It's time, it's time to switch to the cranial doctor

"I see. What are you going to do after you find that ghost?"

Zhou Zhuoxin said that it's no wonder the old man is so stubborn, he looks easy to talk, but he will never compromise on this matter, co-authoring is inexplicably helping others, if he doesn't get enough strong evidence, no one will be able to explain it with just one mouth Believe that he is innocent, and anyone who changes it will be angry.

"Of course, blow his head off, otherwise who will apologize for the tens of thousands of innocent people in the entire area? Be careful!"

Freeman let out a cold snort, and suddenly jumped up violently. With an axe, he chopped off a tentacles that fell on the ground and tried to sneak up on the gambler, smashing it together with the floor tiles below.

Several people had already walked out of the fire escape and entered the inner area of ​​the laboratory on the fifth floor. They found that this place had become a world of monsters. The walls and ground were covered with fleshy biological lichens like those in the elevator shaft, and blood vessels were everywhere like tree branches. Spread, like walking in the stomach of a monster.

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Yesterday I played a demon, and the 3-fee Vengeance card had a bat, and the storm began to inhale on the spot, and everyone on the other side looked dumbfounded. The first person who saw me play a bat immediately quit...

That sucked all the way to the end, which made people confused, so cool, the card game is really meant to bring smiles to people!

Chapter 118 Mutation (4K)

With his previous experience, Zhou Zhuo would never be lucky enough to think that these "lucky ones" who were screened out would keep their own place.

No matter how many levels of infected people are, the aggressiveness towards living things is just an appearance, and all behaviors are justified, just like wild beasts attack their prey for predation, and beasts rarely initiate after eating Attack unless threatened.

Then it is conceivable that the aggression shown by those infected before was nothing more than two points, the attack caused by self-defense awareness, and the desire to eat.

In addition to satisfying the feeling of satiety in the latter point, one can also understand the truth after thinking about it. Zombies can continue to evolve through eating. No one knows where the end of evolution is, but the virus leaked within half a day. It is difficult for people to be optimistic about the large monsters of architectural symbiosis.

Freeman had also just arrived at the fifth basement level, and the lower level was completely closed. However, compared with the fourth level where experimenters were densely distributed, the fifth level was more like a factory. There were a large number of instruments in each laboratory, and the living people were more like a factory. Relatively rare, among the infected people seen on the road, there are more guards than researchers.

With such a strong hunk player joining, the five-member team kept cleaning up the zombies lingering on the road at an almost flat push speed.

There are very few people who can reach the level of third-level infected people, let alone have wisdom. The four of them deal with ordinary zombies without ambiguity. Basically, they hit the torso with two shots.

During this process, the two sides began to become acquainted—to be precise, Zhou Zhuo and Freeman were completely familiar, and the other three were tools and background boards.

As an "old guy" whose brains and intelligence are far superior to those of young people, Freeman has a bold personality, is kind to others, never takes credit for himself, and hates the sense of distance and respect deliberately maintained by others. At the same time, he also hates those awkward offices Workplace factions.

If Zhou Zhuo was cautious all the way, even more cautious than him, the target who needs to be protected, and his mind was full of rules and principles, then he would feel bored, as if he had returned to that cold workplace.

But the current scene is that there are three guns on the back, and the two main Cs in the front have already rushed up. Seeing a wandering zombie alone, the first reaction of the two is to rush up and chop it. What's the matter with people, it can be said that the old and the young are like-minded.

"Old man, your strength is really great!" Zhou Zhuo couldn't help giving a thumbs up to Freeman who had no key and simply opened the door lock.

"You're not bad, little thing! It's the first time I saw a mercenary holding a hammer. Is it a personal hobby?"

"Isn't it? Just this one." Zhou Zhuo swung his hammer and exploded another head, splashing blood all over his body. "Listen to this voice, how transparent it is."

"Sounds good, would you like one?"

Freeman picked up a researcher's corpse on the ground, wiped a box of uncontaminated cigarettes and a lighter from it, and lit it with his mouth.

"no thank you."

Zhou Zhuo noticed that the name was engraved on the lighter, and Freeman obviously glanced at it.

"Acquaintance?"

"I know each other, but I'm not friends. I don't have any friends here. Everyone just changed to work in a place with strict confidentiality regulations. This guy often attracts newcomers by smoking in the lounge. He always has various flavors of cigarettes and lighters on him. A smart person... I don't hate him, but I can't even say I like him, it's a pity to die."

Before the words were finished, the corpse on the ground suddenly rushed up and bit Freeman's wrist. The super strong bite force quickly tore his skin, but was blocked by the underlying muscle tissue.

