The snow finally stopped, but the thick snow and cold wind could not dispel the thick bloody smell of the valley. The radiation cloth at the mouth of the cave fluttered in the wind, and there was no sign of what had happened here.

Xiao Luo stood at the top of the hill, looking down at the cave covered by the radiant curtain, and a somewhat unnatural smile appeared on his face. Its body had grown a little bigger, and it already had the appearance of a nine-year-old girl, and its face was still girlish. And inside its somewhat delicate body, it is not human-like at all, and the space that can accommodate food has reached 80! The bones in its body are hollow and lightweight, somewhat similar to those of birds, but far stronger than those of birds. Most of the various organs become a thin layer that attaches to the bones, thus saving the maximum space for food. And in its neck and head, in addition to the brain that has fully developed to the level of an adult human, there is also a fist-sized storage area, which is tightly protected by bone. The storage area is filled with extremely high-energy crystalline material, and tentacle-like blood filaments tightly wrap around these lenses.

The thick radiation rushed into Xiao Luo's body without hindrance, and then slammed into the specially constructed bones, destroying the tissue cells along the way, but there was also a small half of the energy that vibrated the bones, converted into the heat needed to sustain life. Bathed in radiation, although its keen perception can cause it considerable pain, the energy gained is still quite surplus after repairing the damaged tissue, which is also the biological equivalent of eating. In terms of the utilization rate of radiant energy, Xiao Luo has reached 2.

In this world full of radiation, this is not a small number, especially for a life form like Xiao Luo, whose efficiency in the use of energy and food is close to the extreme.

Standing in the snow is a treat for it. Eating and evolution are the two most important things in its life, and nothing else.

But now that the food has been digested, it still lingers, not for anything else, but because it feels a hint of familiarity from the food. That's the breath of Li, and it's also the breath of mother. When it was still in the mother's body, it only had the instinct to survive and tried its best to absorb the nutrients of the mother's body, and now, after a few months away from the mother's body, it has initially possessed the ability to survive independently, and it seems to be beginning to miss the feeling of safety and warmth.

But it did not dare to go back, let alone approach the area where it was born. For his father, he had the deepest fear, and he didn't even dare to think of him. Under the shroud of fear, foraging, growing, becoming strong, finding more food, being stronger, and staying alive have run through one of its behaviors.

It took a few months of growth before it gradually broke away from the monotonous instinctive way of life and learned to think about things as a human being. The original owner of this body was named Tuyan, and he left it with many memories, although the basic structure of the brain has completely changed in the process of being absorbed and transformed, and the memories have become fragmented, but at least it has spied many fragments of human society. In the later stages of the mother's growth, it can also perceive some external worlds through guòli, but at that time it is not yet able to comprehend the perceived qiē.

I don't know how long it stood before it turned around and quietly left.

In Persephone's private hospital, Helen is busy in front of the sprawling real stage, her blonde hair haphazardly tied back. In front of her was a nearly ten-meter-wide platform, where hundreds of instruments of all kinds collected and processed the massive number of jù at all times. In the middle of this huge and complex platform, there is snow the size of a cat. It was lying in the center of the platform, its body covered with sensors, and all the sharp bone spurs and blades contained in it. It was trembling slightly, and it was obvious that it was very frightened. But it had no device to restrain its movements, but it lay on its stomach honestly, with no idea of escaping.

If you have the ability to decipher the massive flowing numbers in front of Helen, you can see that on the two light screens in front of Helen, one is marked with the primary power source test, and the other is the mobility improvement plan.

The lights flickered on the automatic door of the room, and after a few seconds it turned from red to green, and Curtis walked in with a one-meter-square safe. The safe isn't too big, but the deep metallic glow shows that it's never light. It was also a last resort to ask Curtis to help him, and Helen, a big guy weighing nearly ten tons, couldn't move.

Under Helen's command, Curtis moved the safe all the way to the front of the stage. Then, a pale yellow energy light curtain fell, dividing the real yàn room into two areas, isolating the real yàn platform. Curtis entered the code, opened the safe, and pulled out a fist-sized piece of metal that glowed yellow. Although he took out the strange metal with his bare hands, Cortis's wire-like stubble stood up, the muscles of his whole body were raised, and a faint metallic luster appeared on the surface of his skin, apparently using his defensive ability.

