Chapter 853 Melting
After the farewell, the intensive transfer began immediately, and in the chaos, the scientific researchers took the opportunity to leave the team.
After receiving the news, Lu Weiyi conducted a symbolic search and then turned his attention back to the transfer of personnel.
With Qin Jin present, the transfer of the remaining personnel did not encounter any trouble. The zombie army led by him also entered the island as soon as possible, leaving no opportunity for anyone with ulterior motives to enter the island.
By the time Lu Weiyi sent everyone away, it was almost dawn.
The originally bustling island seemed a little deserted due to the departure of people, and the entire island of Yueban Bay had been occupied by zombies.
The huge little monkey occupied one side, facing the direction of the zombies like a guard, waving his fists to warn from time to time.
Wu Yue, Xu Sa and a few others stayed behind and made a BBQ for a midnight snack.
The night breeze was blowing gently, and facing the clear moonlight, a few people sat casually on the beach and chatted. Wu Yue was obviously affected by what happened in the afternoon meeting. Even without any snacks, he could still drink one glass after another.
A major turning point was completed, and everyone around was very happy. Seeing that Lu Weiyi didn't drink a drop of alcohol, Xu Sa couldn't help but sing a little. The off-tune singing echoed on the beach, startling a burst of zombie roars. The few people who were drunk thought it was a unique echo and sang more vigorously.
"The people in your base are very lively," Qin Jin commented, weighing the wine bottle in his hand and waving it at Lu Weiyi.
Lu Weiyi shook his head and looked at the juice in his hand and said, "No, it will burn my throat."
"Haha, kid." Qin Jin didn't care. Seeing someone coming over to clink glasses with him, he knocked the wine bottle over directly, making a bang sound with an inexplicable sense of boldness.
Even as the people around him howled like wolves and ghosts, Lu Weiyi was still able to drink juice calmly. He even took the time to look at a document and asked about Zhuang Mingxu's health.
Knowing that he was no longer vomiting and was feeling much better, I felt much more relieved.
"Has your research institute ever studied whether today's radiation will have an impact on zombies?" Qin Jin suddenly asked.
Lu Weiyi was stunned for a moment and shook his head, "Really not."
Qin Jin drank the white wine slowly, which looked like boiled water. Lu Weiyi didn't know whether he had a sense of taste, but he felt it was a waste unconsciously. He said, "Do you think there will be a day when the zombies can't stand such radiation and disappear completely?"
"What did you find?" Lu Weiyi felt that he would not say this for no reason.
Qin Jin was silent, as if he was considering whether to speak or not. After a while, he lowered his voice and said, "I found that the rotten flesh on the low-level zombies began to fall off."
Lu Weiyi hadn't seen zombies of a very low level for a long time. It took him a while to recall that the zombies that were first formed were of a very low level. The rotten flesh on their bodies was as sticky as rotten fat and emitted a foul odor. At that time, there were too many low-level zombies in the city, and the entire city was often filled with a strong stench.
"The rotten flesh on low-level zombies will fall off naturally, right?"
"It's not the kind of natural shedding." The muscles and skin of low-level zombies are initially necrotic and will fall to the ground if touched. This is a normal situation, but...
Qin Jin thought about what he saw and described it as best he could: "It's the skin that has been exposed to the elements for a long time, and has become a kind of melted state even without any bumps on the body."
Thinking of that scene, Qin Jin unconsciously clenched his hands together, and Lu Weiyi sensitively noticed that he seemed to be nervous.
"When I was still in the military, Mingxu and I once went on a mission to the moon. At that time, there was a nuclear leak. It was a nuclear fusion reaction caused by improper operation of the nuclear plant staff, which also caused them who were closest to it to suffer strong nuclear radiation."
"The hospital we sneaked into happened to be able to see the changes in their bodies. The staff member at first didn't care. Even though the machine had detected that his body had been exposed to more than ten thousand times the radiation intensity, he himself didn't feel anything abnormal. Then the chromosomes in his body changed, causing his cells to no longer grow, and soon his immune system changed."
