Ghouls?

Lu Xun frowned and recalled, he had heard of this word. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Xenomorphism of infected people is divided into three categories...... Cat demons, Titans and ghouls, the first kind of Lu Xun is impressed, the kind of monster that is not a human and a ghost has almost killed Lu Xun, but the latter two Lu Xun have not seen it with his own eyes, due to the regular cleaning of the Executive Department, it is now difficult to see even the shadow of ordinary infected people in the primary forbidden area around the academy, let alone an alien like Titan.

Lu Xun heard people mention the Titan, and heard that it is a huge zombie three meters high, as strong as the Hulk, infinitely powerful, one punch can smash through walls, only heavy storming mecha can compete with its strength.

As for the ghouls...... Lu Xun was surprised to realize that he had never heard anything about ghouls, and the people in the academy often talked about zombies, titans, cat demons, and hunters, but no one had ever mentioned ghouls.

It's a zombie that exists only on archival paper, and so little is known about it...... Not even rumors about it exist.

"What the hell is a ghoul?" Lu Xun asked.

"It's hard to tell what a ghoul is." Zhao Gao shrugged his shoulders, "Do you know how zombie xenos are created?" ”

"There are many reasons for the secondary mutation of the infected, which may be the genetic mutation of the virus itself, the mutation of the cells of the infected, or the assimilation effect caused by the mutual devouring of zombies." Lu Xun replied fluently. Thanks to Zhao Gao, the two hundred and five masters, he has learned the theoretical knowledge very solidly, and now Lu Xun can even discuss with Ariana for a few rounds on professional issues, and even the queen is surprised by the progress of this three-no assistant.

In the past six months, Lu Xun has made up for the theory class, and brought back a large stack of tomes with a thickness comparable to an English-Chinese dictionary from the library, gnawing word by word, and asking Lao Jia if he doesn't understand.

"Basically, yes." Zhao Gao snapped his fingers, "We generally think that xenomorphs come from secondary mutations of ordinary infected people......"

Zhao Gao paused, he remembered the bloated female cat demon he had just seen on the roof of the building, that was the first time humans observed a zombie with reproductive ability, since the cat demon may have the ability to reproduce, it means that a considerable part of the xenomorphs are the second generation of individuals bred by the first generation of xenospecies.

"Whether it is a Titan or a cat demon, it is true, but genetic mutations are undirected and uncontrollable, not all genetic mutations can make ordinary infected people evolve, on the contrary, this probability is actually extremely low, Titan and cat demon are the only two mutation channels that can be confirmed so far, that is...... Thousands of zombies around the world are mutating, but only individuals who happen to mutate in one of these two directions will succeed in evolving. Zhao Gao continued, "Ghouls are the third newly discovered mutation channel. ”

"Ghouls are an extremely rare class of zombie xenomorphs, and their numbers are so rare that we can't confirm their real existence, and the earliest record of ghoul observations is ten years ago." Zhao Gao explained, "At that time, people discovered a completely unexplained phenomenon...... Strange corpses. ”

"Strange corpses?" Lu Xun was stunned.

Zhao Gao nodded, "They found human skins hanging from the trees. ”

Lu Xun was choked by this god, what? Human skin? Isn't this really the plot of some horror movie?

"This happened in Manchester, England, and was initially caused by a steady stream of missing people in the security zone...... While the local defense forces were searching for the missing people, someone suddenly noticed a large tree outside the security zone with dense pieces of cloth and blankets, which they thought were advertisements blown up by the strong winds. Zhao Gao said, "But when I got closer, I found that those things that looked like pieces of cloth had hands and feet, and no one thought about it in the direction of human skin at first, because such a strange thing could not happen in the eyes of ordinary people...... They thought those things were inflatable dolls. ”

"But when they took it off, they realized that something was wrong, that it was not plastic but leather, and that it was real biological tissue, that is, ...... All skins are genuine human skins, identified to correspond to the missing person in the safe zone, and all human skins have been treated to be as flexible as tanned cowhide, and can even be used directly to make shoes and clothes. ”

"Hey, hey, hey...... Isn't this a chainsaw massacre? Lu Xun was terrified when he heard it, wasn't such a sensational plot really conceived by some horror novelist? It is said that the chainsaw murderer will peel off the face of his victim and make a mask.

"At that time, people's first reaction was that it was done by some perverted murderer, because zombies and hunters do not have the habit of skinning, and those human skins are very intact, and even the knife edge is difficult to find, which requires professional dissecting instruments to do." Zhao Gao sat up and gestured with his hands to explain to Lu Xun, "But after investigation, they couldn't find any suspects at all...... Because no one has this expertise, peeling off a complete animal skin is a very difficult technical task, and the performer needs to know the anatomy of the human body very well, which is impossible for a non-professional surgeon or anatomical expert. ”

Lu Xun nodded.

"And those human skins have all been treated with anti-corrosion, leather tanning is also a complicated project, requiring strong acid and heavy metal salt soaking, the construction period is as long as half a month, want to process dozens of human skins at the same time, people who do this need a special assembly workshop." "But there are obviously no such places around the security zone...... The most puzzling thing is where are the body tissues of these dozens of people? All that was left of them was a complete piece of skin, and the visceral musculoskeletal was gone. ”

"This incident caused a great deal of panic, and it was far more weird and terrifying than the previous hunter attacks, but there was no clue in the security zone, and no clues could be found." Zhao Gao said faintly, "They can only store the human skins in the freezer and prepare to bury them the next morning, and even the cremation is saved, because the leather will be burned clean by the high temperature, and there will not even be ashes...... The freezer for human skins was placed in the morgue, which had two people on duty at night. ”

"But something happened that night." Zhao Gao continued, "The next morning, the security zone found two more human skins in the morgue...... It was the two guards on duty. ”

Lu Xun was taken aback.

"The whole safe zone was frightened from top to bottom, and some people even started to rumor that it was a ghost at work, because the safe zone was heavily guarded, and the morgue was in the basement of the hospital, so it was impossible for zombies and hunters to invade." Zhao Gao continued, "The security zone defense force called up the surveillance video of that night, and more terrifying and weird things were revealed in front of everyone's eyes...... They saw that the freezer containing human skins had been pushed open from the inside, and a man had crawled out of it......"

"Wait, wait...... There's only human skin in the freezer, right? Lu Xun interrupted Zhao Gao, "What's the matter with a person crawling out of it?" ”

Zhao Gao nodded, "It's true that there are only human skins in the freezer, but it's really a person who crawls out of the freezer...... The man was one of the dead, and during the day he was a tanned human skin hanging from the treetops and fluttering in the wind, but at night he was back as a man, and he attacked the two guards on duty from behind, and we did not see the exact attack, because they were standing in a blind corner that the camera could not capture. ”

"By the next morning, the two guards had been found in the security zone, just like the others." Zhao Gao said in a high voice.

"That'...... What about the attacker? ”

"He went back again." Zhao Gao replied.

"What?" Lu Xun was stunned.

"After killing the guard, the man climbed back into the freezer and covered himself." Zhao Gao said, "The safe area later opened the freezer and checked it, and found that the human skin was completely in the freezer, and there was no abnormality." ”

Lu Xun was dumbfounded, "This...... What's going on here? ”

Zhao Gao glanced at him and smiled.

"Those people were literally scared to death, and for a long time the people in the safe zone were terrified, and there was a terrible rumor that 'there is a ghost outside the safe zone that specializes in skinning people, and if you touch it, your skin will be stripped off and made into clothes'...... But we later solved the mystery. ”