Chapter 14: The City of Herp

Su Ming felt the darkness and found a wooden plank nearby, as if it was left behind when he was building the power grid defense line. He pulled the buried half out of the dirt and used his mantis bayonet to cut some holes in it that he could climb.

The damp wooden plank was filled with moisture, Tang Tian and Duanmu Zong wrapped their hands in clothes, and borrowed the help of the wooden board to turn over the power grid, Su Ming was afraid that they would fall down, and the last one to go in.

After turning over the power grid, Su Ming turned on the searchlight of T-101, it was dark inside, and without the light, the three of them were likely to be shot by mistake for a mad corpse.

The wild grass on the periphery was a mess, and some traces of farming could be faintly seen in the distance along the moonlight. The trio walked through the perimeter to the interior of the city.

"Who?" A burst of strong light shone on Su Ming's body, because of the searchlight of T-101, they were not immediately shot.

"Special combat team, come here to investigate." Su Ming raised his hand to signal that there was no hostility. Several soldiers in protective suits walked over with guns in their hands, and Su Ming stopped in place and did not move.

"Special Forces? Whoever wants to enter the city must be tested, stretch out their hands. A soldier stepped out of the queue and pulled out a sharp instrument.

The instrument pricked the fingers of the three men, and the analyzed blood data showed no traces of the virus.

"What are you looking for?" The soldier in front asked.

"The Origin of the Virus." Su Ming replied.

"Cut, it's not like the government hasn't sent someone to investigate, and no clues have been found, so it's too much." Several soldiers turned and left.

"Safety." The soldier said, and several of his teammates in the back put away their guns.

Su Ming followed the patrol all the way to the central area of Help. There were some buildings inside that emitted a faint glow, and quite a few soldiers were in and out of it.

"Chefort only said that one of his friends revealed the news, and did not say who it was, so it's not easy for us to open the clue." Duanmu Zong looked at the institution in front of him and said, it should be Herp's government unit inside.

"What to do? What's next? Tang Tian asked in the back.

Su Ming didn't answer, but walked to the gate of the building in front of him, "Stop, who is it?" Several soldiers with guns looked at him warily.

"Special Combat Team." Su Ming tried to see if this identity could enter the institution inside.

"Special Forces? Quote your number. Several soldiers didn't believe it and asked Su Ming.

Su Ming was silent for a while and said his Void Realm number. A soldier took out an instrument with a light screen to query, entered Su Ming's number, and saw his information.

"No problem." The inquiring soldier winked at his companion, and several soldiers put away their guns.

"Do the two of them still want to check?" Su Ming pointed at Tang Tian and Duanmu Sect.

"No, let's go inside." The soldiers stepped out of their seats and said.

The three of them walked into the inner space and came to a dimly lit hall. Many soldiers are carrying firearms, and some of the office areas inside are occupied by military personnel.

After the outbreak of the virus, the government issued a warning that all people should not go out. The army opened the way with armored vehicles, blocked it with tanks, and built a barbed wire defense line under the cover of firepower. Finally, the noise in the interior of the city attracts the attention of the mad corpses, and after a long period of arrangement, the city is finally cleaned up.

"Dangdang" Su Ming casually walked into the door of an office and knocked on the door.

The personnel inside looked up at Su Ming, "Please come in." ”

The three of them came to the office and walked over to an officer sitting in a chair. A couple of soldiers had just reported something to him.

"Who are you?" The officer asked, leaning back in his seat and cross-legged.

"Members of the special combat team, our superiors have sent us to investigate the origin of the virus." Su Ming made this statement as usual, and of course his real purpose was the same.

"Investigating the virus? Didn't you check it last time? After two months of searching, I couldn't even find a clue to a fart. The officer said impatiently with his hands in his hands, he did not suspect Su Ming's identity, and it was impossible for the three of them to mix with the guards and secret sentry at the door.

"This time we have some other clues, and we want to combine the previous investigation to see if there is any new progress." Su Ming stood with his hands in his hands and his face was calm, and Duanmu Zong on the side admired the captain's language ability, so that he could get the information of the previous investigation without revealing his stuff.

"Hmph, big pig's trotters......" Tang Tian muttered in his heart.

"Da-da" The officer's fingers tapped on the table and looked at Su Ming and the others.

"Go and take out the files in cabinet 10 and the third floor of the archives." The officer took out a bunch of keys, pinched one of them and said to one of his men.

The subordinate took it and left the office, returning two minutes later with a file.

"It's all here, nothing useful. Virus experts say that it is a virus carried by some kind of natural organism, which mutates after entering the human body. The officer took a sip from his teacup.

Su Ming took the file bag, and when he opened it, there were twenty or thirty pieces of things similar to case sheets.

"Thank you very much for your help." Su Ming took the file in his hand.

"I'm the captain of the third brigade, Kuru, if you do find any clues, you can let me know." Kuru looked playful, not because he was arrogant, but because there was no clue to it.

Su Ming walked out of the office and sat down on the chair in the hall, looking at the pile of materials through the faint light.

The information was all about the patient who was found to have bitten when the virus first broke out, and Su Ming divided the information between the two and asked them to see if they could find clues.

Su Mingna's case is a 30-year-old adult male, and it records his entire journey from onset to death.

Name: In. Seckert

Gender: Male

Age: 30

Onset: The 97th day of the warm season.

Initial symptoms: increased body temperature, coughing up blood with fever, abnormal lymphocytes, and destruction of the immune system.

Medium-term symptoms: The virus begins to destroy the blood-brain barrier, ascends to the central nervous system through nerve endings, the patient begins to have a strong desire to attack, the virus can be transmitted through blood and body fluids, and the patient's sanity gradually disappears as the virus continues to multiply.

