The entire battlefield seemed to end easily, but in fact only Wu Jie and the others knew how difficult it was. Even if Zhang Xu killed one person with one move, there would still be several others who would join forces to attack Yuan Zhengwei and the others.
The level difference between them is not very big, not to the point of crushing them, but when they fight, it becomes more and more difficult. These people fight very hard. Even if you break one of his arms, there will be another one. Fists swung at you.
They rely on numbers, without any skills. Even if a few people like Gao Peng are killed, there will still be a few people attacking him together. Fortunately, Gao Peng's ability has barnacles. These attacks are not painful to him, but Others are miserable.
Zheng Qing and the others were also more or less injured, even if they could fly. Among them, Wang Dan and Qi Yiruo were seriously injured. Fortunately, Zhang Xu ended the battlefield in time and repaired them with Xue He, otherwise this remote place would be really terrible. Not easy to handle.
As for Ashin, Zhang Xu asked him to go out to investigate. He already knew the number of enemies around him before they appeared, and Xiao An's infrared scanning would not go wrong, as he was afraid that these people might have back-ups.
The result was exactly as Zhang Xu had guessed. The hidden people were also found and killed by Zhang Xu, but there were still more than 200 people hundreds of meters away on the outside.
The group of more than two hundred evolvers made Zhang Xu feel more and more complicated. In his impression, they did not offend anyone. Even if they did, Zhang Xu knew that their background strength would make it impossible for them to possess There are so many evolvers, not to mention that their genetic levels are surprisingly consistent. This weird phenomenon still needs Zhang Xu to figure out.
After Ashin came back to report, Zhang Xu and the others also avoided this group of people under his guidance. It's not that Zhang Xu is afraid of them, but that Qi Yiruo and the others need Xuehe to repair them. Their level is too low, consumes a lot of energy, and they are not suitable for fighting again.
After settling the team members, Zhang Xu went out alone. In less than ten minutes, he came back, and if nothing else happened, none of the more than two hundred evolvers were spared.
Zhang Xu did not leave anyone alive this time, but he did keep a few people alive in the first small-scale team battle. After seeing that Qi Yiruo and others were in better condition, he also began to prepare to interrogate the origins of these people.
He didn't believe that a group of people would risk their lives for a mutated creature. It was obvious that this battle was against him. Zhang Xu didn't believe that others would offend any major forces. The only possibility was to attract the attention of others.
After looking around with his big hand, the man showed no resistance. After taking off the mask, Zhang Xu was slightly startled when he saw his face.
After the mask was taken off, the black and gray robe on his body also fell to the ground, making other people's eyelids straighten. Half of this man's face was distorted and looked like a human being, and his whole body seemed to be burnt by flames. It stinks.
"I've looked at it. Why, can you recognize who I am? Or are you trying to trick me? Hahaha, do you think I'm scary when you see my face?" The man said indifferently, raised his head again, and said with his Looking at Zhang Xu with some white eyes, his throat seemed to have been swallowed by coals, which was very harsh.
"No, I just feel that you are very pitiful." From this man's words, Zhang Xu could conclude that it was simply impossible to get it from this man's mouth.
The man stopped abruptly and remained motionless until Zhang Xu's jet-black bone sword slowly popped out and was aimed at the man's throat. He looked at the bone sword and then at Zhang Xu. Instead, he smiled without any fear at all. .
"Do you have any last words before you die?" As Zhang Xu expected, the people sent were not afraid of death. Zhang Xu lightly wiped the bone sword on his hand, exhaled turbid air, and his eyes seemed to emit a terrifying light.
"Don't worry, I'll be waiting for you below..." After saying that, the man's head rolled to the ground, and his body collapsed in a pool of blood.
Zhang Xu sighed, without any resistance from beginning to end. Even though he knew that his life would perish, he didn't have any fear. He hates this kind of opponent. This kind of person who is fighting for his life is the most difficult to deal with.
However, just after the man died, the other three people suddenly rioted, leaving Gao Peng and others beside him unable to control them. Zhang Xu immediately used Xue He to control them, and then held down the three people.
From the perspective of strength, these three people were just meat to be slaughtered, but why their strength suddenly increased made Zhang Xu even more curious. He repeated the previous action and took off their masks, and who knew an even more shocking scene happened.
Can you imagine that there is almost no fat on the face, only tight muscle fibers sticking to the bones? These three people are like walking skeletons, with scarlet muscle groups under their pale skin, and they roar.
Seeing that the faces of these three men were surprisingly consistent, Zhang Xu was amazed. At the same time, he looked at their equally weird faces and frowned slowly.
