Chapter 16: Mutation

Lu Ming knew that something must have happened in Luo Yang's body. Diaphragm

He was on full alert, staring closely at Luo Yang's body in the tempered glass, which was fixed by the restraint belt. So he saw that after Luo Yang shed "bloody tears" from the corners of his eyes, his body suddenly began to tremble slightly.

The trembling grew more and more intense, and even the hospital bed beneath him began to rattle.

At this moment, the members of the medical team had already come to the tempered glass, but they were blocked by Lu Ming's outstretched hand. So the group also stayed outside the glass and paid close attention to Luo Yang's changes.

In a moment, a doctor whispered, "His skin is dark!" ”

Lu Ming observed carefully and saw that Luo Yang's bare skin on the outside was indeed slightly darker than before. Not only that, but the skin seemed to have dried up a little and became a little wrinkled.

Lu Ming's heart was racing, and a terrible thought flashed in his heart.

"Perhaps...... This is the next step after 'madness', 'mutation'? Luo Yang: he, he, he's going to become a monster? "Ahh

"All stand back, evacuate! Guards first level alert! ”

The group immediately evacuated the room. The heavy steel gate closed, and Lu Ming breathed a sigh of relief. The guards hurried in, loaded with guns, and at once occupied every direction of the steel room. Lu Ming led the doctors to the monitoring room in a hurry, and continued to observe the changes that occurred on Luo Yang's body through monitoring.

With this interval and seeing Luo Yang again, Lu Ming could clearly see that Luo Yang's skin was getting darker and drier. Not only was it dry, but it was also faintly covered with something like scales, and from there there was a faint rock-like color.

Lu Ming looked at a doctor, and the doctor shook his head in horror. Obviously, what was happening in front of him at this moment was beyond his knowledge.

He had absolutely no idea what was going on.

Lu Ming continued to look at Luo Yang, and saw Luo Yang's five fingers together, and the skin and flesh on the palm of his hand quickly dried up and hardened, like a piece of clothing, "off" from the bones. And the bones that were exposed were also fused together at this moment, like a knife.

His body was still trembling violently, and the flesh and blood of his whole body were changing rapidly. He opened his mouth silently, as if he were howling, but no sound came out. His facial muscles contorted, and his expression looked both painful and eerie with a smile. Diaphragm

A bone-chilling chill rose from behind Lu Ming.

Before Luo Yang, Lu Ming already knew that after the madness, it was very likely that it would be a mutation, and the human body would really become a monster. He had already been mentally prepared for this. But when this scene actually happened in front of him, he still felt some irrepressible fear.

From the unknown, from the mystery, from the deepest fears of the heart.

He barely suppressed the fear and panic, still allowing himself to focus on the mutating human body.

Maybe I should do something about it now. Lu Ming thought so. But after a few moments, he realized that he could do nothing but be on guard to prevent the strange things that were happening in the glass room from affecting the outside world.

The only thing left to do was to wait for it to continue to mutate, for the mutation process to end.

He saw that Luo Yang's legs and feet were also in a similar situation to his arms at the moment. The flesh and skin were rapidly "peeling off", and the bones of the bare feet were curled up abnormally. Lu Ming looked at it and vaguely felt that the shape was somewhat familiar. When I thought about it again, I immediately realized that this was very consistent with the footprint data I had obtained. Diaphragm

This is another very direct piece of evidence.

Mutation is still happening at a rapid pace. By now, the change had spread from the limbs and head to the torso. The rapidly darkening skin was followed by a violent churn in the abdomen, as if some monster was about to jump out of the stomach. But in the end, no monster jumped out, and the tumbling eventually subsided, but the skin had become as hard as scales.

His body was abnormally crooked, and it was weirdly bent. was originally a height of 1.8 meters, but now it has shrunk to only about 1.4 meters.

However, matter cannot disappear out of thin air. So, where did those substances that were reduced go?

Just when this doubt just popped up in Lu Ming's heart, next to him, a doctor shouted in horror: "Its current body temperature is as high as eighty-seven degrees Celsius!" ”

Eighty-seven degrees Celsius!

