This conclusion sounds a bit shocking, but Su Hao is very clear: the Academy of Sciences has indeed not made any false statements in this regard. The crux of the problem is not about the Red Dragon Planet itself, but from the outside world.

The meeting did not last long. Half an hour later, Su Hao left the conference hall accompanied by his personal guard. Although the report of the Imperial President and others was important, the problem was solved, but the administration still needed to pre-emptively and use material power. In this regard, Su Hao gave the civil affairs department and the Academy of Sciences the highest authority, and he himself was able to turn his attention to other aspects.

The crisis on the Red Dragon Planet is not just a frequent natural disaster. In other aspects, amazing changes have also occurred.

Two Imperial Guard Air Force combat squadrons have been ordered to assemble at the Palace Airport. They and the heavy passenger plane they were on took off at the same time and flew towards the Moli Zhaka Fortress.

While the fleet slowly descended over the fortress, Tong Yanfeng and Qin Wuyi had already led the officers to wait at the airport. Their expressions were grim. Although they were not polite, they could not see their usual relaxed smiles on their faces.

Su Hao also saved unnecessary greetings and asked bluntly: "How is the situation?"

“It’s much more serious than I thought.”

Tong Yanfeng took two steps forward, leaned close to Su Hao's ear and whispered softly: "The laboratory is ready, you can go over and take a look in person."

The laboratory is located on the seventeenth floor of the fortress. It is strongly protected and belongs to the most important core area of ​​the entire fortress except for weapons and energy systems. When the large elevator began to descend, Su Hao also felt that his heart was indescribable, heavy and extremely heavy.

A group of senior guards and officers with live ammunition surrounded Su Hao and walked into the experimental center. Along the way, everyone who saw Su Hao stood quietly at the scene, his eyes full of respect and admiration. Su Hao greeted them one by one, although he only raised his hand and showed it slightly, but everyone felt extremely satisfied, and his face was filled with excitement and excitement.

I soon entered Laboratory No. 3, and the central area here was completely surrounded by thick, strong high-strength alloys. The alloy hardness was comparable to the thickest combat armor. Even if a first-level evolver wanted to bend it with strength, it would be quite difficult for a first-level evolutionist to bend it with strength.

There is a creature of the type of gray wolf on Earth in the cage. Its limbs are extremely strong and its body lines are extremely smooth. A huge single lens separates the laboratory from the compartment. Although this partition allows observers such as Su Hao to see the situation in the laboratory, they cannot see through the inside. For some reason, the gray wolf in the cage has been staring at this "wall", and his eyes are often confused and quiet.

The cage is very large and covers an area of ​​more than 200 square meters. After soliciting Su Hao's opinions, Tong Yanfeng whispered a few instructions to an officer next to him. A few minutes later, the side door inside the laboratory opened, and a giant bear more than three meters long was put in.

Giant bears are the most common large animals in the primeval forests of the western region. Compared with similar creatures in other parts of the empire, they are more irritable and aggressive, even more aggressive than jagged elephants and grassland lions. Their skin on their bodies is more than five centimeters thick, and the hardest connective tissue cannot even be shot through even large-caliber hunting rifles. In the western forests, they come from the top of the food chain, especially when hungry, and dare to attack any active creatures.

This giant bear has been hungry for a long time, but it still maintains enough physical strength. This is thanks to the special feeding method of laboratory personnel. They usually only give the giant bear one meal every two days. Either a chicken or a rabbit. This thing is not proportional to the giant bear's huge stomach bag. It is unwilling to waste food at all, and even the blood dripped on the ground will be clean. However, the more this happens, the more hungry the giant bear feels. The gray wolf in the cage looks like a big meal, without urging or laser induction. The giant bear roars violently, and starts running and accelerates from the moment it enters the laboratory. At about ten meters away from the gray wolf, it suddenly stands upright and pounces forward, and its huge claws smash into the air like a mountain.

The gray wolf's agility is amazing. It avoids the attack very flexibly. When the giant bear clumsyly turned its body and wanted to re-lock the target, the gray wolf had already jumped high in the air with extraordinary bounce force and jumped over the head of the giant bear. When the gray shadow flew away in front of its eyes, the giant bear felt an unbearable pain suddenly appear on its face. It howled, and its mind instantly turned blank.

The giant bear's nose was bitten off by the gray wolf. Although not much blood was leaking, the terrible severe pain caused fatal damage to the giant bear. It involuntarily leaned back, and its front paws subconsciously covered the wound on the tip of its nose. When the entire chest was exposed, the gray wolf also took the opportunity to jump up again. The sharp claws easily cut through the giant bear's skin and cut the entire chest open. The division of labor and cooperation between the two claws can only be described as "clever". While scratching the giant bear's body with the left, the right claw had already taken out the steaming heart from it.

