Doomsday magician

Chapter 90

In the office, Xiao Jie lit a cigarette and was looking at an experiment report on the table.

"Come here." Xiao Jie called out in a neutral tone.

A soldier with live ammunition came in from the door, saluted, and stood one step away from the door looking at Xiao Jie.

"Go to the laboratory and ask the dean to come over." Xiao Jie shook his cigar on the ashtray, and the ash fell down one after another.

After a while, an old man with gray hair came in.

"commander."

Xiao Jie quickly stood up and invited him to the sofa: "Dean, please sit down."

The dean sat on the sofa tremblingly, and asked slowly: "Commander, I don't know what to do, you have to know that if we delay for a second, the development of the vaccine will be delayed for a second, and more than one or two people will die. gone."

Xiao Jie quickly laughed and said: "Yes, yes, I am doing this for everyone's benefit, after all, it is also very important."

Xiao Jie made another cup of tea, solemnly held it in front of the dean, puffed out his chest, and sat upright, like a primary school student in class.

The dean sighed. Sitting in front of him was the commander of the Sichuan-Tibet Base. Whether his experiment could continue or not still needed his full support.

Because, his experiment needs his support too much...

"I don't know how the experiment is going." Xiao Jie asked without daring to breathe.

"The progress of the vaccine is still a breakthrough." The dean smiled, and when he talked about his own research, the dean became interested.

Xiao Jie was taken aback for a moment, looked up at the dean, and suddenly his heart moved.He immediately put aside the ecstasy in his head, stood up and asked, "Is it about the virus vaccine?"

Xiao Jie's voice trembled a little, he had expected to see this scene many times in his dreams.But what hit him hard was that the biochemical virus experts at the base only disappointed him again and again, and they never really came up with effective anti-virus methods. Now, seeing the excited look of the dean, his heart Suddenly there is more anticipation

"Exactly."

The dean nodded, and this made Xiao Jie overjoyed.Moved, he stepped forward to pull the dean, and asked urgently: "It's really developed? Has it been verified by human body? How effective is it? Can it be mass-produced?"

He asked four questions in a row, apparently losing his composure.

The dean could understand his excitement. In fact, when the result came out, all the experts in the biology laboratory cheered loudly.After several months of hard work, just when everyone was almost desperate, a proposal and some data from Tiannan Liuzhou gave them a new idea.As a result, it proved that this method is really feasible.

"It has been developed, but there are still big flaws, and the effect is not stable..."

The dean's words were somewhat embarrassing, but he was also too excited.The pressure on the biology laboratory was too great before, and he couldn't wait for the complete result, so he hurried over to announce the good news after confirming that it was feasible.

"There are still defects?"

This sentence made Xiao Jie's excitement disappear a lot, but he immediately burst out laughing.He also knows how difficult it is to crack the vaccine. It is not easy to make a major breakthrough now, but it is unrealistic to expect to be in place in one step.Thinking of this, his expression was still filled with excitement and praise, and he said, "Come, tell me about the situation inside in detail."

"it is good."

The dean suppressed the excitement in his heart, and slowly said: "This breakthrough is a piece of information from Tiannan Liuzhou Base. It is said that it is from the progress of the research and development under the leadership of Professor Jingdu. Viruses can devour low-level viruses to develop vaccines. According to some of the data he provided, we have successfully researched vaccines that can crack all viruses below the second level. If his report hadn’t been lost, maybe we can advance developed over a period of time."

"Can you crack all the viruses infected by zombies below the second level?"

Xiao Jie frowned slightly, and then relaxed it again.

The dean didn't notice Xiao Jie's expression, and still said happily to himself: "Yes, we call it No. 10. This kind of potion is divided into two bottles, the first bottle is a standard zombie virus sample, and the second bottle It is a targeted vaccine. After successive tests, as long as the first bottle of medicine can be used within 10 minutes of being infected, and then wait 70.00 minutes before injecting the second bottle of targeted vaccine, the probability of survival is more than [-]%.

Xiao Jie thought for a while and asked, "So, what if the vaccine doesn't take effect? ​​Or what will happen to the survivors infected by the second-order zombies?"

The dean was stunned for a moment, and said hesitantly: "Facing the virus of the second-level zombies, there is a small chance of it taking effect, but that depends on luck. As for the consequences of the failure of the targeted vaccine, it is very likely that it will directly become a higher-level virus." Zombies, but there is also a certain possibility..."

"What is possible?" Xiao Jie asked.

At this moment, the dean seemed to think of something horrifying and unbelievable.He murmured and thought for a while before whispering: "It's possible...to become a cyborg is the kind of creature in the movie that has zombie viruses in its body but retains most of the human physiological functions and intelligence. .”

"What did you say? Cyborg?"

Xiao Jie was taken aback, thinking he had heard wrong.But seeing the dean's expression that he didn't really believe it, he knew that what sounded like a fairy tale was indeed true.

