Zhao Xinghua brought the four of them back to the campfire camp where they were just now, and asked Liang Hanba to hurry up and take the big black cat to eat supper, although the level of those pituitary gland is not as high as that of clouded leopards, but it is also a big supplement.

The four of them followed Zhao Xinghua on the way to thank him for saving his life, Zhao Xinghua did not indicate his identity, he did not know the purpose of several people, not to mention that he himself felt that his current identity was a bit chaotic, and he didn't know which identity should be used to contact a few people, only said that it was the indigenous people in the mountains, and the four of them did not suspect it, Zhao Xinghua was wearing a grass skirt, holding two weapons like the teeth of a beast, and a tattoo similar to a totem on his back, completely dressed as a prehistoric human, even if Zhao Xinghua said that he was still an orangutan not long ago, They will also believe that Zhao Xinghua's appearance, they have deeply imprinted the image of Tarzan of the Apes in their hearts.

Relighting the bonfire, Zhao Xinghua asked several people where they came from and what they came for.

In the face of this strong man, several people did not hide it.

The four were from the Seventh Artillery Division of the 48th Army of South China in Zhijiang, Shaozhou.

Since ancient times, Shaozhou has been a battleground for soldiers, the terrain is dangerous, there is a husband as a pass, and there is a trend of ten thousand people. It is the gateway to Guangdong from the north, Zhijiang has been a county since 111 BC (the sixth year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty), and has been "the hub of economic and cultural exchanges between the north and south of the Five Mountains, and the throat of Hunan, Guangdong and Jiangxi transportation", known as the "thoroughfare of the three provinces".

Before the end came, the Seventh Artillery Division completed its assembly in Zhijiang, and tens of thousands of people in the division were stationed there to defend the throat of the two Cantonese leading to the north. After the meteorite rain broke out, the sudden disaster caught the military off guard, and the zombies broke out in the barracks, causing chaos for a long time, and it was only about half a month later that a colonel led the surviving fighters to control the situation and recapture the barracks. It's a pity that things are irreversible, it's too late, tens of thousands of troops are only more than 2,000 people left, such large casualties are not all caused by zombies, there is a high-temperature meteorite smashed into a warehouse with a large amount of ammunition, causing a violent chain explosion, which is the main reason for the number of casualties of nearly 80% this time.

Originally, after the solar storm came, the zombies appeared less frequently outside during the day, and the surviving soldiers in the army began to take the initiative to go out to rescue other survivors trapped in the city, only to find that the places with signs of human survival after the apocalypse were already empty when they rushed there, and the successive occurrence of such things also alerted them. Many buildings in the city are destroyed by something from the outside with force, and those anti-theft doors and windows cannot be resisted, and this power is not possessed by ordinary zombies.

Later, when he went out to rescue the trapped survivors, a series of disappearances of the entire search team led the army commander to decide to suspend the search and rescue operation and select an elite team to search for clues to see what specific creatures were attacking humans. Two days later, the detachment, which had lost half of its casualties, returned to the camp and reported to the commander.

Mutated zombies were found in multiple locations, these strange-shaped zombies were different from the evolved zombies reported in various places before the solar storm, some had many bumps the size of a raised fist on their skin, some were covered in reddish-brown ulcers flowing with a putrefining liquid, and some warriors also saw zombies with thin bodies like skeletons, but they moved quickly. These zombies that make people feel a strong sense of disgust when they see them also have a strange way of fighting, with tumors exposing themselves, spraying venom, and even emitting poison gas like a fart, and the number is huge and shows signs of expanding around. At present, this kind of zombie has appeared many times in the warning range of the barracks, and the soldiers can only attack from a distance, but most of these zombies who move quickly are active at night, and the accuracy of human shooting is greatly reduced by the influence of eyesight in the dark, and now the defense range of the barracks is gradually shrinking. What's even more terrifying is that by observing these mutated zombie corpses, they are still corrosive and highly toxic, often causing an area to be barren and polluting the soil and water sources.

After listening to the introduction of this platoon commander, Zhao Xinghua was very curious, how could there be such a strange zombie, and he had not heard this situation among the tens of millions of zombies in Sui City. Then he opened his mouth and continued to ask:

"Do you know what causes zombies?"

"Our colonel analyzed that it was caused by environmental pollution."

"How so? Isn't Shaozhou the greenest city in the province? ”

Zhao Xinghua still knows a little about Shaozhou, before the end of the world he likes to travel, Shaozhou's Danxia Mountain is one of the destinations he planned, by the way, Shaozhou has also done homework, the province's 14 national forest parks, Shaozhou accounted for three, how can such a city still have pollution?

"I know this, I've been there to sell health supplements before." Liang Hanba carried the corpse of a jackal on his shoulder, and rushed back with a black cat bulging in his belly, just when he heard Zhao Xinghua's question, he replied.

It turns out that Shaozhou not only has abundant forest resources, but also is known as the biological gene bank of South China and the ecological barrier of the Pearl River Delta; It is also known as the "hometown of non-ferrous metals in China" and "the zinc capital of China", with 55 kinds of minerals such as coal, lead, zinc and copper with proven reserves, and 23 kinds of reserves ranking first in the province. It is also because of these that there are many smelting factories of all sizes, and before the end of the world, there were smelters who discharged sewage into the Beijiang River in violation of regulations, resulting in cadmium in the river water exceeding the standard by as much as 10 times; A few years ago, a university laboratory sampled 21 rice varieties near the mining area to find 100% and 71% higher levels of cadmium and lead, respectively.

Heavy metal pollution in daily life has led to the outbreak of cancer, and it has been reported that the farmland of some villages has been polluted by mineral water for a long time, and the soil contains not only heavy metals such as cadmium, iron, copper, but also sulfur, and more than 400 people in the village have died of cancer. Liang Hanba sells a large market for the health products he sells in the local area, and he has traveled back and forth to these places many times to make a general investigation into the causes and consequences of the pollution.

"The harm of heavy metal pollution to the body is mainly "three causes", which are carcinogenic, disease-causing and mutagenic. Heavy metals can have strong interactions with proteins and various enzymes in the human body, making them inactive, causing human poisoning and causing great harm to the human body. Cadmium is very toxic and mainly accumulates in the kidneys in the human body, causing functional changes in the urinary system. Cadmium can also replace calcium in the bones, so that the bones are seriously softened, and can interfere with the enzyme system of zinc in the human body and organisms, causing cell mutations, those mutated zombies should be long-term polluted villagers, the original zombies and ordinary zombies are not much different from ordinary zombies, it should be the radiation generated by the solar storm before the secondary mutation. ”

"Yes, the cancer village that this uncle is talking about is not far from our military camp."

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