Beyoncé, who was still smiling all over her face, saw Zero Hour covered in scars. The smile froze suddenly, followed by Dou Da's teardrops rolling in the eye sockets. She naturally knew who Zero's body injury was for. Immediately, Beyoncé disregarded that Zero was still stepping on a spawn, and flew into his arms and hugged Zero tightly.
She didn't speak, but Zero could feel Beyoncé's body shaking. At this moment, what kind of words are pale.
After a while, Ling Cai patted her pink back and said, "I'm fine, Bisi. My injury is not as serious as you imagined, it just looks ugly."
This is true. After the DNA memory group is accidentally activated by the undead, although Zero does not know how many memory groups are activated, what is certain is that even if it is only one-tenth, they will organize and produce any material to repair Zero. This human body is still under normal conditions. The most terrifying biological acid has been drained, and now Zero's more serious injury is the left hand that was severely injured by the berserker.
But now, even this deformed arm is gradually recovering under the repair of the genetic material generated by the memory group. At least the left hand has consciousness now, which means that the neural network has been restored, followed by the revision of muscle tissue and bones. After the memory group is activated, the most obvious change for Zero is that the body recovers much faster than before, and the restoration is more complete and more precise.
Hearing what Zero said, Beyonce was relieved. The beautiful Patriarch looked at the body at Zero's feet, frowned and said, "What are you doing with this thing?"
"Naturally invite our great Dr. Curd out."
Ling told Beyoncé to back away, and he bent down himself, and then reached out and grabbed the spawn's back. A layer of energy field is distributed on Zero's hand, making Zero's hand as sharp as a scalpel. The energy field easily tore apart the muscles on the spawn's back, zeroed into its body, and directly caught the two predatory tentacles. First cut off one of the tentacles, and then Zero put his hand on the remaining tentacle.
Instinctively, the front end of the tentacle immediately split open and bit Zhong Zero's palm. The next moment, Zero felt the blood being drawn away by the mouthparts of the tentacles. Beyonce looked at Zero in surprise, not understanding why Zero would do this. And it didn't take long for her to know the answer.
A scream sounded outside the control room, followed by the sound of stumbling footsteps approaching from far away. Beyonce turned around to look, and a thin figure flashed in the door, it was Dr. Curd. At this moment, Dr. Curd has torn off his researcher's coat, and pieces of exoskeleton biological armor have been formed on his thin body, and a strong energy brilliance shines out from the center of his chest.
Judging from his aura, Dr. Ke De has already stood firmly on the eighth level, and is marching towards the ninth level. But his expression was very painful, and the doctor cried out in a voice that was almost wailing: "For God's sake, please stop!"
"Are you finally willing to come out? Doctor, I thought you wanted to continue playing hide-and-seek." Zero sneered, and pulled his hand away from the spawn's tentacles, but he was still not ready to let go.
Seeing Dr. Curd in great pain, Zero said indifferently: "Sure enough, Dr. Curd, it seems that the weakness of Z-matter has been fully exposed."
"You know?" Curd smiled wryly, "I thought that destroying the old Callahan's information was enough to cover up its weakness, but you actually discovered its weakness from the battle. I can only say that you have Terrible fighting instinct. Can you tell me your name? Mighty invader."
"My name is Zero."
After reporting his name, Ling Yong stepped on the descendant body below and said, "I admit that the characteristic of Substance Z that undergoes targeted evolution based on external stimuli, or called instinct, is very scary. And theoretically speaking, As long as it is given time, the life parasitized by Z matter will one day become the overlord of this planet. But the theory is just a theory, after all, Z matter came from the super life of the Quaternary Epoch, and the gene fragments that created it are far less than The body is complete, so there are various defects."
Ke De's eyes widened, and he was very surprised to hear the word "*body" from the mouthpiece. Finally, the doctor smiled wryly: "Iger's big mouth said a lot, the Quaternary super life and the *body plan It's all top secret, and he just kept records."
