Chapter 76 Hatching Little Zombies 18 Saving All Humanity
076 Hatching Little Zombie 18
The little dinosaur has hatched!
The baby of the eldest brother and the Tyrannosaurus Rex was born successfully!!
Everyone almost cried with joy.
The ruins area collapsed into ruins, the ground was in a mess, and almost everyone was covered in dust and dirt. But no one cared at the moment. They excitedly took turns hugging the fat boy.
"It's real, it's a real baby!"
"Hahaha, can it be fake?"
"I haven't seen a child in years. I can't believe it. And this is the eldest brother's child. Damn, I'm going to cry..."
"This kid is quite fat!"
"You know what, it really has the charm of Lu Jiu and the boss!"
Amidst the laughter and joy, Lu Jiu was helped up.
"How do you feel?"
Lu Jiu's ears moved, and he turned his head to meet He Lin's eyes that were fixed on him.
"……fine."
He thought back to the moment he woke up.
The cement stones were about to fall, and the man turned around without hesitation and used his body to protect himself and Lu Chenxi... However, even the strongest body could not withstand such an impact.
If you bump into... this man, you will really die.
Lu Jiu said softly: "I'm just a little... scared."
Maybe not scared.
But a little bit, stunned.
This man remained extremely calm at the moment before death, and did not hesitate to protect himself.
For that moment, he thought he was going to lose this man, and his mind went blank.
Hearing this, He Lin stared at him quietly for a while, raised his hand, pulled him over and into his arms.
There was no saying, just a hug to tell him that they were all here at the moment.
They are all fine.
*
The joy here didn't last long, as the base ten kilometers away called and said: Something happened.
The earthquake destroyed many buildings in the base.
Zombies came in from outside and bit many people, including Zheng Yu and several of his subordinates who escaped from the prison during the chaos.
Hearing this, everyone put away their festive expressions, immediately packed up their things, got in the car, and started their journey back home.
After the earthquake, the way back became extremely difficult.
Along the original route, some buildings collapsed, blocking the road, and ground cracks appeared in some places.
They could only drive around and around, and the journey that was supposed to take more than 20 minutes ended up taking more than an hour.
"Ah," Jiang Wen sighed as he drove and looked at the scenery along the road, "The last time I experienced an earthquake was five years ago... At that time, you could still occasionally see people in the city."
Now, there is not a single one to be seen.
When we returned to the base, someone was already urgently repairing the collapsed base wall - if it wasn't repaired first, more zombies would run into the base.
There were many people gathered in the square, and the air was filled with crying and groaning.
The doctor at the base walked among the crowd, with a heavy expression on his face, separating those who were bitten by zombies and those who were injured by the collapsed buildings.
There were a few zombies with their heads shot out lying scattered on the ground, but no one had time to deal with their bodies yet.
There is something more urgent happening at this base right now——
At the back of the square, a group of people formed a semi-arc circle.
Xu Lin and his subordinates stood in the encirclement, pointing their guns at the "center" of the semi-arc - Zheng Yu and his subordinates.
Zheng Yu was holding a girl hostage, half of his face was covered in blood, and his subordinates were either injured in the shoulder or the leg.
And the skin where they were exposed turned blue-gray.
They are becoming zombified.
Zheng Yu shouted frantically: "Give us the antidote! I know you have the antidote. I heard you guys discussing this for a while! If you don't bring the antidote, I will kill her!"
The girl's eyes were red as she was pushed and pulled over by Zheng Yu. One could tell from her eyes that she was very scared, but she clenched her teeth and did not let her crying and screaming become a stimulant for this man.
Noticing that He Lin and the others had returned, Xu Lin said apologetically: "It's all my fault!"
In fact, He Lin originally wanted to execute Zheng Yu and his group directly.
It was Xu Lin who kept Zheng Yu because he thought about the past years and how they had shared the good and bad times together.
Xu Lin didn't intend to let Zheng Yu go just like that. His idea was that the base had to do various researches anyway, and the research always needed people to participate in the experiments, so why not use Zheng Yu?
Even if it doesn't mean that his merits can offset his mistakes, it's better than letting him die directly.
As a result, before he could be of any use, the earthquake struck.
He Lin asked Lu Jiu, He Ying and Jiang Wen to go to the back first to put Lu Chenxi down.
Lu Jiu glanced at the place, whispered "be careful", and left with Lu Chenxi in his arms - after getting off the car, he wrapped Lu Chenxi tightly in a blanket.
Others could only see that he was holding a very large thing, but the environment where no newborns had been born for many years had made them lose the keen ability to immediately recognize that it was a child.
After they left, He Lin walked over.
He stood beside Xu Lin, his dark grey eyes glanced at the three subordinates beside Zheng Yu, and asked, "Only three left?"
Xu Lin: "Yes, two have already escaped."
