A day ago, the HSA base.

The HSA base is built in an unmanned airport by the sea, adjacent to the construction of aircraft carriers, they have cleared out an open space, on the basis of the original cargo port, the reconstruction and repair of the building, is expected to create a fully equipped military base and experimental base within half a year.

For this purpose, the accompanying transport ships carried large tons of building materials.

In the past month, the architectural planning has been completed, and the goal of full landing has been initially achieved, and a temporary model house has been built, and at the same time, the cordon and defense line have been pulled up, and a semi-circular security activity area has been demarcated in the position near the sea.

A few minutes ago, the construction team could be seen working hard in the sun, but now most of the buildings here have collapsed and become ruins, and the structures built by the carpenters are all scattered on the ground, and the building materials that can be seen everywhere are piled up in a mess, like building blocks that have been pushed down by children.

All this is due to the sudden outbreak of the earthquake, which reached a magnitude of 7.4, which is already within the scope of a major earthquake.

"The report has counted the casualties, two seriously injured, 15 lightly injured, one of the two seriously injured was hit in the head by a steel pipe, and one was pressed on his left hand by a building material, and the medical staff are doing their best to rescue them, and no one has died yet."

"Tell everyone except the standing guard to assemble in an open area, suspend other work other than security, and there may be aftershocks." Dr. Su gave the order.

"Yes."

She went to the open space where the people had gathered, and a dozen or so people with minor injuries were being carried to the tent on stretchers, and the medical staff were applying ointment to their wounds, most of which were innocuous abrasions, so that they would not lose their mobility.

The two seriously wounded were sent to the operating room on the aircraft carrier, where the equipment was more comprehensive and the treatment was better.

After all, not long ago, they had just experienced several small earthquakes, which gave them a warning in advance.

When she came to the tent where the wounded were concentrated, everyone recognized her and saluted her with great respect, and even the wounded would salute her.

It wasn't power that made the soldiers respect her so much, and you could see from their faces and eyes that their respect was from the heart.

Because she is one of the most authoritative "Hel" researchers, it is also her research laboratory that solves the problem of food shortage faced by the northern country.

The average temperature in the northern country is stable below minus 20 degrees, and due to the low activity of "Hel" in the cold environment, they do not face a terrible zombie crisis like the outside world, but because of this, food shortages and wars broke out.

At the beginning of the disaster, in order to avoid the zombie tide, a large number of outsiders poured into the territory of the northern country, and the customs and national borders lost their effect, and this empty land ushered in countless new faces.

Originally, in such a low temperature environment, it is difficult to grow vegetables on a large scale, and the cold climate will lead to a lack of species diversity, and it is difficult to develop the aquaculture industry.

In peacetime, the price of their vegetables was sky-high compared to that of the warmer country, and then the sudden outbreak of foreign population imports soon made the food shortage in the northern country.

During that period, the situation in the northern country was not much better than the large-scale outbreak of zombies in the outside world.

Due to the mixed foreign population, many infected people conceal their situation, resulting in small and medium-sized corpse surges.

The entire state apparatus collapsed under tremendous pressure, and although it was a little better than the outside world, it was only the difference between the eighteenth and seventeenth layers of hell in comparison.

The warlords everywhere are fighting their own battles, and everywhere are homeless people who are freezing to death and starving to death, it is a real troubled time, people without force and guns are just fish and meat on a cutting board, and they are slaughtered by others.

No one really trusts a stranger, not even your own, because you don't know if he has the virus, or if he wants to take everything you have through your kindness.

Those who have survived until now have experienced those hellish years.

At that time, the most precious thing was food.

If people want to live, they must eat, and without food, they can only starve to death.

If you want to grow vegetables in extremely cold areas, you must use a greenhouse with constant temperature, but once the temperature rises, the activity of "Hel" will increase dramatically, and the vegetables grown in that place are inedible, and even people who are often active in greenhouses will be easily infected.

Once infected, there is only one way to die, and human body temperature can quickly make them active.

Only a very small percentage of people who are born with antibodies and are not infected by the air can eat this type of vegetable.

But who can be sure that they are antibodies?

There are very, very few such people, statistics show that only one in about two hundred people will be born with antibodies, who would dare to bet that they are one of those two hundred?

If you want to grow vegetables that ordinary people can eat, you can only use sterile constant temperature greenhouses, but this involves a cost problem, if you want to maintain a sterile environment, it will cost a lot of financial and material resources, sterile vegetables are only a very small number of powerful people can enjoy the treatment, and the rest of the people can only face famine.

Famine is one of the most terrible disasters.

A person who is extremely hungry cannot be considered a human being at all, but a beast.

In those years, everyone lived in fear, and no one would like that kind of world, worrying about the next meal every day, worrying about the unpredictable future.

Yesterday, you might have been lucky enough to pick up a few cans and fill your stomach, and tomorrow you might have a bunch of people on motorbikes shooting at your house, and you'd better shoot yourself in the head before they break in, or something even more terrible will happen.

No one can live in peace, even if you hide in hiding, hoard a lot of food, even if you are a high-powered lawless boss, you may suddenly have a high fever one day, and then become an unconscious monster.

Everyone is nostalgic for the orderly world, for governments and regimes to be re-established, for someone to keep them safe and to have enough food for them every day.

It is precisely because they have lived in peaceful times that they will miss those good days even more.

Some people have tried, but if the fundamental problem is not solved, the forces of all parties will not compromise.

This fundamental problem is food, which is limited and can only be supplied to a part of the population, and everyone is in conflict over the limited amount of food.

This went on for three whole years.

Three years later, a woman named Su Wanqing publicly announced the technology of their laboratory, a new type of greenhouse, which does not require much cost and can effectively grow safe and edible vegetables.

