Chapter 216 Setting Off Again
The two people in the car were momentarily depressed and anxious.
The atmosphere was broken by the sound of the door lock popping open.
Lin Xi looked back and saw Liang Hui and Xiang Xin's faces peek out from the doorway, then gradually move away until they disappeared.
All four eyes were calm, as if they were shouting, "I didn't see anything! I didn't see anything!"
"Knock." The car door closed gently.
Lin Xi: "..."
Lu Wei: "..."
The next moment, the door was suddenly slammed shut, and Xiang Xin and Liang Hui's voices came through the earpiece:
"San San! Open the door quickly! Help! The horde of zombies is coming!!"
"Brother Lu! Brother Lu! Open the door! Open the door!!"
"..." Lin Xi rubbed her eyes, got up and rushed to open the door.
Two people followed closely behind and got into the car. Liang Hui quickly started the car, while Xiang Xin sent instructions to the entire convoy through the equipment.
Lin Xi was speechless at the two of them and said irritably, "Why didn't you just come up here? What time is it? It's so dangerous."
Recalling the scene of Lu Wei being attacked by zombies because he was a second late getting on the bus, Lin Xi felt an urge to curse at the two of them for delaying getting on the bus at such a time.
No, it's better to beat him up.
Rarely reprimanded by Lin Xi, Xiang Xin was stunned. She, who liked to be someone else's mouth-swallower, now sealed her mouth shut and kicked Liang Hui to signal him to answer.
Liang Hui coughed twice: "Isn't it because...I didn't want to interrupt you?"
Xiang Xin nodded quietly like a hamster, while secretly glancing at Lu Wei behind her.
Lin Xi: "Interrupt what?"
Liang Hui: "We didn't see anything."
Lin Xi resisted the urge to kick him: "You're overthinking it. I'm undergoing a professional checkup."
"What kind of examination requires a handshake..." Liang Hui glanced at her hand.
Lin Xi: "Taking the pulse, feeling the pulse. This is one of the important vital signs."
Liang Hui stubbornly retorted, "Is that so... Although I'm not a doctor, I do know that a heartbeat and a pulse are the same."
Lin Xi glared at him: "I'm a doctor, what I say goes."
Hearing this, Xiang Xin, who had been silent for a long time, prepared to join the verbal battle, but she joined the wrong side: "San San, what you're doing is damaging to the reputation of doctors."
"..."
Liang Hui continued, "Yeah, Zhang San, you're so arrogant now."
Faced with two opponents, Lin Xi was actually quite exasperated. She turned her head to look at Lu Wei behind her, who had no intention of joining the argument, and could only explain herself: "What else can I do? You'll overthink it if I'm checking your pulse, and you'll be shocked when you open the door and see me checking your heartbeat."
"Yes, yes, yes... it's our fault." Liang Hui glanced at the watch on Lu Wei's wrist in the rearview mirror and stopped the pointless argument.
After a brief incident, Lin Xi sat down in the front of the car and looked at the location and size of the horde of corpses displayed on the screen in Xiang Xin's hand.
"Are they the same zombies that chased us before?"
Xiang Xin: "Judging from the scale, it shouldn't be."
Liang Hui asked in bewilderment, "Why are zombies suddenly appearing in large numbers in the wild?"
Lin Xi recalled fragments of scientific research data and said in a deep voice, "I saw a design drawing of a sonar system for controlling zombies at the White Shield Base before. It seems to be under testing. I don't know if it has been successful."
"Controlling zombies? A sonar system?"
Lin Xi nodded.
Although she didn't directly destroy the perverted laboratory while working as a spy at White Shield Base, she destroyed many zombie research samples, took away a lot of project data, and saw a lot of classified information.
White Shield Base seems to have found a clear path to independence. Unable to develop nuclear weapons, it has devoted all its efforts to researching zombies and turning them into biological weapons.
Since the emergence of the zombie virus, research projects on vaccines and drugs to combat the virus have been ongoing, but there has been little progress. However, the White Shield Base has figured out how to upgrade the research on zombies.