Zheng Yu had five subordinates who were arrested and imprisoned.
On the other side, Zheng Yuyi felt a little scared when he met He Lin.
But in a flash, he remembered that he had a hostage in his hands. The initiative was in his hands, and his eyes became fierce: "I will give you five minutes, you must bring the antidote to me! If I don't get the antidote in five minutes, this woman will be dead!"
As his voice spread, those people in front of the square who had also been bitten by zombies cast gloomy glances at him.
He Lin's face was calm. He said to Zhang Mu, "Go and call Dr. Li out."
Zhang Mu was stunned, but didn't ask any questions and just took the order and left.
When Zheng Yu heard He Lin's words, a look of joy immediately appeared on his face.
After a while, Dr. Li appeared here hurriedly.
He Lin asked: "How much of the antidote has been made?"
Dr. Li said: "Currently there is only 5 ml, which is only enough for one person. It is too difficult to extract!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the atmosphere in the square froze for a moment.
He Lin looked at Zheng Yu, whose breathing had obviously become rapid, and said slowly: "I can give you the antidote."
"But there are four of you in total, can you handle it?"
The next second, Zheng Yu suddenly jumped up——
He held the girl's neck with one hand and grabbed the neck of a subordinate beside him with the other hand, and twisted it off before the other party could react!
He threw the corpse at the other two subordinates who had not yet reacted, knocking them to the ground, then flew over and stomped hard on their heads!
His face turned purple, veins bulged on his neck, and he looked like a devil crawling out of hell.
In just a few seconds, the two subordinates lost their voice under his feet.
Zheng Yu was panting and looked up at He Lin - from beginning to end, this man had been watching coldly.
Zheng Yu stretched out his hand and shouted, "Throw the antidote over here, throw it over to me!"
He Lin raised his chin to Dr. Li.
Dr. Li sighed and threw the antidote over as if in compromise.
A slender syringe drew an arc in the air, and the transparent liquid vibrated in the syringe.
At this moment, countless eyes followed it silently.
Until it fell steadily into Zheng Yu's hands.
Zheng Yu's hands were shaking.
He was shaking with excitement, pulling off the needle cap and saying, "You better not lie to me. If it's filled with saline, I'll strangle this woman to death right now!"
Dr. Li smiled strangely and said, "Didn't you think that it might contain poison?"
Zheng Yu froze, then suddenly looked up and stared at him.
Dr. Li spread his hands: "I'm just kidding."
Zheng Yu stared at him sinisterly: "...If it's poison, I will bite your throat before it kills me completely!"
Dr. Li: "Please, stop scaring me. You can tell if it is the antidote by trying it."
Zheng Yu still stared at him, as if trying to tell from his expression whether what he said was true or false.
However, Dr. Li's expression couldn't be more genuine.
Zheng Yu's chest rose and fell violently.
Under all kinds of gazes, he gritted his teeth, gripped the syringe tightly, took a deep breath, and stabbed his arm hard!
He pressed the push rod, and the 5 ml of liquid was pushed out instantly.
——
Click.
The syringe fell to the ground.
Zheng Yu gasped and looked down at his body.
Xu Lin looked at He Lin who was standing beside him with a calm face, then turned his head to look at the people in the base who were staring at this place silently, then turned back and looked at Zheng Yu.
Zheng Yu's expression kept changing, doubt, nervousness, anxiety, hesitation, surprise...
After a while.
"It's changing! My body is changing!" Zheng Yu shouted, "It really is the antidote, it really is the antidote!"
The wounds on his face were healing at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the blue-black color was fading away - his zombie transformation was reversed!
At this moment, the square was very quiet.
Countless people stared at this scene indifferently, without saying a word.
Only Zheng Yu's wild laughter echoed under the sky.
"Hahahaha, sure, He Lin, you can do it!"
"If other bases knew the existence of this antidote, they would go crazy!"
“He Lin, your death is approaching, and they will come to your door. Hahahaha, hahahahaha—ah—ah—my face, my eyes!”
Zheng Yu's laughter suddenly turned into a shrill wail.
Xu Lin took a closer look, his face filled with horror.
After the injured half of Zheng Yu's face returned to its healthy flesh color, it quickly shrank and shrank.
It was as if the muscles inside disappeared in an instant, and his skin was directly wrapped around the bones, giving him a skeleton-like appearance.
The light in the eye on that half of the face was rapidly fading, and the pupil had turned gray, as if it could no longer see.
Zheng Yu let go of the girl and touched his face in horror.
The girl quickly ran away, but was pulled over by Zhao Lushan and others and blocked behind them.
"What's going on! What happened to my face? I can't see with my eyes!"
Zheng Yu stumbled and turned in circles.
"Ah - it hurts - my eyes hurt -"
He Lin suddenly asked: "Did you see it clearly?"
