Chapter 487: Leprosy Village
Leprosy, caused by the leprosy bacillus, is a chronic infectious disease that has been eradicated since the age of the earth.
However, as the earthlings crossed over to the other world, a large number of earth germs were stimulated by the otherworldly environment and mutated into dozens or hundreds of subtypes like an explosion.
There are also many earth germs, which are strangely fused with otherworldly germs, and finally give birth to the zombie virus, known as the "king of viruses".
There are hundreds of subtypes of zombie viruses.
Not all subtypes kill people.
But the vast majority of subtypes can cause the human body to be gnawed by germs, mutilated, deformed, and distorted, more terrible than the lepers of the Middle Ages.
There are also subtypes of zombie viruses that activate genetic fragments from the depths of human cells, from ancient times, that have been dormant for thousands of years, making humans exhibit various atavistic characteristics.
Scales, feathers, fangs, and claws grow, and the five senses become sharper, but the brain shrinks dramatically, and gradually becomes a beast in human skin.
This process is also called "monsterization".
Among the hundreds of subtypes, there is only one subtype that does not affect the normal form, emotion, and logical thinking ability of humans.
However, it completely changes the shape and function of mitochondria in the depths of human cells, allowing human mitochondria to directly absorb, store and release spiritual energy, and then make human beings awaken extraordinary power and transform into transcendental.
From this point of view, the transcendent is the lucky one in a hundred among all the zombie virus infections.
But the remaining ninety-nine unfortunate infected people, even if they are lucky enough not to die, have become inhuman, ghosts and ghosts.
In the era of the collapse of the social order a few decades ago, when the social order was bloody, dark, and wild, the infected were extremely undesirable.
Needless to say, those humans who have broken out of the virus and completely turned into zombies are greeted only by swords and bullets.
Even if the degree of infection is slightly mild, it can still maintain a certain degree of emotion and rationality, because the deformed and ugly appearance is often not tolerated by all forces.
In fact, the vast majority of infected people have extremely weak virus transmission ability.
In other words, with the brutal elimination of the first ten years, those earthlings with low immunity have long since died, and those who survived, even if they are still mediocre in appearance, have an immune system ten times stronger than that of the Earth era, and they will not be infected with the zombie virus easily.
But human fear is inherently unreasonable and logical.
Survivors who have suffered from the zombie devastation and watched their friends and relatives die tragically under the claws of zombies need a channel to vent their fears.
In addition, most of the infected people are often mutilated, deformed and mutated, and can neither help defend against zombies and monsters, nor can they build high walls, dig shelters, and expand their living space.
Letting them join their team will only waste food and reduce the chances of survival for normal people in the team.
The extremely cruel laws of survival force healthy and normal survivors, and drive those who are mildly infected with deformities and mutations far away from the shelter and leave them to fend for themselves.
Mildly infected people are forced to have no choice but to huddle together for warmth and struggle to survive.
Their settlement is called "leprosy village", which means the same as the leprosy village in history.
Life in the other world is extremely difficult.
Even a sturdy adult with both hands and feet, armed to the teeth, may not be able to withstand the onslaught of zombies and monsters.
Most of the leprosy villages of the mildly infected people were attacked by zombies and monsters one after another in the year and a half after the construction, and in the most three or five years, all the mildly infected people in it were nowhere to be found.
This can be regarded as a stain as strong as ink in the history of Dragon City's cruel survival in the past half century.
Many of the teenagers who were born in the golden years after the establishment of the Survival Committee and the Transcendent Tower, and the restoration of order in Dragon City, have long forgotten the existence of mild infections and leprosy villages.
Even Meng Chao didn't expect that in the depths of Chaocheng, there were still mildly infected people.
"The residents of the leprosy village may not all be infected with the zombie virus."
Chen Hao reluctantly explained, "After all, it has been thirty or forty years since the zombie crisis, and the first generation of mildly infected people have long since died.
"But they still have a lot of offspring, all of them are strange, hideous and ugly guys, and if they run outside, they will definitely be discriminated against by ordinary citizens.
"Back then, their father and mother fled to the depths of Chaocheng to survive because they were not allowed by normal people, and over time, they got used to life here, and they didn't want to go out to be bored.
"Of course, normal people would not go to the leprosy village if they are fine.
"But these guys should not be contagious, after all, they are all second and third generations, and the virus has long been weakened.
"Not to mention, the descendants of these infected people, although they look deformed and ugly, but in order to survive, they can do anything, and there are really some mutated ghost ways, and major gangs often hire them to do some dirty work that is inconvenient for them and unwilling to do.