With a "thump", the giant bear fell like a mountain. Amid the shrill sound of pain, the gray wolf began to circle around the giant bear. It did not launch a direct attack on the giant bear, but surrounded it, and seized the opportunity to cause greater damage to it with its claws. A few minutes later, the surface of the giant bear was covered with scars, the ground was covered with blood, and blood-red pieces of meat and yellow fat were splashed everywhere. The painful giant bear gradually lost its ability to resist, lying on the ground and twitching, but did not have the strength to stand up.

In the last blow, the gray wolf showed a terrifying power. It directly cut through the giant bear's eyes with its claws. The dying giant bear could instinctively wave its right claw to resist, but was stepped on by the gray wolf, opened its mouth full of fangs, and bit off the giant bear's throat in one bite.

Looking at the gray wolf biting the bear meat in the laboratory, Su Hao suddenly felt a strange feeling. He felt that this gray wolf looked like an agile mutant creature on the earth. Its fighting style and movements are very familiar with itself. The only difference is that this gray wolf is larger than the mutant creature and has stronger strength.

During his more than 100 years of rule over the empire, Su Hao had a detailed understanding of all the creatures on the Red Dragon Planet, and the Imperial Academy of Sciences also established a complete biological research system. This wolf-shaped creature has never appeared before and is unfamiliar with people, especially in the Central Mountains. From the time when Su Hao walked out of the pyramid channel, he had never seen a beast similar to it again.

“It is not the original product of the Central Mountains.”

Tong Yanfeng whispered beside him: "There are hundreds of such wolf-shaped beasts found in the fortress's warning range. They are fierce in nature, have powerful strength, and their fighting skills are even stronger than those of soldiers who have been strictly trained. In order to capture this alive, six soldiers were injured and two soldiers died on the spot."

Su Hao nodded with a gloomy face. He kept paying attention to the gray wolf in the cage and found that the wolf was not in a hurry to eat, but surrounded the dead giant bear and observed it back and forth. It seemed to be thinking, but it seemed to be guarding against something.

A few seconds later, the gray wolf stopped on the side of the giant bear. It squatted on the ground with its strong hind limbs as support, and its two front paws continued to expand the wound on the giant bear's chest. Its movements were extremely flexible, and the forelimbs with sharp claws were like human hands. It kept groping back and forth in the giant bear's body, grabbing out the liver, intestines and other organs in sequence and stuffing them into its mouth to chew. Suddenly, clear chewing sounds kept coming from the loudspeaker in the room where the observer was located.

Su Hao slowly frowned. He didn't understand what this gray wolf was thinking. These actions completely overturned his conventional understanding of other species other than humans. Generally speaking, beasts such as bears and wolves do not have the concept of food, and they often eat as much as they kill. This habit is of course because they are all carnivorous animals and cannot preserve food. Therefore, once they have hunted, they must be eaten as soon as possible. In this case, wolves often eat very much at one time, which is enough to maintain their physiological needs for more than ten or even dozens of days.

This is the first time Su Hao has seen it on a gray wolf that only eats internal organs and puts the whole bear corpse aside.

Is it really a wolf?

Su Hao's eyes kept following the gray wolf. The gray wolf turned his head from time to time and looked at the direction where the single lens was. Obviously, it had noticed that someone was peeking at it, but it just didn't understand why the other party was behind this wall? Instead of appearing directly in front of it?

“It actually has wisdom that we can’t imagine.”

Suddenly, Su Hao murmured to himself: "It can think and knows how to use the environment and existing resources reasonably."

Tong Yanfeng frowned. He didn't understand what Su Hao meant.

"Don't you understand yet? It has evolved the same thinking ability as ours."

Su Hao raised his hand and pointed to the corpse of the giant bear lying on the ground and was torn to pieces, saying: "The internal organs are the first part to rot. The muscles and epidermis decay should be slower. It does not need to eat very full in this situation. It understands that we will not take back the meal given to it. Instead of swallowing it voraciously and suffocating it for half to die at once, it is better to keep your strength and appetite and wait until the next meal to eat slowly. The temperature control and ventilation in the laboratory are very good. In a short period of time, the killed bear will not rot. It can wait, and this is what it thinks in its mind."

This is like someone buying a box of apples, first picking out the fruits that have spots and accidentally colliding and eating them. Other intact fruits can be preserved for a long time, and there is no need to rush for a moment.

The battle was over, and a full wolf and a pile of leftover meat made no sense. Su Hao left the laboratory and followed Tong Yanfeng and Qin Wuyi into the fortress commander's office.

"Since a year ago, new species have been constantly appearing in the Central Mountains. All of them are large beasts and no birds. Initially, the number of these new species was not large, and they were only in the depths of the Central Mountains. Half a year ago, a large number of wolf-shaped and tiger-shaped creatures appeared outside the No. 48 sentry. We began to observe them from that time and hunted some of them for analysis. The results are surprising. In the experimental samples, we found the same genes as those of the mutant."

