Tong Hongfang looked at the muzzle of Zhao Xian's gun, his pupils shrank into a point, and he backed away desperately, his entire body pressed against the wall.
The door was closed by Wu Haifan.
Zhao Xian ordered: "Tie him up."
Wu Haifan and his men took out ropes and quickly tied the man up tightly.
Tong Hongfang didn't even have time to struggle.
Zhao Xian: "Tell me, what happened between you and the sea monster after you disappeared?"
Tong Hongfang gritted his teeth, and the scales on his face reflected a strange light.
Zhao Xian: "You won't tell me? You want to withstand a bullet that even mutants can't withstand?"
Tong Hongfang immediately shouted, "No, don't hit me, I, I'll tell you everything!"
"We were taken away by sea monsters. I don't know what they did to us, but we've all become like this, half-human, half-ghost!" Tong Hongfang's forehead was covered in sweat, and his lips were rapidly turning pale from blood loss. "But we've noticed that our physiques have become stronger. We're stronger...we're not afraid of the cold, and our teeth are...strong enough to tear through raw flesh."
Mutant?
Qiao Xuejun suddenly remembered what the system had said before, that Huo Antu conducted human experiments and eventually found a way to make humans mutate.
Is it like this now?
The system also became serious: "Host, it's almost the same."
Qiao Xuejun pursed her lips. The developments here were surprisingly consistent with the original book's plot? Huo Antu hadn't conducted human experiments like before, yet mutants still appeared.
Moreover, the mutants are indeed very strong. Even after being hit by a rifle, they can still remain conscious and speak fluently.
Tong Hongfang continued, "The leader of the sea monsters, a giant octopus, sent me to the First Base... to investigate the situation..."
Zhao Xian pondered: "Investigate the situation?"
Tong Hongfang's excitement when he came in just now was not just a simple investigation.
Tong Hongfang nodded, speaking haltingly: "Yes, to investigate. It, it felt that now was the time. It wanted to see what the human base was like, so it asked me to lead the people away... I was forced to do this!"
Zhao Xian asked the key question: "Take people away?"
Tong Hongfang seemed to remember something, his eyes suddenly changed, and he shouted loudly: "There is not enough water in the base! Go to the sea monster, and you don't have to worry about starving or dying of thirst anymore!"
His voice grew louder, almost like a megaphone, and had the same penetrating power as a sea monster's.
Almost the entire base could hear it.
The expressions of the people around changed.
"Go to the sea monster! The sea monster is very powerful. No longer need to fear the cold, no longer -"
"Bang!"
A bullet hit his throat, cutting off his words.
Large amounts of blood gushed out.
His pupils were dilated, but his lips were still whispering unwillingly, and one could vaguely tell that he was saying the four words "surrender to the sea monster".
His neck was clearly broken.
Soon, he was completely motionless.
Under the dim lights of the base at night, it looked like a dead fish with its head cut off.
Die with eyes open.
Zhao Xian raised his hand to put away the gun and calmly arranged: "Clean up and send the body to Dr. An for research."
"……yes!"
Zhao Xian: "Bobcat, go call all the executives from each department and hold an emergency meeting."
"yes!"
Several people followed orders.
Qiao Xuejun stared at Tong Hongfang's body on the ground, lost in thought. She only looked up when she heard Zhao Xian speak.
Emergency meeting, department head. She had to go too.
Zhao Xian: "Let's go."
He took Qiao Xuejun's hand and turned to walk towards the meeting room: "The situation has changed, let's have a meeting."
Qiao Xuejun: “Yeah.”
Zhao Xian noticed her nervousness, looked at her, and asked in a low voice: "Are you scared?"
Qiao Xuejun shook her head: "No."
She wondered how this mutant appeared, and whether the plot of the original book could be changed. Would the ending... change?
Zhao Xian said: "If you want to rest, you can go back first. I will give you the content of the meeting tomorrow."
Qiao Xuejun shook her head: "I can't sleep either."
The two of them quickly arrived at the conference room. Under Zhao Xian's arrangement and notification, personnel from various important departments arrived one after another.
The Logistics Coordination Department, the Director of the Water Purification Plant, the Blue Oil Refining Plant...all arrived.
Most of them had expressions of surprise and uncertainty on their faces.
Obviously, everyone heard what Tong Hongfang said in a broadcast before he died.
After everyone arrived, Zhao Xian briefly explained today's situation and finally asked, "What do you think?"
Qiao Xuejun finally understood after hearing this.
Today, Tong Hongfang came to ask for help and said he had something important to tell him. The patrol team below asked for the base's opinion and then let him up.
It was just dark outside. Tong Hongfang was wearing thick clothes that hid his abnormality, and it was urgent. A guard at the patrol booth escorted him up, but he used brute force to knock the guard unconscious, which led to the scene of him knocking on the door later.
The defense of the base is still fine.
Everyone was silent, still digesting this rather shocking fact.
Zhao Xian called out, "Director Yu, how long will the water storage capacity of the water purification plant last?"
Director Yu immediately replied, "Lord, our water purification plant previously had about three days' worth of water in storage. Since the arrival of the city residents, consumption has increased, and the water storage capacity is only two days."
"But now we've improved our ice harvesting methods, and our efficiency has increased significantly. The amount of water our water treatment plant receives from the ice harvesting team has steadily increased from 120 tons a day to over 170 tons. We currently have a surplus of 350 tons."
"If we continue harvesting ice as normal tomorrow, we'll be able to store 400 tons of water. If we can continue this for a month, we'll be able to store even more..."
He added, "And this includes our base's drinking water, domestic water, and production water! Of this, our daily production water consumption is only 5.2 tons. If things get really extreme and water resources become scarce, even if we stop production, using all our current water for drinking would be enough to last for over two months."
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