"The organs in his body kept deteriorating. Over a two-month period, fluid began to seep out of his body and his skin began to dissolve. It's the kind that falls off layer by layer when you touch it. Can you imagine?" Qin Jin turned to look at Lu Weiyi, his eyes filled with panic and paranoia.
After finding that Lu Weiyi did not react, he laughed and said, "I forgot that you are a human being. Even if you knew that the zombies had encountered such a situation, you would probably feel happy."
Lu Weiyi, who had been listening to him carefully and imagining the scene, was immediately disgusted by his words. Even though he knew he might not mean it, he still couldn't help but pour the juice cup in his hand over his head.
Qin Jin's eyes suddenly turned bloodshot, as if he was extremely angry. His teeth showed two canine teeth like a wild beast, and faint flames began to appear around him. Different from the color of all the flames Lu Weiyi had seen, the flames on his body were dark and trembling. The flames emerged from his body. No heat could be felt, but they carried a more dangerous aura.
Lu Weiyi didn't know if he was like this or it was a characteristic of zombies, but it didn't stop him from turning hostile. Meeting Qin Jin's eyes, he said in a cold and steady voice, "Say it again."
The superpowers around him also began to spread, but considering that there were other people with superpowers around him, he did not completely suppress them around him, but only towards the person in front of him.
Neither of them attacked the other, and people around them immediately noticed something was wrong. Even though Qin Jin was the only zombie at this time, no one immediately stood by Lu Weiyi to protect him. Instead, they clamored and asked what was going on.
The one who reacted most violently was the little monkey. The mutant monkey, which had been holding on to the wine bottle, jumped up flexibly when Qin Jin's aura changed, and was immediately ready to attack Qin Jin. Fortunately, Lu Weiyi reacted quickly and stopped it.
Lu Weiyi has never been one to suffer a loss. He looked at Qin Jin with his chin held high, and after Qin Jin responded that it was okay, he looked at Wu Yue and said, "He is bullying the weak."
"..."Wu Yue.
Wu Yue, who was already a little drunk, took a long time to react, and then said slowly, "We, we are old, so we should give way to the children."
"That's right." Xu Sa said with a big tongue and slapped Qin Jin on the shoulder. With a snapping sound, he staggered and said in a rude tone, "You are so ungrateful. Lu Xiaoyi was exhausted to save your son the other day..."
"Eh?" Lu Weiyi hurried to stop him, but unexpectedly Qin Jin reacted faster and pulled Xu Sa to ask, "What did you say? What happened to my son?"
"Qin Nian was nearly killed by the energy shock. He exhausted his supernatural powers for a day and a night to save his life." Xu Sa slapped him on the shoulder again in dissatisfaction. Lu Weiyi was worried that Qin Jin would bite him on the neck out of dissatisfaction. Then he saw Xu Sa turn around and reach out to him. Before he could prepare, she pulled off the wig on his head, revealing a shiny little bald head under the moonlight.
Lu Weiyi tried hard to hide his appearance so as not to be laughed at or questioned, but he just appeared in front of everyone in such a shameless manner. Several people who had no idea about the situation looked at him in surprise.
"Captain, your new hairstyle is quite unique."
"Haha, it's still glowing?"
"This head is so round, without a single wrinkle."
Amidst the crowd's laughter, there was even someone who was not afraid of death and wanted to come up and take a look. Lu Weiyi gritted his teeth and pushed the person down on the beach. With his other hand, he directly pulled Xu Sa over and said, "Eat yours. You are the only one who has hands!"
He really wanted to give this guy a good beating who always showed off by claiming to be his best friend.
But Xu Sa was unaware of this. He laughed out loud and coaxed him very "kindly", "It's okay, Lu Xiaoyi. Even if you are a little bald head, you are the most handsome bald head in our team."
