Chapter 596 Beast

To the west of the mainland, across the endless sea of radiation and the huge whirlpool "gate of the abyss" between the two continents, you will reach another continent, the West Continent.

The area of the West Continent is only one-third of that of Central Continent. At the time of the catastrophe, the Eurasian plate, one of the original six continental plates, split into two pieces. One of them was taken away by the disordered ocean current and eventually penetrated into the trench. The sinking of the plate had a huge impact on the ocean currents and eventually formed the door of a huge whirlpool abyss that had disappeared for decades. The only remaining plate survived and became today's Xizhou continent.

In that year's disaster, Rome, the capital of Italy, was fortunately not seriously damaged. So the lucky human beings in the cataclysm gathered in this city. In the dark period when the order collapsed, the Catholic Church of the Vatican became the spiritual pillar in people's hearts. The church also took out all its savings to help the survivors get through the dark period. Finally, while helping the survivors regain their faith, the Pope's Hall came into being.

This is the first ruling force on the Western Continent. At the beginning, the Pope's Office only existed as a management and dispatching agency. This is indeed the case at the beginning. Under the integrated deployment of the Pontifical Council, resources have been maximized. People built a more magnificent underground city under the former site of Rome, and this city called New Rome has placed the hopes of countless people.

In the center of the city of New Rome stands a statue of God that can be seen in any corner of the city. As the only true God of the Catholic Trinity, the benevolent God favors this new holy city with compassionate eyes. This statue is not only the symbol of New Rome, but also the location of the Pope's Hall. Just behind the square where the statue is located is a Baroque church, which is completely modeled after St. Peter's Basilica. It is not only the headquarters of the Pope's Hall, but also an irreplaceable holy place in the hearts of all the people of New Rome.

In the 20 years after the catastrophe, it was the most glorious golden period in New Rome. The Pope's Office is committed to the research and development of genetic engineering, striving to improve the physique of disaster survivors and solve all the problems left behind by their radiation pollution. With the emergence of water purification plants and genetic food, survival is no longer an urgent problem.

After that, the first army in the Pope's Hall was established.

The Holy Seal Knights are composed of believers who are full of enthusiasm and have a sufficient center in the Pope's Hall. They were trained and swore that they were willing to give their blood and heart to protect the peace and tranquility of New Rome! With the support of religious beliefs, this army has an indestructible belief. They destroyed several strongholds of muta and living corpses near New Rome and made indelible achievements for the expansion of the territory of the Pope's Hall.

Five years later, the first generation of power armor "Holy Knight Type I" came out. This is a heavy machine that uses hydraulic machines and titanium armor, but there is no denying that the Paladin armor has unparalleled powerful firepower. Therefore, after being put into use, it also became the trump card of the Holy Seal Knights.

If everything goes as usual, the city of New Rome may become a paradise like the Garden of Eden. But just 15 years ago, General Sauron, the head of the Order of the Holy Seal, launched a mutiny, eliminating the then Pope Paul V and pushing Paul VI, who was only 5 years old, into politics. But in fact, it was General Sauron who manipulated everything behind the scenes.

After Sauron seized power, the Pontifical Council began to deteriorate. In the second year of Paul's sixth year, the Inquisition was established, and anyone who dared to question Sauron would eventually disappear from the court. These people were nicknamed heresy and burned at the stake, so the city of New Rome began to reproduce the dark period of the Middle Ages.

The dawn is still coming, and the darkness continues to spread. After Sauron came to power, he didn't care about whether the residents of New Rome were doing well. He was more concerned about how to satisfy his ambitions. All laboratories of genetic engineering have been closed one after another, and all scientific and technological forces have been devoted to the research of power armor and other war weapons. I have to say that human belligerent nature has been fully played in the research in this field.

Soon, the second-generation and third-generation knight-powered armor was developed one after another. Unlike the bulky armor of the first generation, the second-generation Griffin Knight pays more attention to speed and flexibility. They use lighter materials and are more resistant to pressure than the original armor, but the weight is only one third of the first generation. Griffin knights even have the ability to glide short distances, which makes their application more flexible and strategic.

Three generations of round table knights are completely a kind of war puppet. They are ten meters high and equipped with a Vulcannon known as the Barrem cannon version, guided missiles, electric knight spears and alloy tower shields. There are 13 round table knights, among which the special model code-named King Arthur is Sauron's car, which is equipped with more powerful weapons and performance than other round table knights.

In the past five years, four generations of armored air angels are in the research and development stage. This is a kind of unmanned power armor, which is remotely controlled by the driver through the intelligent brain. Air angel-powered armor is mainly used for reconnaissance, and they can also serve as a vehicle for micro nuclear bombs when needed. However, so far, the empty angel is still engaged in actual combat, and it is estimated that there is still a considerable distance from the production of the assembly line.

