Text Chapter 24: Zombie Swarm
At that time, driven by curiosity, in order to seek the truth, Jiang Sen searched all the information he could consult. Finally, in a highly classified document, the relevant records of the loss of Reagent Zero were found.
In 2118, the U.S. government expanded its combustible ice mining project in the Gulf of Mexico due to a change in the world's energy strategy to change the over-reliance on coal and increase the energy share of natural gas.
Around May, the combustible ice drilling platform, which had been running smoothly, suddenly shut down, and the entire combustible ice platform seemed to disappear from the world, and the combustible ice platform staff never returned home.
Moreover, during that period of time, the Gulf of Mexico, which had always been controlled by the United States, was patrolled by warships of various countries non-stop, and for a time it seemed that the entire United States wanted to be the enemy of the world.
The archives show that the workers on the combustible ice drilling platform will never be able to return home, because they have become the earliest zombies, that is, "Patient Zero", and what makes them zombies is a special "ice cube", which melts into a liquid immediately after being collected, and the data shows that this liquid is now called "Reagent Zero".
Due to the fact that there are so many confidential elements involved, there is a lot of ambiguity in this information. Jiang Sen's identity at that time could not continue to find more. However, the process of the loss of Reagent Zero is well documented - after obtaining the potion, the secret research institute on the west coast of Los Angeles has been working hard to decipher the specific recipe and ingredients.
Before the outbreak of the virus on a large scale, researchers had already made some progress and transmitted the relevant information to headquarters through satellite networking.
On August 2nd, today, the Institute decided to transport Reagent Zero from the secret laboratory on the West Coast back to the heavily protected central base. And in the process, the escort force accidentally encountered a large number of corpses, and the whole army was wiped out.
The group of corpses that wiped out the entire escort force had already appeared in Jiang Sen's field of vision, so the last place where Reagent Zero appeared was the crossroads where the zombie group in front of Jiang Sen was approaching.
As for the time, Jiang Sen raised his right hand and glanced at the watch on his wrist, the hands had just passed the 8:27 scale.
"Three minutes to go."
He silently counted down the numbers that had been counted into seconds, and kept replaying in his mind the content of the materials he had read. Holding the assault rifle tightly with both hands, his fingers rubbing back and forth between the trigger and the magazine, all the while shaking, the amplitude getting louder and louder.
The strengthened central nervous system is strengthened at least three times more. Jiang Sen could feel a slight tremor on the ground, and from the road coming from the west, the roar of the engine could be heard in the distance, tearing apart the silence of the early morning, and also disturbing the restlessness that had been forcibly suppressed in the depths of his heart.
Jiang Sen wasn't sure what the Virus Zero did, but he had already died, so he chose to gamble.
"Bang!" , a military "Humvee" off-road vehicle with dark green paint, very domineering crashed into a family car blocking its way. Then three of the same off-road vehicles drove by.
They sped from afar at incredible speed. Furious speeds, roaring engines, and endless hordes of zombies desperately ran behind the convoy.
Some of them kept falling behind, some of them kept joining from the side of the road, their eyes glowing red, and they gathered from all directions with a sudden frenzy to find food.
From where Jiang Sen was, the Hummer convoy was like a magnet jumping straight into the ore pile, completely surrounded by the zombies that had been absorbed. Wide rubber tires ran through the crowd of death-defying corpses, wading out a road stained with minced flesh and blood, and crashing into the middle obstacles that tried to block the road. However, the zombies had no idea of pain or fear, and they opened their mouths wide and howled, slamming into the body like a tidal wave.
"Da da da", the Humvee had already driven to the edge of the square, and the heavy machine gun on the roof of the car began to shoot bullets.
"Bang!" The Humvee was so wild that it finally stopped, its wheels were already stuffed with zombie flesh, and smoke was already coming out of the front wheels, and the other Humvee that was following it didn't have time to dodge and hit it directly.
"Da Da Da!" , The muzzle of the heavy machine gun that was knocked crooked was aimed at the statue in the middle of the turntable at the crossroads, and the powerful heavy machine gun immediately interrupted the statue, "Bang! The statue that was broken off by the waist hit the third SUV, forcing the last vehicle to stop. And at the moment when the convoy stopped, the zombie horde surrounded the three off-road vehicles like waves.
"Da Da Da!" The heavy machine guns on the three off-road vehicles formed three tongues of fire, and the machine gunners did not have time to aim carefully, and the hot bullets kept flying out of the muzzles, and the window glass of the off-road vehicles was also pulled down, and the guards sitting in the car kept shooting.
The power of the heavy machine gun was very powerful, and it rushed into the front zombie, and immediately a fist-sized hole appeared, and a dark red liquid with minced bones and flesh gushed out, and the hot air immediately became bloody. Many of the zombies who were shot had their chests and abdomen completely pierced, flowing yellow-green corpse water and rotting internal organs.
Although they were beaten in two, their brains were not hit, and they crawled on the ground with their hands, persistently crawling towards their goal.
Although the three heavy machine guns had enough firepower, because they did not hit the vital point, they fell in rows, and then got up from the ground one after another, and opened their arms extremely frantically, trying to hold the tires of the car, but were crushed on the spot by the powerful impact and weight, and the three off-road vehicles fell into the zombie horde as if they were deep in the desert.
There were only three people in the last car, and from a distance of hundreds of meters, Jiang Sen could still see their iron-blue faces, as well as eyes that released fear and despair. They were all internal guard officers of the American Western Bloc. One of the men sitting in the back row, holding a briefcase in his left hand and a gun in his right hand, kept slamming the trigger on the zombies pouring out the window.
The bumps in the body seemed to have no effect on him, and the bullets that came out of the disembowelment hit the zombie's head accurately, laying a thick pile of corpses on both sides of the blood-stained road.
Jiang Sen half-squatted in front of the window, staring at the three off-road vehicles that rushed to the square and were surrounded by a dense crowd of corpses. In the depths of his dark eyes, there was an increasingly uncontrollable excitement and impulsiveness.
Because he remembered an important one in the Chinese document: on August 2, 2120, the captain of the internal guard was besieged by zombies, unfortunately died, and Reagent Zero was lost.
Jiang Sen held the rifle in his hand tightly, and the crosshair of the rifle's scope had already locked on the machine gunner on the roof of the last off-road vehicle, his heart was beating fast, he wanted to press the trigger, but the zero reagent was very important, he didn't dare to leave any clues, and finally, let go of the finger on the trigger.
"Dada!" The well-trained machine gunners in the three cars cooperated with each other to fire, each bullet would break the incoming zombies, the driver tried his best to step on the accelerator, the black exhaust gas sprayed from the exhaust pipe, but the power released by the engine could not compete with the corpses.
Soon, a heavy machine gun ran out of ammunition, and there was a gap in the defense, and then, two zombies took the opportunity to climb up from the back of the car, hugged the shoulders of the machine gun shooter standing on the roof of the car, and gnawed his neck from the left and right, the machine gunner screamed and fell out of the car on his side, and the smell of blood he released made the whole group of corpses even more crazy, and the three tough Humvee off-road vehicles were like lonely reefs in the sea, washed over and over again by the crazy dense corpse tide, and drowned again and again.