Chapter 903: Burying the Zombies
"Base commander, there is a solution to the crisis of the suicide squad."
The moment the voice came, Qin Jin instantly tensed up and sat up straight, showing his guilty conscience vividly. Fortunately, Yin Jin's attention was not on him at the moment and he didn't notice it at all. Instead, Li Zhuang and Lu Weiyi were amused by his conscious reaction and couldn't help laughing.
"Base commander, this is the plan sent from the laboratory, please take a look." Yin Jin handed over the document.
After Lu Weiyi quickly flipped through it, he found that there were two so-called methods. Either extract a part of the superpowers stored in the body of the mutant every once in a while, or implant a chip that limits superpowers in the mutant's crystal core. This chip will use the energy of the crystal core as kinetic energy, consume part of the energy, and at the same time limit the crystal core's ability to accommodate energy, so as to achieve the purpose of preventing growth.
"Have both been verified?" Lu Weiyi asked.
"Yes, this is the experimental process." Yin Jin placed a notebook in front of Lu Weiyi with a video that had just been opened on it. "Both options have advantages and disadvantages. Relatively speaking, the first one will be more painful, and it will require going there every once in a while to extract energy."
"The second method is more permanent, but it is more troublesome to make the chip and requires more investment, but the one-time performance solves all subsequent problems."
Lu Weiyi played the video at double speed and saw the two situations in which it was used. The former was conducted by Wang Bing, and the latter was conducted by Zhao Gang. He raised his eyebrows.
"The personnel were approved by the village director."
Perhaps it was because of Zhao Lei's face that Zhao Gang got the upper hand.
"How can it be solved once and for all? In the current situation, if the radiation reaches here one day, the chip will lose its function. Even if it doesn't, who can guarantee the lifespan of the chip?"
Yin Jin nodded in agreement, and then heard Lu Weiyi say, "Choose the first one."
He still remembers the tragedy of Panshui Base. The only people who survived the entire base were demons. If that was the case, how could they live the rest of their lives so happily?
"However, tell them that the latter type exists, but it requires a lot of money to make. Let them find ways to complete the tasks and earn money by themselves." Otherwise, with Zhao Gang in front of them, it would be easier for them to feel unfair.
"Okay." Yin Jin saw him write approval at the end of the document, picked it up and left in a hurry.
After the people walked away, Qin Jin finally relaxed. However, he looked at Lu Weiyi with an incredulous look, "You're really hanging this carrot on their shoulders."
"I like obedient people." Lu Weiyi has not forgotten what they did to the base. Just because Zhuang Mingxu punished him doesn't mean the matter will be easily let go.
He didn't let Qin Jin pay too much attention to these things, and instead continued to ask about Qin Jin's arrangements.
After confirming it, Lu Weiyi did not stop him. After all, he was a zombie. Although he was one with the psychics, there were still differences during critical moments.
A few days later, Qin Jin persuaded Yin Jin and Qin's father and mother to bring Cheng Qi and his group of zombies back to Yuebanwan Island, but this time he left Xu Xiao behind.
"Has there been any message for them?" Qin Jin asked.
Before leaving, Lu Weiyi brought a few people to see them off. Yin Jin and Qin's father and mother could not go out because of their supernatural powers, so at this time, only Lu Weiyi was there with Ning Yuan and Wu Yue.
"You... go find them?" Even though Lu Weiyi knew that he might pass by some bases, he never thought about such a thing.
"It's just a piece of cake." Qin Jin was full of confidence, and of course he was confident in his abilities.
In this case, Lu Weiyi had no intention of being polite. He immediately took out a pen and paper and hurriedly wrote a letter, informing everyone that An He had been treated and the laboratory's forecast for the future.
"It will be up to you to build the place where we will be stationed in the future." Qin Jin put away the letter, waved to the few people casually, and left without hesitation.
"We're waiting for you to come back," Wu Yue shouted.
"No matter how long it takes," Ning Yuan added, and whispered, "Remember to come back."
Qin Jin waved from afar with his back to them, and finally disappeared completely in the lush forest.
After seeing Qin Jin off, the team in Laoshan Base was redistributed as the radiation intensified, and they began to explore outside the base continuously, like a swarm of locusts passing through, continuously pumping weapons and energy into the base in exchange for their continuous transportation of resources back.
The entire back mountain near the base, which stretches for dozens of kilometers, has become their factory. Tall trees that reach into the sky are sent here and transformed into black charcoal sections and sent to the warehouse.
