Chapter 298: It's Too Late
As the time goes by, more and more Salvation Army soldiers escape from New York City and enter a temporary Salvation Army base on the outskirts of the city.
Even in the real world, a day has passed before you know it, and many of the Salvation Army soldiers who died in the game have logged in again, and with experience, it is easy to escape from New York City and regroup with the large army.
At this time, the number of Salvation Army soldiers in the world has reached about 50,000, plus some survivor NPCs they rescued from the ruins of the game, the number of people in the entire base has reached 50,000 or 60,000, and the strength is very strong.
These elites from all walks of life have come up with a lot of ideas about how to destroy the tower in New York City, including blocking interference through full bands, shielding the tower's signals, and so on.
All of these recommendations have been taken on board, and manpower has been allocated to begin research in various directions.
After the previous deployment, the entire Salvation Army now began to operate like a precision instrument.
The medical auxiliary force led by Li Tongchen began to study the characteristics of the evil spirit virus in the game, and worked hard to cultivate and extract the gargoyle virus.
At this time, they were also facing a problem that Shen Feng had faced, that is, the gargoyle virus would also infect the survivors of this world, and they had to avoid this.
The other squads have not given up on their physical attacks on the Tower, and the suicide demolition team has sent seven, the first six of which were found by the corpses as they approached the tower, and were eventually killed.
The last team to get close to the tower detonated the high explosives at close range, only to find that the explosion enough to blow up a skyscraper had no effect on the tower at all!
The flesh and blood that made up the tower had apparently undergone a high degree of mutation, perfectly absorbing the blast wave and light and heat of the explosion, forming a thick layer of biological tissue armor on the surface, which was only slightly blackened without any fatal injuries.
Even after the explosion attack, the tower has obviously undergone a new evolution, and a layer of armor formed by bones has emerged on the surface of the entire tower, and it is clear that it has extremely strong defense power at a glance.
The rest of the tunneling plans, bomb zombie plans, wall barrier plans, liquid nitrogen freezing plans, and so on all failed in the end.
The research of the medical auxiliary force led by Li Tongchen has also encountered a bottleneck.
Although they also found the Gargoyle Virus in this game world, it was extremely difficult to change the characteristics of the virus, and they could not guide the virus to mutate effectively.
After all, even the doctors of the Salvation Army have not studied the stone statue virus very deeply.
When they got the cargoyle's treatment potion, it was completely the commander's direct help.
And after the possession of the stone statue disease treatment drug, a lot of virus research in related areas was stopped.
Because of this, their understanding of the gargoyle virus is far less profound than that of Shen Feng.
The whole induction process is also extremely difficult, with a lot of detours and a lot of time.
Soon, all the methods were tried and failed.
A few days later, a 200-strong Special Ops team led by the Commander also returned from Nebraska.
Of the 200 people who went on the mission, less than 50 returned to the base, and many of them were wounded, apparently after a tragic tear up.
With the guidance of Freys, the deputy commander of the Strategic Command, the operation should have gone smoothly.
And that was true in the beginning.
A group of fighter and transport planes landed directly at Offat Air Force Base in Nebraska, crushing the corpses on the ground.
This was followed by a bitter battle and then a breakout into the Strategic Command of Nuclear Strike.
Who would have thought that when they came to the command room of the Strategic Command, they were shocked to find that all the equipment here had been destroyed!
Much of the equipment has been blown up with knives, axes, chisels and even explosives, and some control rooms have been doused with gasoline and burned to ashes.
The traces of destruction everywhere are obviously man-made, no, it should be the work of zombies.
It seems that there is a huge common consciousness in the corpses of this world, which makes them understand the horror of this strategic command, so after the end comes, they completely destroy this place, so that humanity does not have the slightest chance to use nuclear weapons.
The moment they saw this scene, the corps commander and the others had even instantly concluded that the nuclear bomb silos and launch vehicles everywhere had definitely been consciously destroyed by the zombies!
Just as they were about to leave, the corpses outside Offat Air Force Base began to roar wildly, as if sensing everyone's intentions, and swarming towards them.
If it weren't for the commander of the corps who made a quick decision and directly blew up the ammunition depot of the air base to block the impact of the corpses, everyone might have died there.
Rao also lost most of his manpower.
"Mr. F, how's it going?" Although the answer had already been seen in the faces of the crowd, Vasily could not help but ask.
Nick shook his head and said with a gloomy face, "Mother Fucker, those zombies seem to know what we're going to do......"
Mick on the side smiled and comforted:
"It's okay, we can keep experimenting with all kinds of methods, and we will always find a way out, and to be honest, all kinds of tests are going on these days, and it just gives me the illusion of going back to Stanford......"
At this time, the corps commander came to the laboratory of Li Tongchen and others, and asked with a solemn face:
"Lao Li, how is the development of biological weapons?"
Although the zombies have not reacted all this time, the legion leader has an inexplicable anxiety when he comes back this time, and he always feels as if he has forgotten something.
Li Tongchen smiled bitterly and said:
"Time, give us some more time, everyone's understanding of the gargoyle virus is too shallow, I should do some research in the real world before...... It's going to take at least a month or so now......"
Hearing this, the corps commander nodded, and was about to say something when an alarm suddenly sounded from the sentry post at the base.
Then he saw Nick stride up to his side and said in a deep voice:
"Legion Commander, there's a bunch of zombies outside......"
The Legion Commander looked at Nick, waiting for his next words.
It's not a big deal for zombies to come to attack the base, and Nick definitely won't rush to him because of such a thing.
“…… These zombies want to see you...... They say, want to negotiate! ”
Nick said, his eyes showing the same disbelief, after all, all this is too unbelievable.
Thousands of zombies actually spoke together, saying that they wanted to meet with the decision-makers of the Salvation Army and engage in negotiations.
It's just weird.
The Legion's eyes lit up, and he finally thought of what he had overlooked.
The sapient zombies they'd encountered in New York City before!
If the zombies really have wisdom, they may not necessarily fight each other to the death immediately, but can communicate and negotiate, on the one hand, delay time, and on the other hand, see if they can find a new way out.
Soon, several zombies in suits and leather shoes were brought to the Legion Commander.
These zombies are very well-dressed, and they seem to have taken a bath, and they look very clean, except for a little shaking when they walk and their eyes are out of focus, they can hardly see the identity of their zombies.
"You are...... The leader of the living? The zombies spoke separately, each speaking a single word, and spoke so quickly that it sounded like a person was speaking.
Seeing this scene, the legion commander's eyes were like swords, swept over these zombies, and said slowly:
"Yes, it's me, you're ...... Symbiote? ”
The surrounding Salvation Army soldiers were also shocked at this time, they were still thinking about how the zombies could make their dry brains intelligent, but they didn't expect it to be the symbiote mode.
The zombies did not answer, but quickly said:
"I've been watching you for days, we have to unite and tear down that damn tower, he's going to wake up, it's too late!"
As soon as the words fell, everyone suddenly felt the ground tremble, and then a low roar came from the direction of New York City, as if some monster had awakened underground!