Chapter 229: Symbiote!
More than a dozen people outside the glass box all held their breath and looked at the last mouse with serious faces.
Time passed little by little, and the black slime in the first three boxes was still spread out under the purple light, but as time passed, the bottom of the glass box seemed to be corroded a little bit, and the volume of black slime in the box seemed to have become a little larger.
The attention of everyone else in the research room was focused on the fourth mouse, but Wang Hui, who was the person in charge of this experiment, kept scanning between the four boxes, and the pen in his right hand was shaking, recording something on the document in his hand.
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More than three hours had passed, and the volume of black slime in the first three glass boxes had increased by more than half. At the bottom of the glass box, it was corroded to the point of craters, which was caused by the experimenter's constant adjustment of the radiation light.
Moreover, the bottom of the glass box is different from the other glass walls, they prepared it before the experiment, so the bottom of the glass box is thickened, more than ten centimeters thick.
At this time, Wang Hui had already stopped the pen in his hand, he had recorded all the records, and what he had to do now was to observe the last guinea pig with others, which was the focus of this experiment!
Over the course of three hours, the last rat went berserk, wilted, and rolled around the crate before finally coming to rest where the radiant light had been found in the glass crate.
Wang Hui commanded the movement of the radiant light in the fourth box several times, but the result was that no matter where the radiant light moved, as long as it still reached the glass box, the guinea pig would follow.
As long as it is in the range of radiant light, the mouse will be very calm, lying in the light range, the body is slightly undulating, and breathing steadily.
It's been three hours, and none of the dozen or so people standing in front of the glass box have left, all waiting for the results of the experiment. You must know that each of these dozen or so people is in a high position in the base.
They know that the result is coming soon, and this result is the key to the rise and fall of mankind, and the closest 'hope' to them.
Another ten minutes passed.
Suddenly, among the dozen or so people, some of them shook slightly, including Wang Hui, Wang Hui's eyes were fixed on the fourth glass box.
At that moment, Wang Hui sensed a faint radiation source in the room, and not only he sensed it, but all the radiation soldiers in the research room sensed that radiation source. Faint, but not hidden. To all the focused Fallout Warriors in the lab, it was like a candle flame that suddenly lit up in the dark, faint, flickering, but so conspicuous.
"It's done!" In the end, it was Wang Hui who spoke up and drew everyone's attention back.
There are more than a dozen people in the laboratory, not all of them are radiation warriors, but others also have their own methods of observation, and the focus of their coming here is the next discussion!
It took two or three minutes for a dozen people in the lab to come to the conference room on the other side.
More than a dozen people sat down at the conference table one after another, and a large part of them had a hint of excitement in their expressions, and some people would have a trace of doubt in their eyes when they were excited.
"The Light of Civilization Project, the first meeting, has officially begun!" said an old man in his fifties sitting at the top of the meeting, solemnly, opening the prelude to the meeting.
Next, Wang Hui, the person in charge of the plan, informed us to introduce the situation. The old man said, shifting his gaze to Wang Hui, who was at the top of the right side of the conference table.
"Everyone saw the experiment in the laboratory just now!" Wang Hui stood up, no nonsense, and went straight to the point.
"That black slime-like thing is a parasitic creature, let's call it a symbiote for now. A symbiote is a collective-conscious organism that, when separated, develops its own biological instincts, and when combined, its consciousness coalesces into a whole. ”
"The properties of symbionts, in a low-radiation environment, they prey on surrounding organisms to replenish their own nutrients. However, once the radiation from the surrounding environment rises to a certain concentration, the symbiote will abandon absorbing the corpse of the creature in favor of absorbing the radiant energy.
It can be seen that the main demand of symbionts is radiation energy, and the use of organisms to supplement body energy is only a choice when we cannot obtain radiation energy, just like we humans will use wild vegetables and tree roots to satisfy hunger when there is a famine, but that is our helpless choice!
Symbionts are very mild in high-concentration radiation environments, but will exhibit strong aggressive and predatory characteristics in low-concentration radiation environments.
In the experiment just now, Subject 3, even if the mouse in the glass box actively approached the test subject, the test subject did not attack the mouse under the condition of radiant light.
Most importantly, under certain conditions, the symbiote will choose to parasitize the surrounding organisms, and after that, the symbiote will choose to modify the host, but in the process, it must provide enough radiation energy irradiation, otherwise, the symbiote will choose to devour the host when it encounters a lack of energy during the transformation.
And just now, the parasitic mouse was successfully transformed into a radiant beast.
But now, what are the defects of the symbiote's modification, will it cause any irreparable sequelae, and under what circumstances will the symbiote devour the host after the transformation?
I'm done!"
After speaking, Wang Hui sat on the chair.
There was a moment of silence, and a voice rang out.
"Where did this symbiote come from?"
"Based on what we know now, it is likely that the symbiote came from.... Heaven!" Wang Hui said, pointing to the sky.
"You mean, the meteorite a month ago..."
"Yes, the symbiote is probably the ..... from that meteorite."
After a pause, Wang Hui said again, "Alien creatures!"
At that moment, another voice rang out.
"Is it possible that this is a new breed of monster?"
Wang Hui pondered for a moment and replied, "This possibility cannot be ruled out, so we are now further investigating the origin of the symbiote and striving to get the result as soon as possible." And if it's really a new breed of monster, if it really has the kind of abilities we want, then why not use it to transform the ghouls?"
Zombies are the primary way for monsters to be born, just as Radiation Warriors awaken from ordinary people. On the earth, the number of corpse monsters is more than 100 times that of monsters.
Wouldn't it be simpler for the monsters to directly use the symbiotes to transform the corpses and create monsters than to send the symbiotes to us humans. If the symbiote is a monster, then there is no reason why it can transform a human being, but it can't transform a corpse monster into a monster? ”
Indeed, if the symbiote is a monster, then why would the monster do anything more?
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