Countless prey are cleaned here and converted into various air-dried meats for storage.
As if preparing to go through a long winter, the entire base was making final preparations.
Now it has been confirmed that lush plants can resist some radiation, so people have planted dense forests around the entire mountain. The tree trunks are so high that you can't see the end at a glance. This has also become a natural barrier for many animals and provided them with a layer of protection.
During this period, Lu Weiyi also took people out several times. They walked through the Panshui base that was once occupied by zombies. Those city ruins that had never been touched and even the regrowing plants became their trophies. No living creatures survived wherever they passed.
After such a long period of recuperation, the Xinghai base occupied by mutant rats showed signs of rebellion again and was once again raided by them, and this time not even a corpse was left.
As for the other Nanzuo base, since it became a trial ground for them to train people with special abilities, the number of zombies here has become less and less, and now there are not enough for these people to practice.
Just this one line made them discover a more difficult situation.
"Both low-level mutant animals and zombies have shown symptoms of radiation." When Li Qing said this, he was holding an animal that could no longer be seen in its original appearance. Its entire body was liquid, and except for a thin layer of skin, the bones and flesh in its body seemed to have turned into liquid. It was still shaking with Li Qing's movements. Li Qing carried it carefully, but the animal seemed to be unable to feel anything and was still struggling with its teeth bared.
"This is a slow loris, a small primitive monkey. Before the apocalypse, its body was only the size of an adult's palm. After the apocalypse, it mutated and grew to a size less than half a person's height. It is very agile. Look at it now..." Li Qing put the slow loris on the ground. The slow loris just kept baring its teeth at them but did not move. "It has difficulty moving."
"We saw countless such animals in the woods. Their bodies began to melt from under the skin and eventually became a pool of liquid. They were completely dead. While alive..." He pointed at the team members who followed him. Each of them was wrapped tightly from head to toe, but they were covered in sticky liquid of various colors, like colorful rags. They looked conspicuous, but disgusting when you got close to them.
Lu Weiyi couldn't help but take two steps back and keep some distance. Li Qing was amused by his unconcealed behavior. He wanted to reach out and smear the mucus in his hand on him, but when he saw that his clothes were clean without even a speck of dirt, he finally put his hand down. However, it did not stop him from continuing to disgust him with his words, "The skin of mutated animals or zombies has a certain toughness, and it is not so easy to break naturally. They will either wait to become a puddle of skin and die completely, or be touched by us and their skin will be pierced."
He stretched out his five fingers and made an opening motion, and "bang, it exploded."
Lu Weiyi now knew where their mucus came from and looked at them with pity. Fortunately, his level was high enough, and as long as the scope of exploration was determined, he could assign everything and he could collect the supplies with his mental power from afar.
"Where is the crystal core? Will it have any impact?" Lu Weiyi was more concerned about this.
"Still here." Li Qing dealt with the slow loris lying motionless on the ground and took out a crystal core from its changed brain.
“Is this situation regional?”
"It will be more obvious in urban areas before the end of the world, and we will encounter it less frequently in the virgin forests where we live."
"It seems that planting trees can really save lives."
Someone sighed quietly, saying that no one could have predicted that the future of mankind would be like this.
Lu Weiyi saw the entire dissection process clearly. Some of the bones in its body had softened, and the legs that supported the body had bent. This situation made everyone feel uneasy.
Finally, someone couldn't help but ask, "Base Commander, the people in other bases..."
Lu Weiyi didn't say anything, and his anger subsided for a moment. Their base had concentrated power, and they were able to protect low-level civilians layer by layer. If it were those who were less capable, it would be hard to imagine what they would experience.
"There will be a way." Lu Weiyi could only comfort everyone in this light-hearted way.
And as he said, the outside world is indeed thinking about ways to save itself. The reason why humans have been able to survive on this land for so long is because they never give up easily.
The arrival of winter allowed them to avoid another solar storm, and then in the spring they discovered changes in the mutated creatures around them. In addition, Lu Weiyi's letter arrived in time, which made them confused about the future while trying to find ways to save themselves.
Now a single operation is completely unable to overcome this difficulty. The Mengbei base headed by the Wen family and the Kyoto base have started to integrate all the survivors' bases. The external environment changed too quickly, and with the strong suppression, they have reintegrated all the bases in a few months.
At the same time, after discussing with Su Yan, Wen Jing announced the information they had discovered to the top leaders of each base - apart from the indiscriminate impact of radiation on living things, humans are still at a disadvantage among all surviving creatures.
