dawn effect

Chapter 57 Pluto Warrior
The monster was still in the shape of a human. According to Tangning's eyes, his height was similar to his own.

The whole body of the monster has no hair, and its body has tree-like muscle lines, which are tightly wrapped by dark red skin.

The thin strips of muscle are so overdeveloped that they completely cover its sexual characteristics, the ear holes, eyes, and nostrils of the facial features. Except for the strands of thin flesh clinging to the bones, there is only one sheet covered with flesh. A mouth with several layers of sharp teeth.

Four variants.

The mutant kept leaning forward, roaring at the Pluto warrior, resisting the VHF recording played by it, and constantly agitating his strong muscles through movements, as if trying to scare Tang Ning away in this way.

This method is effective for the rest of the undead. Except for the Pluto warrior, those undead couldn't bear the roar between the two strong men, and finally ran to the dark place to hide.

Zhang Qiuyi stretched out her hand a little in the void, and the roar of the Pluto warrior stopped immediately.

The fourth-level mutant seemed to be inspired, and suddenly rushed towards Tang Ning, holding his hands and feet together in the air, and his movements were very strange.

It was only then that Tangning realized that this thing should not be described in terms of two hands and two feet. Preparingly speaking, the two feet have evolved into human hands, equivalent to a four-handed monster.

In a flash, Tangning slipped behind a tree.

The mutant threw himself onto the tree, as stable as an ape, without a moment's hesitation, his right hand fished for Tangning behind the tree.

Tangning waved her hand, and the long knife made a sharp whistling sound, and slashed at the mutant's claws.

However, the mutant was so agile that he retracted his hand in time in the midst of danger!
Aware of her troubles, Tangning decided to open another battlefield and rushed towards the crossroads across the park.

Dealing with such a nimble mutant in the woods is like fighting against yourself.

However, the fourth-level mutants also have considerable intelligence. They seemed to have expected Tangning to make such a choice. They appeared in front of Tangning first, blocking Tangning's path. Two hands with sharp claws, one grabbed Tangning's long knife, He only grabbed Tangning's head.

Such an agile fourth-level mutant was somewhat beyond Tangning's expectations. Before dealing with such things, they were all traps and glutinous rice balls. Only now did Tangning realize that she was a little reckless.

He could only stand up the long knife, and when the mutant was about to grab him with both hands, he suddenly bent over, and while avoiding the grab of his head, he twitched the long knife.

Of the monster's two hands, one missed, and the other grabbed the blade of the long knife, but it happened to catch up with Tangning's swipe.

The long knife is not particularly sharp, but with the huge power of the mutant and the Pluto warrior, the effect is extraordinary. Half of the paw of the fourth-level mutant was instantly blown away by the knife!

"Hiss—" the mutant let out a scream like a scream, and suddenly flew out a long barbed tongue from its mouth, shooting towards Tang Ning's head.

"Damn!" Tangning hadn't recovered her balance, so she raised her wrist to block the sudden blow.

His tongue immediately wrapped around Tangning's wrist, and he flinched suddenly, wanting to drag Tangning over.

In the blink of an eye, Tangning forgot the weight of the Pluto warrior. At this moment, she felt a tightening of her wrist before she realized it. She immediately grabbed the tongue with her hand, and turned around suddenly while waving her arm!
The huge body of the fourth-level mutant was actually uprooted from the ground by the Pluto warrior, and the tongue carried the huge body, and swept it fiercely onto a big tree.

"Packa——" the mutant's hands and feet were nimble, and he even stretched out his hands and feet in the air, and propped himself up on the tree first, protecting his body.

However, this impact also exceeded the load that the mutant's hands and feet could bear, and a deformity visible to the naked eye occurred at the left hand and right foot of the mutant supported on the tree. The bone fork pierced through the muscle skin behind the mutant's hands, knees and elbows, and exposed from the front of the joint!
This blow abolished two-thirds of the mutant's combat strength, and the mutant fell to the ground immediately, struggling like a drunk person, but he was staggering and unable to stand up.

The mutant twisted and roared crazily, and many undead were summoned by it from the shadows.

This time, without waiting for Zhang Qiuyi's action, Tangning directly played the roars that she had collected, scaring the undead people back.

Tangning lifted the long knife, slowly approached the fourth-level mutant, and then slashed down!

The only intact paw of the level [-] mutant left the body, and Zhang Qiuyi's voice sounded immediately, "Tangning, that's enough! Let's deal with the mutant first, and there are still tasks to do."

"What mission?"

"You have to go to the Affiliated Hospital of Medical University next door to get something. The route map has been sent to you."

"receive."

Tangning walked to a small car, smashed the glass with a fist, tore off the leather seat cover and seat belt on the driver's seat, and walked back.

Putting the cover on the fourth-level mutant's head, and binding the struggling mutant with a seat belt, Tangning dragged the mutant and walked towards the hospital.

There were several ambulances parked under the hospital building. Tangning opened the door, took out the stretcher from the car, tied the mutant to it, and then put it into the car, closing the door.

