0061 Transforming Humans and Zombies
As night falls on the land, it's time for the zombies to forage for food, and the quiet city of Kowloon is noisy again, and the whole city is flooded with the wails of zombies. In the streets and alleys of the www.biquge.info, there are groups of zombies wandering everywhere, but unfortunately because there are too few prey, from time to time a weaker zombie is attacked by the same kind and eaten. If you take a closer look at the range of zombies, you will find that there are very few zombies roaming in some areas of Kowloon City, or no zombies at all, because these areas are usually the territory of powerful mutant zombies, and ordinary zombies dare not approach. For example, the police station occupied by the hunters.
Emerald Park is one of the few areas in Kowloon City that is neither the territory of mutant zombies nor the common zombies. Because the entire perimeter of the park is protected by a fence that, although only more than one person high, is enough to hold back most of the zombies that can't climb; The interior of the park is elevated and covered with forests, which are a natural barrier from the periphery of the park to the top of the Emerald Mountain in the center of the park, and even if a zombie crosses the wall, it will become disoriented in the forest, which is a labyrinth in terms of zombie intelligence.
On the top of the Emerald Mountain, on the roof of the small building, seven people sat around a simple wooden table chatting and eating dinner, because a large number of colored lights were installed on the watchtower, and even if there was no special lighting on the rooftop at night, it was very bright. Yuan Yawei brought a lot of food and water, enough for them to eat for a week, and many of them were seasonal vegetables and fresh meat from Eden, which made Xiao Chu and others, who had not eaten fresh food for a long time, have a great appetite, and they can be described as devouring food.
"Yawei, didn't your fourth team be mainly responsible for rear security? Why did you come out on a search mission? Ken asked, nibbling on the drumsticks.
"Because the other teams have suffered heavy losses in recent months, especially your first team has all died, and most of the members of the second and third teams are currently recuperating, so we have to come out of the fourth team to carry out the mission."
"It seems that the situation is not very optimistic now." Ken sighed, since the defeat of the combined army and the reorganization of Kowloon into Eden, the entire Eden has only formed four armed forces with about 1,000 people, that is, the first to fourth squads. Now it seems that since the first squad has all been sacrificed, and it is the fourth squad responsible for logistics and scientific research that has come out to carry out the mission, that is to say, the second and third squadrons have lost their combat capability.
"If it's just to search for and rescue survivors, our fourth squad's combat effectiveness is enough, but now we have to face a large number of mutant zombies and the zombie army of the Fourth Reich, according to the information provided by Mark, the number of transformers in the Fourth Reich has exceeded 200, and it is increasing every day. So we're developing new programs to enhance the combat capabilities of ordinary soldiers, so that more people can go into battle to enhance our strength. ”
"Why don't you turn all the soldiers into reformers? Wouldn't that greatly increase combat effectiveness? Xiao Chu asked puzzled.
Yuan Yawei glanced at him and said, "Do you think anyone can become a reformer?" To become a modified person, the first condition is to have immunity to the plague, that is, the immune body; Second, you must have a healthy and strong body, otherwise you are likely to fail in the transformation process and die; Third, renovation is a long process, ranging from weeks to months, and we don't have enough time. ”
"But..." Yuan Yawei changed her words and said: "I didn't expect you to be alive as the first test subject, and when the teacher knew that you were still alive yesterday, he almost jumped with joy. ”
"I'm curious to know why I was in a coma in that armored car for a year." Xiao Chu asked a question that he had always wanted to know the most.
Yuan Yawei pondered for a while before saying: "The situation at that time was very complicated, after you were bitten by a zombie and fell unconscious, you were treated as an infected body by the army, and you were ready to be cremated, and then it seems that it was your friend, the one called Morrowind, who informed your father, and your father did not hesitate to conflict with the army after knowing about it, so he rescued you." Yuan Yawei seemed to have a dry mouth and drank a sip of water.
