Apocalypse Rebirth: 3000 million won at the beginning

Chapter 1395 The Secret of Zombies?

Chapter 1395 The Secret of Zombies? (Long chapter, please subscribe)
Oil City.

In the trading market.

There was a long queue at the official store of Oil City.

Xie Dongming and his men were carrying a bag of food and looking ahead anxiously.

"Brother Ming, you are right. I didn't expect that Oil City would really take out the ultraviolet lamp to trade with us."

Ten days have passed since the thunderstorm, and they are still here. The reason they haven't gone out is that they are waiting.

Wait until that day when Oil City can take out the ultraviolet lamp and trade with the survivors.

Xie Dongming smiled bitterly and said:

"I'm just gambling and guessing."

"It's too dangerous to run out now. We still have some food. Let's just wait a little longer."

"But I didn't expect that Oil City would be so generous and take out hundreds of ultraviolet lamps at once."

The subordinate asked in confusion: "Where do they get all these ultraviolet lamps from?"

"I don't know."

Xie Dongming thought for a moment and said, "Oil City should not exist in isolation. They should have bases in other places. Didn't we hear that group came from the north before? What was their name?"

"The North!" the subordinate replied.

"Yes, the North."

A voice urged from behind, "Let's go..."

Xie Dongming hurriedly took a few steps forward; the line behind them was very long.

After realizing the safety of the trading market, the Axe Gang, the Cold-Blooded Army, the Listening Wind Tower and other forces sent people out a few days ago to bring back all the things that could be taken away from their original bases to the trading market.

However, not everyone who went out could return to the trading market smoothly.

At night, the wall-climbing zombies are extremely terrifying.

These forces became increasingly aware of the role of ultraviolet lamps. Some of them understood this and tried their best to make them themselves, and they also gained some benefits from it.

But the demand is huge and the supply is insufficient.

There were only a few dozen ultraviolet lamps for sale on the market, and they were sold out in no time.

Unexpectedly, Oil City actually got involved in selling ultraviolet lamps.

Compared to the dozens of UV lamps circulating on the market, the UV lamps sold in Oil City are not only of better quality, but also cheaper.

It instantly caused a scramble among people in the trading market.

The line was long, but no one dared to cut in.

They were well aware of how strict the regulations in the trading fair were, and after so many people died, no one dared to violate these regulations anymore.

Xie Dongming and others sent teams for another ten minutes, and finally it was their turn.

"next."

Xie Dongming hurried forward and asked his men to carry the sacks of food onto the container.

Liu Jinglue glanced at him and asked Su Yuan next to him to check the things inside, and finally put them on the scale to weigh them.

"What is your name?"

"Xie Dongming."

Liu Jinglue searched the name Xie Dongming on the computer and then continued to ask:
"How many people?"

"Thirteen people."

"Well, according to the number of people in your team, you are limited to two units."

"Su Yuan, give him back the extra food."

Su Yuan took out some of the food from the sack, and finally put the mochi in another bag and placed it in the corner.

The corner is already piled with various kinds of food, and in addition to these foods, there are also some other items that can be traded.

On the other side, Dai Jiusheng handed them two low-power ultraviolet lamps.

"for you."

Xie Dongming's face was full of joy, and he quickly held the two long ultraviolet lamps in his arms.

It is about half a meter long and ten centimeters in diameter.

"By the way, I want to ask how long the UV lamp can last after it is turned on?"

Liu Jinglue glanced at him and looked through the notes written on the computer.

"A full charge can last for six hours, and yours is low-power."

"in addition."

"You can charge in the trading market."

"Is it free?" Xie Dongming asked in surprise.

"Well, it's free for now. Starting next month, a certain fee will be charged. But don't worry, the fee is very low."

Xie Dongming nodded vigorously, "Thank you."

Liu Jinglue did not respond to him and shouted, "Next."

It seemed that Liu Jinglue was a little annoyed because he had just been asked by several people who were buying ultraviolet rays.

"Jiusheng, please write a sign and write down the usage time and charging requirements of each specification of the ultraviolet lamp. I don't want to explain them one by one."

"Okay." Dai Jiusheng nodded and walked to the back to look for the sign.

Big camphor tree base.

Ever since Bai Jie, Madi and others came back yesterday, they have been staying in the research institute of the big camphor tree base.

