Chapter 440: Provoking

Caught up with reproductive abnormalities, everything became completely chaotic.

"The base's hospital has been packed every day recently because of these mutant animals. The team has recently decided not to go out anymore."

"Then...how do we live?" asked Xu Yi in the corner.

"We have a geographical advantage here, so there will be no problem with having enough food and drink. Plus there is a lot of uncultivated land, and some people have already asked if they can contract it to cultivate land."

"Then their abilities won't be upgraded?"

"If you choose to stay in the base, you must have given up on upgrading."

"Do several large teams have the same idea?" Lu Weiyi frowned. Animals generally have a sense of territory. If they don't break in, the other party generally won't attack them. But now they still have zombies to face. If they give up upgrading, how can they deal with zombie attacks in the future?

"They didn't say that, but all the zombies around us have been eliminated. After the dividing wall near the Pingjin base collapsed, many zombies came over. However, the distance was far, and with the threat of mutant animals, it was very dangerous to spend the night there. We often didn't kill many zombies when we went out, but were often attacked badly by mutant animals."

"Several teams asked if we could help with the base?"

"Tsk" As soon as Zhuang Mingxu finished speaking, Antonio sneered, "You are protected too well, and food is waiting to be fed."

"Don't mutated animals also have crystal cores?" Lu Weiyi asked.

"Yes, they are nothing compared to those we encountered before. Most of them have less energy than C-level zombies."

"..." Lu Weiyi felt he had nothing to say.

It sounds like the current situation is somewhat miserable for humans. Not only do they have to deal with increasingly powerful zombies, but the mutated animals have also become so unfriendly.

Just at this moment Ning Yuan walked out slowly. The people who were waiting stopped talking and came over immediately. The doctor took an X-ray and could clearly see that one of his kidneys had recovered.

"Will it affect the function?" Zhuang Mingxu was more worried about this.

“……”Ning Yuan.

The people around seemed to have no reaction, but they all pricked up their ears quietly.

"I mean the original function of the kidneys." After all, they are reshaped by superpowers. Who knows whether they can play their original role?

"I don't feel unwell and the examination results are fine," Ning Yuan said.

"That's good. Let Xu Yi and Dean work harder in the next period of time."

A few people waited for the test results of Xu Sa and Liu Rui before happily rushing to Nakajima.

Li Zhuang, an earth element, and Li Zhuang, a water element, both had things to do, so they didn't join them.

Lu Weiyi also followed Zhuang Mingxu to the scene to see what they were doing.

The soil and rocks had been transported here in advance and placed on the shore. There, an earth-type supernatural being was using his supernatural power to reinforce them, while a water-type supernatural being was controlling the sea water, as if opening a channel through the entire sea surface, reaching deep into the seabed.

After the earth-type ability user transferred the soil and rocks down, they condensed again with the surrounding areas and completely became one with the island.

"The operation seems a bit troublesome, but this is the method with the best quality according to their level and experiments." Zhuang Mingxu took Lu Weiyi to walk on the condensed sea and pointed at his feet. "This side has been completed. Now we are pushing it forward bit by bit, day and night. At this speed, it should be completed in two months at most."

"That's based on the premise that there is enough soil and rocks." Wu Yue was sweating profusely. He wiped his arm carelessly, walked over to look at Lu Weiyi and said, "Are you okay?"

Lu Weiyi nodded and looked past him to the bald Xiong Jie at the front. The man in his fifties was shirtless and shouting slogans loudly among a group of men, his blood boiling. "It's a bit like the situation in the production teams in the early years on TV."

"Haha," Wu Yue laughed, "We are almost the same as before. The people below privately call the contribution points they earn from their work every day work points, and distribute supplies based on the work."

Someone who heard the conversation came over and greeted Zhuang Mingxu and Lu Weiyi. He even wanted to offer cigarettes, but they refused. He asked tentatively, "Base Commander, is it okay for the land in our base to be cultivated like this? Do you want to give it to private contractors?"

Knowing that many people want to know about this, Zhuang Mingxu said in a neither loud nor low voice, "Of course, but our base is still facing a survival threat. You have all seen the mutant octopus we captured before. The top priority right now is to unify all forces to arm the base and protect the place where we live, and then we can talk about life."

"Now that the mutated animals are rampant outside, do we have any response? Didn't the Kyoto base announce some time ago that it would study solutions? Base commander, do you have any news so we can prepare?"

"No, if there is a good method over there, the base will contact them as soon as possible."

Zhuang Mingxu exchanged a few polite words with the group and left with Lu Weiyi.

The next day, Lu Weiyi was assigned to be a "mountain moving tool".

The saying "those who are more capable should do more work" has been well verified by the members of a team. They fill in wherever there is a shortage of people in the base and move wherever there is work to do.

At the beginning, everyone tacitly agreed to take a break every few days, but now they are so busy all day that even the training timers at the base have to check the area around the Nakajima Villa several times a day fully armed.