Freeman frowned, threw him on the ground casually, stomped on the opponent's chest, and threw the lighter into a pool of blood.After thinking for a while, I still picked up the cigarette and lighter and put them back in my pocket.At this moment, the bite wound on his hand has healed as he said, and there is no sign of infection.

"Is there a price for this ability?" Zhou Zhuo asked.

"The price? Of course." Freeman smiled indifferently, "All cells have a lifespan, and after a certain number of divisions, they will gradually decline. Scientific exercise and maintenance can delay this process, but they will eventually There is an end."

"The so-called 'Superman Project' is actually just cultivating a group of short-lived ghosts with high efficiency. Don't look at me being so powerful now, this is because the medicine is slowly taking effect, constantly transforming my body structure, and when the mutation stabilizes, I owe The price has to be repaid.”

"However, this is only the result of the experiment at this stage. In fact, it has only been one month since the project was produced and put into animal experiments. Even I, the project leader, only know the tip of the iceberg of 'natural selection'."

While speaking, the group of people had already entered the depths of the fifth underground floor.

There is a ready-made guide to lead the way. Zhou Zhuo and the others don't know where they are now. This floor is larger than the above combined, and the area is very wide. There are a lot of original ecological test sites and ecological gardens, as well as chemical reactions. rooms, etc., it's hard to remember which corridor leads where.

But Zhou Zhuo was still able to judge that the path they were taking was correct. The reason was simple, because there were only a few muscles and blood vessels on the wall and the ground before, but now it is almost densely packed, quite thick, and at a speed visible to the naked eye. growing outward.

This kind of high-speed reproduction naturally comes at a price, and it is not an unrestrained growth. During this process, a large number of experimental mammals bred in the fifth underground floor became the nourishment for rapid proliferation.

Zhou Zhuo had seen with his own eyes those tentacles made of mutated flesh and blood invade the cage of the mice, opened a toothless mouth without warning, swallowed the mice one after another, and then accelerated their growth further.

This kind of unrestrained eating seems to be selective. It is not interested in dead or infected corpses. Instead, it will absorb part of the wall material during the process of erosion and spread, perhaps because it also has a certain demand for certain mineral elements.

"Did the experiment predict this result?" Zhou Zhuo couldn't help asking during the progress.

"Of course it was expected, so all security levels are the strictest, and there is no reason for mistakes. I guess someone should have intercepted products that failed the test in violation of regulations and made them in the form of viruses, deliberately creating an accident and killing them. spread outward."

At this moment, Freeman stopped in his tracks. Judging from his expression, he was probably a little confused, because so far, all the signs and landmarks have been covered by infinitely expanding biological tissues, no different from unfamiliar scenes .

Freeman chopped off a piece of wriggling flesh on the wall, exposing the wall below. Zhou Zhuo and the others also took out the tools in their hands (the engineering shovel from Bai Yexing) and started digging the wall, and finally found A door.

"Here...should be the potion storage room."

Having found the recognizable house number, Freeman nodded in satisfaction, and smashed the door lock with an axe. Before he could command Zhou Zhuo, a flood of muddy mucus spewed out from inside.

Zhou Zhuo and the others were outside the door frame, and they hid fairly quickly. Freeman was much more unlucky if he didn't get caught.

The mucus seemed to be strongly acidic, and when it touched the skin, a faint white smoke came out immediately. Freeman let out a cry of pain, and turned into a bloody man, with all the skin peeling off from his body.

Zhou Zhuo was taken aback, the task condition was to bring someone back home, no one thought that the old man was so reckless, he likes to rush first in everything, but it turned out to be here.

Lin slowly reacted quickly, and immediately closed the door back, and then heard something hit the door heavily.

"Slowly guard the door. That thing has no brains. It doesn't know that the door is pushed inward. I will bandage the old man and beat the blood. What can bananas do?"

"I..." The banana man was taken aback, and took out a roll of toilet paper from his backpack, "Why don't you wipe it?"

"...?"

The banana man thought about it for a while and thought it was a bit silly, so he stuffed the toilet paper back into his backpack.

"Okay, I'll still watch outside."

It can be seen that Freeman's current state is very painful. It is not the pain caused by a simple injury, but that after the injury, the body repair system immediately started a self-healing cycle. This is the source of the most severe pain, as if thousands of nails are being drilled into the body all over the body.

Even a macho man like Freeman couldn't help crying and curled up, which was evident.

Fortunately, Zhou Zhuo was a doctor, and his bandaging was very professional, and he quickly wrapped Freeman into a big rice dumpling.

