Extraterrestrial parasite

When the origin hit the ground, the shock wave generated immediately caused buildings within one kilometer from the center to be completely destroyed, buildings within ten kilometers were damaged, and glass windows a hundred kilometers away were shattered.

The bad thing is not that there are sixty-four origins, but that they all fall in sixty-four big cities. It is comparable to the impact of a small-yield nuclear bomb. It is estimated that two to three people around the world will be killed instantly at the same time. billion people.

Of course, this is the total sum, and some cities, such as New York, will not be severely damaged.

The location where origin hit New York happened to be the island where the Statue of Liberty is located. The shock wave was absorbed by the sea water in a large area, and when it reached the cities on both sides, it only caused a small amount of damage.

This does not mean that New York is lucky. On the contrary, too few people have died in the city, and those who are alive will experience more pain in the future.

It only took one day for the army to rescue, station, research, and protect. Everything seemed to be arranged well, but on the second day, origin experienced huge changes.

"It is an induced mutation. Origin has a way that we have not yet explored clearly, so that it can cause gene-induced mutations in somatic cells of organisms within a radius of fifty kilometers centered on it."

"Is it radiation? Or is it a virus?"

Chen Yang asked with a frown.

"No, none of it..."

"If we could really know the cause, we wouldn't be helpless and cause so much damage," Bream said in frustration.

"We did not detect any super-standard ionizing radiation or unknown viruses on the surface of origin. Viruses integrate their own genetic material into the host cell chromosomes, causing the host cell genes to change, causing the cell's traits to dissolve. Original conversion... The impact of origin on living organisms, mainly humans, is more like a mutagen acted by high-energy rays, which causes the deletion of specific nucleotides in our human DNA molecules. This causes the genetic code to change after mutation. The displacement turned into a non-original codon, which completely changed the information component of the gene..."

"But you haven't found any ionizing radiation that can affect the human body?"

"Yes... God is not on our side." Brim said dejectedly.

"Excluding the effects of radiation and viruses, what could cause such an effect?"

Chen Yang asked: "Fifty kilometers. Is it an influence formed at the same time?"

"Well, at the same time, at seven o'clock the next night in New York, ninety-nine out of a hundred people in the entire city had genetic mutations..."

Brim groaned: "This is a real disaster, as if it was arranged by God. It cannot be explained without a miracle. What kind of means can use such a mysterious method from the air to do such precise and careful work on the genetic blueprint?" Modifications!"

"What are the consequences of mutation?"

Chen Yang asked calmly regardless of Bream's condolences.

"Alien! It's a different species!"

Groaned for a while. Brim's eyes were full of fear: "They are creatures that are not at all different from us humans. They are not humans. Although their predecessors are all humans... but no humans will physically mutate and become man-eating monsters."

"Man-eating monster?"

Narrowing his eyes slightly, Chen Yang said in surprise: "Can't even the army deal with it?"

"To deal with... tens of millions of alien species. What kind of army will be used to deal with them?"

Bream shook his head: "Moreover, there are more and more alien species. Ordinary troops alone cannot fight against them. As a last resort, the federal government launched small-yield nuclear bomb attacks on cities including New York City and Los Angeles, killing Lots of xenomorphs.”

"It's a pity that it's too late. The whole world has changed beyond recognition... This is a difficult battle. The battle between humans and alien species has lasted for decades. Even if we win, we have lost too much now."

Dejected, Brim sighed.

"So, what's going on with those alien species now?"

After a moment of silence, Chen Yang asked again: "What is the situation in the world now?"

"you……"

Brim hesitated: "Why don't you know anything about this?"

"I'm sorry. I can't answer this question for you...and I'm asking you now. You just need to answer it honestly."

As Chen Yang spoke, he threw his backhand casually, and the dagger came out of his hand and slammed into the table. Bream was so frightened that he couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

Faced with the threat of the knife, Bream, who had no backbone, immediately became extremely honest and did not dare to talk nonsense: "Because origin stopped affecting it soon after, the number of alien species did not continue to increase. In the past twenty years, the provisional government has been carrying out the elimination of alien species. Plan, we can no longer see large-scale alien species. After all, although selective mutation is terrifying and gives those alien species powers that humans cannot possess, it cannot truly resist the attack of military weapons."

