Chapter 721: Vulnerability
The red-haired man Froman pulled out a tin box from under the bed, he opened the box, took out a thick stack of documents from it and put it in front of Zero and said, "These are the base diaries, as well as some of the experiment reports. It's the documents we've been finding from the Andula Worm's stronghold over the years. It helps us understand many things, including the fact that the Papal Chamber deceived us. ”
Zero took it, and Froman didn't bother him, and left the room straight. As a result, there was only one person left in the room, and the information had been sorted out and the date was used as the axis. Although the information is incomplete, it can also give Zero a rough idea. Before I knew it, time was passing in the middle of the reading, during which Froman came in twice and brought some meat from the specimens and water with a certain amount of radiation.
Whether it's food or water, it tastes terrible. But they are able to provide some energy to Zero, so Zero doesn't mind eating it. As for the toxins or radiation contained in these two things, they are neutralized by the substances produced by the void. Of course, Zero has more haode food, which is the brain crystal of Andula worm. Froman has already said that this thing can be absorbed and greatly increase its own energy.
Zero also tried it, but found that the effect was not as good as expected. Admittedly, the energy reserves of the brain crystal are still considerable. If it can absorb it all, it is equivalent to 20% of the energy level of zero. Unfortunately, this is only a theoretical value, and when the layer of spar outside the brain crystal is broken, the energy inside will quickly evaporate. Even if some of them are intercepted by the human body, because of the different life forms, there will be "impurities" in the brain crystal that cannot be absorbed.
Eliminating these acrobatics, the amount of energy left was pitiful, plummeting from 20% to 3%.
Of course, for low-level abilities or people like Zogna, whose bodies have been mutated, the value of brain crystals is still very high. The former is because the energy reserves are not on the same order of magnitude at all, and the energy that is too small for zero is a huge number for a low-level person. The latter is due to physical abnormalities, and the energy purity requirements for brain crystals are relatively reduced, perhaps the way they are now is also due to the long-term absorption of Andulla worm's brain crystals, so the utilization rate of brain crystals for Zogna's people is undoubtedly the highest.
However, after returning to the fortress, it may be possible to find an effective way to extract the energy of the brain crystal through experiments, but this will have to wait until you leave here.
The history of this base can be traced back to the time when the city of New Rome was first established, and according to the data, after the establishment of the city of Rome, after Sauron sought to seize the papal throne and become the real master of the papal chamber, he launched an iron-blooded expedition on the bloodstained road. After finally clearing the entire Western Continent of almost all dangerous species, Zoro began to establish this secret base in the hinterland of the Eternal Mountains.
Like the Central Continent, the Western Continent also developed biochemical technology at the beginning. Sauron's request was to create an army of capable soldiers, who must be absolutely loyal and strong. So at that time, the "Chosen Jihua" was quietly born.
Sauron had earned the respect of the entire continent for his unsurpassed exploits, and the people of the continent, especially the young people, had a fanatical blind belief in him that he had been appointed by God to save them. Riding on this frenzy, Zoro launched the "Chosen One", Jihua, a continent that recruits able-bodied young men and women between the ages of 13 and 25 with the sole aim of creating an invincible army of iron.
So from all corners of the continent, all those who met the requirements flocked to the city of New Rome in large numbers. There, they undergo rigorous examinations and physical examinations. More than 90 percent of the people were brushed off, and only about 10 percent of the young people passed and quietly moved to this hinterland in the Eternal Mountains.
Those who were not selected at that time were very upset, and they did not know that they were the real lucky ones. After the so-called Chosen One left the city of Rome, no news came back. They're either dead, or they're the ones out there.
Sauron recruited them not to train them into iron-blooded soldiers, but to transform them directly to achieve his goal of building an army of capable people. At that time, there was a blind frenzy in the entire Western Continent, and both Sauron and his scientists were convinced that they could change the course of life in place of the Creator.
The total victory of the Bloodstained Road has swelled the confidence of these people to unimaginable levels. It is conceivable that, under such a fanatical belief, any experiment simply lacks a lot of necessary data to support it. Sometimes, with a flash of inspiration, a lab director will immediately experiment with a chosen one, and rarely verify it with other organisms before modifying the human body.
In such a situation, the young men and women who were selected became white rats. For them, this base is no longer the heaven they imagined, but a real hell!
In less than a year, the number of Chosen Ones dropped sharply to about 200 with less than 1,000 people, and corpses were thrown outside the base almost every day during that time. The base didn't even bother to dispose of their corpses, leaving them to the most primitive decomposition of their corpses by the beasts outside.
