the reaper, then I can succeed.
During the process of dying and becoming a Reaper, my brain will be severely damaged, and although I will eventually recover, I can't confirm the time of recovery.
The above is the situation of the reaper that we have now, and it can only be said that it is not optimistic. ”