Chapter 2911 The Poison with No Cure
“It’s hard to imagine that a flesh and blood body can ignore the damage of explosive bombs.”
“Last time I hit a samurai bug in the head with all the strength. Three shots, these creatures are incredibly tough, not even greenskins are so tough."
"Do they have no breathing organs?"
"I heard that Tyranid can survive in an oxygen-free environment. Survive"
Dozens of Astartes wearing different armors gathered around these display stands, carefully looking at the aliens. A biological sage whose body was highly modified and as tall as an ordinary Space Marine was pointing at the aliens with its eight mechanical arms. with several different display panels.
"In these Tyranid organisms, there is obviously a unique organ that can store certain sulfur compounds, heat them when needed, and finally squeeze them out like fire. ”
As it spoke, one of its mechanical tentacles picked up a soft yellow piece of meat from the surgical tray next to it.
“This organ has never been mentioned in past autopsy reports on Tyranids, so I guess that this is the result of a completely new evolution. These Tyranids must have ingested a large amount of sulfide when devouring the planet. And store it in their hatching pools, which is why their carapace has a lot of yellow spots, and their bodies contain a lot of sulfur. This is related to the Behemoth Hive Fleet that attacked the Ultramarine Star Territory, and The Dagon fleet is a completely different hive fleet. It is even these highly enriched sulfides that promote the development of their brains, especially hydrogen sulfide, which is an excellent regulator of neurotransmitters and can greatly enhance their learning energy. And speed up the evolution of new variants."
Soshyan nodded.
"I asked why these Tyranid creatures always have a stench of sulfur and even spit out biological flames. What a big trouble."
But Malakin suddenly said:
< br>"But this may also be one of their weaknesses. I discovered during the naval battle that these Tyranid biological ships are very prone to implosion and internal combustion."
The biological sage also agreed with Malakin's words. .
“Yes, after they swallow a large amount of sulfide, the best storage point is those biological ships, and the most convenient storage form of sulfide is gaseous, so we can assume that the interior of those biological ships must be full of with sulfide gases.”
Seth grinned.
“Aren’t they just flying gas tanks? It will be much easier to fight if you know this.”
“But sulfide gas will also increase the reaction speed of the Tyran biological ship. And attack frequency, this time we used a strategy to trick it, making it so powerful that it cannot be used, but it will be difficult to replicate it again, and in a face-to-face naval battle, they are difficult to deal with. Although we destroyed several There are tens of thousands of biological ships, but this is only one-tenth of the size of its main force, or even less. Until now, we still can’t figure out the actual size of this Tyranid fleet.”
Soshiyang’s words. Let everyone's expressions become serious.
Then he looked at the biological sage. "Is there any way to crack those spore poison smoke?"
The biological sage then brought everyone to a huge glass cover. In the viscous liquid, there was a poisonous smoke insect imprisoned. It was one of the countless ones captured alive by Nulus and others. Thin tubes were inserted into it, and those chimneys were also connected to metal tubes.
“Our detailed research on them found that these organisms have the ability to adjust autonomously. They can adjust the composition of the spore poisonous smoke generated at any time according to the situation, and even adjust the DNA structure of the phages. This kind of The variability makes the research into a mystery. I have dealt with hundreds of thousands of different creatures in my life, including alien monsters that contain extremely deadly poisons, but it is rare to encounter any creatures with such characteristics. It is as toxic as a beast and has the ability to produce toxins. Even with the most advanced laboratories we have, it is difficult to create or replicate the poison it produces, both in quantity and quality. This is not a living thing at all. This is a miniature poisonous gas factory. All its physiological functions revolve around only one function, producing poisonous gas. It has no digestive organs, no reproductive organs, or even eating organs. It also abandons all senses for survival. In other words, In fact, this kind of creature cannot survive independently in the natural environment. It has a very single 'functionality'."
"To put it simply, you cannot create drugs that can immunize or treat their toxins? ”
Arash’s words were a little ruthless. Fortunately, there was no expression on the mechanical sage’s face, and he just replied calmly:
"Because this is not poison at all. This is an innate characteristic that all Tyranids seem to have. They are harmful to all life forms with different biological foundations from themselves. This can be understood as being harmful to all life forms other than themselves. After getting enough samples and conducting it for a long enough time, maybe we will be able to understand the nature of this hostility."
At this time, Soshyan looked at Nulus.
“I heard that the Death Watch has a unique warhead that is designed to kill enemies at the genetic level. Is it effective against Tyranids?”
“You are talking about Hellfire bullets. This is indeed a specialized warhead. A weapon developed for the Tyranids. It contains thousands of needles wrapped with gene-dissolving poison. It is fired into the target's body through explosions and can turn living things into an unrecognizable mass of tissue. However, this bullet is based on the Empire's It was based on the genes of the Tyranid Hive Fleet encountered, mainly the Behemoth Fleet. In the Achilles War Zone, the Death Watch also used this weapon against the enemies of the Dagon Hive Fleet, but the effect was not that good. Small creatures can be killed, but large units such as warrior bugs may take nearly an hour to die. If they are giant targets such as executioners, it will be almost useless.”
The biological sage will pick up the target in time. Over topic.
"Research on biological weapons against Tyranids has always been the research direction of many Forge World biological laboratories, but a distinctive feature of Tyranids is that their genes iterate very quickly. The fastest iteration cycle observed so far is 43 minutes, and a The research cycle of genetic weapons is usually .148 years, so this type of weapon can often only be used once in a battle. The combat mode of Death Watch is mostly small-group infiltration operations, and they will not engage in long-term large-scale battles. Tyranids using special warheads may not be genetically corrected because there are too few samples, but even so, their genetic weapons and biological weapons must be replaced frequently, so the proportion of such weapons in the Death Watch arsenal is very low, warriors They don’t like to use it either.”
Nurus nodded slightly, acknowledging the sage’s words.
Soshyan walked to the glass cover, stared at the comatose poisonous smoke insect, and then sighed softly.
"That is to say, there is no way yet, right?"
"We will invest more research efforts in the future."