Chapter 904: New Era
Especially in terms of genes, this was a difficult problem that had not been solved before the end of the world, but now it has been implemented so easily.
He had the illusion that they were all crazy.
"Ordinary people outside have no way to survive. They lack supplies and have poor physical fitness. It's a dead end anyway, so we might as well struggle a bit." Qin Jin saw it clearly along the way. After the comparison, he felt even more how much hope a far-sighted leader could bring to his subordinates.
"So they survived?" Zhuang Mingxu asked.
"After the fusion, some humans did begin to absorb energy, and their physical fitness was greatly enhanced, which indeed gave them the ability to survive to a great extent."
Just on this point, Lu Weiyi couldn't say anything. He turned his head to look at Zhuang Mingxu, wanting to ask about the products of gene fusion that their base had previously taken in.
Zhuang Mingxu patted his arm under the table and asked Qin Jin again, "Those who start to invest now should be just ordinary people, right?"
Qin Jin understood the hidden meaning in his words and replied bluntly, "Without seeing definite results, how can the people at the top implement it on themselves? Besides, no matter how difficult the outside world is, there will always be people who can get through it safely."
"So they use all of humanity as experimental subjects." Lu Weiyi gritted his teeth, not even knowing whether it was right or wrong to give them that information in the first place.
"That's not the case. It is indeed a way out for those who cannot survive. Haven't we also discovered that animals have stronger physical fitness and are more resistant to radiation than humans? There is a selfish element in their doing this. I'm afraid there is also a desire to postpone their death sentence."
"But this experiment is not perfect. It might collapse completely one day and become a dead end."
“Maybe before they died, they waited for the radiation to disappear,” Zhuang Mingxu rubbed his head hard, “People have to survive first before there is hope.”
Lu Weiyi was furious, but he had to admit that he was right.
"If you're really worried, let's ask the researchers here to work harder. Maybe we can help them in the future."
**
In the spring of the eighth year after the apocalypse, a solar storm came again. This time, the values showed that the bodies of SS-level psychics also began to change in response to radiation intensity, and the entire Yueban Bay base was completely closed.
Before this, after experiencing several zombies showing symptoms due to radiation, Qin Jin decided to bury the zombies according to their levels. He just needed Yuebanwan to support some equipment. Lu Weiyi was cruel and directly asked him for a lot of zombie crystal cores, which made Qin Jin so angry that he didn't visit him for a long time.
After the base was completely closed, the entire base began to practice frugality. Even so, the supplies in their warehouses continued to decrease.
Zombies need a fresh supply of blood, forcing Qin Jin and Lu Weiyi to go out hunting frequently. The surrounding creatures need to recuperate, so they can only go deeper into Laoshan.
They went on like this day after day for two whole years.
During these two years, their technology has advanced rapidly, and Crystal Core Energy has been thoroughly integrated into every aspect of life.
The vaccine research at the Joint Research Institute has also made a qualitative leap. The vaccine was successfully developed thanks to their efforts, and it was an unexpected person - Su He and An He.
After arriving at the base, Su He took the initiative to become the person in charge of vaccine development at the base's joint research institute. At first, he was there to personally feed the little monster born by Mu Wan, then he became the little monster's experimenter, and finally he also brought Cheng Chuan under him.
He and An He conducted research in different directions, but they reached the same goal through different approaches and communicated with each other from time to time, and they actually developed the vaccine.
On the day when the test was successfully put into use, Su He invited Lu Weiyi to go in person.
This was the first time they met after they separated, but the man in his thirties already had a head full of white hair. He was so weak that he could only speak weakly while sitting in a wheelchair.
"No one treats your leg?" Lu Weiyi stared at his legs.
"I've been cured. I'm not in good health and can't stand for a long time," Su He said, glancing at the assistant following him. The assistant immediately pushed the wheelchair and took Lu Weiyi to the laboratory.
This is probably the most advanced place in the entire base. The entire corridor is brightly lit. In the outside world where people no longer use electronic products due to radiation, this place is completely unaffected because of the special walls.
The special transparent glass on both sides allows you to see the zombies being imprisoned for experiments. Many of them were victims of the original incident and had no one to support them. They should have been destroyed, but were finally assigned to relevant laboratories. While cooperating with the experiments, we also hope that they can wait until the future.
Walking forward along the corridor, a creature that looked like a child of several years old appeared in the field of vision. He was naked, and his body was covered with various pinholes and wounds caused by knife cuts. Looking closely, there was no good skin to be found. If it weren't for the familiar skin and bones, Lu Weiyi might not have been able to connect it with the little monster he had encountered before.
Hearing the noise, the little monster slowly walked to the glass door, patted the glass with his small hands, and then pressed his entire face against it.