They look very much like a kind of creature, that is, human beings' strongest enemy - zombies!
From the sharp claws on the arms and body shapes of these three people, they really looked like an evolved zombie, but this kind of zombie was a completely new type that Zhang Xu had never seen before.
"Brother Xu, are these not zombies?" Liu Mengyao pressed one person's chest with his foot. No matter how they tortured the three people, they would only roar. They were like wild beasts, but they were not as aggressive as zombies. Human desire to hunt.
Zhang Xu fell into deep thought, but he was not idle. He used Xiao An to analyze their composition, and finally came to an unexpected result. Are they not zombies? !
Judging from the extent of virus spread, everyone will have more or less viruses in their body. Generally speaking, there are very few alpha viruses in the body of ordinary people, only 1% or less, just like finding an oasis in the desert. Although there is, it absolutely cannot change ordinary people.
The number of alpha viruses in the evolvers' bodies began to surge, but they only occupied 30% of their own cells. They were like key engines that could drive the huge machine of the human body.
As for the zombie creature, except for its body and bones, all the rest is alpha virus. What it has to do at this time is to hunt those few or even virus-free creatures and occupy their bodies in order to continue the next generation. Virus.
This coercive virus has left many scientists at a loss. It is too strong and you cannot change it at all. Nor will the next generation become milder because of your cultivation. It will inherit the genes of the previous generation and achieve perfection. Gene duplication.
If these are not zombies, then why do they look like this? After Zhang Xu personally dealt with them, he checked to see if there was a Crystal of Hope in their brains. Unfortunately, there was not one in their heads!
There is indeed no Crystal of Hope in the body of normal evolvers, otherwise many low-level evolvers would face the possibility of being hunted, but Zhang Xu still did not give up.
He knew that there was almost no difference in the appearance of these three people, and he roughly judged that they were cloning technology. Originally, cloning technology was banned by the world. However, after the outbreak of the apocalypse, some sneaky forces must have surfaced, and there is no need to deliberately hide them.
One day has passed. Zhang Xu and the others are in good condition after repair. He has no intention of landing in Y City first. Since someone is blocking them, it means that someone knows the general trend of their side and will send additional manpower on some necessary roads. Although he is not afraid, trouble will always be troublesome.
The development of cloning technology is still at a relatively backward stage. If they develop it secretly, there will definitely be various bottlenecks waiting for them, including the life cycle of clones.
The reason why cloned organisms are short-lived is not a technical problem, but a problem with telomeres. Both humans and other creatures will be affected by Hayflick Limit.
It takes seven years for all cells in the human body to be replaced. Every day, different cells in the human body die and divide in cycles, but the number of times human cells can divide is limited, and this is the Hayflick limit.
The reason why this phenomenon occurs is because the telomeres in cells divide once and the ends of the telomeres will wear out until they are exhausted.
In order to live forever, many people have racked their brains in this area and tried all the booster cell groups in order to repair the telomeres in the cells. Even cancer cells that have a bad impression on ordinary people are also the subjects of the experiment.
In fact, cells can divide indefinitely, and telomerase in the body can promote cells to divide indefinitely. Even if telomeres are worn out and consumed, telomerase can make up for it.
Embryonic stem cells can replicate indefinitely under the action of telomerase, but differentiated adult stem cells can only slow down the consumption of telomeres, while adult differentiated cells cannot even slow down.
This really seems like a big joke. All cells have the same genes, but the genes that are activated are different.
The reason why stem cells can continue to replicate is that they can fully express telomerase. However, some cells have their expression inactivated and completely lose their ability to express. They don't know what to do when they see telomerase.
The way to obtain immortality is for cells to divide indefinitely, and the way to make all cells in the human body divide indefinitely is to activate telomerase. Since cells cannot express it and cannot find telomerase to repair it, they can only go to telomerase directly. Patched.
For now, that's it, but human telomerase activation technology is still too backward, and the side effect is the proliferation of cancer cells. Not everyone dares to try this result.
The reason why cloning is short-lived is that people clone cells that have divided many times. The resulting cells are still divided and are not new cells.
The age at birth of the creatures composed of these cells is the same as the previous biological bodies. Even if they look like larvae, they are actually several years old at birth.
Knowing about cloning, Zhang Xu would investigate the telomeres of these people. After rigorous analysis with the quantum instrument, it was found that they were indeed cloned, and the gene source was found. They were the same people before. But the strange thing is that these people Judging from the age, the telomeres are only a few months old.
They seem to be the embodiment of adulthood, but in fact they are only a few months old and have not yet developed their intelligence? ! Zhang Xu's brows jumped when he learned the result, it's incredible!