I was woken up at three or four in the morning the day before yesterday, and I didn't sleep all night last night, concentrating on studying the mutant zombies I captured in the cave.

It was not until after ten o'clock this morning that Madi, Bai Jie and others had a comprehensive understanding of these mutant zombies.

Bai Jie's eyes were red, her hair was messy, and she looked a little listless.

"Old Ma, this is trouble."

Madi was in the same state as her, with despair in his eyes.

It's not just the two of them, Zhao Ke, Xiao Lan, Wang Yin and others in the research institute are also like this.

Kong Shuang did not participate in this research work because she was busy with the chemical plant in the base.

"Director Bai, do we humans still have a future?"

Zhao Ke showed a look of horror in his eyes and continued:
"The zombies are getting stronger and stronger, but we humans have been stagnant. I really can't imagine what will happen if the zombies continue to become stronger."

Xiaolan lay on the table, looking at the test report over and over again.

She rarely speaks and followed Bai Jie to join the camphor tree base very early.

She had been following Bai Jie. Under Bai Jie's dazzling light and because she rarely spoke, she seemed like a nobody in the base.

Among the companions who came in at the same time, there is Meng Yu, who has become the head of the medical hospital at the Dazhangshu base, Anya, who is in charge of agricultural planting at the headquarters base, and Sister Bai from the research institute.

She had no presence in the base.

But she was quite happy. No one noticed her and she was not nervous about it.

She does her job conscientiously and lives her life hard and seriously.

She is very satisfied.

But when she saw the test report, she felt despair for the first time.

There has been no major breakthrough in the zombie vaccine until now, but the zombies outside are getting stronger.

As a scientific researcher, she knew very well what this meant.

She once fantasized that if there were no zombies and natural disasters in the world, and the world slowly returned to its former state, she would be able to go out and travel.

Go and experience the scenery of this world.

But now it seems that there is not much hope.

Despair permeates the hearts of every scientific researcher.

Bai Jie put her hands in her hair and moaned in pain.

"How could this be! How could this be! How could the amount of virus carried by the zombies be able to increase?!"

"The more zombies eat their own corpses, the more viruses they carry, causing individual changes and making them stronger."

"If...if that's the case, and the zombies keep getting stronger, what will happen?"

She didn't know, she didn't dare to imagine.

Ever since that horrific high temperature disaster, all the zombies disappeared for a while.

When they appeared again, the skin of all the zombies turned white.

It was from that time that some zombies began to mutate.

But those are extremely rare cases.

After the great flood, agile zombies and powerful zombies appeared one after another.

Later, high-jumping zombies and undead zombies appeared.

During the last thunderstorm disaster, a new mutant zombie appeared again, the wall-climbing zombie!

The amount of virus carried in the body of a wall-climbing zombie is ten times that of an ordinary zombie.

This means that in order to form a wall-climbing zombie, it needs to eat the corpses of ten of its own kind.

And now, they have discovered from the two high-jumping zombies and strength zombies captured in the cave that these two types of zombies carry 1.5 times the amount of viruses in their bodies as previous zombies of the same type.

Correspondingly, the strength and jumping ability of these two zombies have also increased.

This shows that the zombies are still mutating, and the more of their own kind they eat, the stronger they become.

Zhao Ke suddenly stood up and walked back and forth several times.

"No, no."

"What?" Maddy looked up at him.

Zhao Ke shook his head and said as he walked around the research institute:
"In fact, we should have discovered this earlier!"

"When was the first time zombies mutated? It was during a natural disaster like a rainstorm. You remember it, right?"

“Looking back, you should be able to feel that with every subsequent rainstorm or flood, these zombies will become stronger, but not as obvious as this time.

This time the thunderstorm disaster lasted the longest, so the mutant zombies changed the most, giving us the feeling that the mutant zombies suddenly became stronger. "

"But in fact, zombies have already started to mutate since they began to eat their own kind."

Zhao Ke suddenly paused and quickly wrote down a few key words on the whiteboard.

Heavy rain disaster, zombies, mutant zombies, humans.
"According to this logic, then..."

"The mutant zombies need to mutate continuously, which can only happen in heavy rain. The longer the heavy rain disaster lasts, the stronger the mutant zombies will become."

"The rainstorm disaster is like a switch, causing the zombies to mutate faster."

"Everyone knows that zombies will become stronger in heavy rain, especially mutant zombies. Instead of studying zombies, why don't we study the reasons for frequent natural disasters!"

