Chapter Seventy-Five: Second-Order Mutants
It's August.
The radiation level has further decreased, and as long as you wear a long coat and long sleeves, a mask or a scarf, you can already go out and walk around casually.
Affected by this, the Qingyuan base, which had a skyrocketing population, has somewhat recovered its pre-apocalyptic prosperity.
Walking on the street, many vendors put their unused goods on the stalls for secondary sale.
The school has also resumed teaching, and it is in ruins.
Everything is moving in a good direction.
What's even more exciting is that the soldiers of the city defense army who went out to clear out the mutant beasts found an edible mutant potato in the wild.
I don't know if it's the reason for being buried underground, the radiation value of the mutated potatoes is extremely low, and the size is larger than before the apocalypse, the small ones are the size of footballs, and the big ones are the same as millstones.
This discovery made everyone cheer.
There is also a craze for finding edible mutant plants in the base.
Just looking around, everyone found that only potatoes, peanuts, sweet potatoes, yams, these foods that grow underground and are not exposed to the air meet the food standards.
Corn, wheat, Xihong City, eggplant, cucumber and other foods exposed to the air have radiation levels far beyond the acceptable range of humans, and eating them can cause food poisoning and radiation infection.
But in any case, it's good to have something to eat and relieve the pressure on food.
Wang Tian quickly signed the order to reclaim a plantation outside the base and try to grow mutant sweet potatoes and mutated potatoes.
The results are encouraging.
Soils rich in radiation value have a great effect on crops and work better than any chemical fertilizer.
The person in charge of the Ministry of Agriculture said that in the future, grain can be harvested four times a year, and it will only take three months from sowing to harvesting, and the output will be about 10 times that before the end of the day.
Wang Tian was overjoyed.
High food yields mean no hunger.
The base now has a population of more than one million, and the daily consumption is very staggering.
The yield per mu has increased tenfold, and the land is ripe every three months, which means that a county can at least supply tens of millions of people.
Of course, it's not all good news.
After the population exceeded one million, the water stress in the base skyrocketed.
The existing drinking water filters are no longer able to meet the needs of the population.
If you want to develop better, it is imperative to go to Yanghu Reservoir, and it is best to bring back all the filters.
Other than that.
There is clear data that shows that the physical fitness of humans is improving.
Even if they don't mutate and don't become mutants, ordinary humans have enhanced their body data under radiation.
Before the apocalypse, a normal adult male can hit 100-150KG of punch impact, and a trained professional player can hit more than 200KG.
Now, the fist power of ordinary people is generally above 200KG, and a few even reach 300KG.
You must know that Tyson's heavy punch at the peak was only 224KG, and now almost everyone is Tyson.
It's a striking change.
Wang Tian suspected that this was the enhancement brought about by radiation.
This is true for ordinary people, let alone mutants.
Among the more than 20 mutants in the Inhuman Hall, the weakest one has a fist power of more than 1000KG.
Among them, there is a mutant nicknamed the heavy gunner, who is even more famous for his strength, and has hit 3200KG of strange power on the boxing target.
As for Wang Tian himself.
He has also tested it, and without wearing iron-blooded armor, his fist power is around 3500KG.
AFTER WEARING THE EXOSKELETON ARMOR, THE FIST POWER EXCEEDS 32000KG.
In other words, a single punch can knock an armored vehicle to the ground, and the legendary reversal is nothing more than that.
Of course.
The strength of mutants is not just a strange force.
Some people will also have distortion, such as Li Jing's horns, the long hair of a long-haired woman, and the heavy armor scales of a heavy gunner, all of which have different effects.
This aberration is their killer feature.
In Wang Tian's hand, there was a document left by Zhang Tongwei.
It records all the data of mutants from the beginning of demutation to the successful mutation.
It is shown in the record.
Humans can mutate when they are infected with radiation that is beyond the genetic range.