"That's because I'm the only bald guy in the team." Even though most of the other guys had buzz cuts, at least some had hair. He was the only one who was completely burned.
"The base commander is angry. Come here and shave your heads bald." Xu Sa said with a stern face. He took out a scimitar from his waist and was about to walk towards the others, as if he was going to shave everyone's heads. He was still brainwashing the others, "We should share the good times and the bad times. Of course, we can't miss out on the bald heads."
"Come on, let's do it together..." Someone responded, and even dared to move forward. Fortunately, Xu Sa knew that he had drunk too much, so he knew his own limitations and didn't do it himself. Then -
He found a zombie to help.
Cheng Qi looked at the scimitar in his hand with a confused look on his face. Lu Weiyi was worried that he might accidentally get hurt and infect his men into zombies.
"They were drunk and were just joking."
"It's okay, Cheng Qi, go shave. If something happens, you won't live anymore." Qin Jin pulled Lu Weiyi over and put the wig that Xu Sa had pulled off back into Lu Weiyi's hands. He asked solemnly, "He just said Nian Nian..."
Lu Weiyi didn't want to say much, especially since Qin Jin seemed to have some affection for the child, but he felt that it didn't seem like there was much.
But when asked at this time, there was nothing to hide. "Something happened at the base. Aiyi took Taotao and Qin Nian to escape. They went to a place they shouldn't have gone. That's where I usually use to improve my superpowers. The energy there was too much for him, so he absorbed too much energy."
Even zombies rely on absorbing energy to increase their levels, so he was naturally aware of the possible consequences of too much energy. His face changed immediately, "He...he..."
"It's okay now, there are just some scars left on the body. When the healing experts are too busy in a while, I'll let them repair it. It's not a big problem."
"That's good, that's good," Qin Jin repeated in a low voice and remained silent for a long time.
Both of them were silent for a while. After a while, Qin Jin suddenly spoke, "When I was infected with zombie energy, I already knew that Ajin was pregnant. My consciousness was being infected by the zombie energy at that time. Zhuang Mobai probably let me have a wish before I died for Mingxu's sake. He said he would let the child survive."
"Coming back to find them became my obsession. At that time, I forgot a lot, and even didn't remember what to do when I returned. But I knew I had to go back and someone was waiting for me."
"When my consciousness was scattered, I went to many places, stayed in the place where I was on a business trip in the end of the world, found a company, and even returned to the army. During this period... it was not that easy."
As a conscious zombie, Qin Jin would not have it so smooth sailing among the zombies. In the eyes of outsiders, zombies do not interfere with each other, but in fact, any zombie with a little consciousness knows that they need to upgrade. They will plunder crystal cores as much as possible and eliminate zombies that threaten their position.
That is a true society where the strong prey on the weak. Qin Jin doesn't want to let go of his human memories, so he can only climb up little by little with those fragmented memories. These memories sometimes make him sober, and sometimes make him more confused.
He may be working hard for this place at this moment, but will give up because of forgetfulness the next moment. He has done countless useless efforts before he got to where he is today.
Even though there are more zombies than humans nowadays, there is still an essential difference between the walking dead and truly conscious beings. Qin Jin still feels that he is in a weak position. It has not been easy for him to get to where he is today, which makes him even more frightened by the things he cannot solve.
Lu Weiyi immediately understood his unspoken meaning and apologized for what he had just said.
As a person with a similar personality to Zhuang Mingxu, neither of them would express their suffering openly. Lu Weiyi didn't let him say the rest of the words and took the initiative to change the subject, "If radiation has an impact on zombies, I think there is indeed such a possibility."
Qin Jin turned his head to look over, and heard Lu Weiyi continue, "Previously, researchers conducted statistics on a series of diseases that occurred in ordinary people after being exposed to radiation. Most of them were changes at the cellular level in the body, causing a series of organ diseases."