Seeing that the other party was still screaming in pain, lying and rolling on the ground, Zhou Zhuo couldn't bear it, so he used his rational return to give him an iron fist.

"Ouch."

Freeman froze for a moment, sat up from the ground, barely recovered his thinking ability that had been nearly crushed by the pain, and asked Zhou Zhuo with gritted teeth.

"What happened to me just now?"

"I took a bath in acidic water, it's not a big problem, and I'm still as handsome as before when I recovered." Zhou Zhuo comforted him beside him.

"It's a pity that the hair is gone. It will take a long time to grow it?"

Freeman shook his head, just about to stand up, but was held down by Zhou Zhuo.

"No, calm down, I'll go in and get what I need, just tell me what it looks like."

After thinking about his own state, Freeman was not stubborn, and nodded in agreement: "It's a batch of blue potions. They should be stored in a temperature-controlled storage machine, and they can be opened with my employee ID."

Zhou Zhuo took his employee ID card, exchanged glances with Lin slowly, she pushed the door open, and illuminated the room with the tactical flashlight on the automatic rifle, a thick tentacle suddenly flung out, and Zhou Zhuo, who was holding a bone-chopping knife, was immediately in front of him. cut off.

After confirming that the acid was not some kind of trap, Zhou Zhuo took a bold look inside. The room had been completely biologicalized, instead of simply covering the walls, the flesh and blood had grown into the machine, destroying all circuits and organs from the inside out. defensive equipment.

What launched the attack just now were the appendages growing on the fleshy wall, which looked like tentacles. At first glance, they looked like tentacles, but they had no suckers. They were more like hagfish, a low-level notochord creature of the round mouth class. The front end was particularly muscular and split in the middle. A mouth, shaped like an oval suction cup, is inlaid with sharp yellow horny teeth, with distinct layers.

Zhou Zhuo felt as if he had entered Medusa's lair. Fortunately, these snake heads did not emit petrified light. There were only three moves in total, biting, strangling, and spewing acid.

The blood coat is surprisingly useful in this kind of scene. Compared with the opponent, Zhou Zhuocai is more like a slippery loach. Those tentacles can't restrain him at all, and the acid spit out is also blocked by the blood coat.

Although the blood flowing outside was decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye, the price was worth it. Zhou Zhuo found the heavily wrapped large container at a glance, cut off the flesh growing on it with a knife, snatched it and ran outside.

Lin, who was responding at the door, slowly started the chainsaw, cut off the chasing tentacles with a single knife, pulled out a Molotov cocktail and threw it in, and closed the door firmly. A moment later, a big fire ignited inside.

"Nice job."

Freeman took the badly damaged container from Zhou Zhuo, and entered the password in front of them. Fortunately, there was still a protective device inside, and all the serum was intact.

"This is the serum that was originally prepared for human experiments. Only this box can work. As compensation for going to the danger together, each of you can take a serum and inject it into your body when you are infected."

The player has no risk of being infected in this dungeon. At worst, he will lose, but Zhou Zhuo understands that this is a reward for a side mission, so of course he won't refuse it. Maybe it can be used in other dungeons.

"Old man, don't you know where 'Natural Selection' is?" Zhou Zhuo asked.

"I don't know. In theory, they should have been destroyed and disposed of, but the reality is that they were used by people and spread outward. If this matter was really deliberately made by someone, then he must have disposed of all the medicines he could find in advance."

Freeman tore off the bandages on his face. The previously bloody skin had recovered, but the hair did not grow back. It is estimated that he had already done the corresponding experiment, so he knew the result.

"Next, go to the backup computer room and follow me. It's a bit far away, so I need to speed up."

The power of "natural selection" is quietly being released inside this research institute. So far, they have seen nearly ten types of mutations, and even the entire building of the research institute is undergoing transformation. The time index of this dungeon is the most dangerous elements.

Fortunately, the previous bulldozer-style sweep almost eliminated all the infected on the fifth underground floor, and the road behind was almost unimpeded. Occasionally, a few monsters with no eyes would jump out of the darkness, and they were also surrounded by a nest that didn't know what fear was. The superman was pressed to the ground and beaten severely, and then his body was dismembered.

It took them 5 minutes to arrive at the computer room. This place and the pharmacy room were two extremes. The walls here showed no signs of erosion at all, and there was not even a single corpse around.

However, when Freeman violently opened the door lock of the computer room, he saw a huge cocoon standing inside and a large number of shriveled blood vessel walls falling on the ground. The individual absorbs it.

