Compared with reconnaissance drones, the assault armed drone is larger, thicker armored, and has a stronger load capacity, and it is also equipped with two short-barreled submachine guns with 300 rounds of ammunition, which can effectively attack the enemy within a range of 100 meters.

Under the control of the Peggy siblings, two gunships began to fly into the sky above the zombie herd from the periphery, but these two drones are different from reconnaissance drones, they do not have the function of optical stealth, and the noise generated by the propellers is also louder than that of reconnaissance drones.

Soon, the two flying machines in the air caught the attention of the corpses.

As Leon observed, the outermost rotting zombies were still similar to the zombies in the outside world, moving slowly and sluggishly, but the closer they were to the zombies in the center of the nuclear power plant, the less obvious their decay became, and their movements and movement speed were significantly enhanced.

As the outermost group of corpses was attracted by the movement of the gunship, more and more zombies began to notice the two small things flying in the sky.

It was like throwing a stone into a hornet's nest, and soon the corpses were like a frying pan, and nearly a thousand zombies swayed their bodies and rushed towards the position of the armed drone.

The speed of these zombies is fast and slow, the slow ones are like staggering old women, the fast ones are like ordinary people in a hurry, and the fastest one, the legs swing rapidly, and the speed is close to the level of ordinary people trotting.

Leon squinted his eyes and looked at the image captured by the drone, his brows furrowed deeper and deeper, he patted Peggy on the shoulder and commanded:

"Don't go any deeper, Peggy, turn the drone around the other direction, control the speed of the drone, and get rid of those slow zombies."

Peggy nodded, her hands quickly tapping on the keyboard, and under her control, the armed drone in the sky suddenly turned around and flew quickly in the direction of the corpse.

The girl's technology is very good, and under his control, the armed drone maintains a little faster speed than the fastest zombies, flying at a low altitude, taking these nearly a thousand zombies, and slowly breaking away from the corpses.

As the drones began to move away from the nuclear power plant and around the hill where they were in Lyon, a big circle, more and more zombies with relatively slow speeds, unable to keep up with the movement speed of the zombies in the front row, gradually broke away from the team.

By the time the armed drone arrived near Leon and the others, there were only seven or eight zombies left behind it.

Leon thought about it, he was cautious by nature, he didn't, he chose to deal with those strange zombies by himself, but continued to instruct Peggy:

"Leave two as research samples, and kill the others."

"Okay, boss."

Soon, under the control of the Peggy siblings, the armed drone took advantage of the high altitude and directly strafed the head position of the zombie.

The short-barreled submachine gun, located in the position of the chassis of the armed drone, ejected a fierce tongue of fire.

Syllable! Syllable! Syllable! Syllable! Syllable!

A large number of bullets slashed at the zombies.

What worries Leon the most didn't happen, the bullets of the armed drones easily shattered the heads of these zombies, directly blasting their heads open, ending their twisted lives.

Quietly relieved, when Leon turned his head to observe the zombies that had straggled, he was surprised to find that the stragglers had regrouped and returned to the huge corpses of the nuclear power plant after losing their tracking targets.

Looking at the behavior of these zombies, it doesn't look like they have regained their intelligence, and in that case, there must be something in the nuclear power plant that can attract them.

Leon watched the two remaining zombies still tirelessly chasing the figures armed to the drone, and immediately had a plan in his mind.

He took out his radio, turned on Daryl's channel, and said in a commanding tone:

"Daryl, you bring a few people to my current location and bring the hunting rifles we use to catch zombies."

"Hurry up, I'll be waiting for you here."

Now that the mutated zombies have been discovered, for the sake of safety, the original mission should be canceled.

After waiting for more than ten minutes, Leon took Darryl and his men together to successfully capture the two mutant zombies using a hunting rifle capable of spraying special fishing nets.

Along with the corpses of the mutated zombies killed by the drone, they were all loaded into a modified truck.

Without any extra nonsense, Leon gave another task to Daryl's team, ordering them to find a safe, spacious and easily defended building in the town of Roberta, 10 kilometers away, and temporarily stationed there as a base for the follow-up team.

Maybe tomorrow, maybe in a few days, he'll come here with more troops, and then decide what to do with the plant.

The tenacious and reserved Darryl never had any objections to Leon's orders, and he soon set off with his party to the small town of Roberta.

After the arrival of the Lille team, Leon did not stay here any longer, he drove the truck with the mutated zombie samples, and took the Peggy siblings back to the Umbrella base.

More than two hours later, it was close to dusk, and after crossing a distance of more than 80 kilometers, Leon and the others returned to the base of the umbrella company.

Without a moment's pause, when Leon came to the underground research institute deep in the base with the samples of mutated zombies, the smartest, most knowledgeable, and most experienced people in the entire Umbrella Company were all gathered here.

Looking at Dr. and Mrs. Melfa in the underground base, the four senior professors of Georgia Tech, Colonel William, a career officer, and Amy, the little assistant who assists him in all the government affairs of the Umbrella Base.

Leon looked serious, and said with a hint of helplessness in his tone:

"Ladies and gentlemen, we are in trouble, and humanity is in trouble."

In front of the crowd with different expressions, Leon told all the things he had encountered at the Senas Nuclear Power Plant, and finally showed everyone the corpses of the mutated zombies and the mutated zombies that were still alive.

For a moment, everyone was silent.

According to experts' speculation, there are currently about 7 billion zombies in the world, and even the current ordinary zombies, which move slowly and have rotting bodies, have already made the current survivors feel troublesome.

If these 7 billion zombies are replaced by the kind of mutant zombies that Leon showed, which can run and are fast, it is hard to imagine how many survivors will survive their attacks.

