Chapter 7: Kabaneri
At this time, the island country was in the second half of the 17th century, and the wild environment had not been polluted by large-scale industrialization and the sequelae of explosive population growth.
Walking through the forest, which had lost its former vitality and only had a terrifying silence, the leading samurai asked with a nervous face.
"My lord, what are we here for?"
Although Kabane can only attack and suck human blood, as an animal with keen sense, it can smell obvious danger from the body of this undead monster, so as long as there is a place within Kaba, animals will avoid it on a large scale.
The current state undoubtedly shows that there is Kabane nearby.
They wanted to finish the experiment sooner and get back sooner.
Nanshan didn't care about the worries of these samurai, but asked rhetorically without answering.
"Why are you so afraid to fight Kabane?"
Judging from the performance in the anime, these samurai with steam guns are not so much used to defend against Kabane's attacks, but rather to complete internal suppression, and are used by the rulers of the walled city and the shogunate forces behind them to maintain the stability of their own power. Not only is it useless to fight, only dare to put a gun from a distance, and can't kill a single Kabane in half a day, but compared to those civilians, they generally have a high-minded and arrogant mentality, and they beat and scold people at every turn, as if they want to find the courage and confidence to be scared away by Kabane through this bullying method that can clearly distinguish between high and low status.
Nanshan felt very unhappy when he saw it, power and obligation are relative, obviously some guys who are very wasteful, and often run away when fighting, but they pretend to be arrogant in front of ordinary people, and it is difficult not to annoy people.
"We don't want to, adults, it's really those Kabanes are so terrible, as long as they are bitten and scratched, they will be infected and become monsters like them."
"That's right, even if you can get away with repelling their attack at the time, you have to use your self-determination bag afterwards, so why can these civilians hide under the protection of the walled city and watch us fight to the death on the front line."
"Yes, we are all ordinary people, why do we have to stand on the front line of counterattacking Kabane, to face the fear that could turn into monsters at any time. Your Excellency, you don't know, every time we see that those samurai who find themselves injured have to be forced to cut themselves by the people around them, we feel very frightened, and that feeling of not being able to tolerate the world is really desperate! ”
With the complete trust added by the spell of seduction of humanity, these warriors poured out their truest thoughts to Nanshan without concealment.
Some people even cried as they spoke.
Obviously, the pressure has been very high.
"Well, I understand." Nanshan nodded after hearing this, and had to say that he really hadn't thought about the problem from the perspective of these samurai.
Compared to the cowardly fellows who only dared to hide under the protection of the walled city and resign themselves to their fate, these samurai who could have the courage to stand up and deal with the almost impossible to kill Kabane had done quite well.
Not everyone can accept death calmly even when they know they are invincible.
Then it is all the more necessary to change all this......
Nanshan happily thought that in this case, he would not have to feel guilty at all, because I am doing this for your good!
That's right, Nanshan's method is to transform all these samurai into Kabaneri.
It is a state of intervention between humans and Kabane.
Because after being bitten, the virus did not successfully pass through the blood circulation and reach the brain to complete the erosion, so he still retains the complete mind of being a human, but has the same strong physical fitness and metamorphosis recovery ability as Kabane, and most importantly, he can be completely immune to viral infection from now on, and he can safely fight close to Kabane, and he doesn't have to worry about being injured anymore.
Of course, the success rate of this transformation is very low, and in the early plot, only the two lucky guys of the hero and heroine resisted the erosion of the brain by the virus and successfully survived.
However, just like the charm of human beings that can only be effective through the judgment of will, in his hands, it can exert a bug effect that is almost impossible to exempt ordinary people, and Kabaneri, who has a very low conversion rate, can also obtain an infinitely close to 100% success rate.
Although there are side effects such as having to suck blood and the heart mutating into a shimmering luster like lava, there is no doubt that compared to Kabane, who has no intelligence at all, Kabaneri, who combines the strengths of the two, is already a more powerful mutant existence, which can completely resist the invasion of Kabane, and even after the appearance of a large number of them, it can completely reverse the disadvantage of human beings and destroy all these monsters.
Just by doing so, it seems that something is missing.....
Looking at the samurai who were immersed in a state of depression and couldn't extricate themselves, Nanshan looked back at the plot development in the anime and immediately realized that it was not enough to transform them into Kabaneri. With the suspicion that all the survivors are now at risk, it is difficult to allow such a "monster" that is almost like a Kabane to appear, let alone become the protector of humanity and truly gain the power they deserve.
Just like the male protagonist Ikoma, for a period of time after he first became Kabaneri, that experience was simply a man's silence and a woman's tears.
Obviously saved the lives of a carload of people, but he had to endure the unwarranted suspicion, fear and suspicion of others, not only treating him as a disgusting "monster" in Kabane, but also killing him in public, which was worse than a dog!
Can't you understand that the real Kabane has no mind and can't speak?
But for those who have been enjoying protection, they don't care about it at all.
Cowards, who have become accustomed to hiding behind their victims, will only want to exclude all threats, whether they are real threats or not, or if the person who was coerced has just saved himself.
Between having brains and having no brains, they would rather choose to be ignorant.
Therefore, it is not enough to leave enough power to defend themselves against the terrible background of this apocalyptic world, and it will not be long before these S*Bs themselves will force their protectors against them. Just like the original hunters, as the first main battle legion to resist the front line of Kabane's spread inland, they were betrayed by the conspiracy and turned into a villain group determined to take revenge, and even the countless survivors were tragically affected by this process of revenge, and after death, they became Kabane, making the number of humans who were already few left even smaller.
If we want to truly change the future destiny of this world, we must fundamentally reverse the relationship between the protector and the protected.
Thinking of this, Nanshan smiled happily, he had decided to play with the plan a little bigger, and all the scum that stood in the way should be swept away.