"Director, you just said that it is possible for the Hunter Cub to stay in the academy and grow up without being discovered...... What is the meaning? Lu Xun asked. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Ariana wore night vision devices and stared at the killer in the secret room, intently and softly exclaiming.

Compared to the ignorant assistants around her, this genius girl is obviously more interested in hunters, and Ariana has long speculated that there is a kind of monster among hunters that surpasses the marauders, and she believes that the marauders have a very low probability of breaking through the ceiling of 50 combat power rating, and once they break through this limit, then a class of demons will be born that are different from all other hunters.

But that thing has always existed in theories and cannot be proven, as a scientific researcher, it is undoubtedly a great pity not to be able to prove his own theory, and now Anna has finally seen the legendary killer with her own eyes, and when the creature that exists in theory and imagination suddenly appears in front of her eyes, it is as shocking as the ancient Greek myth of Pygmalion to see her long-awaited statue become a living person.

It's just that the statue of Pygmalion is a beautiful girl, and the object of Ariana's longing is a monster that eats people and does not spit out bones.

"Look at these nets." Anna stretched out her finger and pointed to the dense wire mesh in the warehouse, "What do you think these networks are for?" ”

Lu Xun was stunned.

"Nutrition." "These large and complex networks resemble the root systems of plants, they take root in the soil, absorb essential elements such as nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and calcium from the ground, as well as water, and these threads can spread for a long time, which can be more than a few kilometers long...... If my inference is correct, there should be these networks beneath the academy by now, and they will drain all the creatures they come across. ”

"Absorbing nutrients from the dirt? But...... But they are ......" Lu Xun was taken aback.

"They're animals, right?" "You can't judge a hunter by conventional thinking, I've even seen hunters who use solar energy before...... The slayer is at the center of this vast network, sucking its nutrients through these threads while dormant and waiting for the cubs to hatch. ”

"What about the larvae?" Lu Xun asked, "What do they eat?" How can you be sure that you won't be discovered? ”

"The reason why those cubs won't be found is because they haven't been in the academy for long at all." The girl replied, "They grow into adults in a very short time after leaving the nest, and it doesn't take more than six hours. ”

Six hours? Lu Xun remembered the hunter hatchlings he had seen earlier, which was only the size of his fist...... Grow into a three-meter-tall behemoth in six hours? Are you kidding? There are rumors that there are three legs and six wings, and the KFC broiler that eats hormones all day long has not grown so fast!

Where is this growth? It's just bloat, right? Are all hunters balloons? You don't have to eat anything, just blow on it, right?

"These larvae do not rely on predation for nutrients, but on assimilation." The girl said, "Assimilation is a very special way of transferring matter, the mother directly transports the cell tissue to the larvae, piles them up like a stacked block, and its energy utilization rate is almost 100 percent, so it is extremely fast, and you should have seen such a scene." ”

Have I seen it? Lu Xunxin said I don't know.

"Do you remember that parasitic worm lurker?"

Lu Xun suddenly remembered...... In the basement warehouse of a Wal-Mart supermarket, the worm sucked the mad dog dry at breakneck speed, and in just a few seconds, it made its body several times larger.

"Assimilation is a unique form of devouring among hunters, and some hunters can swallow other hunters intact into their bodies, minimizing the waste of energy and the loss of materials." Ariana went on to say, "But assimilation is not unlimited, to be precise, only in rare cases. ”

"Why?"

"Because of immune rejection." "Although the hunter's mutant cells are extremely active, they also have an immune system, and their immune system is very strong, if a hunter recklessly merges another hunter directly into the body, it will die due to a violent rejection reaction within the body, the assimilation you saw last time is a special case, that worm has been parasitic in the body of the mad dog for a long time, and the body fluids and tissues of the two are almost interconnected, so the rejection reaction is very weak...... This time, the larvae were born from the same mother, and the mother could send her own body tissues directly to the larvae, and if it sent four larvae into the academy at 12 a.m., the larvae would grow into adults three meters tall before sunrise...... In the Academy's view, these monsters appeared out of thin air. ”

Lu Xun was stunned, "You...... You know it all? ”

"I didn't know." The girl shook her head, "My reasoning has always been missing a very important link, because this link has caused my thinking to be incoherent, so I haven't been able to figure out how these monsters appeared, but now I see this...... The missing link was filled, and I figured everything out right away. ”

"Which link?"

"These hunters are mother-sons."

Lu Xun was stunned, what do you mean?

"You know what? What I saw today confirmed one of my conjectures: hunters also have the ability to reproduce. "No one has ever seen the reproductive process of a hunter before, and some people even believe that hunters are incapable of reproduction, and that all hunters are mutated by ordinary animals infected with doomsday viruses...... Now we know that hunters also give birth, and this is the first time that humans have observed that hunters have blood relations and social structures with each other! ”

The girl's body trembled slightly, and she looked very excited.

"I originally thought that even if there was a mastermind behind the last attack, the relationship between those hunters should be like a pack of wolves, the wolf king gives orders, and the rest of the wolves carry out the strategy." The girl whispered, "But I guessed it completely wrong, it's not a pack of wolves, it's a hive!" This is a matriarchal society controlled by the queen bee! ”

"Huh...... And so on and so forth. Lu Xun suddenly remembered, "If this thing can lay eggs, does that mean that there is still a head man?" ”

The girl looked at him and shook her head.

"There are no males, this thing is vegetatively reproduced."

Lu Xun was suffocated, there is no male? Lay eggs yourself?

"In terms of biological evolution, males are actually a very big burden." "The animal population must maintain half the number of males that are not capable of giving birth, which is not conducive to the expansion of the population. ”

Lu Xunxin said, is this the reason why you despise men?

"The reason why higher animals need combined reproduction is to maintain genetic diversity, and you should have heard of the example of inbreeding to have mentally retarded children by marriage, and the rapid reproduction of a single female, although fast, can lead to severe genetic degradation in the offspring, which will eventually lead to the extinction of the population." "But this is not the case with hunters...... Their genes are highly varied, and they don't have to worry about the genetic degradation of their offspring, so hunters can completely abandon the way of reproduction between the sexes...... Matrilineal communities reproduce and expand much faster than other organisms, such as ants and bees, which are more easily adapted to harsh environments. ”

Lu Xun nodded stunned, feeling that he was really a drag on all mankind as a male.

"Oh...... That's right. Ariana suddenly asked, "When will our reinforcements arrive?" Phoebe's blood loss was severe. ”

Lu Xunxin said, eldest sister, you only remembered about the reinforcements now? Have you been so intoxicated with the joy of studying the Slayer that you forgot that you were still in the Tiger's Den in Longtan?

Girl, you really have an academic heart comparable to Archimedes...... When he died, he didn't forget the circle he drew on the ground.

"We ...... Can't contact the academy, no reinforcements. ”

"What?" The girl was stunned.