Tong Yanfeng's introduction was incredible, but Su Hao did not express any comments. He was about to come to all the analysis materials, looked carefully for a long time, pointed to a chart numbered "31" and said: "Look at this, this is a sample analysis table of a gray wolf just now. Pay attention to this place, two gene chains appear at the same time. After the orders of eleven, twelve, thirteen... After the six intervals change, the auxiliary gene chain has completely disappeared, while the main gene chain has added an external link.

“This shows that they are blending with each other.”

Qin Wuyi, who had not spoken for a long time, interjected: "The fusion between genes is not surprising. Just like when we were on Earth, many people claimed that zombies did not exist at all. Because it did not conform to the most basic biological laws. However, zombies eventually appeared and evolved into another monster in just a few years."

Su Hao's eyes did not leave the chart at all: "Gene fusion is not as simple as you imagined. It requires a suitable environment and opportunity. Zombie viruses are special cases. They are extremely infectious and their binding with other cells is also extremely strange. They provide for each other and form a plundering relationship. Taking humanoids as an example, do you think they belong to humans? Or are they new species that are not humans? But you can't deny that they do carry two genes: humans and parasites. This is a very obvious symbiosis, but we have not yet figured out which side is dominant in the body."

"Symbiosis?"

Tong Yanfeng repeated the word and asked subconsciously: "What do you mean is that those large beasts that suddenly appear in the central mountains are also mutated forms caused by foreign genes?"

Su Hao's voice sounded extremely heavy: "I don't know. The analysis result of the Imperial Academy of Sciences is what I just said. "Symbiosis" is not a simple word, the conditions for its appearance are extremely strict. The environment, moisture, air, etc. are limited, but the most important thing is the relationship between the two different genes. You have also seen this chart. The main gene chain is exactly the same as the mutant we are familiar with. They are forcibly embedded in a part of the foreign genes, causing changes in appearance and morphology. Just like..."

"Like the zombies on Earth"

Qin Wuyi said this first, and his expression and eyes became slightly trembling: "They controlled those mutant people, just like on Earth, the virus controlled those infected people?"

“It’s almost that.”

Su Hao nodded slowly and agreed: "Of course, wild beasts may evolve their thinking and intelligence abilities. But many habits have become part of their nature and can never be changed. For example, if you have a knowledge of the environment and temperature in the laboratory, the gray wolf will not do this at all. Don't forget that mutants have always had the habit of hunting natives and taking them back to their nests to eat slowly. The symbiosis of two different genes can indeed retain some fixed memory in the brain. Just like infected zombies and humanoids, they all carry extremely traces of fragments of life thinking."

Although Su Hao's voice was not heavy, Tong Yanfeng's heart still suddenly twitched a few times and said in a lost voice: "What do you mean are those large wild beasts, including the gray wolf in the laboratory, all mutants?"

"I have no idea."

Su Hao shook his head: "More evidence and further analysis are needed to draw a conclusion. My horror at this matter is no less than you. We have controlled this planet and have not changed for more than a hundred years. Why are there abnormal species now? Many things start silently and no one can predict the result. This was the case with the virus outbreak on Earth, and the current Red Dragon Planet might have the same turn."

Virus outbreak?

These four words hit Tong Yanfeng and Qin Wuyi's hearts like heavy hammers. They subconsciously looked at each other, and saw fear and shock in each other's eyes.

The earth is a place full of countless beautiful memories and countless painful and tragic scenes.

Tong Yanfeng and Qin Wuyi are both survivors of disaster. They are no longer willing to recall the terrible scene like hell. Although zombies are not opponents in front of reinforced people, they are really terrifying. The rotten bodies and dirty blood are stinking all over their bodies. They are always shouting about hunger and will find that any living creature will rush over to eat at all costs. In the human world, they should not have appeared, and there is also a lot of scientific evidence that they violate the basic laws of living things. However, things are so beyond expectations that they appear, and human civilization almost perishes because of this.

People who are in desperate situations often do not consider the problems behind the disaster. They only have food, coldness, and future opportunities in their minds. Atlantis people are far from reality, which is actually a meaningless word. In front of a piece of bread and aliens, of course, they choose the former without hesitation.

"Your Majesty, do you think the Red Dragon Planet will suddenly have a large-scale virus infection like the Earth?"

After a long time, Tong Yanfeng asked, "Do you think there is such a possibility?"

Tong Yanfeng is already married. He has a son and a daughter, and his bloodline has already reached his grandchildren. As long as he is a normal-minded person, he will not give up on his relatives like this.

"I have no idea."

Su Hao still frowned and shook his head. The problem of large wild beasts in the Central Mountains was reported to the Imperial Academy of Sciences a long time ago. But even Su Hao himself never paid attention to it. Until this time, Tong Yanfeng caught a living gray wolf and noticed something unusual, so he was able to put the problem in front of Su Hao.

Maybe it's a bit late, but it should be too late.

"Slaughter that bad wolf."

After a moment, Su Hao said: "I need its flesh. Although it can't speak, it is extremely hated to us. But don't forget that cells can never lie. In front of us, they are transparent."
Chapter completed!