"I'll think about it after the wave passes, but I'm afraid I won't be able to spare so much time recently."

Looking at Chu Guang getting up from the scanning bed, Heya suddenly thought of something and said.

"By the way, speaking of waves, I just have something to tell you."

Seeing Heya's serious expression, Chu Guang also put away the joking on his face and gradually became serious.

"What's up?"

"Sia."

Hearing this unfamiliar name, Chu Guang frowned slightly.

"Sia?"

Hea nodded and continued with a serious expression.

"A new mother was born in the city center. According to the clues provided by Xiaoyu, its name seems to be Xia. Our researchers sampled the spores active in Qingquan City and found a mutant strain different from the previous one from a large number of samples.

"

"Mutant strain?" Chu Guang was stunned for a moment, "Were there no waves in previous years?"

Hea said patiently.

"Of course there have been cases in previous years. The wave itself is a way for mutant slime molds to expand their populations, and they will also undergo new evolutions in the process, but this year is different from previous years."

Chu Guang said nothing, waiting for her to continue.

Hea paused for a moment and tried to explain in layman's terms that he could understand.

"According to the information I collected from Boulder City, although mutant slime molds have also evolved in groups in the waves in previous years, they usually evolve in the direction of rapid reproduction, rapid healing, and stronger armor.

.”

Gradually realizing something was wrong, Chu Guang asked cautiously.

"What about this year?"

"This year is fire resistant."

What the fuck?!

Chu Guang was suddenly shocked.

"refractory?!"

Seeing Chu Guang's surprised expression, Heya nodded slightly.

"Although it sounds weird, it is what we have observed."

"No... are there carbon-based creatures that can't be burned by fire?"

"It's not that they can't be burned to death, but the spores released by this new mutant slime mold show physiological characteristics that have never been seen before. For example, when encountering unbearable high temperatures, the macromolecular carbon chains in the sporangia will react with the biocatalyst

Under the action of the vesicle, it quickly combines with the surrounding oxygen molecules, expands rapidly in volume, and eventually the vesicle ruptures and releases a large amount of carbon dioxide."

"After completing this process, the spores will die quickly, but the air in the entire area will also be quickly consumed. According to the calculation and simulation results of the Institute of Biology, under standard atmospheric pressure, when the spore concentration index reaches 500, it can be recovered within half a minute.

, allowing the oxygen content in the area to drop from 20.95% to 10.1%, at the cost of only consuming 80% of itself. If the spore concentration index reaches 800, it only takes ten seconds to complete this process."

"In addition, most conventional combustion processes themselves consume oxygen, and the release of spores from fruiting bodies is a continuous process. The oxygen content in the area will further reduce, thereby weakening or even completely terminating the ongoing redox reaction.

"

Most combustibles in life will go out when the oxygen content falls below 14% after catching fire.

If this mutated spore can really reduce the oxygen content to 10.1%, the impact may not only be affected by incendiary bombs, but also some synthetic oil engines and generators may break down.

Fortunately, the minimum oxygen content for hydrogen combustion is 5.9%, otherwise the alliance's air batteries that burn hydrogen would also suffer.

Chu Guang's expression finally changed.

In order to deal with this wave, the alliance prepared nearly 1,000 tons of incendiary bombs and nearly 300,000 tons of fuel used to make napalm bombs.

As a result, his researcher actually told him that he probably wouldn’t need it anymore?!

“Don’t the fruiting bodies of slime molds need to breathe?”

Hea said solemnly.

"This is what puzzles me. If those slime molds create a large 'oxygen-free zone' in Qingquan City, their own life activities will obviously be affected. I can only speculate that the new species' mother nests will produce

Fruiting bodies are more tolerant of an oxygen-free environment, after all... they themselves come from the sky."

Chu Guang was silent for a while, then pressed his index finger between his eyebrows.

"It's always good to be able to detect problems in advance...I don't believe there are creatures without weaknesses in this world."

"My thoughts are the same as yours. Maybe the performance of incendiary bombs in actual combat is not as pessimistic as the calculated results, and we are also thinking of other solutions... By the way, you probably only prepared incendiary bombs, right?" Heya

He looked at Chu Guang worriedly and asked.

"That's not the case. We won't pin our hopes of victory entirely on a certain weapon." Chu Guang shook his head and sighed, "But to be honest, incendiary bombs are irreplaceable in the battle against mutant slime mold."

It is the most cost-effective and can clean up a large number of corpses. If the incendiary bomb cannot achieve the expected effect, this war will be more difficult than we expected."

Is it because too many incendiary bombs were used?

It seems that is indeed the case.

When Boulder City responded to waves before, it had always used incendiary bombs to clear the ground and mercenaries to rush in and demolish homes.

Including when the alliance responded to the wave before, it even purchased a few more efficient bombs from Boulder City.

Chu Guang couldn't help but fell into deep thought.

If those slime molds are allowed to continue to multiply, sooner or later they will become a bigger problem.

"We need to end the threat to downtown Qingquan City once and for all."

At this moment, his heart suddenly moved and he spoke.

"By the way, what if the brood devours the brood?"

This is not a method he came up with, but he saw someone discussing it on the forum before. Some players even encouraged Luo Yu to take Xiao Yu out to see if he could eat the opponent.

He remembered what Hea had said before that there was an "intra-species struggle" relationship between mutant slime molds. The slime mold fruiting bodies belonging to different hive consciousnesses would attack each other and even devour each other in order to compete for sunlight, land, and organic matter.

Hea was slightly stunned when he heard Chu Guang's inquiry.

"Let the mother nest devour the mother nest... This is not impossible. Theoretically, mutant slime molds with large DNA differences can indeed eat each other. This is also one of the ways for them to obtain genetic information and strengthen themselves, but the mother nest

There is really no precedent for devouring the brood."

Not only has the Alliance never encountered this kind of precedent, but even the companies with tentacles all over the eastern part of Middle-Continent have never encountered it.

Since the alliance and the enterprise had previously signed a research agreement on mutant slime mold, the data and information obtained from the observation and research of mutant slime mold by the enterprise and its allies in the past two hundred years were basically open to the alliance. However, she rummaged through

No such extreme situation has been found in all records.

And the most important thing is that Xiaoyu's body is on the B6 floor of the shelter. It occupies the entire computer room, let alone the elevator. He can't even get out of the computer room door.

In the future, maybe it will be integrated with the entire B6 floor.

How can it be swallowed?

It is even more unrealistic to put that "Western Asia" into the shelter. If you are not careful, the entire shelter will have to make the same mistake as the B6 floor.

Looking at the stunned Hea, Chu Guang's eyes flickered slightly and continued.

"What if the residents of the shelter who carry biological prostheses actively inject their biological prostheses into the mother's body or the mother's nest?"

If the brood can be directly obliterated in this way, he may even consider stuffing players into cannonballs and carrying out a "surgical" precision strike on the brood.

Of course, this is not directed at the newborn mother body.

But for the mother nest in the city center!

Although it's a bit unkind to say this, but after just surviving a winter and giving birth to a lot of "little lives", this guy's body must be very weak, right?

There is no better opportunity than this!

Hea opened her mouth, and it took her a long time to squeeze out a sentence with a strange expression.

"Who came up with this idea?"

Chu Guang sighed.

"No?"

"No..." Hea shook his head and said with a subtle expression, "I think exactly the opposite. This bad idea might actually work."

Chu Guang: "!!!"

Damn it?

Does it really work?!

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(Thanks to the leaders of "Cold Night is Not Over" and "Tang Yai" for the reward!!! It will be 2023 in a few hours, and everyone has auspicious Year of the Rabbit!!)
Chapter completed!