After passing through multiple metal doors under the guards' watchful eyes, Xia Xu and Zhang Qun arrived at an interrogation room beneath the Special Department's De City branch. As soon as they entered, they heard a middle-aged man protesting his innocence and making excuses.
"You turned into a mutant just because a bat bit you? Sounds to me like you're the one telling fairy tales."
Xia Xu's voice reached the room before he did, abruptly silencing the middle-aged man being interrogated.
"A bat bite could expose you to toxins or viruses at most. Since when could it modify your genes? If it were really that easy, biologists could all go home and grow sweet potatoes."
Following Zhang Qun into the interrogation room, Xia Xu gave a speechless scoff.
He had crammed quite a bit of biology knowledge lately. From the perspective of modern science, getting a genetic mutation from a bat bite and gaining the ability to turn into a half-human, half-bat creature was utterly ridiculous.
Even if some special circumstances really did allow cells from a bat's mouth to merge into someone's body, the results would be entirely random. The probability of a beneficial mutation was pitifully small. The most likely outcome was the destruction of the body's structure and equilibrium, ultimately resulting in serious illness and sudden death.
Surviving as a deformed monster under such random mutations would already take incredible luck. Retaining one's sanity would take centuries' worth of ancestral blessings. How could it possibly produce a Beastman's ability to gain enhanced animal traits while freely switching between two forms?
The signs of artificial intervention in this beast transformation could hardly have been more obvious. The specific appetite for humans, the ability to switch forms for disguise, and even the collapse and dissolution of cells after death