53. Purification system
"After the disaster broke out, there was also a tsunami impact of seawater inflow, but luckily the water level was just over a meter high when we arrived here, so we were notified and prepared in advance." Zhao Jie began to tell about the situation here after the catastrophe.
"But it's not really scary, there was a meteorite with a diameter of more than 2 meters that fell on this island, breaking through a laboratory from the 5th floor all the way to the basement, where we were doing experiments on viruses. Three orangutans mutated and burst out of the lab. Luckily this is an island, and they can't leave, or they will cause great disaster to the surviving humans outside. Can you imagine it? Although it is not the King Kong in the movie, it is also infinitely powerful and agile. One battalion on the island, equipped with heavy weapons, was broken by a Type 98 20mm anti-aircraft gun with a flat-angle shot, and one was trapped in an air defense tunnel and detonated and buried underneath. ”
"What about the other one?" Although Zhao Xinghua had not seen the scene of the battle with his own eyes, he could also imagine how destructive such a creature would be, and he could guess that the battle at that time must have been fierce just after passing by those ruins and ruins in the car.
"I lured me to a lab and fell into a pool of strong acid."
"No wonder you're promoted to major."
"Yes, the military sacrificed a company of troops in this battle, and they also realized that ordinary humans have a great flaw in the battle against higher mutant creatures, that is, the two sides are not equal in speed and physical strength, although they can rely on weapons to destroy them, but they also have to pay a huge price. The same weapon is used in the hands of ordinary people and evolutionaries, and the difference in effectiveness and efficiency is also very obvious. It just so happened that the military and the Academy of Sciences needed someone to coordinate with them, and originally the two departments did not coordinate with each other, and there were disputes over many things, so at this time I was elected to be the liaison between the two sides. Now I have a dual identity, that is, a major officer of the military's special operations team, and a second-class researcher of the Academy of Sciences. ”
"This time the arm you brought has once again attracted the attention of the big guy above, and now the researcher above is reporting the detected data to the base leaders across the country through live online video, you must know that this level of evolutionary zombies has appeared in many places, but no one has killed them yet, you are on the list again, and your name is known to the official large bases across the country."
"Aren't all the satellites shot down?"
"How can it be so thorough, originally there were about 1,000 artificial satellites in space around the earth, only about half of them were destroyed, and countries requisitioned all the remaining civilian satellites and closed the civilian network. But these are also in a state of countdown, and everyone is desperately sharing information and storing data. Because soon another catastrophe will come, and it will be no less than the previous Leonid meteor shower for humans. We'll talk about that later. ”
"The laboratories on the biological island have begun to prepare for closure, not only here, but many laboratories around the world are closing, and the research on the virus will also enter a state of hibernation, maybe there will not be more than five laboratories in the world that can continue to conduct research, and they are located 100 meters underground or in a huge all-metal enclosed space to survive the next disaster."
"Why can't I understand what you're saying?" The more Zhao Xinghua listened, the more confused he became.
"Let's talk about the zombie you killed, according to our research and analysis, he belongs to the third-level form of zombies, hehe, now the world has unified the name of this undead creature, Zombie, my country's official name for zombies no longer uses the name of the virus infected. Roughly divide zombies into several categories, ordinary zombies and evolutionary zombies, evolutionary zombies are divided into speed type and power type, the speed type is uniformly called S-type zombies, and the power-type is D-type zombies, you are killing a third-level evolutionary zombie, it is not clear which form it was in its last form, but everyone is more inclined to be formed by the evolution of S-type zombies. There may be other types of Level 3 Evolution Zombies, but they haven't been encountered by humans yet, or the people they encounter have been killed by zombies. This is called the SII type or Licker officially called licker in Chinese. ”
"If more and more of these zombies appear, won't there be no room for human beings to live?"
"No, human beings are also evolving, but the evolution process is not as rapid as that of animals, and it will evolve from generation to generation. This virus from space is a benign virus, and if it weren't for the huge pollution caused by today's human beings to the earth, there would be no zombies. Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle has visited Earth many times, allowing the life of Earth to fully evolve, and prehistoric dinosaurs and other prehistoric giants have been enhanced by viruses to almost evolve to the highest form of life. “
"And we'll evolve to a few meters high?"
