Chapter 721 Vulnerability
Froman, a red-haired man, pulled out a tin box from under the bed. He opened the box, took out a thick pile of documents from it and put it in front of Zero and said, "These are the base's diaries and some experimental reports. It is the documents we have found from the strongholds of the Andura worm over the years. It helps us understand a lot of things, including what the Pope's Hall deceived us.
Zero took it over, and Froman left the room without disturbing him. So there is only one person left in the room, and the information has been sorted out, with the date as the axis. Although the information is incomplete, it can also give zero a rough idea. Unconsciously, time passed while reading, during which Froman came in twice and brought some meat from the specimens and water with a certain amount of radiation.
Whether it is food or water, it tastes terrible. But they can provide some energy to Zero, so Zero doesn't mind eating it. As for the toxins or radiation contained in these two things, they are neutralized by the substances generated by empty worms. Of course, Zero has better food, which is the brain crystal of the Andura worm. Florman has said that this thing can greatly improve its own energy after absorption.
Zero also tried it, but found that the effect was not as good as expected. Admittedly, 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. Unfortunately, this is only a theoretical value. When the crystal layer outside the brain crystal is broken, the energy inside will quickly evaporate. Even if part is cut off by the human body, there will be " impurities" that cannot be absorbed in the energy in the brain crystal because of different life forms.
Remove these acrobatics, and the remaining energy is pitifully small, from 20% of the original theoretical value to 3%.
Of course, for low-level capable people or people like Zog, whose bodies have changed, the value of brain crystals is still very high. The former is because the energy reserves are not at the same level, and the energy is too small for zero, but it is a huge number on a low-order body. The latter is relatively less demanding on the energy purity of brain crystals due to body changes. Perhaps their current appearance is also caused by the absorption of brain crystals of Andura worms for many years, so the utilization rate of brain crystals is undoubtedly the highest for Zog people.
However, after returning to the fortress, you may find an effective way to extract brain crystal energy through experiments, but all this will have to wait until you leave here.
The history of this base can be traced back to the period when the new city was established. According to materials, after the establishment of Rome, after Sauron plotted to seize the throne of the pope and became the real master of the papal hall, he launched an iron-blooded journey on the bloody road. After finally clearing almost all the dangerous species throughout the western continent, Sauron began to establish 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 soldiers, who must be absolutely loyal and strong. So at that time, the "Selected Plan" was quietly born.
Sauron won the respect of the whole continent with his immortal achievements. At that time, he was still famous. People on the mainland, especially young people, had a fanatical blind belief in him, believing that he was an envoy appointed by God to save them. With this fanaticism, Sauron launched the "Selected Plan" to recruit strong young men and women aged 13 to 25 throughout the continent, just to build an invincible iron-blooded army.
So from all corners of the continent, all the people who met the requirements flocked to the city of New Rome. There, they undergo strict assessment and physical testing. More than 90% of the people were brushed down, and only about 10,000 of the young people were qualified and quietly moved to the hinterland in the Eternal Mountains.
At that time, the people who were not selected were annoyed, but they were the real lucky ones. Because there was no news back after those so-called chosen people left Rome. They are either dead or become the Zorg people outside now.
Sauron recruited them not to train them as iron-blooded soldiers at all, but to directly transform them to achieve his purpose of building an army of capable men. At that time, the whole western continent was shrouded in a blind fanaticism. Both Sauron and his scientists were convinced that they could change their lives instead of the Creator.
The comprehensive victory of the blood-stained road has inflated these people's confidence to an unimaginable level. It can be imagined that under such a fanatical belief, any experiment lacks a lot of necessary data support. Sometimes, with just a flash of inspiration, a laboratory supervisor will immediately take a heavenly chosen person to carry out experiments, and rarely conduct relevant verification on other organisms to transform the human body.
Under such circumstances, the selected young men and women became white mice. For them, this base is no longer the paradise they imagined when they came, but a real hell!
In less than a year, fewer than 1,000 people were sharply reduced to about 200. During those days, bodies were thrown out of the base almost every day. The base didn't even bother to dispose of their bodies and let the beasts outside decompose their bodies in the most primitive way.
