Chapter 18: The Legacy of Edmund Lee

When the gambling snake returned to the house in the meeting place, the blood lord and Zuo Dao had already returned, and the civilian Jeff was sitting in the corner of the house, smoking a cigarette from nowhere. No pop-up window update fast // At this moment, he seems relatively calm, which all depends on Fengxie's "clever" means.

In fact, Jeff was quite frantic when he first woke up from a coma, and the fear and exhaustion that had accumulated over the past few days were all accompanied by the pain of losing a loved one. He is an ordinary middle-aged office worker, and after encountering this series of horror movie-like encounters, it is naturally easy to break down and immediately make reckless and bad decisions...... He tried to attack Beacon and snatch the gun he had brought.

Jeff didn't expect that the man in front of him, who was about the same size as himself, was so fast and powerful that he was like a terminator in a movie. Jeff's shoulder was dislocated by a twist of Beacon's hand, and he was dragged all the way to the kitchen sink, where he watched as Beacon plugged the drain and filled it up, and then dropped his head down.

If you want to "calm down" a person, waterboarding is a great option. Probably one of the oldest and most effective forms of torture in the world, eight adults confess in waterboarding and the remaining two die.

Beacon wasn't trying to torture Jeff, so he drowned him three times before stopping and throwing him into a corner to let him catch his breath and rest. At this point, they can finally say a few words calmly. In fact, for Jeff, whether it is a rebel group, a guerrilla group, or an army...... It's the same in anyone's hands, he's just a civilian, and he's lucky to have survived this disaster. Even if it encounters the troops of the Empire, it may not be much better than the current situation. Everyone understands that you should never expect someone you can't protect to protect you.

In Jeff's mind, these "super-powered weirdos" encountered in the hall of the police station are more reliable, and there is nothing safer than staying with this group of freaks when encountering mutant creatures.

When the Gamblers returned, most of the city had been restored, and the house they had taken over was lit up, but all the windows were closed and thick curtains were drawn.

The gambling snake glanced at Jeff, the two did not talk, and through eye contact, the gambling snake knew that for his father's death, Jeff had already listened to Fengxie describe the subsequent development, and would no longer have the idea of seeking revenge on himself.

"I got nothing. "And after the power was restored, it became more difficult to detect humans, so I went back." His gaze swept to the corner of the living room and saw a stranger.

The man was being "guarded" by Zuo Dao, wearing a dark blue evolution uniform, and should be a more senior member.

"It looks like you've not only restored the power, but you've got something extra. Gambling Snake said.

Before Zuo Dao could speak, the tailor rushed to say: "Declare in advance, I will cooperate with you in order to solve the pollution leaked from the research room, this is a major event related to the survival of all mankind, it does not mean that I am in the same stream as you anti-cross people......

"You said such shameless words, but you can still keep your face from changing your face. Zuo Dao picked at the boogers and squinted at the tailor: "It seems that the skin on your face is really sewn layer by layer, I think it must be at least ten layers or more, right?"

"Hmph......" The tailor snorted coldly, rolled his eyes upward, and replied to Zuo Dao: "Why does Brother Zuo insinuate and scold Huai? It seems that I am greedy for life and afraid of death to cooperate with you." Although I was carelessly defeated by you today, if I fought for a while, I don't think Brother Zuo would be ......."

"Bucket NMB. Zuo Dao opened his mouth and interrupted the tailor.

"Hmm...... This curse is ......"

"Scolding NMB. ”

"I'm just ......"

"It's NMB. ”

Feng Xie couldn't listen anymore next to him, took out the cigar in his mouth, and said to Zuo Dao: "Don't keep mentioning NMB, ......"

"I'm going to mention NMB!!nmlgb!!!" Zuo Dao roared.

The tailor who sat at the table next to him was scolded so badly that he didn't know what to do when he met such a scoundrel.

At this time, with the sound of toilet pumping, the blood owl kicked out of the toilet and kicked out the door. The gambling snake casually asked, "What's the situation at the power plant?"

