Chapter 132: Vaccine Development Successfully
One of Luo Xinxin's arms was torn off, and dark red blood splattered all over Su Qing. She grabbed the broken arm and fell backward heavily due to inertia.
Seeing that there was no electricity around Su Qing, Qin Yu hurried forward to catch her.
"Are you okay? Are you hurt?" Qin Yu hurriedly raised his hand to wipe the blood off Su Qing's face. She seemed to be still a little dazed. She only came to her senses after Qin Yu called her several times. She lowered her head and looked at the stump in her hand. She suddenly let go of her hand and said in a slightly hoarse voice, "I'm fine..."
The soldiers ran over and fought with several zombies.
Chen Kuo raised his gun and knocked down two zombies in succession, then pointed the gun at Luo Xinxin.
Luo Xinxin covered her hideous wound with one hand, her face pale and filled with pain. She looked at her brother, who was lying on the ground twitching non-stop, then glanced at the gun pointed at her. She gritted her teeth and said, "Go!"
The zombies no longer wanted to fight, but surrounded Luo Xinxin and picked her up. They ran towards the broken glass window behind them at an extremely fast speed, then jumped up and disappeared.
"Take people outside to search immediately!" Qin Yu helped Su Qing up and said with a serious face.
"Yes." Shen Kuo obeyed the order, picked up the medicine box and turned to leave.
Qin Yu glanced at the zombie leader lying on the ground, temporarily unable to move, and the stump of his limb. He ordered, "Send this zombie leader and the severed limb to Professor Gu immediately."
Su Qing raised his hand and pointed at the mutated zombies on the ground, "Take all these zombies and the corpses in the house back."
Qingshan took the order and asked his men to clean up the battlefield.
The zombies outside seemed to have received the order and had begun to retreat. Shen Kuo and his men searched the entire city but found no trace of Luo Xinxin.
The zombie leader was escorted back to the capital by Qingshan and half of his soldiers. Su Qing followed Qin Yu and led the rest of the people to continue searching in the surrounding towns.
A month passed and they found nothing. Luo Xinxin seemed to have disappeared from the face of the earth.
Fortunately, good news came from the capital at this time. The zombie virus was conquered and the vaccine was successfully developed. Qin Yu received the order and immediately led the team back to the capital.
Due to the shortage of drug raw materials, only a thousand vaccine injections were produced in the first batch. Once the news spread, the leaders of major bases reported to the capital for requests for medicine, but were all rejected by the acting president, who replied that the capital would keep this batch of vaccines for itself and would not release them to the outside world. Other bases were extremely dissatisfied with the Ministry of Government's behavior, and some simply came directly to the capital and made a big fuss at the Ministry of Government.
At the same time, news suddenly spread in the base that the acting president had hoarded the zombie vaccine for himself. The people strongly protested and flocked to the Ministry of Government office building to demand an explanation.
Upon seeing this, Lu Chen secretly joined forces with the military to launch a sudden attack on the Ministry of Government. The military took away all the vaccines in a very tough attitude. The acting president was taken into custody and all the relevant personnel around him were detained.
Afterwards, Lu Chen took power and became the new acting president.
The first batch of vaccines were distributed by the military and shipped to major bases. Professor Gu made the relevant data and drug ratios fully public. The capital city proposed that bases with conditions can produce vaccines on their own, and sought raw materials and various related production equipment at high prices across the country for subsequent vaccine production.
From then on, Chinese people no longer have to fear the zombie virus.
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After Lu Chen took the position of acting president, he was strongly opposed by the aristocratic families. However, because he had the support of the military and half of the political department, they did not dare to make too much noise openly. They privately contacted some people in the political department who disagreed with him and began to plan to overthrow him.
Assassinations, shootings, and explosions followed one after another. Lu Chen was injured, and several powerful people in the aristocratic families died suddenly one after another. The capital was in a panic for a while.
Qin Yu, Lu Chen and everyone else were in the capital to stabilize the political situation, so Su Qing went straight back to the Dawn Base to stay away from the disputes.
She asked the system if she could go home now that the zombie virus was no longer a threat.
"Host, there are still many survivors out there who are unaware of the existence of the Dawn Base. Spread the reputation of the Dawn Base and destroy the virus itself, and you can return home!"
After listening to this, Su Qing made some upgrades in the base and gave Fang Qing a lot of instructions, asking her to take good care of the base. In addition to supplying materials according to the contract, people in the base must not get involved in the factional disputes in the capital to avoid being used by others.
Fang Qing looked at Su Qing with a complicated expression and said hesitantly, "Are you... leaving?"
Su chuckled and said, "Don't worry, I'm just going out to find Luo Xinxin."
"If you find it... you can go home?"
Su Wei nodded slightly without saying anything.
She was naturally happy to be able to go home, which was the belief that supported her in this strange world. But when the moment of departure really came, she felt an indescribable reluctance in her heart when she thought that she would be separated from her friends here by two worlds and would never see them again in this life.
Fang Qing was silent for a few seconds, then smiled brightly. She took a step forward and gently put her arms around Su Qing. Her voice was choked with a barely perceptible sob, yet full of sincerity, "Xiao Qing, I'm so happy for you."
"Before you leave, please give us some time to say goodbye. Don't leave without saying goodbye, okay?"
