Helicopters fly in the fine rain, with a cloudy sky overhead, and rows of skyscrapers below, connected together into a black glass curtain wall, like a huge tomb.

It was a transport aircraft with two rotary pulps, an extremely long fuselage, and a streamlined cabin that looked like a miniature version of a passenger aircraft.

It is painted in black with the HSA abbreviation logo on the fuselage, a heavy machine gun hangs under the fuselage, and a cellular missile swarm is mounted on the wings.

At this time, it was approaching evening, and because of the rain, there was no sunset in sight, only dark clouds as gloomy as the fuselage.

The whole world was filled with a gray aura, and the silence of this long-dead city was terrifying.

Tang Xue's bed is by the window, and she can see the scenery outside the window when she looks sideways, and the silver needle-like rain drops fall on the window, and she can't even make a sound, but it just gathers into drops of water and slides down, blurring the scenery.

The woman of very high status was personally treating the wound on her leg, a brand new medicine bottle, a bandage taken out of the sterilization cabinet, she sat on the edge of the hospital bed, cleaned the wound with warm water, and then applied ointment, wrapping the bandage around Tang Xue's leg.

The woman also prepared canned sardines for Xiaobai, but Xiaobai kept hiding under the bed after getting into the cabin, it seemed that there were too many people, which scared it.

"Someone has done a simple treatment of your wounds, is that the man you are talking about?"

"I don't know, I was in a coma for a long time, and when I woke up, I saw you."

"What happened to you?"

"It's a terrible thing, but I don't remember exactly."

"Maybe it's your brain stress trauma that made you selectively forget that memory, but don't worry anymore, our fleet has arrived on the north coast and will set up camp there, this time the team that arrived in Zhoushan City has a total of 3,212 people, and for the rest of the time, you will live in the camp, but you understand, you need to quarantine until the observation period passes."

"Hmm."

"I used to be a citizen of Zhoushan City, and I used to work at the International Rehabilitation Center here, and I was a researcher at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention." The woman said, "The black fungus, we call it 'Hel', which means Hela, the goddess of death, and they bring death to every kingdom, and only the cold can make the messenger of the goddess sleep." ”

"Yes." Tang Xue replied nonchalantly, carefully observing the interior decoration and staff of the cabin through the reflective glass.

These people don't seem to lack food and water, she saw a lot of canned food and bottled drinking water on the shelves over there, in addition, there are medicine bottle cabinets, those very tightly wrapped special forces-like men, all with new guns, they stand very seriously in a military posture, there are two people always behind the woman, faintly feel that the attention of these two people is focused on her, they are also concerned about the lame dog under the bed.

From this point of view, this woman is an excellent hostage, she has a high status, but she is also a weak researcher, if you can capture her and threaten her life, you should be able to exchange it for a great deal of power.

"As a survivor, you should know some of the properties of 'Hel', they will enter a state of low activity when the temperature drops, and it is because of this characteristic that the Northern Federal Regime survived, but in the first few years, it still suffered from disasters large and small, and it was not until the second year that heating equipment was banned in all areas, and those humans who did not have antibodies were able to stay away from the phenomenon of being infected by the general 'Hel' air."

After disposing of the last bandage, the woman removed her medical gloves and mask, squeezed some hand sanitizer and applied it to her hands, stood up, and looked out the window.

"During that time, there was a lot of chaos, due to the shortage of food and energy, as well as the occasional sudden 'Hel' infection, the people's trust in the government and the official fell below freezing, the original northern regime was divided, coupled with the lawless people who appeared, everyone was competing for the few resources, and the war was chaotic."

"So you've been fighting among yourself?"

"The war lasted for about 2 years, and finally because of my research institute, a breakthrough was made in the research of 'Hel', which can manufacture a constant temperature greenhouse isolated from 'Hel' at a low cost, so that the vegetable and breeding industry can return to the level of modern society, and the various separate regimes have finally merged into the current Northern Federation, after the problem of eating is solved, the Federation began to prepare the 'Salvation Plan', and we came to Zhoushan City, which is a step of the 'Salvation Plan'."

The woman's gaze looked through the window, staring at something.

Tang Xue noticed her gaze, looked out in the direction of her eyes, carefully identified the thing in the blurred rain, and when she saw what it was, her pupils suddenly contracted.

"That's . What? ”

Tang Xue saw a huge "grain pile", but it was not grains that got up, but zombies.

She finally understood that the vanished zombies had gone there, they had all gathered here, gathered in the cracks of the streets, they filled the gaps between the tall buildings, and they climbed on the surface of the tall buildings like bees climbed on the surface of beehives.

No. The word climbing is not appropriate, they are piled up, piled up like arhats, and some kind of viscous black liquid glues them together like glue.

Looking down from above, the huge root system cracked the road, and those zombies seemed to have grown, and countless ugly faces were densely packed together, making people sick to their stomachs.

"That's the ovary, the ovary that gave birth to the 'Hel' mother." The woman said: "'Hel' has the characteristics of differentiation, according to the density of the gathering of organisms, they will be like a beehive, subdivided into different clusters, from the perspective of human beings, usually in the most densely populated urban area to spread outward to a certain range of 'Hel' settlement, they have territorial awareness, foreign 'Hel' will be attacked by the local 'Hel'." ”

"In the initial stages of all infections, a central will emerge within the 'Hel' colony, which is usually born in a female infected person.

In the past, we called the female infected 'Germ Master', but now we call her 'Hela', and she is like the 'Goddess of Death Hela', who has the most powerful combat and learning abilities of all the infected, and can manipulate all the dead.

We don't know the conditions for this to happen, but we know a few processes, and in some cases, 'Hela' will drive all controllable infected individuals together to give birth to a giant body that, when Mother 'Hel' appears, will gain a new ability. ”

"What ability?"

"Photosynthesis, they would have had to rely on the active factors in the organism to reproduce, but after gaining new abilities, they will abandon this way of reproduction, HSA's mission to come to Zhoushan City is for this ovary in front of you, I am here for the secret of 'Hela'."

"You guys. . . Aren't you afraid? Allowing such a monster to be born? ”

"Don't worry, the fleet carries three hydrogen bombs, and even in the worst case, it will only blow up the city of Zhoushan and the ovary together, but as much as possible, we don't want things to get to that point, because this is very valuable research material."

(End of chapter)