Following the directions on the map, Tangning entered the basement of the hospital and came to a department marked with an infection sign - Department of Infectious Diseases.

There is a research laboratory of a medical university here, and fortunately, the freezing equipment is still in operation, what Zhang Qiuyi asked him to take were some samples frozen inside.

Put the sample into the cryogenic transfer box and put it into a cavity in the chest of the Pluto warrior. Tangning came out of the hospital and took out the stretcher that was tied with the fourth-level mutant from the ambulance, shook off the wheels, and dragged it to the west station. Advance to base and return.

When the Pluto fighters returned to the Supo Interchange on the Third Ring Road, the soldiers stationed around and the workers who cleaned up the environment all cheered loudly.

Send the fourth-level mutant into a special armored transport vehicle according to the instructions, and return to the starting point. The engineer rushed up with the team just now and began to spray disinfectant on the Pluto warriors.

Tangning opened the chest storage room and handed him the small box containing the samples.

"Beautiful!" As the door of the Pluto eco-cabin opened, cheers and applause erupted in the laboratory of the Military Industry Bureau.

Tang Lujin rushed forward and gave Tangning a big hug, "You are so powerful, Brother Tang! I never imagined that the Pluto warrior could exert such great power in your hands!"

Tangning was so embarrassed and afraid that Tang Lujin would fall, so she accepted her warm embrace in a daze, and then quickly put Tang Lujin down.

Wang Li seemed to be very fond of Zhang Qiuyi and Tang Lujin, and didn't care about Tang Lujin's outrageous behavior. After Tangning put Tang Lujin down, she smiled and said, "Let's go to the analysis room."

A few people sat down in the analysis room, and Wang Li called up the video shot by the drone: "Tangning, do you think you're still used to it?"

Tang Ning said, "I was a little uncomfortable at first, but afterward I felt a lot more relaxed."

Wang Li smiled and said: "Yes, I see that you are in good physical condition. We later increased the upper limit of the super-sense of the Pluto eco-cabin to 110%, and we did not see any physiological abnormalities in you."

Zhang Qiuyi was very satisfied with this experiment: "Tangning, based on your personal experience, what do you think needs to be improved regarding the Pluto Warrior?"

"Well..." Tangning pondered for a while, "This is too much. I think the most needed improvement is that the Pluto warriors themselves lack some important perceptions."

"For example, here, when the fourth-level mutant sticks out its tongue and wraps around its wrist, I reacted after I felt the imbalance. In fact, it can be done earlier."

"How to say?"

"Virtual Reality." Tangning said, "Although Pluto Warriors themselves don't have this kind of perception, the Virtual Reality Eco-Cabin can simulate this kind of perception and let the operator feel it."

Zhang Qiuyi understood a bit: "That is to say, through computational simulation, those senses that Pluto warriors lack, such as the sense of touch, are simulated in the virtual cabin so that you can feel them?"

"That's what it means, so that when the tongue touches my wrist, I can react immediately, and according to my normal reaction, it should be to cut off the tongue with a knife, not when it can't drag me. It’s time to make follow-up actions.”

"Speaking of this, there is another problem, that is, I am not very familiar with the Pluto warrior itself. When fighting, I still habitually substitute my own parameters instead of robot parameters, thinking that I still weigh more than 100 kilograms. In this state, many tactics were improperly applied.”

"This requires long-term practice, both virtual and actual combat."

"There is also the weapon system. The external alloy armor is purely defensive, which is actually a bit wasteful."

I called up a few pictures of mutated beetles and reptiles from my own system: "Look, these animals have evolved some bone spurs near the joints. In fact, the armor of Hades warriors can also be used for reference. On the knees, elbows, and even The head is designed with a similar stabbing blade, which does not affect the movement, but also can strengthen the joint protection, and can also be used for attack."

There are many more places like this. After only one battle, Tangning raised countless design questions about the actual combat. Tang Lujin nodded like a chicken pecking rice, and faithfully recorded it on his light screen.

After Tangning finished introducing many improvement ideas, he finally said, "The weapon system is very important. Cold weapons alone are of limited use. We should develop special dual-standard weapons for Pluto fighters."

"Did Lu Jin remember everything?" Wang Li asked.

"Yeah! I've written it all down. Sister Qiuyi and I will continue to improve after we get down!"

Only then did Wang Li say to Tangning, "The capture of the D71 mutant went so smoothly this time, Tangning, you really did a great job."

"Is there anything special about this variant?"

Wang Li's eyes immediately became a little deep: "It's not too special, but he has a resident chip on his body."

"It used to be a resident of the settlement?" Tangning couldn't help being surprised.

"Yes." Zhang Qiuyi pulled out the file: "Its predecessor is Zhou Ze, a resident of the settlement, number 351836, and his occupation is a wilderness hunter."

Tangning suddenly thought of the reason, "No. [-] injection?"

"Yes, Zhou Ze was one of the early victims of the No. [-] injection, and later disappeared. During the process of cleaning up the old city of Shudu, we found his trace again, and he has become a fourth-level mutant."

(End of this chapter)