Chapter XXIII
The Polar Mine Cave is located in the middle of a mountain.
The Riemann Ruth tank could not go.
So Fu Qinghai and the others took Jacob's airship to go.
It's a huge armored airship with multiple decks, hydrogen for lift, and nuclear fusion for power, not the Brotherhood of Steel's Pledwin, which is a little smaller than that, but can also accommodate two Bird helicopters.
The Flying Bird is a round, foldable tiltrotor that is a wasteland version of the Osprey helicopter, but with a slightly smaller size.
To lead Fu Qinghai to the Jiliu Mine Cave, a flying bird helicopter was enough, but Zhao Jianming chose to send an airship to travel, which was somewhat of a show of force.
It's just that Fu Qinghai feels that this kind of aerial hydrogen balloon is a big dumpling with thin skin and big filling in front of him.
It doesn't have a deterrent effect at all.
The airship stopped advancing and hovered somewhere over the mountains.
The loud noise is slightly reduced.
"Is that there?"
Fu Qinghai pointed to the mountains below and asked.
The eyepiece zooms in on the field of vision, and as far as the eye can see, humanoid and beast-shaped sculptures are all over the land, these "sculptures" are gray and black, and their bodies are full of cracks, and the cracks emit a bright green light.
"Yes."
The man who led him shouted loudly:
"Radiated corpse creatures have a hive consciousness, and when one radiated corpse creature sees you, all radiated corpse creatures will see you."
Fu Qinghai nodded:
"Just what I want."
With that, he jumped off the bow deck.
The tail flame erupted, and the wings unfurled.
Fu Qinghai roared and rushed towards the Jiliu Mine Cave.
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There is a natural mineral with great scientific and energy value in the radiation universe - radiation polar ore.
In early 2083, the Enclave conducted a mutation experiment in which they accidentally created the mother of the virus by placing an irradiated dwarf bat in an environment infested with radiated polar ore, and the mutated bats grew in size and began to emit a deadly virus that could turn certain living or dead creatures into radiated creatures.
This is the origin of the radiant corpse virus.
Humans or other organisms become infected when they come into contact with a creature infected by the radiant corpse virus.
At first, the victim's skin will turn black and quickly turn blood red within a few minutes, while the hair will fall out completely, cataracts will appear in the eyes, green polar mineral crystals will begin to grow from the inside of the skin, and in addition to the changes in the body surface, the infected's intelligence will eventually completely degenerate within a few days.
When not acting vigorously or receiving no orders, the human infected will enter the statue stage, where they will remain in a position until they begin to petrify from the inside out, eventually leaving behind a radioactive "sculpture".
The "Sculpture" itself is very fragile, resembling a corpse covered in volcanic lava, with green polar ore fissures and some remaining crystals visibly covering the entire "Sculpture", and these "Sculptures" emit a special signal to attract nearby radiated corpse creatures.
Although even legendary creatures such as the Mothman can be infected with the radiant corpse virus, there are some creatures that are naturally resistant to the disease, such as cats, bees, two-headed cows, etc., and super mutants and ghouls are also immune to the virus.
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Fu Qinghai suddenly fell into the middle of a sculpture.
It was dusty, and it was surrounded by shattered green crystals.
He drew his chainsaw sword and shook it, strolling into the hole.
"Roarβ"
A large number of radiant corpses rushed out of the mine.
Fu Qinghai went up against the tide of corpses, slashing in the fragments of corpses and green crystal fragments, killing people on their backs.
"Buzz...... Syllable! β
Fu Qinghai had just smashed the last radiated corpse.
"Winter! Winter! Winter! β
Heavy footsteps came from inside the cavern.
Fu Qinghai looked up.
A huge mountain of meat five meters high is walking forward.
Bloated and fat, almost humanoid, carrying two large heads on his shoulders, his eyes were pale and childless, a bear paw grew under his armpit, a deer's hoof was dragged at his feet, and his body was covered with rough sutures, and green crystals were born in the gap between the sutures.
