The Walking Dead: Rebuild

Chapter 78 Argument
In the Senas Nuclear Power Plant Command Center, Leon looked solemnly at the open door of the underground facility.

Standing beside him were many elite soldiers carefully selected from the security department, including team captains such as Daryl, Moore, Glenn, and Colonel William.

In addition, senior professors and doctors affiliated with the Umbrella Company were also standing around him and discussing intensely.

Everyone was wearing a radiation protective suit and carrying a brand new Geiger radiation counter, carefully guarding against any risk of being harmed by radiation.

After their careful investigation and testing, they found that the radiation here is indeed much higher than the outside world. Without protective clothing, short-term exposure may not cause much harm to the human body, but long-term exposure here will cause It causes many invisible damages to the human body and even produces irrepressible mutations.

Paige wore a protective suit and held a laptop in her hand. She walked quickly to Leon and said:
"Leon, the seventh mechanical dog was also destroyed by the monster inside."

"This is the last video captured before they were destroyed."

"Are we going to keep sending more robotic dogs in?"

Leon looked a little solemn and did not answer. He took the laptop in Paige's hand and looked at the battle videos inside again.

Although he had watched it several times, he was still secretly frightened by the mutated monsters that appeared in the video.

To everyone's surprise, there were many more powerful mutant zombies in the underground facilities of the nuclear power plant.

Currently, there are three types of special mutant zombies, just those photographed before the armed mechanical dog was destroyed.

The first type of mutant zombie has a tall and burly body, with deformed and abnormally strong muscles bulging all over the body. The bones are extremely hard and very powerful. They like to use their tyrannical flesh to run rampant. They are called tank zombies by Lyon.

Most of the armed robot dogs were destroyed in the hands of such mutated zombies. Once they find a target, they will accelerate and charge like a bull in heat and then hit the target. The destructive force generated will even directly destroy the armed robot. The mechanical dog was distorted and lost its ability to move.

The second type of mutant zombie is as thin as a monkey, agile, able to run or even jump, and has sharp claws. It is called a hunter zombie by Leon.

This kind of zombie has strong combat power and is good at sneak attacks, but their claws and teeth are not very effective against the steel-structured armed robot dog. In the process of attacking the armed robot dog, several of them were killed by its short-barreled shotgun.

However, Leon knows that if a survivor encounters such a mutant zombie, it will be like a wild boar encountering a venomous snake. Although he can use firearms to defeat them, he is also very easy to be injured by the claws of this mutant zombie and become infected by the virus. Become a new zombie.

The third type of mutant zombie is a zombie with a bulging belly as if it were pregnant. Leon calls them Corruptors.

Once this kind of zombie sees an enemy, it will spray a stream of corrosive bile at the enemy, covering the enemy with a range of up to 30 meters.

This bile is so powerful that it can even corrode the steel shell of the armed mechanical dog within a few minutes, damaging the circuits and devices inside. Currently, two armed mechanical dogs have been destroyed by these corroders.

However, these special mutant zombies are just like the ordinary mutant zombies outside. Once they lose sight of the enemy, they will no longer run out of the underground facilities of the nuclear power plant to continue searching.They would not even be affected by the loud sound outside the underground facility. Even though there was such a large-scale battle near the nuclear power plant not long ago, not a single special mutant zombie escaped from the underground.

Moreover, there are not many of them, under the detection of the armed mechanical dogs controlled by Peggy.

Most of the underground facilities of the entire nuclear power plant were empty, and even the bodies of those former workers could not be found.

Those special mutant zombies tend to only stay in places with very high radiation concentrations, so almost all of them stay in the central area of ​​the underground facility, that is, the area around the reactor.

Their number is not large. According to Peggy's investigation and speculation, the total number of special mutant zombies around the reactor should not exceed a hundred. Occasionally, a few special mutant zombies will leave the area and run away. Wander somewhere else.

Even so, seeing the fighting power of those special mutant zombies, fighting them is extremely dangerous.

Even a powerful human like Leon dare not say that he can defeat the mutant zombies. It is conceivable that if he sends soldiers from the security department to enter the underground facility to fight them, there will definitely be huge casualties.

Thinking that the soldiers who were loyal and trusting him might lose their lives, he unconsciously felt a trace of resistance in his heart.

On the other side, the discussion between the doctors and professors was temporarily over. No one could convince anyone, and they could only turn their attention to the real decision-maker of the Umbrella Company, Leon.

Dr. Melfa was always so direct and straightforward, with a strong desire for discovery in her eyes. She held Leon's hand and said:
"Leon, we need samples of those special mutant zombies, and it's best to get living samples."

"There is no doubt that they were all humans when they were alive, but they were able to mutate to such an extent in less than a year, which simply breaks the basic logic of biological mutation and evolution."

"If we can understand the principle, maybe we can defeat the zombie virus and even allow humans to evolve to a higher level."

Professor Jacob, standing aside, disagreed with Melfa's opinion.

This kind, brave and knowledgeable old professor said to Leon with a serious expression:
"Lyon, nuclear radiation is a very dangerous radiation. It will not only destroy the stable structure of genes in biological bodies, but also easily cause irreversible mutations in biological genes. This is not a stable and reliable way of evolution."

"Although we don't know why these zombies mutated so much in such a short period of time, it is definitely a technology that is difficult to master with our current talent pool and technical equipment."

"Instead of letting precious warriors risk their lives to obtain these inestimable, good or bad things, it is better to use our power in places that are more able to help mankind thrive again."

Jacob said to Lyon seriously:
"Leon, all of us trust you, and those loyal fighters even entrusted their lives to you."

"But as a leader, you must carefully consider which things are worth doing and which things are not worth doing, and cherish these heroic and noble lives."

(End of this chapter)