Chapter 839 Mutated Creatures
"The reason why this monster is named Heavy Armor Tyrant is because its attack and defense capabilities are quite outstanding!"
In the video call, Lu Chong's voice echoed throughout the conference room through the live sound equipment.
"After the team's actual combat and relevant research on its remains, the basic data of the Heavy Armor Tyrant is summarized as follows:
Height: 2.85 meters
Weight: XNUM X kg
Defense: The exoskeleton has a hardness of 5 Mohs and can resist 9mm pistol bullets (kinetic energy 500J) and partially resist 5.56mm rifle bullets.
Speed: 20km/h, sprint 30km/h
Strength: Bite force 3 tons, weightlifting 1.5 tons. "
Hearing this, the war zone leaders in the conference room could no longer hold back and began to whisper.
Obviously, when the invincible thermal weapons suddenly showed resistance, the war zone leaders present were a little surprised!
At the same time, Lu Chong's introduction continued:
"Through preliminary anatomical tests on its remains, experts at the institute found that the reason why the Heavy Armor Tyrant was able to evolve into this state, in addition to the catalytic effect of the zombie virus, was more due to its unique biomineralization mechanism and the presence of a symbiotic bacteria in its stomach."
"According to experts' speculation, the reason for the formation of the biomineralization mechanism is probably that the virus activated the enamel gene of the zombie human part, which promoted the crystallization of hydroxyapatite, thus allowing the zombie tyrant to grow an exoskeleton with a hardness close to 5 Mohs."
"The symbiotic bacteria in its stomach are now named ferritin symbionts by experts because they have the ability to convert free heavy metals into Fe?O?/FeS complexes! (Similar to Aspergillus niger, which can enrich lead and mercury)"
"When this ability acts on the Heavy Armor Tyrant, it causes its exoskeleton, which already has a hardness of nearly 5 Mohs, to be coated with an alloy coating that can continue to grow thicker."
"At the same time, based on the alloy plating on the Heavy Armor Tyrant's exoskeleton, experts suspect that metal reductase has evolved in the Heavy Armor Tyrant's body!"
"That is to say, the current physical data of the Heavy Armor Tyrant is far from its true upper limit. As time goes by, there is a high probability that it will evolve again!"
"More importantly, the existence of the Heavy Armored Tyrant is not an isolated case, but has developed into a rather large group throughout the Changshou District. With the current monitoring methods, we cannot be sure whether the Heavy Armored Tyrant has fled outside the Changshou District!"
"And when the Heavy Armor Tyrant comes into contact with zombies in other regions, according to the "extreme environment accelerated evolution theory", whether it will cause local zombies to mutate is also unknown!"
"Finally, the source. Considering the excessive concentration of heavy metals in his body, it is very likely caused by chemical pollution after the explosion in Changshou Chemical Park at the end of the world!"
As Lu Chong finished his words, the entire Operations Meeting Room No. 1 quickly fell into a brief collective silence.
During this moment of silence, the leaders of the war zone, including Gu Chengyuan, were no longer thinking about the heavily armored tyrant in front of them, but were thinking about a more macro level.
Zombies are resistant to thermal weapons. Is this an anomaly or a beginning?
Since chemical pollution can cause zombies to evolve so far, what about other pollution? Especially...
The moment he thought of this, Gu Chengyuan suddenly remembered the Longhu business district in the urban area of Yucheng, which was the place that was destroyed by the nuclear explosion of the 77th Legion!
Chemical pollution has evolved into this kind of monster that can resist some thermal weapons. What if it is replaced by nuclear pollution? And the place where the nuclear pollution occurs is the most densely populated area of Zombies in the entire Yucheng...
hiss~
Just thinking about this, Gu Chengyuan already had a headache...
Afterwards, Lu Chong introduced several newly discovered and relatively typical mutant zombies and monsters, accompanied by corresponding videos that were either high-definition or blurry.
For example, a mutant creature called "Mimic Ghost" was discovered in a giant sewer pipe in a certain county.
At the beginning of the video, a ball of gelatinous light quietly floats up from the rotten water in the sewer. It slowly crawls along the wet concrete wall, and its translucent body is filled with a network of fluorescent blue blood vessels that look like a trapped galaxy.
When the ground reconnaissance team used tactical flashlights to illuminate the mimic ghost, the pigment cells in the colloid suddenly shrank visibly, causing the entire body to instantly turn into peeling paint on the wall, with even the direction of the cracks exactly the same.
For example, the mutant creature called "thunder eel" was discovered in a section of the Jialing River and was shot from a helicopter.
In the video, the turquoise river surface within a radius of hundreds of meters suddenly boiled and burned, with balls of blue flames rising.
As the camera zoomed in, it was discovered that in the river fire, there was a mutated electric eel that was several dozen meters long, the size of a water tank in diameter, and covered with snake scales.
During the discharge process, the dense electric arcs all over its body were like bluish-white blood vessels running on its surface, and a faint blue glow kept flashing in the gaps between each scale, just like the thunder dragon that controls lightning in mythology!
(Note: After expert research, it was determined that the blue fire on the river surface in the video was the burning of hydrogen produced by the electrolysis of water.)
For example...and so on...all kinds of mutant creatures with strange appearances and different abilities appear one after another in Lu Chong's introduction, and there are even masters among insects!
For example, the mutant ant colony photographed in Xiyong Micro-Electronic Park (a waste electronic equipment processing site) appeared last, but it was the most shocking mutant creature in Lu Chong’s entire introduction!
This mutant ant colony is called the "gold-eating ant colony", and the cause of the mutation is inferred to be viruses + the metal-rich environment of the electronic waste dump.
The video footage is also an aerial shot, but it is a television shot from the Falcon 7 military reconnaissance drone high in the sky.
From the overhead view, it can be seen that the Xiyong Micro-Electronic Park, which originally covered an area of 12 square kilometers, has completely turned into a festering metal scar.
The air was filled with acid mist, and any light that penetrated was filtered into a sickly, miasma-like copper-green color.
The surface of the entire park is covered with corrosion pits that look like meteorite impact craters. The largest pit has a diameter of 100 meters and is bottomless. The pit walls are covered with densely packed honeycomb-like erosion holes, and sticky yellow-brown pus visible to the naked eye is constantly flowing out of them.
The large number of abandoned cars that were moved here by the gold-eating ants and used as nest frames are like corpses hastily buried in a mass grave, with their cold aluminum alloy frames half exposed above the brown rust.
Rough, scary, desolate, dead silent...
This nest of gold-eating ants has no sci-fi affectation. It is just pure natural violence and revenge on industrial civilization!
ps: One update tonight, and make up for it tomorrow, everyone go to bed early..