Su He walked by intently, as if he didn't see anything, all the way to the end, where there were people who volunteered to come and try the drugs. They had all kinds of patches on their bodies and their limbs were tied to the stage to prevent violent struggles after accidents.
Su He arranged for his assistants to inject the tested drugs back into the bodies of several subjects and wait for the effects to show up. During this time, Lu Weiyi asked about his recent situation in the past few years.
"Just like that." Su He curled up in the wheelchair and looked up at the ceiling, his eyes unblinking, like a dead person.
It’s hard to say why, but Lu Weiyi saw a sense of death in him, as if he was hanging on to his last breath and could disappear at any time.
During the long time in the closed base, Lu Weiyi had seen many people like this. The food they ate every day was only enough to sustain their survival and had no taste at all. Even as the base commander, Lu Weiyi had no right to be picky, let alone the people under him.
They seemed no longer alive, just not dead, that's all.
No one knows how long this kind of days will last, or whether they can wait until the future. Someone even said to Lu Weiyi that they should just eat as much as they want and die together after eating.
But Lu Weiyi didn't want to. His family, lover and friends were all around him, and he still wanted to struggle.
Seeing Su He like this at this time, it was easy to affect him, and Lu Weiyi immediately lost interest in talking.
Almost half an hour later, Su He seemed to be awakened by his biological clock and said in a hoarse voice, "Time's up."
In the laboratory, someone immediately walked towards the person who had just been vaccinated with a syringe.
"There is a device inside that carries zombie energy. It will infect them in this way to test the effect," Su He explained to him, turning on an instrument next to him that was covered with small bubbles, and pointed it out to Lu Weiyi.
"These are normal cells in the human body. When invaded by zombie energy, they will undergo a series of changes, leading to zombieization. If there are no changes, it proves that the vaccine is effective."
After he finished speaking, he stopped talking. Lu Weiyi watched the cells on the screen like a tool, twisting and moving like they were alive, but no other changes occurred.
After a long while without any response, Su He looked up at him and said, "Oh, no change. This proves that it works. Do you understand?"
"..."Lu Weiyi.
He remembered the man's arrogance when they first met, which made him lose interest in his excitement about the vaccine finally being successful.
"You asked to see me just to let me see this?" Even if this was indeed important, it was not to the point where he had to witness it.
Su He was silent. "This project was successful. As the main person in charge, do I get any reward?"
"What do you want? You should be aware of the situation at the base." It's not that Lu Weiyi is unwilling to give it, but with tens of thousands of people to feed, he really doesn't have the wealth he once had.
"I want a high-level zombie crystal core"
"?" Lu Weiyi, "Okay, how many S-level purification crystal cores do you want? I will consider it."
"No, I want zombie crystal cores, or to be exact, I want zombie energy."
"Zombie energy is useless against people with special abilities," Lu Weiyi reminded.
"I know".
Lu Weiyi put the crystal core he had just taken out back into the space and looked at him with scrutiny. Since zombie energy can be extracted, there is no need to obtain it from zombies. As long as a certain level of zombie energy is injected into the body of a human or even a mutant, it will immediately cause zombie transformation. This is difficult for ordinary people, but it is not difficult at all for these scientific researchers.
After a while, Su He felt like all the bones in his body had collapsed. He curled up in a wheelchair and looked more like an old man. He said, "I want to try it on Wanwan again. Maybe enough energy can wake her up."
Su He said with pleading in his eyes, "Base Commander, our base can already raise zombies, we don't need her, I want to give it a try."
After Mu Wan was brought back, she was kept by a special person because of the special nature of Su He and the little monster. Later, she was sent to the zombie detention center in the base. However, apart from the fact that her body was not rotten, she did not show any special characteristics. Even Qin Jin was sure that she looked like a dead person after looking at her several times and there was no way she would wake up. But Su He was determined not to give up, so he had to continue to keep her.
"Okay, I'll say hello to Wu Yue, and when you get there, you'll be in charge of the injection. It will be the energy of no more than five S-level zombie crystal cores."
"Thank you, base commander. Also, can I apply to take it... to see her?" He pointed to the little monster stuck on the glass door that had been watching them, "If Wanwan wakes up, she will definitely want to see him. She is looking forward to its birth."
“…Okay, let someone look after it.” He still remembered the fighting power of the little monster. Even though it looked weak now, he still felt uneasy.
"Okay." After Su He finished stating his request, he started talking about vaccines again.
On that day, Lu Weiyi began to plan the relevant matters for the vaccination. However, the news of Su He's death reached his ears faster than the implementation of the plan.
"It was suicide." Wu Yue sat in the living room exhausted. The place where the zombies were held was some distance away from the villa, and he had not been back to live there for a long time.