Lu Ming was taken aback. Diaphragm

The body temperature of ordinary people is already considered a high fever when it reaches 40 degrees, and it will be difficult to die. But at this moment, the temperature is 87 degrees Celsius, and the water is almost ready to boil.

"The carbon dioxide level in the room is rising rapidly and the oxygen level is decreasing rapidly. In the previous changes, it should have consumed a lot of oxygen! ”

Does it need to breathe oxygen?

A thought flashed in Lu Ming's heart.

He realized that in the previous changes, this monster must have violently consumed the energy in his body.

At this moment, the changes that occurred on Luo Yang's body seemed to be nearing the end. After another violent trembling, it stopped moving completely.

Now, in front of Lu Ming is a monster that Lu Ming can be sure of that will definitely not exist on the earth in the past. Its arms had now turned into bone knives tens of centimeters long, and its head had shrunk by more than four-fifths and had become triangular. The trunk is shriveled and hard, like some kind of carapace, and the legs are pitch black and hard, and the feet resemble the hooves of some animal. Diaphragm

It lay motionless on top of the hospital bed.

In the monitoring room, many doctors, biologists and others were sweating profusely and did not dare to make the slightest sound.

Lu Ming wiped a handful of sweat from his forehead, and his brain spun rapidly.

Before Lu Ming could come up with anything, on the hospital bed, Luo Yang, or the monster, suddenly made a move at this moment.

With a slight movement of its arms, which had been transformed into bone knives, the restraint belts on its body were immediately severed. It sat up, moved its body, shook its triangular head, and finally turned its head to look at the tempered glass.

The next moment, its body bounced up and swooped down on the glass with ferocity. The bone knife of both arms carried the strength of a thousand jun, and suddenly cracked on the tempered glass. There was a loud bang.

In the monitoring room, several experts turned pale, took a few steps back, and sat on the ground. Diaphragm

They were terrified.

Lu Ming also had a huge fear in his heart at that moment. It's as if I'm not looking at the surveillance at the moment, but standing in front of the monster.

"Will it break the glass? When you break the glass, will you break the walls? What if the walls can't stop it? Do you want to shoot or not? ”

At this moment, thousands of thoughts flashed through Lu Ming's mind. The next moment, he saw the monster's body slide off the tempered glass.

There was not the slightest scar on the glass.

Originating from the top technology of human civilization, the creation withstood this test.

Lu Ming couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in his heart. Diaphragm

The monster eventually landed on the ground, which was also made of steel. It landed on all fours, its tiny head raised, and it let out a creaking howl as it looked at the tempered glass in front of it.

The sound is not loud, but it is full of gloomy and terrifying, mixed with a strange atmosphere, which makes people feel tense in their hearts when they hear it, and they can't help but panic, as if they are about to usher in a huge disaster in the next moment.

It crawled on the ground like a beast, sometimes knocking tempered glass with a bone knife, sometimes bumping its body lightly, as if studying its current environment.

Outside the room, the roar of a helicopter could be heard. A moment later, Zhang Dingshan and He Wei rushed in in a hurry.

"Lu Ming, Luo Yang, he has mutated? He ......"

He Wei said eagerly, but before she finished speaking, she stopped unconsciously. Shocked, she looked at the surveillance screen at the monster crawling through the room.

"Really, really turned into a monster? Really, yes, a monster? ...... "Diaphragm."

She unconsciously muttered these words, digesting the shock in her heart.

Zhang Dingshan still maintained his composure at the moment. He looked at Lu Ming solemnly: "Give me the previous video." ”

Lu Ming operated for a while, and then called up the previous record, allowing Zhang Dingshan and He Wei to relive the whole process of mutation.

After reading it, the three of them were silent at the same time. After a long time, Lu Ming said: "It seems that it is this kind of monster that created the blood eucalyptus in the mental hospital." Zhou Tianyang's team has a total of twenty-eight people, which is twenty-eight of these monsters. ”

At this moment, these twenty-eight monsters entered the Nanli Mountain, and no matter how much they searched, they could not find a trace.

