Rebirth of the Zombie Age

Chapter 17 Evolutionary Theory

The howling of zombies echoes in the city. In this season that symbolizes recovery and hope, their appearance brings death and despair to human beings.

Delicate people are doomed to be eliminated by this great change, and only those with strong adaptability and boldness can survive.

In this aspect, Xu Hao has never lost to anyone.

He buried himself in a construction site, covered his figure with mud, and suppressed all his voices, like a lone wolf waiting for its prey to come to its door, cautious and bold.

Three full hours had passed, and Xu Hao was staring at the entrance of the construction site firmly. During this period, he only blinked once, and this was already the biggest movement he made.

After a long time, there was no other movement except ordinary zombies passing by occasionally.

Just when he thought the plan had failed, a gust of wind came from behind, making him stiff and even stopped breathing, for fear that the other party would notice.

The first thing that caught his eyes was a hand. To be precise, it could hardly be called a hand!

The five fingers are strong and powerful, and the nails on the tips of the fingers are completely different from those of humans. They are thick and sharp, like one side of the sharp claws of a carnivorous animal.Although it still exudes a rotten smell, through the gray skin, the strong muscles underneath are fully revealed.

The way this creature moves is also very similar to that of carnivores. It puts its hands on the ground, no longer uses its feet alone, but crawls forward on all fours.

Because it was directly above Xu Hao, he could clearly observe all the features of its upper body.

To his surprise, in just two days, this zombie has completely lost its original human appearance. Although its skin is still dark gray like cement, its eyes are different from ordinary zombies, and the shadow is the same. The scale layer of the body has completely disappeared, and it is no longer turbid. On the contrary, the light that is unique to intelligent creatures is even more oppressive.

Looking at the teeth in its mouth, they are fine and sharp, and the two canine teeth are twice as long as the other teeth, exposed outside, and the cold light at the tip is palpitating.

Looking down, you can see that the trapezius muscle is raised high at the junction of the neck and the shoulders, making the neck seem to be three times bigger. In addition to the deterrent effect, it also has the function of protecting the vital organs.

The increase in the thickness of the tendon makes it difficult for others to consider whether they can penetrate the thick layer of muscle and hit its vital point directly when they want to attack it from behind.

The two ends of the shoulders, the junction of the arms and the body, appear extremely thick and strong, which can ensure that it can change direction quickly during extreme speed running.

In the middle, the muscles in the chest appear to be relatively weak, but instead, the ribs are densely intertwined, forming a natural protective layer of the skeleton.

Looking at this strange zombie, Xu Hao couldn't help thinking of the mainstream view in future research on zombies - the theory of zombie evolution.

In the previous life, quite a few people believed that the appearance of zombies was not entirely accidental, and could even be regarded as the survival of the fittest under the laws of nature.

This is a hypothesis they have come up with after observing and summarizing zombies for a long time. Although it is a bit unacceptable, it seems very reasonable.

All the characteristics show that zombies seem to be another evolution of human beings.

As we all know, because human beings have learned to use tools and learned to think, after a long period of time, by virtue of a completely different way from other creatures, they finally stand at the top of the biological chain and dominate the life and death of other creatures.

This is the evolutionary direction of human self-selection in the long-term evolution.In this process, our brains are getting more and more developed, and our intelligence is getting higher and higher. Correspondingly, our bodies are showing a tendency to degenerate.

This trend is fully reflected in the process from ape to man.

In fact, as early as the 20s, with the deepening of research, people discovered that bipedal creatures such as orangutans can also use and make simple tools.

This discovery shakes the 100-year-old common sense that people are the only higher animals that can make and use tools.After research and discussion by anthropologists from all over the world, it was unanimously agreed to change the definition of human beings to "higher primates that walk upright on two legs".

This revision included Australopithecus, which was not originally human, and the complete history of human beings was then extended to 270 million years ago, asymptotically approaching 500 million years.

The human beings at that time were very different from the current human beings. It can be said that they were just apes, and the tools they could use were extremely simple, such as dipping a branch into a tree hole to eat termites.Most of the time, they still rely on agile speed, great strength, sharp teeth and sharp claws to hunt prey and deter other predators.

Afterwards, apes gradually passed through four stages of evolution, and finally became modern humans.These four stages are Early Homo, Late Homo, Early Homo, and Late Homo.

In the stage of late Homo sapiens, modern human beings really began to differentiate and form, and were distributed all over the world.

In this process, the evolution of the human brain is very obvious. While becoming smarter and smarter, the tools manufactured and used are also becoming more complex and more powerful.

Human beings have become accustomed to relying on tools for offense and defense.

Correspondingly, the once sharp fangs of human beings have become more like small canine teeth used to set off the appearance, and the long and sharp claws have become flat nails, which are no longer lethal except for their beauty.

Humans and apes seem to be two different species.

However, the appearance of zombies seems to be a forced reverse of this process.

First of all, the brain is basically necrotic, which means that their intelligence is almost zero; their eyesight is severely degraded, but their sense of smell and hearing have been greatly enhanced, which is very similar to the ancestors of creatures living in the deep sea, who rely on smell or Hearing rather than sight is used to spot prey.

Secondly, the teeth of the zombies became finer and their nails gradually became longer and thicker, all of which made them better at catching and biting their prey.

In the early days, although the zombies moved extremely slowly, it was not always the case. Some of the zombies gradually gained super mobility, posing a great threat to the surviving humans.

These all show that the zombies have changed the development of the human brain, and are evolving in the direction of a predator from the body.

……

The zombie in front of him is the strong evidence of this theory, and it is walking towards Xu Hao's preset location step by step.

There, hanging the clothes he had been wearing all the time, was exuding a strong hormonal smell.

When the back of the zombie was fully displayed in front of Xu Hao, he felt vaguely familiar. Although the size of the zombie was very different, from the appearance of this zombie and the cloth left on its body, he could still see the first one pounced on the police car. the shadow of the primordial species.

Pervert?

This idea was the first thing that flashed through his mind, but then he denied it.

Not to mention that the metamorphosis appeared three years after the zombie outbreak, and the aura of this zombie alone is far from reaching the Lv2 strength.

This couldn't help but make Xu Hao's heart drop slightly.

As long as this zombie is still within the strength range of the first-born species, it is not impossible for him to deal with it.

(End of this chapter)