The elites of these umbrella companies first felt a wave of fear, then numbness, and finally despair, and after despair, they couldn't help but have a trace of resistance to their tragic fate.

Leon paid attention to the expressions of the crowd, and saw that their emotions had eased somewhat, before he continued:

"At the moment, the number of these mutant zombies is not very large, and they are still tightly chained near the nuclear power plant for some reason."

"I'm not bringing these samples back with the hope of seeing your desperate expressions."

"Please use your ingenuity to find out the true face of these mutated zombies before things become hopeless."

"We all need to fight, please have the courage not to give up all hope because of the hardships and difficulties that may arise in the future."

"The war song of humanity is a war song of courage, and we need to bring hope to those who are still struggling."

After giving some slightly secondary but inspiring speeches, everyone's morale was restored, after all, these people here were the elite of the human race, and they quickly collected their moods and began to use their own housekeeping skills to study all aspects of the mutated zombies brought back by Leon.

Until nightfall, Leon and Amy, who were not professional researchers, left the underground research institute.

Seeing that the little beauty's mood was obviously a little low, after Leon's fierce and lasting love encouragement magic, the sore and flushed little Amy curled up, lay in the man's arms like a kitten, and fell asleep.

And Leon, who is still energetic with his special physical fitness, looked at the ceiling with his eyes open and fell into deep thought.

Coming to this world, for most of the half a year, whether it is forming a company, fighting enemies, or recruiting talents, everything is smooth sailing, and he even has the illusion that this world is a super simple mode game for him.

But it wasn't until today, when he heard about the threats of the nuclear power plant, saw the abilities of those mutated zombies, and saw things that never appeared in the plot, that he realized that the world was not as simple as he imagined.

If this world were a game, it would be possible that from now on, he would have left the novice village and entered a truly difficult world.

The research work of the underground research institute did not stop, and through radio contact, Leon received good news from Daryl's team.

For some reason, in the entire town of Roberta, except for those zombies who are locked in buildings and cannot leave, there is hardly a single wandering zombie in all public places.

With the current manpower of Darryl's team, they can easily clear the town of all threats, and all the resources in the entire Roberta town, they can access at will.

It is of course a happy thing to be able to easily occupy a small town and get all the supplies in it for nothing.

Leon immediately gave Daryl the task of continuing to collect supplies and build a more secure garrison.

The next day, while the experts and professors were still studying samples of mutant zombies, Maggie, a peasant girl, was escorted by several members of the security department to the base of the Umbrella Company.

Amy entertained her warmly, and after that period of getting along, the relationship between the two girls quickly warmed up, and they had become similar to best friends.

Leon also took the time to meet Maggie and apologized to tell the girl that there was an urgent matter to deal with in the last few days, and the matter of the Oak Village Material Search Team was about to be delayed.

Maggie readily responded, and told Amy and Leon all the details of the specific time required for spring plowing in Oak Village.

After some friendly exchanges, the time quickly came to the third day.

After several days of sleepless research, the doctors and professors of Umbrella came to a preliminary conclusion.

These mutant zombies are not fundamentally different from the ordinary zombies outside, their intelligence has not been improved, it is only because of muscle activity and various body ligament tissues have been repaired, which has led to their ability to have faster speed and reflexes.

In essence, it is the same as when ordinary people just became zombies, with physical fitness close to that of normal people.

As for why these zombies can slowly change from a state of decay to the state of their bodies when they just died.

This was a major discovery found by Dr. Melfa and others.

After experiments and research, they found that all zombie viruses have the ability to absorb various radiation, accelerate reproduction, and simulate various cells in the human body.

This also indirectly explains why zombies can maintain the ability to move their rotting bodies without any energy replenishment.

It turns out that they absorb all kinds of radiation from sunlight and air all the time, and these energies ensure that their broken bodies can still move.

Dr. Melfa and others were extremely excited about this research discovery, and figured out how zombie viruses take in energy, and the principle of how they drive the flesh of living beings, which is undoubtedly a major breakthrough in virus research.

Even these cutting-edge researchers made a more capricious request to Leon.

They hope to be able to go to the Senas Nuclear Power Plant in Roberta County to observe and study the mutant zombies up close.

They believe that this will speed up human research on zombie viruses.

Leon thought about it for a while, but neither accepted nor rejected the request

He only promised that he would allow the only remaining valuable researchers in the human world to observe them up close if he felt safe enough.

After receiving the researchers' initial assessment of the mutant zombies, Leon is even more determined to find out what is going on at the Senas nuclear power plant.

He gave a gathering order to all the members of the security department, and the entire umbrella company began to operate urgently, and they will only retain the most basic protection force in all the strongholds in the shortest possible time, and gather the strongest combat power of the entire company to complete this exploration mission.

Although the mission may seem thankless, Lyon hopes to take down the closest nuclear power plant to Atlanta in one fell swoop, repair the facilities inside, and get the plant back up and running.

At that time, in addition to being able to eliminate the threat of the Senas nuclear power plant, it will also allow the umbrella company to no longer worry about electricity throughout Georgia.

They can even start the industrial mode and restore a certain amount of industrial production capacity, taking a big step towards the goal of rebuilding the homeland of mankind.

In order to accomplish this goal, over the next week, under the coordination of Leon and Amy, the Umbrella Company stopped all other aspects of the work, and everyone worked together to move forward with the project.

Not only did it complete the assembly of combat troops and the delivery of materials, but even the entire engineering department worked overtime to transform and complete the transformation of new weapons to deal with mutant zombies.

(End of chapter)