Chapter 668: Immortal Virus
The medical team led by Ms. Elena found that the disease carried by the undead soldiers belonged to the variant of the original disease, which spread faster and had a higher fatality rate.
Worst of all, the plague also has the effect of eroding people's souls, imprisoning their souls in their bodies after they die.
With such corpses, the undead can resurrect them into undead soldiers, or more precisely, high-level undead soldiers, without much effort.
Compared with the normally resurrected undead soldiers, this kind of undead soldier not only has more powerful combat power, but also has a relatively high weak intelligence, and can better obey the orders of the undead, and its effect is naturally greater than that of low-level undead soldiers.
Even without the control of the undead, the souls are imprisoned in the constantly decomposing corpses for a long time, which will cause irreversible distortions to their souls, and over time, even without the intervention of external forces, these corpses will rise up on their own.
These corpses that have been resurrected from the dead are designated as walking corpses or wandering corpses by the leaders of the Eternal Night, because after they are resurrected, they will wander aimlessly in the land they were familiar with in life.
Once a living creature intrudes into their territory, they will not hesitate to attack, regardless of the strength of the opponent, without any purpose at all, purely out of mad instinct.
In terms of individual combat effectiveness alone, these wandering corpses are pitiful, as long as they overcome their inner fear, a farmer who has not undergone any militarized training can easily overturn them.
But the problem is that these wandering corpses carry those diseases that infect people's souls.
Once they scratch or bite, the infection rate will be greatly increased, and even those knights who have greatly increased their resistance to the epidemic will have a half-to-half chance of being able to carry it hard, let alone ordinary people.
Needless to say, there is no need to talk about the dangers.
If this kind of epidemic occurs in a village or town, if it is not dealt with normally, it will not take a few days for a biochemical frenzy to be staged, and the entire village and town will be reduced to a playground of corpses.
These wandering corpses have a strong love for the land, and under normal circumstances, they do not migrate on a large scale.
But don't forget, now in an abnormal situation, in the Barsing steppe, there is also a kingdom of the undead that is taking shape, a kingdom of death composed of people full of hatred, and they have done anything to get revenge.
They are driving away the wandering corpses who do not obey their commands in the direction of the Western Odin Empire, using them as the vanguard to consume the strength of the Western Odin Empire.
An undead catastrophe with the nature of mass extinction is spreading unstoppably on the Odin steppe.
There is no natural danger to defend here, as long as they spread through, the Western Odin Empire has no power to resist.
Even if those powerful tribes, with their own force, wipe out the wandering corpses of those vanguard troops, but eighty percent of the epidemic seeds will take root in their tribes, and it will not be long before their livestock, clansmen, and warriors will fall in pieces, and then become the kind of wandering corpses that do not recognize their relatives and are crazy and bloodthirsty, killing and infecting more people.
It's a vicious circle out there.
The appearance of the wandering corpse made the danger index of the Death Realm led by Naren Toya skyrocket.
After all, the transformation of the undead and the undead soldier has a problem of conversion success rate and speed.
Although it is growing in a snowball mode, the speed is very amazing, but if it really wants to form a situation that sweeps the world, it will take three or five years of fermentation.
The Eternal Night Commander still has relatively sufficient time to develop the corresponding vaccine.
As long as the vaccine is in hand, the threat of these deaths will be reduced in a straight line.
But the wandering corpses have made their growth methods explosive, and as long as they are killed by the undead plague they carry, they will be transformed into their cannon fodder one after another.
Whether it was the shadow gap or the study of the second consciousness world, it was temporarily put on hold, and the research on the vaccine for the immortal plague became the top priority of the Eternal Night Army Leader.
If this matter is not resolved, let alone the Eternal Night Commander, even the Ashane Continent will have no future to speak of.
The chief of staff of the main Hebrew of Ben and the Grand Elder Nitya, who have some ability in scientific research, whether they are relevant or unrelated, have suspended their business and come to the medical research institute to give advice.