The blood owl moved his neck a few times from side to side, and replied: "The generator set there can only have a maximum load of about 300,000 kilowatt-hours a day, depending on the situation, it was damaged by the guy called Thunderfire on the Freedom Front, maybe he fought near the power plant a few days ago."

In fact, there is no major failure, the power plant has done a good job in the investigation of equipment hidden dangers, and the load switch and isolation switch in the distribution room have automatically made protective actions, that is, tripped. He turned to the tailor and said, "If that colleague of yours hadn't been so stupid and timid, if he had even a little knowledge of physics, the power supply in the city would have been restored long ago." ”

The gambling snake said again: "So, will it be attacked by monsters and cause a second failure?"

"I can't guarantee that, but I've observed that mutated creatures don't like to be near high temperatures. The blood lord replied.

The gambling snake nodded, and asked no more, but moved his gaze to the tailor again, and it was obvious that it was time to ask him.

The blood owl crossed his fingers, flipped his palms, and looked like he was about to tear people apart: "Alright, the self-proclaimed tailor, you can now start saying something about what we are interested in." I remind you that if there is a lie in your intelligence, I will know it immediately, and at that time, the inquiry will escalate to torture at any time. ”

The tailor swallowed his saliva involuntarily and collected his thoughts for a moment before he spoke, "The source of this contamination is probably a senior experimenter named Edmund Lee. ”

"Butcher, is he?" replied the blood lord.

The tailor looked up and glanced at the blood lord with rather strange eyes: "Yes, the same man you killed on Hell Island." ”

"So, how did a guy who was killed by me four months ago get to where Atlantic City is today?" asked the Blood Lord.

"It's 'e-cells'. The tailor replied: "Every senior experimenter or higher level of evolution, including me, has 'E cells' in our bodies, which is the core technology of E bureau genetic evolution.

When we fight, the brain is responsible for receiving information, memory, reactions, giving commands, etc., E cells are activated when stimulated, assisting the brain, strengthening the ability of the human body in all aspects, theoretically E cells can achieve infinite self-evolution, so that our combat ability continues to increase.

And E cells also have a very superior property - transplantation and inheritance. 'Butcher' is not just Edmund Lee, this title can also be another person, and the same is true of 'tailor'. Whenever an agent with E-cells dies, the tissue extracts the E-cells from his body, and even directly uses his body to transform the next successor.

In the world of genes, 'e' represents the criterion of natural selection, and the strong will replace the weak, and there is no variable. ”

The Blood Owl laughed, "But that guy named Edmund Lee, or rather, the E-cells on that guy's corpse, have some variables?"

The tailor's expression became even more strange, and the face that seemed to have been sewn up countless times also changed a little: "We spent a lot of money to fish Edmund Lee's body out of the sea." And the E-cells on his corpse have undergone a very strange change, producing a property that they should not have in themselves - the ability to 'devour'.

When he was at the bottom of the sea, Edmund Lee's corpse 'ate' several sea creatures, and we can't technically reconstruct this process, so we can only speculate on it, and I personally think that it may have been swallowed by the large fish in the sea first, and then multiplied and devoured in reverse.

In short, when we put this sentence on the corpse...... If it could still be called a corpse, it would look a lot like a deformed monster when it was brought back to the Institute. ”

"Is it similar to the ones in the city right now?" asked Beacon.

"Something like that...... the tailor replied, he wasn't lying, because he couldn't tell the difference between the monster he brought back to the institute and the mutated creatures in the city now, maybe they were very different, but at least they were of the same origin.

"At the time, we didn't pay much attention to this monster, and those who studied it believed that the creation of this monster was just a special situation that happened after the E cells mistakenly thought that they had been grafted onto non-human creatures. According to the law of 'survival of the fittest', this monster will not survive for a few days, because human genes will prevail and finally die in the deformed **.

