Chapter 450: Nicole's Story
Nicole sat there sluggishly, and Chen Hang slowly recounted the experience. When she heard the part where AndrΓ©s sent the package, Nicole covered her face and cried.
"He's a madman! He chose to destroy the world. β
Chen Hang finally made a summary speech, and Nicole couldn't cry anymore.
Chen Hang gently patted Nicole's shoulder, and Nicole turned her head away. She kept wiping her eyes, but the tears still kept flowing.
"Tell me about you and Lyle, how did you end up like this?"
Chen Hang said softly. Nicole nodded slightly, and she spoke slowly:
"When I broke up with Lyle, I decided to put all my heart and soul into research. I'm back here.
This lab has been around for a long time, the Academy of Sciences doesn't put all their eggs in one basket, they have been secretly supporting my research for a long time, but Lyle doesn't know it.
Because of Lyle's failures, the Academy began to focus on me, and Lyle was furious - he cut off contact with me.
That year, my research was about to enter the experimental stage, and the doomsday virus suddenly broke out, and a large number of zombies appeared in the city.
I'm stuck in the lab, we've lost contact with the outside world, and thanks to the security system, the lab is still safe for the time being.
Later, the garrison of Phoenix cleared the city of infected people, and we were picked up. My assistants didn't want to stay here anymore because they were homesick, and my life was 'broken' and I was left alone.
The military strengthened the security for me, and they set up communications for me, and we were still optimistic that the virus would soon be contained.
But then you know what happened. The virus finally broke out again in the city, and the army's defenses collapsed overnight - and Phoenix's history was over. β
"What about George? Wasn't he with you at the time? How did he become infected? β
"George wasn't with me. Before the end of the world, George had been here to assist me in my research, but the day before the end of the world broke out, he suddenly received a phone call, and George left here on the pretext of personal matters, and he has not been heard from since. β
"That's when your hair started to turn white?"
A wry smile appeared on Nicole's face:
"I'm a woman struggling to stay in this tunnel, I don't know what my end will become, I'm in the surveillance system watching those people die one by one.
Even though I have been here for 12 years, I feel like I have spent my whole life, how can my hair not be gray? β
"When did George come back?"
Nicole thought for a moment, she flipped through the calendar on the table, and Nicole whispered:
"Last year, in June of last year, I was continuing my research in the lab, and George opened the door to the lab, and although he had become a giant, I recognized him at a glance."
"A year?"
Chen Hang thought about it for a while, and he analyzed:
"If it had been a year ago, it would have just been promoted to level eight. The zombie's brain became active at this time, and it remembered what had been before, and George relied on his memories to find it after he escaped. β
"Escape?" Nicole was taken aback, she looked at Chen Hang and asked:
"Did George escape from?"
Chen Hang nodded:
"George should have escaped, its strength was promoted too quickly, I believe it has been receiving 'treatment' for all these years, and someone is experimenting on it, so George was able to be promoted to the eighth level zombie so quickly."
"Who is it? Who would do that? β
"Jiang Dongcheng, Nicole, do you know him?"
Nicole thought for a moment and shook her head slowly, Chen Hang knew that he couldn't get any more information from this hard-working woman.
Chen Hang asked about the seeds, and Nicole said that there was nothing she could do. Over the years, Nicole has survived on the military's reserves, and when George appears, it regularly brings prey to Nicole, who is only one person, so food is not too stressful for her.
An hour later, Lu Lili arrives here, she tells Nicole George to go back, and Chen Hang and Lu Lili say goodbye to Nicole.
"Where are you going next?"
When they parted, Nicole asked Chen Hang.
Chen Hang pointed to the distance and said:
"Utopia, I know of a couple of places with that name. Now I know what Lyle did to help those people survive. It turned out that he had already started cooperation with Jiang Dongcheng. β
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"Garden of Eden", the safest place in Chen Hang's memory of his previous life, the human society founded by Lyle as the savior of mankind, has been completely abandoned at this time.
It's still the bowl-shaped mountain, or the barbed wire fence and the horses under the dense mountain, and it's gray everywhere.
Countless dry bones hung from the barbed wire, and the ground was covered with dense craters. A large hole was blown out of the road up the mountain, which shows that there was once a fierce battle here.
Chen Hang and Lu Lili arrived on the mountain, and they saw abandoned factories and collapsed houses. The heavy machine guns were still mounted on the edge of the cliff, and the ammunition boxes next to them were all empty.
There used to be some fields on the mountain, but at this time, the weeds in the fields grew to more than one person's height, indicating that the base had been abandoned for many years.
Chen Hang and Lu Lili searched around the mountain, but they didn't find a single figure here, and the "Garden of Eden" had completely fallen.
Seeing that Chen Hang was a little lost, Lu Lili patted Chen Hang's shoulder, she pointed to those factories and analyzed:
"Don't be too sad, I believe they gave up on this place. You look at the machines, they're all dismantled.
And the houses, which were emptied of their daily necessities.
If I'm not mistaken, I think it was after Lyle crossed over, and the people here saw that he never came back, and they thought that Lyle had an accident, so they took the initiative to move out. β
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Lu Xiaoqing took off her headphones, she stretched on the chair, and then turned off the contact screen.
Just now, Lu Xiaoqing and Chen Hang had the last conversation of the day, the satellite will leave there, and the next contact will be in the early morning.
Lu Xiaoqing left the bridge and came to the deck, she saw Verier and Jane standing on the bow of the boat, and when the two saw Lu Xiaoqing come out, they shouted to her together:
"Xiaoqing, come here, what is going on at sea?"
Lu Xiaoqing ran to the side of the boat, and she looked at the sea below. Lu Xiaoqing saw a large number of floating objects on the sea, these floating objects were like smashed ships, a large number of wood chips and metal floated on the sea, and this garbage belt formed by floating objects continued to the "edge of the sky".
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