Everyone was still stunned.
Dr. Li sighed: "Now that I have seen it clearly, there are still flaws."
He Lin pulled out a gun from his waist and pointed it at Zheng Yu.
Zheng Yu was still wailing and screaming, holding his face. His eyes accidentally met the black muzzle of the gun, and his whole body froze instantly.
He opened his mouth grimly.
The next second, a bullet hit his forehead, went through the back of his head, and along with splattered blood, shot straight into the ground behind him.
“……” Zheng Yu froze at this moment.
In dead silence, he fell backwards with a bang.
*
Xu Lin came back to his senses and said in astonishment: "The antidote failed?!"
Just now, Dr. Li and He Lin clearly used Zheng Yu as the first experimental subject of this antidote, and this antidote had extremely strange side effects!
Dr. Li came over and picked up the empty syringe that Zheng Yu had thrown on the ground.
"Well, how should I put it... the problem is there, but do you think this antidote can be used? Anyway, it was successful in reversing the zombie transformation, as you have seen, but it is likely to cause such disability."
This is the version made with Lu Jiu's saliva sample.
This version of the game would have such a situation, and it would have been the same even if Lu Jiu had gone into battle himself to "treat the wounds" - obviously, his saliva could not 100% heal the wounds caused by zombies in all circumstances.
He Lin was really lucky that time.
Xu Lin got the idea and asked, "Is this side effect within your expectations?"
"It has been observed in mice before, and we have improved it..." Dr. Li raised his head, "Oh, by the way, we lied to him by only extracting one antidote. We have already produced more than 200 copies. He Lin knows about this. We originally planned to produce a part of it first and then conduct experiments on a large scale..."
In the square behind, someone immediately rushed forward and cried out in tears: "I want to use the antidote. I don't care about the side effects. As long as I can survive, I can be the second test subject!"
The others also reacted.
"Me too, I don't care, I want to use the antidote!"
"Yeah, anything is fine as long as I don't turn into a zombie!"
"Me too!"
"I want one too!"
Shouts rang out one after another and everyone was very excited.
They knew very well that they had no time to wait, the zombification would be complete within twenty-four hours, and if they did not inject the antidote, they would die soon!
Dr. Li sighed again.
If it weren't for the earthquake, they wouldn't have to bring the antidote so quickly.
But thinking from another perspective, it is also a kind of luck. At least at this special moment, the imperfect medicine they developed can temporarily save these people's lives.
"Okay, let's give them to everyone first, and we'll study the side effects later," he joked, "But you guys are very patient. Just now when I was acting, I was thinking about what would happen if you got angry."
After all, there is only one antidote, and it has to be given to that kind of scum. It's so frustrating no matter how you think about it.
Someone immediately said, "We know that the boss must have a plan in mind. How could he let someone like Zheng Yu get away with it?"
"That's right, we just need to cooperate quietly. That's what everyone has been doing all along!"
"Yes, we believe in Xiao He!"
"That's it!"
Hearing these words, Dr. Li was a little surprised.
These people's trust in He Lin has reached this extent?
He couldn't help but look at the man beside him.
...In this environment of the end times, it is able to allow so many people to maintain such a pure state of mind, not being contaminated by the dark side of human nature, and it allows everyone to work together and be of one mind.
This man is truly amazing.
*
Half an hour later, everything was in order.
The bodies of Zheng Yu and his subordinates, as well as the zombies that were shot dead, were all cleaned up.
Base residents who suffered minor injuries in the earthquake were transferred to the medical station to treat their wounds.
Those bitten by zombies remained in the square, ready to receive antidote injections.
When Lu Jiu put Lu Chenxi down and rushed here from behind, two hundred antidotes had already been brought out and everyone was looking forward to it.
He walked up to He Lin and asked in a low voice, "What's going on?"
After learning about the effects and flaws of the new version of the antidote, Lu Jiu was somewhat surprised.
Is there such a big flaw?
That's strange, it seems to be even worse than the primary antidote.
Although the primary antidote cannot keep a person in human form, at least when they return to human form, they won't be disabled, and their combat power will be improved...
Upon hearing this, Dr. Li said, "Not everyone can accept the zombie form."
Lu Jiu thought about it and said, "That's right."
Dr. Li continued, "And He Ying said that he had actually developed three primary antidotes in the previous year. He also used them on the people around him who were bitten by zombies at the time, but the three antidotes were completely ineffective. So he had always thought that the primary antidote was a failure until he met you again."
"He reviewed the three experiments and felt that there might be some omissions in the process of extracting the ingredients. But from my understanding of him, he should not make any low-level mistakes. So why you, Lu Jiu, were able to transform so smoothly is also a mystery..."
Lu Jiu fell into deep thought.
What is the difference between him and these people bitten by zombies?
As I was thinking about it, suddenly an idea came to me.