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Sorry sorry, the update is late, the update is a bit slow recently, there will be at least three updates tomorrow, I said!

Chapter 119 Who Says There Can't Be Fractures Without Bones?

The cocoon was so big that it almost occupied the entire computer room. The spare lines and machines were all corroded by flesh and blood, and most of them were damaged. It seemed that they could not be used.

Zhou Zhuo was the first to speak: "Judging from my experience, there is probably a living person inside, the one covered in mucus. Don't approach it casually, and be careful not to splash it on your face."

"It's disgusting."

Banana Man's expression wasn't much better. Even though he had a great teammate messing around, he lost half of his Sanity points just because of the shock along the way, and he couldn't stand it anymore.

Lin Ranran rarely took the initiative to say a word to him: "Would the person who took out a roll of toilet paper when others were providing auxiliary treatment have the nerve to speak?"

The gambler wanted to interject to ease the atmosphere, but Freeman spoke up.

"Why do you think someone is inside?"

"Natural selection is part of evolution. We have also seen some special zombies on the road. Like building blocks, genes belonging to other species are added to the human DNA sequence and expressed in a rough way. This form, I consider it a failure."

Freeman nodded: "It's a rough guess, but the direction is indeed correct. This is also one of the angles we plan to envision."

"This is a natural screening for humans. Facts have proved that all infected people are also based on humans. Compared with other animals, we lack sharp senses, strong bodies, long life spans, and cannot fly into the sky. Unable to swim in the ocean, what would it be like if the evolutionary path of human beings came to an end? Wings? Possessing explosive anti-joint hind legs?"

Zhou Zhuo shook his head: "I don't think so. The end of human evolution should have strong environmental adaptability like tardigrades. No matter how bad the conditions are, they can still survive and even maintain a strong vitality."

"So do you think there will be such a perfect life in the cocoon? Unfortunately, the conjecture is very avant-garde, but lacks sufficient theoretical knowledge, and the evolution process cannot leap forward. There is a lot of theoretical support behind the extraordinary phenomenon. .”

Freeman was very interested in this, explaining it patiently as if taking students in a class to visit a museum.

"Even if the scariest infected person I have seen so far is at best a relatively powerful new human species, it is not worthy of vigilance. If there is a chance to capture a part of the living body for a control group experiment, maybe we can study the law of this variation and Mastering it is the real path of evolution."

The two didn't hang up and chat completely. During the conversation, Zhou Zhuo was taking things out of his backpack, and Freeman also moved his newly healed limbs, stretching the wrinkled new skin tightly, ready to fight at any time.

"Ah, old man, you have completely misunderstood. In fact, I just want to make a suggestion in a more tactful way. If there is a person in the cocoon that is opened next, can we try to capture and talk alive instead of killing him immediately?"

Zhou Zhuo's idea is very simple, because Freeman's thinking is completely different from theirs. Players should try their best to find hidden missions and improve the evaluation of the dungeon, but the purpose of the old man is to kill these infected people without leaving any hidden dangers.

To use a more vivid metaphor, there is no doubt that the boss room of the research institute scene must be in front of him.

The four of them are novices who are experiencing the plot for the first time. They want to take a look at everything and touch everything.Skip; BOSS mechanism?Directly violently press the blood line and skip it.

After all, now is his peak period, if Zhou Zhuo tries to stop him, the mission target may be hacked to death before he jumps out of the boss...

Freeman thought for a moment, then patted Zhou Zhuo's shoulder.

"Just do this, but the premise is to ensure the safety of the living. It is necessary to directly install explosives to blow up the entire research institute, so as not to let any out-of-control infected people escape. You are very thoughtful, and you have the opportunity to be my assistant Well, it’s a pity to be a mercenary.”

Although no new hints popped up in his line of sight, Zhou Zhuo, who had experienced many battles, knew very well that this sentence meant that he could still get related tasks from Freeman Joyce in the future.

"But before that, I want to do a test."

"what?"

Zhou Zhuo didn't explain, just took out the medicine bottle containing the centipede from his backpack, opened the lid and threw it at the cocoon in the room, the centipede, as small as an index finger, swelled against the wind, and instantly turned into a strip that could envelop a large cocoon. dragon centipede.

Using the centipede to deal with the mountain of corpses gave him an idea, whether he can hand over to the little centipede to deal with large enemies in the future, and he must not mess around at the critical moment. Losing the game is still a trivial matter. What if the centipede dies? It's a blood loss.

Now that there is a strong man escorting him, he can just let go and do some tests. This is the thinking of gamers. Who would think of clearing the main story immediately after seeing such a strong NPC? Three to five hours is weird.