Blood dripped down due to gravity, trailing down an hairless forehead, down to the flat nose that only contained bones and melted flesh, and then dropped to the ground with a slight splash, dying the already grey tile floor red.
The steel knife stabbed even deeper, squeezing even more blood and brain juice out from the stab wound, trailing down the knife and the head as it dropped to the ground with a tap tap tap sound.
Ryver's lips pursed, and he withdrew the blade, wiggling his finger through the hole, he rummaged through the skull, probably in search for something.
Nuclei could be found within the brain of a mutated organism and seeing as this person had obvious changes in body structure and its name had Mutated in its status, therefore it must have also developed a Nuclei.
Ryver's eyes appeared out of focus, and then his eyes lit up as it seem as though he had found what he was looking for.
He withdrew his hands, letting a sticky type of grey matter elongate between his hand and the skull before it broke due to distance. But Ryver's expression instantly dulled as he held what was in his palm up to his face. This wasn't the same as the other Genetic Nuclei he had consumed. This one looked very much like a decayed form of the Nuclei, seeing as it let out a very foul and repulsive odor with its exterior and interior feeling very hard to like to the touch, he could sense something was different with this one.
"Scan." His emotionless voice echoed through the entire stairway as he commanded.
[Defective Genetic Nuclei: A variant of a Nuclei which contains pure and toxic radiation energy gathered from within the body of a being. It can strengthen the human body if ingested Evolution Points ranging from 0.1 to 10 could be obtained, depending on chance. Or it can mutate the body in the direction of the infected genome.]
Ryver's pupils constricted and his smile faded. If he hadn't checked the status of the Nuclei and just swallowed it directly, he would have turned into a Mutant or even a zombie in a few hours time.
While the explanation from the system wasn't really revealing, from what he could read and what his brain could infer, the Nuclei is genetically flawed and gobbling it up is also the same as inhaling massive amount of toxic radiation within the body, the cells would eventually mutated towards n unexpected genetic path. Meaning growing an two extra pairs of hand from his abdomen would be considered good mutation, the bad ones might be worse than one could imagine. This mutant seem to be of the good type of mutation.
Ryver couldn't help but wonder what conditions were required to for the human to have mutate as such. Obviously the toxic air was the catalyst, but how did the human mutate to such a direction, growing wings, beak and sharp talons.
It could be possible that a scientist could edit the genetic map, extract the genes that makes growing beaks and talons out of the gene pool and make it possible to only have wings. If such and experiment was successful, then this apocalypse which seem to be a bad thing might actually be the best thing to have happened to earth since the creation of man.
The world would evolve to a whole new direction! Soldiers spliced with the genes of a Mutated Wolf or tiger would finally be created. If this was the previous era, the first great country to have figured this out will definitely be the those to rule over the world. Millions of soldiers with the speed and senses of a wolf or the flight capability of a bat, they will be unstoppable and no other country will be able to defeat them.
But sadly or thankfully, the angel fire had destroyed civilization as we know it. Killing probably more than half of the entire population. Soldiers, citizens and even presidents included, now one knows what would happen a few years from now. The World might just remain chaotic or maybe return to order one day. But if that was going to happen, it would require years to accumulate and refigure.
Till then, Ryver had one and only just one plan and it was very simple, reuniting with his daughter. He didn't care about his ex-wife or who she f**ks, he only care about his daughter and he would do whatever it takes to be with her.
But till then, it would be nice to have some fun along the way.
"Pulp!"
The entire skull of the mutant exploded from Ryver's rage, he was disappointed the nuclei he found wasn't the exactly one he was looking for, which means there are probably other types of nucleus out there.
His eyes involuntarily touched upon the body of the Mutant and he traced his fingers along the wings of the Mutant. The wings wasn't covered with feather like that of a bird, but was just plain leather flesh, similar to that of a bat.
He touched the bone system that helf the wing flesh in place and a bit of curiosity appeared in his eyes.
"Scan."
[Scanning. Please wait... ]
[Scan Successful.]
[Type 1 Mutant Corpse]
[Information: Mutated Human Corpse contains large amount of toxic and pure radiation which could accelerate the mutation of the cells within the body. Upon its death, large amounts toxic radiation gathered at its core to form a Nuclei]
[Materials from the corpse could be extracted. Through special tempering and and various formulas from materials extracted, Evolution points and materials can be mixed to gain certain types of abilities.]
Ryver's eyes widened and then his pupils constricted! If the system wasn't making things up, and what he had read was all true, then the apocalypse was totally worth it.
But the formula, how can one acquire such a formula? Ryver's brows knitted as he recalled the requirements for his evolution once more, that could also be a certain type of formula.