Codenamed 'Radiant Star', the alloy metal held in Cortis is three hundred times more intense than uranium, representing the Bloody Council's crowning achievement in metallic materials. Such a large piece of Fallout Star is worth enough to buy several private hospitals. Curtis didn't expect Helen's family to be so wealthy that she would hide such a large amount of radiant stars. However, even with Cortis's defensive power, he must be careful with the Radiant Star, on the one hand, to maintain his ability, and on the other hand, not to improve his ability too high, so that the body deformation is too obvious, maybe Helen will be underestimated.

The Radiant Star was soon placed in its designated location, and hundreds of mirrors were activated, converging the radiation into a beam that pointed at the snow. As soon as the energy defense field on Xue's body was removed, the radiation that was so strong that Curtis would feel that it would be difficult would hit its small body.

Looking at the motionless snow, a hint of complexity flashed in the captain's little eyes. Helen wouldn't hide a lot of secrets from him, so he knew that this little thing was Helen's 'daughter'. From any point of view, Snow is an out-and-out monster, not only has nothing to do with humans, but it is not even a mutated creature. At least most of the mutated creatures are still more or less recognizable to the characteristics of terrestrial creatures, but snow is not similar to any other creature. Barely speaking, snow bears many of the characteristics of insects, but its highly developed intelligence and extremely strong biological tissues are far from being matched by insects.

In the whole series, the captain only helped in a few links, but the few opportunities for contact with the snow had already left an indelible impression on him. He couldn't believe that this wisdom would appear in a newborn being who was only a few months old. In the same way, the ability of snow to recover is beyond imagination.

Throughout the process, Curtis looked at Helen, who was getting stranger and stranger, more than once, believing that what Helen said about Snow was her daughter's words, but the Captain was curious who would be Snow's father. Looking at the different appearance of the snow, the captain suddenly shuddered.

The shield that shrouded the snow gradually weakened, and the radiation penetrated through the shield and shone on the snow. Its dark cyan skin immediately took on a layer of red, then became darker and darker. As the radiation gets stronger and stronger, the epidermal tissue within a few square centimeters begins to scorch, crack, and even emit wisps of smoke. The burned and cracked epidermal tissue is constantly charred and peeled off, and new flesh grows rapidly, forming layers of new epidermis at an incredible speed, resisting radiation. The new epidermal tissue is not as strong as the original, but at least it buys the snow a little time. Each layer of skin lasts about a minute, which is enough time for snow to produce a new layer of skin.

Snow whimpered, her body trembling even more, apparently the radiation was causing it rather intense pain. But it never dared to move its position, and even showed the blade on its arthropod, and inserted it into the real platform made of alloy with a ding, so as not to accidentally move its body under severe pain.

The defensive field was almost completely gone, and the sobs of the snow were clearer. The speed at which it generates the epidermis does not accelerate, but each time the epidermis is changing slightly, gradually becoming transparent, the surface is smoother, and the mirror effect is produced, reflecting most of the radiation, and a small part of the radiation is hard to absorb, absorbing at the cost of the destruction of epidermal tissue, and the last bit of radiation is to let go of the protection and let it enter the body.

Cortis saw the changes on the surface of the snow's body, and what made the corners of his eyes twitch even more was that the cry of the snow was similar to the whimper of a kitten, and even he couldn't bear it in his ears. In the beginning, snow was not like this, its call was strange and hoarse, like a mixture of some kind of insect hissing and metal scraping against each other, making it sound creepy. Now it mimics the screams of kittens, which can only show one thing, that snow has found the preference of humans, the dominant intelligent creature, and is regulating its behavior in a targeted manner. This kind of wisdom is even more terrifying than its strangely powerful body.

Curtis couldn't see the changes inside Snow's body, and he couldn't decipher the large expanse of simple numbers on the light screen in front of Helen. But in Helen's eyes, millions of numbers are reduced to the body of snow, showing the details and changes of a qiē, and at the same time there are more than 10,000 indicators monitored, plus the number of various analyses, the amount of calculation in an instant has reached the order of tens of millions. And this was done in Helen's brain.

