Chapter 3 Turbulent Era "Genes determine everything."
This is the famous saying of Dr.
Maxim Rothchet.
Sixty years ago, at the end of the old era, Dr.
Rothcutt was an expert in the fields of genes and biology, and he treated science and himself with the same enthusiasm and madness.
Since he couldn't find enough volunteers, or test subjects, to practice his genetic research results, he turned his attention to himself.
Within ten years, countless genetic fragments were implanted into his body.
These genes work together, mix with each other, and mutate.
In the later stages, Dr.
Rothcutt's body has become a natural genetic battlefield, with countless genes fighting and mutating all the time, trying to eliminate or control opponents.
As a carrier of genes, hundreds of deadly viruses can be found in the doctor's body at any time.
As Cosi, Dr.
Rothcutt's daughter, said, from a genetic point of view, Dr.
Rothcutt in his later years was no longer a human being.
In his later years, Dr.
Rothcut also believed that he was no longer a human being, but an apostle of the gods.
Especially after his genes went through a series of recombinations and finally formed a mysterious, stable and brand-new genome.
At that time, the doctor's left hand could condense unusually high temperatures, enough to ignite alcohol.
This is a temperature that the human body cannot bear at all.
However, the doctor's left hand did not suffer any damage afterwards.
"This is the left hand of God."
Rothcut stared at his left hand and said his second famous saying.
Over the next year, the doctor's ability to control high temperatures gradually stabilized, and the temperature at which he could condense continued to increase.
The doctor recorded the preliminary stable genome and the experience of controlling high temperature, divided the data into three parts, saved two parts, and prepared one for publication to announce his results to the world.
On the day of the doctor's press conference, the war broke out without warning.
The instant high-temperature flames and shock waves destroyed everything, including the doctor who thought he had the body of the gods.
However, the doctor's brief but shocking speech has been sent to every corner of the world via radio waves.
The brief war ended as abruptly as it had begun.
The surviving people began to walk out of various shelters and ruins, looking at the world that had changed beyond recognition in horror.
Some caring people still remembered Dr.
Rothcut's speech and found the safe left by the doctor.
The safe, which embodies the crystallization of pre-war technology, is safe and sound, and the data inside is also intact.
This information is the prototype of the first-level spell-like ability: flame.
All human abilities begin here.
Ten years later, in this turbulent era, all kinds of abilities spewed out like mutated insects.
Some of these abilities are very stable, some have very short-lived effects, and some even bring fatal consequences.
Moreover, people have discovered that among those who survive in the wilderness and ruins and are exposed to radiation all the time, various abilities begin to appear without the need for artificial physical genetic recombination.
After classification, aggregation, systematization and a series of quarrels, various abilities with clearly defined and stable effects were finally summarized into five major ability domains: spell-like, combat domain, perception domain, psychic domain and occultism.
Spell-like is a general term for various energy manipulation abilities.
In order to commemorate the doctor who was once a paranoid man in magic, this first discovered ability field was named Spell-like.
Combat domain is the general term for all types of combat attack, defense and movement abilities.
Perception domain, as the name suggests, all abilities to detect the known or unknown world can be attributed to this domain.
The psychic domain summarizes various types of control abilities, the most common and popular of which are various types of weapon operations, from the most basic cold weapon operation, ordinary gun control, sniper specialization, etc., to advanced complex weapon system command.
Finally, there is occultism, a field of abilities that is almost useless, and almost all vague abilities that cannot be classified can be thrown into it.
In mysticism, the core ability is luck, all kinds of luck.
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However, those who invest a lot of evolutionary points in mysticism often do not get the luck they imagined.
They neither discovered rare mineral deposits, nor obtained huge wealth or superhuman abilities out of thin air, and in the end, they died no less violently than those who majored in other ability fields.
There was once a man who did discover a vein of gemstones, but ended up being chopped into pieces by a greedy mob.
Over time, fewer and fewer people practice mysticism.
Of course, the distinctions between domains are not so clear, rigid, and insurmountable in reality.
As time goes by, more abilities are emerging, and there are many new abilities that are difficult to simply classify.
A specific ability domain, and some abilities require the cooperation of multiple ability domains to appear.
At this time, the former madman Dr.
Rothcutt was revered as the father of the Ability Domain.
The doctor opened a door with his God's left hand, which increased the stakes for the survival and continuation of the human race in the harsh world.
However, until now, people still don't know whether the road behind this door leads to heaven or hell.
When those who survived in various bases gradually woke up from the aura of ability, they discovered to their horror that everything in this world was no longer stable, including genes, the genes of all living things.
All living things, including humans themselves, are changing rapidly.
The process of evolution and mutation that took thousands of years to complete in the old era has been condensed into just a few years in the new era.