"What does it matter? Times have changed, doctor." Zero continued: "From the beginning when your researcher-like spinoffs attacked us, I thought these spinoffs were your main body to collect combat information and evolve as a tool. But now it seems that this is not the case. Instead of collecting information, they passively accept information and use it as a basis for evolution. The biggest disadvantage of passive evolution is the loss of autonomy. In other words, No matter whether the evolved life form is good or bad, you, as the subject, cannot stop it. But this is far from a fatal flaw, until... "
Until the final battle with the undead, after the undead came into contact with Zero's blood, the speed of evolution increased a hundredfold. This lets Zero know that Substance Z can read the genetic information in the biological blood, and adjust the speed and level of evolution according to its threat. Unfortunately, Agladis once let Zero feel the power of the twelfth level, which means that Zero has the potential of the twelfth level.
This potential is also engraved in Zero's genes. When Substance Z reads this information, it judges that Zero is a huge threat, so it automatically enters the program of high-speed evolution.
"However, when it was about to be upgraded to the ninth level, the gene collapsed. Then I have reason to imagine that there is something like an upper limit for Z matter, and if it exceeds this upper limit, it will self-destruct due to overload. Destruction." Zero looked at Kodd with great interest and said, "Then you, as the main body, must have a connection with the derivative. The fact is the same, you were in the biochemical zone before. Through the battle of the derivative, you are indeed evolving. , even if the degree of evolution is not obvious. So I was thinking, if one of your descendants receives a large amount of my blood, Dr. Curd, what will happen to you?"
Ke De remained silent for a long time. After a long time, he sighed heavily: "Although your deduction is not completely correct, it is almost the same. I don't know what the so-called ninth level is, and I don't know the upper limit of the evolution of the Z substance. What is it? In Callaghan’s final experiment report, he only pointed out that although the cells of Matter Z are extremely expandable, which allows it to hold a huge amount of energy, it needs time to digest this energy. Once it receives the external Excessively large stimulation will cause the rapid evolution of Substance Z autonomously. And high-speed evolution will inevitably produce huge energy. If this energy cannot be digested in time, the cells of Substance Z will perish. In other words, as the host, I also will die."
"So, should I send you to hell now? To be honest, with my current hematopoietic ability, I should be able to counteract the speed at which your spawn can eat. Why don't we try?" The spawn's tentacles stretched out.
"No, no, no!" Ke De yelled, "Please stop. As long as you let me go, I can do anything for you."
"Your potential is only ninth level, and I already have several companions with great potential. So it seems that I don't need a vampire like you, do you, doctor?"
"That's right." Curd replied, "If it's about fighting, I admit that I'm really not good at it. But I'm not a fighter, I'm a scientist. My specialty is weapons and precision machinery. I think I should still have some value. Besides, I can produce one spinoff like the undead every day. And they belong to independent combat units. As long as you give me time, I can produce an army of spinoffs for you. A team composed of a large number of undead Legion!"
Hearing this, Zero was really moved.
Think about it, what a terrifying force an army composed of eighth-level monsters would be. Coupled with Dr. Ke De's strengths, it can be said that Zero's current team still lacks a weapon and mechanical expert like Ke De.
"But how can you guarantee that you won't harm me?" Zero said coldly, "Please forgive my cautiousness. After all, your danger has been fully demonstrated before. If you can't give me a guarantee to make me feel at ease, I would rather lose An army of eighth-order monsters and an excellent scientist are unwilling to leave a bomb that may explode at any time."
"Well, I can give you that guarantee." Curd suddenly reached out and pulled his hand into his chest. After a while, he stretched out his arm full of viscous milk to Zero and opened his palm. In the palm of his hand, a substance like a bead of blood was slowly floating in the air. It kept changing its shape, and after a while, it had already formed a layer of small exoskeleton on its surface.
"This is?"
"The core of matter Z." Ke De said: "I can give it to you for safekeeping. I don't care whether you want to study it or absorb it. And more importantly, if you destroy it, then I will immediately Will die because of genetic collapse. How, is such a guarantee enough?"
