Chapter 95: The Humanoid Weapon
of the End of the World (End) The Southeast Base Commander's words, along with the combat achievements of the experimental subject army, spread throughout China, and everyone was amazed by the combat effectiveness of this army.
Relying on combat achievements, the experimental subjects paid off the contribution points they owed before, and those who performed outstandingly were awarded the rank of major.
Many bases with weaker strength sent telegrams, hoping that the experimental subject army could help them clean up the zombies, and all the consumption of the experimental subjects along the way was supplied by them.
Lu Fei pointed to one of the telegrams and said cheerfully, "This base commander surnamed He said before that the experimental subjects were useless and that investing so much manpower and material resources in them was a huge waste. But now, he still wants us to go over and help."
Yao Rong said, "You still remember it."
Isn't this a good memory? Why don't you ever use it on studying?
Lu Fei snorted.
He really holds a grudge.
Not only did he remember that this base commander He had mocked the experimental subjects, he also remembered that the expenses of the institute were shared by all bases, but this base commander He was particularly stingy. At first, he pinched his nose and gave a few small things, but later he simply pretended to have forgotten about it and hadn't sent any supplies to the institute for a long time.
"Killing zombies is killing no matter where we go. Our army will definitely give priority to helping those bases that are not particularly strong but have been silently supporting the institute."
Yao Rong smiled and said, "That's the truth."
He then asked them how long they would rest in the institute.
Talking about business, Lu Fei immediately put down his crossed legs: "Rest for a month, let them reunite with their families for a while, and then set off again."
Yao Rong said: "Version 6.0 of the gene stabilizer has been developed and can be injected into them at any time. This time, they can basically recover to whatever extent they can. Later, I will shift the focus of my work to other topics, and I won't keep an eye on the experimental subjects."
Genetic mutations are ultimately irreversible. All she can do is to alleviate their pain and make their conditions as stable as possible.
Lu Fei nodded, indicating that he understood.
He didn't want to talk about this heavy topic, so he talked to Yao Rong about the experimental subject's house and asked Yao Rong what she planned to study next.
Yao Rong replied: "I have communicated with them, and the next main direction is zombie vaccine."
In recent years, major research institutes have been studying zombie vaccines and exchanging ideas with each other from time to time.
Unfortunately, until now, the zombie vaccine is still just a concept.
But there is no doubt that if the zombie vaccine can be successfully developed, it will definitely have epoch-making significance.
It is normal for Yao Rong to choose this topic as a new research direction.
At the end of the month, Lu Fei led his teammates to set out on a mission again.
And Yao Rong also devoted herself to her experiments.
In the eighth year of the apocalypse, Fang Weijue fell seriously ill, and the burden of the Southwest Base gradually fell on Fang Shaoyuan.
In the ninth year of the apocalypse, Fang Weijue retired, and Fang Shaoyuan officially became the new base director.
With his outstanding military exploits, Lu Fei successfully crossed the threshold from the colonel level to the general level and became the youngest major general in the Southwest Base.
Many bases also saw the trend of the old and the new changing.
The older generation of leaders survived the most devastating moments of the end of the world and handed over a base that was gradually recovering to their successors.
But the power transfer in some bases was not so peaceful.
The Azure Base, which was at odds with the Southwest Base, was one of them.
The wife of the Azure Base Commander gave birth to two sons and a daughter for him, and he had several illegitimate children outside. While he was bedridden, his children fought to the death, but in the end no one succeeded. Instead, the deputy base commander received unanimous support from the people and took over the power.
As soon as the new base chief took office, he sorted out all the children of the former base chief, and then extended an olive branch to the Southwest Base, hoping to repair the relationship with the Southwest Base.
Fang Shaoyuan just didn't like the former base chief, and he had no ill feelings towards the new base chief and the Azure Base, so he naturally accepted the other party's goodwill.
In the tenth year of the apocalypse, Yao Rong and her team finally succeeded in breaking through the critical step of the zombie vaccine.
After clinical tests on animals, clinical tests on humans are still needed. It's
just that the vaccine carries a very small amount of zombie virus. As long as it is a drug trial, there will be certain risks, so it is not easy to find candidates for clinical tests.
However, Yao Rong already had the most suitable candidate in mind.
She kept Xiao Baigou to prolong his respiration just to use him at this time.