At this time, a letter was pushed towards Lu Weiyi. Zhuang Mingxu picked it up and opened it first. This was a letter Su He left for them, probably after Lu Weiyi left.
The letter clearly stated that if the zombie energy was useful to Mu Wan, they would reunite as a family; if it was not useful, they would reunite in another place.
"Did he kill the experimental subject?" Zhuang Mingxu asked.
"Yes," Wu Yue said with a sigh, "After receiving your notice last night, I asked people to prepare the extracted zombie energy. They arrived at dawn today. The dosage was too high, so I took people to inject it."
Because of the cooperation with Qin Jin, they concentrated all the zombie crystal cores to extract zombie energy for the zombies to use, and the rest was supplied to the psychics.
Such a large dose is not small for zombies. Wu Yue personally led people to carry out the experiment. He also saw the little monster that Su He brought in a cage. The untreated wounds on its body made Wu Yue's impression of the laboratory fall to the bottom.
But when I found out that Su He was the mastermind behind all this, it became hard to describe.
He was one of the people who had heard about Su He's story, and he could understand his complicated feelings towards this little monster. He couldn't say anything for the time being, not to mention that their contribution was indispensable to the development of the vaccine.
Even though he had been notified, he still reminded Su He for the last time, "Like superpowers, zombies will explode if injected with too much energy at once. Are you sure you want to inject five times the SS energy into her body at once?"
After Su He nodded, Wu Yue took action. He had already prepared for the possibility that the zombie's body would explode, but nothing happened.
After the energy entered Mu Wan's body, it was like a drop of water entering the sea, without a ripple. Wu Yue checked the past records and found that Mu Wan had always been like this. Her body seemed to be completely insulated from energy.
"Difference also means hope. Maybe we can crack it in the future," Wu Yue comforted.
But Su He acted very calm, as if he had guessed everything, and expressed to Wu Yue that the family wanted to stay together for a while.
"It was said to be ten minutes, but I couldn't wait for them to come out. After I broke in, I found Su He holding Mu Wan, and the little monster was placed between them. They were all dead," Wu Yue sighed, "He had already taken the poison and made his choice before he went over."
"I went to the research institute and had someone check it out. He had examined himself several times before, but there were no records. I had someone check the records, and it seems to be...cancer."
In today's situation, this disease is almost equivalent to death, it's just a matter of time.
When Lu Weiyi thought about the scene when he met him, he didn’t know what to say for a moment, “It’s better to die, who knows what will happen in the future…”
Zhuang Mingxu reached out and patted him on the shoulder lightly, and Lu Weiyi came back to his senses instantly. Such words should not come out of his mouth.
He wiped his face and took a deep breath. "Does the next research still require little monsters?"
"He left enough samples, including blood, body tissue, etc., so it can be said that it was all premeditated."
"Maybe they are afraid that if they die, the little monster will face endless research." Lu Weiyi knows the importance of researchers, but it doesn't mean he likes these people, especially after seeing Zhuang Mobai's lack of bottom line. These people are just tools in his eyes.
"I have already informed Professor Su Weiting, but due to the special nature of the three people, he cannot take the bodies away. The current situation is that some people suggest dissecting the little monsters in case of emergency. What do you think?" This is the reason why Wu Yue came back.
"They're all dead..."
"Dissect it."
Before Lu Weiyi could finish his words, he was interrupted by Zhuang Mingxu, who rubbed Lu Weiyi's hair and said, "Go and have a rest. You have to go out tomorrow. Don't worry about the base."
What Lu Weiyi often saw outside were various situations where bodies were scattered everywhere due to radiation, and these could not be made public. This caused him great psychological pressure. He did not want to get involved in these pessimistic things in the base, especially this kind of confrontation between rationality and emotion.
After hearing what he said, I immediately got up and went back to my room.
"Is he okay?" Wu Yue looked at him worriedly as he closed the door, "I can't see any light in his eyes."
"The situation outside is not optimistic. There is no new news from the Meteorological Research Institute. The atmosphere in the entire base... you have seen it too." Zhuang Mingxu shook his head and sighed, retracting his attention. "Explain the situation to Professor Su and hand over the body of the little monster to the institute as much as possible. See what he wants and give him compensation as much as possible."
If you give up something unique emotionally, it will be a great loss.
Wu Yue nodded in agreement, "This research came out at the right time. Everyone is in a desperate situation, and it's a good opportunity to publish it to boost people's morale."
Zhuang Mingxu agreed, "What's the situation with the zombies? Do they still have enough energy?"
"Same old, with ** around every day, I'm not sure what they'll be like when they wake up."
