Chapter 141: Fungal Viruses
Da-da-da-da! Da-da-da-da!
In the dim light, it was impossible to see the enemy dozens of meters away, and the little brothers of the wolf clan, under the urging of the boss, could only bite the bullet and divide into two waves to pursue the two armored men.
However, they soon discovered what is called visual suppression, the enemy hides in the dark and can attack at will, but they cannot accurately determine the enemy's location, and can only guess and attack indiscriminately by relying on the flames coming out of the enemy's gun.
And for some reason, even though they hid in the darkness together, the armored man still saw where they were and attacked accurately.
And what makes the wolf brothers even more desperate is that even if they are lucky and the bullet they shoot hits the body of the armored man, they will be bounced away by the special armor on the armored man, and they can't cause any damage to them at all, so they can only watch them take away one by one, and the lives of their companions around them.
After a few minutes, the battle in the darkness gradually became quiet.
The boss of the wolf clan held an automatic rifle and cautiously approached the battlefield where the two sides were fighting, wanting to take advantage of the other party's battle with his little brother to carry out a sneak attack.
But soon he found that he, like other junior brothers, could not determine the location of the enemy, and seeing a dozen or so junior brothers being killed quickly and quickly at a speed visible to the naked eye, his mood became more manic, and the few intelligences he had were quickly depleted.
Eventually, when he saw that the only lockpicker among his men, Andy, had been shot in the head by a bullet from an unknown source.
The one-eyed man was completely in a rage, he picked up the automatic rifle left behind after the death of his little brother, held two rifles in both his left and right hands, and poured fire into the darkness while rushing to the location of the armored man as fast as he could.
However, when he finally approached the other party less than twenty meters away.
Bang.
He was greeted by a shock bomb that flew towards his upper body.
Bite!!!
With a loud sound that shook his soul, the one-eyed man only felt as if his brain had been hammered with an iron hammer, his eyes were pitch black, his head was buzzing, and blood seemed to flow from his ears, and the whole person lost all control of his body in an instant.
Then, with a snap, he fell to the ground and fell into a coma.
As the wolf boss fainted, there was a brief silence in the alley leading to the weapons warehouse.
After more than ten seconds, Jasmine and Lao Li walked out of the darkness, their movements still unhurried, walking in front of each of the killed wolf clan members, skillfully destroying their brains with daggers, cutting off the possibility of them turning into zombies.
In the end, the wolf clan boss who was stunned by the shock bomb was dragged under the light.
Glancing at the alley full of messes and corpses, Jasmine's expression did not change, and she shouted in the direction from which she came:
"Come here, Diana, it's safe here."
"Come here, all of you."
The words fell, and soon, in a corner in the distance, Diana came over with a pistol and three men in the prime of life, and they trotted while carefully observing the dozen corpses on the ground, looking at the eyes of Jasmine and Lao Li, and became more awe and obedience.
Along the way, they saw these two strange warriors, people blocking and killing, and Buddha blocking and killing Buddha, and they killed more than twenty intruders in less than ten minutes.
It's beyond their perception of modern warfare.
Jasmine looked at the four of them, pointed to the guns next to the corpses of the wolf clan members on the ground, and said:
"Diana, distribute these weapons to your inhabitants, it's time to fight back."
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Early the next morning, while Leon was still in his office on business, he received a communication request from Jasmine.
He took a cup of coffee, enjoyed Avril's massage, listened to Jasmine's story, and asked:
"The Alexandria community?"
"This community wants to ally with us?"
"Yes, Your Excellency."
Jasmine's voice is still so unfazed, completely different from the wildness and initiative when the two of them are in contact at a negative distance.
"Their leader is called Diana, who used to be a politician in Ohio, and although she has a somewhat naïve personality, she is quite sensible."
Although Leon knew the Alexandrian community better, he could not show his uncertain prophet, so he asked:
"Jasmine, tell me everything you know."
"You should know that not everyone is qualified to form an alliance with us."
"Yes, Your Excellency."
Jasmine paused for more than ten seconds, and seemed to organize some language before saying:
"The size of the Alexandria community is not huge, and the number of people is only about 100 people."
"However, after yesterday's attack by a group of marauders called the Wolf Clan, they have lost more than twenty people, and some have been injured to varying degrees."