After nearly four years, Yao Rong and Xiao Bai met again.
However, Xiao Bai was now curled up in a corner of the cell, haggard, thin, and crazy, and no longer had any of his former charm.
The effect of the drug on him was terrible. He could no longer concentrate, could no longer think, and his memory continued to fade. He was in a daze all day long.
For a person who thinks highly of himself, it is an extremely terrible and desperate thing to watch his talent, which he relies on for a living and is proud of, being deprived.
The sudden onset of the white light was very dazzling, and Xiao Bai subconsciously raised his hand and covered his eyes with the back of his hand.
After his eyes adjusted to the light, he slowly moved his arm away and looked up at the person standing outside the cell.
His brain had indeed become very dull, and it took him a long time to recognize Yao Rong, who had not changed at all.
"Let me die."
This was the first sentence Xiao Bai said to Yao Rong.
A man like him who was so self-conceited and calculated everything in the world would not bother to live a cowardly life even if he fell to the bottom, but even his life and death were controlled by others.
Yao Rong looked down at Xiao Bai and asked, "Why should I satisfy you?"
"Because of my past achievements."
"Your past achievements have already brought you fame and fortune in the first half of your life."
Xiao Bai was silent for a long time, and suddenly sneered, "You come to see me for no reason. What do you want to do?"
Yao Rong leaned slightly, picked up the box carried by his assistant, and took out the vaccine from it: "I want you to try a medicine."
Xiao Bai frowned and stared at the vaccine: "What medicine is this."
"Zombie vaccine."
Xiao Bai was silent again.
She actually developed this thing.
When he was the director of the Central Research Institute, the head of the Central Base had repeatedly asked him to research this vaccine, but unfortunately, he tried countless times but failed.
"You want me to experience the pain your son has suffered, right?" Xiao Bai vaguely guessed her purpose.
Yao Rong had someone drag Xiao Bai out of the cell and tied him to the laboratory table.
She bent down slightly and personally injected the slightly cold vaccine that had just been taken out of the freezer into Xiao Bai's body: "You guessed right."
Xiao Bai did not struggle, and he had no way to struggle: "Using human bodies for experiments and taking the opportunity to settle personal grudges, Dr. Yao, how are you better than me?"
Yao Rong pulled out the needle and said frankly.
"First, you have been deprived of basic human rights by the law. Using you, a death row prisoner with heinous crimes, to test drugs is justifiable both morally and legally."
"Second, I am taking the opportunity to settle personal grudges, what can you do?"
She worked so hard to eliminate the Ninth Institute and expose Xiao Bai's true face. Did she really think she was completely justified?
Don't be kidding.
If Lu Fei had not been dragged into the Ninth Institute, she would still remind the base leaders to pay attention to Xiao Bai and the Ninth Institute, but that was all.
The matter of eradicating evil forces should of course be left to the base leaders to worry about. Why should she, a scientific researcher, get involved in everything?
But Lu Fei was a victim of the Ninth Institute, so the starting point for her to do all this was to vent his anger.
This starting point is not just at all, not great at all.
It is out of a mother's selfishness.
However, the data obtained from Xiao Bai is not perfect, and the concentration of this vaccine is still a bit high for use on humans.
That afternoon, Yao Rong was busy with her work when Fang Shaoyuan's secretary knocked on the door and walked in, asking her to meet Fang Shaoyuan.
It was only when she arrived at the conference room that she found that the other leaders of the Southwest Base were there, and the atmosphere in the room was very solemn.
It looks like something big has happened.
Yao Rong pursed her lips, found her seat and sat down, also remaining silent.
After waiting for a while, Fang Shaoyuan spoke: "Since everyone is here, let's start today's meeting."
Since the beginning of the year, the struggle between humans and zombies has fallen into a stalemate.
Lu Fei still led the experimental army through the zombie cities, but found that the number of zombies in these cities had decreased.
At first, Lu Fei and the others were still happy, but when they noticed that there were zombies moving on a large scale, they keenly sensed that something was wrong.
Zombies will not move on a large scale.
They often fight on their own.
Unless they receive a unified order from the Zombie King.
"After receiving the news from Major General Lu Fei, I immediately sent someone to invite you here."