In this catastrophe, as long as they can defeat other creatures, they will have hope of survival.
Under such circumstances, the gene fusion experiment was agreed to with almost no objection. In addition, human life is worthless nowadays, which made the entire experiment go extremely smoothly.
When the seventh year of the apocalypse was approaching, Qin Jin finally appeared in the Laoshan area with a zombie army of less than 10,000 people. The sentry discovered the arrival of the zombies at the first time and reported it to the base.
At this time, the S-level psychic also began to be unable to resist the influence of external radiation. Ning Yuan personally led people to greet him. Seeing that he was no different except that he looked a little embarrassed, he directly took him to the mountains deeper in Laoshan.
"The earth-type and plant-type mutants have built a wall here in advance to separate our two sides, but you have to make it clear to them that you'd better control them in terms of supplies. You have to destroy the bodies after hunting, otherwise it will be a disaster if they are hunted by us again."
Ning Yuan looked at the many zombies following him. Many of them looked at him with excitement, but they were very restrained. Some even kept their distance from him and didn't even bother to look at him, although their noses kept moving like puppies, and it was unclear whether they were breathing or smelling.
Seeing that they were all rational, Ning Yuan felt relieved, "The new base may not be as good as I imagined, you... cough... shouldn't be more understanding."
Qin Jin heard something unusual in these words, thinking that Lu Weiyi wanted to take advantage of them because he hadn't returned for a year. His expression suddenly turned ugly. Influenced by him, the zombies around him unconsciously made gurgling sounds, like a warning from a wild beast before hunting.
"Calm down, okay? There are so many zombies of yours. If one of them gets out of control, our entire base will be finished. Besides, the level of your zombies is enough to make people fear you," Ning Yuan said calmly.
"Let's wait and see." Qin Jin was in a bad mood, but thinking of his parents and children, he could only endure it temporarily.
When they arrived at the newly built base, they found that it was more like a besieged city than a base.
It was not the place surrounded by a wall as Qin Jin had imagined, but a whole downward abyss with cliffs on all sides with no visible bottom, like a natural cage.
Even though the zombies are powerful, it would be difficult to move them without relying on super powers.
"Do you think... I'm a criminal?" Qin Jin's voice was unnaturally cold, and even the look he gave Ning Yuan was unfriendly.
"Calm down, calm down." Ning Yuan was already overwhelmed by the current environment and didn't want to come over to deal with Qin Jin, but Zhuang Mingxu couldn't come out and Wu Yue was guarding the zombies imprisoned in the base, so he had to come forward. "Don't tell me that you zombies will not be affected by radiation. This is deep in the primitive mountains. It is not easy to create a place with low radiation."
"This place was built based on our base, but in a smaller area. The only difference is that our base is closer to the outside world, so there's no need to go straight up and down, but it's not possible here." Ning Yuan saw that Qin Jin's eyes were still suspicious, "Settlement it first, and you come back with me to discuss it. If you disagree, tell the higher-ups."
Qin Jin took Cheng Qi and a group of zombies to check the internal situation. Except for the towering walls outside, the inside was built like a human base. However, the outer walls alone still gave people a feeling of a cage, and Qin Jin still did not have a good impression.
Leaving Cheng Qi to settle the many zombies, he turned around and followed Ning Yuan towards the Yuebanwan base. During the journey, Ning Yuan asked a few questions about the outside world, but Qin Jin remained silent, and it was obvious that he was angry.
Ning Yuan said helplessly, "It seems that there are also Class A zombies among the zombies you brought, and I seem to have seen Class B among them."
Qin Jin glanced at him and said nothing.
"Have you seen what happens to low-level zombies after being exposed to radiation?"
Qin Jin paused and did not answer. He had certainly seen this before. He had a hard time traveling all the way, and when he returned to the Yueban Bay Island, the same situation had already occurred among those zombies who did not know how to think.
Qin Jin had never thought about building a base or country of his own before, but these zombies have been following him for a long time, and he himself is one of the zombies, which makes him feel a sense of empathy.
He personally dug out the crystal cores of those zombies, buried them, and then led the remaining zombies through mountains and rivers. The number of conscious zombies was already scarce, and their team was reduced from more than 50,000 people at the beginning to less than 10,000 when they finally arrived. He executed them every time with his own hands.
This kind of obsessive behavior made him remind himself all the way that he must keep the remaining people alive. This was the result he should get after coming all the way here.
However……
He saw a place that was like a prison, and they told him that this was where he would live in the future.