While the Pontifical Council made every effort to develop weapons of war, rebels gradually appeared in the city of New Rome out of anti-pressure policy of Sauron. However, the rebels can't be compared with the Pope's Hall in terms of numbers or weapons, but they are very popular, so they are funded by the residents of New Rome and some senior officials in the Pope's Chamber who are dissatisfied with Sauron.

Despite several large-scale military operations carried out by the Pope's Hall, the rebels died like cented insects. Whenever Sauron thought that this big trouble had been eliminated, but it won't be long before they would wander on the edge of the Pope's Hall, which annoyed Sauron.

The new era is an era of ability, but the Pope's Hall does not know whether it pays too much attention to the research and development of science and technology, but ignores the development of ability. In short, there are not many capable people in the army in the Pope's Hall. In Zhongzhou mainland, the fourth-order capable people are just middle and high-level soldiers of giants such as the Yingling Hall or the Dark Parliament. However, in the Order of the Holy Seal in the Pontifical Hall, fourth-level capable people can already hold captain-level positions. And higher-level points can even be qualified for such heavy responsibilities as branch leaders. As for Sauron himself, he is only a ninth rank, and he is the only ninth rank in the whole city of New Rome, and he has his own exclusive field.

There are not many capable people in the papal chamber, but it has made up for this deficiency by means of technology. On the contrary, among the rebels that are not supported by many scientific and technological means, the proportion of capable people is higher than that of the Knights in the Holy See, and for this reason, the rebels have survived until now.

Perhaps noticing the shortcomings in this regard, the Pope's Office also began to study the biochemistry of genes. Not long ago, the rebels got an exact message from the mouth of the senior officials of the Pope's Hall. Sauron is conducting a top-secret study in several secret bases on the western continent, and the object of the research seems to be some kind of life from the last era. It is said that the organism has genes that are close to humans but much more powerful. Sauron's purpose is to crack the genetic code of this life and make his soldiers have this super gene.

Once Sauron is successful, he not only has a strong armored force, but also has the strength of the assembly line production capacity. At that time, it will be the end of the rebels. Therefore, after receiving the news, the rebels quickly organized an operation to destroy the study, thus causing a substantial blow to Sauron.

Just east of the city of New Rome, there is a small town on the corner of the western continent. In this small town called Mota, most of the residents live on fishing. Of course, they can't go to the deep sea like the fishermen of the old days. In fact, Mota's fishermen can only fish in the relatively calm bays nearby. The muta fish they caught were not used as food, but sold to merchants or biological research institutions in New Rome. The former is resold to the rich as ornamental ornaments, while the latter is used to study the ecological changes in the radiant sea.

Fishermen, boats, fishing nets, and strange sea creatures are the impressions of the town to outsiders. But few people know that there is actually a secret base under the town, and the significance of the base lies in carrying out a top-secret life research plan. The code name of the plan is "Beast", which is also the nickname of the experiment.

Three years ago, the empty angel unmanned mecha accidentally found the wreckage of a spaceship shelved deep underground. I don't know what happened before. The remnants found by the empty angel were very badly damaged, and even looked like just some large parts. After getting the conclusion of the spacecraft, it was deduced by some images put together by the intelligent brain Gabriel after collecting all the remnants.

In that experiment, the wreckage obtained by the Pope's Hall did not have much effect, but the shell armor of the hull was of great research value, so it was studied as a material model for the fifth generation of conceptual armor. In addition to these remnants, the air angel also found more than 20 elliptical metals. After these things were shipped back, the Pope's Hall confirmed that it was a device similar to a hibernation.

They forcibly dismantled one of the hibernation warehouses, so they got the "beast". Beast is its or his code name, and it is also the code name of the whole genetic engineering. The Pope's Hall has found extremely strong cells in the body of the beast. If the genetic code in this cell can be deciphered, the Pope's Hall can officially put the envisaged "Angel Corps" plan on the agenda.

A humanoid weapon with no emotion and strong combat effectiveness proposed by Sauron has always been another research topic in the Pope's Office after the power mecha. It is a simple that has considerable authority in biochemistry and genes. Dr. Rochev presided over, but this "Angel Legion" plan is not easy to implement. Emotional aspects are easy to deal with. Before that, there had been an operation to remove the pain nerves of injured soldiers. Later, in order to facilitate the battle, almost every warrior of the Holy Seal Knights has been implanted with a pain mask element, making them fearless warriors.

As long as this nerve masking element is improved, it can completely cover the emotions of soldiers and completely turn them into emotionless killing machines. However, according to Sauron's vision, the soldiers of the Legion of Angels have at least five to six levels of ability. This is a difficult problem. You should know that there are not many capable people in the Pope's Hall, and if you forcibly recruit capable people to form an angel army, it will be only a thousand. And after using emotional shielding, it turns capable people into loyal and obedient killing weapons, but it will also erase their potential to continue to evolve, which is somewhat out of a loss.

