It was afternoon, and the skinners were hiding in the shadows of the buildings, howling wildly at the brain apes.

  A group of brain apes held various guns and kept shooting at the skinners hiding in the buildings.

  They did not enter these deep buildings, but just shot at what they could see.

  In a blink of an eye, dozens of skinners fell in a pool of blood and were freed, but more of them hid in deeper shadows driven by biological instinct.

  "Kuafu, skinners, disgusting! Kill them all!" A brain ape riding on horseback shouted loudly, and next to him was the ape leader Kuafu wearing glasses.

  "Wuzhiqi, there are limited bullets, there are too many skinners, and they kill people, humans don't, here, let's go." Kuafu said to his deputy Wuzhiqi.

  When the human stone statue disease disaster broke out, he had seen skinners before, and knew how disgusting these things were, and even understood that these monsters were transformed from former incinerators.

  When the Stone Statue Disease broke out, the Epidemic Prevention Center became the most important institution, recruiting hundreds of millions of incinerators.

  After all humans turned into stone statues, a large number of skinners were left in each city, ranging from thousands to tens of thousands.

  These skinners are the masters of the ruins of each city at night, and are also the biggest threat that the brain apes have ever encountered.

  After several years of fighting, they have only cleared out the skinners in some cities, and are far from completely clearing them out.

  Wuzhiqi nodded and praised with deep approval:

  "Kuafu, smart! Let's go! Roar!"

  With a roar, the brain apes who had hunted hundreds of skinners put away their guns and continued to search the next block.

  Kuafu frowned, with a strange feeling in his heart. He suddenly looked up at the top floor of the Epidemic Prevention Center, then shook his head and smiled self-deprecatingly.

  The Skinners' hatred for humans far exceeds their hatred for other creatures. If that human really entered the building of the epidemic prevention center, it is estimated that there would be a noisy roar here, and at least some skinners' corpses would be left behind. It is impossible for him to enter the building intact.

  I am too suspicious...

  It's just that he hasn't seen a living human for too long. There is only one explanation for the appearance of this human, that is, a stone statue has turned into a human again!

  He retracted his gaze and looked forward. The corner of his eye swept across the human stone statues on the road. He was inexplicably irritated and suddenly said loudly:

  "Pass the order down, and carry out the fire ceremony tonight. Continue to search for humans and try to catch them alive!"

  Hearing this, the apes present immediately let out a happy cry, obviously looking forward to the fire ceremony.

  Then these brain apes grabbed the human stone statues on the ground and put them on the horse's back. Soon, a team of ape cavalry quickly left here, leaving the empty streets again and the skinners roaring in the surrounding buildings.

  In the research room on the top floor of the epidemic prevention center building, Shen Feng, hiding behind the blinds, watched the apes leave, and his heart was finally at ease.

  The moment the ape with glasses looked up, their eyes met, which made Shen Feng's heartbeat suddenly accelerate, and he even thought he had been discovered.

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  Fortunately, the other party left again in the end.

  Through the monitoring system installed in the research room, he also heard the conversation of these apes and finally knew their names.

  Kuafu!

  This ape actually named himself Kuafu, the giant who drank the Yellow River dry and died by chasing the sun in ancient Chinese mythology!

  Oh, what a great ambition!

  Shen Feng couldn't help but sneer.

  It can now be concluded that this Kuafu is the leader of these apes.

  As for the fire transmission ceremony, it is really puzzling.

  Now is not the time to think about these things. Since he has temporarily deceived these apes, he must act as soon as possible.

  He immediately returned to the computer and began to search for various data stored in it.

  The epidemic prevention center has its own independent archive system, in which a huge amount of data is deposited. Although some data has been lost, the remaining data is still vast.

  Shen Feng used monkeys as the search item and obtained tens of thousands of data.

  You should know that a large number of vaccine and virus tests after the outbreak of stone statue disease were all conducted on monkeys as experimental subjects. After all, they are primates like humans, and the reactions obtained will be similar.

  Shen Feng searched for a long time but couldn't get the point. Suddenly, he remembered that the full name of brain ape is "silicon-based half-brain ape", and immediately added the word "silicon".

  Soon, there were only more than 300 pieces of information left, most of which were experimental logs.

  The time of these experimental logs was actually before the appearance of stone statue disease!

  "From the experimental log of the Capital Academy of Sciences Virus Center on the effect of a new type of silicon-based virus on ape experimental subjects"

  "Log number 0001. The Xianglong Arctic Expedition Team obtained a brand new silicon-based virus sample from under the Arctic ice. Under the microscope, it looks like a stone statue, so it is named the Stone Statue Virus.

  This is a brand new discovery, which subverts various theoretical foundations of the academic community and also reveals the dawn of human evolution! If it goes as expected, it will definitely have a place in the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in a few years.

  Now animal experiments are being carried out with the mutant form of the virus.

  The experimental subject is numbered 'Kuafu', with the spirit of chasing the sun, opening a new chapter in the world! Haha, sorry for the joke.

  Start injecting the mutant form of the Stone Statue Virus No. 2 , I named it the 'Pangu' virus, doesn't it feel good..."

  ...

  "Log number 0078. Experiment No. 1 "Kuafu" and the fifty later experimental subjects have shown different degrees of changes, and they have become smarter.

  From the IQ test, they have reached an IQ level of about 80, which is a significant improvement over the original IQ level, and they can even do simple reading!

  It's only been half a year! It's incredible!

  Through brain scans, a major discovery was made that their brains showed a honeycomb trend, which is somewhat similar to the morphological effects of mad cow disease prions.

  It stands to reason that brain atrophy and brain damage should cause a decline in intelligence. Why do these experimental subjects... Chimpanzees have improved their intelligence? This is unbelievable..."

  ...

  "Log number 0167. I have mobilized all the primate test subjects that the Academy of Sciences can mobilize. After being injected with the Pangu virus, only chimpanzees can produce significant mutations and intelligence improvements.

  This mutation may be related to basic brain capacity and intelligence. The higher the base, the higher the improvement.

  If used on humans, will there be a phenomenon of superhuman intelligence? Haha, I can't wait to give myself an injection. But everything has to wait until the animal experiment is completely completed.

  After dissecting the two chimpanzees, their brains showed a trend of honeycombing, and some of the brain cells have been siliconized. Perhaps this is their intelligence improvement. .

  To some extent, they have become half-silicon-based and half-carbon-based organisms. ”

  …

  “Log number 0293. There was a major problem with the experiment. All the stone statue viruses are undergoing continuous iteration and mutation!

  The stone statue No. 2 virus, that is, the Pangu virus, is just the form of a certain point in time during their mutation process!

  Most of the Pangu viruses I have saved can no longer maintain their original characteristics, but have become something new!

  Other experimental groups have similar feedback on this point, as if all the stone statue viruses are mutating towards the same goal!

  It seems that they are a kind of organism with the same purpose! ”

  …

  “Log number 0364. The experiment failed completely.

  No matter what I do, I can't stop the continuous mutation of the Pangu virus. I can't keep them unless they are directly combined with the organism.

  I gave myself an injection, and the last remaining injection was stored in liquid nitrogen. Only this temperature can completely keep it.

  What a pity...

  The two thousand gorillas used as experimental subjects have completely mutated and have the same intelligence as humans, but that's all. This trait cannot be passed on to the next generation. They may be the loneliest gorillas in history, poor people who woke up millions of years early from ignorance.

  My skin seems to be a little itchy..."

  Seeing the last sentence, Shen Feng couldn't help scratching his arm. His skin was also a little itchy and a little hard...