Doomsday Sacrifice

Chapter 11 The Price of Evolution

Li Xun didn't rush to check the system rewards, but tried to communicate with the system first.

"System, didn't you say that there will be wormholes and extreme beasts coming? How did you become a zombie?"

The feeding effect was good this time, and the system finally responded: "The wormhole has been opened and is being formed. When the extreme energy on the blue star reaches a certain amount, the extreme beast will appear. The corpse you just sacrificed is not what you understand." The zombies in the novel are the result of human beings failing to withstand the extreme energy impact when activating the DNA chain, resulting in mental damage."

"Not a zombie?" Li Xun's expression changed.

"In a sense, it can also be understood as zombies, because they only have the instinct of eating and evolution, and human beings are also their food."

"Wait, you said they would evolve?"

"Yes, like normal humans, they will also evolve after obtaining enough energy."

"So is the extreme energy causing this change?"

"Yes, the two major characteristics of extreme energy are that they can be directly absorbed and promote biological evolution. Under the influence of extreme energy, human beings will activate the DNA chain and open the door to evolution. During the activation process, about 90% of human beings lose their sanity. Mutated into so-called zombies, 10% of human beings will not be affected when activating the DNA chain, more than 99% of the surviving humans have insufficient activation, the evolution rate is extremely slow, and even stagnant, only less than 1% of the human activation It is enough to start evolving, and can evolve various abilities."

"Evolve all kinds of abilities? Strength type, speed type? Fire control, ice control? Warrior, mage?" Li Xun immediately began to think about it, and couldn't help asking.

"Yes, it is certainly possible to evolve in the direction of increasing strength or speed. As for controlling fire and water, it is essentially the use of energy. It is also possible. Humans have tens of thousands of genes, including invalid genes and gene mutations. , the abilities that can be evolved are too numerous to mention."

Li Xun is silent, he has tried his best to imagine all kinds of incredible abilities, but he still feels that his brain is not enough: "Well, it's because I am small."

"In this case, the zombies are also the same?" Thinking of the huge number of zombies, Li Xun couldn't help but feel his scalp tingling.

"Of course, although the zombies lose their sanity during the activation process, it does not prevent the completion of the activation. They can also evolve various abilities, and their survival method is purer and the evolution speed is faster."

Li Xun understands the meaning of the system. After losing their sociality, zombies with only instincts are obviously more advantageous in terms of evolution speed, but the disadvantages of human beings are also advantages. If people can unite and work together, the potential will be immeasurable, but Is it possible in the last days when supplies are scarce?

It seems that the five people trapped in this store are still sane and huddled together to keep warm, but once there is a crisis of survival due to food shortages, or someone evolves abilities far beyond others, the relationship between people is bound to happen. Change is human nature.

Although Li Xun has already possessed a powerful strength at this stage, he does not have any idea of ​​being superior to others, but this does not guarantee that other people will be like him, and he cannot completely trust others. This seems to be an unsolvable problem .

Li Xun didn't want to think about it anymore.

"Since zombies are not caused by viruses but by evolution, shouldn't you be infected if you are bitten by a zombie?"

"Zombies are not contagious, but an inevitable price to be paid in the evolution process."

"Is there a price for evolution? But the price is too high." What's more, misfortunes never come singly. In addition to zombies and the threat of extreme beasts, Li Xun has been unable to complain, and even the few good news can't bring him. How much comfort to come.

The system fell silent.

"System, you just said that one of the characteristics of extreme energy is to promote the evolution of creatures, including animals and plants, right?" Li Xun asked another important question.

But this time the system did not reply.

"System..., system?" Li Xun felt that something was wrong, "Damn, it won't be offline again, right? It's too boring to chat for a while after working so hard to feed one time."

Li Xun sighed and began to check the sacrifice rewards just now.

Genetic evolution?
It's a very plain and unpretentious name. From the literal meaning, it seems that this is a method of genetic evolution, but he has already fully activated the DNA chain. Is there any need for this method of genetic evolution?
The answer is yes.

After proficiently understanding and mastering the content of the genetic evolution method, Li Xun discovered that this evolution method is simply too important and it came too timely. The system has never disappointed in this aspect.

Gene evolution is divided into three steps, the first step is to activate the DNA chain, the second step is energy assimilation, and the third step is gene derivation.

Humans have tens of thousands of genes, and the DNA chains composed of varying numbers of genes form 23 pairs of chromosomes. The degree of activation of the DNA chains determines how many pairs of chromosomes can evolve. When the 23 pairs of chromosomes evolve one by one, the overall evolution is completed.

After Li Xun's body remodeling, the DNA chain is fully activated, which means that the degree of activation is 100%, and all 23 pairs of chromosomes can evolve. His first pair of chromosomes has absorbed enough extreme energy and has completed energy assimilation. The result is physical fitness Become three times the size of a normal adult, and then genetic derivation is required to start the evolution of the second pair of chromosomes.

Taking the game character as an example, Li Xun is now at level one. After reaching level one, the skill points need to consume energy to add, and then you need to accumulate energy to save the progress bar. When the progress bar is full, you can upgrade to second level.

Under normal circumstances, gene derivation is gradual and can be completed gradually by accumulating energy, because once the evolution is activated, the human body becomes a magnetic field, which can attract nearby energy that can be directly absorbed, although the efficiency is a little lower and the speed is a little slower , but there is no problem in completing the evolution.

The gene evolution method is mainly aimed at the third step, which is a method that can complete gene derivation at one time as long as the energy is sufficient.

Moreover, it also provides a method of extracting gene energy from organisms that have lost their lives, condensing and compressing them, so that enough energy can be accumulated for one-time absorption, avoiding waste, greatly improving the absorption rate, and accelerating the evolution process. This method is called spirit-taking.

That is to say, other people can only waste part of their energy to slowly accumulate progress, but he can quickly complete the progress at one time with almost no loss.

This is much cooler.

With the genetic evolution method, Li Xun's first idea was to go out and find a zombie to experiment. Zombies are creatures that have lost their minds. After death, they can naturally extract gene energy. He has no psychological burden to kill zombies.

Moreover, the number of zombies is huge, and they feed on the same kind of people who used to be. Of course, the more you kill, the better.

Originally, Li Xun's plan was to find a way to get out of the city at dawn tomorrow, abandon the big G and walk instead, try to avoid zombies as much as possible, and then find a way to get a car and go on the road after leaving the magic city.

Now he feels that if there is a suitable route, he should continue to drive the big G. After all, the supplies in the car are sufficient, and the off-road vehicle with a high chassis is more convenient and practical after going out of the city. The zombies on the road can be cleaned up by the way, and the most important thing is that it can extract energy.

Li Xun is quite looking forward to starting the next level of evolution.

(End of this chapter)