"No, prehistoric organisms lived on Earth for about 160 million years, and most of the creatures on Earth today are species that appeared after the Cenozoic Era, and only developed and evolved for 1.6 million years. Dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures evolved over generations to evolve into those gigantic creatures. And the post-Cenozoic species have been on Earth for just 1% of the time of prehistoric organisms. The evolution of organisms is a process of biological evolution that gradually changes and develops from generation to generation, transitions from one state to another, and is completed through genetics. In the process of evolution, human beings evolved in the other direction because they stood and walked on their feet, freed their hands, and used tools, unlike other species. At the same time, human beings have changed the living environment of the earth, destroying the elements of biological evolution in a certain way, changing the composition of air and water, causing this originally benign virion to change in an unknown direction, and zombies have appeared. ”
"Then why do some people become zombies, while others do not change in the same living environment?"
"Genetics, many humans and animals have virus genes in their genes, so these people have not been autopsied. The virus has visited the Earth many times, but it has not been as strong before, and only a small part has fallen to the ground. The formation of such a large meteorite shower this time should be that the parent comet collided with some celestial body during the last operation cycle, which produced such a large-scale meteorite fragment or small piece of virus combination falling to the earth's surface. ”
"Is there any evidence to support this argument?"
"There are many, for example, the construction age of the pyramids in Egypt coincides with the time when the comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle passed by the earth, causing some human mutations when the comet passed by the earth, similar to today's zombies, but the pollution at that time was not as serious as it is now, but it also produced corpse performance. Egypt is one of the earliest recorded tobacco smoking countries, in the pharaoh's tomb unearthed a lot of pottery pipes, some mummies may be the first because of smoking mutated corpse humans, after being captured and eviscerated and thrown to kill, and then tied with a rope around the whole body, and then put it into a coffin, to prevent it from escaping and build a pyramid to suppress. ”
"Why doesn't it sound more reliable than I made it up?" Zhao Xinghua was not very convinced.
"Let's talk about the impending catastrophe of humanity that you just mentioned." Zhao Xinghua is more concerned about the future.
"Originally, this kind of thing didn't have much impact a few decades ago, but now it's even worse at a time like this."
What does that mean exactly? Do we need to do anything to prepare? Zhao Xinghua continued to dig into the roots.
"Not long ago, the Solar X-ray Astronomy Laboratory of the Lebedev Institute of Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences informed the global laboratory that the shock wave of charged particles ejected by the eruption of a solar flare is about to cause the strongest geomagnetic storm, and its intensity is assessed as G5 (extremely strong) level. GPS systems, etc., will be affected, and if this is really the highest level solar storm, then all electronic equipment will burn out the circuit boards and be scrapped. Equipment or systems that rely on electrical and electronic components can be paralyzed, nuclear power plants, dams, power plants, and other critical facilities will be affected, and drastic changes in the celestial climate will be prevented. ”
"The only good thing is that you don't have to go to the North and South Poles to see the aurora, you have the opportunity to see them all over the world, and you can be active at night as much as possible, and you will be burned by radiation and ultraviolet rays during the day, and there will be more geographical disasters such as thunderstorms and earthquakes."
"Why does it feel like a broken jar? It feels like all the disasters are attached to the earth at the same time. Zhao Xinghua was speechless.
"Don't you feel like it's more like an ecosystem cleanup? After eliminating all sources of pollution on the earth, the earth's industry, science and technology will no longer be developed, and it will return to the Iron Age. It's like there's a being in the dark that corrects the direction of our evolution. ”
"If these disasters had happened in the Middle Ages, there would not have been so many human corpses, and human beings would not have been able to live without electronic devices, and what is happening now will not even have much impact on human society more than 200 years ago." Zhao Jie continued.
"After listening to you, how do I feel that someone is manipulating the earth, or that they can control the solar system, or that the entire universe is just a set of programs?" Zhao Xinghua couldn't digest the information he received today.