"In addition, there is also a black market, martial arts laboratories and weapon modification workshops in the leprosy village, and there have always been many evil exercises, extremely powerful but extremely unstable weapons, and genetic medicines with excellent effects but strong side effects, which have flowed out of the leprosy village, but no one knows what is going on, and no one wants to enter the leprosy village to investigate.
"In short, Leprosy Village is the most closed and dangerous place in the entire Chaocheng, and there are many people outside who say that Chaocheng is the toilet of Dragon City, and then the Leprosy Village is a septic tank under the toilet.
"The descendants of those infected have a deep resistance to normal people who are in good health, and they are full of strong hostility towards the transcendents - probably because they are also infected with the zombie virus, they have become deformed children with mutilated limbs, but you have become glamorous, powerful people, right?
"Fortunately, these guys know that the outside world is powerful, and they won't come out easily, and they will wrap themselves tightly when they come out, and they won't even show half an inch of skin.
"It seems that in the early years, the 'Badao' Jin Wanhao came forward to represent the Golden Tooth Nest City, and had an agreement with the leprosy village, everyone will not interfere with the river water, the Chaocheng gang will not cut off the leprosy village's way of life, and the leprosy village will not cause trouble for Chaocheng - probably, that's it."
Chen Hao was afraid that if he spoke slowly, he would be broken by Meng Chao again.
What should be said and what should not be said was said in one go.
Meng Chao asked Chen Hao to mark the location of the leprosy village on the map.
After careful research with Zhou Chong, he found that the leprosy village was located in the center of Chaocheng, between the spheres of influence of the major gangs.
In the sewer of a nearby area, the ingredients of the suspected divine transformation capsule were detected.
"The mastermind behind the scenes and the refining factory of the Divine Transformation Capsule are all hidden in the leprosy village?"
Meng Chao and Zhou Chong glanced at each other, and they both felt that it was very likely.
"The boss only said the words 'leprosy village'."
Meng Chao groaned, "The leprosy village is so big, where are you going to send the goods?" ”
"The outermost building in the leprosy village, all the windows are blocked, surrounded by a deep ditch, which is full of domestic garbage, and is soaked in various industrial and laboratory wastewater, and over time, it becomes smelly, sticky, and extremely corrosive, like a swamp, on this side of the ditch, the major gangs have set up high-voltage power grids, and anti-aircraft machine guns or something, just for fear that the descendants of the infected will sneak out."
Chen Hao explained, "In the whole leprosy village, there is only one road leading to the outside world, which is a small bridge built on a ditch, and there is a vacant lot next to the bridge, which is a black market for leprosy villagers to trade goods with the outside world, and talk about some shady business.
"When people in Chaocheng say that they go to leprosy village, basically, they all go to this black market, and if they have anything to send into the leprosy village, they also let roller skaters put it in the lockers of the black market."
Meng Chao and Zhou Chong discussed for a while, and first uploaded the information to the command center.
"The target is most likely hiding in the leprosy village deep in the nest city."
Zhou Chong gritted his teeth and said, "We must be ready to infiltrate the leprosy village to capture the target, the biggest problem now is that we don't know anything about the situation in the leprosy village, the structure of the buildings inside, the distribution of firepower points, how many people there are, their attitude towards the survival committee and us, whether there are lurking wanted criminals and lost people, and whether there are high-end combat forces above the heavenly realm...... Everything is unknown!
"If it's an ordinary area in Nest City, we can get all the information through the Neural Tactical Data Link, and we can also get the support of the major gangs, and the existing capture team is enough to deal with it.
"In the mist-shrouded leprosy village, I am not sure in the slightest, and I dare not even guarantee that there will be no heavy casualties.
"Please send reinforcements to the command center immediately to assist in our operation!"
The command center was silent for a moment, and Nie Chenglong's slightly tired and helpless voice came: "Captain Zhou, reinforcements are being assembled, but...... Be prepared to engage the enemy before reinforcements arrive. ”
"Man-eating shark" Zhou Chong glared: "What does this mean?" ”
"The beast tide has appeared."
Nie Chenglong's voice was extremely solemn, "Three minutes ago, on more than a dozen fronts around Dragon City, there was an overwhelming beast tide at the same time, following the battle of the Angry Waves Mountain Range, the monster civilization once again launched a campaign-level attack on us!" ”
"What!"
Meng Chao, Zhou Chong, and all the senior hunters were all stunned.
Following the neural data link, images from dozens of forward bases, spar mining and smelters, and pioneer bases on the outskirts of Dragon City were projected onto their retina.
Suddenly, in front of everyone's eyes, a surging sea of blood was set off, and there was a lot of rage!