Zero nodded, Ke De lightly grabbed the blood bead and raised it towards Ling. Zero reached out to catch it, and immediately threw it into his mouth. The core of substance Z just entered Zero's body along the esophagus, but Zero didn't choose to absorb it, but instead formed a biological sac in the body to store the blood bead.
During this process, he stretched out the tentacles of his thoughts and senses to penetrate into the core, and immediately obtained a large amount of data. In these data, there is indeed a part that matches what Kodd said. And there are other things that Kodd himself doesn't know.
After stepping heavily into the spinoff's head and ending the spinoff's life, Lingcai walked towards Ke De and stretched out his hand: "Welcome to join, doctor."
"Should I call you master?" Curd smiled wryly, the core was mastered by Zero, and he was like Zero's slave. Even in some aspects, it is worse than slaves.
But Zero said indifferently: "It's not necessary, you can call me by my name. Now that we are called companions, if you don't mind, I would really like to know. You who are parasitized by Z matter don't seem to be If you lose your will, why did you kill a large number of base members back then?"
"It's hunger."
Ke De smiled bitterly: "At that time, I didn't know that I had been parasitized by Z substance. In the early stage, Z substance carefully chose to fuse with my genes. During this period, I developed common symptoms like cold and fever. I didn't take it seriously. .I didn’t feel the change in myself until Substance Z was fully fused into my genes. But at that time, I was very hungry. Do you know that feeling, Zero. It’s like not eating for a century, the terrible hunger makes me think Eat up all the food, including the people in the base. I think in the early stage of fusion, the will is still dominated by the Z substance to a certain extent. Then until my will is clear, most of the people have become the rations for me and the spawn.”
"That's how hatred is planted, whether Iger or others. They don't listen to my explanation at all, but want to kill me like a monster." Ke De shook his head and said: "But it's not my fault, of course I don't Will sit and die, and then you see it. Anyway, until now, I don’t think I’m wrong. I’m just trying to survive.”
"Like you handed over the core to me for safekeeping?"
"Yes. You can call me cowardly, but I just want to live."
Zero looked at him, shook his head and said, "If you know what happened on the surface, trust me. Doctor, death is not necessarily a bad thing."
"No, I must live." Ke De insisted: "As long as I live, my dear Suna will have a chance to be reborn."
A certain nerve in Zero's mind was touched, just because of the word "rebirth" in Kod's mouth.
Or biochemical area.
But this time, Ke De brought Zero to the secret laboratory in the Biochemical Zone. This was originally an area for researching Substance Z, but now there is only one cultivation tank working. A piece of meat floated in the green nutrient base solution. Zero can only describe it in this way. From the looks of it, the piece of meat roughly has the outline of a human body. But the tissue above is a mess, with teeth and eyes patched together, heart and intestines tangled with each other, arms sticking out of the lower [pubes], and so on.
It's like throwing a lot of things together, which makes people feel terrible after reading it.
"It...is your Suna?" It was difficult for Zero to associate this alien-like thing with a woman, and Beyoncé even covered her mouth. If it wasn't for respect, she might retch a few times. Voice.
Dr. Curd sighed, "Genetically speaking, she is Su Na."
Su Na is the wife of Dr. Ke De. At that time, the plan was carried out in the white blood cell base. In order to facilitate the monitoring of all research members, the superior asked all the staff to bring their family members to live in the base. After the doctor was parasitized by the Z substance, he launched a massacre to the members of the entire base due to hunger. In the process, his wife unfortunately died.
Therefore, the doctor who regained his will suffered a lot from this. In the following time, he extracted the cell genes from Su Na's body, and tried to fuse Suna's genes with Substance Z. Judging from the super vitality and regeneration properties of Substance Z, Kodd has a great chance to allow Su Na to regenerate in another way.
But although he is a scientist, he knows nothing about biochemistry and genetics. After years of trying, it was just such a piece of meat.
Zero felt that in this regard, Kodd and him had something in common. So he said: "If it's about biochemical genetics, I have a friend who can introduce you. Maybe he can help you fulfill your long-cherished wish."
"Really?" Curd's eyes lit up immediately, and these eyes glowed with a brilliance that he hadn't seen for many years.
This brilliance is called hope!