The understanding of the world that humans have accumulated over thousands of years is collapsing at an alarming rate.
Look, a row of afterimages passed outside the barbed wire fence.
It was a rabbit with red eyes, long ears and a docile temperament that was relying on speed to escape predators.
However, no one could guarantee that today this animal would be faster than a leopard. , what will become next year.
Therefore, this new era is called the era of turmoil.
Su walked carefully in the deep cave.
His steps were light and soft, like a flexible cat, moving silently.
The thick hooded cloak and bandages all over his body prevent his scent and body temperature from leaking out, making it difficult for dangerous creatures underground that rely on smell or infrared vision to hunt his presence.
In his hand he was holding a thick triangular steel pipe with sharp edges and corners.
The front end was sharpened so that it could be swung and stabbed.
It was a very terrifying weapon.
The modified rifle and pistol are carried on his back and hidden under his cloak respectively.
His pistol is powerful but has poor accuracy.
However, in terrain such as cave passages, the power of this pistol can be doubled.
The problem is that in this deep and quiet passage, the sound of gunshots can be transmitted very far, which is equivalent to telling the monsters within a few kilometers that I am coming.
Su's eyes emitted a faint green light, and the light kept changing with the changes in ambient light and darkness, and the scenery in the passage became increasingly clear.
This is the ability that appears at the third level of visual enhancement in the perceptual domain, low-light vision.
In this cave, the N11 base has arranged several electric lights, illuminating more than 100 meters close to the base.
This is a project left behind by the base during its last exploration.
The electric lights further down were destroyed, and the base wisely did not send additional personnel to repair and restore them.
But for Su, who has low-light vision, as long as there is a little light, he can see the surrounding scenery clearly.
Su was walking in the dark passage now.
The occasional glowing moss in the passage and the faint glow of sewage were enough to make his low-light vision work.
At a corner, Su suddenly stopped, his whole body retracted into the cloak, and slowly disappeared into the darkness.
There was a low rustling sound in the cave, and a ferocious gopher with a length of one meter came out.
The two holes of the disproportionately large nose on its head kept moving upwards, and its small eyes were dim.
It seems to have almost degraded.
Dire gophers and their relatives, the ground-dwelling dire rats, were almost indistinguishable more than a decade ago, but now they have almost split into two species.
Su, who was quietly crouching in the darkness, suddenly moved the triangular steel pipe and thrust it out like lightning.
It penetrated the top of the dire rat's nose, penetrated the upper and lower jaws, and nailed it firmly to the ground.
The snout is the most critical point of the Dire Rat.
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It screamed crazily, clawing at the ground with its four short, thick and sharp claws.
The gravel flew everywhere, and in the blink of an eye, it carved a hole in the hard rock.
Su held the upper end of the steel pipe tightly with his left hand, but his seemingly fragile arm was as unshakable as a rock.
The dire rat, whose vitals were severely injured, couldn't hold on for even a minute.
His body twitched violently and fell to the ground motionless.
Su slowly pulled out the steel pipe, turned the dire rat over, and saw clearly that it was a female rat.
Male gopher rats are used to moving alone, and if a female rat appears, she will always be followed by a male rat.
Su quickly moved a few steps laterally and stood in the center of the passage where the ferocious gopher appeared.
He half squatted with his front legs and his hind feet on the ground.
He raised the steel pipe and aimed it at the deep and dark passage.
Almost at the moment when he lifted the steel pipe to level, a gust of fishy wind suddenly surged out of the passage, and a thicker and more ferocious male gopher suddenly sprang out of the darkness, biting at Su in the air.
The steel pipe did not move at all.
With the momentum of the ferocious gopher, the sharp tip of the steel pipe penetrated deeply into the gopher's throat, passed through the internal organs, and almost burst out of the anus.
Su let go of her hand and quickly took a few steps back.
Her posture was light and swift, as if she was gliding on water.
With a click, the ferocious gopher almost used all his strength to close his huge mouth and bite the handle of the steel pipe hard.
Although its incisors can chew through almost any rock, they are still not as strong as this thickened steel.
With a clicking sound, the steel immediately buckled, and the male rat's teeth also shattered.
The male rat charged too hard, fell from the air, and then slid a few meters on the rugged ground before rushing in front of Su.
Su raised his right leg and stepped on the male rat's head.
The male rat screamed and struggled, but it couldn't lift its head from the ground at all.
As long as it exerts force, the body penetrated by the steel pipe will feel unbearable pain.
Even though it was severely injured, it still struggled for more than a minute before stopping breathing.
Su's beautiful eyebrows moved slightly.
To him, these ferocious gophers were a little tougher than they were a few months ago.