"If there hadn't been such a long-lasting rainstorm, wouldn't the zombie mutation have been suppressed?"

Zhao Ke’s idea is somewhat strange. Instead of studying zombie vaccines, he studies natural disasters.

However, what he said did cause Bai Jie and others to think.

They all generally agreed that natural disasters were related to the changes in zombies. Apart from anything else, the fact that zombies became stronger during heavy rains had proven this point many times.

"But how do we study natural disasters? Where do we start?" Bai Jie frowned and asked.

"We are all engaged in biological research and don't understand much about this. But we can ask the people in the base who understand meteorology and geology to study it together." Zhao Ke said quickly.

"Um"

Swish!
Maddy stood up from the stool in an instant.

pat!

Because he moved too quickly, the stool was kicked over and fell to the ground with a loud noise.

Everyone was startled by his action.

"Old Ma, what have you thought of? Speak! Don't be so jumpy, it's scary!" Bai Jie said in a bad tone.

There was a gleam in Madi's eyes.

He said somewhat mysteriously:
"Do you know how zombies are formed?"

Bai Jie rolled her eyes. "Weren't you in charge of the cancer drug team at the time? Weren't you the one who extracted the anti-cancer elements from the meteorite?"

"Meteorite from outer space."

As she was talking, Bai Jie suddenly realized something.

"There weren't so many natural disasters before the end of the world. After the meteorite appeared, anti-cancer drugs were injected into the human body, forming zombies. At the same time, so many natural disasters also occurred."

"So the key core is the meteorite from outer space!"

"Correct."

Madi said with excitement on his face: "It is a meteorite from outer space."

"The core of everything is to solve the natural disasters and the zombies. We must find the meteorites from outer space. The meteorites from outer space are the root cause of the natural disasters!"

Everyone was somewhat excited. They were not afraid of the zombies becoming stronger, nor were they afraid of the natural disasters continuing.

I’m afraid I can’t find the reason!

Suddenly, Xiaolan, who had been lying on the table without saying a word, asked a question weakly, which completely poured cold water on their excitement.

"Let me ask you something. How do we find that meteorite? Or, how many meteorites are there? Are there a lot? Or..."

After she finished speaking, everyone fell silent.

Xiaolan’s question was very crucial, and no one knew how to answer it.

Yes, where are the meteorites from outer space?

The city lord issued the mission a long time ago, but the whereabouts of the meteorite is still unknown.

Trying to find a meteorite from outer space is like looking for a needle in a haystack, it is a long and hopeless journey.

Ugh.
Bai Jie sighed, noticing that everyone was in a bad mood.

Although she was quite desperate, as the director of the research institute, she had to take the lead and motivate everyone.

"Everyone, the road ahead is long and hard, but we will start over again."

"We can't be discouraged. We still have to do what we need to do. We were able to develop a zombie-attracting potion before, so we will definitely be able to develop something to deal with zombies in the future."

Wang Yin smiled bitterly and said:

"Director Bai, I feel something strange."

"What?" Bai Jie looked at Wang Yin in the corner.

"I've read apocalyptic novels before, in which humans can dig out zombie cores from zombies and then improve their abilities."

"But the reality is that we humans haven't changed at all, but zombies have acquired stronger viruses from their own corpses."

"Zombies can become stronger, but we can't. This world is so unfair!"

Bai Jie took a deep breath and stood up.

The little watermelon on her chest trembled slightly, and her white shirt almost burst open as she breathed in.

"No, we actually have an advantage!"

"We have smart brains and wisdom! Zombies have no wisdom. Although they are getting stronger, I believe that with our wisdom, we can find a way to deal with zombies one day!"

Her eyes were firm and her tone was extremely confident.

As if infected by her emotions, Madi also nodded:
"Correct!"

"We don't have to despair. No matter how strong the zombies are, they can't stop a bullet!"

"I also believe that one day, we will be able to restore this world to its former state!"

Bai Jie stretched out her hand and placed it in the middle, "Come on, come on!"

Madi also put his hand over, Xiaolan, who was lying on the table, hurried over, and even Wang Yin, who was in the corner, came over.
So everyone gathered together and formed a circle.

The hands were stacked layer by layer, raised up, and then dropped heavily.

"come on!"

Full of momentum.

The dejection on everyone's face in the research institute was swept away, and their fighting spirit was rekindled.

