Chapter 63 The Instigator of the Wither Virus Infection

"Life is only given to each person once. If you want us to willingly give up our lives, you should at least tell us the feasibility of the whole thing."

Otherwise, we would lose our lives in vain, and your Ayao wouldn't come back to life either, which would be a lose-lose situation.

As parties involved, I believe we have the right to know the truth. Yu Shan remained calm, showing none of the panic one would expect from someone facing serious danger.

"Heh! You do have some guts. Considering you're all about to die, I can satisfy your curiosity."

A man's phantom appeared, wearing the bright red robe Ah Jin wore during the wedding ceremony, but his face had changed to that of a young man, with a look of vicissitude and indifference in his eyes.

“My Ayao is dead, but I can’t accept this fact, so I captured her soul and tried to defy fate by turning her into a zombie while preserving her consciousness.”

To this end, I killed many living people and captured their souls to conduct experiments, time and time again, but unfortunately, all the experiments failed.

Those I killed, after being turned into zombies, could not have their souls and consciousness integrated into the zombie's body no matter what.

I can only preserve Ayao's body and her soul separately, and then try a new method.

Thousands of years later, a new technological civilization has replaced the backward era. I have witnessed the wonder of high technology and thus placed my hopes on new technologies.

I've tried cloning, creating new bodies using artificial wombs, but unfortunately, I still couldn't integrate Ayao's soul into them.

In an accident, a biologist cultivated the wither virus, which initially spread in his laboratory and infected everyone in the lab.

The authorities shut down the lab and suppressed the news.

After the laboratory was sealed off, the authorities did not immediately and thoroughly destroy the wither virus and the infected people in the laboratory.

They even fantasized about whether they could use this virus on the Zerg battlefield.

So the higher-ups took away the research data from the laboratory, feeding the zombies fresh flesh and blood while observing their movements.

What they didn't know was that I was the investor in this laboratory, and I had hidden surveillance equipment inside it from the very beginning.

I observed everything that the officials observed simultaneously.

I discovered that people infected with this virus, after becoming completely zombified, will slowly advance to a higher level.

After a zombie advances to the second level, it begins to develop intelligence and will unconsciously repeat some of its habits from its previous life.

So I made a bold guess: if these zombies continue to advance, will they one day completely regain their memories from their previous lives?

To verify this hypothesis, more test subjects were needed, so I did the authorities a favor by opening the sealed laboratory and releasing all the infected people inside.

Over the course of two hundred years, more and more zombies have evolved, from third-tier and fourth-tier to the current S-rank and SS-rank.

Just as I expected, after a zombie advances to S-rank, it recovers more than 50% of its memories from its previous life, while SS-rank zombies recover more than 70% of their memories.

Although it's not a complete memory, it's enough for me. All I want is an Ayao with memories. Whether her body is the original one or not is completely unimportant.

But a new problem arose: I discovered that although I had preserved her body very well, due to its age, her cells had only retained a very weak level of activity.

Such a body is completely unable to attract the invasion of the wither virus.

Because viruses have autonomy, the host they want to parasitize must be a fully active body.

I have tried more than once to extract the life force from living people and inject it into her body, but the life force of those people would quickly dissipate once it left their own bodies and could not be integrated into her body at all.

After numerous experiments, I discovered that during the infection of high-level superhumans by the Wither Virus, a small number of cells in their bodies are not quickly killed by the virus; instead, they fight desperately against it.

At this time, these cells are extremely active. If they are extracted and injected into her body, they can maintain her vitality for a period of time.

Furthermore, once these cells enter her body, the viruses they carry can infect the few remaining cells in the vicinity that have a sliver of life.

Unfortunately, this process cannot continue. Once it finds that there are no more active cells around, the viral infection process will stop, then enter a dormant state, until it dies.

Based on my careful calculations, to completely infect her body, I need to gather hundreds of B-level or higher ability users at once and infect them simultaneously.

Then, at the same time, extract the cells with the strongest resistance from their bodies and inject them into her body.

In addition, a sufficient number of zombie crystal cores are needed as an energy source to have any chance of success on the first try.

"Now I have enough high-level crystal cores, and I only need a few more living high-level ability users. I'm truly grateful that you've come to me so willingly today."

After hearing his story, Yu Shan was already furious. The only reason she patiently listened was to find out just how crazy this guy had become.

But I unexpectedly overheard a shocking secret!

It turns out that the culprit behind this zombie virus infection that has plagued the entire Flowing Light Galaxy was actually the government and that damned stinking snake!

Feather fan clapped his hands, his face full of mockery:

"Clap clap! What a touching and long-lasting testament to the perseverance of love!"

However, I can tell you with certainty that you will still not succeed this time.

The advancement of zombies is merely a process of the wither virus constantly recombining and advancing.

In this process, the Wither Virus collected enough information about humans, which is why it developed human-like thinking abilities.

When they peruse the collected information, they mix up the memories previously stored in the brain, which is why fragments of memories from before the zombie's transformation are formed.

Rather than saying that the high-ranking zombies regained their past memories, it's more accurate to say that the withering virus that took over their bodies combined their past memories with newly collected information about humanity.

In other words, despite all your efforts, all you awaken is a body occupied by the wither virus.

She might show attachment to you because of your strength and your deep affection for her, but this is just the cunning survival strategy of the Withering Virus.

Accept reality. Your Ayao has been dead for a very, very long time. Aside from this carefully crafted illusion, none of your fantasies can come true.

"You're talking nonsense! You're just making up lies to save your own life and distract me. I won't fall for your tricks!" Ah Jin roared.

"Whether I'm talking nonsense or not, you know very well in your heart, you just dare not face reality!"

"Because your heart is extremely fragile, once it touches the truth, it will burst like a soap bubble with a 'pop'," Feather Fan sneered.

"No matter what you say, you must die here today! Once you enter my trap, no one in this world can leave alive!" A Jin shouted fiercely.