The radiant energy continues to enter Xue's body, where it is absorbed and transformed through a series of special organs, and finally forms energy that can be consumed by life. The results of the calculations show that 5% of the radiant energy entering the snow body is converted into energy reserves, another 5% is turned into heat to maintain life activities, and the rest is absorbed and consumed at the cost of biological cell damage. In this way, the comprehensive utilization rate of snow for radiant energy has reached 6, and the efficiency of energy absorption can be further improved as Helen improves these energy-absorbing and energy storage organs. Under the current ambient radiation, if there is no strenuous exercise, the absorbed energy is enough to sustain the daily needs of the snow, and there is no need to eat at all. Moreover, in the test of the radiation intensity, the snow optimized its epidermal tissue structure, and its radiation resistance was greatly enhanced. It can be said that there is no radiation in the world that can threaten its survival, after all, exposure to the rays of the radiation star is much stricter than lying directly on nuclear fuel.

In Helen's report, the power source test project has been completed, the results have been assessed as 22, and a total of hundreds of items have been listed that can be improved or need further research. This was followed by a test of improved mobility, and before the test began, Helen unceremoniously invited Curtis out of the room.

After leaving the room, the captain walked slowly along the somewhat dimly lit corridor, the sound of footsteps echoing in the empty corridor, heavy and gloomy.

As he approached the corner of the hallway, Curtis suddenly stopped, his eyes shining with a cold light. The corner of the corridor that had been empty suddenly became one more person, Rafite.

He smacked his cigarette, smacked a long match, lit it, took a deep breath, and then looked at Curtis with some melancholy.

In the old days, Rafi's handsome appearance was comparable to that of Sue, with a melancholy temperament, long silver flame-like hair, and just the right amount of clothing, which would have been lethal to women of any age. And this is just a charm on the outside, and it does not contain his extraordinary strength.

Raffi appeared suddenly, without warning and without process, and it seemed that from the beginning he was leaning against the wall around the corner. Not even Curtis could see how he appeared. However, the captain was obviously not interested in Raffi's mysterious and terrifying way of flashing, because he was well aware that Raffi's attack power would drop significantly at this time, in the captain's words, "not much heavier than a woman's touch." ”

"Silver Retriever, there's no woman here to visit you! And I think you know very well that Helen won't eat your set. Curtis said coldly.

Raffi shrugged his shoulders and was indifferent to Curtis's taunt, just saying, "Black steel! Even if I'm interested in men, it won't be you! Don't talk about those useless ones, I don't want to beat you up right now. How, do you see that 'little thing'? ”

Curtis said in a deep voice, "You mean snow? Yes, it's cute! ”

"Cute?!" Rafi stared at Curtis and said slowly, "I really didn't expect your taste to be so heavy, it seems that your experience must be very unique in the days you have been away from prison." But I don't care what you've slept with all these years. Since you are involved in the real yàn, you should know more about that little thing than I do. What exactly is snow, you say? ”

"How do I know? All I would do was drink and fight. The captain said coldly.

Raffi took a deep puff of the cigarette, puffed wisps of smoke from his nostrils, and said in a low voice, "I was just thinking, Helen...... How could Helen give birth to such a ...... How can snow be born? And, I'd love to know what Snow's father is. ”

Seeing Rafi's appearance, Curtis's voice softened unexpectedly, and said, "Helen and we are completely different people, and no one can predict her thoughts. So, snow may not be an accident. ”

Raffi smiled and popped out the remaining half of the cigarette. The fluttering cigarette butt popped out faster than the bullet that had been discharged, and with a crisp snap, it sank deep into the concrete wall!

Curtis ignored him, and walked straight in front of him, towards the stairs.

Raffi sighed and said to the empty wall in front of him, "Helen and I are the same kind of people, both incorrigibly insane. But she's crazier than I am, so I'll never forget her. How can you understand these things, a guy with muscles in your head? ”

Kotis grinned as he had already walked away, his snow-white teeth glistening in the darkness. He silently retorted: "Who said I don't understand? ”D