"The tolerance of low-level zombies should be the same as that of ordinary people. They have not undergone energy transformation of their bodies, but high-level zombies should have a certain tolerance." He glanced at Qin Jin, and for the sake of cute Nian Nian, he took out a physical examination form from the space and handed it to him, "This is the physical examination I did a few days ago, and it shows that radiation has no effect on me at all."
"Not only me, but all the SS-level people in the team have not been affected at all. I haven't seen anything about those below, so I'm not sure."
So the other party's worries are completely unnecessary.
At least for a short time,
"As for the future, when the day comes that we can't live anymore, there will definitely be no one else alive in the world." Lu Weiyi spread his hands and said calmly, "Then let's all die together."
"..." Qin Jin.
Qin Jin wanted to struggle again, "Don't you want to keep trying?"
"I have tried my best. It is not easy for me, an autistic person, to get to where I am today," Lu Weiyi argued. "Besides, Zhuang Mingxu has not left anyone idle in the base. He is also looking for a way out. We have all tried our best. If this still doesn't work..."
"I think dying together is also a perfect ending." This time, Lu Weiyi felt that he had no regrets.
Well, very satisfactory.
Lu Weiyi nodded seriously, reaffirming his idea, leaving Qin Jin with nowhere to vent his resentment.
He waved his hands at Lu Weiyi and exhaled deeply in anger, which made Lu Weiyi chuckle, "If you are worried, I will ask Zhuang Mingxu to transfer a few researchers to take a look at the impact of radiation on zombies."
"...Is it convenient?" Qin Jin has someone in this field.
"It's just a matter of convenience. There's not much difference physiologically anyway."
"Okay, thank you very much."
While the two were talking, Cheng Qi had already shaved the hair of several people. They were touching each other's heads and laughing at each other, while Wu Yue, who was already drunk, was lying on the beach with a shell between his fingers, laughing.
"Are you okay? Do you need me to take you back now?" Lu Weiyi leaned forward and asked.
Wu Yue stared at him with his distracted eyes for a long time before he recognized who he was. He shook his head slowly, and his newly shaved scalp could be seen covered with sand. "Here... is good... I... I like it here."
"Is he in a bad mood?" Qin Jin saw through Wu Yue's hidden emotions at a glance.
"It should be." Lu Weiyi raised his foot and kicked a mutant crab that had crawled up into the sea. He looked at the vast sea and talked about Laoshan.
"My upgrade situation was very bad at that time. We were besieged by other bases and attacked by an SS-level mutant giant snake. They were almost wiped out there. Wu Yue was only one step away from upgrading, but the hurricanes for the entire winter left them no time to go out hunting zombies, and they didn't have enough crystal cores."
"The situation at that time was that even if I woke up, I might not be a match for the mutant giant snake due to my long period of coma and weak body. He...he ate his comrade's crystal core in desperation and upgraded passively."
The moment Lu Weiyi saw what was going on, he asked Zhao Gang who was present about the situation. He then gathered together the people whose crystal cores he had dug out, making sure that no one would know about it. However, the news could not be concealed, especially when he clearly saw that the energy in Wu Yue's body was obviously different from that of the other members of the team.
When he knew that Wu Yue might need to control his supernatural powers and not upgrade them in the future, every time Wu Yue rushed forward desperately and wished he would die, he was reminding Lu Weiyi of what had happened.
Lu Weiyi is different from him. He does not have a strong sense of morality. He does not do things simply because he has other options. But Wu Yue is not like that. He is a person with a spirit of dedication and moral bottom line carefully cultivated by the country. He cannot accept himself doing such a thing, especially when those people are his comrades-in-arms.
"In the afternoon, there was a person present who had taken a superpower crystal core. I warned him of the possible consequences, but Wu Yue didn't show any reaction. Now let's see..."
He still felt a little bothered in his heart.