Under such circumstances, Zhuang Mobai successfully developed a method to reduce the energy of zombies in the body.

Different from the so-called medicine, what he made is an external instrument, like a headband worn on the head. A coin-sized instrument is fixed at the position of the crystal core between the eyebrows. When the instrument is activated, a circle of needles made of special material will pierce the skin. This material can attract the lost energy in the body to gather and eventually be discharged from the body.

"I tried it on several test subjects and successfully reduced the energy loss in their bodies by about 0.5 to 1.2 percent," Zhuang Mobai talked about his results, while Zhuang Mingxu and Lu Weiyi calculated the final result in their minds.

Even though this ratio is a bit low, it is effective, which means a start has been made. Zhuang Mingxu clapped his hands and said, "Dr. Zhuang, you are amazing. You have completed two research projects in such a short time. Your speed is almost catching up with Academician Zhao from the Institute of Weaponry."

It was clearly a compliment, but why did Lu Weiyi feel so uncomfortable hearing it?

"Zhao Changming? What did he research?" As expected, he was not the only one who thought so, Zhuang Mobai asked immediately.

"Crystal core weapons. We have previously developed crystal core rifles, rocket launchers, tank guns, etc. Recently, we have been researching crystal core energy conversion, and initial results have been achieved." Zhuang Mingxu seemed to be very interested in this, and did not notice that Zhuang Mobai's face was gradually becoming gloomy, and he spoke to himself.

"Yesterday he invited me to see his new converter, which can directly convert crystal core energy into electricity. By installing a plug, it can charge electronic devices such as mobile phones and tablets. It's just that the utilization rate is not high now. He assured me that the entire base will be using new energy before the arrival of winter this year."

At last, he shook his head and sighed, "You old experts are worthy of our admiration for your abilities."

After he finished speaking, he seemed to have just come to his senses and said, "Look at me, to see your research results, you shouldn't talk about others."

He picked up the instrument, looked around and commented, "It's okay, I won't use this reduction rate outside. Can you see how we can improve it a little bit?"

Zhuang Mobai was obviously too angry to speak, but Zhuang Mingxu seemed to have misunderstood and asked hesitantly, "Grandpa, what's wrong? Are you embarrassed?"

"It's okay, don't worry. If this is the limit, it's okay. It's already very impressive. After all, it's only been more than a year."

"Put it down!" Zhuang Mobai stopped his hand from picking up.

He happily asked people to witness his success, but he found out that he was falling behind.

This made him feel that this closed laboratory had turned him into a frog in a well, where he was complacent about his own little progress every day.

"I will think of a way to improve efficiency as soon as possible," Zhuang Mobai said, waving his hand to drive them away.

Zhuang Mingxu was reluctant but did not forget to add insult to injury, "Okay then, but I won't tell anyone else if I can't do it. It doesn't matter in front of my own people."

Having left the fifth-floor laboratory, Zhuang Mingxu could no longer conceal a smile on his face.

"Did you do this on purpose?" Lu Weiyi asked.

"Yes, but Zhuang Mobai has been here for too long and has indeed begun to stagnate and become lazy. We don't have anything more interesting to keep him interested in, so we can only urge him in different ways," Zhuang Mingxu explained and returned with Lu Weiyi.

After being stimulated and finding that Zhuang Mobai was working hard again, Zhuang Mingxu seemed to be inspired. From time to time, several base reports similar to newspapers would appear in several laboratories in the base. The layout was very neat and most of them were praising the various achievements of certain professors and their contributions to the base. Of course, Zhuang Mobai was one of them.

Unfortunately, compared to others with huge bold fonts in the center, it only occupies a corner that is not easy to be found if you don't pay attention.

Zhuang Mobai, who was quite interested in outside affairs for the first time, was so angry after seeing it that he stayed up all night.

"It's a pity that the others are not so easy to deal with." Zhuang Mingxu stuffed the remaining copies back into the bookshelf for collection, glanced at the person sleeping on the sofa, and asked Yin Jin, who was transferred back to be an assistant, in a low voice, "How is Chen Xiuyue doing recently?"

It has been more than half a year since Shen Xiuyin applied for a psychologist for him. Although the base does not have many talents, there is still room for such a person. The key is that Shen Xiuyin is really dedicated and has never caused any trouble since he entered the laboratory.

In the past, I was worried that they would not cooperate, so I thought of arranging for Antonio to go down and stimulate them from time to time. However, except for the stubborn and radical female assistant who followed Zhuang Mobai, no one else needed Antonio's help.

"He can communicate normally, but he still goes crazy when he sees something stimulating occasionally," Yin Jin replied neatly. Seeing that Zhuang Mingxu didn't ask any more questions, he continued, "The Joint Research Institute has submitted an application again, hoping that Cheng Chuan will fully cooperate with the experiment."