On the big belly standing in the middle, a huge mouth opened, and the giant mouth was full of dense green polar crystal clusters, and sharp crystal clusters surrounded this huge mouth, opening and closing.
Radiant corpse virus + stitching monster?
Is that what it is...... Radiant corpse abomination?
Fu Qinghai was not afraid and hurried to catch up.
As soon as the stitching monster raised the giant axe in his hand, "hmph", the hand was broken, and he just raised the huge soles of his feet, "hmph", the foot was broken again, Fu Qinghai was like a sword master who turned the blade storm in front of abomination, the sharp green fangs turned the stitching monster into pieces of meat, and the fragments of the green crystals sputtered in all directions, blasting the surrounding cave walls until ......
"Squeakβ"
A shrill hiss rang out from above the cavern.
The huge pig-faced bat, more than ten meters long, flapped its wings desperately, quickly crossed the top of Fu Qinghai's head, and flew towards the exit direction of the cave.
It's the Queen of the Radiated Corpses!
I see.
Was the Radiant Abomination sent to give the Queen of the Radiant a chance to escape?
Fu Qinghai decisively threw down the shattered stitching monster in front of him, turned around and kicked the ground, the jetpack spewed out dazzling flames, Fu Qinghai caught up with the giant bat, raised his sword and cracked.
"Huh!"
The Queen of the Radiated Corpse was stabbed in half, and the organs mixed with green crystals were sprinkled with trickles, and the giant bat slammed headlong into the stone pillar in the cave, struggling twice and not moving.
The body of the radiated corpse creature is full of polar crystals, the skin is rough and the flesh is thick, and the defense is quite strong, and the queen of the radiated corpse, as the top of the hive consciousness, is even more thick and high-blooded, but in front of the invincible Green Fang, these are all tofu dregs.
Fu Qinghai was about to walk over to check.
"Ah...... Exercise! β
An angry scolding rang out from the depths of the cavern.
Fu Qinghai turned to look.
A figure in a white lab coat and leather gloves slowly emerged from the dark and deep cavern.
It was a creature that resembled a skeleton, with a withered, leathery flesh clinging to the bone, making him not look like a complete white skeleton, surrounded by buzzing flying insects and flies, the adhesion fascia on both sides of the cheeks tugging, the upper and lower jaws open and closed, and the mouth spoke:
"Why, I don't understand why?"
It's the lich!
Fu Qinghai looked serious, leaned over and pulled out the tile steel sword inserted in the side of his calf, and at the same time put one hand into the bag on the side of the weapon buckle, which contained the golden fingered tiger and the screaming beetle.
The lich didn't care about Fu Qinghai's small movements at all, waved his thin arms impatiently, and said in a babbling voice:
"Kill me and can't kill me, every time you have to come and destroy the experimental creatures I have cultivated with great difficulty, are you tired or not, is it interesting? Rise? β
"You spliced the radiated creatures into a stitching monster?"
Fu Qinghai asked.
"Yes, yes, yes."
The lich's eyes spewed pale blue flames, and the shadows around him were dim and twisted, affected by unknown forces.
"I've also strengthened this virus with necromancy so that it can infect dead corpses, and even other zombies, and if it weren't for you deflated people who bother me every now and then, I would have developed the 'Ultimate Virus' one step ahead of the perfect human."
Facing the tall and mighty Space Marine, the lich plucked at his withered nose and said nonchalantly.
"You also know about Perfect Humanity's 'Ultimate Virus' plan?"
Fu Qinghai asked again.
"Otherwise, why do you think I'm staying here, this fucking world that doesn't even have the four elements, look at you...... Wait, you know what that means? β
The lich was slightly surprised, he just said it casually.
Fu Qinghai said in a deep voice:
"Gabriel told me."
The lich was even more surprised:
"You mean you weren't sent by Zhao Jianming?"
ε ιζ΅· says:
"I did claim the bounty."
