#744 - Chapter 744: Alien Mitochondria!
Qin Jin immediately rushed over after receiving news of the astonishing results from the base's laboratory!
He had been reviewing the information reported by the base's executives when he suddenly received the notification, and he immediately abandoned the documents he was preparing for the upcoming Corpse Mist Day on his desk and rushed over.
No one could be uninterested in the answer to this question!
He suddenly understood after hearing Elder Sun's explanation.
It made perfect sense.
Inside a conference hall in the laboratory, a group of research scholars and Qin Jin, the base leader who had received the news, were listening to Elder Sun continue his explanation.
"We dissected many ordinary zombies and mutated zombies and discovered the existence of foreign mitochondria in these monsters! This is the reason why zombies can continue to be active after what we humans call death!"
"Because the heart no longer beats in a zombie's body, there is no blood flow. They can only rely on a new form of energy transfer to complete the energy supply at the cellular level, which is this new type of transmission network formed by the synapses extending from these mitochondria connecting to each other!"
"We all know after dissecting zombies that their brains are very different from other parts of their bodies. Their brains are still 'alive' to some extent!"
"Although they cannot think because of the existence of this foreign mitochondria, their brains can complete the control of the entire body and the body's instinctive desire—hunger!"
Elder Sun displayed a dissected image of a mutated zombie on the electronic blackboard in the conference hall.
Such a bloody scene did not cause discomfort to the onlookers below, because everyone had seen too many similar scenes in the apocalypse.
Elder Sun pointed to the zombie's brain in the picture and continued to introduce it.
"This is the zombie's brainstem. You can see that it has basically atrophied and become smaller, so it no longer performs activities such as breathing, heartbeat, and digestion."
"This is the cerebellum. You can see that it is still very fresh and controls all the joints and muscle movements of the entire body!"
Many people present already knew this knowledge, but Elder Sun explained it in more detail because the base leader was also present.
He continued to briefly introduce the zombie's dissection situation.
Qin Jin had naturally heard of some of them before, after all, Old Zhou had also dissected many ordinary zombies and mutated zombies captured from outside with him.
No one could be uninterested in the way these monsters moved.
However, Elder Sun's re-explanation now contained new insights.
Different levels of scholars and lecturers will have different knowledge and opinions.
As Qin Jin listened, he became clearer and clearer about the mystery of the zombies' immortality.
Good heavens!
These things can no longer be called human beings!
These existences that mutated into zombies after the Mutation Night are already using a new set of activity mechanisms, a set of activity mechanisms that humans have never imagined before.
It simply broke many previous biological laws.
Foreign mitochondria!
Granular energy information transmission!
It can also carry the host's DNA and RNA!
And it is extremely terrifying because it can absorb free microorganisms in the air to obtain energy to feed the host!
Eating flesh and blood only accelerates their degree of mutation and strength!
It can be completely regarded as a biological weapon that humans have never thought of!
If the Purple Mist hadn't suddenly erupted on the Earth's surface during the Mutation Night, Qin Jin and others would have suspected that the special virus was created by the United States or some other country.
It was so magical.
The reason why zombies could continue to "live" without eating or drinking before was initially found.
This Elder Sun is indeed a former leader in biology. He had only just joined the Green Source Laboratory not long ago and led the team to discover this secret that everyone wanted to know.
Perhaps other forces in the world had already discovered it, but Green Source's talent limitations and the wrong timing delayed it until now to touch this answer.
"We have other important research directions! President Qin, please give us some more time, we will definitely be able to research more important results!"
Elder Sun's face was flushed at this time. This was a sense of relief after finally solving a doubt that had been buried in his heart.
In other words, everyone is interested in the secret of zombies' immortality.
Especially those of them who study biology, they are geometrically filled with a desire for knowledge.
Now that the veil of zombies' immortality has been initially lifted, there are still many questions waiting for them to dig up.
Qin Jin had recently informed Elder Sun and several important scholars about the existence of Lin Runwei and Tank.
Even when they are researching, they are closely guarded and cannot cause any trouble.
When necessary.
Zhong Yu and others, who have been observing, will personally pinch them to death!
Now Qin Jin only asks to find more important results as soon as possible!
The more he knows the importance of talent, the more he believes that there must be other people in other parts of the Blue Star who have also made incredible discoveries that he does not know about!
It may pose a threat to him in the future.
The reason for the zombies' immortality has been initially found, and this result is also very important to the future of the apocalypse.
In the past, he might have thought about waiting for the zombies to gradually "die" completely due to lack of nutrition, but now he can give up on this idea!
Even if humans become extinct in a hundred years, zombies can still live!
It seems that the future development direction of the base needs to be slightly changed.
"That's roughly what it is about the mystery of zombies' immortality. In addition, mutated zombies are also different from ordinary ones!"
After explaining the newly discovered results, Elder Sun had more to say.
It was about mutated zombies.
"Mutated zombies mainly embody a more intense concentration of the virus! And they have more special foreign mitochondria born in their bodies. This thing secretes a magical protein that promotes the host's body to mutate! This magical protein is one of the important materials we now use to manufacture D-serum and regenerative fluid."
"It's just that due to different degrees of mutation, they are defined as level 1 mutated zombies and level 2 zombies, but in fact their overall differences are not very big."
Elder Sun and others had only recently come into contact with mutated zombies, because the Green Source base had recently hunted many new prey and brought them back to research some new results.
Qin Jin nodded understandingly.
He had learned some relevant knowledge before, and he could understand and believe what Elder Sun said.
Sure enough, the strength of top talents is different from ordinary people, and they can explode into terrifying progress in specific fields.
He stayed here to learn for a while, and after seeing that it was almost done, Qin Jin turned and left.
He had to go back and continue preparing some arrangements for dealing with the upcoming Corpse Mist Day.
This kind of disaster had not appeared for a long time. In his previous life, he was not in Guangyuan City at this time, and it was difficult to determine the situation here at that time.
Try to make all preparations and let the headquarters and the external branches accept the impact!
(End of this chapter)
