Chapter 1395 The Secret of Zombies? (Long chapter, please subscribe if you want more)

Oil City.

In the trading market.

There is a long queue at the official store in Oil City.

Xie Dongming, carrying a bag of food with his men, looked ahead anxiously.

"Brother Ming, you are really right. I didn't expect that Oil City would actually take out ultraviolet lamps to trade with us."

Ten days have passed since the thunderstorm disaster, and they are still here. The reason why they did not go out is because they are waiting.

On this day, Oil City can take out ultraviolet lamps and trade with the survivors.

Xie Dongming smiled bitterly and said:

"I was also betting and guessing."

"It's too dangerous to run out now, and we still have some food, so we might as well wait."

"It's just that I didn't expect the Oil City to be so grand. They took out hundreds of ultraviolet lamps at once."

The subordinate asked in confusion: "Where do they get these ultraviolet lamps from?"

"Not sure."

After thinking for a moment, Xie Dongming said, "Oil City should not exist in isolation. They should have bases in other places. Didn't we hear that the group came from the north before? What's their name?"

"Northern Territory!" the subordinate replied.

"Yes, it's the North."

There was an urging from behind, "Let's go..."

Xie Dongming hurriedly took a few steps forward. There was a long queue behind them.

After realizing the safety of the trading market, forces such as the Ax Gang, Cold-blooded Army, and Tingfeng Tower all sent people out to bring back all the things that could be taken away from their original bases to the trading market. In the city.

However, not everyone who goes out can return to the trading market smoothly.

At night, wall-climbing zombies are extremely scary.

These forces are becoming more and more aware of the effects of ultraviolet lamps. Some of them understand this and try their best to make their own use of it, but they also gain some benefits from it.

But demand is great and supply is insufficient.

There were only a few dozen ultraviolet lamps for sale in the trading market, and they were all sold out in no time.

I never thought that Oil City would actually go out and sell ultraviolet lamps in person.

Compared with the dozens of UV lamps circulating on the market, these UV lamps sold in Oil City are not only of better quality, but also cheaper.

It instantly caused people in the trading market to rush for it.

The queue was long, but no one dared to cut in line.

They know very well how strict the regulations in the trading market are. So many people have died, and no one dares to touch these regulations again.

Xie Dongming and others sent a team for another ten minutes, and finally it was their turn.

"Next."

Xie Dongming hurried forward and asked his men to carry the sacks containing food to the container.

Liu Jinping glanced at him briefly, asked Su Yuan next to him to check the contents, and finally weighed them on the scale.

"What is your name?"

"Xie Dongming."

Liu Jinglue searched for the name Xie Dongming on his computer, and then continued to ask:

"How many people?"

"Thirteen people."

"Well, according to the number of people in your team, the purchase is limited to two."

"Su Yuan, return the extra food to him."

Su Yuan took out part of the grain from the sack and finally put the mochi in a bag and placed it in the corner.

The corner was already piled with all kinds of food. In addition to these foods, there were also some other items that could be traded.

On the other side, Dai Jiusheng handed them two low-power ultraviolet lamps.

"for you."

Xie Dongming's face was full of joy and he quickly hugged these two long ultraviolet lamps in his arms.

About half a meter long and ten centimeters in diameter.

"By the way, I would like to ask how long the battery life of this UV lamp is after it is turned on?"

Liu Jing glanced at him briefly and flipped through the notes written on the computer.

"It can be used for six hours when fully charged. Yours is a low-power one."

"in addition."

"You can recharge in the trading market."

"Is it free?" Xie Dongming asked in surprise.

"Well, it's free for the time being. Starting from next month, a certain fee will be charged, but don't worry, the fee is very low."

Xie Dongming nodded vigorously, "Thank you."

Liu Jinglue didn't respond to him and shouted loudly: "Next one."

It seemed that Liu Jing was a little irritated after being asked by several people who were buying ultraviolet rays.

"Jiu Sheng, please write a sign and include the usage time of each specification of the UV lamp and charging issues. I don't want to explain it to them one by one."

"Okay." Dai Jiusheng nodded and walked to the back to look for the sign.

Big camphor tree base.

Since Bai Jie, Ma Di and others came back yesterday, they have been spending time in the Da Zhangshu Base Research Institute.

I was woken up at three or four o'clock in the morning the day before yesterday. I stayed up all night last night and concentrated on studying the mutant zombies caught in the cave.

