After discussing with Hao Aiguo, Gou Cao agreed to his request. Because of this half a month, Gou Cao has established a certain trust with this group of survivors. Therefore, the workplace has a backyard that can be left at any time, and the self-built board house is changed to the underground garage that may be surrounded by people inside, but the privacy is better.

In the underground garage are three "Brave II" hybrid SUVs from the original owners of the villa, as well as several other vehicles brought in by the current group of survivors. It is these three "braves" that need to be modified, and the performance of other vehicles is not suitable for themselves, and the modification value is not great.

Gou Ke chose an area in the innermost part of the underground garage as a refitting workshop, which was also separated by panels and did not allow others to enter.

"The test results are in" When Gou Cao returned to the rover cockpit, Cortana reminded Gou Cao.

"Why is it so long, I thought it would be soon." At first, Gou Cao thought that this kind of thing would be relatively simple in the face of future technology.

"It doesn't take time to grow cell populations, and it doesn't take time to do double-blind experiments," Cortana said angrily. Since she confessed to cowardice half a month ago, Cortana has gradually begun to be sarcastic.

Cortana, who has an independent personality, is more flexible and will not wait for harsh orders. At the same time, there are more changes in the tone, unlike the previous Xiao Na, who has no independent personality, the tone is so calm no matter what the occasion.

"Let's talk about the results, sister." After the catastrophe, it is only in front of Cortana that Gou Harsh will speak so unguarded.

"The paint applied to the iron-masked man has the effect of inhibiting zombieization, but this inhibition effect only works on non-living creatures." Cortana said.

"Does all the paint have this effect, or is it just on the corpse chaser?" When Gou Cao collected the sample from the man in the iron mask, he didn't take into account that the paint would also have this kind of cattiness, if he knew, he would have collected more.

"You didn't provide samples of the paint on the other corpse chasers, so I can't be sure, but it is true that there is no ordinary car paint." Cortana replied.

"I have the car paint that I deposited from the tip of the steamed bun in the subspace when I ate the steamed bun at the corpse chaser's side, you can test it, so that it is easy to determine whether the car paint on the iron-masked man that can inhibit zombie transformation is occasionally used on him, or whether the corpse chaser knows the effect so he takes the initiative to use it." The last breakfast in the dungeon, Gou Ke couldn't stand the smell of paint. secretly used the subspace storage device that was returned to him to store the tip of the steamed bun. I didn't expect it to come in handy now.

"Yes," Cortana agreed, "I think it's more likely that this kind of paint is commonly used among corpse chasers." “

"Why do you say that?"

"Because after the zombieization began, all other human organizations collapsed due to the large number of zombies inside, and only the corpse chasers began to grow during this time period."

"Yes." Gou Cao fell into thought. Before, when I listened to the bald head talk about the development process of the corpse chaser, I vaguely felt that something was wrong, but now I understand it by Xiao Na.

The most dangerous threat to a human organization is not from within, but from within. The power of the individual is always small, so the help of other individuals in the organization is needed.

But no organization can sustain a companion who needs to be entrusted with a name that can turn into a dangerous enemy at any moment. It is precisely because of this that even a powerful organization such as the regime or the military has not survived the 40% random zombieization.

But instead of being affected by this, the corpse chasers grew rapidly in the process of zombieization. To do this, either the corpse chasers have the ability to screen for people who are immune to zombieization, or they have the ability to suppress zombieization itself. Combined with the loss of the man in the iron mask after his death, it can only be explained that this kind of car paint was deliberately used by corpse chasers to suppress the zombieization of believers.

"In addition, the zombie virus not only kills the host's nervous tissue and replaces it, but also forms an endosymbiosis with epidermal cells to provide energy to the host through photosynthesis." Cortana continued, "This symbiosis alters the host's eating and behavior patterns, causing the host to become irritable, aggressive, and feed on its own kind. ”

This result basically verified the conjecture put forward by He Hehe that day.

"Can zombie animals be eaten?" This is also one of the things that Gou Ke is most concerned about, if the animal zombie cannot be eaten after the zombie, the acquisition of meat is more troublesome.

"You can eat it, but you can't eat the dead, but because the zombie cells contain a symbiotic zombie virus, it will affect the taste, so after eating, you will spit out more than you eat."

"What about the ecological impact? Humans, a powerful species, are all close to extinction. If other creatures can't survive and cause an ecological disaster, the rest of humanity won't be able to hold on. ”

"Zombieization has a greater impact on more social species, and the principle is the same as that of zombies destroying human organizations, but for species that are not social, zombies are no different from other dangerous animals, so the impact is not great. There may be a big reshuffle in the ecosystem in the future, but there is still a chance for omnivores like humans to survive."

In this way, things are complicated, originally thought that in the last days, he was only facing those weak chicken zombies who couldn't even break the armor of the wanderer, but the follow-up impact of the loss of Meixian High is so complicated.

And before the zombieization began, the corpse chaser used the car paint that could suppress the loss, and the background should not be simple.

Don't think about things that can't be solved for the time being, this is one of the ways of thinking that Gou Cao has had a long time ago that can keep her optimistic, so after discussing the test results with Xiao Na, Gou Cao immediately shifted the focus of her work back to the modification of the three "Brave".

The solid enough body and excellent terrain adaptability make the "Brave" strong enough in its own right, so the main body does not need to be overhauled.

Gou Ke only added a roll bracket to the interior of the car, then strengthened the outer armor, added louvered steel bars to the outside of the car, and installed a pear-shaped steel ram angle on the front of the car. At the same time, the V6 engine was converted to a V8, which made it heavier and the acceleration ability was improved.

Then the sunroof was opened and the seat height in the middle of the rear row was raised, allowing the shooter to shoot with his upper body out of the roof in a sitting position.

The above work is quite simple with the help of Cortana and the printer, and can be done in three days. However, Gou Ke still set the construction period at half a month.

This is because two large subspace storage devices consume most of the power in the rover's battery. And if you want to produce a mapping generator, you have to find a reason to steal more electricity and more materials.