After being detained for a period of time, these indigenous people may have passed away.
This time, the kids didn't talk nonsense, but...
"hehe!"
Gu Nanzhi sneered when he heard this and said, "We won't have a good ending? What do you mean? Are you going to turn us into zombies too?"
The aborigines' expressions froze when they heard this.
Especially the old chief, with a flash of panic in his eyes, but pretending to be calm, he said: "I don't know what you are talking about, but I warn you, let us go quickly!"
"Otherwise, you will be cursed by the gods like those who broke into Mount Egua! You will become walking demons!"
Upon hearing this, Gu Nanzhi shook his head and chuckled again.
"A curse from the gods? A walking demon?"
As Gu Nanzhi spoke, he walked towards those people and said with a sharp gaze, "Is the curse of Mount Egua a curse from the gods or man-made by you? You know it very well, don't you?"
When Xie Zhenting saw her walking forward, he subconsciously stepped forward and protected her.
The old chief heard: "!!!"
The pupils couldn't help but tremble.
"Tell me where the virus came from, and what is that green stuff you put on your teeth and under your fingernails!"
Gu Nanzhi looked at these people and said in a deep voice: "Don't force me to use force against you. I will definitely get the information I want, but you may not like the process!"
When the old chief heard Gu Nanzhi mention the green thing, he subconsciously retracted his hands behind his back.
That’s right!
Not only are their teeth green, but even the spaces between their nails are green!
"I really don't know what you're talking about!"
The old chief gritted his teeth, thinking that Gu Nanzhi was just a young woman who must be soft-hearted and easy to deceive, and his face changed instantly, and he said with a pleading look: "Beautiful girl, can you let us go? We are just a group of old and weak women and children who are powerless. We are not bad people at all!"
"As long as you let us go, we will definitely pray for you every day and pray that God will bless you!"
Xie Zhenting frowned when he heard this, and turned to Gu Nanzhi and said, "Don't be fooled by him, they are good at playing misery!"
These people initially tried to arouse sympathy among his subordinates by playing the victim!
But……
In a place like the rainforest, the last thing needed is compassion!
Can’t even have a heart!
"I know!"
Gu Nanzhi heard this and responded to Xie Zhenting's concern. He turned to the old chief and said in a deep voice: "How do you want to pray to the gods to bless me? Do you want to bless me to become a walking corpse?"
"No!"
The old chief heard this and opened his mouth to defend himself, but...
"Since you don't want to cooperate, I'll do it my way!"
Gu Nanzhi didn't give him a chance to quibble. She turned to look at Xie Zhenting and handed him a syringe: "Tie him to a tree and give him this injection!"
Xie Zhenting raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and then...
He took the syringe without hesitation and walked towards the old chief.
"Don't come over here! Don't come over here!"
The old chief looked at Xie Zhenting approaching, his pupils shrinking again and again.
"What do you want? What do you want to do to our chief?"
"Don't go near the Chief! Don't go near the Chief!"
“…”
Amid the exclamations of the indigenous people, Xie Zhenting grabbed the old chief and tied him to a big tree, then gave him an injection.
The exploration team did not bring any torture drugs on this trip!
But……
It’s in Gu Nanzhi’s space laboratory!
Products produced by Space Laboratory must be of high quality!
Almost at the moment the needle was injected, the old chief's body began to tremble, his eyes began to quickly become bloodshot, and his pupils trembled...
"Tell me, where did the virus in the Ecuadorian mountains come from!"
Seeing this, Gu Nanzhi took a step forward and asked in a deep voice.
"I don't know! I don't know what virus it is..."
The old chief spoke almost subconsciously when he heard this.
Gu Nanzhi frowned slightly, but quickly reacted and said in a deep voice: "Then when did those zombie-like people start to appear on your mountain?"
The old chief's pupils were dilated, and he seemed to have lost his soul. He could not hear the calls of other natives at all, and he spoke in a stammering voice: "A long time ago! A long, long time ago!"
"Chief!"
"Chief, don't talk nonsense!"
"That is the secret of our tribe, Chief, you can't tell anyone!"
“…”
The natives saw this and shouted nervously.
Seeing this, Xie Zhenting waved at Ah Hu.
Ah Hu understood and immediately stepped forward, pinched their chins and stuffed their mouths.
The world is quiet.
Only the old chief tied to the big tree and Gu Nanzhi standing not far in front of the old chief were left.
"How long ago was it? Tell me more!"
Gu Nanzhi knew the effect of the medicine he was researching, and knew that under the effect of the medicine, the old chief could not lie. As for why he didn't know where the virus came from...
He really probably doesn't know!
Because he may not even know what a virus is, so naturally he doesn’t know where it comes from!
"A long time ago... since the time of our ancestors..."
The old chieftain was shaking all over and couldn’t help but speak.
From the old chief's mouth, Gu Nanzhi pieced together the origin of the virus...
The indigenous people of the Ecuadorian mountains, the tribe where the old chief is, have a special funeral tradition that has been passed down since their ancestors...
Once someone dies in the tribe, the tribesmen will share and eat his brains!
The people of their tribe believed that in this way, they could inherit everything in the dead person's brain, hunting skills, survival techniques...
With the abilities of their predecessors, they can survive better!
It was this absurd and cruel custom of eating brains that led to the birth of prions in their tribe!
They didn't find it unusual that a zombie appeared!
They didn't notice anything unusual when multiple zombies appeared!
They thought that this was a punishment from the gods, but as time went on, more and more people in their tribe had this symptom, and it increased from generation to generation...
They finally noticed something unusual!
But at that time, Mount Egua had a geographical advantage, and nearby tribes began to seize their territory. As the number of people in the tribe who became sick increased from generation to generation, the tribal population gradually decreased, and they lost more and more territory. In the end, they could only hide in a corner of Mount Egua and live a miserable life.
The compression of living space has left them starving and cold!
Their ancestors began to summarize their experience, summarizing the experience of why that disease appeared in their tribe...
With limited knowledge and understanding, they had no idea that prions existed!
I didn’t even know that prions came from cannibalism, but…
They gradually discovered that anyone bitten by an infected person would sooner or later become infected, and even worse...
By chance, they discovered that after the bitten people ate a kind of grass unique to the Ecuadorian mountains, they did not take a long time to get sick like the previous people did, but got sick immediately...
This discovery shocked the ancestors of this tribe!
They even cruelly experimented on their own people...