It wasn't until around ten o'clock this morning that Ma Di and Bai Jie had a comprehensive understanding of these mutant zombies.

Bai Jie's eyes were red, her hair was messy, and she looked a little depressed.

"Old Ma, we are in trouble now."

Madi was in the same state as her, with despair in her eyes.

Not only the two of them, but also Zhao Ke, Xiaolan, and Wang Yin in the scientific research institute.

Kong Shuang was not involved in this research work because he was busy with the chemical factory in the base.

"Director Bai, do we humans still have a future?"

Zhao Ke had a frightened look in his eyes and continued:

"Zombies are getting stronger and stronger, but we humans have been stagnant. I really can't imagine what it will be like if zombies continue to get stronger."

Xiao Lan lay on the table, looking at the test report over and over again.

She rarely speaks and followed Bai Jie to join the Dazhangshu base a long time ago.

She has been following Bai Jie, under Bai Jie's dazzling light, and she rarely speaks, she is like a little transparent in the base.

Compared with Meng Yu, who has become the head of the Dazhangshu base medical hospital, Anya, who is in charge of agricultural planting at the headquarters base, and Bai Jie from the research institute, the companions who came in the same batch.

She has no sense of existence in the base.

But she is very happy. No one noticed her, and she would not be nervous because of this.

She worked diligently and lived hard and seriously.

She was very satisfied.

But when she saw the test report, she felt desperate for the first time.

There has been no major breakthrough in the zombie vaccine until now, but the zombies outside are getting stronger.

As a scientific researcher, she knew what this meant.

She once imagined that if there were no zombies and natural disasters in this world, and the world slowly returned to its former state, she would be able to travel at that time.

Go and enjoy the scenery of this world.

But now it seems that there is not much hope.

Despair permeates the hearts of every researcher.

Bai Jie put her hands in her hair and groaned in pain.

"How could it be! How could the amount of virus carried in the zombies' bodies be increased!"

"The more corpses of the same kind the zombies eat, the more virus they carry, which promotes individual changes and becomes stronger."

"If... if that's the case, what will the zombies look like if they keep getting stronger?"

She didn't know, she didn't dare to imagine.

Since that terrible high temperature disaster, all the zombies disappeared for a while.

When they reappeared, the skin of all the zombies turned white.

It was from that time that some zombies began to mutate.

But that was a very rare case.

After the flood, sensitive zombies and power zombies appeared one after another.

Then there appeared high-jumping zombies and undead zombies.

The last thunderstorm disaster again saw a new mutant zombie, the wall-climbing zombie!

The amount of virus carried in the body of the wall-climbing zombie is ten times that of ordinary zombies.

This means that in order to form a wall-climbing zombie, this zombie needs to eat the bodies of ten of its own kind.

And now, they found from the two high-jumping zombies and power zombies captured in the cave that these two zombies carry 1.5 times the amount of virus in the bodies of the same type of zombies before.

Correspondingly, the strength and high-jumping ability of these two zombies have also increased.

This shows that zombies are still mutating, and the more of their own kind they eat, the stronger they are.

Zhao Ke suddenly stood up and walked back and forth a few times.

"No, no."

"What?" Madi looked up at him.

Zhao Ke shook his head and walked around the research institute, saying:

"In fact, we should have discovered this earlier!"

"When did the zombies mutate for the first time? The rainstorm disaster, you remember it."

"Looking back, you should also be able to feel that: every subsequent rainstorm or flood, these zombies will become stronger, but not as obvious as this time.

This thunderstorm disaster lasted the longest, so the mutant zombies changed the most, so it gave us a feeling that the mutant zombies suddenly became stronger."

"But in fact, zombies have been mutating since they started to eat their own kind."

Zhao Ke suddenly paused and quickly wrote down a few key words on the whiteboard.

Heavy rain disaster, zombies, mutant zombies, humans.

"According to this logic, that is"

"Mutated zombies need to mutate continuously, which can only happen in heavy rain weather. The longer the heavy rain disaster lasts, the stronger the mutant zombies will become."

"The heavy rain disaster is like a switch, causing the zombie mutation to accelerate."

"Everyone knows that zombies will become stronger in heavy rain, especially mutant zombies. Instead of studying zombies, we might as well study the reasons for frequent natural disasters!"