The appearance of the beast gave hope to the stranded plan, and researchers found a series of information in the cells extracted from the beast. His metabolism is more than 20 times that of ordinary human beings, his cell activity is 12 times that of normal people, and his basic strength and physical strength have reached the sixth level of strengthening. But most importantly, his cells have the function of modifying other organisms.

In an experiment, researchers injected cells extracted from him into a mouse. The mouse immediately mutated. Its size expanded rapidly, its teeth and claws were about four or five times sharper than that of its normal counterpart, and its strength has also increased a lot. But soon, the mouse suffered from genetic collapse and died.

Since then, the research team led by Jane has been committed to how to completely transplant the cells in the beast's body to ordinary soldiers, thus transforming them into strong warriors. However, the collapse of beast cells due to mutual exclusion after transforming organisms has not been solved, so this research has been delayed for three years, during which a terrible number of soldiers and civilians died secretly in the experiment has reached a terrible number.

In order to cover up the death toll, so as not to cause panic after exposure. The Pope's Hall decided to transfer the beasts, and the subjects were mainly displaced people in the wilderness. This research base in the town of Mota was secretly built a year ago for the continued research of beasts and was recently put into use.

Central laboratory, which is an important laboratory that is heavily encrypted and protected by Paladin mecha. Two staff members are making routine data recordings on an incubator. One of them pulled out an information recording chip from the instrument under the culture tank and inserted it into the slot of his tablet intelligent brain. The intelligent brain immediately automatically read the data and updated the relevant information database. After all this, the man put the chip back to automatically store all the data in the culture tank.

"I'm leaving. I'm counting on you here." Waving the tablet brain in his hand, the previous people said so.

The remaining helpless expression said, "I really hope to go back to New Rome. We have been here for nearly seven months, and even outside the base has been banned. Staying here is driving me crazy."

"As long as the big person's problem behind you can be solved, we are not far from going home."

"Is it that easy? If this problem is so easy to solve, we don't have to come all the way to this town.

"Don't complain, work hard."

Then came the sound of the automatic door opening. When it closed again, there was only a researcher on duty in the laboratory. It was already late at night, and he sighed and sat in front of the computer. Looking at the data on the screen almost unchanged from three years ago, the researcher felt a burst of fatigue.

Maybe you won't get anything in the end? He thought so, then put his legs on the workbench and fell asleep with his eyes closed. Why don't you sleep? There is no entertainment in the base.

But he didn't know that just after he fell asleep, the data on the screen began to change slightly but continuously.

In the culture tank, there is a huge figure in those green bases. This is a giant, at least three meters tall and strong, which is comparable to a paladin mecha. He has a human body and looks like a bigger earthman. In fact, from the structure of the body to the visceral tissue, he is exactly the same as human beings.

Except for some cell differences.

For example, the cell that is far stronger than ordinary humans, and the three-leaf-shaped crystal in the front of the forehead, which I don't know what it has. Now, three lights are shining in the training tank. The culture medium is from calming to rising bubbles, and then finally boiling. As the data on the computer screen on the workbench soared and was about to reach a certain critical point, all the lights in the laboratory flashed.

Two red lights lit up in the culture tank, and then two scarlet energy flames spewed on the culture tank. The culture tank burst after even 1 second, and a large amount of green matrix gushed out of the broken gap. In this torrent like a waterfall, a pair of huge fists stretched out, and a few punches widened the gap in the culture tank, followed by the tall figure there and jumped to the ground, and then stood upright.

Waking up by the computer alarm and the sudden rupture of the culture tank, the researcher fell to the ground in a hurry and saw him when he looked up again. Under the continuous flash of light, the researchers saw this perfect body. This body is full of rigidity and wildness, as if it has endless power. Because it is too tall, his face and the light source behind him form a backlight. But on the unclear face, there is a three-leaf-like light on his eyebrows. When looking at it like this, the giant code-named Beast has such a divine nature.

At this time, the alarm was heard. The automatic door of the laboratory opened, and two Paladin mecha rushed in, but they were greeted by two hot death rays. Researchers on the ground clearly saw that these two blood-red energy beams spewed out of the beast's eyes, and the red flame spewed out more than ten meters away, and easily scratched the two paladin mechas as the beast's head waved. When two burnt traces of Mars still appeared on the chest of the mecha, in the loud noise, the mecha exploded into two fireballs, and the strong shock wave swept across the laboratory, lifting the researchers up and hitting the computer screen behind them. When the unlucky man fell to the ground, he had been stunned.