Lin Xi felt deeply powerless.
This is like how it's easy for someone to become bad, but it takes a lot of hardship to do something good and there's no guarantee of success.
Take radiation as an example. If you want to destroy someone by poisoning them with radiation, they may die very quickly, but there is no way to save them.
Liang Hui said, "We actually had similar research projects before, but they were unsuccessful."
Lin Xi had heard Lu Wei mention this before.
Zombies are supposed to find their prey by sight and hearing. If you can attract zombies with sound, then why not just use a loudspeaker to lure them away?
But that won't work.
When Lin Xi was hiding in Yunxiang trying to survive, she did use human voices and music to attract zombies, and the zombies did indeed follow her for a while.
However, when a zombie follows a drone playing human voices for a long time without seeing its prey, it gradually loses interest in the sound, or rather, it adapts to the human voices and no longer reacts to them, but instead requires visual stimulation.
Just like Lin Xi's zombie hiding in the monitoring room watching TV series, at first it would uncontrollably bite the speaker when it heard human voices, but after a while it got used to the sound.
Controlling zombies is not that simple, otherwise it wouldn't have evolved to this point.
Xiang Xin observed the movement of the zombie horde and analyzed, "From what I've observed, they probably haven't developed a system to control the zombies. Although this group of zombies moves in large numbers for a short period of time, they will soon break free of control."
"Otherwise, we would have been surrounded by those zombie hordes long ago."
After escaping from White Shield Airport, they were chased by several waves of zombies. Now it seems that this was not entirely a coincidence, but possibly the work of the White Shield base.
Controlling zombies is virtually impossible. If it were possible, either the relevant authorities had already mastered the technology to eliminate them, making vaccines unnecessary. If White Shield Base had mastered this technology first, a biological war would have already broken out.
They will no longer be conducting vaccine research projects simultaneously.
If White Shield Base can't control the zombies, then they'll research a vaccine, and then...
Lin Xi turned to look at Lu Wei. He wasn't in good spirits after waking up. Judging from their earlier contact, he still had a high fever. But he wasn't idle either. Even with handcuffs on, he took out his equipment and started operating it.
The convoy proceeded in an orderly fashion along the predetermined route. Xiang Xin, carrying the equipment, walked towards Lu Wei: "Brother Lu, there are instructions from above."
That was a secret order specifically for Major General Lu; Xiang Xin didn't have the authority to open it.
After the facial recognition was successful, Lu performed a series of actions.
Seeing the notification that the vaccine had been successfully unlocked, Xiang Xin breathed a sigh of relief and said to Lin Xi, "We've been holding on for over six hours, and Brother Lu hasn't changed. The vaccine must have been successful."
Lin Xi pursed her lips and remained silent.
She injected Lu Wei with the vaccine delay agent twice, so that even without the vaccine, he would not have completed the mutation within 36 hours.
This medicine was invented by Zhou Yiheng. However, due to the high cost of the materials and the fact that it could only slow down the spread of the virus but not cure it, people infected with the zombie virus would eventually turn into zombies. Therefore, this medicine was not widely used and could only be kept in the research institute as an important scientific research achievement.
After Lu Wei finished communicating with his superiors, Xiang Xin received new instructions to lead the convoy forward with Liang Hui.
Lin Xi reached out, glanced at the two people in front of her, then withdrew her hand. Instead, she used a thermometer to scan Lu Wei's temperature, which was still off the charts and could not be displayed.
This is extremely torturous for a living person.
Even though Lu Wei's physical condition is stronger than that of ordinary people, he couldn't withstand the high fever and fainted. Now he has reached the end of his physical strength.
Lin Xi gave him more fever-reducing medicine, saying, "You should go to sleep first. We're here for you."
It was as if they had returned to those months in their previous life when they were living in a truck, wandering and fleeing for their lives, taking turns driving and keeping watch, and taking turns resting.
The only bed board was given to the patient, and Lin Xi put on a sleeping bag and lay down on the floor, planning to relieve the other two later.
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