Chapter 693: Friend or Foe
The corpse virus is one of the thirteen thrones of the apocalypse, and the corpse plague is only one of his abilities. It's good that Renee's investigation team doesn't find him, and if they do, they will all be wiped out!
Wu Qi said so in his heart. He didn't look down on Renee's courage and persistence, because not only Renee's investigation team, but also Wu Qi: he wanted to find and solve the throne, but his strength was far from enough.
Wu Qi turned sideways and looked into Renee's beautiful clear eyes. Renee's gaze did not shy away from meeting Wu Qi's gaze.
Renee thought that Wu Qi was going to say something formal, but Wu Qi returned to his original sitting posture and said, "I wish you all the best in your mission and annihilate the body of the corpse virus ability as soon as possible." ”
The only sound in the cave was the crisp sound of the fire burning. Renee didn't hear it right.
"What do you mean......
"Literally."
Renee pursed her lips and fell silent.
She shared information, and Wu Qi also shared information, but this did not mean that Wu Qi had a war intent on the so-called "corpse virus body", and their identities and past also determined that Wu Qi had no reason to help her.
Wu Qi, who has no one to protect, just lives to survive in the occupied area, and deliberately challenges an unknown strong enemy in the wasteland who has no profit to be profitable, that is inexplicable.
"Well, thank you for talking to me so much tonight." Renee stood up from the log. It's been a long time since she's been out of camp, and it's time to go back.
Wu Qi didn't seem to have a trace of emotional fluctuations, and he replied calmly: "You also shared information, this is reciprocal." ”
"Hmm."
Renee walked to the cave and said "see you later" before leaving.
"Wait a minute."
Renee's footsteps immediately stopped, and she suddenly looked back, Wu Qi's face dyed bright yellow by the firelight was facing her, and her expression seemed to have changed slightly, and it seemed that there was none.
"As the owner of the atavistic power, I ask you, have you ever bathed in the blood of the Gray Queen?"
Renee was slightly surprised, and she said, "Yes."
"The corpse virus spreads through blood, and when it lurks in the bodies of living beings, even the revelations of the gods of the wilderness cannot be detected."
"You mean I'm infected too? But atavism is not the ability to devour the alien viruses that invade the body and turn them into nutrients for evolution......"
Wu Qi's unwavering eyes told Renee that he was not lying, and there was no need to lie.
Renee nodded slightly, and left the cave.
From the top of the hill to the bottom of the mountain, from the waterbank to the entrance of the cavern in the wasteland, before she knew it, Renee was back at the camp.
When he met, he said hello to Song Zhe and said that he had returned safely, and met Nero again. Renee returned to her tent and shrunk into her marching blanket.
The lights went out, and everything around returned to complete silence.
Being in the camp allows Renee to relax and not have to walk in the forest. But she had been preoccupied, and even though she was physically and mentally exhausted at the end of the day, she still couldn't sleep right away.
The corpse virus is not that simple. Nero was stabbed in the abdomen by the Gray Queen's knife arm, and the muscles, bones, and internal organs of the abdomen were infected with bacteria and viruses and were severely necrosis before there was no cure!
Wu Qi said that the corpse virus will break out when the host creature dies, and then fix the metabolism of the resurrected 'corpse beast', causing the corpse beast to be unable to repair its body. The wound on Nero's abdomen was very similar to the nature of this fixed metabolism corpse beast, but his skin did not turn dark red, and there was no bleeding line, indicating that Nero did not come back from the dead and became a corpse beast.
Partial corpse beasthood?
This word popped into Renee's head. She bit her thumb and pondered, thought about various situations, recalled the research reports of Wu Qi and the Institute of Field Studies, and finally couldn't draw any valuable conclusions.
But one thing is for sure, the secret of the cadaveric virus is far from being able to be figured out by a few experiments at the Field Research Institute. The black bone spurs that suddenly pierced the Gray Queen's chest pierced through Wu Sheng, and the Gray Queen's knife arm stabbed Nero, causing her wound to appear "local corpse beast"; The Field Research Institute has only explored the information of the stage from the incubation of the corpse virus to the outbreak stage, what kind of changes the corpse virus will produce in the corpse beast's body in the future, and whether the abnormal virus will mutate in the individual's body, this is unknown!
The mission is not so much to track down the Grey Queen as it is to thoroughly investigate the necrovial virus. If the secret of the corpse virus is not solved, and its body cannot be found, the investigation mission will not be truly completed.
"With our current investigation team, can it really succeed?" Renee asked herself.
Renee couldn't get an answer, and the reason why Wu Qi's words were harsh was because they hit the nail on the head. The corpse virus can even infect a third-order overlord like the Gray Queen, and the body that spreads it is probably another third-order peak life, and its strength may even be much stronger than the Gray Queen.
And Wu Qi's last sentence is to remind her that she has been infected, and it is better to take some measures?
