"King Kong's metal frame has properties such as activity, ductility, alloying, and exchange, which are consistent with metals in some aspects. The alloying speed for metallic materials is very fast, while the alloying speed for non-metallic materials is very slow."
"Groundworms, giant-toothed rats, and toothed wolves are active, and their active cores show signs of gradual transition to metal."
"The active core is the bone structure. Bones contain calcium, sodium, magnesium, iron and other metal elements, among which the metal calcium has the highest content. Moreover, metal elements are indispensable elements in the bodies of animals and humans."
"Activity seems to exist in the form of electromagnetic radiation, and at the same time it seems to be radioactive. Except for radon and astatine, most of the radioactive elements in nature are metals. But radon is formed by the decay of the radioactive metal radium, and after decay, it becomes a radioactive metal Polonium. And astatine has metallic properties, which are obtained by the decay of radioactive metal francium, and eventually decay into metallic lead..."
This is information researched by Shen Cong and recorded in computer files.
However, the problem returned to its original point. When he first came into contact with activity, he speculated that activity was related to metals.
After going around in a circle, it seems that a lot of information has been obtained, but in fact it still has not touched the essence of activity - is there a connection between meteor showers and activity, and if so, what is the connection?
Can't get a clue from research.
Shen Cong decisively suppressed this thought that seemed to have reached a dead end.
Continue to toss the mouse: "It is certain that although the signs of mutation are relatively weak, this rabbit is indeed a mutant, but where is its active core?"
Shen Cong frowned and thought.
The reason why he was anxious to find the active core was because he could not find the active core in himself, nor in the King Kong.
This is the difference between him and mutated creatures such as burrowing insects, big-toothed rats, and toothed wolves.
It stands to reason that humans are also animals. Apart from their developed brains, they are essentially the same as wild beasts. So animals have undergone mutations and developed active cores, and humans should not be an exception.
"Should I dissect the rabbit and see if there's an active core inside?"
The thought whirled around and then receded. Shen Cong had not really killed the rabbit.
After finally catching a living mutated monster, you can't kill it casually before draining out the remaining value.
After thinking for a while, Shen Cong typed out a line of text on his notebook: "Plastic Rabbit, a mutated leporid animal with no obvious signs of mutation and an active core that has not yet been discovered. It is carnivorous and has records of eating plastic. Its specific characteristics remain to be seen."
Unable to learn more in a short time, Shen Cong put the plastic rabbit into a cage and threw it aside.
Then start a new round of active boot repair King Kong.
…
Another week has passed.
This period of time was spent in peace, with no storms or sandstorms. No attacks from mutant monsters were encountered, and no trace of living creatures was found.
Six hours a day are spent sleeping.
Nine hours were spent repairing the King Kong.
Three hours are spent learning radio knowledge.
Two hours were used to exercise and practice slingshots.
Two hours are used for eating, reading novels, watching movies, etc.
An hour is spent inspecting the surrounding geographical environment.
There is still one hour left to study the plastic rabbit.
The schedule of work and rest is very tight, and Shen Cong's execution ability is also very good. Even in the end of the world, he still has strong self-discipline.
After a week and a half of continuous repairs, the main frame structure of the King Kong has been completely restored to its original state, and the outer armor has also stood up with steel spikes again. Looking at the surface, the King Kong has returned to the doomsday chariot with streamlined armor and domineering power. , giving people an infinite sense of security.
But in fact, the King Kong is still just a showpiece, and its internal circuit system and electronic components are still in a shutdown state.
Shen Cong estimated that it would take four or five days to completely repair the power system.
Fortunately, he had replenished fresh water before and could stay here for a long time.
The 15A radar was also repaired and rotated on the roof of the car to detect the surrounding movements. Shen Cong put on the Optimus Prime 1.0 active armor several times, brought active pistols, hand crossbows, fang daggers and other weapons, and cautiously went there. I patrolled the distance. I went as far as one kilometer away, but found nothing.
While patrolling, Shen Cong placed three hunting traps on the ground and used rotten wolf meat as bait.
The uneatable wolf meat had begun to rot. Shen Cong stayed away from rotten food. Except for feeding the plastic rabbits, he dug holes and buried the rest. Making bait was just waste.
I look forward to being able to exchange the old ones for new ones and capture other mutated monsters so that I can have fresh meat to eat.
