#883 - Chapter 883: Pride and Bad News
Nighttime.
After spending half the day observing the research progress at the laboratory, Qin Jincai returned to the leader's office, still feeling unsatisfied.
The Green Source Laboratory had too many treasures!
Various goodies like D-serum, regeneration fluid, detoxification methods, life extension techniques, and so on – any one of which could cause a worldwide sensation in peacetime – were all under his control.
The feeling of possessing endless wealth made Qin Jin feel like a nouveau riche.
Wonderful, indeed.
The D-serum was already showing signs of drug resistance with his frequent use, so it was temporarily set aside. The regeneration fluid was also ranked as a lower research priority because it wasn't of much immediate use to him.
The detoxification method, once large-scale fishing began after spring, could greatly increase Green Source's food supply.
The most important life extension technique was also discussed with Old Zhou, and they came up with an implementation standard.
In the future, he would naturally go out with the hunting team to kill mutant zombies, extract the medulla and cerebrospinal fluid from their bodies, and immediately use the equipment he carried to refine the life extension fluid!
The ultimate product of the life extension technique was this life extension fluid.
After the virus was confirmed to be inactivated by the instrument, it was suitable for human absorption and could be injected on the spot.
Then, one could slowly wait for the telomeres in the body's cells to repair themselves.
This process didn't require lying in bed, just avoiding strenuous exercise.
According to Lu Ming's previous research, and the successful cases in the Fuhai base, a relatively ordinary level 1 mutant zombie could restore about one month of life!
And a more powerful level 2 zombie could restore about three months of life!
Such heaven-defying technology wouldn't simply allow humans to live forever.
Moreover, the life extension technique had certain limitations. The repair of telomeres wasn't infinite. Lu Ming discovered in his earlier research that telomeres could only be repaired to about the most vigorous period of human life, around 18-20 years old.
Continuing to use it wouldn't cause the user to become a child.
Qin Jin naturally knew this information and understood the limitations of this technology.
According to this calculation, about ten ordinary level 1 mutant zombies could extend his life by 1 year!
Using level 2 mutant zombies would only require about 3!
"The road ahead is long and arduous."
Sitting in his boss's chair, Qin Jin sighed.
It seemed that the life extension technique wasn't a one-time use for immortality, but required the user to constantly use it to slowly restore the consumed lifespan.
"Who would have thought that zombies, feared by everyone, would eventually become a treasure for a small group of people?"
China had a population of 2 billion, and the entire Blue Star once had as many as 10 billion!
A year after the apocalypse, according to estimates by some scholars in the base, there were now less than 200 million human survivors.
But the number of zombies was as high as 10 billion!
Even if the survivors established various shelters or large bases, the number of zombies killed every day was still a drop in the bucket.
It wasn't even as many as the number of survivors who died every day!
With this base, even if there was only a one in ten thousand chance of a mutant zombie appearing, then the entire Blue Star would probably have hundreds of thousands of mutant zombies!
This number was enough for Qin Jin to maintain tens of thousands of years of life!
Not to mention some level 2 mutant zombies!
Or even some terrifying existences suspected of reaching level 3!
And the longer a zombie lived, the greater the possibility of mutation.
Theoretically, the zombies on Blue Star were enough for him to use for a long, long time.
However, this calculation method was definitely not accurate.
Because it was foreseeable that more and more forces would realize the secrets of mutant zombies.
Like the Fuhai base, they developed evolution fluid, a by-product extracted from mutant zombies.
Qin Jin wasn't sure if there were other forces in China that had developed similar things, but he absolutely believed that forces on the entire Blue Star would discover it!
Because in his previous life, he had heard that some forces were collecting the bodies of mutant zombies!
At that time, he didn't know these secrets, and only thought that some forces with research capabilities were working hard to find a way to eliminate the zombie virus.
Now it seemed that wasn't the case!
In the future, more forces would definitely realize these dangerous treasures!
Guangnan Province was now basically controlled by Green Source. The survivors here basically knew that they could exchange information about mutant zombies for materials and food.
Some smart survivors or large and small forces would inevitably suspect that Green Source was conducting some secret research.
It's just that others didn't dare to ask.
Currently, Green Source was the sky of Guangnan Province.
"It seems that next year we really need to continue expanding the base's control!"
"Not just Guangnan Province, more surrounding provinces, and even the entire China, I have to take it down!"
Qin Jin stretched out his right hand and made a gesture of grasping something illusory in the air, as if to grasp something illusory.
Set a small goal!
Take down the entire China!
As for the bigger goal?
The ultimate goal that was almost unimaginable?
He didn't dare to fantasize about it for the time being.
With the current technological strength, Green Source didn't have the ability to control the power of other continents.
Keep working hard!
At this moment, the thought that Qin Jin had always hidden in the deepest part of his heart, and didn't even dare to imagine, rushed out!
With a long life, as long as he could keep living, and the scope of survivors and forces under his control continued to expand, one day there was still a glimmer of hope to achieve that ultimate goal!
A powerful and strange aura emanated from Qin Jin's body!
If someone was next to him at this time, they would perceive a kind of scalp-numbing spirit!
This was a mysterious biological magnetic field!
"Ring ring ring~~~"
Just as Qin Jin was surrounded by all kinds of good news and his heart was full of lofty aspirations, the mobile phone on the table rang inappropriately.
The leader of Green Source was not unhappy about being disturbed, and still answered with a good mood.
However.
The next moment.
His beautiful mood disappeared without a trace!
"President Qin! Something happened at the base!!"
"Nearly a hundred people in the outer residential areas have fever, vomiting, and coma!! Two of them have died!! 17 cases have also appeared at the headquarters!!"
"After the security department and the medical department checked those patients, they found that these people's bodies had unknown toxins!"
"We suspect that the entire Green Source base is facing some kind of virus attack or biological attack! Request that the entire base enter a state of martial law and increase the level of alert!!"
Uncle Qin Guoqiang quickly said to Qin Jin in an anxious tone!
A large number of people in the Green Source base were infected with an unknown infection!?
How is that possible!!?
Qin Jin's eyes widened, and the lofty ambition just now was shattered by the sudden news!
"Immediately raise the alert level! Let everyone prepare for war!"
"I'll be right over!"
(End of this chapter)
