60: Chapter 60 Humanoid Monsters That Defy the Common Sense of Physics

Three minutes after the portal disappeared.

The red halo dissipated, revealing the pale and ruined true face of the world.

"Safe."

"Doctor" Li Xiu glanced at the tactical terminal and spoke at a rapid pace: "Dr. Tao, where are we heading next?"

Hearing Li Xiu's words, Tao Zhe nodded and did not rush to order exploration.

As the commander-in-chief of project dawn, in a completely unfamiliar environment, the first thing to do was never to move blindly, but rather—to open the map.

"We need a commanding height."

Tao Zhe pointed to a building two hundred meters away.

That was a stone building resembling a clock tower. Although half of the roof had collapsed, the main body was still standing. It was about twenty meters high and was the tallest building in these ruins.

"Hawkeye, go up and set up your gun."

"Bulldozer, provide cover."

"Everyone else, keep up."

The group of five quietly climbed to the top of the clock tower in less than three minutes.

Standing on the edge of the clock tower, the fierce wind howled.

Su Mingyuan raised his binoculars, and his field of vision suddenly broadened.

However.

The moment he saw the distant scene clearly, his pupils suddenly shrank to the size of needle tips.

"What… is that?"

There was a hint of disbelief in his voice.

Without Su Mingyuan's reminder, the others had already seen it.

On the wasteland about 3 kilometers away from the clock tower,

a dozen huge figures were moving.

They were naked and resembled humans in appearance, but their sizes were ridiculously huge.

Even the smallest was three stories high, and the leading one was visually estimated to be nearly twenty meters tall!

They walked among the ruins, and with every step they took, the ground seemed to tremble slightly.

"Giants?"

Dr. Tao Zhe behind him suddenly rushed to the edge and raised his high-power electronic binoculars.

One second.

Two seconds.

Three seconds.

Tao Zhe lowered his binoculars, and the expression on his face was not fear, but a sense of absurdity as if he had seen a ghost.

"This is impossible."

Tao Zhe muttered to himself, as if looking at a huge BUG:

"This is unscientific. This completely violates the laws of biophysics!"

The Longyan team member "Doctor" Li Xiu pushed his glasses and asked calmly, "Doctor, is there a problem? We've seen zombies, this kind of big guy…"

"It's different!"

Tao Zhe rudely interrupted him, pointing at the thirty-meter-class giant in the distance, speaking at a rapid pace:

"Li Xiu, you've studied biomedicine, you should understand the 'square-cube law'!"

"If a creature's height is magnified by 10 times, its surface area will increase by 100 times, but its volume and weight will increase by 1,000 times!"

Tao Zhe rapidly tapped data on his portable terminal, and a set of simulation models instantly popped up on the screen:

"Look at this giant, about 20 meters tall, which is about 11 times that of an ordinary human."

"Calculated according to human density, its weight is at least between 60 tons and 80 tons!"

"80 tons! That's the weight of a heavy main battle tank!"

Tao Zhe's fingers were trembling:

"With the human skeletal structure, it is simply impossible to support this weight!"

"Its femur and tibia would be crushed to pieces by its own weight the moment it stood up!"

"Its spine would snap like a crisp biscuit!"

"Let alone its heart!"

Tao Zhe pulled up a simulation diagram of heart pumping blood, which was covered with red warning signs:

"To pump blood to a brain 20 meters high, its heart must generate astonishing pressure. Under this pressure, the blood vessel walls need to be as thick as steel pipes so they won't burst!"

"And the heat dissipation issue!"

"The larger the volume, the slower the heat dissipation. The metabolic heat generated by such a huge flesh and blood body during movement simply cannot be dissipated!"

"According to the laws of thermodynamics, if it runs for less than five minutes, its body temperature will exceed 60 degrees, and its internal organs will be directly 'cooked' by itself!"

Tao Zhe's roar echoed in the wind.

Everyone fell silent.

Yeah.

On Earth, the largest living creature on land is the African elephant, weighing only 5-7 tons.

And that was already the limit for terrestrial mammals.

"What about dinosaurs?" The brawny man Zhang Dabiao couldn't help asking: "Aren't dinosaurs huge too?"

"Dinosaurs are different!"

