Chapter 637 [Adaptation and Learning]
To be honest, He Ping's knowledge level is still at the level of university for biotechnology, and he was not a major in biology when he was in college, so he only studied in compulsory courses in his freshman year and sophomore year. Although He Ping had a good grade in college and was able to survive on scholarships and extracurricular work, what he knew about many basic subjects was really just the basics, and he didn't know high-end knowledge. Of course, those knowledge was not necessary for ordinary people, except for being useful to a small number of professionals. ⊙
In the main world, He Ping's biology-related knowledge is only average, not to mention the biochemical cemetery that is famous for biotechnology. Here, students like Nina who were still receiving basic education before the virus outbreak know more than He Ping, which shows how advanced the biotechnology in this world is, and what He Ping can't understand at all.
In fact, let alone those zombies in front of him have not yet been exposed to, He Ping is confused. Although there are some creative works in the main world, and whether it is the reason for the zombie formation or the state of the zombie is almost the same as the real zombie here, the creative works are just creative works after all, as long as there is no logical error, and there is no rigorous description in academic terms.
He Ping did not have to fully understand these things he didn't know. Besides, even if he was extremely smart, he could only understand some basic things by memorizing, and he could not master truly advanced things. However, there was no need for him to master these things. After all, He Ping was interested in the Shenshu Group, not the technology of the Shenshu Group. He didn't need to know how the Shenshu Group did these things. He just needed to know what the Shenshu Group could do.
Facing the zombie dog approaching him step by step, He Ping did not intend to fight or evacuate immediately. He raised his pistol again. This time, he moved a little, shook the zombie dog a few times, and then injured the zombie dog's hind legs. As a result, it was nothing like before. It still had a self-healing phenomenon first. Then the zombie dog's hind legs became the same as the front legs. It was extremely thick, and its sharp claws also stretched a lot.
He Ping nodded. It seemed that the mutation was not a one-time thing. It did not mean that zombies that had already mutated would not undergo new mutations. It seemed that as long as the conditions for mutated zombies were met, as long as they were not fatal injuries, all injured parts could heal and mutate themselves. There was no limit on the number of times. Seeing that the limbs had mutated. Whether it was the zombie dogs that had increased their strength or speed a lot, He Ping still had no intention of fighting head-on, but continued to raise his pistol.
Before, he had limbs, but He Ping did not pay much attention to the bullet point. Instead, he randomly shot the zombie dog, making blood holes one after another. The impact of the pistol was not very strong, and with the power of the mutant zombie dog, he would not be repelled after being shot, but it was just a little hard and straight. However, the pistol's lethality at close range was stronger than the rifle. At such a close distance, the rifle directly fired a piercing injury, which looked terrifying, but in fact it was not very dangerous.
On the contrary, pistols with larger caliber but short shells and low charges can easily tear the wound and cause serious injuries. Some special bullets can even explode after hitting the target. Even if they are not special bullets, the projectiles will remain in the target's body, which is a great obstacle to treatment. Zombie dogs are shot several times in a row. If they are ordinary zombies, they should have been broken by the pistol at this time, but for zombie dogs, they are just a few more blood holes on their bodies.
Moreover, these blood holes gradually disappeared during the process of self-healing, and the bullets injected were squeezed out like the attacking limbs just now. It is naturally the turn to mutate after rescue. He Pingyuan thought that his body was injured, and when mutated, it was likely to be mainly defensive, such as a layer of carapace on his body, but a little beyond He Ping's expectation, the wound on the zombie dog actually grew a lot of tentacles in the gun hole after healing itself.
It is not defense, but rather towards attack. After He Ping was a little surprised, he immediately realized the law of mutation. It is not that the zombie dog was attacked, so it is necessary to mutate more defense. It is still very reliable to mutate according to the current situation. I don’t know how the Shenshu Group did it when it developed this virus. At this time, the zombie dog was injured one after another before it got close to He Ping. Therefore, for zombie dogs, the first thing is not to increase defense, but to increase the means to attack He Ping at a certain distance.
The tentacles grown on the zombie dog at this time are a bit like the whip that appeared after the arm of a human-shaped mutant zombie was injured. However, the tentacles on the zombie dog have higher elasticity. Although they don’t look long, their lengths are constantly changing after being swung out. They can actually attack He Ping. Even if the attack power is not strong, it can form interference, making it difficult for He Ping to continue to attack with peace of mind.
However, this level of attack is nothing to He Ping. He just dodged a few casually, and while dodging all attacks, he fired another shot at the zombie dog. This shot hit the zombie dog's forehead. If the zombie turned into a zombie, this shot would be enough to kill an ordinary dog. But now, the zombie dog just paused, and his self-healing ability was immediately activated, recovering the wound on his forehead and squeezing the bullet. Next, a new mutation was made.
I saw that the zombie dog's forehead wriggling, and then something like a horn grew. Before He Ping could figure out what it was, he felt a warning and his body flashed to the side, and almost wiped his body. A "bullet" flew past and hit the wall of the building not far behind He Ping. He Ping checked while alerting and found that it turned out to be a miserable white bone bullet.
Chapter completed!