"Since the end of the world, this community has been isolated from solitude, living in a wall made of steel plates, and basically has no experience fighting marauders and zombies."
"From what I've observed, they don't have much value in themselves other than the population and the relatively good community environment."
"However, because it was originally a resort community for the wealthy, most of the residents of Alexandria were peacetime elites, doctors, lawyers, university lecturers, financial people, and so on."
"But I feel that the combat effectiveness of this community is too low to survive alone in this apocalyptic world."
"If left unchecked, they may disappear in less than a year."
Leon nodded, now that Rick's team in the plot has joined the Human Federation, without the addition of this team, the Alexandria community is like a piece of exposed fat, really, anyone can take a bite.
Whether it was out of the power of developing the human network or out of love for the original characters, he felt that the Alexandria community should be given a chance.
Thinking so, Leon cleared his throat and said:
"In the case of the Alexandria community, they are not qualified to be our allies, because allies are beings who can help each other, not unilateral handouts, and they do not have the ability to do so."
"You can tell Ms. Diana that we can have a trade relationship with the Alexandria community, exchange ideas, and share information to a certain extent."
"Of course, Jasmine, you can also tell the lady that their best option is to join our human association and become one of us."
"In this way, we can guarantee the safety of their lives, provide them with a safe living environment, and let them live in the light of civilization and order."
Jasmine understood what Leon meant, and instead of discussing the affairs of Alexandria's community with him, she told him about her finding Rob, a petroleum engineer.
Leon was very happy with the news, and immediately praised Jasmine fiercely, and promised to give her some rewards afterwards.
After all, there is no talent in the entire organization of the People's Federation that can handle it.
Now that there is finally a professional talent in this area, he must be reused.
He immediately decided to immediately send a helicopter to pick up the old man Rob and his family, gather people, and start the industrial production of oil as soon as possible.
After all, in a year or two, all the world's gasoline and diesel will completely deteriorate, and then all the fuel engines will become a mass of scrap metal.
Neither airplanes nor automobiles can continue to be used, and the surviving humans will have to rely on their legs or horses for transportation.
In that case, the whole world would be almost stuck in the technological level of the Middle Ages.
And if in another ten years, when all the gunpowder on the market expires, and the guns and artillery are useless, then all human beings can only enter the age of cold weapons, except for a few organizations that can complete industrial production.
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Seattle, WA.
In the apocalypse, Seattle is infested with zombies, and the once-bustling city has lost almost all of its life, and the stench of rot is everywhere.
Whether it's the zombies that fill the roads and are still wandering around, or the skeletons that can be seen everywhere that are only covered in rotten flesh and skin, everything has decorated this place as a hell on earth.
However, under this hell and a city infested with countless zombies, a secret research center affiliated with Freemasonry is still busy.
"Professor Charles, there seems to be a symbiotic reaction in Lab Seven."
"The radiant energy in the air is declining rapidly."
"Radiation fungi are repairing the host's bodily functions."
When the bald professor named Charles heard the news, he immediately put down the human corpse he was dissecting in his hand and rushed into Laboratory Seven with a frenzied and excited face.
"Great, did the radiation fungus we cultivated really succeed?"
In Laboratory No. 7, in a sealed observation room, hundreds of movable zombies were stripped of their clothes, their limbs were tied, and they were tied to medical beds.
Their expressions were hideous, their skin was pale with woody fibers, and a large cut had been made in their chests and brains, and a spor-like fungus was slowly extending from their wounds in their veins and internal organs.
In the central ceiling of this laboratory, a black iron box hangs, and inside the iron box is the radioactive contaminated nuclear material.
The bald professor named Charles had a fanatical expression on his face, and came to the operating platform of Laboratory Seven, constantly scrolling through the various information scrolling on the screen, and kept muttering to himself.
"Great, great."
"I succeeded, I succeeded."
"As long as this radiation fungus is implanted in the human body, humans will be able to survive in the radiation environment without hindrance."
"You don't need to eat, you don't get hurt, you can repair the damage to the human body from any disease."
"As long as the radiation fungus continues to multiply and repair our body, we can fight any disease, and even the body can be immune to aging."
"As long as our radiation fungus is implanted, humans can achieve immortality."
"Great, great."