It's especially easy to think too much late at night. Renee felt that her brain was about to be overloaded, so she obediently closed her eyes, leaving these impossible problems to be solved by herself tomorrow.
Same night, same moment. Wu Qi covered himself with a blanket of animal skin and closed his eyes.
Years of survival in the jungle have taught Wu Qi the ability to sleep with his eyes closed, but he is not asleep now.
Wu Qi thought of the "predators" he had encountered in the wasteland before he met Renee.
Wu Qi had discovered the special genetic chain of the predator, and almost when Renee told the information about the Gray Queen and the predator, he guessed that what he was encountering was the Gray Queen's people.
Since the Gray Queen has become a corpse beast, and the corpse virus spreads through reproduction, the "predator" it gives birth to should also be a corpse beast in the incubation period. But it turns out that they are not corpse beasts.
Is it because these corpse beasts were born before the Gray Queen was infected with the corpse virus? Was it a pure coincidence, or was it possible for the corpse virus to be eliminated somehow?
After death, he was resurrected by the corpse virus, inheriting all the wisdom and memories before his death, which is equivalent to one more life. This seemed beautiful, but Wu Qi instinctively felt creepy. Intuition tells Wu Qi that being dominated by a corpse virus is definitely not a good thing, and the ability to lurk enemies in his body is always a huge hidden danger.
The throne that controls the corpse virus, as well as the thirteen thrones and the emperor seat of the apocalypse abyss, they will all be the enemies of Sister Ruo Ying and the 5 human survivor bases, and they are also the enemies that he Wu Qi must face. But these are all later words, and there is one more very important thing: the Gray Queen is infected with the corpse virus, so it will be under the command of the throne that "masters the corpse plague", and it is inevitable that she will lead the army to attack the human survivor base.
The opposite direction of the southwest direction is the northeast, as long as he finds the trace of the gray queen, there is a high probability that he can find the midnight base along the vine.
He'll be able to go home then!
......
The next night.
Silver moonlight shone on the forest path. Renee shifted from branch to branch, her figure as if to merge with the dark blue canopy of the sea.
A moment later, Renee was once again in the cave where Wu Qi lived. The fire refracted from the cave walls was dim, with only a small glow of fiery red.
Renee jumped off the branch and drove into the cave. In the same place as yesterday, Wu Qi was sitting in the middle of the cave and roasting the fire.
The furnishings in the cave have changed a lot. In the open space are stone tables and benches with smooth knives, and on the stone table are a set of polished stone bowls and cups. In the corners of the cave are beds made of thatch and animal skins. The whole looks more like a place where people live than they did yesterday.
Wu Qi changed into a tan capable animal skin coat and cut some of his slightly longer black hair. He looked up and saw that Renee's eyes were not overly emotional.
"I wiped all traces off the branches this morning." Wu Qi said.
"I know, but I remember the way I came." Renee pointed to her head.
Originally, Renee Chou didn't have a good opening statement when she looked for Wu Qi for the second time, but Wu Qi's hands and feet on the branches just made her perfect use of it once. It is equivalent to that on the way here, she had already had an exchange with Wu Qi through the hands and feet that Wu Qi did in the forest.
"I mean you're here uninvited again." Wu Qi said lightly.
Renee didn't care what Wu Qi said, because Wu Qi made two stone benches.
"If I don't come looking for you, you won't come to me once, no matter how long my investigation team has been stationed in this mountain range?"
"Hmph, do you want your camp to be spied on by friends and foes? I don't take the initiative to investigate you because you brought me to this mountain range, don't be unappreciative. Wu Qi said.
"Since you've said so, well." Renee said.
"So what are you here for today? Do you want to continue exchanging information, or something else? Wu Qi said openly.
Renee smiled slightly, then her expression became serious, and she said, "The exchange of information was completed yesterday. Looking for you today, I personally ask for you. ”
Wu Qi's eyes flickered imperceptibly, and he said calmly: "If you want to use some form to pull me into the field of vision of your investigation team, then don't talk about it." ”
"No, I want to ask you about atavism."
'Anavism?' The road tells you everything. I don't have much to teach you. Wu Qi sent this back as if he was playing Tai Chi.
Renee's right hand swept over the tactical belt, and the moment Renee finished this action as fast as lightning, the three-foot-long knife suddenly flew onto Wu Qi's raised right hand.
With a crisp sound, the five fingers of Wu Qi's right hand had grasped the handle of the knife, and his black eyes, which were as still as water, set off waves like roaring beasts in an instant.
Wu Qi slowly straightened his pull. Renee gripped the handle in her hand and unleashed a bright energy lightsaber.
Wu Qi said coldly: "Do you want to die? ”
"Kill me and you'll be exposed. But don't worry, I'm not going to make you think about this meanly, because you're not strong enough yet. Renee said, swinging her sword.