The red-haired man Froman pulled out a tin box from under the bed. He opened the box, took out a stack of thick documents and put it in front of Ling, saying: "These are the diaries of the base and some of the experimental reports. They are all these years." , the documents we found from the stronghold of the Andura bug one after another. It helped us understand many things, including the fact that the Pope Hall deceived us."
Zero took it, and Froman left the room without disturbing him. So there was only one person left in the room, and the information had been sorted out, with the date as the axis. Although the information is incomplete, it can also let Zero see a general idea. Unknowingly, time passed while reading. During this period, Froman came in twice, bringing some meat from the specimen and water with a certain amount of radiation.
Both food and water tasted terrible. But they can provide some energy to Zero, so Zero eats it without hesitation. As for the toxins or radiation contained in these two things, they are neutralized by the substances produced by the air. Of course, there is better food, that is the brain crystal of the Andura bug. Froman has already said that this thing can greatly increase its own energy after being absorbed.
Zero also tried it, but found that the effect was not as good as expected. It is true that the energy reserves of brain crystals are still considerable. If it can be fully absorbed, it is equal to 20% of the energy level of Zero itself. It's a pity that this is only a theoretical value. When the spar layer outside the brain crystal is broken, the energy inside will quickly evaporate. Even if part of it is cut off by the human body, due to the different life forms, there will be "impurities" in the energy in the brain crystal that cannot be absorbed.
Eliminate these acrobatics, and the remaining energy is pitifully small, dropping from 20% of the original theoretical value to 3%.
Of course, for low-level ability users or people with mutated bodies like Zog, the value of brain crystals is still very high. The former is because the energy reserves are not on the same order of magnitude at all, the energy that is too small for zero is a huge number for a low-level body. The latter, because of the body mutation, has a relatively lower requirement for the energy purity of the brain crystals. Perhaps their current appearance is also caused by absorbing the brain crystals of Andura insects for many years, so the utilization rate of the brain crystals for Zog is undoubtedly is the highest.
However, after returning to the fortress, it may be possible to find a way to effectively extract brain crystal energy through experiments, but all this will have to wait until we leave here.
The history of this base can be traced back to the period when the new city of Rome was just established. According to the data, after the establishment of the city of Rome, Sauron seized the throne of the pope and became the real master of the pope's hall. Then he launched the bloody road Jagged Journey. After finally clearing out almost all dangerous species in the entire western continent, Sauron began to build this secret base in the hinterland of the Eternal Mountains.
Like the Central Continent, the Western Continent also developed biochemical technology at the beginning. At that time, Sauron's request was to build an army of capable people, and these capable soldiers must be absolutely loyal and powerful. So at that time, the "Heavenly Chosen Project" was quietly born.
Sauron won the respect of the entire continent with his invincible military exploits. At that time, he was not outstanding. The people on the continent, especially the young people, had a kind of fanatical blind faith in him, thinking that he was appointed by the gods to save them. messenger. Leveraging this enthusiasm, Sauron launched the "Chosen One Project", recruiting strong young men and women aged 13 to 25 throughout the continent, with the aim of building an invincible iron-blooded army.
So from every corner of the continent, all those who met the requirements flocked to New Rome City in large numbers. There, they undergo rigorous assessment and physical examination. More than 90% of the people were brushed off, and only about 10% of the young people were qualified, and they were quietly transferred to this hinterland in the Eternal Mountain Range.
Those who were not selected at that time were very annoyed, but they were the real lucky ones. It was because after those so-called chosen ones left the city of Rome, no news came back. They either died or became the Zognars out there now.
Sauron recruited them not to train them into iron-blooded soldiers, but to directly transform them to achieve his goal of building an army of capable people. At that time, the entire Western Continent was shrouded in blind fanaticism. Whether it was Sauron or his scientists, they all believed that they could replace the Creator and change the course of life.
The overall victory of the Bloodstained Road has swelled the confidence of these people to an unimaginable level. It is conceivable that under such a fanatical belief, any experiment lacks a lot of necessary data support. Sometimes it's just a flash of inspiration, and a certain laboratory director will immediately use a chosen person to conduct experiments, and rarely conduct relevant verification on other organisms before modifying the human body.
Under such circumstances, those young men and women who were selected became guinea pigs. For them, this base is no longer the paradise they imagined when they came here, but a real hell!
In less than a year, the number of Chosen Ones dropped from less than 1,000 to about 200. During those days, corpses were thrown out of the base almost every day. The base didn't even bother to dispose of their corpses, and let the beasts outside decompose their corpses in the most primitive way.