Fang Shaoyuan's expression was particularly solemn: "Since the Zombie King who besieged the Dawn Base was killed by Major General Lu Fei, the major bases have never encountered the Zombie King again. This is of course a happy thing, but according to the law of zombie evolution, the number of Zombie Kings should be increasing."
"In the past few years, there have been no Zombie Kings appearing, which does not mean that the Zombie King has not evolved from the zombie group, but it is very likely that they are consciously avoiding human bases."
"A fully evolved Zombie King may even have an IQ no lower than that of humans. So I have reason to suspect that these Zombie Kings have cooperated. This large-scale movement of zombies may not be an isolated case." Two
days later, Lu Fei sent back new news.
As Fang Shaoyuan guessed, Lu Fei and his team found traces of large-scale movement of zombies in several cities.
It's just that the final destination of these zombies has not yet been discovered.
"Notify all bases."
Yao Rong made a pessimistic but highly likely prediction.
"The first major showdown between humans and zombies may be about to begin."
After receiving the news, all bases immediately sent out a large number of psychic teams to investigate.
But before these teams could find out the clues, they received the news that the five zombie kings led hundreds of thousands of zombies to besiege the Hope Base. They
only held out for less than two days before the Hope Base was in danger.
One army after another joined the ranks to fight against the zombie tide, but they were like a mantis trying to stop a chariot or an ant trying to shake a tree, and were eventually swallowed up by the zombie tide that covered the sky and the sun. Second
lieutenants, first lieutenants...
majors, lieutenant colonels...
and then generals.
Finally, the commander of the Hope Base personally went to the front line to command and died heroically.
The underground defense weapons inside the base were destroyed by zombie earthworms.
The air-raid shelters used to evacuate ordinary people were in danger and could collapse at any time.
If one air-raid shelter collapses, it means the death of thousands or even tens of thousands of people.
In the air-raid shelter, no one dared to make a sound. The crying babies were covered by their crying parents. However, the zombies still sensed their presence and rammed the air-raid shelter frantically, causing dust to fly.
The army responsible for guarding the air-raid shelter kept sending out distress signals.
But none of the signals could get a response from the base headquarters.
The base headquarters had already fallen before them.
After another collision, the air-raid shelter was finally broken.
Smelling the breath of so many living people, the zombies' attack became more and more fierce.
The cracks in the air-raid shelter gradually expanded, and the people hiding in the air-raid shelter looked up and could see the huge bodies of zombie earthworms wriggling constantly.
"What should I do..."
A young soldier clenched his weapon tightly, even though he knew it was futile.
The people around him could not give him an answer.
The power of an individual always seems particularly small in the face of such a disaster.
But -
In the end, there was only one person standing in front of all of them.
A girl with elk horns, wearing the blue military uniform of the Southwest Base, and covered in dust.
The same scene was played out in the air-raid shelters of all sizes in the Hope Base.
Outside the air-raid shelters, the five zombie kings were blocked by Lu Fei alone.
He stood there.
It was as if a ditch between life and death was drawn, becoming an insurmountable line for the five zombie kings.
He stood there.
It was as if he stood in everyone's heart.
The roar of the zombies never stopped throughout the night, but the crying of humans finally stopped.
Countless people raised their heads and stared at the young backs.
When the defense line of the Hope Base collapsed completely, they became the last line of defense of the Hope Base.
Aliens, alien species, high risk...does all this still matter?
Yes, it is not important anymore.
Just as Lu Fei promised to all the people in the radio, he and his teammates always stood in the front line against the zombies, standing in front of all the people, fighting bloody battles, not retreating a step, until the zombies were completely repelled, or they died.
They bought the most critical time for the people of Hope Base.
The reinforcements finally arrived, while transferring the surviving people, they cooperated with Lu Fei and blew the horn of counterattack.
In the end, the five zombie kings and hundreds of thousands of zombies were all left on the land of Hope Base.
The first decisive battle between humans and zombies ended with the victory of humans.
But for this victory, the lives of many people were forever frozen.
In the past few years, 331 experimental subjects have experienced a total of 19 military operations of all sizes, without any casualties. However, after this battle, 96 experimental subjects returned to the Southwest Base and were buried in the deepest part of the Sunflower Sea, sleeping freely on the hillside.
Experimental subjects?
No.
No one calls them that now.
Compared with the name of experimental subjects, people prefer to call them: new humans.
- They are the new future of mankind.