They believe that as long as they keep working hard, they will be able to solve the problems of zombies and natural disasters and restore the world to its previous state.

"Let's go out. The city lord and the others must have been waiting for a long time." Bai Jie looked at the time. It was almost noon.

inner city.

meeting room.

Li Yu was sitting here with his second uncle and eldest uncle. They had just learned something from the northern border.

On his way to the north, Lao Yi encountered a high-jumping zombie that was stronger than before.

This means that the mutated zombies found in the southern cave, which are stronger than before, are not isolated cases!

"Brother, Bai Jie and Madi are here." Li Hang pushed open the door of the conference room.

"Okay, I just happened to be looking for them, let them in."

Bai Jie and Madi entered the meeting room.

Li Yu looked at Bai Jie and the other person, who still had excitement on their faces, and thought they had made some major breakthrough.

Excited, he asked anxiously:

"How is it? Did you come up with any results?"

Bai Jie's face was embarrassed, "City Lord."

"The zombies found in the caves have an increased amount of zombie viruses in their bodies, which shows that the zombies are getting stronger."

"Based on our inference, we think the current mutant zombies will continue to become stronger during the rainstorm disaster. The longer the rainstorm disaster lasts, the stronger the mutant zombies will become."

"What else? Is there any solution?" Li Yu asked.

“Just now Zhao Ke proposed an idea. If there is no rainstorm disaster, or if the rainstorm disaster lasts for a shorter period of time, the mutant zombies will not be able to become stronger, or the mutant zombies’ strengthening can be delayed.

Madi has an idea that I think is very meaningful. The natural disasters and the appearance of zombies are all caused by meteorites from outer space. As long as we find the meteorites from outer space, I believe we should be able to solve these problems. "

Li Yu didn't say anything and waited quietly for a while, but Bai Jie still didn't continue.

"anything else?"

"No more." Bai Jie coughed and lowered her head.

Li Yu glanced at her. When he saw them come in, he thought there was some major breakthrough.

"What you just said is bad news."

"Now I have another piece of bad news for you."

Madi and Bai Jie both raised their heads at the same time and stared at Li Yu.

"I just received news from the North that they found a high-jumping zombie similar to the one in the cave. This kind of mutant zombie becoming stronger should not be an isolated case. Of course, we can't jump to such a conclusion now. I will have the North send the zombie corpse over in a few days."

"When the time comes, you can study the zombie's body again to see if that zombie also has a higher amount of virus in its body."

Bai Jie and Madi looked at each other. In fact, they were already mentally prepared for this result.

"Okay, City Lord, I have a small request." Bai Jie stood up and said to Li Yu.

"explain."

"Can we ask the meteorological and geological experts in the base to cooperate with us to study the zombie virus and natural disasters? We believe that meteorites from outer space are the root cause of zombies and natural disasters."

Bai Jie glanced at her second uncle and eldest uncle, then turned her gaze back to Li Yu.

"I know that you, the city lord, ordered the search for meteorites a long time ago, but we haven't found any. I think that meteorites can affect climate and geological changes, so the place where the meteorites are located must have some abnormal astronomical features."

"Perhaps when we look for the direction of meteorites from outer space, we can specifically look for places with special changes."

When Li Yu heard her say this, he narrowed his eyes and thought that what Bai Jie said made sense.

“We do have meteorological experts, but they also don’t understand the current changes in natural disasters.”

"Well, since you've made a request, I'll naturally satisfy you. I'll have those meteorological and geological experts come to you later."

"Thank you City Lord."

Li Yu waved his hand and said:

"Don't be discouraged. Although the zombies are getting stronger, they are only getting stronger slowly. It's been more than five years, and it's still just like that."

"No matter how strong you are, you can't stop our guns!"

"Just focus on your research and don't think about anything else."

After hearing what Li Yu said, Madi looked at Bai Jie with some surprise.

Why do these words sound similar to what Bai Jie said?

"Also, after hearing you talk about mutant zombies, I have an idea. It's not very mature, but you can think about it."

Li Yu looked at the two and said:

"Zombies can eat their own dead.

I wonder if it is possible to let mutant zombies attack ordinary zombies that are still alive."

“The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”

"If we can let the zombies kill each other, we won't have to go through the trouble of eliminating them."

"What do you think?"

There was shock in Bai Jie's eyes and waves of emotion in her heart.