With the repeated lack of progress in the transformation plan, a supervisor whims to start from other life modes. He proposed to abandon the bondage of human form and seek inspiration from other life forms to create the idea of a biochemical army. I have to say that even Sauron was deeply influenced by the theory of theocracy, and he was not interested in inhuman soldiers, or even disgusted.
The plan to transform ordinary people into capable people has been fruitless, and 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 available is limited. But even so, the supervisor still devoted himself to this project. He is Dr. Andura and the creator of the Andura worm.
Two years later, the prototype of Andura was successfully cultivated. This kind of bug is born as 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 only the prototype has been able to easily kill several dangerous mutatypical beasts in the western continent at that time. In Professor Andura's report, when this kind of bug enters maturity, they are only one line lower than those with eighth-order ability. However, the eighth order is difficult to find, but the Andura can be mass-produced, which is the most intuitive difference between the two.
An eighth-order will naturally win against the last Andura worm, and then you will feel pressure in the face of a hundred. If it is a thousand or even larger, then the eighth-order will definitely be flooded by the sea of insects.
In Dr. Andura's revised plan, he will also design a reproductive function for the Andura worm. In this way, as long as the Pope's Hall designate an area for the bug to reproduce by itself, the Pope's Hall can harvest thousands of insects equivalent to about the seventh level in one breeding cycle. Sauron only needs time to build an invincible biochemical army.
Due to Dr. Andura's progress, the Sun Chooser Program was almost completely abandoned. In the past two years, the project host of the Sun Yat Project has only gained some inspiration from it and created a complete eighth-order strongman. However, the resources invested are three times the annual budget of the Knights, and the difference in cost performance is naturally obvious to all. So after Sauron recalled the eighth-order to Rome, he ordered to stop the project and invest in Dr. Andura's insect army plan.
The selected plan is stranded. In order to prevent the outside world from knowing the truth of the plan, the subjects and data must naturally be destroyed. However, just as these survivors were driven into a closed space to clean them, an accident happened.
In fact, the data diary ends here, and the following diary was recorded by Florman himself. After the investigation after Florman and the acquisition of an experimental diary of Dr. Andura, it was confirmed that the Andura worms betrayed their creator. At that time, the base was destroyed by the Andura worm, and Dr. Andura himself persisted for three days and nights in the specimen room, and was eventually found and killed by his so-called child.
But in these three days, Dr. Andura speculated about the betrayal of the bug. At that time, a large number of bugs appeared in the base, and they suddenly gushed out and washed the blood of the whole base. This should not have happened. Andura worms have been under the close monitoring of the doctor, and the number is only about ten. There should not be so many bugs at all.
Such a large number of insects shows that the Andula worm actually has the function of reproduction. Then doctors did not see gene fragments that could reproduce in their genes before, which should be deliberately hidden by them. So, the wisdom of the Andura worm is more terrible than their power.
In the course of the experiment, it is inevitable that insects will die. And the dead bugs were exposed to the wilderness like those chosen ones. The doctor guessed that the biggest loophole in this incident was in the disposal of the corpses. Or the Andura worms have usually seen the behavior of handling corpses at the base, and with their wisdom, this loophole can be found safely.
Next, as long as one or two bugs cheat to death and reach the base, they are essentially free. According to the doctor's calculation, the Andura worm can produce an army in a breeding cycle of about one year. Now his idea has been confirmed, but it is too expensive.
Finally, the doctor proposed that the Andura worm was out of his hands, and his familiarity with this species was unmatched. Once this worm forms a group, there will definitely be a bug, which will be the brain of the whole population, and it is the highest commander. If the Pope's Hall wants to fight back, it must give priority to killing the worm queen. As soon as the insect dies, the Andura worm will produce a devastating chain reaction.
This is a back door reserved by the doctor in the Andura gene fragment to prevent this from coming out. It's just that the slaughter of Andura worms came so fast and suddenly that the doctor didn't have time to react, and the disaster had come.