He couldn't imagine what that meant.

Maybe I guessed wrong: the virus raging outside the base was not the one I secretly obtained from a helicopter, but the initial sample sent by the base's higher-ups. Isn't it? The strength of the virus is almost unassailable, and only then will it require hundreds of researchers to work hard day and night. The virus that appeared later was a joke. While they can cause infections and turn living people and animals into zombies, their flaws are so obvious that they can be solved almost easily.

I feel like I've discovered the real secret.

Could it be real?

No one told Chang the answer, and he didn't dare to share his secret with other researchers. Chang Defang is withdrawn, and most researchers are loners, only gathering together when they encounter major problems. What's more, this kind of thing is really appalling, and Chang De does not think that he can find allies in the institute.

What am I going to do?

He fell into deep thought.

……

Warm weather doesn't specifically favor one place over the other. From the south to the north, you can feel the breath of spring everywhere.

The road from Leshan to Chengdu is not easy to walk. The same problem has been plaguing the entire team———— almost all roads are blocked by vehicle wreckage, and even the most high-performing vehicles are difficult to drive at high speeds on unhardened fields.

Non-stop detours, non-stop solving traffic obstacles. Many times, Liu Tianming even feels that this is his biggest enemy.

Of course, he could have taken a different approach and taken a simpler approach and went to Chengdu alone.

That means throwing away everyone else, throwing away all the reserves.

It's impossible.

The importance of teams has become more and more apparent. Potential enemies and adversaries will constantly appear. Liu Tianming has long since thrown away those unrealistic ideas. Along the way, he recalled everything he had experienced, and he also had a deeper understanding of Song Jiahao's last words.

We're friends.

The biological nutrition obtained from Leshan is a rich wealth. All of the mutant infectates in the team have been re-evolved.

Zheng Xiaoyue, Huang He, and Luo Kuan improved their strength to become the third stage of larvae. Everyone's breakthrough stage is different, due to the number of red patches that are usually harvested from hunting inside the carcass.

The Yellow River's attack power is very strong, and its defense has also been improved. He doesn't have any advantage in speed, but he's more flexible with the ability "Earth with rocks and dirt icons." From the initial mud and stone bulges that could only produce about ten centimeters from the ground, to now the rock pillars that can produce more than half a meter high, the progress can be said to have increased exponentially.

Zheng Xiaoyue has gained another freezing ability: she can freeze the ice more hard, and at the same time weaken the thickness of the ice layer and sharpen the edges. This flake ice cube attack effect is obviously far greater than that of icicles, and the killing surface is larger and more powerful.

Luo Kuan's evolutionary direction is diametrically opposed to that of the Yellow River. He belongs to the kind of example of an attack that is enhanced to the extreme, but completely abandons defense. In Liu Tianming's view, Luo Kuan's only means of defense is speed. But his speed is completely different from his own, and it is not a grade at all. It's more of an adjustment that's necessary to lock in the target. After all, Luo Kuan is a humanoid ray cannon, and if a powerful shot can't hit the target, it's no different from a waste.

Entering the third stage of the larvae, Luo Kuan's ray cannon can attack three times. He can take the initiative to adjust the intensity of a single shot according to the actual situation and the strength of the opponent. As before, all energy can be fired at once, or it can be released in three parts. But no matter which one it is, Luo Kuan needs to rest for a long time after the battle, and even supplement biological nutrients to recover.

Correspondingly, Luo Kuan's "output" of bullets per day increased to sixty.

He never understood why he had such a strange ability. Huang He took this incident as a joke and ridiculed Luo Kuan as "a housewife who swallows metal and lays eggs".

Cao Xinneng, Li Jiexin, and Gu Kegang absorbed enough biological nutrients, and the three of them evolved into the second stage of larvae at the same time.

Like the Yellow River, Cao Xinneng's ability is "a land with rocks and dirt as icons." However, he has some of Luo Kuan's qualities, that is, he can use his body to touch metal, so that it can be slowly absorbed, and then excreted from his body, and transformed into the objects he needs.

He liked the chain very much, but he was not satisfied with the weight and thickness. Cao Xinneng has been absorbing metals since he evolved, and he has already generated a chain of about half a meter. Liu Tianming talked to him about Cao Xineng bluntly saying that he needed a weapon at hand. He needs to make it himself, but it takes a bit more time.

After evolution, Li Jiexin can create two air barriers at the same time, and can also overlap the two air barriers according to actual needs, and combine them into a single invisible shield with multiplied defense. Her strength and speed are stronger than those of ordinary people, but as far as the infected body is concerned, it is actually only equivalent to the nascent stage. This is probably the result of the need to reduce the ability in other areas where the ability is outstanding in one area.