This is true, let alone the zombies in the movie. Even mutant creatures that are more powerful than zombies can only turn into dust when faced with human cloud bombs and carpet bombing.

Chen Yang also understood why New York became like this. After being carpet bombed and facing a nuclear bomb attack, it was natural for it to be so dilapidated and uninhabited.

"Then since the alien species are almost extinct, why..."

Chen Yang paused for a moment and continued: "Why is the electromagnetic wave environment in the sky so good and there is no signal at all? I think this is not a sign that humans are rising again from the ruins, right?"

"I have already said that even if we win, we have lost too many things."

"The initial spread of the alien species was too violent and sudden. In addition, one of the origins crashed in Washington, causing frustration in the federal command system. As a result, the National Guard did not respond at all, and the situation was out of control. By the time it was forcibly suppressed with nuclear weapons, In a chaotic situation, it is impossible to immediately eliminate tens of millions of spreading alien species."

Bream said: "So the federal government is finished, and so is the United States. The war lasted for twenty years. The first ten years were used to eliminate alien species, and the next ten years were spent pointing the guns at our own people, because this is a ' In the new world, when the masters of the old age die, who will rule the remaining world? Isn't this a question?"

What can destroy mankind is never any external threat, but itself.

Chen Yang, who was familiar with this, was not surprised when he heard what Bream said about the causes and consequences.

“As for the current world situation, to be honest, there isn’t much of a world situation left.”

Brim said decadently: "There are only a few countries that can survive this disaster. Most countries have been destroyed by tens of millions of alien species. Conventional military power cannot fight against tens of thousands of alien species." The countries that survived were trapped in endless wars. At this time, the only governments that could barely perform state functions were the Provisional Federal Government of the South of the United States, China, France, Germany and a few other countries."

These are all countries with nuclear weapons, and their government armies are also extremely powerful. Even if this disaster is huge and sudden, it is not surprising that they can survive and still have government functions. It was only a year after the collapse of the Soviet Union, so it is not surprising that it was unable to cope with this disaster.

"By the way, why is the United States a provisional federal government in the South?"

Chen Yang was very interested.

"Because it was established by the remnant military forces of several southern states."

Bream said: "Now in the United States, the industrial chain has been almost completely dismantled. What the survivors have to do is to survive, re-establish and restore the previous civilized society... and the provisional federal government of the southern United States, It was with this goal in mind that it was established after the collapse of the previous central federal government.”

To re-establish and restore civilized society?

There was no expression on Chen Yang's face, but there was a sneer in his heart.

After asking for a while, and roughly understanding the reason why the outside world was like this, Chen Yang suddenly struck out, hitting Brim under the ear like lightning, and knocked him out again.

"Sir Screw, what do you think?"

After knocking out Bream, Chen Yang slowly returned to the chair and sat down, and suddenly asked.

"His heart rate didn't change much, so what he said should be true."

He stretched out his right hand and circled it in the air.

"What a strange reason..."

Chen Yang lowered his head and muttered: "I thought it was the result of the outbreak of nuclear war, but I didn't expect it to be such a strange reason. Chief Screw, what are you talking about? It doesn't require ionizing radiation, chemicals, viruses, etc. that humans can understand. Category, causing selective mutations in humans?"

"have no idea……"

The right hand admitted simply: "Human DNA is not so easy to selectively change, and it happens to be suitable, not to mention that it covers a range of fifty kilometers... At least in my knowledge, this is impossible. things to come.”

"You don't even know, that is to say, that origin is something that can only be created by a high-level civilization that you have seen?"

Chen Yang suddenly thought of a terrible guess.

"Brim said before that there were sixty-four origins at that time, and they happened to crash in sixty-four big cities. What are the chances of this happening?"

"The chance is less than one in one quadrillion."

"It seems like there's something behind it, right?"

"It's obvious."

"Why do you do this?"

"Insufficient information."

"Are you going to exterminate humanity?"

"uncertain."

Chen Yang and his right hand were answering questions, and his right hand said: "A civilization with such means has too many ways to exterminate human beings. There is no need to go to such trouble."

"Indeed...it has taken twenty years and humans have not been exterminated. This should not be the reason."

However, the focus of Chen Yang's guess is not here.

"Chief Screw, do you think it's possible that the entire earth in this world... is now under surveillance?"