"If there were no such long-lasting heavy rain disasters, wouldn't the zombie mutations be suppressed?"

Zhao Ke's idea was a bit strange. He did not study zombie vaccines, but natural disasters.

But what he said did cause Bai Jie and others to think.

The natural disaster is related to the changes of zombies, which is generally recognized by all of them.

If nothing else, the fact that zombies become stronger during heavy rain has verified this argument several times.

"But how to study natural disasters? Where do we start?" Bai Jie frowned and raised her head and asked.

"We are all doing biological research, and we don't know much about this. But we can ask the people in the base who know meteorology and geology to study together." Zhao Ke said quickly.

"Yeah"

Swish!

Madi stood up from the stool at once.

Snap!

Because he moved too fast, the stool was kicked over and fell to the ground, making a loud noise.

Everyone was startled by his action.

"Old Ma, what did you think of? Tell me! Don't be so startled, it's scary!" Bai Jie said in a bad tone.

Madi's eyes flashed with a light.

He said somewhat mysteriously:

"Do you know how zombies are formed?"

Bai Jie rolled her eyes, "Weren't you the team responsible for that cancer drug? Weren't you the one who extracted the anti-cancer elements from that extraterrestrial meteorite?"

"Meteorite from outer space."

While talking, Bai Jie suddenly realized something.

"There have never been so many natural disasters before the end of the world. After the appearance of extraterrestrial meteorites, anti-cancer drugs entered the human body and formed zombies. At the same time, so many natural disasters also occurred."

"So the key core is the meteorite!"

"right."

Madi said with excitement on his face: "It's a meteorite from outside the sky."

"The core of everything, to solve the natural disasters and zombies, we must find the meteorites. The meteorites are the root cause of the natural disasters!"

Everyone was a little excited. They were not afraid that the zombies would become stronger or that natural disasters would continue.

I’m afraid I can’t find the reason!

Suddenly, Xiaolan, who had been lying on the table without speaking, weakly asked a question, which completely poured cold water on their newly excited mood.

"Let me ask, how did we find that extraterrestrial meteorite? In other words, how many extraterrestrial meteorites are there? Are they many? Or..."

After she finished speaking, everyone fell silent for a moment.

Xiaolan's question was very critical. No one knew how to answer the question she asked.

Yes, where are the meteorites from the sky?

The city lord issued the mission a long time ago, but there is still no whereabouts of the meteorite.

Trying to find meteorites from outer space is like looking for a needle in a haystack, which is far away and nowhere in sight.

well.

Bai Jie sighed and saw that everyone was in a wrong mood.

Although she is quite desperate, as the director of a scientific research institute, she must take the lead and inspire everyone.

"Everyone, the majestic pass and the long road are really like iron, but now we are crossing them from the beginning."

"We can't be discouraged. We still have to do what needs to be done. We were able to develop zombie-attracting potions before, and we will definitely be able to develop something to deal with zombies in the future."

Wang Yin smiled bitterly and said:

"Director Bai, I feel a little strange."

"What?" Bai Jie looked at Wang Yin in the corner.

"I've read doomsday novels before, and they were all about the kind where humans can dig zombie cores from zombies and then improve their abilities."

"But the reality is that we humans have not changed at all. Instead, zombies obtain stronger viruses from the corpses of their own kind."

"Zombies can become stronger, but we can't. This world is so unfair!"

Bai Jie took a deep breath and stood out.

The little watermelon on her chest trembled slightly, and her white shirt almost fell apart as she breathed in.

"No, we actually have an advantage too!"

"We have smart brains and wisdom! Zombies have no intelligence. Although they are getting stronger, I believe that with our wisdom, we can one day find a solution to the zombies!"

Her eyes were firm and her tone was extremely confident.

Seemingly infected by her emotions, Madi nodded and said:

"right!"

"We don't have to despair, no matter how strong the zombies are, they can't stop a bullet!"

"I also believe that one day, we will be able to restore this world to its former appearance!"

Bai Jie stretched out her hand and placed it in the center, "Come on, come on!"

Ma Di also put his hand over, Xiaolan who was lying on the table quickly ran over, and even Wang Yin who was in the corner came over.

So people gathered together and formed a circle.

The hands are stacked layer by layer, raised up, and then lowered down heavily.

"come on!"

Full of momentum.

The decadence on the faces of everyone in the scientific research institute was wiped away, and a burning fighting spirit was rekindled.

