Chapter 461: The Price of Cruelty
In the era of the Earth, when satellite railguns were still theoretical, the only effective way to deal with this monster seemed to be a nuclear bomb.
In the era when the pressure of survival continued, the first hydrogen bomb against this terrifying creature was dropped into New York, the hardest hit area that had been abandoned, everything within a radius of fifteen kilometers of the explosion was razed to the ground, everything was reduced to ashes, and all the mutated creatures in most of the city suffered varying degrees of damage, falling into a period of weakness under the high-intensity radiation.
The apostles targeted in this area also fell silent, their entire outer body turned into char in the terrifying heat, but to everyone's horror, at the edge of the explosion, one of the apostles still had a biological reaction under this terrifying destruction.
What shocked and excited the researchers was that this was the first time they had successfully defeated this unspeakable monster on a frontal battlefield, and they were also the first apostles to be successfully captured.
What worries them is that although the nuclear bomb is very effective against these mutated creatures, if this strategic-level weapon is used on a large scale in the era when it fails to open up an interstellar colony, even if humanity succeeds in eliminating this man-made disaster, it will face a crisis of destruction on the devastated earth.
This is a situation that no one wants to face.
In this environment, a weapon was developed that could effectively restrain these creatures in addition to nuclear bombs, but after the analysis of the Apostles, it was found that there were only a few effective ways to deal with these creatures, which were nothing more than high heat, radiation, or chemical destruction.
High heat can prevent the synthesis of biological cells in the body, inhibit its strong recovery ability, radiation can directly kill cells on a large scale, as for chemical destruction, just like chemotherapy, treating the symptoms but not the root cause, and will also produce huge environmental pollution. It may even lead to the further evolution of these creatures, creating resistance.
At this time, it became clear that this organism was a completely alternative mutant cancer cell, but it was released from the microscopic gate.
It seems that only the particle railgun is left with powerful high-heat weapons, but this weapon is still in the stage of drawings, and in this terrible environment, even if it concentrates material resources on research and development, it cannot be completed in a short time.
And just as people are stuck in this loop, a biologist cites a piece of Adolf Landistan's paper. Is it possible to suddenly come up with a whimsical idea by transforming the apostles to their advantage and make them attack the other apostles?
According to the biologist, Adolf submitted a biological paper in one such experiment, developing a modified virus that can track and infect a common type of lethal brain cancer. This virus is called hTERT-Ad. This engineered adenovirus is able to track malignant gliomas in mice and induce sufficient self-phagocytosis in cancer cells, thereby shrinking tumor size and prolonging survival. This virus targets telomerase enzyme.
Once the virus enters the cell, it needs telomerase to replicate. Normal brain tissue does not have this telomerase, so the virus will only replicate in cancer cells.
As it turns out, this mechanism does exist.
Time. All the eyes of the top are focused on its 'inventor' Adolf. Landistan and most people believe that a genius who can achieve such high achievements in all three fields of dynamics, mechanics and biology will be able to solve this problem! And this question. To some extent, it is also related to the survival of mankind.
However, only Adolf knew that his so-called 'genius' was nothing more than a thief who had made a name for himself by stealing his sister's scientific research, and that he was furious when it was discovered that he was actually just a liar. His fate must have been extremely miserable.
Under this circumstance and pressure, Adolf eventually found the founder of the theory, his sister Natasha.
Natasha was annoyed by Adolf's temperament and personality. But the other party is her younger brother after all, and in her opinion, in this bad environment, it is not the time to compete for fame and fortune, in order to solve the current worse and worse situation, and in order to maintain the aura of 'genius scientist' on Adolf's head, Natasha, as Adolf's assistant, came to the Celestial Empire Zhonghai, which was in a safe place at the time, the Void Research Institute, and began the apostolic transformation plan.
In the same year, under the leadership of the five permanent members of the United Nations, the "Dead Sea Document - Apostolic Plan of War" was signed in Jordan, and a scientific research program that touched the hearts of all was launched.
But as the progress of the research began, it was hit by unprecedented bottlenecks.
Although the hTERT-Ad adenovirus does have an inducing effect on the apostle cells, a large dose of injection will only plunge the apostle into a more chaotic rage, and if used incorrectly, it will not only fail to achieve the intended purpose, but may even cause terrible damage to the allies.
So Natasha came up with an idea, she thought that the best way to use the Apostle for targeted efficiency was to use the human brain to induce and even manipulate the Apostle of War, and proposed a series of corresponding executable methods.
But after the nerve connection, the Apostle of War will still have a strong rejection reaction, and the only way is to have the driver inject the virus and then link with the Apostle.
At such times, there is no doubt that the use of human experiments in vivo is the most efficient method, but this is completely contrary to Natasha's philosophy and beliefs.
Adolf, like all higher-ups, desperately needed a biological weapon that could command him.
For this reason, Natasha and Adolf had a big fight, and finally broke up.
Natasha, who remained in the institute, finally decided to use herself as a blueprint for her experiments, and after injecting the corresponding antibody vaccine, she injected the hTERT-Ad adenovirus into her body, and then began to link with the Apostle.
Luckily, she succeeded.
She successfully invaded the apostle's brain, and through the inducement of the virus, the apostle instinctively thought that she belonged to a part of himself, and even that she was his own brain.
She even had a faint feeling as if her will could be carried out by these mutated creatures.
At that moment, it was as if she saw another world, a world that belonged to the supreme temple of biology, it was able to sense the instincts of the apostles, and even a network that was forming, a network that belonged only to mutated creatures, they were able to communicate initially through brain waves, and they were evolving at an unprecedented rate.
Natasha had a faint feeling that if these creatures were allowed to continue to evolve in a comfortable environment, then sooner or later they would give birth to their own wisdom, and even replace humans.
Biologically, what a perfect creature it is.
It wasn't until this moment that Natasha realized that what she had been exploring was so close, and this unprecedented ability to evolve and adapt to the environment was not what she had been pursuing and exploring. If this biotechnology can be studied thoroughly, and these monsters can be manipulated at will, then humanity can embark on an interstellar colonization journey even without a curvature engine.
But the wishes are good, but the reality is cruel.
Although she successfully invaded the apostle's brain, she didn't know what the dose of the potion was, or these creatures in chaos and chaos urgently needed a firm will, when Natasha came to her senses, her body had been partially fused by the apostle, and as time passed, her body did not live in the flesh and blood of the apostle's activities and continued to sink, and it was foreseeable that she would be completely devoured by the apostle.
Maybe then she will become the brain of the apostle completely, or even the brain of the entire mutant race of creatures, but at the price, she will also lose her body and lose her qualifications as a human being.
Faced with this sudden situation, she, like all ordinary women, fell into an unprecedented panic, and her emotions and survival instincts also spread through the invisible network.
At this moment, all the mutated creatures at the edge of the middle sea all looked at her place in unison. (To be continued......)