"It's powerful, but it's not strong enough to break tempered glass."

Zhang Dingshan said solemnly: "Find a way to fix it again and conduct follow-up research." "Ahh

So far, the monster that Luo Yang has mutated into is the only specimen in his hands. In this case, it is of course necessary to study it and obtain as much data as possible from it in order to increase our understanding of this new creature.

"Contact Qingliang and ask him to mobilize relevant experts to come over."

Lu Ming muttered, "This kind of thing...... Which subject should experts be mobilized? ”

This kind of thing didn't exist on Earth before. In the past, there has never been a situation where one creature has changed into another creature because of a star map.

If you don't look at the star map, you don't have a mutation.

Since it doesn't exist, no one would study such a thing at all.

Zhang Dingshan paused for a moment and continued: "Anyone who touches the edge will be summoned over. "Ahh

"Okay."

He Wei agreed and took out the phone. Zhang Dingshan looked at Lu Ming again: "How is the situation of the animals now?" ”

Lu Ming fixed his mind before replying: "There are no cases of animals mutating. Several of those crazy animals have died at this moment. Veterinarians have examined them and found that the causes of death are generally complex, such as autoimmune disorders, stress mechanisms, organ failure, etc. ”

In this way, animals cannot be mutated. Only humans can change. ”

Lu Ming nodded silently.

Combined with the previous clue that "the higher the IQ, the greater the influence", it seems that the reason for this difference between humans and animals is most likely intelligence.

Because humans have enough intelligence to produce mutations after madness. If the animal lacks intelligence, it is not even qualified for the eventual mutation. Diaphragm

This made a thought flash through Lu Ming's mind: "I don't know if those human individuals with low IQ, such as people with underdeveloped brains due to some kind of disease, will they mutate after seeing the star map?" ”

Some of the more severely ill human individuals have even less IQ than some of the more intelligent animals.

But then, he forcibly dismissed this idea.

It's easy to discard ethics and morality. But if you want to pick it up again, it is very difficult. Perhaps, when it comes to the existential crisis of human beings as a whole, there is no need to worry about ethics and morality, because the meaning of the existence of ethics and morality is to make civilization continue better, and if civilization is gone, ethics and morality will have no meaning.

But at least at this moment, Lu Ming has not seen the need to discard ethics and morality. Therefore, there is no need to think about human experiments for the time being.

At this moment, the head of the guard team has selected the five strongest guards with the best individual quality.

Each of them has crawled out of the sea of corpses and blood. Ordinary severed arms and stumps, flesh and blood flying can no longer touch their nerves. Even in the face of death, these people can still be in danger. But at this moment, in the face of this monster, these people still couldn't control their nervousness. Diaphragm

This comes from the instinct of the organism. After all, the unknown is the scariest thing. For now, they know almost nothing about this monster.

Zhang Dingshan, He Wei, and Lu Ming came to the conference room and watched silently as the head of the guard team mobilized the five guards. After that, the five guards put on helmets, gloves made of special fibers, pants, shoes, tops, etc., put on isolation suits, and carried oxygen cylinders on their backs. When the five of them walked out of the conference room, Lu Ming and the three of them saluted the five people at the same time.

What it means to get up close and personal with this monster and fight it, no one knows. But someone has to do it. At least at this moment, these five people were ready to throw their lives away. Such a person deserves his respect no matter what.

Under outer guard, the five men came to the room where the monster was being held. With a creak, the heavy steel gate was opened, and under Lu Ming's gaze, the monster suddenly bounced up and rushed towards the door.

All four guards hid on either side of the door, and the other confronted the monster, but he was not in danger. He raised the firearm in his hand and pulled the trigger directly. The next moment, a large net rushed towards the monster, covering it with its head.

Afterwards. The four warriors swarmed up, instantly fixed the opening of the large net, and dragged it directly into the room again.