They believe that as long as they persist in working hard, they will be able to solve zombies and natural disasters and make the world what it was before.

"Let's go out. The city lord and the others must have been waiting for a long time." Bai Jie looked at the time and it was almost noon.

inner city.

meeting room.

Li Yu, his second uncle, and his eldest uncle are sitting here. They just learned something from the North.

On his way to the north, Lao Yi encountered a high-jumping zombie that was stronger than before.

This means that the mutant zombies found in the caves to the south are stronger than before, and they are not an exception!

"Brother, Bai Jie and Ma Di are here." Li Hang opened the door of the conference room.

"Okay, I just want to find them, let them come in."

Bai Jie and Ma Di entered the conference room.

Li Yu looked at the excited auras remaining on Bai Jie's faces and thought they had made some major breakthrough.

Excited, he asked anxiously:

"How's it going? Is there any research result?"

Bai Jie looked awkward and said, "City Lord."

"The amount of zombie viruses carried in the bodies of the zombies found in the caves has increased, which shows that the zombies are getting stronger."

"Based on our inference, we feel that the current mutant zombies will continue to strengthen during heavy rains and natural disasters. The longer the rainstorms and natural disasters last, the stronger the mutant zombies will become."

"What else? Is there any solution?" Li Yu asked.

"Zhao Ke just mentioned an idea. If there is no heavy rain disaster, or the duration of the rainstorm disaster is shorter, the mutant zombies will not be able to become stronger, or the mutant zombies can be delayed in becoming stronger.

Ma Di has an idea that I think is very meaningful. The emergence of natural disasters and zombies are all caused by extraterrestrial meteorites. As long as we find extraterrestrial meteorites, I believe we should be able to solve these problems. "

Li Yu didn't say anything. He waited quietly for a while but still didn't wait for Bai Jie to continue.

"What else?"

"No more." Bai Jie coughed and lowered her head.

Li Yu glanced at her. He thought there was a major breakthrough when he saw them come in.

"What you just said is bad news."

"Now I want to tell you another bad news."

Madi and Bai Jie both raised their heads and stared at Li Yu.

"Just received news from the North. A high-jumping zombie similar to the one in the cave was found. This kind of mutant zombie becoming stronger should not be an isolated case. Of course, we can't make such a conclusion now. I will ask the North to send the zombie corpse over in a few days."

"When the time comes, you can study the zombie corpse again to see if the zombie also has more viruses in its body."

Bai Jie and Madi looked at each other. In fact, they were already mentally prepared for this result.

"Okay, City Lord, I have a small request." Bai Jie stood up and said to Li Yu.

"Speak."

"Can we ask the meteorological and geological experts in the base to cooperate with us to study the zombie virus and natural disasters? We believe that meteorites from outer space are the root cause of zombies and natural disasters."

Bai Jie glanced at her second uncle and eldest uncle, and then turned her eyes back to Li Yu.

"I know that you, the city lord, ordered the search for meteorites from outer space a long time ago, but you haven't found them. I think that meteorites from outer space can affect climate and geological changes, so the location of meteorites must have some abnormal astronomical features."

"Perhaps when we look for the direction of meteorites from outer space, we can specifically look for some places with special changes."

Li Yu narrowed his eyes when he heard her say this, thinking that what Bai Jie said made sense.

"We do have meteorological experts, but they don't understand the current changes in natural disasters."

"Well, since you have made a request, I will naturally satisfy you. I will let those meteorological and geological experts find you later."

"Thank you, City Lord."

Li Yu waved his hand and said:

"Don't be discouraged. Although the zombies are getting stronger, they are getting stronger very slowly. It has been more than five years, and it's just like that."

"No matter how strong they are, they can't stop our guns!"

"Just focus on research and don't think about anything else."

After hearing what Li Yu said, Madi looked at Bai Jie in surprise.

How come these words are a bit like what Bai Jie said.

"Also, after hearing you talk about mutant zombies, I have an idea. It's not very mature, but you can think about it."

Li Yu looked at the two and said:

"Zombies can eat their dead counterparts.

I wonder if it is possible to let mutant zombies attack ordinary zombies that are still alive."

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend."

"If we can let the zombies kill each other, we don't have to go to great lengths to eliminate the zombies."

"What do you think?"

Bai Jie's eyes were filled with shock, and her heart was in turmoil.