#552 - Chapter 552: Researched

The next day.

The weather remained the same.

Still unbearably hot.

Here in Mentang Town.

Since the eight cannibals were exposed, tortured to death, and hung outside as a warning, the outer areas of the Green Source Zone had become much calmer.

At least there were no more reports of people dying or disappearing mysteriously.

Headquarters had been sending drones to patrol outside these past two days.

By setting up signal amplifiers and modifying heat-resistant vehicles, some security team members could drive around the Green Source Zone for simple patrols.

Everything was calm and uneventful.

The survivors outside the Green Source Zone basically had enough water.

Knowing how to conserve, they drank very little each time, and the water they exchanged for from Green Source with their trade points should be enough to last them until September.

If it really wasn't enough, they could also run to the small residential areas and ask for help from relatives inside.

Recently, after the temperature under the sun reached over sixty degrees, it was still over forty degrees at night.

The zombies that used to run rampant basically didn't come out to wander around, actually allowing the survivors to move around at night.

This was quite a strange event.

Of course, everyone knew that this situation was temporary, and once the weather cooled down, those monsters would run out to find delicious flesh and blood again.

So far, no one has figured out what these zombies rely on to survive, and why they can "live" for so long without replenishing energy.

Most people are destined to never know the answer to this question.

Green Source Main Base.

Today, Qin Jin had nothing urgent to do, so he went to the laboratory to check on Zhou Qihang's research progress out of boredom during the day.

"How's it going lately? Any new progress?"

Going straight to the point, Chief Qin asked Zhou Qihang, who had just finished an experiment, as soon as he arrived at the laboratory.

Recently, Old Zhou had been soaking in the laboratory every day as usual, and had hardly taken a step out of here except for occasionally finding Qin Jin to request more experimental materials.

He even ate and slept here.

He had completely regarded this place as his home.

Perhaps it was precisely this spirit of working tirelessly that allowed him to be called a scientist.

Today, Old Zhou still had messy hair, and his already thin hair seemed to be getting even thinner. He scratched his head, adjusted his glasses, and began to introduce the recent situation in the laboratory.

"Boss, the experimental situation here has been pretty good recently! We've found more information about the characteristics of D-protein! Look! These are the conditions after injecting D-protein that has been improved and purified by us! The success rate is really getting higher and higher!"

He pointed with slight excitement to some transparent containers inside the laboratory that contained white mice.

Qin Jin looked over and saw more than a dozen white mice jumping around, full of energy and playing everywhere.

Each one was incredibly strong and almost catching up to the size of a small rabbit.

If it hadn't been said in advance that these were mice, people who saw them for the first time might have really thought they were white rabbits.

"The survival rate of D-protein in white mice is now about 50%! And after it stabilizes, there is basically no secondary death if you continue to use the medicine! That is to say, if their bodies can withstand D-protein once, they will slowly adapt to this thing, and then continue to inject it, they can continue to become stronger!"

Mm.

This was indeed good news.

If there was a huge risk with every injection, what was the difference between that and going to a casino to gamble?

You can win 9 times, but if you lose the 10th time, everything goes back to zero.

That's scary enough.

Fortunately, that won't happen.

"Good! Keep it up and try to get this done for me before October!"

"When the time comes, I'll reward you with a wife! You can pick whoever you want from the Green Source Zone! As long as the other party agrees and the inspection is fine, you'll be a married man! The base will take care of the children you have."

Qin Jin was in a great mood and was not stingy with his reward for Old Zhou.

What's wrong with finding a spouse for the scientific researcher who he values most in the base?

Wouldn't it be great to completely tie him to the base?

The Green Source Zone had recently taken in many new female survivors.

As the food problem was solved and implemented, people at headquarters could gradually start to have children.

Otherwise, where would the greater motivation to work come from?

After satisfying the appetite, wouldn't it be time to change to something else?

"Thank you, thank you, Boss."

Old Zhou scratched his increasingly sparse hair a little embarrassedly.

He was already in his late thirties, close to forty. He used to focus on scientific research and didn't have time to pay attention to partner issues. At the same time, he was a little inferior because his own conditions were not very good.

But now it was different. He was the boss of the Green Source Base's scientific research department. It wouldn't be too much to ask for a beautiful wife, right?

Just thinking about it was a little exciting.

Qin Jin continued to watch the experimental records and finished products that Old Zhou had recently made here. They were average and considered steady progress.

"By the way, President Qin, there's something I want to tell you."

"That is, I don't have enough 'experimental products' here again, and I need to ask you for some."

Zhou Qihang suddenly said this on the way back after viewing the laboratory.

Oh?

"That's right, we recently discovered that the D-protein in Miss Lin's body can be cultured using that Little Brother Lin's blood, so the D-protein production has doubled!"

"So our experimental product consumption has been a bit fast recently, and we need to ask you to replenish it again. This Little Brother Lin is indeed Miss Lin's biological brother. His body is surprisingly compatible with the existence of D-protein!"

"Although he cannot be directly injected to evolve and mutate, the blood taken from his body can be used as the parent body for D-protein cultivation."

Lin Zhijie?

Of course Qin Jin wouldn't forget this man.

After Lin Runwei was discovered to be abnormal and detained, this man took the initiative to find him and asked to share the burden for his sister.

He actually saw that Green Source was studying his sister.

Not too surprising.

As Lin Runwei's closest person, it would be strange if he couldn't even discover this.

At that time, Lin Zhijie found him and requested that he not hurt his sister, and was willing to dedicate his life to share all the pain for his sister.

What deep brother-sister affection.

Of course Qin Jin wouldn't refuse.

Putting aside the fact that after being guessed by Lin Zhijie, it would be inconvenient for him to stay in the base and engage in ordinary work.

Just the fact that he was a leg evolver was worth Old Zhou spending some effort to study.

They hit it off immediately.

Qin Jin directly let him join the Green Source Laboratory, gloriously becoming a staff member who was being studied.

"He actually has this kind of effect. D-protein production has doubled, that's really good, approved."

"Later, I will arrange more samples for you to experiment with. Anyway, if you need anything, just ask. As long as results can come out, I can satisfy your requirements!"

Qin Jin waved his hand and directly agreed.

How could he disagree?

For his own major event of restarting evolution, the mere experimental products were a necessary sacrifice.

"By the way, our people picked up some mutated creature's flesh and blood from outside some time ago, and you can also study some of the mutated zombie flesh and blood that we killed."

(End of this chapter)