There are no white coats, no record boards, no laboratories filled with bottles, and no patient and meticulous researchers. There was only a glass bottle placed on the box, and Shen Cong sitting on the supply bag next to him, holding a shoe box, and occasionally taking out a fried ant leg to chew on.
The carriage aisle of the King Kong is very narrow, the experimental equipment is limited, and Shen Cong's professionalism is almost zero, so the poisonous peach toxicity test is very shabby and crude.
Boom, boom, boom.
The fried grasshopper legs are a bit hard after being stored for a long time, and they are more chewy. Although there is not much activity, it is not eaten as a meal. It is good to have a little growth occasionally.
In fact, although short-term worker ants and soldier ants have active cores, their active radiation is not strong and can be said to be very weak. Not only compared with the ground diggers that are also mutated insects, but also compared with the useless plastic rabbit, they are also weakened. a lot of.
This further deepened Shen Cong's inference that the mutant ants were second-generation mutant creatures produced by the short fierce ant queen.
The blowfly that was imprisoned in the glass bottle bumped around for half a minute. Soon, it was attracted by the poisonous peach pulp that exuded strong activity. It lay on it and began to eat the poisonous peach pulp.
It only took a few bites, about 7 seconds.
Then, under Shen Cong's gaze, he flapped his wings and tried to fly, but before he could fly, he fell headfirst onto the poisonous peach pulp, and his six legs twitched for a while.
The movement lasted for about twenty seconds, and the blowfly was completely gone.
died.
Looking at the motionless glass bottle, Shen Cong seemed very calm. This result was within his expectation. The only surprising thing is that within 7 seconds, the blowfly became poisonous.
After thinking about it, it only takes 7 to 11 seconds for a fly to eat, process, absorb nutrients, and excrete waste from the body. They are used to eating, vomiting, and defecating at the same time. Shen Cong was relieved.
7 seconds is enough for this blowfly to digest the poisonous peach pulp. The poison is indeed poisonous.
Shen Cong picked up the computer and typed the research data: "The first poisonous peach toxicity experiment report: the blowfly is poisonous after eating for 7 seconds and dies after 23 seconds."
Of the original five blowflies, two died naturally and one died in the experiment. There are still two left, eating live meat beautifully in the gauze.
Putting the glass bottle aside casually, Shen Cong ignored it and shifted his attention to the branches of the mutated peach tree.
The mutated peach tree is a mutated plant. In two and a half months, Shen Cong only saw this one plant. He was particularly curious about the changes in plants after being mutated.
"The bark shows signs of metallic gradation... The interior is still woody... The veins of the leaves also show a hint of metallic gradation... Try injecting activity to see what the reaction is."
Thinking about it, Shen Cong mobilized the activity within his body and injected it into the branches.
Can be injected.
But it is very difficult and astringent, requires more energy, and the amount that can be injected is not much. At the same time, Shen Cong also observed that the bark of the branches that received a small amount of active injection did not increase in hardness, and could only feel a slight change. The originally hard bark was slightly softer, but more resilient.
"It seems to have some attributes of an active core, but it is not entirely an active core. This is very different from the mutation of mutated animals."
In addition to being given more mutated signs by activity in the form of mutated animals, the biggest change is the active core, which gradually changes from bone to metal.
But except for the active core, other parts are still composed of flesh, blood and bones, and no signs of metal gradient have been found.
On the branches of this mutated peach tree, the bark actually showed signs of metal gradients, and not just one or two parts, but the entire bark showed signs of metal gradients.
Shen Cong couldn't understand this kind of mutation. Of course, he couldn't understand the mutation of animals, let alone explain what activity was.
This did not prevent him from making a decision: "Go out later, dig out the mutated peach tree, and search section by section to see if you can find the active core."
Putting down the branches for which he couldn't find the reason, Shen Cong picked up the silky roots.
These filamentous roots are the passage for the mutated peach tree to absorb nutrients from the carrion. After some research, Shen Cong also obtained similar results to the branches. The outer skin of the roots has signs of metallic gradient, but the inside is woody. He also tried to inject activity to see if the tree roots still had the ability to absorb nutrients.
The result is disappointing. After leaving the main pole, the branches and roots are dead, a kind of "death" judged from the activity.
"The poison peach tree is a mutated peach tree. The bark has signs of metal gradient, is hard and tough, and bears active poison peaches. It is rich in activity, but highly poisonous. The roots can stretch out filamentous roots. Absorb the nutrients from the carrion.”
After recording the research results and illustrated information, it’s time to eat.
Shen Cong continues to focus on frying and barbecue. Fried ant legs, queen ant meat, Tai Ritian's hind legs, and tumor pig steak are all on his menu these days.
As the ant queen leg meat was fried in oil, Shen Cong's brain was still thinking about active "life" and "death", as well as the strengthening of living and non-living bodies.
Activity can give "living" properties to mechanical products such as King Kong and motorcycles. It can turn cockroaches into ground-burrowing insects, teddy dogs into Tai Ritian, and queen ants into giants to produce more mutated ants. , and now a peach tree mutated into a poisonous scavenger tree.
Activity is lifting the veil bit by bit, revealing its face. However, the more the veil is lifted, the more doubts Shen Cong has.
Sometimes he felt that activity was a kind of radiation, and that radioactive radiation was what caused everything to change.
Activity can change the properties of metals and transform non-metallic substances into metals.
It can also strengthen the quality of living organisms.
Sometimes he feels that activity is a kind of nutrient, which is clearly demonstrated in his own body. His activity is exchanged from King Kong through a certain magnetic field. Each exchange of activity can strengthen his physical quality.
Let Shen Cong be strengthened from a relatively strong ordinary person to the strength of two bulls.
This is similar to the stimulating variation of radiation, but Shen Cong eats meat rich in activity every day and absorbs the activity from it. The activity of this ingestion can also improve his physical fitness.
But more often than not, the exchanged activity and the activity ingested from meat are accumulated in his body, ready for Shen Cong to consume at any time.
This way of accumulation is what Shen Cong perceives as "living".
When this activity cannot be maintained and begins to be lost to the outside world, it is "death".
When the King Kong was "dying", its activity was slowly losing. The mutated animals were killed, and the activity in the body was also slowly losing. The branches and silk roots of this peach tree were also obviously losing their activity.
This kind of "death" and "living" are life and death relative to activity, rather than death and life in the traditional sense. If the vital signs die, the activity will "die". If the vital signs do not die, the activity will "die" and lead to the death of the vital signs.
The mutated animals that are hunted have vital signs of death, resulting in active "death".
The death of the plastic rabbit is an active "death", resulting in death of vital signs.
Therefore, activity is an unsolved mystery that has the triple attributes of radiation, nutrients, and life. Shen Cong cannot give an accurate definition to it with his superficial observation and research.
Snap.
The induction cooker was turned off by Shen Cong, and the fragrant ant queen leg meat stimulated Shen Cong's nose.
It made him stop thinking about "active life and death", a profound issue that is both a biological and a philosophical category. Holding the fried meat in hand, he walked to the cab, turned on the radio, and searched for signals while eating lunch.
The hope is that familiar human language will emerge again.
Even if it's just an intermittent vague signal, it can bring him countless information that can be used.
However, at noon, the radio station kept repeating the sound of sizzling and rustling.
Instead, the 15a radar sounded an alarm, indicating that something alive was moving.
Shen Cong dropped his dinner plate, immediately picked up the periscope and looked in the direction of the radar warning. Soon, he saw the moving object detected by the 15a radar on the top of the short mountain where he had been standing before.
That's a very scary mutated animal.
Or in other words - a very ugly mutated animal, a cat covered in bone spurs!