Chapter 39: Mutant Zombies and Wasteland Bunners

It was already noon when Su Jing arrived at the Teppeni Building. The sun was falling down lukewarmly, making him feel that his skin was a little tanned. Although under the regulation of the auxiliary brain, he could control his melanin secretion and precipitation, making his skin whiter... This ability is a treasure for women, but for a man like him who doesn't care about his appearance, it would be better to concentrate on analyzing the genes of the mutant beast and strengthen his muscle fibers.

After defeating the mutant beast, Su Jing has obtained what he needs from the tissue fragments that were beaten by him, including their changed genome and the unrecognizable FEV virus.

In fact, Su Jing has added a piece to his schedule: Go to Sanctuary No. 87 to collect the most primitive FEV virus and experimental data. He now needs various biotechnology data to strengthen himself. Judging from the abilities of the existing mutants, the FEV virus has the correct idea. Unfortunately, the nuclear war interrupted the process of this secret human experiment, which led to the emergence of mutants having huge defects - such as low intelligence, excessive size, incomplete ability, loss of reproductive ability, etc. Although the lack of fertility is understandable for the design of biological weapons, for Su Jing, who wants to strengthen himself, this is a change that must be modified.

According to existing data and the spiritual leader of the super mutant who has appeared in other radiation series games, Su Jing judged that the perfect mutant should be a perfect warrior who strengthens intelligence, strength and even mental abilities. They are not afraid of radiation and can even strengthen their bodies by absorbing radiation energy. This is a powerful race with potential to replace the existing human beings, but after being defeated by the predecessor of the War and the Iron Brotherhood, Su Jing believes that there is only 87 refuge in the world - the only known experimental base division, and there is still the original FEV virus.

The genes extracted from the mutant human beast have been alienated to a very high level, and their characteristics include muscle tissue strengthening, bone density strengthening, etc. Su Jing has begun to try to gradually transform his body, and create his simplified FEV virus through endocrine and other means. He established a small gene and virus storage organ in the heart through the auxiliary brain, and began to cultivate a gene modulation organ in the stomach and lungs. The former stores gene fragments that he cannot use for the time being, while the latter can gradually affect the renewal of cells in the body through endocrine and stem cells connecting the bone marrow, and change his body bit by bit.

Through the analysis of FEV virus by the auxiliary brain, he has now only unlocked the first layer of "code", obtained the method of strengthening muscle density and bone density, and obtained the modulation code of the target virus protein. In the past two days, he has begun to create simplified and modified FEV viruses, and has begun to transform himself through his own endocrine system. For deeper code, he needs more virus samples to trace the origin, and instead launches the template of the original FEV virus, or go to Shelter No. 87 to obtain the original experimental data.

In the evolution of the past two hundred years, the reproduction of mutants does not depend on gender reproduction - they have no gender at all, but on throwing human captives into the Petri dish of Shelter No. 87 and forcibly infect inferior products with FEV virus. Su Jing feels that if we look at "quality", the genes of mutants in the past two hundred years must have been gradually deteriorating, but those mutants are constantly absorbing radiation to strengthen themselves, so that their entire population has not weakened.

But those are things that I will think about in the future. I still have to thank the mutant genes for this reason, so I have not been shot by a head-shot by a sniper bullet that flew over there... Su Jing was playing with the bullet of a sniper bullet. This was what he had just pulled from his skull. I don't know which bastard shot to play randomly. It hit the side of his forehead bone. Fortunately, after flying for thousands of meters, its kinetic energy was exhausted. In addition, his skull had begun to harden, otherwise he would have died here in such an unknown way.

When the bullet hit him, Su Jing fell to the ground on the spot. After pretending to be dead for five minutes, no one came to search for the body. He had to rub his dizzy head, staggered up, and continued to move towards the Tepene Building.

The entrance of the Tepene Building was sealed by a thick iron door, and only one walkie-talkie could talk to the people inside. Now there was a person standing in front of the door... or a zombie, the zombie with a hunting rifle on her back, was talking to the walkie-talkie.

"Let me in, you guys are racist! Or I can stand here and scold you all day."

[Sorry, but Roy, you know we don't allow mutants to move in here. Get out of here, don't let me drive you away with bullets.]

"Damn it, Gustavo, you know I have money!"

[It’s not okay to have money, so zombies should go back to your sewer and stay. Why come to the Tepeni Building to make things difficult for us? You know, you are so scary that I can’t even eat when I see your face... I disappeared from the door before I invite you to a gun.]

