#743 - Chapter 743 The secret of zombies’ immortality!
While the Green Source Base wasn't afraid of the corpse mist, it didn't mean other places weren't.
Qin Jin directly ordered the oil base in Zhu City, the coal base in Shan City, and the trading branches in various cities outside to prepare for defense.
As for why others asked?
He directly said that the experts and scholars in the base detected an impending disaster.
No one dared to ask which expert said it.
Qin Jin himself was that expert.
This was the benefit of one-man rule.
Things he wanted to do could immediately become the top priority.
"The oil base and coal base don't have more than five hundred people each, and with high walls, they basically can't be breached!"
"As for those trading branches, it's even simpler. These places, with basically no more than a hundred people, only need to bring back the official Green Source personnel. As for the other peripheral survivors, they can stay there and wait for the corpse mist to pass, and then naturally go back to clean up the mess."
Qin Jin held a pen and spun it between his fingers, making these decisions in an instant.
Official Green Source personnel could have priority for rescue.
As for the survivors who cooperated with the trading branches, they could only leave them some cold weapons and sturdy temporary bases.
Logically speaking, they shouldn't have too many problems.
If special circumstances arose, they could only consider it their bad luck.
This was the difference between official and non-official personnel.
"Oh right, there's also the Red Cloud Base!"
Qin Jin slapped his forehead, almost forgetting that there was an affiliated base in Shenzhen that had a close relationship with Green Source.
This force, which had been passing on a lot of useful information to headquarters during this period and followed Green Source's lead, could barely be considered half of Green Source's people.
However.
After a little thought, Qin Jin felt that the location chosen for the Red Cloud Base was too rash.
To actually build it in Shenzhen, it was simply choosing a difficult mode for themselves.
Even if they were only staying on the outskirts of Shenzhen, Shenzhen was a giant city that once had twenty or thirty million people!
Even if only one percent of the zombies went to besiege Red Cloud, it would be enough to give them a headache.
Although the Red Cloud Base had been learning and imitating him, they really couldn't compare with Green Source.
To be honest, Qin Jin didn't think the Red Cloud Base could withstand a million-level zombie horde.
"If I remember correctly, Yan Hong and Xiong Sen increased the population to nearly the five hundred warning line, right!? Last time I asked them, it seemed like the number had reached more than four hundred and sixty people?"
Qin Jin narrowed his eyes, suddenly thinking of their somewhat risky behavior.
It was said that five hundred people was a level warning line for attracting zombie hordes, but naturally it couldn't be so precise.
Every survivor was different, and the attraction of a strong, young adult was definitely stronger than that of a sixty or seventy-year-old.
So there would be a certain amount of fluctuation.
"I wonder if they reduced it later?"
"Perhaps I'm overthinking it. They don't have someone like Lin Runwei there, so there shouldn't be any danger."
Qin Jin shook his head, feeling a little worried.
There was no way around it.
He had a fear of insufficient firepower and paranoia.
He always liked to put himself in the most extreme situation to face difficulties.
This kind of situation rarely occurred.
Moreover, the Red Cloud Base had a fixed base station provided by Green Source, and they could request support from headquarters at any time if there was a problem.
Thinking of Sister Hong, this female powerhouse who founded a not-so-small base based on her female identity, Qin Jin admired her quite a bit.
"I should still arrange something for them to keep things in check."
In the end, Qin Jin decided to allocate some of the zombie-killing tools that headquarters was gradually not using to Red Cloud.
He had deployed several Annihilators and Cutters to Zhu City and Shan City, and giving one of each to the Red Cloud Base wasn't unaffordable.
These zombie defense machines, which were once extremely valuable, had long been mass-produced by Green Source.
The supplies that were continuously transported back every day weren't just for show.
After confirming, Qin Jin prepared to arrange it.
Also, since confirming his relationship with Zhao Ling and having intimate contact, their relationship had skyrocketed.
Qin Jin began to hand over some less important matters to this head of the life force.
As his woman, she was qualified to be exposed to these things.
Green Source Laboratory.
The mutated zombies that had been continuously transported back from the outside every day had become experimental materials for the scientists here and raw materials for extracting and manufacturing D-serum and regeneration fluid.
Currently, these two important potions required the synthesis of certain substances extracted from the remains of mutated zombies.
After joining the Green Source Laboratory, Sun Lao quickly became the most awesome experimenter here with his profound knowledge and experience.
Apart from his status not being as high as Zhou Qihang, the captain designated by the leader of Green Source, no one dared to be too presumptuous in front of Sun Lao.
It was really because this big shot's knowledge was too broad and vast!
"Great!! Found it!! It's this thing!!!"
"We finally discovered it! Both mutated zombies and ordinary zombies have a never-before-seen variant of mitochondria! This mitochondria can survive in various harsh environments and continue to provide the host with the energy needed for activity!"
"This is why zombies can be active for so long!"
"This variant mitochondria is definitely a treasure of nature! It completely breaks the rules, allowing the original organism to continue to obtain energy for activity. It can also directly devour other proteins, fats, and everything else that can produce energy from flesh and blood!"
"When there is no flesh and blood supplement, these mitochondria will enter a special state, directly absorbing moisture and microorganisms from the air to continue creating energy! You must know that as long as the air is not a vacuum, there will definitely be various microorganisms! These mitochondria can actually become energy batteries!"
"Moreover, these mitochondria are fused with RNA and DNA fragments, carrying the genetic information of the main body only to serve this host! And when they age and die, they self-divide into a completely new and young individual!"
"So zombies are not perpetual motion machines! They just have secrets that ordinary people can't imagine!"
In the main base laboratory, a group of scholars excitedly passed on this amazing news!
The reason why zombies continue to move after death and seem to have immortal properties has been found by Sun Lao and the scholars!
This is definitely shocking news!
Qin Jin rushed over immediately when this achievement appeared here. With such a shocking achievement, he had to come!
No one was not curious as to why those zombies could remain undead. Even after six years in his previous life, the "shells" of those zombies outside only seemed "old" after the baptism of wind, frost, and time, but they could still move after many years.
Now he finally knew that the reason why these ghosts were undead was here!
They had a magical variant individual unit in their bodies, which continuously created energy for them like ultramicro generators!
Even microorganisms in the air could be captured!
In other words, as long as they didn't move violently, they could spend an unimaginable amount of time after falling asleep outside!
Alternative immortality!
Flesh and blood was just a large supplement they needed to continue to become stronger. Even if they didn't eat, they could still live forever.
This was an amazing discovery, and also a desperate discovery for ordinary survivors.
Because if this continued, the human survivors on Blue Star would simply not be able to outlive the zombies, whose theoretical "lifespan" was unimaginably long!
(End of chapter)