"The plagues carried by these deceased have all mutated, just like the magic potions prepared by the magic plants we use, the plagues they carry have been out of the normal plague category, and are even more complicated than magic potions, because here not only fuse viruses and magical energy, but also fuse the soul energy of the dead.
They are no longer viruses in the simple sense, but strange beings between viruses and creatures, and we have officially named this variant virus undead virus.
Compared with ordinary epidemic viruses, undead viruses not only have stronger vitality, infectivity and destructive power, but also make the onset period of patients shorter and more rapid, and the mortality rate is stronger.
They are even able to leave the host's body for a short period of time to find a new host, and once they are massively invaded, the infection rate and lethality rate will reach 100%.
What's even more terrifying is that this undead virus is quite compatible with the undead, and the undead can freely manipulate these undead viruses, including taking them into their own bodies as a means of attack.
In the face of this undead virus, ordinary potions have no effect, even if they are magic potions, they are greatly discounted, and they can only play a role in delaying the onset of the disease, but there is no way to kill the virus. β
As the lead person of this study, Ms. Elena gave a detailed introduction to their medical research base, recent research findings and research results.
After listening to Ms. Elena's introduction, even in the consciousness space, the researchers couldn't help but gasp.
They knew that in the Balsing steppe, this epidemic was very lethal and posed a high threat to them, but they never thought that it was already so serious, and if they were not careful, they would be wiped out.
For a moment, the room fell silent.
As a research-led medical research base, there is nothing to be done right now.
In the case of their sudden contact, what good way can they think?
"How much does the old ancestor know about this goddess of night and winter?Have you ever heard of this strange epidemic?" This kind of thing, Sean naturally will not let go of the old ancestor who has just arrived at the northern fortress.
It's just that in the way of being behind the scenes, the two sides seem not far apart, but in fact they are separated by a layer of space.
Just like a modern interrogation room, Sean and the Old Ancestor could see the other side of the meeting from here, but they didn't know that there were two pairs of eyes behind them.
In reality, the Eternal Night Warlord is not yet capable of producing the special one-sided peep glass of the interrogation room, but in the consciousness space, it is just a matter of Sean waving his hand.
"Goddess of Night and Winter?" the Old Ancestor thought for a moment, and finally shook his head and said, "I have never heard of such a god, either it has fallen a long time ago, and it has never made waves at all during the imperial period, or it is an evil god who is not famous, but this immortal plague, I have some ideas, maybe it can help you." β
"Oh, what does the Ancestor know? Please tell me the truth? This matter is not only related to the Eternal Night Commander, but also to the life and death of countless people, if the entire continent is enveloped by this epidemic, all living beings will fall into endless despair. Sean suddenly perked up and asked eagerly.
Originally, he was just holding a mentality of trying to see if he could get a little windfall from his ancestor, but he didn't expect that there was really something in her old man's stomach.
"The undead plague in your mouth is strong, but when it really spreads, the power may not be as great as you imagined, at least there is no way to transform the entire continent into a hell on earth so simply, at least now, when this kind of magic energy is relatively scarce and the laws of the plane are relatively sound, it can't be done. The old ancestor said lightly, "But if you sit idly by and let it spread, it is normal for five or six adults to die." β
"What does the Ancestor mean is that the laws of the plane will intervene to produce antibodies in people's bodies to defend against the infection of the undead epidemic?" Sean asked rhetorically, his eyes wide.
As soon as the words came out, Sean felt that the question he asked was too naΓ―ve and too low-level, because he had some understanding of the laws of the plane, and he had just done a battle against the laws of the plane a few days ago.
What is called the law of the plane intervenes?
This is not called intervention at all, more precisely, the laws of the plane themselves are set that way.
In the game with various epidemics, isn't it normal for people to produce antibodies in their bodies?
This was true in previous lives, and it is also true in this life, and even the human body in this world produces antibodies at a rate that is even far higher than in previous lives.
