Sixth-Order Mutant

A Sixth-Order Mutant?

The term made Luo Jun frown.

From what he knew of the [Wasteland], ordinary infected could naturally evolve only as far as Fourth-Order Mutants. But there were always exceptions.

After all, judging by the many ruins left behind across the [Wasteland], this world had once possessed a highly developed modern civilization. More than a century ago, while exploring the polar regions, scientists here had accidentally discovered an ancient virus buried beneath a glacier.

When they first found the virus, the scientists had been overjoyed, believing that studying it might allow them to glimpse the biological evolution process of the world's distant past. But after studying it, the [Wasteland]'s scientists discovered that the virus was far more miraculous than they had imagined. Although its structure appeared simple, it possessed some mysterious property. Even with the most advanced biotechnology of the time, they could not fully decipher how it worked.

But not knowing how it worked did not mean they could not use it. Through various experiments, they discovered that the virus could greatly enhance a host's physical capabilities and even alter its genes and bodily structure, completely transforming it into an entirely different form of life. Furthermore, as their research continued, they found that the virus's products even possessed an Eternal Life Trait—one that allowed endless evolution and freedom from death.

Thus, they named it the Eternal Virus.

All of this was background information about the world of the [Wasteland] from textbooks. Around the time the Gate of the Wasteland opened, the Eternal Virus leaked and ravaged the world with terrifying ferocity, infecting hundreds of millions of people. It could be said that throughout the Main World's century-plus exploration of the [Wasteland], they had happened to witness the entire World-Ending process of the Eternal Virus.

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