Tao Zhe immediately retorted: "Dinosaurs have special hollow skeletal structures, an air sac System to assist in heat dissipation, and most giant dinosaurs walked on all fours, sharing the weight!"

"But this thing…"

Tao Zhe pointed at the running humanoid monster in the distance:

"It walks on two legs! Upright walking!"

"All of its 80 tons of weight are pressed on two feet!"

"On Earth, creatures of this size can only exist in one place—"

Tao Zhe took a deep breath and spat out two words:

"The sea."

"Only the buoyancy of seawater can offset that terrifying gravity, allowing hundred-ton behemoths like the blue whale to survive."

"But on land…"

Tao Zhe stared fixedly at the giant:

"It is simply a joke of physics."

"Unless…"

Tao Zhe looked at Tao Zhe, taking over the conversation: "Unless what?"

A flash of fanatical light flashed in Tao Zhe's eyes:

"Unless their bones and muscles are not calcium and protein of carbon-based life at all."

"There must be some unknown substance with extremely low density but extremely high strength, or some kind of energy, inside their bodies."

"This substance and energy support their bodies that defy common physics!"

"Wait."

The sniper "Hawkeye", who had been lying motionless like a sculpture on the edge of the clock tower, suddenly spoke up and interrupted Tao Zhe's analysis.

"Two o'clock direction, 3.2 kilometers away."

"What… is that?"

Wang Lie's fingers slightly adjusted the knob of the QBU-17 scope, and his brows furrowed unusually:

"There are signs of human activity."

"Humans?"

Su Mingyuan's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately raised the military high-power binoculars in his hand, looking in the direction indicated by Wang Lie.

The lens field of vision quickly zoomed in.

Crossing layers of ruins and passing through the grayish-white fog.

Finally, he saw clearly.

But the moment he saw clearly, a chill rushed straight from his spine to his skull.

Under the feet of those few twenty-meter-class giants, there was indeed a team.

More than a dozen people galloped wildly on horseback, their hooves kicking up yellowish dust among the ruins.

But in the view of the binoculars, this escape seemed absurd and futile.

A giant hand scooped down casually.

There was no need to aim at all.

At the end of the horse team, both men and horses instantly soared into the air.

That horse was still kicking its four hooves futilely in the air when it was lifted by that giant hand and casually tossed into the gaping giant mouth along with the human knight on its back.

That teeth-setting sound of bone cracking drilled into everyone's ears along with the wind.

Instantly, the clock tower fell into a dead silence.

Everyone could see that these people couldn't run away.

The giant's stride was too huge; one step equaled a dozen steps of a horse.

At this rate of reduction, in thirty seconds at most, this horse team would be sent to the giant's mouth one by one like a buffet turntable.

"There's no saving them." Li Xiu made a cold judgment, "Total annihilation is only a matter of time."

However.

Just the moment Li Xiu's voice fell, Hawkeye's voice suddenly changed pitch:

"No… they've stopped!"

What?

What are they going to do?

Su Mingyuan pressed his eyes tightly against the binoculars once more.

In his field of vision, that team of horses that had originally been fleeing for their lives actually made a move that defied biological instincts—

Reining in their horses.

Neigh—!!

A dozen warhorses forcibly stopped their tracks on the ruins full of gravel, their hooves plowing deep gullies in the ground.

It wasn't because there were roadblocks ahead.

Nor was it because the horses were exhausted.

The leading man, under the mountain-like crushing shadow behind him, actually turned his horse around.

Following that, all the remaining dozen or so knights turned their horses around.

"Are they crazy?" Tao Zhe felt it was absurd, "With this kind of size difference, turning back is courting death!"

"Click."

An extremely subtle yet exceptionally clear sound of mechanical meshing interrupted Tao Zhe's exclamation.

That was not the sound on the clock tower.

Rather, it was transmitted back from 3 kilometers away through Hawkeye's remote precision sound-gathering equipment.

The pupils of everyone on the clock tower shrank violently.

They saw those dozen or so knights uniformly placing their hands on a certain device at their waists.

"Prepare."

The leading knight's mouth shape was clearly discernible in the lens.

The next second, the roaring sound of the device ejecting resounded across the wasteland!

"Hiss, hiss—"