"And then?" Xiao Chu hurriedly urged.
"Later, although you remained unconscious, your condition was stable, and the teacher transferred you to the Kowloon headquarters for observation. But half a month later, the plague broke out, and more and more people were bitten, most of them turned into zombies, and only a few people remained awake after being bitten, and they were all immune bodies. The teacher gathered them together for research and found that they have a common characteristic with you, that is, they have an extra pair of chromosomes in their body, the difference is that the new chromosomes in their body are suppressed, while the new chromosomes in yours are very active. ”
"So, I became the first reformer, didn't I?" Xiao Chu suddenly felt a sense of loss in his heart, and he felt that he had become a guinea pig in the experiment.
Yuan Yawei nodded, and then asked, "Do you know where the ability to transform people comes from?" ”
"Isn't it from that extra pair of chromosomes?" This Xiao Chu seemed to know, because both Madatina and Ken had told him.
"Yes, so do you know where the extra chromosomes come from?"
"Could it be ... Is it from me? ”
Yuan Yawei stretched out her hand, and in the palm of the hand with the strange shape of the mechanical glove, a cluster of red flames burned silently, and she nodded to Xiao Chu and said, "Yes, each of our modified people has a piece of DNA from you in their body, which is used to activate the corresponding part of our additional chromosome to obtain special abilities. But do you know where your additional chromosomes come from? ”
"This... It won't be ... Zombie bar! Xiao Chu felt a chill down his spine.
Yuan Yawei shook the palm of her hand, and the cluster of flames squeezed out a trace of sparks from between her fingers, and then extinguished silently, Yuan Yawei smiled: "Yes, you guessed it, it's officially from zombies." In other words, we transform people and zombies, which is actually a kind of thing! ”
"Really? We... Is it a zombie? Xiao Chu was shocked, Tiana and Ken were the same, only Madatina didn't seem so surprised.
"It's true, zombie cells have 24 pairs of chromosomes like us, the difference is that the additional chromosomes in the zombie body are chaotic and disordered, while the additional chromosomes in our body are ordered."
After Yuan Yawei's introduction, Xiao Chu understood the relationship between zombies, humans and transformed people.
With humans as the cut-off point, zombies and immune bodies correspond to each other, and both have additional chromosomes in their bodies. The difference is that the chromosomes in the zombie's body are disordered, causing all the DNA codes they carry to conflict with each other, causing the zombie to lose the stability of its flesh and show an unsightly appearance; The additional chromosomes in the immune body are dormant because they are suppressed, so the immune body is not much different from normal humans, but it will not become a zombie because of the confusion of the additional chromosomes.
The mutant zombie is a human immune body that already carries additional chromosomes, which is sorted by artificial chromosomes, and then adds DNA fragments taken from the zero modified human body to activate their corresponding fragments, so as to obtain special abilities; The appearance of mutant zombies is the result of the natural ordering of additional chromosomes in the body of ordinary zombies under certain conditions, but due to the lack of certain rules in this sorting, most mutant zombies have lost their appearance and intelligence due to human beings.
The mutant zombies developed by the Nazis are actually artificially interfering with the sequencing stage of additional chromosomes to obtain controllable mutant zombies.
Finally figuring out his relationship with zombies, Xiao Chu, Tiana, and Ken are all lost in thought. Ken, who had been a professional soldier, didn't know anything technical, and Madatina seemed to have known about the surprising information for a long time, so she didn't show too much surprise.
"Huh, this breath?" Ken, who was in deep thought, suddenly changed his face, and suddenly stood up and ran to the wooden wall to look down through the small window.
"What's wrong?" Xiao Chu knew that Ken's sensing ability was extremely keen, and he must have discovered something.
Ken carefully felt the strange aura and said, "It seems to be a mutant zombie, and the aura is very strong." ”
"How many?" Yuan Yawei and Madatina asked almost at the same time, and the two looked at each other, the atmosphere was a little delicate.