Chapter 259 The End of the World
At that time, Qiu Ming was still a young boy who had just joined the armed forces. Because of his outstanding performance, he was assigned to be the personal bodyguard of a scientist.
The scientist's main job was to study cut meteorites. He was of similar age to Qiu Ming and they had similar personalities. In the stuffy laboratory, he treated Qiu Ming like a trash can and told him a lot about meteorites.
The scientist conducted experiments on meteorites and found that meteorites contain a radioactive substance that can damage the brain nerves of the experimental subjects, thereby affecting the physical condition of the experimental subjects and turning them into zombies.
Scientists in other countries who have studied meteorites have come to the same conclusion and have advocated that meteorites be disposed of in a unified manner to avoid bringing great disasters to mankind.
However, several countries have ulterior motives and want to use this meteorite as a cruel weapon of mass destruction, and are unwilling to listen to the calls of scientists.
So, on the surface, all participating countries agreed to the destruction, but secretly they were using the stolen meteorites to make weapons with evil intentions.
At that time, Qiu Ming was still a passionate young man. He scolded the leaders of various countries for being inhumane, and then asked scientists to quickly research new weapons and never let their country fall behind.
However, this kind of meteorite is completely uncontrollable, and it is extremely difficult to make it into a military weapon. No country can really develop it.
In the following years, Qiu Ming climbed from a bodyguard to a higher position, but was involuntarily drawn into disputes among high-level factions and was unable to move forward.
Even so, he still maintained close contact with scientists, and the two exchanged information about meteorites at any time.
Although meteorite weapons were not developed until the end, scientists discovered during the research process that in addition to causing malignant changes in the experimental subjects, meteorites also have a one in ten million chance of enhancing the experimental subjects in all aspects.
This enhancement is not a superpower, but it makes the subject's physique stronger, such as increasing strength, speed, healing ability, resistance to disease, etc.
The probability is so small that only one such mouse might appear among more than 10,000 mice used in the experiment.
However, this probability, which is so small that it is almost negligible, is fanatically advocated by some radicals.
They are the ones who established the Viper Base. They always believe that there are too many humans today, and most of them are dispensable waste. They not only delay the pace of human development, but also seriously waste the earth's resources. They should not live in the world.
Thus, a vicious plan took shape in the minds of the builders of the Viper Base.
They advocate starting with meteorites and creating a drug that can infect all of humanity.
Humans who can successfully resist the side effects of drugs and evolve successfully will become the new overlords of the earth, enjoy more resources, become elite species, and give birth to and raise excellent next generations.
As for those who cannot resist the invasion of the medicine, they deserve to be infected and become the abandoned ones who are screened out.
There is no doubt that this outrageous proposal cannot be accepted at all.
Once the plan is implemented, less than one in ten million people will survive. This is the most difficult catastrophe for all mankind to survive.
However, there were actually quite a few people who shared the same idea as the founders of the Viper Base. They quickly colluded with each other around the world, actively looking for supporters, and working day and night to produce drugs that could infect all of humanity.
At that time, Qiu Ming, as a conservative, had repeated conflicts with the Viper Base. In the end, he was outnumbered and was exiled and driven away again and again. He crawled back covered in blood and lived a miserable life.
In a rare opportunity, Qiu Ming secretly reunited with the scientist and got another piece of news from him.
What everyone doesn’t know is that another wonderful thing about meteorites is space.
During the research, the scientist accidentally cut his palm and blood dripped onto a small stone, inadvertently opening up the space.
However, due to the intervention of the Viper Base, all the meteorites were taken away and the scientists were unable to bring the small stone out.
Qiu Ming already had a premonition that if those crazy people continued to behave like this, the whole world would be in chaos sooner or later.
He was in a difficult situation and could not do anything for his parents, wife and daughter. Even if he just built a space with stones to help his family escape from danger, he would have fulfilled his responsibilities as a son, husband and father.
Determined to do something for his family, Qiu Ming risked his life to steal some stone fragments from the venomous snake base, gave them to scientists, and asked his friends to help him make a most ordinary ring.
At that time, Qiu Ming's marriage to his wife Li Shuyuan was already in trouble. He anticipated that Li Shuyuan would not take care of his family for him, so he asked scientists to make the ring look old.
The scientists followed the advice and plated a layer of bronze on the stone ring, imitating the thimbles of old times, making the ring old and ugly, which most women would not be interested in.
However, what the scientist did not know was that the space of the stone he opened was rich in material, with mountains and water inside, and a huge space.
However, the piece that Qiu Ming stole and built only contained some meteorite fragments, and the space inside was as small as a cave, so it needed to be constantly upgraded.
Once the space is opened by dripping blood, the space will recognize its owner. After getting the ring, Qiu Ming did not see what was inside and took the ring directly home.
He thought he could stay at home for a while longer, but the Viper Base kept closing in, forcing him to fake his death to escape and protect his family from being harassed by the people from the Viper Base.
He disguised the ring as a worthless relic in the hope that it would not be taken away by the vain Li Shuyuan and could be left to his unborn daughter.
In the following twenty years, Qiu Ming developed his own faction and had subordinates following him. He found Qiu Liren and adopted him as his son, but it was difficult for him to pay attention to the situation of his family at home.
His open and covert struggles with the Viper Base never stopped. Relying on his tenacious will and strong strength, he increased his power and status, and used this to repeatedly obstruct the plans of the people in the Viper Base.
Under the strong interference of him and some of his followers, at a certain stage, the people at the Viper Base suddenly cancelled all their overt research.
Qiu Ming then received intelligence and learned that the Viper Base had teamed up with an old business family to transfer the open research to the civilian population and hide it in the market.
This caused Qiu Ming considerable distress, but he was worried for a long time and no bad news came out.
Until a natural disaster suddenly struck, the plane used by the Wang family, a partner of the Viper Base, to transport zombies crashed due to a solar storm. The first batch of zombies appeared, the virus spread uncontrollably, and the end of the world came.
The incident happened too suddenly. Qiu Ming didn't even have time to look for Jiang Zixuan's trace before his energy was diverted by the series of rescue response tasks.
He had to prioritize the rescue mission of those back home over the search for his only daughter.
The first time he recognized Jiang Zixuan, he saw the space ring on her hand, and then learned from the intelligence that Jiang Zixuan was a "dual-system" mutant with a magical space.
Therefore, even if Qiu Liren didn't say it, Qiu Ming could guess from the information what was in Jiang Zixuan's space.
After learning the origin of the space from Qiu Ming, everyone fell into deep thought.
(End of this chapter)
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