"It's me!" Lu Rulan's face turned red with excitement: "Big pig!" How did you end up on the radio?! ”

Zhu ...... It's Zhu Yixin!! Su He slapped his thigh hard.

"Yes, yes, that famous mouth of the strawberry table!" Lin Youqing also remembered.

"How did you know Zhu Yixin?"

Haichen pulled Lu Rulan's arm, but Lu Rulan was immersed in joy and ignored him at all.

Zhu Yixin, who was on the other side of the radio wave, heard Lu Rulan's voice, and was immediately overjoyed.

"It was difficult to confirm the identities of both parties in radio communication, which could easily lead to suspicion, and my voice was more recognizable, so I took the initiative to take on this task. Anyway, the TV station is gone, and I can at least be able to do these things. ”

Speaking of which, Zhu Yixin did not forget his duties.

"How are you now? We have settlements in Qinghai and Tibet. If you are within 100 kilometers of the settlement, I can contact the special forces on duty and ask them to guide you to the designated location to rendezvous and bring you back. ”

"I'm still on the east coast." Lu Rulan replied, "It's more than 2,000 kilometers away from you. ”

Zhu Yixin asked: "We also have resettlement sites in the South China Sea. Do you know how to sail? Can't get an ocean-going vessel? ”

"We only have one small sailboat."

There was a moment of silence on the other end of the airwaves, and when he spoke again, Zhu Yixin's voice was slightly heavy.

"Due to energy shortage and some other objective reasons, point-to-point long-distance rescue cannot be normalized for the time being. However, at the beginning and end of each month, there are flights to drop supplies to the areas where the message for help was sent. There will also be a short stay at a specific airport if necessary. The most recent flight just returned yesterday, so you're ...... Will you be able to make it to the end of the month? ”

Lu Rulan said that there are no big problems in life for the time being, and then asked how many "people outside the wall" have already contacted the resettlement site besides herself.

"Not much."

Zhu Yixin sighed: "In the first few days, the search and rescue troops sent out could always bring back one or twenty people. But in the last three days, you have been the only one who has contacted us by radio. ”

Seeing that his cousin didn't talk about the point, Su He couldn't sit still, so he squeezed over and snatched the walkie-talkie.

"I'm Lan's cousin. There are several questions that are related to our lives, and I hope that the official can give the most truthful answers without concealing anything. ”

"Yes." Zhu Yixin promised, "I have a pile of information provided by experts on hand, I hope it will be helpful to you." ”

Su He got straight to the point: "The first question is, what is the zombie virus?" ”

After the sound of flipping the paper, Zhu Yixin explained in a straight voice.

"From the results of the research we have so far, this is a super virus. In the past, viruses could only spread within groups of animals or plants. But the emerging zombie virus has the ability to infect people and plants at the same time, which is unprecedented on Earth. ”

"That's not entirely true." Su He corrected, "As early as nearly 20 years ago, scientists discovered pepper light mottle virus suspected of being able to infect humans. ”

Zhu Yixin was stunned, after all, he was not a professional, and he didn't know how to respond.

It was Lu Rulan who tugged on his brother's sleeve and shouted into the walkie-talkie: "Big pig, don't pay attention to him, just keep reading." ”

"Good...... According to current investigations, the zombie virus originated in Sumatra, Indonesia. Attached to the dust particles formed by the eruption of the Krakatoa volcano, it spreads naturally through the stratosphere and rapidly between continents through vectors such as man-made aircraft. At present, except for Antarctica, all continents have become the hardest hit areas of the zombie virus. ”

Su He was not interested in any of this, and asked directly: "How did the virus come about?" Is it a chemical or biological weapons test? ”

"Based on what we have so far, the virus was released from debris from asteroid 2028ga, which came from outer space."

This news coincided with the news that Duan Whale had received from a friend before.

Su He accepted this explanation and brought up another major matter.

"We recently discovered a tree that attracts zombies—"

He briefly described the matter of the zombie tree and asked if there had been any official research.

Zhu Yixin flipped a few pages and immediately gave a positive answer.

"International researchers call this tree 'Dianbai' because it has many similarities with the legendary man-eating tree. But in fact, it's more like a hybrid of some kind of plant and animal, which is also highly consistent with the zombie virus. ”

"So, both the Dian Bo and the zombie virus came from outer space? If they are the same system, what is the survival mechanism of this system? ”

"I've heard experts come up with a metaphor......"

Zhu Yixin seemed to put down the text at hand, and slowly organized the language: "Eggs have egg whites and egg yolks. Seeds have endosperm and embryo. Among them, egg whites and endosperm provide nutrients for the further development of the yolk and embryo. And the zombie virus is also playing a similar role - providing nutrition for Dian Bai. ”

"You're saying that the virus creates zombies to provide nourishment for Dian Bai?"

Su He's mind suddenly recalled a picture - in that small courtyard in the urban village, hundreds of zombies were gathered around Dian Bai. The transparent pipes that stretched out from the trees seemed to suck the bodily fluids of the zombies...... Is that to provide nutrients for the Dian Bai?

