Volume 14: Devastation Chapter 699: "Non-Nuclear Organisms"
"This is impossible ... Even if it's an SP-type mutant, the active ammunition can't be completely ineffective!" Aya's face was full of confusion and surprise, "Could it be that this monster... is not a seed of corrosion?"
"Be careful." Ke Lan's expression suddenly became serious. He held two guns in his hands, and the crosshairs closely followed the "corpse" that was staggering in the corridor.
Not only Ke Lan, but also many military soldiers, security agents, and even some armed personnel from civilian organizations who had come into contact with the Seed of Corrosion, gradually began to have a feeling: this terrifying monster that made people completely helpless when it first appeared , now does not seem so scary... In the eyes of these people, the Seed of Corrosion is no longer an invincible monster, but a biological weapon created by the Alpha civilization and abused by heretical sects.
Even in the eyes of some veterans, the Seed of Corrosion is just a beast with relatively strong combat power...
But this cognition is based on the premise that humans have perfect means of restraining the seeds of erosion. Whether it is the active cells extracted from the flesh-eating worms or the stalagmites that Ke Lan brought back from the underwater cave of the nameless island, they can easily kill these monsters... It's like a tiger. Only primitive people with simple stone tools in their hands will be afraid of it, but for modern people with advanced fully automatic firearms, killing this tiger is just a matter of gently pulling the trigger... As long as you don't let the tiger get close, no matter how fast it moves or how sharp its claws are, it can't pose any threat to humans.
Another point is that as the research on the Seeds of Erosion becomes more and more in-depth, people know more and more about this biological weapon. The greatest source of fear is the unknown... In the absence of any knowledge, a mouse hiding in the dark and its whereabouts unpredictable can bring far more fear to humans than a venomous snake exposed to a bright light source.
But if one day, a monster already known to humans mutates, and the means of restraint that could easily kill it are no longer effective, then everything will return to the original starting point.
Imagine that smallpox breaks out again in the human world, and humans use vaccines to fight it according to the methods used thousands of years ago, but are horrified to find that people who have been vaccinated do not gain the slightest immunity... When the building built of experience collapses, all that is left for people is helplessness and panic.
At this moment, the controlled corpse suddenly stumbled and pounced on the body of another guard. After releasing the other body, the wriggling tentacles immediately pounced on it like sharks smelling blood and began to eat...
The process of these tentacles eating made Ke Lan and Aya feel their scalps tingling - the surface of the tentacles first split into many tiny tentacles, and then these tentacles pierced the skin of the corpse like steel needles and penetrated into the flesh and blood.
Immediately afterwards, a highly corrosive digestive fluid was secreted from the surface of these small tentacles, turning the flesh and blood of the corpse into clumps of purple pus, which was finally absorbed by the mucous membrane on the surface of the tentacles and tentacles.
In the blink of an eye, one of the corpse's arms was "swallowed" by these tentacles, leaving no bones behind.
"It's... eating?" Aya said uncertainly, "Is it because the nutrients provided by the original 'container' are not enough?"
"I don't know." Ke Lan shook her head.
"If the special weapons and active ammunition in your hands are ineffective against it... does it mean that we can't kill it at all?" Aya's eyes revealed a trace of unwillingness.
"That's not necessarily the case... maybe this is a mutant we've never found before." Ke Lan whispered, "When Asano Akira killed it just now, it might have triggered some kind of stress effect, causing it to produce an 'antibody' that can resist the active cells of the flesh-eating worm... But if it is still an erosion seed, I think the active cells are still toxic to it, it's just a matter of dosage."
"I still have 260 units of active bullets left... Do you want to give it a try?" Aya asked.
"Don't worry... Try to find out the location of this mutant's 'core'... Shooting the active bullet directly into the 'core' will definitely have a better effect than shooting it at the tentacles."
"That's right." Aya nodded, "But how can you find the location of its 'core'... Do you have to cut it open with a knife?"
Having said that, Aya couldn't help but look at Asano Akira who was standing aside with a knife in hand.
Aya was well aware of Asano Akira's strength. She even suspected that this seemingly handsome and weak man had the ability to fight against the SP-type mutant alone.
"Can you hear it?" Ke Lan also looked at Asano Akira. "The 'core' of the Seed of Erosion is equivalent to the human heart. Although there is not such an obvious beating sound, the nutrients it absorbs from the outside of the body will be gathered in the 'core'... Especially in the 'eating' state, you only need to find the place with the highest density in this guy's body..."
Asano Akira's special ability can not only be used as a human radar and sonar, but also as a substitute for B-ultrasound and even MRI.
However, Asano Akira slowly shook his head and said, "I... didn't find it. The density of each part of its body is almost the same... The blood absorbed by the tentacle mucous membrane flows throughout its body..."
"Consistent density? Flowing throughout the body?" After hearing this result, Ke Lan couldn't help but be stunned... Does this mean... that there is no "core" in the body of this species of erosion?
After the death of the host, regardless of whether the erosion seeds in its body have fully developed or not, they will quickly transform from the parasitic stage to the catastrophic stage. As an independent life individual, the erosion seeds in the catastrophic stage and the mature stage must have a "nucleus" in their bodies.
Perhaps some seeds of erosion will remain in the "container" after entering the mature stage for the purpose of camouflage, and continue to maintain a "symbiotic" relationship, but there will never be a seed of erosion that will not enter the "acute phase" after the death of the "container" - if it fails to condense a 'nucleus' within fifteen minutes, then it will be equivalent to a fetus that dies during childbirth and will die along with the "container".
The probability of this happening is very low. At least there are no more than five recorded cases in the Security Bureau's archives... From a certain perspective, the probability that the Seed of Erosion cannot enter the rapid transformation stage from the parasitic stage is even lower than the probability of a pregnant woman suffering from dystocia in this era.