She spent half a year herself, personally popularizing this technology to the whole country, in the face of all doubts and malice, she accepted it all, she did not ask for any return, did not ask for any benefits to share the technology, without any reservations.

If it weren't for her, there would be no birth of the Northern Federal Regime, and everyone is still living in fear.

Everyone who came to the operation knew her, knew her name, and respected her from the bottom of their hearts.

People saw her as a hero and were grateful to her.

At this moment, she is in the shed of the wounded, examining their wounds, drawing blood, and preparing it for testing.

In the environment of the state mountain city, it is necessary to try to avoid the appearance of wounds, which can lead to an increased risk of infection.

Not everyone involved in the operation had antibodies, and many of the experienced sailors, aircraft pilots and aircraft carrier crews had to live in a sterile environment, and once they went out, they had to wear airtight protective suits and carry oxygen tubes, otherwise they would be at risk of airborne infection.

Everyone who came here was determined that they would never go back.

Su Wanqing patiently examined each wounded, she is not only a "Hel" expert, but also a very good surgeon and internist, she often performs the dissection of "Hel" infected bodies, and has studied those infected people at different times.

At the time of the outbreak of the corpse epidemic, she was attending a seminar abroad, and she co-organized a seminar with her teachers and classmates, as well as medical authorities, to get governments to take "HEL" seriously.

The propaganda meeting achieved some results, but the corpse tide suddenly broke out, and she did not have time to return to China, did not contact her relatives and fiancé, and their group of researchers were directly escorted to the north by foreign troops.

A large part of the researcher was infected during the flight, broke out symptoms, and was secretly processed, and she was lucky to survive, she is a very small number of humans with antibodies, and has survived until now.

So even in the territory of Zhoushan City, she doesn't need to wear protective clothing and can move freely.

She gave guidance to the medical staff, personally bandaged the wounded, and was found in half an hour.

She hurried out of here, boarded the mothership, and made her way to the war room, where the silty giant was playing on the screen, treading the river.

"The direction is north, and if it keeps going in a straight line at this speed, it will reach the base's cordon in three days."

The technician gave a computer simulation model, a 3D simulation animation, which appeared on the virtual map.

"It was also caused by the earthquake just now, and its action of pumping out the ground caused a magnitude 7 earthquake."

"This is the mother that hatches ahead of schedule." Su Wanqing gave her judgment: "It has not grown to a complete body, just a premature baby." ”

"Premature baby?"

"The situation in Zhoushan City is very complicated, usually the birth of the mother is centered on the HeLa infected, Hella will gather all the infected bodies and fungi in the territory, gather them together, Hela is equivalent to the embryo of the entire ovary, equivalent to the fertilized egg in the ovaries, in the process of incubation, Hella will be integrated with the ovary, changing into a new maternal form, I originally thought that Hella in Zhoushan City is already inside the ovary, but this does not seem to be the case."

Su Wanqing swiped a few times on the screen and brought up the video of the helicopter falling on a rainy night.

"The one who shot down the helicopter that night, no doubt, was Hela, so the question arises, how was the ovary born? It is impossible to conceive a fetus in the ovaries without a fertilized egg, and there must be a 'fertilized egg' in the ovary, so the result of the inference is that at this moment, there is more than one Hella in Zhoushan City. ”

"Or to put it another way, they're not real Hela yet, they're hostile, the mother hatches early, I think it's because it senses threatened, so it's desperate to grow."

"And its purpose, us? Is it trying to use us as food, for growth? ”

"Theoretically, if it swallows up all the thousands of people we have here, it can indeed get enough nutrients to grow to the next stage, from a premature baby to a newborn baby, but there are some strange places, even if it becomes a mother, it does not mean that Hela's IQ has decreased, if it recognizes helicopters and fighter jets, it should not rashly attack us, and there is also a doubt, it is the path it walks, it deliberately walked the riverbed, I don't understand its intentions."

"So Dr. Su, what should we do with it according to your suggestion?"

"I recommend observing it for another two to three hours, if it is confirmed that its position is in the direction of the base, then it must be stopped in advance, when it reaches the maternal stage, it will release spores towards the nearby air at any time, it is a very dangerous source of infection in itself, if it is allowed to get close to within 20 kilometers, the risk of infection will increase by at least 5%, and our range of activities will be further limited."

"Then follow your advice, Dr. Su."

Three hours later, the aircraft carrier started on the sea.

The purpose is to go against the wind and increase the wind speed.

On weekdays, when a reconnaissance plane is dispatched, it only needs to use the catapult device to start, because the reconnaissance plane is lighter, the wind speed is low, and even when the aircraft carrier is stationary, it can take off.

But this time it was a group of bombers to be dispatched, and it was necessary to rely on the wind speed to carry bombers to take off smoothly.

The purpose was to blow up the "premature baby", and the direction of its movement had been determined, and it was coming straight towards the base.

The base was only about 30 kilometers away from its position, and it could not be allowed to get any closer.

Bombers skimmed the sky, tore through the clouds, cast shadows through the ruins, and collectively dropped bombs on the giants.

Brilliant sparks bloom and explode them.

Then, under the command, the helicopter sorted, collected some of its body tissue, and transported it back to the laboratory on the aircraft carrier.

Su Wanqing put on a full set of protective equipment, disinfected her whole body, and entered this closed laboratory.

She took the slides and, with the help of her assistant, separated the cloudy water and placed it under a microscope.

Sleepless all night, she stayed in the laboratory, observing and studying the bacteria.

In the first half of the night, these mushrooms were still in a weak and sluggish state, but in the second half of the night, they slowly became active, but became more active than expected, and even began to multiply inexplicably.

She frowned deeply, and a very ominous premonition welled up in her heart.

(End of chapter)