With no progress in transforming Jihua, one of the directors whimsically started with other life modes. He proposed the idea of abandoning the shackles of human form and seeking inspiration from other life forms to create a biochemical army. I have to say that even Sauron back then was deeply influenced by the theocratic theory, and he was not interested in inhuman soldiers, and he could even be said to be disgusted.
Jihua, who can transform ordinary people into capable people, has not been able to achieve results, and Zoro has the idea of giving it a try, and approves the director to conduct research. However, the project will be independent, and the budget for the funds he can get is limited. But even so, the Director is unrelenting in his commitment to the project, Dr. Andula, the creator of the Andula Worm.
Two years later, the prototype of the Andula worm was successfully bred. This bug is a natural life hunter, and its prototype is only the size of a puppy, but it already has a high IQ. In many experiments, it has been proved that it is only a prototype and can easily kill several dangerous mutant beasts that were few in the Western Continent at that time. And in Professor Andura's report, when this kind of insect enters the mature stage, they are only one line lower than those with eighth-order abilities. However, the eighth order is difficult to find, but the Andula worm can be mass-produced, which is the most intuitive difference between the two.
An eighth-order against an Andula worm is naturally a complete victory, and then in the face of a hundred, he will feel pressure, if it is a thousand or even larger, then the eighth-order will definitely drown in the sea of worms.
In Dr. Andula's modified Jihua, he will also design a reproductive function for Andula worms. In this way, the Pope's Hall only needs to demarcate an area for this bug to breed on its own, and the Pope's Hall can harvest thousands of bugs equivalent to about the seventh order in a breeding cycle. Sauron only needs time to build an invincible biochemical army.
Due to Dr. Andula's progress, Jihua the Chosen One was almost completely abandoned. In the past two years, the project host of the Chosen Jihua has only taken some inspiration from it and created a complete eighth-order powerhouse. However, the resources invested are three times the annual budget of the Order, and the difference in cost performance is obvious to all. So after Zoro recalled the Eighth Order back to Rome, he ordered to stop the Chosen Jihua project and instead invest in Dr. Andulla's Worm Army, Jihua.
The Chosen One Jihua ran aground, and in order to prevent the outside world from knowing the truth about this Jihua, the test subjects and materials naturally had to be destroyed. However, just as the survivors were being herded into an enclosed space to be cleaned, an accident happened.
In fact, this is the end of the data diary, and the rest of the diary is recorded by Fromman himself. Subsequent investigation by Fromman and access to an experimental diary of Dr. Andula confirmed that the Andula Worms had betrayed their creator. The base was destroyed by the Andula worm, and Dr. Andula himself remained in the specimen room for three days and nights before being found and killed by his so-called child.
But in the intervening three days, Dr. Andullah speculated about the bug's betrayal. At that time, a large number of bugs appeared in the base, and they suddenly poured out all at once, and carried out a bloodbath on the entire base. This should not have happened, the Andula worms have been under the close supervision of the doctor, and there are only about ten of them, there should not be so many bugs.
With such a large number of insects, it is clear that the Andula worm has actually had the function of reproduction. Then the Doctor did not see the gene fragments in their genes that could reproduce offspring before, and they should have been deliberately hidden by them. In this way, the intelligence of the Andula worms is more terrifying than their liliang.
During the experiment, it is inevitable that some bugs will die. And the dead bugs are also exposed to the wilderness like those chosen ones, and the doctor guesses that the biggest loophole in this incident is in the treatment of corpses. Or maybe the Andula Worms have seen the base's handling of corpses in their eyes, and with their intelligence, security can find this loophole.
As soon as one or two bugs survive and get lucky enough to get outside the base, they're essentially free. And in the doctor's calculations, as long as there is a breeding cycle of about a year, the Andula worm will be able to produce an army. And now his idea has been confirmed, but it is too expensive.
Dr. Zuihou suggested that the Andula worm came from his hands, and that his familiarity with the species was unparalleled. Once this kind of bug forms a colony, then there will definitely be a queen, and the queen will be the brain of the entire race, and it is the supreme commander. If the Papal Hall wants to fight back, then the Queen of Worms must be killed first. As soon as the queen dies, the Andula worm produces a devastating chain reaction.
This is a backdoor that the Doctor has reserved for the Andula Worm gene fragment in order to prevent this from happening. It's just that the Andura Worm slaughter came too quickly and suddenly, and the doctor didn't have time to react, and disaster had already struck.