Walking in the twisted and deformed maintenance tunnel, Andy feels as if he is walking in the esophagus of a giant beast.... Or rectum?

The flames that filled the door only burned away the vines a few meters away, and these guys were blocking the entire passage, and there was no point in just entering such a distance, the signal of the machine was still a long way away.

Looking at the slowly wriggling creatures that were tangled together, Andy pulled out the injector that Diana had given him, and he had observed and asked Diana about how this thing changed ammunition and how it worked on the enemy.

The answer is that there is a delicate unit at the front end of the gun, which, after being subjected to rear pressure, will be shaped by the muzzle to eject a small bit of special organic gel inside along with its encapsulated contents, which, due to the physical properties of the gel, crystallizes at the moment of ejection to form a special type of content

"Warhead". This gel crystal is hard enough to shoot through leather armor with hydraulic drive, but not much for heavier armor.

However, armor piercing is not its goal, it aims to quickly spread its contents through the body of the enemy it is shot, thus causing damage.

As for how the depleted gel is replaced, Diana explained that the gel inside the unit is designed to be an organic substance that can multiply on its own when exposed to radiation, and therefore contains a miniature radioactive source inside the unit.

It can support 10 shots at a time, after which the muzzle triggers an automatic protector lock and waits for the gel to multiply on its own.

The metal canister at the back of the gun contains the contents that will be encased in it as the gel is ejected and enter the enemy's body, which Diana said could support 1,000 shots.

"biubiubiu..."Three strange sounds rang out, and the injector shot several projectiles, successfully piercing the vine's sturdy skin.

After only a few seconds, the vines that had been shot became wilted and seemed to feel intense pain, and soon after the wilted vines began to secrete a rapidly pink corrosive liquid and whipped everything around them, but to no avail, they soon died completely.

Andy was surprised to find that after only three shots, the large vines began to show similar symptoms, and they died one after another as if they were suffering from some kind of extremely painful infectious blight.

"What's in there, Diana? How can it be so effective? My partner also likes to use poison, but she has little to do with the mutated plants in the nursery. Diana's voice came from the beep boy.

"It is an anti-biological organic agent obtained after purification and adjustment using FEV, and I warn you once again, you must not be contaminated in the slightest, otherwise the consequences will be unpredictable." Andy heard the word FEV, and instantly thought of a lot of things, such as some old Western things that the super mutant he met at Mesa Verde had said, such as some words that Harold once muttered....

"I've heard the term, but what exactly is FEV?" Waiting for the plants in front of him to die completely, Andy took the opportunity to stand in the distance and chat.

"The forced evolution virus, the full name of the abbreviation FEV, is a retrovirus as the name suggests. It was first artificially adapted by the NBC department of Western Science and Technology from a mysterious virus of unknown origin, and was once called the Pan-immunization Vaccine, which the government and Western Science and Technology at the time claimed that this project could develop a vaccine to eradicate the new plague, but in the end it was proven to lack real efficacy against the new plague virus. ”

When the pan-immunization vaccine proved to be ineffective in countering the virus, Western Science and Technology then tried to start a genetically modified crop project based on the virus to solve the growing food crisis in some parts of SA at that time. However, the project was halted by the military at its very beginning, and then the project was fully controlled by the SA Army due to its military potential, and all related research was transferred from Western Technologies to the Mariposa military base in California, where the military changed the structure of the virus to Quadrupleura and renamed it the Forced Evolution Virus. As Andy listened to this, he felt that he no longer couldn't listen to a word like he used to, and now he felt that he could understand something more deeply.

"I've seen what the wastelanders call super mutants, who seem to have been originally human, but have now become a different kind of creature, with an astonishing physical ability that can physically resist bullets or tear through steel..... It is said that their change came from FEV" Diana thought for a moment and gave her speculation.

