Chapter 36 Mutant Populations (8)
"Because the skin tissue of these mutants has changed, their skin absorbs visible light, but becomes extremely intolerant to light outside of visible light, especially light beyond the visible frequency range......"
Dr. Li thought for a moment, felt that the words seemed a little too stiff, and explained, "Well, that is, very sensitive. ”
Su Ming immediately understood what he meant, "In other words, being irradiated by slightly higher intensity ultraviolet rays will cause them to be injured?" ”
"Clever." Dr. Li complimented, then added, "When facing natural light, the maximum light intensity that these mutants can adapt to, that is, the evening of a cloudy day, even this kind of light can make them feel uncomfortable, so they generally only come out at night, and for them, moonlight is the most suitable light source." ”
Sounds a bit like a zombie or a monster devouring the moonflower...... Su Ming secretly complained and asked again: "Do they need to absorb a lot of water like plants?" ”
"No, they decompose and use the starch produced by photosynthesis in their bodies, which is basically enough to meet their own consumption, but they also drink water."
"Then ......" Su Ming asked a key question, "Will this acquired trait mutated through genetic medicine be inherited through reproduction?" ”
The question silenced Dr. Lee for a moment.
"In fact, the original version of the genetic drug set up can be inherited, which is equivalent to completely changing the genes of the injector, but later in the vote, this plan was rejected."
"Some people are worried that this heritable medicine may have unpredictable consequences, once there is a problem with the medicine, and the victim has already produced offspring, it will be very, very troublesome, as for the other group of people, hehe......"
He sneered disdainfully, "The other group thinks that if this is designed, the descendants of those who have already taken the medicine will not need to buy the medicine, which will make them make a lot less money." ”
"Heh......" Su Ming couldn't help but shake his head when he heard this, and laughed mockingly.
He followed the question just now and asked, "That means that if mutants produce offspring, their offspring will still be the same as humans?" Can mutants reproduce? ”
This time, Dr. Li thought for a while before hesitantly saying: "According to the existing research, the main mutation point of mutants is that the skin and respiratory system have undergone a co-evolution for photosynthesis, as well as the gradual degeneration of the digestive system. ”
"Theoretically, the reproductive system of mutants is not deviant, they can reproduce, and the children they give birth to should also be pure humans."
"But strangely, we haven't been able to find a pregnant mutant, or a baby born in a mutant population," Dr. Lee regretted. ”
"Oh? They can produce pure human offspring, but no babies are born? Could it be that they have a problem with their state, they are not in heat, and they are no longer mating? ”
"Maybe." Dr. Lee was noncommittal.
He stopped and pointed to a building in front of him, "Okay, here, after you go up, if you don't have a name on the door, no one lives there, you can pick whatever you want, the door is unlocked." ”
"There are basic daily necessities in it, fresh water resources are still very abundant, but electricity still has to be saved, I heard that you have been gone for a day, today you will rest early, I still have something, we will come to you tomorrow morning."
"Okay, understood." Su Ming nodded and watched Dr. Li leave.
In fact, at the end of the day, he didn't dare to say why he didn't find out why mutants had produced offspring.
You must know that the good thing that human beings say is that there is no estrus period, and the bad thing is that every day is in estrus.
Mutants have also changed from humans, and since the reproductive system of mutants has not been affected, the related hormones should not disappear, and he doesn't quite believe that mutants can restrain the instinct of animals to estrus.
Then, if you fail to find a "pregnant woman" and a child in the mutant population, there are basically only two possibilities.
First, the mutant population will purge the pregnant mutants and kill them themselves.
Second, mutant populations will protect "pregnant women" and children from human sight.
If it is the first type, then there is another question, what about the corpse of a pregnant woman after being killed? The mutant community doesn't want to keep them.
According to Su Ming's observation and speculation, these survivor camps should take advantage of the daytime to regularly capture mutants for experiments, if the mutants will really kill pregnant mutants on their own, it will be so long, when humans capture mutants, it should also find the corpses of some "pregnant women".
But since there is none, it is likely that the first guess is wrong.
This brings us to the second possibility, where the mutant will protect the "pregnant woman" and the child.
Combined with Su Ming's previous observations of mutants in that town, it is very likely that they have reached the point where they are social animals such as baboons and orangutans, and can easily transmit information through their calls.
And the fact that the response also proves that mutants are a strong "team" group, and it is normal for this group to know how to protect "pregnant women".
Then this has to lead to a question, what will happen to the mutant who has already been born with the baby?
According to Dr. Lee, they are still pure-blooded humans.
Will mutants accept these "anomalous" individuals? If so, how do they raise these non-photosynthetizing human babies?
Do you just rely on that bit of breast milk to keep going?
Su Ming vaguely felt that the hole left by the system for him was in this problem, but unfortunately he had not joined the research of these scientists for the time being.
"Well, when Dr. Li and the others confirm my identity tomorrow, my status should become very high, and I should have direct access to their research data at that time."
At this moment, he had gone upstairs.
After sweeping around, Su Ming casually chose an ownerless room with no name on the door.
Turning on the light, there was all the simple furniture inside, but he didn't see anything to use electricity other than the electric light.
"This also reminds me to save electricity, and there is no place to use electricity."
Su Ming shook his head and smiled, went in and lay down directly on the bed.
He has been driving in the game for so long, he is indeed very tired, and his physical strength is only 26% left, and he should fall into a weak state if he doesn't rest.
And he had observed before that if the player only rested and did not eat, the recovery speed of physical fitness would not be affected in the short term, and the longer the time, it would become very slow, and the longer the time without eating, the slower the recovery speed of physical fitness during rest.
In the end, it almost came to a standstill, at most it was to maintain a non-decline, and it was basically impossible to recover.
Only after eating or eating stamina items will this alternative "fatigue" be refreshed again.
"Alas, this Dr. Li and Dr. Chen are not polite, knowing that I have walked around, but they offered to give me some food first, I was embarrassed to ask for this and that when I first came, I can only wait until tomorrow."
Sighing, Su Ming turned off the light, jin'ru