Su He realized, but raised a further question: "If all human beings have become zombies, won't Dianbai also be cut off from nutrients?" Could it be that zombies will continue to breed? ”

"It's impossible for a zombie to breed a little zombie." Zhu Yixin replied with great certainty: "A short period of research is not enough to figure out the survival function of Dianbai. Some people think that it can also grow by sucking nutrients from the soil, but there is another, more terrifying theory......"

At this point, he paused, as if hesitating whether to say the next thing or not.

"I'm a botanist." Sue introduced himself appropriately, "We also have experts here in biology, medicine, genetics and outer space science. ”

Several people who had become "experts" without paying attention looked at each other, but Zhu Yixin actually believed it.

There is also a view that Dian Bai is an intelligent living being. It is capable of controlling zombies and manipulating their actions to ensure that they do not kill all humans, but instead trap humans in specific areas and keep them in captivity. ”

"Captivity?" Su He repeated the word, "How do you say this?" ”

"As you can see, the cypress doesn't look big on the surface, but the roots in the ground can extend through the soil up to thirty kilometers or so. These tendrils are sensitive to the pressure on the surface and thus aware of human movements, and in turn, Dian Bai will change the deployment of zombies in nearby areas as needed. In fact, on the periphery of several of our major settlements, the root system of the Dian Bai has formed an extremely developed network. Once someone leaves the settlement, it is tantamount to exposing their whereabouts to the zombies. ”

Therefore, it is likely that Dian Bai is consciously isolating the survivors from each other, and the de facto captivity plan will be broken one by one when the time comes......

This is a chilling realization.

"We observed that the roots of the Dian Bai were afraid of the sea." Su He continued to ask, "Is there any way to destroy it?" ”

"Dian Bo is much more fragile than zombies, but it has the ability to regenerate. Sea water or fire can temporarily push it back. If you are in the coastal area, build yì find a ship to relocate to the island. According to the information I have at hand, many countries have confirmed that the roots of the cypress cannot pass through concrete, most rocks, or the seabed at a depth of more than five meters, and the island is undoubtedly the safest place. Our settlements are also being defended by natural salt lakes or underground salt mines. ”

Before you know it, the call has been going on for almost an hour. The most eager questions in my heart have been answered, and the radio has already been installed anyway, and it is not too late to ask some things slowly.

After saying goodbye to Zhu Yixin and noting the frequency of the national broadcast, everyone temporarily ended today's call and stopped to summarize the gains.

"Big Pig and I have known each other for many years, and when we first debuted, the first variety show was on the Big Pig column. He is very good, there is no shelf at all, and he reminded me that my current agency is not authentic, but unfortunately I didn't listen......"

Lu Rulan briefly explained the origin of her relationship with Zhu Yixin, and glanced at Haichen specifically: "Are you satisfied?" ”

Haichen smiled and didn't speak. It was Lin You who cleared the main building.

"The biggest good news is that Foguang Island is safe for the time being. The biggest bad news is that once we leave Foguang Island, we are exposed to the surveillance of zombies. ”

"Also, human society is not dead." Du Yunfei added, "As long as we can find a way to eradicate the Dianbai, maybe we can still return to the civilized world." ”

This time, Haichen was quite pragmatic: "It sounds exciting. But what we can do is to be a good nail and live tenaciously, right? ”

"What's so hard about that?" Su He cocked Erlang's legs, "Eat and drink Foguang Island, and look west to Wang Shi for another year." ”

"Maybe it's not just about eating and drinking, maybe we can do more too."

Duan Whale's thoughts were more active, but he was not rash: "But it's too early to mention these things now, let's observe the situation for a while." ”

From this day on, radio communication technology has also become a compulsory course for everyone, including Duan Xingze. Every night from 7 to 8 p.m., the radio station is turned on for an hour to collect useful information.

Over the course of a few days, they learned that there are about 200 radio stations active on the radio waves around the world, and more than half of them are official communication stations set up by China, the United States, Russia, and other major countries. The remaining more than 90 stations are scattered around the world, even in Antarctica.

In addition to this, almost everyone believes that there are some silent "listeners" on the airwaves. The "Listener" is a darker being in this world than zombies, a Death Eater in the last days. There are even those who swear that the "listeners" will use encrypted signals to deploy relentless looting and killing of ordinary survivors.

Of course, none of the above has any real evidence, and it seems more like some kind of post-apocalyptic version of urban legend.

In order to facilitate communication, but also to show individuality, and to have fun in suffering. These radio enthusiasts in the last days have abandoned the traditional radio call sign and given themselves various code names.

So there were S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra on the airwaves above Earth, Hogwarts and Avalon, and many more strange and exotic names of unknown origin.

After a unanimous vote, Duan Whale named their radio station "Penglai". It's not creative, but it's just a bit of a Chinese scientific research project.

The atmosphere of the radio world is a little bit like Antarctica. All people, at least the vast majority of people, regardless of nationality or origin, are able to maintain a state of peaceful coexistence.

Perhaps in the face of zombies and alien plants, the difference between people and people becomes insignificant.

Every few days, a new station or two comes online, and some of them go silent forever.

However, people never inquire about the whereabouts of the disappeared radio stations. On the one hand, it is a vain question to ask, and on the other hand, the answer is always the most cruel one.

The last days are cruel enough, and if you are lucky to survive, why bother yourself.