Chapter 5: Harvest
The corpses are huddled together, and this is a great opportunity! Lu Fan took a few steps back, then took out a lighter from his pocket, lit the Molotov cocktail in his hand, and threw it forward!
The Molotov cocktail flew towards the crowded corpses with a trace of arc and firelight, and finally slammed into the iron gate in front of them with a snap, shattering open!
Rumble!
The blazing flames rose into the sky, and the resulting heat wave scorched people's faces hurt, forcing Lu Fan to take a few steps back!
The Molotov cocktail he made was not ordinary, the gasoline in the bottle was solidified with a recipe learned in the last days, and the explosive power was much stronger than that of ordinary gasoline incendiary bottles!
The nearly 1,000-degree flames generated by the shattering of the Molotov cocktail were like hellfire, quickly engulfing the entire corpse! Soon, the black smoke and scorching smell spread from the burning point and burrowed into Lu Fan's nose!
Lu Fan covered his mouth and nose and stood in the distance quietly waiting for the result. As time passed, most of the zombies were gradually scorched, and in the end, only a few were still surviving, but they were all stuck in the cage and couldn't move.
Lu Fan carried the axe and opened the door, with a loud noise, the scorched corpses piled up at the door immediately collapsed, and the backlog of strong scorching stench also spread at this moment.
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Call!
Lu Fan wielded the fire axe with all his strength, as if he was chopping wood, and slashed the blade of the axe into the zombie's head, and then broke the handle of the axe with great force! The tough skull immediately cracked with a crisp sound.
The skull protects the brain, and the inside is not directly burned, but smothered. As soon as Lu Fan split the zombie's head, a puff of white steam came out.
The unpleasant smell made Lu Fan feel uncomfortable, but he didn't stop there, but took off the rubber gloves pinned to his waist, put them on his hands, and then stuck into the zombie's brain.
After stirring inside, Lu Fan withdrew his hand with some disappointment, then kicked the corpse away and turned his gaze to the next charred corpse.
Lu Fan repeated the action just now, continued to split the zombie's head, and reached in to dig.
This time there was finally something to gain, as soon as Lu Fan put his hand into the zombie's brain, he felt a bead that was tough and had a hint of elasticity.
There was a touch of excitement in Lu Fan's heart, and he didn't hesitate, and pulled the perceived foreign object out of the zombie's brain.
Lu Fan cleaned away the few remaining bundles of nerve fibers on the beads, wiped off the filth on the surface, and then held it in his hand and carefully weighed it.
The bead has a dark red surface, is rounded, the size of a marble, and has a little weight in the palm of your hand.
Lu Fan picked it up and pointed it at the sun, which had just been lit up in the sky.
Sunlight easily penetrates the surface of the bead and illuminates its interior.
Beneath the tough and elastic skin of the beads, Lu Fan saw the light brown translucent liquid inside that was pure without a trace of impurities, and the energy contained in the liquid was what some people needed.
Brain nucleus.
This is what evolutionaries need, a necessity for them to maintain their body's energy, and a way for ordinary people to venture into evolution.
If Lu Fan had stored more of this kind of thing in the early stage, he would have been protected by the Evolutionaries in the future.
At least not life-threatening.
In the post-apocalyptic period, the only safe place to be found is the camp set up by the evolutionaries.
Evolutionaries, they are also infected by viruses, but unlike zombies and other monsters, the virus only strengthens their bodies, but does not destroy their sense of self, and some evolutionaries even gain some extremely special mutation abilities that make them more powerful!
The brain nucleus is their food and a way to become stronger, although the odds are lower and there is a possibility of mutation after failure. But even this will not stop them from evolving.
In the last days, the only way not to be eliminated is to make yourself stronger.
The probability of ordinary people becoming evolutionaries after being directly infected by the virus is quite low, and only one in tens of thousands of people can carry it, and the success rate of taking the brain nucleus is much higher than that of the direct infection of the virus.
Nearly 5% success rate, after failure, it will be eaten by the virus stock in the brain nucleus and become a monster.
If he wants to become an evolutionary, there are only these two paths that Lu Fan knows so far, and he will not take this risk at present.
Unless, cornered.
After collecting the first brain core, Lu Fan had more motivation. He carried the axe and proceeded to chop off the zombie's head.
The clatter of a shattered skull kept rattling. Because of his current physique, Lu Fan was tired and out of breath after a while, and he rested for a while before continuing to work.
After all, the body of the previous life was exercised in the last days, although it was not very strong, but it was much stronger than the current body.
But even so, in the face of the evolutionary, the other party was still able to pinch himself to death with one hand.
A throbbing surrounded his heart, Lu Fan actually really wanted to become an evolutionary, but due to the success rate, he still didn't dare to think about it, so he could only bury his head and continue to work.
An hour later, the heads of more than twenty zombies were all split apart by Lu Fan and dug out, but the number of brain nuclei found was almost only one-eighth or nineth.
Three.
That's right, this kind of thing is very precious, and it is difficult to find it on the body of ordinary zombies, but even so, Lu Fan is currently the first person in the entire Shentan City to find the existence of the brain nucleus, and he is also the first person to take the initiative to hunt zombies after the crisis broke out, trying to profit from it.
It will be a while before others know about this and what it is used for, including the Evolutionaries.
After being busy with the excavation of the brain nucleus, Lu Fan began to clean up the corpses again, at least to move the pile of corpses piled up at the door to another place, and then he had to rearrange the traps and repair the damaged barbed wire cage, and these two things were relatively large projects, and it was very slow to carry out alone.
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When everything was taken care of, it was almost dusk, and Lu Fan drove the Humvee to dump the last of the corpses in a drainage ditch not far away, and then returned to the base to recuperate.
In order to set up traps, Lu Fan stayed up until dawn last night, and today he killed so many zombies, and moved their corpses to other places, plus repairing traps, he was almost exhausted after this round of tasks.
But fortunately, there are some gains, and today is also very fulfilling, which can be regarded as a successful ending.
After washing away the filth on his body from carrying the corpse, and then replenishing his energy, when everything was over, Lu Fan's eyelids were about to be opened.
Stretching his waist, Lu Fan lay comfortably on the sofa, and within a minute, he fell asleep deeply.
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Bang bang bang!!