Of course, they didn't wait too long, they just disposed of the monster, just left the original data in the computer, and took two pieces of meat, one of which was put into the warehouse as a special experiment, and the other was left for the next 'butcher' to transform. The monster that evolved from the corpse was destroyed by the heat, and there was no scum left. ”

"Hmph...... It seems that you are all a bunch of mediocre talents, the original so-called evolution, is it just this level, no wonder the marshal guy has become the decay he is now. The Blood Owl scoffed.

The tailor also knew that the person in front of him was a professor-level figure who had specialized in life sciences at Yale University before the age of twenty-three and had done in-depth research through a combination of theory and practice in recent years, so he had nothing to defend himself, and went straight down: "At that time, the researchers focused on the rapid growth of the 'butcher' e cell. Lee's physical abilities have been horribly improved in a short period of time, and this part of the data has convinced the organization that Edmund Lee's E-cells are indeed mutated. It's just that they didn't think that the danger of mutation was not the speed of growth, but the expansive 'devouring' ability.

Normal E cells are not such a thing, they are like genetic modifications parasitic in the human body, and there are no side effects......"

"It may be more convincing if you say this again after plastic surgery. Zuo Dao interjected next to him.

The tailor said: "My appearance is a trauma after the battle, this image has nothing to do with E cells, on the contrary, E cells can protect our brains, and senior members of evolution, even if they are beheaded, as long as the brain is still intact, there is a possibility of survival." That's why we're going to recover Edmund Lee's body.

I have also experienced many vicious battles, it is the E-cells that have saved me again and again, it keeps my brain from permaly death, so that the physical body can survive the constant modification and side effects of chemical enhancers, and every time I experience a vicious battle, my combat power will increase, and the E-cells in my body will evolve. ”

"Sounds like some kind of alien bloodline with monkey tails. Zuo Dao said jokingly.

"It's not as good as what you say, it's a comic book thing. The tailor said, "The E-cells have not yet evolved to the point where they can evolve by constantly harming themselves, and their potential can only be stimulated when they are on the verge of extreme performance in battle." ”

In his cold tone, the gambling snake brought the topic back to the key point: "Going back to the part about 'devouring' just now, what is the difference between Edmund Lee's 'abnormal' cells and the usual ones?"

The tailor thought for a moment: "Just give an example...... When I fight against a master who is much stronger than me, it is possible that the E-cells in my body will be activated at a very critical moment, thus improving my abilities in all aspects related to combat. For example, if my opponent is very fast, then my dynamic vision will be strengthened, the reaction interval of my nerves will be shortened, and the instinct of momentary anticipation will also be improved. But there is a limit to these, and the effect of the lifting is generally slow. And most importantly...... It was impossible to grow a third eye from my forehead, or a new pair of ears on either side of my neck......

However, the cells on Edmund Lee's corpse have a very fast evolutionary rate, and will also 'phagocytosis', and then evolve from phagocytosis to proliferation. For example, if you use a cold weapon with a very hard hard weapon to cut it, its instinctive reaction may be to grow a turtle-like shell in a short period of time, don't think that at this time it will choose to swallow dozens of turtles, and it is basically impossible to have turtles nearby for it to devour, so it will take local materials, eat a few living people, use their bones as raw materials, and discharge hydroxyapatite crystals in the pores around its body, and a layer of bones will grow out quickly and become the armor of its outer skin. ”

"Wouldn't this creature have no weaknesses? Even if it did, it could be compensated for by genetic changes and constant corrections to **. Zuo Dao asked.

"Isn't the weakness already on display before our eyes? The blood owl replied directly: "Heat." He looked at the tailor, "We'll talk about that later, and then you talk about pollution." ”

The tailor replied, "Actually, you should also know, this can only be said to be an accident caused by various coincidences. A few days ago, our Director and Chief Hess had gone to Tiandu for a secret meeting, and on that day, our institute had been attacked by a group of local Atlantic City guerrillas.

At that time, in addition to Edmund Lee's E cells, there was also a dangerous substance in the warehouse, the Proliferation stock solution, which was not supposed to have a finished product stored, but because a large number of doses were made in the previous operation, it was not consumed, so about 500 mg of the finished product was left undestroyed. ”