The lich snorted disdainfully and said:
"I'll admit you're strong, big man, but you don't know anything about the power of necromancy, and you want to get me out of this cavern with that Valyrian steel weapon in your hand?"
The lich shook his head:
"Daydreaming."
Fu Qinghai took off his armor and lightly touched the True Knowledge Crystal.
The golden Latitude Gate swirled and lit up.
Chen Shilu and Li Xingxian stepped out of the circle of fire and said:
"And what about us?"
The lich was slightly stunned.
Chen Shiran Lu held a black and silver carved box in his hand, and when he saw the box, the pale blue flames in the lich's eyes suddenly soared, rising and falling with the movement of the life box.
Chen Shilu chuckled:
"Your life box, this is it, right?"
"I'm ......"
The lich froze.
Dumbfounded, he didn't speak.
But his silence speaks for itself.
After a long time, he spoke slowly, his voice hoarse:
"What do you want?"
Fu Qinghai laughed:
"I'll provide you with a ......"
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Half an hour later.
Holding his life box, the lich looked back at Fu Qinghai viciously with the pain of losing a thousand assimilation points, and stepped into the door of the dimension where the sparks shone.
Fu Qinghai didn't even look at him.
Just staring at the sealed test tube in his hand and playing with it.
"Radiant corpse virus...... Enhanced version. β
Fu Qinghai muttered to himself:
"This time I came to the Resident Evil Movie Universe, and it was enough."
The lich's name is Griffiths, a necromancer from the DND universe, a veteran plague expert, but the worldview in this sci-fi universe is quite suppressed.
He stumbled upon the "Ultimate Virus" plan of the perfect human being, that is, the "Gu Cultivation" plan speculated by Fu Qinghai, and then he ignored the suppression of the worldview and stayed in the Resident Evil movie universe.
He wanted to take advantage of the situation and use the "Gu Cultivation" plan of the perfect human to carry out his own research on plague and disease, not only biologists can study viruses and bacteria, necromancers are also experts in disease and suffering.
It's just that like his loving father Nurgle, the plague and disease created by the necromancer have stronger attributes of psionic magic and weaker attributes of scientific reality.
Based on the cave near the Luminous Sea, Griffitz carried out his own research on the virus based on the radiated corpse virus released by Zhao Jianming, using magical occult methods that are completely different from the methods of perfect human genetic engineering.
The necrovirus is already capable of infecting corpses, and Griffitz uses necromancy to enhance this infectivity, allowing it to infect other zombies - because there are almost no survivors left on this earth, Griffiths lacks a sufficient source of corpses, so he can only find a way out of zombies.
At the cost of strengthening the virus sample + research data + 1,000 assimilation points, Fu Qinghai returned the life box to Griffiths and let him leave the Jiliu Mine Cave.
After that, his research will be transferred to the ruins of blue blood.
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Fu Qinghai sat in the carriage.
In his hand, he holds an irregularly translucent green crystal.
This is the Radiant Polar Ore.
Due to the effects of nuclear war and the apocalypse, this mineral is not systematically developed and used in the game.
The power armor of the Polar Mine, that is, the increased energy resistance, the Polar Ore Laser Gun, only has a special attack on the radiated corpse creatures.
Because the scientific research power in the Doomsday Wasteland can no longer be compared with the pre-war period, the major forces are busy surviving and competing for hegemony, and they have no intention of thoroughly studying the depth value of the Polar Mineral.
The only piece of information that the player finds in the terminal in the glass cave paints a grand picture:
"Welcome to Rocco Industries(TM) Terminal Connection."
"If you have any doubts about what we're doing, I'll have Dr. Eckert show you the generator technology his team is working on.
"That large piece of radiant polar ore is still powering the generators. Once the study is successful. It can power the entire mine. Do the math, damn it, and let Dr. Eckert do the math for you. β
"In the future, the Radiant Polar Mine will become a national fuel source. We're not going to stop working on a few protesters. Let the politicians worry about that. β
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