"Go to eat shit! You! Tepeni! Go to eat shit all!"

The zombie with a hunting rifle in his back kicked the iron gate hard, turned around and left dejectedly, and glared at Su Jing when he passed by, "Look at it, tender skin!"

"It's not my fault that I'm more handsome than you." Su Jing shouted to his back, responding to him was a hunting gun bullet that was wiping his ears.

"Narrow-minded." Su Jing shrugged, then pressed the walkie-talkie beside the iron door.

[I said we won't receive zombies...oh? Sorry, I thought you were that annoying person. Please come in, sir. We welcome all purebred humans.]

The iron door opened with a rush, and Su Jing walked in with great strides.

The circle of squares around the building is arranged with a "simple atmosphere". Although they are made of scrap iron garbage, they still try their best to show a leisurely style, which is a dozen fully armed mercenaries and simple fortresses slightly destroy a little the atmosphere created by the designers.

The middle-aged man who had just talked with Su Jing was sitting on a chair. He looked about thirty years old and had a beard. The man stood up and looked at Su Jing, and his eyes stayed on the large power hammer on his back for two more seconds, then reached out to hold Su Jing.

"Hello, I am Gustavo, the security captain of the Tepene Building. Are you here to find a job, or rent a house here? Or to sell goods? If it is a weapon transaction, just talk to me. If it is a bulk transaction, please take out the certificate. If you sell groceries, you can enter the building. But you must be invited out before dark... Are there any problems?"

"Are there any micronuclear batteries sold here?" Su Jing handed over a cigarette, which was also one of the luxury goods found from robbers.

Gustavo clamped the cigarette on his ear, then took out a notebook, turned two pages and said: "Yes. We have a box of micro-nuclear batteries. Most of the time, no one uses high-end products like ion rifles. Power weapons can also use energy batteries. Although they are lower-end, they are better than large and cheap. I don't think you are like the kind of person wearing power armor... It's better to buy energy batteries. Give you fifteen bottle caps a box."

"Nuclear batteries are more convenient, so buy nuclear batteries." Su Jing handed over another cigarette.

"Well... since you said that..." Gustavo turned back to that page, "How many do you want with one hundred bottle caps and one small bottle?"

"Five bottles."

"It's enough for you to use this hammer for a thousand years, haha. But since you can pay, just pretend I didn't say it."

Su Jing used to rob robbers, and there were five or six hundred bottle caps on her body. Now she has replaced them all with nuclear batteries in one go. This kind of fusion battery is a very magical product of deformed technology. In this radiation world, the development of technology is very... unscientific. It is obvious that miniaturized nuclear fusion can be put into practical use, but the most cutting-edge weapon development is still the enhanced infantry exoskeleton armor and ion beam rifles, while high-end weapons are just atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs. Refuge Technology looks at the high-end atmosphere and high-end quality from the advertisements everywhere, but the real situation is the retro trend of the 1930s. Especially the electronic technology in this world can design advanced AI that is extremely close to human intelligence, but it still uses particularly old large computers. Su Jing sometimes wonders if the computers here are still using diodes.

This is also the basic aesthetic style of the Radiation Series world. A Gothic steampunk technology, with strange black technology and backward low technology. Everything may be perfectly explained only by alien technology that is looming behind the plot. In the original game, there is a DLC plot called "Mothership Zeta", but according to Su Jing's speculation, the plot of this DLC is extremely difficult to enter. Adam's Beep Boy can't hear this alien channel that should exist... Maybe he is not yet able to open that plot.

After Su Jing handed over a large bag of 500 bottle caps, Gustavo asked his subordinates to bring a box of batteries. Under Gustavo's gaze, Su Jing opened the points on the spot and counted them, confirming that it was five fusion batteries, and then the transaction was completed.

"Okay, is there anything else?"

"I want to meet Mr. Tepenny as an envoy from the north."

Gustavo lit a cigarette with the flamethrower on his subordinate's body and let out a long breath of smoke.

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"Of course it's about doing business."

"Okay, Mr. Tepenny likes to do business. I'm going to inform you now. If you don't see Mr. Tepenny, it depends on his mood. In addition, if you want to meet Mr. Tepenny, then your weapon needs to be kept temporarily. This is also a necessary process to show our mutual trust."
Chapter completed!