Chapter Ninety-Eight: Mutation

The information associated with the base intelligence lieutenant comes from a top-secret piece of intelligence from the federal military.

This information is about the "Space Marine" research project, and it mentions the most important aspects of making a "Star Marine".

"Highly effective boosters", "retroviruses", and "type A mutant viruses" are the key to the human modification of the "Space Marine" project.

Among them, the "Type A mutant virus", which has always been called a zombie virus by Tang Hao, was born in a top-secret laboratory of the federal military, and even the intelligent adjutant of the base could not trace its origin.

The "Highly Effective Enhancer" comes from the artificial Creek, a genetically engineered creation of the Federation Star Field, and both the "Journey to the Underworld" and the "Fifteenth District" have special plantations.

The last one, the "retrovirus", the most familiar "retrovirus", is the HIV virus, which can cause the human immunodeficiency syndrome.

Scientists in the federal government have been trying to control "retroviruses" by genetic screening and modification, but the variants they cause have been unstable.

Therefore, the use of "retroviruses" to modify the human body is strictly forbidden by law, and only the military dares to secretly conduct experiments on death row prisoners.

This is also the reason why the success rate of the transformation of "Space Marine" is only 1 in 10,000.

"This machine found such information from the database, after the start of the 'Shelter Project', in order to allow the people to better adapt to the environment, an experimental genetic improvement program was carried out on the planet 'Uriel'......"

The adjutant posted the picture on the screen: "This is a large-scale genetic improvement program, and about 10,000 people have been vaccinated against 'retrovirus'. ”

Tang Hao looked at the picture on the screen, and the person in the picture looked very familiar to him.

That's right, the faces of these people are exactly the same as those of the strong man with antlers and the strange face in the green mist.

Their faces were covered in green moss, with protruding eyeballs and cracked jaws.

"So, these people are all victims of that genetic improvement program?" Tang Hao suddenly felt that those who made decisions thousands of years ago were a little disgusting.

However, the base's intelligence lieutenant replied, "No, they are not victims, and the genetic improvement program has been very successful." ”

"The vaccinated people have a strong ability to resist cold, and can obtain the energy to maintain their own activities by eating some special fungi."

"If the goal is survival, after this genetic modification, they will be able to survive in a dark and cold world."

The adjutant then posted a picture: "However, there was a glaring omission in this plan later. ”

"The original plan was to launch a full-scale rollout on Uriel immediately after a small-scale pilot."

"However, the terrible image of the reformed caused extreme panic among the rest of the population, and led to the forceful expulsion of the reformed people."

"Those who have been reformed are called mutants, and there are even many who don't want to call them humans, and they have been banished by mainstream society to the cold north of the continent."

Tang Hao saw the reports left at that time, and the people were obviously very resistant to this kind of genetic modification.

"It's all connected, mutants and banishments, and a sense of belonging to human identity......" he sighed faintly.

"But this still doesn't solve the most critical problem," Tang Hao continued to ask: "Who is that Roshan, the person who incarnated as Roshan?" How did he do it? ”

The lieutenant cut through another window, revealing the desert south of Hobruns.

"Xerxies, their individual strength is not strong, even after falling into a state of rage, at most they can only reach the upper limit of ordinary people's strength."

"However, they have the special ability to gather the power of multiple people together and create the 'Death', the strength and speed of the 'Death' are very terrifying, and it is almost impossible for ordinary people to contend with."

"And the machine gets a key message from the data, those mutants, their power can also be concentrated in some way."

The adjutant then posted a picture of a group of mutants, and in the middle of them was an individual who was clearly several times larger.

The individual had knotted muscles all over his body, and his lower limbs were quite strong because of his weight support, and his body was completely out of proportion.

Tang Hao was silent for a while and said, "You mean, that mountain of meat was formed by countless mutants gathering their own strength?" ”

The adjutant replied, "It's very likely." ”

Tang Hao said again: "This also makes a bit of sense, you see, those barbarians are mutants, but they say that they are blessed by the 'giant beast' to survive in the ice and snow, which is a little inconsistent with our inference." ”

The adjutant said, "Perhaps in the early days, ordinary mutants did not meet the conditions for immortality, and they still reproduced in a normal way of reproduction. ”

"And it's possible that the newborn individual is not affected by the 'retrovirus,' so they need to get the newborn to accept the ...... Roshan's viral infection is what they call a blessing. ”

Tang Hao paused and said, "Maybe, in order to survive in such an extreme environment, life is really everything......

……

Early the next morning, the "high-dimensional projection scanning" full of energy immediately scanned the location of the convoy.

The result is indeed as Elena said, this is the coast, but the ocean below is frozen, and it is about ten meters thick, which is enough to carry heavy vehicles.

"Perhaps...... The entire northern ocean is frozen? Can we reach the Arctic continent directly through the ice? Tea Powder said on a whim.

White Tang is not an adventurous person, and he doesn't intend to put everyone in the snow and ice for a mission that he doesn't know if he can do.

"In the absence of security, no one of us on the 'Journey to the Underworld' is allowed to take such an adventure." White Tang said in a decisive word.

"Then again, why don't there be architectural drawings such as shipyards in the Federation's general colonial command base, don't you need surface and underwater combat?" White Tang complained.

Cha Mo also said, "Yes, I have only seen the little wooden boat that Hoblens and them built until now......"

"If we can build a big ship like the Giant Rhino, we can cross even the cold oceans, right?"

White Tang smiled: "With the size of the Giant Rhino, it can be considered a big ship?" The real big ships are tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of tons, well, you have too little knowledge. ”