Chapter 9: The Cost of Restoration
"Thank you for saving Xiaoxiao and them, and thank you for the food. Luan Ping watched the monkey and Wu Dayong take out the food from the backpack and distribute it to the children, and said to Situ Shize with gratitude, she was originally a good friend of the orphanage director, and as soon as the virus broke out, she felt the orphanage and wanted to take the children to hide in the bank, but unfortunately she encountered a group of corpses halfway, and the director stayed with some people and did not come back.
"You're welcome, humanity is being hit too hard right now, and the children are our hope for survival. Can you please help me find a closed room? I need to use it, and no one should disturb me. Luan Ping was also stunned when she heard Situ Shize say this, and then agreed: "Okay, you come with me." ”
At this time, everyone was so tired that they sat on the ground against the wall, and the children ate silently when they got food, they had seen the terrible walking corpses outside, and there were some walking corpses in the orphanage at the beginning, but I don't know why the probability of children mutating is very small, and only 30% of the children in the entire orphanage are actively mutated. This value is much smaller than the probability of mutation in adults.
Situ Shize was taken to the governor's office, and the desks in the office were moved together, leaving a large space, "This is where the children sleep, you use it first, I'll go out first." ”
"Thank you, and please don't let people bother me. Situ Shize walked into the room and turned back to Vice President Luan Ping and said.
When Luan Ping walked away, Situ Shize took out the bottle containing the essence of life, shook it in front of his eyes, and said, "Do you think this kind of thing is really useful to me, old man?"
"Hehe, you can only trust me now, don't you? Do you have a better way? You know that if you die I will have to recover for a long time before I can find the next agent, and I don't have to hurt you. The old man's voice sounded in Situ Shize's mind.
"Well, there's nothing worse anyway. Situ Shize said as he picked up the bottle and swallowed the life essence inside.
The essence of life was in his stomach, Situ Shize's body did not react for a long time, and just when he began to doubt whether the old man's words were correct, a burst of heat emanated from his body, first the stomach, and then this heat flow went directly to the dantian, and then spread, and the last extremely strong energy only hit the brain from the dantian. The diffusion of energy made Situ Shize's body ache for a moment, knowing that when that energy reached the brain, the pain reached an extremely high level. The heat and pain made Situ Shize's hands scratch indisobediently, and his clothes and hood were torn instantly, until Situ Shize passed out.
"What's the situation?" Everyone gathered outside the house, Situ Shize's roar directly disturbed everyone, Zhao Shengyong turned back to everyone and said, "Everyone be on guard, Aunt Luan, please open the vault and let the children and people who have no combat power hide inside." ”
"Well, it's time anyway, and I guess no one will be held accountable in the future. Vice President Luan sighed and said to the children, "Everyone come with me." ”
Time passed minute by minute, it seemed to be very long, it seemed to be very short, and the room where Situ Shize was was silent, but the shout just now undoubtedly directly told the walking corpses outside the bank that there was food here.
At this time, except for Zhao Shengyong and Wu Dayong who were guarding the room where Situ Shize was, the rest of the people with combat effectiveness were searched in the corner of the hall on the first floor, silently observing the walking corpses outside the door.
"Old man, why am I still like this, you said that the essence of life can resist the virus, let me reply. I don't know how long it took, Situ Shize had woken up, and when he saw that his body was still the same as before, he scolded angrily in his mind.
"Fortunately, it was the old man I saved you, you still yelled at me, before I speculated that this virus has no way to devour the essence of life is wrong, they are not impossible to devour, but it takes a long time, just after you swallowed the essence of life, the virus in your body attacked the essence of life in an instant, and the two armies faced each other, if it wasn't for me to guide the essence of life in your body into the brain, at this time you would either be torn apart, or completely reduced to a walking corpse, and it was a high-level walking corpse, and at this moment, the biological virus in your body became a little stronger. ”
"Then I can't recover what you mean?" After listening to the old man's explanation, Situ Shize was stunned for a moment, as if the sky had fallen.
"In order to keep the earth from deorbiting, I spent most of my energy, thinking that there is no way to understand these alien viruses in my current state, but fortunately, although this virus is domineering, it is not 100% human mutation, and I don't know about other species. However, for the state in your body just now, I can tell you with certainty that you can recover, but the life essence you need will be extremely large. I assume that the life essence contained in a walking corpse is one unit, and after you devour it, plus the life essence in your body, it is now a total of eighty-three units, and the life essence I need to help you restore the body needs about five thousand units, otherwise once these eighty-three units of life essence are absorbed by the virus, then the virus will become more and more powerful, knowing that I can't stand your brain, before this you are powerful, at least you are a powerful half-walking corpse. Would you like to give it a try?" the old man's voice was full of temptation, "although you may need more to recover by then, you are undoubtedly powerful, and you can even command the walking corpses who are lower than you. ”
"Get out, old man, let me tell you, Lao Tzu wants to be a man, if you can't recover, Lao Tzu will break your head, don't think I don't know, you need me to help you collect energy, help you unite human beings to protect you from being devoured and destroyed. That's why you chose to help me, tell your old man, you have to help me recover no matter what, or you will wait to be devoured. If my guess is correct, you will not be able to leave my body at all, and the more time passes, the less beneficial it will be for you, and it will be a big deal for everyone to die together. Situ Shize was completely enraged by the old man.
"Hehe! You only guessed part of it correctly, and as for the part you didn't guess, I'll tell you later, now it's time for you to dissipate your anger, and we'll discuss what to do next. The old man was not provoked by Situ Shize, but said lightly in his mind. "Now there are three options, one, do nothing, just keep it like this, and continue to collect life essence in a low-key way in the group of walking corpses until I am sure to help you recover. Second, strengthen your brain with these life essences and develop your brain to a certain level so that I can give you some skills that you can't imagine. Speaking of this, the old man paused, as if to let Situ Shize digest the information he said.