Gu Kegang is still so mediocre. It takes time for abilities to spawn, and it takes external stimuli. He was obviously not there yet, and he had to keep waiting.

Liu Fengping and Yang Qingguo are probably the happiest of all the core members of the team. When they were injected with immunization drugs and Liu Tianming's blood, they took biological nutrition for the first time, and at that time they crossed the initial stage barrier and became the first stage of larvae.

According to the injection order, the next should be Lei Ping and Yan Haobo.

Liu Tianming was not in a hurry to do that.

There is no shortage of people in the team at the moment.

Each additional mutant infected person means that one more person is rushing to eat. Fortunately, biological nutrition is not an essential source of energy for the survival of the host. However, as the number of mutant infected individuals in the team increases, the amount of biological nutrients shared will decrease for each time a biological nutrient is obtained and each foreign infected person killed in the future. From this point of view, it is not a good thing to inject too many people and give them a change of physique.

The day before yesterday, Liu Tianming gathered all the members of the team and held a short meeting. He is blunt: the next time he gets biological nourishment or kills other infected, he must get all the "food".

No one objected, and everyone was in favor of it.

Only a strong leader can ensure order and stability. Zheng Xiaoyue, Luo Kuan, and Huang He, who had successfully evolved to the third stage of the juvenile, were already able to control their thinking abilities and barely offset the hunger for food from the mutated cells. But what about the others? When the number of contenders is small, Liu Tianming can still control the situation. If there were a large number of predators, the mutant cells would not care about any friendship at all, and they might unite and tear Liu Tianming, a young creature of the fourth stage strength, to pieces.

Great power is a deterrent. Without this as a basic backing, Liu Tianming is not even a fart.

In front of food, the mutant cells do not recognize their six relatives.

What a hellish "friend", even if it is a father and mother, it will be the same.

For the followers in the team, Liu Tianming gave a lot of power. He didn't want to bother with the specifics, as long as these people turned in enough red patches on time.

That's the key.

According to the street signs, Shuangliu Airport is not far from here.

The convoy stopped in a relatively spacious place, and everyone rested on the spot.

Liu Tianming stepped out of the off-road vehicle, raised his head, squinted his eyes, and looked at the clear sky in the distance.

Communication was restored again. Last night, a signal was received from the Northwest Base, and according to the scheduled coordinates and time, Liao Qiu would come over and play with the team.

It's something to look forward to.

Liao Qiu's departure was an accident.

The reason for Qi Yuanchang's departure has not been clear until now.

Either way, it's good to come back.

Again: we are friends.

Two black dots appeared in the sky in the distance, gradually getting bigger, and the roar of the engine also went from far to near, and finally became deafening. When the two helicopters landed in the reserved open space, people saw Liao Qiu waving their arms excitedly in this direction through the portholes, as well as Tian Guangyao.

Liao Qiu rushed over almost from the cockpit of the cabin.

"Hey! Tou'er, Brother Huang, Xiaoyue, Brother Cao, Sister Liu, hello, you want to kill me! ”

These words are the same as the opening remarks of a certain cross talk actor in the Spring Festival Gala in peacetime. Liao Qiu, who was wearing a military camouflage combat uniform, looked very heroic, he was so happy that he threw himself into Liu Tianming's arms like a monkey and hugged him hard, and released the same enthusiasm and sequence of actions to others.

"Xiaoqiu, where did you go?"

"In the future, you are not allowed to run around, it is very dangerous outside."

"It's good to be back, it's good to be back. We were worried about you when you first left, but it was only after we received the news that everyone settled down. You're too bold to run so far without making a sound. By the way, I see you were in the cab just now. What, learned to fly an airplane? ”

Reunion is a joyous comedy, and there is always something to say.

Tian Guangyao walked into the crowd and gave Liu Tianming a punch with a smile: "You are stronger than before." ”

Liu Tianming returned the punch with the same force, and a smile appeared on his face: "Do you want us to compare?" Armed off-road? Or shoot from a distance? ”

"Let's talk about it when we have a chance later!"

Tian Guangyao glanced at Liao Qiu, who was surrounded by everyone: "I sent Xiaoqiu over this time, and I brought you some things by the way." ”

Liu Tianming shook his hand hard and said sincerely: "Thank you!" ”

Tian Guangyao put away his smile and lowered his voice: "Find a place, there are some things I want to talk to you about." ”