However, to Shen Cong's disappointment, except for the plastic rabbit that was attracted by the Nutrition Express bottle, there seemed to be no mutated monsters nearby, only a bunch of flies surrounding the rotten wolf meat bait.
"Cockroaches have mutated, are flies also mutated monsters?"
Shen Cong caught a few flies and came back to study them, but was disappointed. The flies were just ordinary flies with no activity on their bodies and were not mutant animals.
But at least it gave Shen Cong a useful piece of information - not all creatures have mutated.
Then he put forward another idea: "Then, if we continue to feed flies with active meat, can we mutate the flies?"
Thinking of this, Shen Cong immediately started researching with great interest.
The active content of the rotting wolf meat was almost gone, so he took out a piece of the big wolf meat that had not yet rotted but was about to rot, and threw it into the gauze cover containing flies, which contained 5 greenheads. fly.
Then I stopped paying attention to it. It is very difficult to increase the activity, let alone produce mutations. After feeding the plastic rabbits with tooth wolf carrion for a week, the activity intensity emitted by the plastic rabbits only increased a little, and the effect was not obvious. . He also had this feeling from himself and from the King Kong. Increased activity is not something that happens overnight.
It takes a lot of time to complete the change process.
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Today is July 22nd.
The end of the meteor shower was on May 18, two months and four days after the end of the world. The total amount of activity exchanged from the King Kong, including the activity ingested by eating mutated meat, was very limited. The activity of the King Kong was even always The unfinished body is 100% alloy.
Activity suddenly appeared with the end of the world. He did not meet other survivors to exchange information, and there were not enough reference objects. Shen Cong was not sure whether his control and absorption of activity was fast or slow.
However, Shen Cong doesn't feel much pressure from the bottom of his heart regarding the speed of mastering activity. As a human being with outstanding intelligence, he is still on the edge of groping. How can those monsters with low IQ and driven by instinct surpass his ability to master activity? understanding.
What's more, he still has the King Kong number.
Big-toothed rats, toothed wolves, digging bugs, and plastic rabbits cannot even pose any threat to the King Kong.
Even in the heavy rainwater, the monster suspected of being a prehistoric crocodile could not completely break through the armor of the King Kong - of course, the suspected prehistoric crocodile still left a trace of haze on Shen Cong. This prehistoric crocodile should It is a mutation of an ordinary crocodile.
A crocodile can mutate into a behemoth like a prehistoric giant crocodile, so if an elephant mutates, wouldn't it be possible to mutate into a mammoth or even a giant dinosaur-level monster?
An elephant weighs about 3 to 5 tons, and a mammoth can weigh 12 tons. If the elephant mutates into the mammoth level, although it is difficult to say that it can push the 30-ton King Kong flying, it will really explode with impact and hit it. It's still possible. This is enough to pose a threat to the King Kong.
"Fortunately, elephants are all in Yunnan and Southeast Asia. There are basically no elephants in Anhui Province... There are more cattle breeding, and there is a Siberian tiger breeding base in Tongling..."
Thinking a little too far.
Suppressing these somewhat unfounded thoughts, Shen Cong added a piece of big-toothed rat meat to the plastic rabbit and placed the white mice and flies in the corner.
Then I made myself lunch and fried a piece of rat steak.
The meat of the big toothed rat is not delicate enough and has a rough texture, but the taste is not bad, a bit like small pork.
After lunch, he had an hour's rest. Usually he would watch a movie, but today he didn't want to watch a movie, so he turned on the music and prepared to modify his weapons.
Slingshots, hand crossbows, bows and arrows, pistols, and high-pressure air guns are Shen Cong's most powerful long-range weapons. If necessary, he will also make bombs. Daggers, spurs, iron forks, machetes, axes, nunchucks, and short-range weapons Shen Cong Cong is not lacking either.
Shen Cong was full of confidence in his own firepower suppression.
But that was before meeting the prehistoric giant crocodile. The appearance of the prehistoric giant crocodile made Shen Chongming understand that he was still a little too naive. Mutated animals may not be as flexible as him, but the physical advantage was too obvious. Despite encountering such a dangerous mutation, The probability of encountering animals is relatively small, so be prepared and upgrade your weapons.
Crack, crash, crash.
A bag of active cores was dumped on the floor by Shen Cong.
Inspired by the Fang Dagger, Shen Cong recognized that the upgrade of weapons required these active cores.
Eleven fangs, two large rat incisors, and a pair of chelicerae.