Apocalypse: I Build A Doomsday Train-Chapter 901 - 372: Lin Xian’s Far-Sighted Planning

"Alive, what do you mean?"

"Through studying the form of existence of that Nest in Star Abyss No. 5’s White City you recorded, I became very curious about this life composition form. Life originates from the division of embryos, following a natural growth process. A form like this, stitched and manufactured, is hard to understand."

Ding Junyi pushed a large petri dish on the table forward. Inside was a large mass of biological tissue, seemingly hardened and dehydrated. She said to Lin Xian, "But look, most of these tissues come from human and animal bodies. We’ve been in contact with the Abnormal Body for so long, including the Federation and the Phoenix Society, and we’ve always thought of the Abnormal Body as another life form. They don’t have the brain or heart structures we understand, yet the problem is, they clearly have the characteristics of carbon-based life forms."

"It’s fortunate they’re carbon-based life forms, so our weapons can still be effective," Lin Xian said.

"Normally, cell tissues wouldn’t lose activity immediately after a creature’s death. We’ve collected a lot along the way, but the problem is..."

"Not a single one is alive?"

Ding Junyi nodded. She picked up a piece of the black tissue in the petri dish with tweezers, and the original flesh now seemed carbonized, crumbling into fine sand and quickly flowing down.

"Human tissues have undergone some form of ’refinement’, gaining extreme hardness, flexibility, and defensive power, and... they are very heavy."

"Are you saying the Abnormal Bodies we’ve encountered are, essentially, not a type of organism?"

Ding Junyi nodded: "The Phoenix Society discovered this a while ago, and I heard it from some of their recent global reports. Besides biological tissue research, the most important point is biologicity."

"What do you mean by biologicity?"

"Basic activities like hunting, feeding, mating, and reproduction are almost absent. They function like natural killing machines, hunting humans without reacting to flesh, with the Dark Mark acting like a command. As long as there’s a live person, they attack frantically, not even fearing death."

Lin Xian fell silent at this. He indeed discovered the same thing, as did all the other survivors.

It seemed the purpose of both Abnormal Bodies and Zombies was solely for slaughter, showing no feeding behavior, and they wouldn’t stop in the face of gunfire. This madness was one of the reasons survivors grew increasingly fearful of the Abnormal Bodies.

"So, combining the Phoenix Society and Nightwalker Organization’s Fire Book information packs, plus synchronized research data from Silent City, I’ve reached a conclusion."

Ding Junyi looked at Lin Xian: "That is, the Abnormal Bodies are a kind of quasi-mechanical existence, created by some force or civilization using the blood and flesh tissues of hundreds of billions of humans and animals through ’craftsmanship’, driven by this."

As she spoke, she tossed a spherical object to Lin Xian. When Lin Xian caught it and looked closely, it was a Second-level Blood Essence.

"Mysterious Blood Essence..." Lin Xian slightly changed his expression: "Are you saying this thing is the battery for the Abnormal Bodies?"

"It should be easy to understand."

Lin Xian remained silent. He suddenly recalled what a professor named Han Qiming told him earlier in Underground City No. 9.

"The reason this inference can’t be spread is to avoid causing panic, and because it’s not rigorous enough. Mainly because there isn’t an accurate judgment in biological pathology, bacterial strain research, or Zombie live investigations. Zombies themselves aren’t a rigorous concept; from a biological perspective, such individual organisms don’t exist."

"For instance, an adult with extremely poor body functions can’t suddenly gain strong vitality and physical strength without energy metabolism. A body damaged by the virus would only get worse, so how could it suddenly invigorate, attack people, and survive so long?"

"So, the Dark Invasion Toxin is essentially the energy of Dark Creatures, including Zombies, similar to our oxygen, while the Blood Essence is a high-density energy aggregate that serves as the primary core driving the Abnormal Bodies?"

"Yes."

"That seems to make sense," Lin Xian nodded, "Every time those Abnormal Bodies are killed, Black Gas gets released, which should be high-concentration Dark Invasion Toxin..."

No wonder when he approached this Black Fog previously, he could hear hellish screams in his ears. It wasn’t auditory hallucination but a mental impact caused by high-concentration Dark Invasion.

Absorbing this high concentration of Dark Invasion was an enormous burden on the human body, collapsing would lead to Falling mutations, whereas withstanding it could result in evolution. This was why some Superpower User hunting groups attempted to enhance their superpower by this method.

"So now, what do you mean by saying this cell is alive?"

Ding Junyi pointed to the Dark Erosion Cells in the petri dish: "This is exactly what I’m curious about. Through my research, I found that this cell has a completely different cellular existence form than Blue Star organisms. The key is, it has the characteristic of absorbing Dark Invasion without being affected. The only issue is, the Deep Red World configures it on a piece of living human tissue to maintain its activity; otherwise, it couldn’t be brought out of Star Abyss. Therefore, I think this thing is likely..."

"The true Dark Creatures!"

Lin Xian was slightly shaken, realizing: "I understand what you mean. You’re saying that besides a few true Dark Creatures in the Abnormal Bodies, most are flesh machines created similarly to the White City’s Nest."