"Can the blood supply be reduced?" This was Zhuang Mingxu's purpose. One of the main reasons why Lu Weiyi and Qin Jin went out was to feed so many zombies. He had seen too many tragic situations, which affected his state of mind.
Wu Yue shook his head, "I asked Wu Yue, zombies' energy and blood must be supplied by one of them. The energy we gave the zombies from the beginning was the most basic amount. If the blood is less, I'm afraid they will die silently."
Seeing Zhuang Mingxu remained silent, Wu Yue continued, "Moreover, I don't think Qin Jin will agree. Maybe he is a zombie himself, and he cares more about our attitude towards these zombies. If we bring it up at this time, it would be tantamount to giving up for him. I'm afraid he will think that this will be his future."
Zhuang Mingxu leaned on the sofa, covering his forehead with one hand, "If this goes on, I'm really worried that Xiaoyi will collapse first."
"Say hello to Qin Jin and ask them to give some guidance on the way."
"This is the only way."
The two discussed what they wanted to say, but no one expected that after the vaccine was implemented, there would be unexpected surprises for them.
The vaccine made everyone no longer react to zombie energy, which also solved the problem of the spread of zombie energy raised by Qin Jin before, which meant that the zombie problem that had been plaguing them was solved.
Just from the remaining 5,000 zombies, it can be seen that many people in the base have family members and friends who still have expectations. This is tantamount to giving them hope that they can live together in the future.
No longer afraid of the spread of zombie energy, they have returned to normal, and the so-called zombies are no different from humans.
The announcement of the two pieces of news caused the entire base to boil for a long time, and also to a great extent revived the increasingly pessimistic Lu Weiyi.
Everything was moving in the right direction. When the food in the base began to become so scarce that it was barely enough to sustain life, the research institute finally brought news that the radiation levels were dropping rapidly.
As soon as the news was confirmed, the entire base held its first all-base meeting after the blockade of the base. All the electronic products that had been put away throughout the base were put back into use, and the crystal cores were converted into electrical energy, illuminating the entire base with unprecedented light, causing those who were accustomed to the darkness to close their eyes for relief.
The entire base had been in darkness for too long, and everyone was not used to seeing the light again.
Lu Weiyi was unable to utter a word for a moment as he spoke into the loudspeaker that was working again.
After two years of running around, he became thinner and looked more weathered. The pressure he shouldered alone made him grow up quickly. The immaturity of youth faded away, and his face was filled with maturity and stability.
The flowing long hair that once reached his shoulders has now become a flat head that sticks to his scalp, making him look less soft than he was in his youth and more indestructible.
He hadn't made a public appearance in the base for a long time, but people in the base could often see him leaving or returning riding a huge green peacock, and then their food would change a little bit.
Every change in him is brought about by carrying this base.
Many people in the base followed him all the way, and seeing him transform from a quiet and immature boy to what he is today, many of them couldn't help but shed tears.
"Today, I have good news to announce to everyone." Lu Weiyi suppressed the emotions surging in his heart and extended his hand to the waiting man in a white coat as an invitation.
The researchers in white coats held lengthy data and speeches in their hands. However, looking at the skinny people under the podium, who were only supported by their bones, all the professional language seemed less important.
He smiled at everyone with a simple and honest look, and then threw the heavy paper in his hand away. Amid the flying white paper, he shouted, "Today, I announce to everyone who has persisted that the geomagnetic field has completely stabilized, and the radiation has begun to decrease. We--"
"Hold on, it's coming!"
The huge sound, transmitted by the loudspeakers, resounded in every corner of the base.
After being stunned for a while, everyone seemed to be hit by a huge surprise. They looked at each other in disbelief, crying and laughing.
Many familiar team captains ran towards the direction where Lu Weiyi was, confirmed the authenticity with him again and again, and then burst into tears.
They once thought there was no hope, but they never imagined that hope would actually come.
Lu Weiyi stood on the podium again, patted the microphone, and the surroundings suddenly became quiet.
"Thank you very much...thank you very much for the persistence and hard work of everyone along the way. Each and every one of you has contributed your own strength to this base, which has brought us to where we are today."
"I……"
Lu Weiyi's throat choked, but he couldn't help laughing through his tears.
"Long live the base commander!"
Someone cried out, followed by countless responses, shaking the entire base.
Lu Weiyi looked at the madness below and never thought that he could hold on until today.
He could vaguely remember that after his rebirth, his first thought was to find Zhuang Mingxu, then lie down completely and continue to be a carefree salted fish.
However, so many unexpected events pushed him step by step to where he is today, and he did so many things that he had never dared to think of before.
Every person below him was once a burden to him, but they stood firmly behind him and became his solid back, supporting him as he moved forward step by step.
Ten years after the end of the world, they finally waited for a new era for mankind.
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