Chapter 17: Radiation, Mutation, and Evolution
Si Xingfeng and Ning Liuli didn't go far along the riverbank, so theoretically, they must have to withstand the high-intensity radiation released by the Giant God Soldier when he ran the electromagnetic laser knife, but fortunately, You Ning still found them in time at the critical moment when Zhong Chen was about to release his killing move.
It's just a little regrettable that Youning doesn't have any effective means of protecting against radiation, so she only has time to control the nanomaterials on her body to barely cover her and Ning Liuli's bodies. As for Si Xingfeng, You Ning really couldn't help him, so he just threw the Prison Giant Sword in his hand to him, hoping that with this powerful biological metal, he could resist some radiation as much as possible and reduce the damage caused to him by radiation as much as possible.
The main means relied on by the Titan Soldier's electromagnetic laser knife is to project a controllable and powerful laser beam through the concentration of extremely penetrating rays, so as to carry out powerful killing on living beings. However, during the release of electromagnetic rays, a large amount of radioactive radiation will also spread out at the same time, irradiating to other living forms and causing unpredictable damage.
Unfortunately, although Si Xingfeng relied on the giant sword to avoid a large amount of radiation rays, he was inevitably exposed to a lot of external radiation. So, although he was quickly rescued back to the fortress by luck, he was also quickly isolated. Before he could determine the effect of radiation on him, he could have grown up like Sara and gradually grew into the pride of the War Academy, but he lost his freedom completely.
The main reason why the War College was so cautious about him being affected by the powerful radiation was that they knew that most of the first mutant life was formed because of the super-powerful nuclear leakage that occurred hundreds of years ago.
It was a very secret history, and it was also the dark history of human civilization that Si Xingfeng had been searching for a long time and had never found, the lost period of 2222 years.
This area, which includes the current Eight Great Fortresses and the Central City-State, is actually only a very small part of the world. In 2222 AD, before the planet was ravaged by a temporal storm, it was the first political economy on the planet and the mountain and river province of the Federal Republic of Huaya. As the main energy supply center of the federation, there were once nearly 1,000 nuclear power plants in an area of more than one million square kilometers in Shanhe Province.
And the terrible space-time storm back then not only carried all kinds of unknown strong cosmic rays, but its arrival also triggered the rapid convergence and fission of countless nuclear energy sources on this planet. A large number of living beings, including humans, quickly festered and died, and countless races were completely wiped out as a result. Only a handful of life survived, but most of it produced horrific mutations that were difficult to reverse.
When the remaining human beings came out of the shelter, they saw an extremely dilapidated world, and the cities that were once extremely prosperous had been completely paralyzed, and all kinds of mutated lifeforms roamed among them.
The true dark and bloody history is not, as Sara told Si Xingfeng, that there has never been a human race that has come together to build homes, establish shelters, and continue to thrive the race. The world is in devastation, and almost everyone is trying their best to survive, so they compete for the few resources available, and there is no civilization and morality to speak of......
In the end, the small number of people who controlled the more advanced forces were victorious. Ironically, in honor of their progress and victory in the civil war, they named the sanctuary they eventually established as the "War College".
As for the other survivors, they were forced to flee their homeland, and most of them died on the road from hunger, disease, or radiation, completely turning into the dust of history. A small number of people are lucky enough to survive the huge impact of radiation on themselves, although there have been huge mutations and all kinds of terrible changes, but they can be regarded as tenacious survival. And these mutant humans are the so-called first-generation aliens.
The people in the War College gradually discovered the existence of these xenos, and of course they were not willing to use their protective clothing to barely move in the outside world, so the hunting and research program for xenos began. Using the advanced weapons in their hands, they killed and captured a large number of xenos for research, which was a superficial solution to the reason why xenos experienced radiation and did not die, it turned out that their genetic sequences had special mutations due to radiation.
In fact, mutation is not a kind of evolution, but the people of the War College did not think so at that time. In their eyes, these humanoid beings with strange changes and various mutated tissues and organs are no longer the same race as them, although they possess advanced intelligence and speak a similar language belonging to the Huaya language family as they are.
However, the xenomorphs are obviously more adapted to this radiation world, and they can hunt and eat other animals that have also undergone radiation mutations, so they continue to mutate and evolve. Gradually, the ordinary people in the War College began to feel a sense of crisis, as they realized that the once advanced weapons were no longer able to target these aliens. Faced with some xenomorphic hard scaly skin, or an unusually soft and complex body...... The thermal weapons of the old era have gradually been reduced to scrap metal.
