Doomsday: I can see the health bar, kill monsters and drop treasure.

Chapter 627 Methods of Controlling Mutated Plants

"Mr. Wang, did Tu Lizhen tell you that we used some bad means to control these mutant plants?"

When he saw Wang Tao, Han Youlin went straight to the point.

Wang Tao was a little surprised, but he did not feel any hostility from Han Youlin. So he said directly:
"Yes..." He simply repeated to Han Youlin what Tu Lizhen had told him.

After listening to this, Han Youlin felt embarrassed and helpless.

"Don't listen to her nonsense, the people we selected are all volunteers!"

"Oh? In other words, what she said is true? Are you really controlling these mutant plants? Or are you even saying that those mutant plants were transformed by your people?"

Wang Tao raised his eyebrows.

"Tu Lizhen doesn't know. Those are just her guesses, although she guessed some of them right... Anyway, things are a bit complicated. If Mr. Wang has time, you can come with me. We have already discussed it and are ready to exchange this method of controlling mutant plants with you, but you have to take a look first..."

Wang Tao had just guessed that Han Youlin had directly brought up the matter, most likely intending to make a deal with Wang Tao. Now it seemed to be true.

"Row."

Wang Tao had nothing to do anyway, so he followed Han Youlin and left. With his strength, he didn't have to worry about being trapped or anything like that, as no one here could stop him.

Of course, one still had to be vigilant. Wang Tao sat in Han Youlin's special leaf car, silently memorizing the route. After a while, he arrived at the military base.

Although it was night, the military camp was still brightly lit. Of course, these were not real electric lights, but a large number of lantern trees.

After passing many checkpoints, Han Youlin brought Wang Tao into the command center, then opened a secret door. The lantern tree inside gradually emitted light, and a spiral staircase came into view.

Han Youlin walked in and Wang Tao followed.

After a while, they arrived at the underground floor.

Looking at this laboratory-like place, Wang Tao raised his eyebrows.

Wang Tao has seen too many laboratories, and he can tell at a glance that this place used to be a laboratory.

But now, all the electronic equipment in this laboratory is gone, replaced by humans fixed on special chairs with tubes inserted into their heads!
To be precise, this doesn't seem to be a tube, but some kind of mutant plant?

There were some people in white coats recording data nearby. Some mutant plants that Wang Tao had seen or not seen were in glass containers...

The dim light of the lantern tree looked very strange when it shone on these humans with tubes inserted in their heads and these mutated plants.

"This……"

Even though he was mentally prepared, seeing this scene was still somewhat shocking to Wang Tao.

"I think you have guessed it. Yes, those mutant plants in the Red Maple Base are actually controlled by humans with tubes inserted into their heads... But it's not that one person controls one mutant plant, but that one person can control many..."

After Han Youlin's explanation, Wang Tao finally understood how they controlled the mutant plants in the entire base.

These people with tubes inserted into their brains are equivalent to human brain processors. An awakened person writes a "program" in their minds, and this program will automatically run to control those mutant plants, making those mutant plants work step by step!
A long time ago, when Han Youlin's army was hunting mutant plants outside, they came to a group of mutant plants.

After paying some price and hunting down all the mutated plants here with great difficulty, many of them gained an ability!
This ability makes them feel an inexplicable affinity with plants, as if they can sense the emotions of plants. But I don't know if it's because plants don't have brains or because they don't have enough ability, anyway, they can only sense simple emotions, such as pain, hunger, drinking water, etc.

This ability seems to be useless, but when people with these abilities awaken, they all gain the same awakening ability!

This awakening ability is to control the mutant plants, but it is not so simple to control. It requires a lot of preparation and may not be successful. There is a certain probability of backlash. The stronger the mutant plant is, the greater the probability of backlash.

This is obviously not suitable for fighting. After all, by the time the preparations are completed, the battle will have already been resolved.

Later, Han Youlin began to organize a team to conduct research. There is a laboratory here, and there are still some scientists alive in the laboratory, and there are many soldiers who have awakened this ability, enough for them to study.

After a period of research, they finally made some discoveries, and then through a special mutant plant, they developed another method to control the mutant plants.

Finally, after continuous improvements, this is what Wang Tao sees in front of him -

The awakened ones connected the consciousness of the mutant plants with the consciousness of the people with brain tubes. The awakened ones set a rule in advance in the minds of these people, and the mutant plants that were linked would act according to the rule. If any unexpected situation occurred, the people with brain tubes would take over the control of the mutant plants and deal with it...

If we use the analogy of unmanned driving before the end of the world, these people with tubes inserted into their heads are equivalent to the monitors of the server terminal, and the mutant plants outside are the unmanned vehicles. And those awakened people with special abilities are the programmers who write programs. The entire Red Leaf Base is within their control.

Normally, the unmanned vehicles, or mutant plants, would act according to the procedures set by the awakened ones. If there were any accidents, the monitors would take over at any time. The awakened ones would constantly optimize their algorithms, maintain the monitors, and try to prevent bugs...

"This is how we control mutant plants..."

After Han Youlin gave a brief introduction, he sighed again.

"Don't think that what I said is good. In fact, this method has great flaws. The two biggest disadvantages are that it is limited in scope."

"The range of controlling mutant plants is only as large as the Red Leaf Base. It's not that we don't want to expand the range. We transmit brain wave signals through a special mutant plant, and this mutant plant is only found underground in the Red Maple Base. There is no such thing outside. Moreover, this thing cannot be transplanted. Once transplanted, it will die. Therefore, this control ability can only be used within the Red Maple Base..."