"good."
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The continuous high temperature scorched the earth, and the barren wasteland stretching for thousands of miles was steaming with distorted heat waves. Suddenly, a roar of an engine came from the distance on the silent and desolate road. A jeep sped past at high speed, and its tires rolled over the cracked road surface, splashing fine sand and gravel. The dust raised by the rear end of the car made the air around it turbid.
The dust and fog gradually settled, and on the road where the jeep came from, a swarm of zombies followed closely behind it like a tide.
Su Qing casually placed one hand on the edge of the car door, and the other hand firmly controlled the steering wheel. The air-conditioning in the car was on, and the temperature was just right, forming a huge temperature difference with the heat outside. She tilted her head slightly, glanced at the car in the rearview mirror, and her face was filled with indifference.
The wilderness is vast and empty, perfect for bombing.
She stepped on the brakes, and the jeep drew an arc on the ground and stopped steadily. Su Qing got out of the car, put away the jeep, then took out the armed helicopter from her backpack and operated it to take off.
Coming above the zombie group, Su Qing pressed the weapon button with one hand.
"Da da da..."
Dense bullets poured down like a rainstorm, and the zombies fell down in an instant.
"Boom!"
A shell was fired and exploded on the ground. A heat wave swept around with the explosion point as the center, tearing the zombies into pieces. Flames spread and thick smoke rose, mixed with the pungent smell of burning flesh.
However, within a few minutes, thousands of zombies were almost wiped out, leaving only a few scattered around, staggering forward.
The helicopter automatically hovered in the air. Su Qing stood in front of the wide-open door, holding a gun and accurately piercing the head of each zombie.
Virus vaccines can prevent humans from being infected, but they cannot eliminate existing zombies. Su Qing would deal with any zombies she saw along the way. She had spent a lot of effort to lead this group of zombies all the way to an open area in order to get rid of them all at once.
After putting away the helicopter, Su Qing took out the jeep again and drove forward along the road.
Just a few minutes after the car drove away, another jeep exactly the same as the one Su Qing was driving came to the wasteland and slowly stopped.
The people in the car looked at the zombie corpses and body parts all over the ground, and then quickly drove away following the tire tracks on the ground.
As night fell, Su Qing parked her car next to a small village and asked the system to scan it to confirm that there were no zombies. She then put away the jeep and replaced it with an RV.
During these days, she stayed in the RV every night. The space was comfortable and she could leave at any time if anything happened.
Looking up at the twinkling stars in the sky, Su Qing became interested and decided to have fried steak for dinner.
She took out a camping lantern and hung it on the RV. She gently turned the knob with her fingertips, and a warm yellow light spread out to illuminate the surroundings. Then she set up a folding table and chairs next to it, took out an air-conditioning fan, plugged the fan into a mobile power supply, turned on the switch, and a breeze blew away the unbearable heat in the air.
After finishing all these, Su Qing sat on the chair and took out a gas stove, a cast iron pan, fresh beef and some vegetable seasonings from her backpack, as well as a bottle of white wine and a bucket of ice. She placed everything on the table one by one, humming a tuneless little tune. She first put the white wine in the ice bucket, then skillfully sprinkled salt and black pepper on the beef, and then set it aside to marinate.
The hydroponic vegetables are fresh and delicious. Simply chop them a few times and add some of her homemade mayonnaise to make a vegetable salad.
Next, she heated the pan and poured a little oil into it, then put the steak in. With a "sizzle", the oil splashed slightly. Su Qing used tongs to turn the steak over from time to time to ensure that each side was heated evenly. The aroma of the meat gradually spread and was blown farther by the air-conditioning fan.
Putting the fried beef on a plate, she cleaned the table, pried open the cork and poured half a glass of white wine.
The cattle produced by the ranch have juicy and fresh meat. It is very delicious with just two simple seasonings, salt and black pepper. Su Qing took a bite of meat and a sip of wine, and ate some small vegetables in between, admiring the stars in the sky. The fatigue from a day's journey completely dissipated at this moment.
Su Qing ate slowly and leisurely, and finally drank the whole bottle of wine. A faint blush appeared on both sides of her cheeks, and a slightly drunken warmth spread. She got up and went into the RV, forced herself to sleep, washed and changed her clothes, and then fell on the bed. Sleepiness surged up like a tide, and her eyelids became heavier and heavier as she fell into a dream.
In the middle of the night, there was a wolf howling outside the RV, followed by the sound of fighting. Soon everything returned to silence. Su Qing listened to the movement outside and struggled between being half asleep and half awake, but finally could not resist the sleepiness and lost consciousness.
When she woke up the next day, it was already noon. She rubbed her sore temples and vaguely remembered that there seemed to be a noise outside last night. After washing up and getting out of the car, Su Qing subconsciously looked around, but did not find anything unusual.
Maybe she was dreaming? She shook her head and stopped thinking about it.
After a quick meal, Su Qing packed up everything and drove the jeep out of the village.
She stopped and walked along the way, but she didn't find any zombies, nor did she find any humans. Nowadays, there are very few people who can still fight alone outside. According to incomplete statistics from the capital, China's population is currently only about tens of millions.
From hundreds of millions to tens of millions, the zombie virus has brought an indelible painful experience to China.
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