The artifacts of the heavens on the tip of the tongue

Chapter 136 Commander Level Zombie

"From the perspective of origin, elite zombies are mutated from ordinary zombies, and the probability is about 1%, which means that on average, 100 zombie in 1 ordinary zombies will mutate into an elite zombie.

After the mutation, the elite zombies have greatly improved in speed and strength, and their overall strength has increased by more than a hundred times.

But in fact, because ordinary zombies are too weak, elite zombies can only cause trouble to small caravans in the wild, even if their strength increases so fast, and there is no way to cause too much damage to human settlements. threaten.

Especially semi-militarized settlements like our Gray Valley City, with high walls and perfect defense measures, it is easy to rely on the walls to destroy them.

Of course, in the situation just now, if our 25 city defenders hadn't successfully retreated in time because of Master Luke's shot, they would definitely have ended up completely wiped out. "

Xie An, who was giving a long explanation, smiled at Luke, and then continued: "As for the commander-level zombies, their origins are completely different from the elite-level zombies..."

According to Xie An's narration, Luke quickly understood the generation process of the commander-level zombie and its terrifying features.

For commander-level zombies, mutation is of course needed. This is the premise, but it is no longer the main reason.

The main reason is phagocytosis, and the specific process is as follows.

When the group of ordinary zombies gathers to a certain size, mutated elite zombies begin to appear.

If the size of the zombie swarm no longer continues to increase, or if it does not increase quickly enough, even if there are a certain number of elite zombies in this zombie swarm, there will be no conflict between them.

Because at this stage, whether it is food (humans or other alien animals) or other resources are enough for the time being, they can become more powerful.

But if the increase in the size of the zombie colony suddenly accelerates, for example, two or more small-scale zombie colonies gather together.

In such a case, the resources are quickly consumed until they are exhausted.

Ordinary zombies are fine, they can go years or even decades without eating, and consume very little resources, which is completely negligible.

At the same time, because these zombies hardly have any natural enemies, they can continue to exist insignificantly, perhaps forever.

Zombies have no hunting value at all, and no living object will try to use this kind of nutritious corpse as food. Even the most greedy humans are not interested in these guys unless their safety is threatened.

This is the real reason why ordinary zombies have been rampant in Xialu for decades, not only have not been eliminated, but have grown in size.

Regular zombies can do this, but elite zombies can't.

For them, mutation is an evolutionary path that is absolutely impossible to turn back. Either devour their own kind to strengthen themselves, or be swallowed by their own kind to become a resource.

Therefore, when the zombie population suddenly increases and the resources are quickly exhausted, the elite zombies will start killing each other until all the elite zombies are completely wiped out, and then the zombie population will start to mutate again.

So again and again.

Or another situation is that a certain elite zombie becomes particularly powerful during the devouring process, powerful enough to pose a threat to the remaining elite zombies, causing them to involuntarily obey it, an instinct that has never appeared before. .

This particularly powerful elite zombie is the commander-level zombie, and the above process is the process of the emergence of the commander-level zombie.

After the commander-level zombies appear, this large enough zombie group will look different.

Ordinary zombies are no longer sluggish, and elite zombies are no longer killing each other. Under the leadership of commander-level zombies, they will attack cities and loot lands, constantly conquering human settlements, or certain alien beasts that live in groups.

Just like tonight, as soon as Xie An saw the unusually large number of ordinary zombies appearing in Gray Valley City, he immediately made a judgment that there must be commander-level zombies appearing outside the city, based on this principle.

Facts have proved that his judgment was correct. Hundreds of ordinary zombies served as pioneers, and dozens of elite zombies later appeared outside the city. These were the prelude to the upcoming appearance of the commander-level zombies.

In Xie An's introduction, the root of the power of the commander-level zombie is that it devours countless elite zombies, obtains the mutated genes of these elite zombies, and fuses them into more powerful mutated genes.

But its truly powerful performance is more than that.

Larger in size, higher in defense, stronger in strength, and faster in speed, the destructive power caused by such a commander-level zombie is also unprecedentedly terrifying.

Not to mention ordinary humans, even the 3-meter-thick walls of Gray Valley City may not be able to withstand the powerful attack of the commander-level zombies.

The reason why Xie An explained to Luke at length when there were still elite zombies outside the city was to remind Luke of the uniqueness and strength of the commander-level zombies. , let Luke never take it lightly.

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As for Luke, he was single-minded on how to get more followers and complete more tasks. The long-winded talk to the old fox Xie An was basically in a state of left ear and right ear.

His gaze was constantly darting back and forth on the defenders around the two brothers, Xiong Daxiong, to observe which of these defenders who obviously had a good impression of him could quickly develop into his followers, and which ones It takes time, and what is simply impossible.

Where is the mind to pay attention to the long-winded speech of the old fox Xie An, and where is the mind to care about the extremely powerful commander-level zombie that may exist outside Gray Valley City?

Xie An, the old fox, saw Luke's behavior and knew that the adult was not thinking about him, so he stopped wasting words.

He turned his head to discuss with Xie Xiaoan and John Du, how to get rid of the threatening leader zombie with as few casualties as possible without the help of Lord Luke and the second elder holding back.

Jin Dajian stopped talking now, and concentrated on thinking about the important issue of how to deal with the second elder and how to avoid being punished by the second elder.

Only Xiong Er, Xiong Chumo, who had just been named by Luke, was shrewd enough to see Lord Luke's thoughts.

He knew that Lord Luke wanted to develop a loyal confidant in the city defense team, so he used his brains beside him, trying to help Lord Luke in this regard.

Soon, he came up with a good idea. Although it may not guarantee that Master Luke will gain the loyalty of his colleagues, it can at least increase his goodwill and lay a solid foundation for the next step of conquest.

(End of this chapter)