"Another disadvantage is that it is very labor-intensive! Although it is done according to established procedures, it is not something that most people can bear for one person to control hundreds or even thousands of mutant plants at the same time. We have to let stronger psychics do it. But even so, working like this for a long time will also leave some sequelae to the psychics. At the mildest, they will become listless and weak, and at the worst, they will become idiots or even brain dead! This is why our military will be short of people from time to time - they are going to rotate..."

"Of course, all this is voluntary, and we will give them a lot of rewards. If any unexpected situation really happens, his family will be taken care of by us, and the base will not treat them unfairly. But there is really no way to solve the problem of sequelae at present, so we stipulate that each person can only work for a maximum of 3 consecutive days, and then have to rest for a week to recover..."

"We originally wanted to control a large number of mutant plants to form an army to clean up monsters and zombies. But we didn't expect that we could only move in this small area, and we couldn't control mutant plants that were too powerful, unless those awakened people came to control them personally, they could control mutant plants of the same level. But they are limited in number, and there are many restrictions, so there is no way to form a scale..."

"We are still making continuous improvements, but there has been no breakthrough so far..." Han Youlin looked somewhat helpless. They had invested a lot of resources in this area, but the results were not as good as they had expected. Now they were somewhat in a dilemma. He was not sure whether to continue the research or cut losses in time. After all, the sunk cost was too high...

"Ah this..."

After listening to Han Youlin's explanation, Wang Tao didn't know how to comment.

If you say they are not good enough, the biotechnology they have developed seems to be really powerful. But if you say they are good enough, this thing has too many limitations. Apart from improving the quality of life of the people in the base, it does not have much effect. Now is the end of the world, strength is the most important...

"In fact, it's not that we can't publish this method of controlling mutant plants, but even if we publish it, others may not be able to replicate it. Even if they are lucky enough to replicate it, they will just be trapped in the Red Leaf Base like us, unable to leave..."

"And most importantly, our military still has a lot of weight in the hearts of the people in the base. If they knew that these mutant plants were controlled by humans, it might cause unnecessary trouble. The base needs stability..."

Han Youlin had nothing to hide and even spoke out what was in his mind.

"But now, if we can buy some crystal energy weapons, power armor, etc. from your Changhe base to improve our combat effectiveness, then maybe we don't have to worry so much..."

At the end, Han Youlin looked at Wang Tao with a faint light in his eyes.

Before Wang Tao came, he had always been very conflicted about this matter, but after discussing it with his confidants today, he suddenly stopped being conflicted.

This kind of biotechnology needs to be further studied! But their strength cannot be left behind. As long as they can purchase equipment from the Changhe Base, the overall combat effectiveness of their army will be greatly improved, and they can hunt more mutant plants for research.

Maybe one day, he will really be able to develop a method to control countless mutated plants, and then he will lead these mutated plant armies to recover the lost land of mankind!

"No problem. I will definitely do what I promised you. In a while, someone will come to your Red Maple Base on a mutant goose with supplies. They are from our Changhe Base. You just need to pay attention."

Wang Tao said with a smile.

"Do you have other mutant animals? Great!"

Han Youlin was overjoyed.

It is still very dangerous to travel long distances by land. Even for a fifth-level awakener, there is no guarantee that one can walk from the Red Maple Base to the Changhe Base, not to mention carrying a lot of supplies.

Flying is different. Even if there are flying zombies and monsters, as long as you stay alert and don't get attacked, you can usually escape. So it is much safer.

With the air route, Hongfeng Base and Changhe Base can conduct trade exchanges.

The Red Maple Base is in dire need of crystal energy weapons, power armor, various potions, and the like.

"Oh, by the way, since this is a laboratory, do you have any experimental data about the zombie virus left behind?"

Wang Tao said suddenly.

The laboratory in this place was not on the map Qu Shilin gave him. That meant that this laboratory should not be big, at least not that famous. But judging from their research on these biotechnologies, the people here are also quite capable. What if they left behind zombie virus data? Anyway, it was just a question. If there was, that would be better, but if not, it didn't matter.

"Zombie virus data? It seems there is... but I'm not sure. I'll get someone here and you can ask them."

Han Youlin frowned, as if he was not sure.

"it is good."

After a while, Han Youlin found four middle-aged people, two men and two women. They were originally from this laboratory. There were more than 30 people here at the time, and in the end only the four of them were lucky enough to survive.

These four people are all third-level psychics. They should be promoted by others like Qu Shilin before, so they don’t seem to have much combat power. But they are all researchers, which is normal.

"Do you have any research data related to the zombie virus? The early zombie virus, that is, when the zombie virus broke out in the first few days."

Wang Tao asked directly.

"Information on the early zombie virus? We do have it, and we've even saved the paper version, but I'm not sure if it's what you need..."

Someone spoke cautiously.

They just learned from Han Youlin that the big guy in front of them was actually a sixth-level awakener! Although Han Youlin said that this big guy had a good temper, they had seen awakeners with bad tempers before, so they were still a little nervous.

"Okay, let me take a look."

Wang Tao couldn't understand the information either, but Qu Shilin directly taught him a simple method, which could roughly determine whether this thing was useful to Qu Shilin.

A minute later, the four men came over, each holding a thick stack of information.

"so much?"

Wang Tao was a little surprised.

"Ahem, I don't know what you need, anyway, I brought all our backed-up data..."

Wang Tao suddenly felt a headache, but he still flipped through it, and actually saw a piece of information that was somewhat consistent with what Qu Shilin said.

"Okay, I'll take all this information! As a thank you, let me do you a small favor..."

(End of this chapter)