Because they may have antibodies in their bodies, but like those creatures that have mutated and returned to the ancients, as a recessive gene, it may be hidden.
Don't forget that the elemental tides of the whole world have existed for an unknown number of years, and have gone through an unknown number of reincarnations.
It is even possible that Hel, the goddess of night and winter, has come out to make waves for the first time.
But the Ashane continent is still under the control of the living, which is the best illustration.
When he discovered the realm of death that Naren Toya was building, Sean had already realized that this time the laws of the plane were still on his side.
It's just that his perception is still stuck in the fact that if the Eternal Night Army leader sends troops to attack this Death Realm, the laws of the plane may provide convenience for him from the general trend, such as the weather.
But they did not think in the direction of special drugs and vaccines for immortal viruses.
War is not necessarily a real confrontation, it is also part of war.
The war between the Eternal Night Warlord and Narentoya's Immortal Realm had already started the moment the Eternal Night Warlord began researching a vaccine against the epidemic.
"Thank you, Ancestor, I think I already know what to do. Sean stood up with a solemn expression and solemnly bowed to the old ancestor.
This is not only on behalf of himself, but also on behalf of countless people who are threatened by the undead disease.
Although the old ancestor only said one sentence from beginning to end, and did not even say anything substantial, it pointed out a new research direction for Sean.
Even if it was really as the ancestors said, the power of the undead plague was artificially amplified and demonized by them, and when it completely spread, the lethality might not be as great as imagined.
But it is impossible for the Eternal Night Commander to sit back and wait for the laws of the plane, more precisely, a counterattack from the human body.
The sooner they got their hands on the vaccines and treatments, the sooner the Eternal Night Leaders were in control, with as few casualties as possible, even if they weren't directly threatened right now.
Pinning your hopes on other people, especially the ethereal laws of the plane, is the most foolish thing to do.
After all, the laws of the plane are just a set of dead rules, they can break them, others can also break them, if the advantages accumulated by the other party are big enough, it may be possible to dismantle the laws of the plane of this world.
The myth of death meant to do just that, and the goddess of night and winter, Hel, didn't want to do that.
"It seems that the little guy has a certain understanding of the laws of the plane. The Old Ancestor showed an appreciative smile and continued, "This is something that a person's strength will inevitably come into contact with after reaching a certain foundation, especially the study of the shadow gap, to a large extent, is the study of the complex plane laws here.
The law of the plane is the most fundamental foundation for the existence of a world, which not only determines the operation law of this world, but is also closely related to the strength of the plane barrier.
The more sound the dimensional laws of a world, the stronger its dimensional barriers, and the less likely they are to be torn apart and traversed.
When the laws of a world's planes collapse, the world is like a shelled egg, exposed in the shadows.
I don't need to say more about how bad the situation of the world is.
There is never a shortage of peeping eyes in the shadows, and those of other planes and shadows will not hesitate to devour this world alive as long as they have the opportunity.
However, if the plane laws are too stable, it will suppress the strength of the creatures in the plane, making their cultivation difficult, and once the plane barrier is artificially broken, it will put the people here in a weak position when facing those creatures in the stronger plane.
This difference is the same as that of wild wolves and dogs, their world is always in a state of threat, and they must make up for the weak shortcomings of the plane barrier through artificial means, and when human beings cannot make up for it, it is the moment when the world completely collapses.
But it is undeniable that in the pluralistic world, the power of those planes and the natives of the plane, in harmony and balance, usually stands in a relatively high position and acts as predators.
The laws of the plane are our shields, and they will be a sharp weapon in our hands in the face of such unscrupulous destruction, especially from those intruders who are not from the plane.
But when we jump out of the plane and try to get bigger, it will become the strongest shackles, restricting our hands and feet.
Therefore, when developing in the future, we must judge the situation in the face of the laws of the plane.
When the power in your hands is not so strong, it is best not to easily destroy the laws of the plane.
If there is a need, don't be afraid to break the laws of the plane, because this is a completely bad thing. β