So on the one hand, they began to develop more advanced weapons, and on the other hand, they began to find ways to strengthen their own capabilities. Clearly, they succeeded, and gradually established a fundamentally controllable evolutionary system, the prototype of the supernatural class system. The so-called transcendent profession is actually to have the power to surpass ordinary people by inducing some genes in the human body to mutate in a certain direction.
Strictly speaking, this was an extremely two-way standard for people at the time. If an ordinary person can carry out controllable genetic mutations, then he can evolve into a transcendent; On the contrary, if a person presents an uncontrollable state of mutation in such an evolutionary process, then he will become a xenomorph that everyone shouts and kills. However, at the beginning, the War College had not yet discovered that everyone's genes possessed unique characteristics, and most of the corresponding extraordinary professions were destined. As a result, due to the fact that a large number of ordinary people pursued extraordinary professions that did not meet their talents, it eventually led to the creation of a large number of mutants.
In order to maintain the continuation of the lie that xenomorphs are different from humans, the founders of the War College single-handedly led the Floating City Project, and then quickly carried out the so-called Fortress Project and the Academy Project. As a result, a large number of the first generation of mutants died in the fortress war, and many of the mutants who were born again were reduced to sub-inhabitants and suppressed in the major floating cars. And the truth of the so-called academy plan, the primary purpose is to continue to improve the transcendent career system, and the second is to cultivate powerful warriors.
And now, the reason why Si Xingfeng, who had been exposed to intense radiation, was forcibly isolated and imprisoned was not because the academy administrators were worried that he would affect others or die directly. The War College is essentially a laboratory that has been doing research on human genes and potentials and the development of powerful weapons. And Si Xingfeng has now been completely treated as a cute laboratory "guinea pig".
Few people really know the truth of this world, and even a well-informed orchestrator like Sara has a lot of past history hidden. In this era, strong radiation is not incurable, but the price is unaffordable for ordinary people. And the person who really knows all the historical truths and has the ability to bear such a price happened to know one Si Xingfeng, and this completely saved his life. Otherwise, his fate would probably be that he would continue to mutate and suffer in the quarantine chamber, and he would continue to be studied by the experimenters until he died!
When he first heard that Si Xingfeng had been taken back to the War College for quarantine because he had been subjected to strong radiation, Gu Qingtian, the titular commander of the Far Eastern Fortress, couldn't help but crush the pencil in his hand.
"I should have repaid this kid's favor earlier." Gu Qingtian was nearly sixty years old, and although his hair was gray, as a seventh-order second-rank high-level Bloodkiller, his strength was actually at its peak. It's just that according to the rules, he who has been the commander of the fortress for fourteen consecutive years will have to retire next year. Originally, he was going to do it to the Zhao family again next year, so when Si Xingfeng was bullied by Zhao Mingyang three years ago, he didn't stand up for him in order to prevent him from startling the snake.
In fact, at the beginning, if Si Xingfeng was really young and asked him to return his favor, Gu Qingtian really couldn't refuse, but he was really surprised at that time, this young man could really endure it. Reaching out and taking out a dark gray box with a simple packaging from the drawer, he slowly took out a slightly blackened silver men's necklace from it, Gu Qingtian couldn't stop holding it in his hand and gently stroking it, "Gu Qi, you kid will really give me a problem!" ”
After thinking for a while, Gu Qingtian still dialed the communicator, "Gu Bai, help me calculate how much military merit I still have, and see if I can change a cell critical gene repair potion!" Then summarize the current information of that kid from Si Xingfeng and send it to me. ”
"Boss! Are you sure? A coughing sound came from the communicator.
"Go ahead and do it!" Gu Qingtian had a painful expression on his face, and said majestically. The military exploits accumulated in a lifetime are all taken out like this, and it is false to say that he is not distressed, although his beard has been shaking, but he can't owe favors......
Hanging up the call, Gu Qingtian pondered for a long time, rubbed his somewhat stiff facial muscles, adjusted a faint smile, and dialed Gu Qingqing's communicator again, "My smartest, kind, beautiful, cute and charming, charming baby granddaughter!" ”