"Well, because they are as wild as beasts, but also human, we named them Wild Beastmen."

After pondering for a while, he digested the news and asked, "How did you know? Could it be that there was an example during the human experiment?"

"Yes." The dean nodded, and said with a serious face: "Of the more than 50 death row prisoners sent by the military, 41 were successfully treated and pardoned. Another thirteen died for various reasons. , turned into a first-level or second-level zombie. In the end, there was a person with a particularly strong body. I don’t know if it was luck or what happened. He survived when he was about to become a zombie, and finally became a A strange existence with some characteristics of zombies and characteristics of living people."

"Then, is that wild beastman any different from ordinary humans?"

The dean thought for a while, and said: "Because there is only one case, we are not sure, and we are still under continuous observation. However, from his body, the death row prisoner is very clear-headed and his memory is almost complete. However, Although the virus on his body has lost the ability to continue to mutate, it is still infectious to a certain extent, and it is best for ordinary people not to get close to it. Another point is that his physical fitness has become very strong. To three times, the recovery ability is also strengthened."

"Physical fitness has been strengthened?"

Xiao Jie keenly noticed the last two words of the dean, and couldn't help being moved.

"The main reason is that the strength and reaction speed are beyond the limit of ordinary humans." The dean recalled the initial test data, and estimated: "The elite of the Special Second Division who is in charge of protection outside the biology laboratory, he can deal with at least three Even if you are facing a second-order zombie, you can win with your bare hands. As for the second-order zombie... If you can form a well-trained team of six or seven wild beasts, even if you don't have heavy weapons, it is possible to deal with the second-order zombie."

"Oh?"

Xiao Jie was really moved now, but then he thought of something, and asked: "If he fights with zombies with bare hands, isn't he afraid of being infected? Or, after becoming a wild beast, he is no longer afraid of zombies." Virus infection?"

"I'm not sure about this. We can only say that when we tested it with a sample of the second-order zombie virus, we found that he was already immune. For the second-order virus, we still dare not test it for a while."

Xiao Jie nodded, pondered for a while, and asked in a strange tone: "Then, is it possible for them to be stronger? For example, evolve like zombies? Or, become wild beasts What is the probability of ?"

"Chief, you..."

No matter how dull the dean was, he couldn't help guessing some of his thoughts after hearing this question.Could it be that the capital base wants it?
Xiao Jie smiled dryly, and said in a low voice, "You don't have to think too much, just answer me."

He was shocked and wanted to speak up to object, but hesitated again and again, and sighed: "According to our observation and speculation, their strength should be fixed. Unless, we can get the virus of third-level or even fourth-level zombies samples, and then develop more advanced vaccines based on the samples. Otherwise, their strength will be finalized when they become wild beasts. As for the probability, I can only say that it is very low, maybe one in tens of thousands or tens of thousands is possible .”

"Are there fourth-order zombies in this world?" Xiao Jie asked.

The dean shook his head and said: "The zombies are still evolving, so everything is uncertain. But even if there is, it will be a long time later."

"That is to say, the strength of the wild beastmen can only be like this for the time being. However, even if there is a group that can deal with the second-order zombies." Thinking of this, Xiao Jie became more and more fiery, but the extremely low probability that the dean said made him He was a little daunted: "Could it be that there is no way to increase the chance of becoming a wild beastman?"

The dean wanted to persuade him, but before he opened his mouth, he saw Xiao Jie staring at him with unquestionable eyes.

After being silent for a while, he said: "The function of number one is not perfect now, and it's hard to say whether there will be any sequelae after becoming a wild beast. However, if there are some more examples and let us continue to develop, there should be progress. In the end, if you use specific conditions to induce, you may be able to increase the probability of becoming a wild beast to less than one in a thousand. If it is higher, I am afraid that it is not manpower, but depends on luck."

"thousandth"

It's still too low... Xiao Jie sighed in his heart, but he also knew that the dean usually doesn't say things that are uncertain.Since he gave this number, it must be more reliable.

The capital base now has more than 200 million survivors, and it is probably the largest gathering place of survivors in the world.If the probability is one in a thousand, theoretically there should be two thousand wild beastmen appearing.But the problem is that it is impossible for them to come up with so many vaccines, and it is impossible for them to take such a big risk to inject everyone.It's really hard to say how many wild beastmen will be born in the end just relying on the small-scale promotion of volunteers and the military.

"I see, let's do this first."

After roughly making up his mind, Xiao Jie waved his hand and let the dean go down.However, when he was going out, Xiao Jie suddenly remembered something, and reminded him: "Don't tell anyone about today's matter."

The dean froze for a moment, nodded helplessly and opened the door.

After the academician left, Xiao Jie stayed alone in the office for a while.After a long time, he called his subordinates and handed him a plan to recruit troops to carry out secret missions.As for the number of people in the first phase of the plan, it is tentatively set at 100 people.

(End of this chapter)