Apocalypse Gachapon - Chapter 1980: What Moonspan Gold?

Liu Zhenghong was clearly puzzled as to why Xia Lei was asking this. She thought for a moment before saying, “There are many discoveries; I don’t know what you need to know.”

This wasn’t Liu Zhenghong being deliberately evasive, but rather, that scientific research, whether in the process or the results, can sometimes be too complex and professional to explain.

For those not engaged in scientific work, many things are too difficult and profound; even if explained, they wouldn’t understand.

In Cloud Peak, the only people who could have conversations with Liu Zhenghong on this topic were the experimenters she led.

Because she absorbed all the knowledgeable ones into the laboratory, now, besides the main Cloud Peak laboratory, there were five other branch laboratories outside. The total number of research personnel exceeded ten thousand. Just within the manor itself, the number of research personnel was over five thousand.

This naturally included some producers and maintainers of gene warriors who only mastered basic techniques and knowledge, but the true technical core accounted for at least about one-third.

Externally, with Cloud Peak’s full support, lacking neither money nor people, and internally, with the technical expert Liu Zhenghong presiding, they had created the Cloud Peak Gene Laboratory, now renowned throughout the country zone and even the world.

However, with the laboratory’s expansion, Liu Zhenghong’s energy was inevitably limited in some aspects. What Xia Lei feared was that she hadn’t spent much time researching these parasites without magic crystals.

Hearing Liu Zhenghong say this, Xia Lei felt a bit more relieved, then said, “Can you tell me about it?”

Liu Zhenghong was even more puzzled. What was up with this girl today? Why did she seem so intent on getting to the bottom of things?

But Sister Hong knew that Xia Lei would definitely not come to chat idly with her now; she must have had a purpose.

So Liu Zhenghong thought for a moment and said, “Initially, I was just curious why they had no magic crystals and behaved… how should I put it?”

Liu Zhenghong recalled, “They exhibited intelligence that surpassed the level range represented by their strength.”

Xia Lei nodded, indicating she understood.

Sister Hong meant that these lifeforms possessed considerable intelligence even at low levels.

“And I didn’t really understand their living habits.” Liu Zhenghong continued, “Especially the ability to use human females and female zombies as pregnancy carriers—it simply changed my understanding of this world. How did they achieve inheriting only the paternal genes? This was my original motivation for researching them.”

Liu Zhenghong put on gloves, picked up a sharp, small knife glowing with a purple light, and approached a demon monster corpse about three meters tall. She made a light cut in a certain part.

Xia Lei’s eyebrows twitched at her casual manner.

“This is species invasion, the most serious kind. Until now, I still think so.” Liu Zhenghong focused on the part she had cut open, performing a surgery only she understood.

“Through years of research, I’ve figured out a lot. No, I should say, I still don’t quite understand the principles behind the various奇异之处 of these monsters. But this doesn’t prevent me from figuring out how to use them.”

“In the current mature gene warriors, there are many places where I utilized characteristics from them. For example, body strength, strong genetic exclusivity, and the顺度 of natural evolution.”

“I heard Little Leaf once encountered an extremely high-level魔怪. I really wanted to capture it for dissection. After such a long time, it should have evolved to the top level.”

Xia Lei smiled: “That would be hard to find. Moreover, these monsters are all stronger than evolvers of the same level. Counting equipment, our people can only match them at the same level, but in numbers, we are far inferior.”

“You came to me to ask about their weaknesses? To minimize losses as much as possible in the battle two months from now?”

Xia Lei shook her head: “No, but if you really can give me some suggestions, that would be an excellent thing.”

“A side effect of watching too many palace dramas?” Liu Zhenghong shot Xia Lei a glance.

The Black-Hearted Queen laughed heartily, not minding, and urged Liu Zhenghong to speak quickly.

“In the place we chose, are there many of these demon monsters?”

Xia Lei nodded.

“Not just many, but very many. Over sixty percent are this kind of monster. That special entity you mentioned might be among them.”

Oh?

Upon hearing this, Liu Zhenghong threw down the purple-grade surgical knife that would drive people crazy to obtain, placed some tissues she had extracted into a culture dish, and then loaded it into a machine that looked very strange and crude on the outside.

“In half an hour, this gene will be cultivated. After about seven or eight more processes, it can be used as a component gene injected into a blueprint. After three days of adaptation, if the experimental subject is still alive, then a powerful gene warrior will be completed. It will possess thirty percent of the basic attributes and body strength of this demon monster.”

Liu Zhenghong looked at Xia Lei and said, “If you give me time and find enough materials for me, then I can give you a true cannon fodder army in half a year.”

“But, can you wait that long? Also, manufacturing cannon fodder will inevitably delay the production of other gene warriors. The opportunity cost is very high. You can’t bear to do that either, right?” Liu Zhenghong threw down her gloves and continued, “The method I can think of is this, but its feasibility is not high.”

Xia Lei sighed. She indeed could not do this.

If parasites were the only enemy in this world, then it would naturally be okay. But these powerful lifeforms were not the enemies in everyone’s consciousness.

If not for the message Ye Zhongming sent, Xia Lei wouldn’t have touched them. This had a great impact on the plan to unify Earth.

“Have you found anything else in their bodies?”

Hearing Xia Lei’s question, Liu Zhenghong was stunned and asked, “What are you referring to?”

“Some kind of… metal?” Xia Lei seemed a bit uncertain. After thinking, she added, “Or some kind of active substance that you consider very precious but haven’t figured out its use?”

Liu Zhenghong reached out and pinched Xia Lei’s smooth chin. Probably only she in the entire Cloud Peak dared and was qualified to do this.

“What exactly do you want to say?”

Xia Lei sighed, then pulled Liu Zhenghong to sit down, and said seriously, “Zhongming and I once established a set of code words, hidden within ordinary conversation. This time…”

Xia Lei pointed to the sky, “In the information relayed by the Star-Eye Clan, I detected traces of this code. Although the Star-Eye Clan didn’t relay Zhongming’s exact words, I still managed to discern something from it.”

“I won’t tell you the specifics, but I summarized the general meaning.” Xia Lei pointed at these corpses, “Among them, there is something called ‘Moon X Gold’!”