Lu Weiyi didn't say this, but Qin Jin already understood. He looked down at Wu Yue who was still lying on the beach looking silly, "Only he can come to terms with this kind of thing, no one can persuade him."
"Don't think too much about it. We have already accepted all possible consequences from the moment we made the choice. He just needs time to digest it. Don't pay too much attention to it."
As time went by, the drunk people on the beach gradually calmed down. Lu Weiyi had to set off for home the next day and could not stay up late, but he was still worried about leaving them to Qin Jin, especially those unyielding zombies under his command. In the end, he could only leave them all to the little monkey and returned to the space to rest.
The next morning, when Lu Weiyi left the space, the drunkards had already woken up. They were confused by their sudden bald heads and asked each other who had done this. Lu Weiyi, who put on his wig again, had returned to his usual appearance.
He had no intention of joining in the reminder. He took the breakfast provided by Qin Jin and sat elegantly in the main seat. The others were noisy but it did not delay their breakfast at all. He even had the mood to praise the breakfast cooked in the pile of zombies for being quite delicious.
After finishing the meal, Lu Weiyi stretched and looked at the rest of the people. Before he could open his mouth, he heard Wu Yue say, "I'll go back with you."
"No……"
"Have you learned to identify directions?"
This sentence blocked Lu Weiyi's words of refusal. He really wanted to have some backbone, but it was not easy to manually adjust the magnetic field correction instrument, not to mention that it would change every day. In Lu Weiyi's opinion, their results were more like a guess.
Wu Yue looked at Xu Sa and his group, "You guys go back, our special powers are enough. With the little monkey and the magnetic field corrector this time, it should be much faster."
"Are you going to take the monkey back?" Qin Jin frowned in disapproval.
"I asked the zombies to find out, and there is indeed a hurricane belt over there. Take him with you..." He really didn't know. Lu Weiyi could rely on his mental power Phoenix to pass through the sky, but taking such a huge creature with him would undoubtedly increase the difficulty.
"Take it with you. All its tribesmen are dead, and it has been captured in a laboratory. It doesn't have any special powers. If it is left outside, we don't know the intensity of the radiation. Who knows what might happen to it." Lu Weiyi stood in front of the little monkey. He was not even as tall as its arm. He reached out and touched its prickly hair. "Follow me back. At least I can protect it for a while when the radiation intensifies."
Thinking of the current situation of their base, Lu Weiyi laughed again, "Our base now has an SSS-level mutant peacock, a mutant tiger, three mutant wolves, a mutant bat king and a mutant leopard, haha... not one more..."
Qin Jin, "...".
Sounds like a zoo.
"Then I'll take you back," Lu Weiyi said, still looking at Xu Sa, "Zhuang Mingxu has just recovered from his injury, you guys can share the burden."
"Don't worry, I will."
"Have a safe trip, Base Commander. We're waiting for your return."
Several people said goodbye and walked towards the space passage. When they were about to meet, Qin Jin suddenly said, "Wu Yue, you go back with them. I will send Lu Weiyi back."
"You're going over there?" Wu Yue was surprised, and the others also looked over.
"Yes, I..." Qin Jin pursed his lips, "Lu Weiyi said he would help me research something, so I went over to identify the place in case I can't find it later."
Wu Yue looked at him with suspicion, and Qin Jin felt as if he was seen through, but he still covered it up and said, "Besides, SSS-level psychics can travel faster, and you will be a burden if you follow them."
He had the word "waste" written all over his face. If he couldn't beat them, Lu Weiyi suspected that these people would definitely say something back at him.
"Okay, but we might need an earth-type mutant to cross the hurricane belt. You..."
"...I have a way." Qin Jin did not explain any further. Instead, he looked at Wu Yue expressionlessly and urged him, "Mingxu is injured. Go back and help him quickly. I promise to send him back safely."
Wu Yue laughed and said, "Then I'll leave it to you."
After saying this, the few of them did not hesitate any longer and followed Lu Weiyi into the space channel.
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