Chapter 35: Gene Inheritor

June 10th, the third day since the Fierce Beasts appeared.

With the help of Chongqing’s research capabilities, the Biological Research Institute threw itself back into intense research.

In the afternoon, a military Transport Aircraft returning from the coast landed at the airport. Several military heavy trucks that had been waiting there drove up to it and moved the three alloy cages loaded on the Transport Aircraft down. More than a dozen people walked off the Transport Aircraft; their expressions were cold, they were covered in injuries, and they were immediately taken away by ambulances.

It was an unimaginable mission. They had gone deep into the center of the Fierce Beasts and successfully completed the mission at the cost of sacrificing half their men.

During the moving of the three alloy cages, the Fierce Beasts inside roared, their claws slapping against the alloy cages, looking as if they were about to break out. Under mechanical power, they were quickly moved into the compartments of the military heavy trucks. Teams of soldiers holding guns jumped onto the compartments, and after the doors were closed, they quickly left the airport.

The entire city of Chongqing had entered a state of war, and the city was under martial law. All non-military personnel, or personnel not serving military units, were forbidden to leave their homes. A free period from 8:00 am to 9:00 am was opened every day to allow people to purchase the things they needed. Aside from this time, anyone who went out was considered to be violating a military restricted zone and would be shot on sight.

The lively Mountain City had lost its former liveliness and was desolate. The streets and alleys were filled with patrolling armored vehicles and teams of running soldiers.

As soon as the Fierce Beasts were delivered to the Biological Research Center, Ren Zhigang, the person in charge, immediately commanded the researchers to begin extracting the genes of the Fierce Beasts.

Although the research time on Fierce Beasts was not long, everything about the Fierce Beasts drove every biologist crazy. Their genetic structure, as well as their functional composition, were all fascinating and incredible. Based on the intelligence gathered on Fierce Beasts, a preliminary judgment and grading of their abilities was made. Currently, it appeared that the Fierce Beasts landing on land could be classified from First Stage to Fourth Stage. The abilities of Fierce Beasts at each stage were different, representing a qualitative leap. Especially for Fierce Beasts that reached the Third Stage, they could actually utilize energy-based attack methods.

But these were not the most important things. The most important thing was that during the Biological Research Institute’s unintentional extraction of these Fierce Beasts’ genes, a secret of inheritance was discovered…

Once this research was discovered, all insiders were excited to the point that they could not suppress their emotions. This was a discovery that could change the development and evolution of human genes. Just through a few experiments, one could see how huge the changes brought to humans by this kind of gene were.

The only shortcoming was that not everyone would receive the inheritance. From the massive experimental data, it was not difficult to conclude that after dozens of experiments, the test subjects ranged from ordinary poultry to wild animals. As long as an animal successfully inherited these Fierce Beast Genes, it would immediately undergo genetic mutation and evolution, possessing terrifying power.

And the higher the level of the Fierce Beast’s genes, the stronger the abilities the inheritor would gain.

However, the success rate of one-third made everyone’s eyebrows twitch wildly. This would mean that among the inheritors, only three or four out of ten would successfully survive. For those who failed to inherit, the power of genetic mutation was enough to forcibly destroy all their original genes, turning them into a puddle of mud.

The bloody path of inheritance—this was the name given to this research discovery.

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On a highway outside a certain Small Town along the coast, a man who had been knocked unconscious was awoken by a swallowing sound. From the moment he woke up, memories surged out like a flood. The scenes that had happened not long ago stimulated his nerves. You could not imagine what kind of memory it was, with monsters charging into the Small Town and slaughtering the fleeing people.

He was lucky; he had discovered the Fierce Beasts outside the town in advance and had left early with his wife and children.

But this luck ended right there. During the escape, he was pushed over. At the moment he fell, out of the corner of his eye, he could still see the Fierce Beast appearing by the roadside, roaring and pouncing on the people fleeing on the highway. The collision between the back of his head and the highway, and the screams of his wife and children gradually fading in his ears, caused him to fall into a coma.

Opening his eyes, the highway was very quiet except for the swallowing sound, but a thick smell of blood almost made the man vomit.

Not far away, a giant bird the size of an ostrich was pecking at something. With a peck of its sharp beak, followed by a press of its two long, crane-like legs, it tore off a piece of meat. Then it stretched its head up to the sky, and the whole piece of meat was swallowed by it. One could even see the bulge moving as the piece of meat passed through its neck.

When the man discovered that the target of this bird-type Fierce Beast’s pecking was a human, his stomach began to cramp, and he felt like his insides were churning. Then, in the next moment, he forgot all sensation in his body, only because he discovered that the target the bird-type Fierce Beast was pecking at—the face that was pale from loss of blood—was so familiar, familiar enough that he faced it day and night.

“No!”

The man roared madly, springing up from the ground. He could not believe the scene before him. His wife’s entire body had almost been pecked away, leaving only a head and a tiny bit of remaining limbs. Dried blood had stained a large area of the highway black.

At this moment, the man fell into madness. With a blank mind, he completely disregarded his own safety.

The incident happened suddenly. Before this bird-type Fierce Beast could take off, it was hugged by the man. Then, amidst its mournful cries, it was held tightly by the out-of-control man. Intense pain came from its abdomen, as the man forcibly bit off a large piece of its skin and flesh, and blood gushed out wildly. Its defense was no different from an ordinary creature, so it had no way to stop this human’s crazy behavior.

The man, having succeeded in his attack, let out a crazy laugh. Blood flowed on his face and in his mouth, giving him endless pleasure.

The bird-type Fierce Beast’s counterattack directly pecked one of his arms open, and then it threw the man away. Then, as it was taking off, it was pounced on by a lightning-fast figure that suddenly appeared from the side, and its fragile neck was bitten through. A leopard-like Fierce Beast possessing lightning speed easily killed it, then quickly disappeared into the mountain forest beside the highway with its corpse.

The law of the jungle among Fierce Beasts began to appear.

The man who was thrown away was also knocked unconscious from the fall. He did not know how much time had passed before he woke up when the sky was filled with stars.

Then, a tearing pain spread throughout his body, making him let out a miserable howl. His skin cracked one after another, and his two hands constantly changed, finally forming a pair of flesh wings like a pterosaur’s, with his hands hidden under the flesh wings, turning into incomparably sharp claws. His feet were shaped like eagle claws; with just a movement, they forcibly cracked the concrete road.

The terrified man only felt his body become light. In his panic, he accidentally flapped his hands. The flesh wings stirred up a current of air, and he actually shot straight into the sky…