He looked up and said to He Lin and Dr. Li, "I have an idea."
…
Ten minutes later, the first antidote was ready to be injected into a young man's body.
The part of his body that was bitten by the zombie was his arm.
When the antidote was halfway injected, a member of the research team suddenly ran over and shouted, "Wait, wait, stop for a moment!"
The young man's heart skipped a beat and he asked nervously, "What's wrong?"
The man walked up to him and squatted down, taking a breath and saying, "We just extracted something. Dr. Li asked me to apply it to your wound and then continue to inject the antidote to see how it works."
The young man didn’t know what the “effect” was.
His mind was in a mess with anxiety and nervousness, and he had no idea how to ask.
But he trusts the researchers.
So he swallowed, raised his arm and said, "Come on."
The researcher was holding a cotton swab with a little black liquid on it.
The people around looked at this scene, and they always felt that this black thing looked like something extracted from a zombie, but they also maintained an attitude of trust and did not question it...
The black liquid on the cotton swab was applied to the boy's wound.
The researchers watched with bated breath, and the young man and the onlookers also stared with bated breath - a minute passed, the wound only stopped bleeding slowly, and no strange symptoms appeared.
The researcher said, "Push the remaining half of the needle."
Hearing this, the injection staff pushed the remaining antidote away.
Everyone's heart beat faster.
...will it work?
No matter what, you can also reverse your zombie transformation like Zheng Yu, right?
As long as you don't turn into a zombie, any other side effects are fine.
As long as they can survive as human beings...
Soon, the young man shouted in surprise: "My fever seems to have gone down, and I don't feel so bad anymore!"
There was an uproar.
The wound on the young man's arm healed faster, the area of the wound shrank visibly, the blue-black color faded and disappeared... The arm was recovering at a miraculous speed!
Everyone became excited.
Even though they had witnessed Zheng Yu's effects with their own eyes, it was not until this moment that their hearts finally settled down!
"Great, great, it really works!"
"We are saved!"
"Dr. Li and the others are so amazing!"
“That’s awesome!”
They cheered, shed tears of excitement, hugged each other, and celebrated their upcoming collective rebirth.
The young man suddenly asked, "Isn't it shrinking?"
Everyone stopped talking, all eyes focused on his arm again.
Two minutes later, the arm was still in perfect condition, without any sign of muscle atrophy like Zheng Yu.
Everyone was stunned.
The researcher who had just come with the cotton swab breathed a sigh of relief: "It works... Lu Jiu guessed it right! He guessed it right!"
He stood up and gave a confident smile to the confused crowd.
"Our antidote is perfect!"
*
Ten minutes ago, Lu Jiu was thinking, what was the difference between him and these people who were also bitten by zombies?
Why does the primary antidote work for him but not for others?
Why does the new antidote, which takes the best route, have such big flaws?
After thinking about it, Lu Jiu's thoughts fell on one point - the virus strain.
At the beginning, he was bitten by a primitive zombie.
The original strain of zombies is very rare now, and most people encounter other mutant strains in their daily lives.
That's the difference between him and others.
So, my thoughts became clear.
If both the primary antidote and the new antidote can only achieve the most perfect effect when encountering the original strain of the virus, then why not smear his "blood" after he has turned into a zombie on the wounds of these people and then inject the antidote to try it?
Anyway, his "blood" itself will not cause the human body to become a zombie, so there is no risk in trying it.
It turns out that this guess is correct, and this is really the problem!
——
After that, everything went smoothly.
People don’t know what that mysterious black liquid is or where it comes from, but they know that it is life-saving!
During the interval between injections, someone heard the conversation between Dr. Li and He Ying in the corner.
"…But we can't just grab Jiujiu and take him out. He has a limited amount of blood!"
"That's definitely not possible. He's holding us up for now, but we have to find the original strain of zombies later..."
So everyone started whispering.
Is it Lu wine?
The one who allowed them to continue living with their bodies intact was the young man who had just arrived at the base?
When Lu Jiu appeared in front of everyone again, he found that everyone's eyes on him seemed to have changed.
These people had complicated yet grateful expressions; they seemed to understand something, but they didn't ask.
Lu Jiu was a little stunned.
He scratched his cheek, thought about it, and pretended that he knew nothing.
…
The impact of this earthquake is very large.
Two brother bases nearby called to inquire about their situation. When they learned that they were doing fine, they sighed and said, "We are not so lucky. Not only did a lot of houses collapse, but zombies also broke in and bit several people..."
“It’s too difficult. Everyone is really living such a hard life…”
The secret research team counted the remaining amount of the drug.
All the wounded inside the base have been vaccinated. There are more than a hundred doses of antidote left, and new antidote is already in production.
After He Lin nodded, the person in charge of the monitoring room said:
"Well, send someone over here now..."
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