When the renovation plan repeatedly failed to make progress, a supervisor whimsically started with other life models. He proposed the idea of abandoning the shackles of the human form, seeking inspiration from other life forms, and then building a biochemical army. It has to be said that even Sauron back then was deeply influenced by the theory of theocracy. He had little interest in soldiers in inhuman form, and it could even be said that he hated them.
But the plan to transform ordinary people into capable people has never been fruitful. Sauron approved the supervisor to conduct research with the idea of giving it a try. However, his project will be independent, and the funding budget that can be obtained is also limited. But even so, the director is still committed to this project. He is Dr. Andura, and he is also the creator of the Andura bug.
Two years later, the prototype of the Andura bug was successfully bred. This kind of bug is born to be a life hunter. The prototype is only the size of a puppy, but it already has a high IQ. It has been proved in many experiments that it is only a prototype body and can easily kill several dangerous mutant beasts that were few in number in the Western Continent at that time. And in Professor Andura's report, when this kind of bugs entered the mature stage, they were only one step lower than eighth-level ability users. However, the eighth-order is hard to find, and the Andura bug can be mass-produced. This is the most intuitive difference between the two.
An eighth-level worm is naturally a complete victory against the last Andura worm, and then he will feel pressure when facing a hundred. If it is of a thousand or even larger order, then the eighth-level will definitely be submerged by the sea of insects.
In Dr. Andura's revised plan, he will also design a reproductive function for the Andura bug. In this way, as long as the Pope's Hall designates an area for the bugs to reproduce by themselves, the Pope's Hall can harvest thousands of bugs equivalent to about the seventh order in one breeding cycle. Sauron wants to build an invincible biochemical army, all he needs is time.
Due to the progress made by Dr. Andura, the Chosen One project was almost completely abandoned. In the past two years, the project host of the Chosen One project only got some inspiration from it and created a complete eighth-order powerhouse. However, the resources invested are three times the annual budget of the knight order, and the difference in cost performance is obvious to all. So after Sauron recalled the eighth-order back to Rome, he ordered to stop the project of the Chosen One, and instead fully invested in Dr. Andura's insect army plan.
The Chosen One's plan has been stranded. In order to prevent the outside world from knowing the truth of the plan, the experimental objects and materials must naturally be destroyed. However, when these survivors were driven into a closed space to clean them, an accident happened.
In fact, this is the end of the data diary, and Froman himself recorded the following diary. After Froman's subsequent investigation and obtaining an experiment diary of Dr. Andura, it was confirmed that the Andura bugs had betrayed their creator. At that time, the base was destroyed by Andura bugs. Dr. Andura himself persisted in the specimen room for three days and nights, but was finally found and killed by his so-called child.
But in these three days, Dr. Andura made speculations about the bug's betrayal. At that time, a large number of bugs appeared in the base, and they suddenly rushed out, bloodbathing the entire base. This is something that shouldn't have happened. Andura worms have been under the strict monitoring of the doctor, and the number is only about ten. There shouldn't be so many worms.
Such a large number of worms shows that Andura worms actually have the function of reproduction. Then the doctor could not see the gene fragments that can reproduce offspring in their genes before, it should be hidden intentionally by them. In this way, the wisdom of Andura worms is more terrifying than their strength.
In the course of the experiment, it is inevitable that some insects will die. And the dead bugs were also exposed to the wilderness like those chosen ones. The doctor guessed that the biggest loophole in this incident appeared in the handling of the corpses. Or the Andura bugs have been aware of the base's disposal of corpses on weekdays, and with their wisdom, security can find this loophole.
Then as long as one or two bugs feign death and get out of the base by chance, they are essentially free. According to the doctor's calculation, as long as there is a breeding cycle of about one year, the Andura worm can produce an army. And now his idea has been confirmed, but the cost is too expensive.
In the end, the doctor pointed out that the Andura worm came from his hands, and his familiarity with this species was unrivaled. Once this kind of bugs form a group, there will definitely be a queen, and the queen will be the brain of the entire group, and it is the highest commander. If the Vatican wants to fight back, it must prioritize killing the Queen. Once the queen dies, the Andura worms can set off a devastating chain reaction.
This is a back door reserved by the doctor in the gene fragment of the Andura worm, in order to prevent this from happening. It's just that the massacre of the Andura bugs came too fast and too suddenly, so fast that the doctor had no time to react, and the disaster had already struck.