Late symptoms: The virus consumes a lot of the patient's vitality, the patient's body begins to emaciate, the blood vessels begin to protrude, the capillaries rupture, the white blood cells almost completely disappear, the virus begins to mutate after several cycles of reproduction, and the antibody agent loses its effect.

Final Symptom: The patient loses all sanity and has a frenzied offensive intent, and the virus continues to mutate, with no antibodies to eliminate it. The patient died on the 23rd day without food or water.

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The information also attached photos of the patient from the beginning to the death, and the last one was no different from the mad corpse that Su Ming encountered.

"Oh my god, this is simply this is the H.I.V+ crown. Virus + Maniac. A combination of canine disease, who can withstand this. Duanmu Sect looked at the information with sympathy.

"Don't be afraid, if you get bitten, I can help you disperse." Tang Tian turned his head and said.

"Does dispel work? Is the occult more powerful than the scientific side? Duanmuzong was puzzled, his family was studying medicine, and he knew some medical knowledge more or less.

"I don't know, but my dispel skill shows that it can dispel 30 anomalous effects such as madness and poison." Tang Tian replied.

"This virus doesn't seem to be born naturally, and I can't think of any creature that can withstand the erosion of this virus." Duanmu Sect was puzzled.

Several other cases are similar, and there is nothing to be found in the report. Su Ming put these materials into the file bag and put them in his backpack.

"The patient data we have now is the subject of observation that was later arrested by the army, and the first few patients can no longer be found. If we can find the medical records of the first patients, we can know where they were infected. Su Ming analyzed.

"I'll listen to you, what do you say." Tang Tian is self-aware of his analytical ability.

"There may be clues in the hospital, and we have to investigate all the hospitals in the vicinity to see if we can find the earliest date of the disease." Su Ming said that according to Kulu's tips, the government had previously investigated the source of the virus outbreak, but there seemed to be no clues. Now they're trying to see if they can find something that investigators didn't.

The two of them found a place to sleep with the help of the soldiers, which the special combat team still has.

The next morning, the three of them set off from different directions and began to investigate the surrounding hospitals.

The streets are sparsely populated, and there is little sign of people except for the occasional passing patrol. There were so many infected people in Help that the army killed six or seven layers of the infected.

The surviving people hid in their homes and did not leave their homes unless necessary.

Su Ming walked through an alley and stopped, and a group of ragged wanderers blocked his way.

"Boy, hand over all your money and jewelry, as well as food, as long as it's useful." A middle-aged man with a weak body and a gloomy face said.

A group of wanderers stinks, and their fingers holding knives are stained. A man with long hair grabbed a lice from his greasy hair and pinched it to death, looking at Su Ming with an unkind face.

"Unfortunately, I don't have any of that. If you insist on asking me, you may lose something. Su Ming took out his mantis bayonet and calmly looked at the homeless people in front of him.

"That knife is good, it's definitely worth a lot of money." There was a bald man who looked at Su Ming's mantis bayonet, and his eyes lit up.

"Hey, hey, if you don't give it to us, you can only take it from your corpse." The leader of the tramp said gloomily.

Su Ming scanned it with a detector, and a group of people were weak chickens with a total attribute of 4.

"Up." The homeless leader commanded.

There are people in front and behind, and for the wanderer, shame is simply less valuable than the stinky water in the gutter.

A bald head in front of him rushed forward, a mouthful of yellow teeth showing at the corner of his smirking mouth. He took a rusty dagger and stabbed Su Ming's lower abdomen, saying that the dagger was actually a sharpened piece of iron.

Su Ming grabbed his wrist holding the knife and twisted his shoulder into a twist, and in the bald howl, Su Ming kicked the sneak attacker behind him into the air, and his sternum made a crisp cracking sound in the air.

The sneak attacker landed in the group of homeless people and vomited a mouthful of blood and lost his breath, and a group in the rear also rushed over when they saw this.

The tip of the mantis bayonet slashed through the bald man's throat, ending his howl.

"I*"

"Let's all go up and kill him!" The weak leader shouted.

"Bang" Su Ming's elbow hit through the chest of a homeless man, and it was obvious that the opponent's chest was dented, and then he fell straight down.

A dagger stabbed by a knife flew away, and Su Ming dodged in the crowd's attack.

The mantis bayonet is very sharp, and this is the hardest part of the elite stabbing mantis. From time to time, the tip of the knife slashed through the throats of the crowd, and blood splattered. The alley was filled with the dull sound of flesh hitting and the occasional thud of metal.

Ten seconds later, a corpse lay on the ground, and the leader fled the alley with the rest of his accomplices. Su Ming didn't bother to chase him, the current main quest was important.

"Don't kill me, I have eighty parents above me, and ...... below"

"Poof"! The mantis bayonet passed through the throat of a homeless man who knelt down, and his leg was swept off by Su Ming and he couldn't run away.

"Is there such a vulgar word in every human world?" Su Ming wondered.

After fighting in the arena for a few days, Su Ming slaughtered these homeless people without any waves in his heart.

[Hint: You have achieved the achievement "First Blood."] 】

[Achievement Reward: Attribute +1.] 】

This is the first time Su Ming has killed someone, and the Void Realm has also given him an achievement. Neither the corpse tide nor the homeless man broke out the soul coins and drop boxes, Su Ming guessed that the former should be a new benefit, and only the primary trial to kill monsters can have money dropped. The latter should be a problem of explosion rate, and the probability of the appearance of the box is very low.