Chapter Twenty-Four: Humans Preparing to Fight Back
Maine
Portland, the largest city here at this time (many people mistakenly think that Portland is a city in Oregon, but in fact, there are two Portlands in the United States, and the other is also the largest city in Maine. )
Ling Hao has been in Portland for the past month, although it is claimed to be the largest city in Maine, but the population is pitifully small, not as large as the population of a small county in China.
After a month of development, Ling Hao gathered thousands of survivors, relying on these people, Ling Hao set up a temporary base, some blocks connected to the houses were opened, and the doors and windows of the houses and weak points were reinforced with steel plates.
Although there are many large monsters passing by here during this time, but as long as they don't take the initiative to provoke each other, it is difficult for them to find the "little ants" under their feet, and the general small monster houses can also be blocked, and if a large number of monsters attack people, they will hide in the city sewers through the tunnels that have been dug in the house.
Fortunately, Portland has not aroused the interest of the monsters so far, probably because everyone usually hides and makes the monsters think that there is no one here.
There is a research lab in downtown Portland, which was built by a pharmaceutical company before the disaster, and many of the equipment is 90% new plus enough for some simple research experiments.
Ling Hao installed many infrared thermal imaging probes outside the laboratory, and with the red queen, the security here is the highest, and he can immediately move to the underground passage in case of an attack.
"Boss, after our research, we found that these fogs contain a large number of miniature plankton, in fact, the white fog we see with the naked eye is the appearance of this kind of microorganisms piled together." After a month, Victor also changed his name to Ling Hao as the boss, after all, now that the whole world is in crisis, finding a boss who can ensure his safety is the right choice.
"No wonder canned mist can't be brought into space, it turns out that these are living microorganisms!" Ling Hao thought to himself.
"Can you figure out what these miniature objects are?" Ling Hao is worried that these microorganisms will cause harm to the human body.
"According to experiments, these microorganisms are not a threat to people, but for monsters in the mist, these white mists can be an excellent ration." Victor said, pointing to a small monster in a cage.
In fact, these fogs are the source of the daily energy intake of these monsters, think about how much that kind of monster at the level of hundreds of meters needs to consume food if it wants to? But the fog created by this microbes solves their foraging problem.
As long as they keep inhaling the mist, these monsters will continue to ingest energy, as for why do they still eat people? The explanation given by Victor is that humans can quickly replenish their consumption.
The monsters in the laboratory who were locked up began to lose their vitality 12 hours after getting out of the fog, and basically lost their vitality after 24 hours, and after 48 hours, the monsters began to die one after another, and the order of death was determined by size, the larger the size, the faster the speed of death after leaving the fog.
Thinking of this, Ling Hao knew the weakness of these monsters, if a hundred-meter-level monster lost the energy supply of the mist, then it was estimated that he would not be able to survive for a few hours.
"Is there a way to deal with this microbe?" If these microorganisms can be suppressed or directly killed, then the monster is not terrifying, Ling Hao urgently needs to know the answer.
"There's no way around it yet, but these creatures are so afraid of fire that they will die instantly if they are above 300 degrees Celsius." Victor is only aware of these weaknesses at the moment.
If these microorganisms are killed by high temperatures, then they can only be promoted by artificial, but the elimination is far from catching up with the amount released from the "door".
"Boss, maybe you can try the virus." At this time, the voice of the red queen suddenly sounded.
"Since these fogs are biological, can they also be infected and thus 'get sick'? If there is a highly contagious virus that targets them specifically, it may be able to wipe out the fog quickly. "The Red Queen's analysis is not unreasonable, but Victor's team is not good at this, how to develop a virus?
In the end, the red queen proposed that she cooperate with Victor to complete the plan, and at first Victor was surprised to see the red queen, and then he thought it was nonsense to hear that he was going to cooperate with the other party to create a virus, but when the red queen showed an amazing amount of knowledge, Victor agreed.
Ling Hao's requirement for the virus is that after it spreads, it cannot infect any creatures outside the mist, otherwise all the creatures in the world will die and the world will be wasted.
As for the monsters, these monsters naturally won't live long without the fog, Ling Hao decided to stick to Portland before the virus was developed, so far it is safe here, and it is still early to survive for 100 days, and now it can be mixed for a day, and the teleportation device will definitely not be able to get it before the virus is developed,
The U.S. government at this time.
Because of the front lines of the disaster, the government in Washington is now in name only, the entire national army is left with tens of thousands of people hiding in various underground bunkers, and ordinary people are also hiding in sewers, basements, subway stations and bomb shelters, although temporarily safe, but then the food crisis comes.
Fear and hunger filled everyone in the closed and isolated space, and humanity finally failed to preserve the goodness, and riots began in the places where the survivors gathered, and some people took the opportunity to form gangs and began to oppress and enslave other survivors, and civilized society immediately returned to its most primitive state.
On the other side of the world, some countries that have made emergency preparations are actually not much better, but the material reserves are relatively sufficient, and they can survive for a longer period of time.
Because of the miscalculation of the number of monsters, several counterattacks organized by Asian countries have suffered heavy losses, although several hundred-meter-level monsters have been eliminated through artificial nuclear explosions, but soon the fog filled this area, and the monsters were not afraid of radiation after the nuclear explosion.
Seeing that humanity was on the verge of extinction, Huaxia proposed that all the armies of the world should form a coalition force if they still had long-range combat strength, in order to concentrate their strength to fight for the last time.
The existence of the "Gate" is already known to the leaders of various countries, and if they are far away in a mountainous area in Maine, the United States, if they take advantage of the current time to concentrate on attacking here and destroying the "Gate", then mankind still has a chance.
Soon the various countries were no longer kept, the original contradictions between them were gone, and now everyone had only one goal, which was to eliminate the invaders, and now they have only one identity, which is human beings.
China, Russia, Ukraine, North Korea, Japan, the European Union countries and the remnants of the U.S. military have all combined, and a large number of distant ships of various countries have begun to gather, and the air power cannot be mobilized because it will be attacked by flying monsters in the fog as soon as it goes to the sky, and only the sea is slightly safer at present.
The fleet carrying a large number of Marines will join up with the remnants of the three U.S. aircraft carrier groups at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and then sail together to the west coast of the United States to force a landing.
Because the fog obstructed the line of sight was too large, in order to avoid collisions, all ships could only follow the predetermined route, and once they deviated from the group, they could only go to the west coast on their own.