Professor Charles muttered to himself as he instructed his researchers to put on their hazmat suits and enter Laboratory Seven to collect the radiation fungi that had grown in the corpses.
This is a special mutated fungus that he fuses the DNA of various fungi and spawns in the zombie virus and radiation environment, which not only integrates the characteristics of the zombie virus to absorb radiation and provide energy, but also takes into account the parasitic ability of fungal organisms.
Unlike destructive zombie viruses, these radiation fungi form a symbiotic relationship with the host when they enter the host.
In order to ensure the survival of the host, they will fill the integrity of various organs and body tissues in the host's body in a very short time, so that the life of the host can survive, as long as these radiation fungi do not die, then the host they parasitize can also achieve immortality together.
Professor Charles squinted his eyes as he watched the radiation fungi parasitic inside the corpses being collected by the researchers into petri dishes one by one, and his mind couldn't help but start imagining.
As a lesser-regarded biologist in Freemasonry, he is now about to develop a way to evolve and immortalize humanity before the most powerful Manhattan professor in the institute.
It only takes a few more human experiments to make the radiation fungus more suitable for the structure of the human body.
Perhaps, in the future new world created by Freemasonry, he Charles will be regarded as the greatest scientist in the new world, and will be worshipped by all the new humans.
Unfortunately, Professor Charles, who was not taken seriously by the Freemasons, did not notice that when the researchers were harvesting the radiation fungus, countless extremely tiny, invisible fungal spores were attached to their protective clothing and taken out of Laboratory Seven.
The radiation fungus, considered by Professor Charles to be the strongest parasitic fungus in the world at the moment, has quietly begun to spread in Seattle without anyone knowing.
No one knows what kind of changes this mutated spore organism formed through artificial intervention will bring to this world that has already become full of devastation.
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Alexandria Community.
Three days had passed since the wolf invasion, and this otherwise peaceful and peaceful community had experienced the invasion of marauders, resisting the invaders, burying relatives and friends, cleaning up corpses, repairing walls, and all kinds of other jobs they had never done before.
Everyone's heart is filled with exhaustion, fear, and sorrow.
Carol and Lao Li had already returned to their own stronghold with the soldiers, and before leaving, out of humanitarian spirit, they also helped the Alexandria community clean up the zombie hordes that had gathered because of the noise of the fighting.
So at present, only Jasmine is still in this community among the members of the Human Federation.
In this rescue operation, Jasmine and the others spent a lot of ammunition and energy, in addition to gaining the friendship of the Alexandria community, the biggest gain was the capture of sixteen wolf captives.
With these coolies that can be disposed of casually, the construction of a Kentucky stronghold in the future will also become easier.
How the organization gets along with the Alexandria community depends on the ideas of the inhabitants of the community.
At Diana's house, Jasmine is having lunch with them.
"Really? Is your organization unwilling to form an alliance with us? ”
Jasmine had no expression on her face, took a sip of a glass of red wine, and said:
"Yes, Lady Deanna."
"Although we in the United Community of Humanity are a noble organization."
"But we pay attention to equality and mutual assistance, equal exchange, not selfless dedication."
"His Excellency Lyon, the President of the People's Republic of China, told me that if you are not willing to join our organization, then the only help we can provide is to open up trade."
"You can exchange the resources or labor you have for the goods you need."
Deanna was a little silent when she heard this, and her youngest son Spencer whispered a little complainingly:
"The world is like this, why can't we still be united, and we still have to worry about belonging."
Jasmine smiled contemptuously and said without any scruples:
"It is precisely because of the difficult nature of the world that we care more about the lives of others and ourselves."
"Rather than spending resources to help other people stay alive."
"To tell you the truth, if it weren't for the kindness of His Excellency the President, who was willing to take on the responsibility of reviving humanity and saving those poor survivors."
"I don't care if you live or die."
Tobinse wanted to quarrel with Jasmine, but when he saw the girl's cold eyes and the girl's terrifying combat power, he finally held back the words he wanted to say in his stomach.
Diana was silent for nearly a minute, then finally raised her head, looked at Jasmine and said:
"Ms. Jasmine, I hope to have the opportunity to visit your base in the near future to see what kind of organization the real Human Federation is."
"Only then will I have enough reason to convince myself and the inhabitants who believe in me."
(End of chapter)