"I've never observed what you're saying... So-called super mutants, but according to some of the information I have obtained, there are reports similar to yours in several secret biological experiments conducted before the war, a review of the physical abilities of mutants transformed by humans under the FEV virus. This is also easy to explain: FEV is a superretrovirus with rapidly changing absorption properties, which begins to replicate host dNA as soon as it enters the organism, and then puts it into exons like RNA. The virus acts on the organism in a typical way of viral infection, reintroducing the pre-programmed introns into the host cell, and this series of changes will cause the host to begin to rapidly transform from a genetically different organism. ”

"Because FEV has a protein sheath reinforced with ionized hydrogen, it can absorb neutrons but does not produce radiation, so it cannot be killed by radiation, and when FEV floods the host as a whole, it can give the host the ability to be immune to the effects of radiation. Virus-modified dNA-corrected introns eliminate recessive genes that cause congenital diseases, while creating an extremely strong immune system that makes it difficult for any infection or disease to appear in mutants. It can also greatly enhance the cell division rate, so that the normal mitosis rate reaches 115% of ordinary people, and even non-regenerating tissues such as nerve tissue can regenerate rapidly, which gives mutants the ability to recover beyond ordinary people. The vines began to retreat deeper, and Andy stepped forward.

"Speaking of which, super mutants are almost invincible, what else are they afraid of?" Diana listed a few.

"Due to their rapid metabolism, mutants inevitably need a lot of energy for their daily activities, but if the amount of intake is not enough, their highly exuberant appetite is likely to overwhelm their sanity, which will affect the mutants' habits, and they will most likely need to hunt and hoard large amounts of flesh for food all year round."

"If a mutant is unable to eat for a long time due to force majeure, the tissues in his body will begin to slowly fail, and in an experiment known to me, mutants who have been locked up and have not been fed for up to a year have symptoms similar to severe manic psychosis, and their skin color has changed from green to pale due to changes in the tissues in their bodies, and the mutant has died of multi-organ failure after four months, confirming that mutants can starve to death." Andy shook his head, and could tell the tragic story behind the data.

Diana's description doesn't stop.

"In addition, if you want to kill a mutant quickly, there is an easier way, although the vast majority of biological weapons are ineffective or almost ineffective against mutants due to the effect of FEV, but the FEV virus itself has another property. FEV virus infection is likely to be fatal for individuals with some degree of genetic mutation due to radiation contamination, as it causes introns to lose their targeting, with a high probability of transcription errors and ultimately death. ”

"On the other hand, for individuals who have already suffered from mild FEV infection, reinfection will lead to a strong rejection reaction, which will also cause fatal damage to the infected person, based on this principle, the FEV agent made by purifying and specializing FEV has a theoretical basis, which can easily kill any radiation-induced mutant or mutant caused by FEV infection under the premise of sufficient dose." Andy lifted the injector and stared at the jar behind him.

"It sounds like this thing has the potential to wipe out all mutated creatures in the wasteland, and those who are mad ghouls, mutated animals, or ferocious monsters will all perish under the effects of this poison." Diana nodded in acknowledgement, but also said the price.

"Most of the humans living in the wasteland are genetically what you call mutated creatures, and so are you. FEV poison is hydrophilic, so if combined with a certain facility and a device such as the Eden Creator, it is theoretically possible to quickly spread FEV poison in the water vein, which will not only kill all mutated animals and mutants, but also wipe out most of the survivors in the wasteland. Andy, who stepped on the withered vines and continued to go deeper into them, asked as if unintentionally.

"Diana, will you one day spread this thing out there in order to realize the ideal of ecological restoration?" Diana seemed to know he would ask.

"No, that's contrary to my original intention, the purpose of ecological restoration is still to protect humanity, not to completely restore the world to the pre-war period, which is destined to never return to the past, and the definition of humanity should not be an immutable analogy with the pre-war period..... It would not be unethical to carry out such an act of murder now, unless.... There are groups that redefine humanity in a political sense. A thick vine moved from its outreach towards it, and at the end of its front was a bloodshot one

"Eyeballs".