Such a speed of mutation made him feel very uncomfortable.
Su had no intention of using the steel pipe that had fallen into the male rat's body.
He groped on the cave wall for a while and pulled out a wire.
This is the lighting circuit installed at the base, which is now abandoned.
Su cut off a two-meter-long section of wire and peeled off the patent leather in the middle, revealing the tough alloy wire inside.
He wrapped both ends of the wire around his hands and continued walking into the darkness.
Even in a dark and rugged cave, Su Youbi's eyes and rich experience could identify the traces of the ferocious gopher.
It didn't take long for him to find the ferocious gopher's lair.
There are more than thirty ferocious gophers of various sizes in the nest.
The older ones are almost adults, while the younger ones have not yet opened their eyes.
It can be seen that these gophers belong to three different litters.
Judging from the three-month adult period of ferocious gophers, they can basically give birth to one child per month.
"The fertile period has been shortened by another ten days."
Su Mo calculated, feeling even more uncomfortable.
But his bad mood didn't stop him from using the alloy wire to trap a ferocious gopher in the air.
Then he pulled and shook the gopher, and the gopher flew back, but blood spurted out from its neck and hit the cave wall.
After falling, you can never get up again.
The bloody alloy wire brushed against the ground again, and seven or eight little gophers instinctively opened their mouths and bit it.
However, the alloy wire vibrated slightly, and their heads were almost cut in half.
A minute later, the nest of ferocious gophers was completely extinct.
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Dire gophers are creatures with a strong sense of territoriality.
With this nest of ferocious gophers, there shouldn't be a second nest of gophers within one kilometer nearby.
Su took out a map, added the topography of the passage in the blank part, marked the location of the rat's nest, and then carefully put the map away.
After walking a few hundred meters further along the cave, Su stopped at a cave-in.
Behind the pile of earth, a hole was revealed that could only allow one person to pass through.
Beyond the cave entrance is a subway passage that is as complicated, deep and full of unknown dangers as a maze.
Coming here means that the 500 yuan bonus has fallen into his pocket, and on the other side of the hole, a genetically modified medicine is tempting him.
Su Ban knelt at the entrance of the cave and listened.
The wind blowing in the subway passage was strong and weak, and there was a faint rustling sound inside.
The air is very foul and the oxygen content is very low, making it unsuitable for ordinary humans to survive.
This is one of the reasons why the n11 base cannot explore the subway passage more deeply on its own.
Su was certainly not an ordinary human being.
Even he himself didn't know whether Su, who had third-level abilities in the perception domain and second-level mystical abilities, could still be considered a human being.
After killing the nest of ferocious rats, Su felt that the genes in his body were about to move again.
He has accumulated three genetic evolution points.
Maybe he can get a new evolution point by walking around the subway passage.
The point of evolution is a common saying in turbulent times.
The so-called evolutionary point is actually the space left for new genes after genetic shock.
More evolution points mean more space and the ability to withstand the injection of more powerful new abilities.
There are many ways to obtain evolution points, and most of the naturally generated evolution points are obtained for unknown reasons.
In addition, the controllable ways for humans mainly include two aspects: genetically modified drugs and combat.
Of course, after having an evolutionary point, you still need to obtain a specific genome to form the corresponding ability.
Within each competency domain, there are a number of identified competencies.
However, more capabilities are still shrouded in mystery.
Evolution points gained through combat are often accompanied by new abilities, and most of the time, these abilities are different from known abilities.
Therefore, many warriors regard their abilities as the biggest secret.
When two ability users meet, after killing each other, there will be a very small chance of acquiring the other's abilities.
Therefore, it is ironic that in these turbulent times, killing does make people stronger.
Su closed his eyes, and the faint rustling sound outlined a clear image of a living corpse in his mind.
They wandered aimlessly, their dark red eyes scanning everything around them hungrily.
Unlike the zombies that often appear in old-time novels, living zombies are thin, flexible and agile, and can even move much faster than humans.
Their strong muscles and flexibility allow them to easily climb and move on walls and even ceilings.
From a genetic point of view, living corpses can actually still be regarded as humans, but those high-level warriors who have undergone multiple genetic modifications are further away from pure humans.
Fifty years have passed since the war, and many of the living corpses now are second or even third generation.
Compared with their parents, they are faster, stronger, and better able to adapt to harsh environments.
Many of these living corpses living in subway passages have evolved infrared vision to adapt to environments that often lack any light.
Su once again confirmed that there were no dangerous creatures clinging to the hole over there, then took out his pistol, lightly jumped into the subway passage, then made a long jump, and walked quickly on the rails.
He moved very fast, making no sound under his feet, and never lost his balance on the narrow rails. 4718: