As Lu Sheng and Zhang Xiaojuan stepped out, they bumped into Ma Dongmei and Lin Xiaobao, who were in a hurry.

"I was just about to come find you." Ma Dongmei's expression was serious, and the cigarette she had quit smoking a long time ago was now dangling from her lips.

Lu Sheng rarely saw Ma Dongmei with such a serious expression. "What's wrong?"

"Jiang Shuguang committed suicide." Ma Dongmei paused, then delivered a bombshell.

"Huh?" Zhang Xiaojuan was completely bewildered.

The entire city of M was cheering for the return of Lu Sheng and the others. But while the whole city was celebrating, Jiang Shuguang committed suicide.

Having obtained the original strain of the zombie virus, and with top experts like Chen Yanhong joining the field, the balance of this war is already tilting in humanity's favor. There's no reason to commit suicide at this time.

Ma Dongmei frowned slightly. "Yes, we found it this morning when we went to deliver his food."

Since being sent to M City, Jiang Shuguang has been recuperating in a special courtyard, with dedicated staff taking care of his food, lodging, and treatment. However, since Jiang Shuguang had previously caused trouble for Lu Sheng, Su Zheng and the others, while providing him with food and drink, kept their distance.

It wasn't until today, when Ma Dongmei and Lin Xiaobao personally went to deliver breakfast to Jiang Shuguang and check on his recovery, that they discovered he had committed suicide in his room.

"Do you know why?" Lu Sheng asked calmly.

"He left a note saying that the country's nuclear weapons stockpile is actually larger than outsiders suspect, and he would use his death to keep this secret forever and prevent others from knowing the location of the stockpile." Ma Dongmei took a deep drag on her cigarette and looked out the window with a distant gaze.

Across the street is a shopping mall that has just reopened.

Ten o'clock in the morning is the peak time for shopping mall business. Many people use the points they have earned through hard work to shop in the mall. Everyone leaves the mall with a satisfied smile.

In the apocalypse, the peaceful days of being well-fed and clothed without worrying about falling into the clutches of zombies are the paradise everyone dreams of.

If the stockpiled nuclear weapons were found, simply dropping a few would turn this precious peace to ashes.

Zhang Xiaojuan looked puzzled. "He was tormented by those bastards at CM company for so long without leaking a single thing, and now that he's finally escaped, he wants to commit suicide..."

Lu Sheng, however, could understand Jiang Shuguang's concerns.

"No one can stay vigilant forever. Being able to endure six months or a year of torment doesn't mean you can endure it for a lifetime."

Tenacity and endurance—these beautiful words about suffering are themselves contrary to human nature.

A person's life is too long, several decades long. Jiang Shuguang could not guarantee that he would remain absolutely clear-headed at every moment, nor could he guarantee that he would always stick to his original intentions and not be afraid of torment in the long days.

Making this decision must have been a difficult choice for him.

What is the best way to keep a secret?

They lie buried underground, carrying their secrets with them.

"Make sure the funeral arrangements are handled properly," Lu Sheng solemnly instructed Ma Dongmei.

Afterwards, the group arrived at the Allied Forces' conference room, where Lu Sheng learned what Godzilla was.

"Sister Lu, the Yangfan Base on the coast has sent people over. They said that recently, marine creatures that have undergone radiation mutations have been landing on land one after another."

As soon as she entered, Zhao Mujia rushed over nervously, grabbed Lu Sheng's hand, and kept chattering, "There's a great white shark with two heads, a giant silver-ringed octopus, and a swimming crab the size of a bus. Yangfan Base is already organizing the migration of people."

In order to earn more crystal cores for city construction, Lu Sheng arranged for Su Zheng to expand the export business of supplies. Any base can use crystal cores or other rare resources to trade with M City.

Therefore, many bases have formed friendly business relationships with M City, and they share information as soon as they have the latest news.

Normally, shopping from Lu Sheng Base would involve a system-provided logistics airdrop and payment service, but this time Yangfan Base actually sent someone on a long journey to M City to deliver a message, indicating that the situation is extremely urgent.

"Such a huge swimming crab...it would take several villages to eat it all..." The bespectacled young man almost drooled as he listened.

Ma Dongmei flicked the bespectacled young man's forehead, "A crab the size of a bus, are you going to chase after it and try to eat it raw?"

"A two-headed great white shark??" Zhang Xiaojuan gestured excitedly with her hands. "I've seen this episode before. There are three-headed great white sharks and four-headed great white sharks later on. That's how it's portrayed in American disaster movies."

The person sent by Yangfan Base was a young man in his early twenties. After entering M City, he was so overwhelmed by the prosperity and stability of the city that his mind went blank. He vaguely agreed, "Those marine creatures are not only big, but also very strong. Even our elite teams combined couldn't beat the giant crab. Our captain even had his arm pinched off."

After hearing this, everyone looked at each other in bewilderment.

Are all those disaster movies I watched as a child going to come true?

"Land animals haven't mutated this much, how come the ones in the sea are so fierce..." Xiao Yu, who arrived later, asked curiously.

Sun Tiantian pursed her lips. "Could it be that the discharge of nuclear wastewater into the sea directly affects marine life?"

“There’s another reason,” Xu Yi said, taking off his glasses and tucking them into his shirt pocket. “These radioactive elements accumulate in marine organisms through the food chain.”

Teacher Xu's mini-class is in session again, and the children are sitting in a row.

"Higher marine organisms accumulate radioactive substances in their bodies by ingesting lower marine organisms. This process continues throughout the food chain, resulting in the concentration of radioactivity in the bodies of marine organisms at the top of the food chain being much higher than that in the environment."

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