If Yin Jin and the others were no longer in the base at this moment, Qin Jin felt that he would immediately turn against them.
"The zombies in our base have been buried."
Qin Jin suddenly turned around and looked at him, "What do you mean?"
They rely on the remaining zombies to increase their bargaining chips. If the Yuebanwan base now says that it has given up the remaining zombies, it is very likely that their cooperation will not be able to continue.
"Some of them are too low level, and radiation has begun to appear inside the base, which has affected them. Moreover, the base may not be able to supply them with crystal cores in the next one or two years. After discussion, everyone decided to bury the low-level zombies who can't withstand the radiation in the mountains, and dig them out after the radiation is over."
Ning Yuan said this very calmly. This was the result of discussion among many of them.
"They don't need to breathe, but they need blood to supply energy."
"I know. There is a remaining passage entrance and someone is specially assigned to feed it." Ning Yuan said as he led his men to turn a corner. Qin Jin saw that this path was leading to the location of the zombies.
"Weather experts predict that the next solar storm may occur in late winter, at which time we may have to blockade the entire base and rely on our remaining supplies to survive the next few days until the radiation begins to decrease."
Ning Yuan looked at Qin Jin with sad eyes, "Qin Jin, we are in our last days. Whether we can survive this depends on God."
"As for the construction on your side, it was decided by Wu Yuemingxu and I. You will definitely encounter the situation we encountered in the future, so you dug out a mountain from the beginning. As for burying the zombies, it is your freedom."
As the two were talking, they had already arrived at the place where the zombies of Yueban Bay were being held. Qin Jin had been in charge of this place before, so he was naturally familiar with the surroundings. This place was similar to their new residence, with the same steep cliffs surrounding it, trapping all the zombies inside.
The zombies that once filled the room have disappeared, and the uncontrolled roars of zombies can no longer be heard around. It has become quiet.
The one guarding outside was Fang Tang, who was placed here after he made a mistake. He knew Qin Jin, and when he saw the two of them he greeted them enthusiastically. When he heard Ning Yuan say that he wanted to go in and take a look, he immediately led the way.
When Qin Jin entered, he saw that the place where people originally lived had turned into rows of metal tombs, like sliding drawers.
The staff in charge here was just about to open a corpse. The cold air sprayed out dissipated, revealing the appearance of the zombie inside. It was a young man with a catheter in his mouth and his eyes closed. He looked no different from a normal person.
He drew two large straws of fresh blood, connected them to the straw in the other person's mouth, squeezed the blood directly into his mouth, and then rinsed it with water. The whole process was like nasogastric feeding care for a critically ill patient.
After confirming that everything was correct, they placed another crystal core in each other's hands, then closed the door and opened the next one.
"They will be given a crystal core every four days and a tube of blood every two days to maintain basic activity, prevent death, and ensure that they can live a stable life for two years. If there is no improvement after two years..." Wu Yue's voice sounded from behind, "Then mankind will be extinct, and naturally there will be no energy to take care of them."
Wu Yue pointed to the detection equipment next to him that was open at any time and said, "That is a radiation detection equipment. The radiation here is lower than the value inside our base now. It is the same where you are now."
"This is just a suggestion from the base. The specific decision is still in your hands." Wu Yue seemed to know why he came, and his words hit Qin Jin's heart completely. After he finished speaking, he looked at Ning Yuan and said, "It's a good opportunity for you to reinforce the ice here for me. Other water-based mutants will not be durable enough."
Ning Yuan made an OK gesture and left with Wu Yue, not forgetting to remind Fang Tang, "Take Qin Jin around."
"Aren't they making noise?" Qin Jin felt that these zombies were strangely quiet.
"They were given a sleeping pill which was very effective," Fang Tang said frankly.
Qin Jin immediately knew what it was. He walked around for a few hours and when he came out, his anger had mostly disappeared. When he returned to the Yuebanwan base, after being teased by Qin Nian, he completely lost his temper, but he still wanted to let the zombie live on its own for a while before making a decision.
No one stopped him. He also talked about the situation in the outside world. Due to the increase in radiation, the gene fusion experiment was put into use directly after almost a year of testing, and the stage of exploratory implementation began. Humans who had fused with various creatures were often encountered in the outside world. Some of them succeeded, and their bodies were indeed improved to a great extent. Some failed, which directly accelerated their death.
Everyone who heard the news was completely shocked. "Such a large project has only been underway for less than a year, and they dare to launch it into the market?"
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