The success rate of mutation is not high, and 99.9% of ordinary people will die before the genetic mutation because the gene is too much to bear.
The remaining 0.1 will complete the genetic mutation and become a mutant.
The mutant who has just changed has a fist power of about 1000KG, and is called the first-stage mutant by Zhang Tongwei, that is, the first-order mutant.
Further up, after the body parts are distorted, the fist power of the mutant will exceed 3000KG, and the mutant at this stage is called the second-order mutant by Zhang Tongwei.
Second-order mutants are not afraid of small-caliber weapons and have special abilities that can be used as killer weapons.
It's just an ordinary mutant, and it's not easy to get promoted to the 2nd rank.
To this day, there are only three second-order mutants in the Inhuman Hall, Li Jing, the heavy gunner, and the long-haired girl who was killed by Wang Tian.
Wang Tian doesn't wear iron-blooded armor, and he is also at the level of the second order, which is similar to Li Jing.
Put on the Iron Armor, and that's another level.
In Zhang Tongwei's hypothesis, 1000-3000kg is the first order, 3000-8000kg is the second order, and 8000-50000kg is the third order.
Wang Tian, who was wearing iron-blooded battle armor, had a fist power of up to 320,000, which should be about the 4th order.
Of course, Wang Tian is not a mutant, and he can't say which is stronger or weaker between himself and a fourth-order mutant.
It should be weaker.
He doesn't have the special abilities of mutants, and although his strength is strong enough, his defense and speed are relatively weak.
The mutant is improved in all directions, has no shortcomings, and is not as serious as him.
In the face of the data report of the Academy of Sciences.
Combined with the mutant data left by Zhang Tongwei.
Wang Tian suspected that if this continued, ordinary people might also become stronger little by little by breathing the radioactive particles in the air, and evolve towards mutants little by little.
The fist power of 1000KG always lingers in front of his eyes.
He has a hunch that after ordinary people's fist power exceeds 1000KG, they may also become mutants.
The current mutants are all genetically mutated humans under strong radiation.
They completed the mutation in a few days, or even ten days, and those who couldn't stand the gene resistance died.
Normal humans have not been exposed to strong radiation, but have mutated little by little, and it is possible that this is the real way of mutation evolution.
It takes a long time, maybe a year or even a few years, to complete the mutation by boiling the frog in warm water.
In the process, they adapt to genetic changes, grow like their bodies, and change unconsciously.
"Plan No. 1: Radical mutation, direct contact with strong radiation sources, and completion of primary mutation or even secondary mutation in a short period of time."
"Plan No. 2: Gentle mutation, absorbing radiation particles little by little, and slowly mutating in a few years."
Wang Tian wrote down two thoughts in a small notebook.
Just thinking that the mortality rate of Plan 1 was as high as 99.9, Wang Tian couldn't help but sigh again.
He saw the strength of the mutant in his eyes, but the probability was too low.
Bring ordinary people to areas of strong radiation and actively receive radiation.
There are more than a dozen mutants out of 10,000 people, and this probability is simply a mustard life.
Don't you dare to play like this?
Let's let the people of the Academy of Sciences study and study it again, and the Qingyuan Base is not a time of life and death, so there is no need to exchange your life for mutants.
Wang Tian closed his notebook.
Then I thought that his strength should also be strengthened again.
The Iron Armor is a foreign object, and as the big leader of the base, he can't wear the same thing as a monster every day.
Without the blessing of the Iron Blood Battle Armor, his strength is about the same as that of a second-order mutant.
If you don't increase your strength, what should you do if you encounter an assassination.
In the Qingyuan base, two high-ranking officials have already died in assassination.
He didn't want to be the third.
Just in time, the time of the month has come again, and the watch has finished charging.
First go to other worlds to strengthen yourself, and then go to the Yanghu Reservoir and get more filters to come back.
Well.
I don't know what happened to the duck in the Yanghu Reservoir.
Still not there.
He liked the duck.