In the open space outside the base of the People's Union.

Ethan was hoisted in mid-air by chains, about three or four hundred meters above the ground, and the driver had neither the intention of killing him, nor letting him go, so he fished in the cold wind for nearly half an hour.

This left Ethan's few intellects in a state of confusion, not knowing what their commander Kevela was going to do next, and not knowing whether he should break free now and attack to the death.

In a building a kilometer away from him, the president of the People's Congress, Leon, was discussing his condition with a doctor.

"Professor Manok, Colonel Daryl has only tracked them to the beach based on the tracks, and what is certain is that Rick and they have been transported by sea, and we have no way of determining their location."

Leon's expression was a little gloomy, he didn't expect this group of guys to move so fast, even if he sent men and horses to track them as fast as he could, Clementine had already been transported away.

"Are you sure you've got Rick's information out of this guy's head?"

Professor Marlock pushed his glasses and said with some embarrassment:

"I'm sorry, Your Excellency, but if the other party is a pure-blooded human, I'm probably ninety percent sure."

"But according to you, we can't even be sure what form his body is."

"I'm also not sure how much intelligence I can get out of his head, maybe things will be easier, maybe, we won't get anything."

Leon sighed when he heard this, he actually knew the difficulty of this matter, no one could be completely sure, so he continued:

"Anyway, let's try it first, if it doesn't work, we'll find another way."

When everyone was ready, after Leon gave an order, the soldiers arranged outside also began to act.

Eight specially made sniper rifles, under the control of sharpshooters, were remotely aimed at the target that was hoisted under the gunship, and instead of attacking bullets, they fired special syringes filled with super anesthetics.

Ethan, who was hanging in mid-air, had not yet made up his mind whether to start moving, when he suddenly felt a slight numbness in several places on his body, several things like needles and syringes pierced his body, and some unknown liquid was injected into his body.

Originally, Ethan didn't care much, as a body highly modified by parasites, they have a very high degree of resistance to various toxins, radiation, viruses and the like, and most of the internal organs in the body are just decorations.

Even highly toxic substances can be drunk into their stomachs like water, and they are not afraid of what others inject into their bodies.

But soon, he realized that something was wrong, and the places on his body that were injected by the unknown liquid quickly lost consciousness and fell into a state of paralysis, and even the parasites around him lost contact without warning.

And this anesthesia spread very quickly, and before he could make any movements, in just a few seconds, he lost control of his entire body, and then, even his brain was quickly affected by this extremely fast anesthesia.

In the end, Ethan's idea of fighting to the death had no chance to be realized, and he lost all consciousness in infinite remorse.

A few minutes later, in order to determine whether he was really anesthetized, special staff members fired several shots at his non-lethal position, and after confirming that he did not react even if he was shot and bleeding, he was carefully put down.

After completely controlling the monster, Ethan was sent to Professor Marlock's laboratory, which had already prepared for various experiments, at an extremely fast speed.

Time is of the essence, and everyone is racing against the clock.

For this monster that has been transformed, Leon's order to Professor Mallock is that as long as he can get the situation of Rick and the others, it doesn't matter if he is dissected into slag.

Of course, Leon didn't put all his hopes on Ethan.

Today, in the port of Cape Collier, not only are nearly 100 engineers from the Armed Machinery Department operating drones to conduct carpet reconnaissance of the nearby waters, but even many ships in the port of Miami have been transferred over, all of which are distributed on the surface of the sea to search.

After all, the organization that can come to the vicinity of the port by boat to arrest people and send them away in batches will definitely not be too far away.

While this carpet search is time-consuming and labor-intensive, it wouldn't be wasteful if it worked.

………………

At the same time, in the giant cruise ship of Count Dekra, the seriously injured Rick and the others have been moved to the dungeon in the cruise ship by those low-ranking servants wearing cloaks.

It was a very harsh dungeon, located at the bottom of a giant cruise ship, cold and damp, full of mosquitoes, rats and ants, mutilated corpses and excrement and vomit everywhere, and many prisoners who had been driven mad, imprisoned in their cages and groaning in despair.

Rick and the others were assigned to a separate cage.

After last night's battle, each of them had varying degrees of damage on their bodies.

Bruises and scratches are okay, but fractures and internal bleeding are very dangerous, and Dack, a young man with a relatively weak physique, has fallen directly into a deep coma, and the eldest Joel has also become very vague because of a concussion.

However, neither Delkra nor Ethan knew that among the six people, except for Duck and Joel, the other four were all infected with the zombie virus

Because long-term injections of virus inhibitors containing element Z have made their bodies very different from ordinary people, both in terms of physical strength and resilience, far beyond ordinary people.

With the same origin as the parasites on their bodies, in places with high concentrations of zombie viruses or serious nuclear radiation, the bodies of Rick and others will heal and recover at an extremely fast speed, and this giant cruise ship, as Della's lair, is exactly such a place.

Therefore, when Joel and Duck were still in a coma, Sean, Rick, Glenn and Claymanting had actually quietly woken up, and after more than ten hours of high-intensity self-healing, most of their physical condition had recovered.

Claymanting, who had recovered from her injuries the best, quietly opened her eyes, and after carefully observing the circle, she found that there were no guards arranged in the dungeon, she sat up and whispered to Rick and the others beside her:

"Uncle Rick, the guards are gone, what do we do now?"

After hearing her voice, Rick also sat up with his left arm clutched, his left arm was the most seriously injured in the last night's battle, and although it took a while to recover, it was impossible to use it to fight for a short time.

"The first thing we have to determine is, where are we now?"

"Then find a way to get in touch with the base."

"Carl and the others should have fled with the others last night, if there is no accident, His Excellency the President should have known the news that we were arrested, and now he must be trying to find a way to save us."

"As long as we can get in touch with the base and let His Excellency the President know that we are here, no matter what monsters are here, they will not be the opponents of our People's Federation."

Sean, who was lying on the other side of Rick, also covered his bloody head, sat up, he endured the pain on his body, groped around his calf, and then found a military dagger in his trouser leg, took it out and showed it to everyone, and said:

"Even though we don't have any guns, I still have a dagger in hiding."

"Damn, those monsters I encountered last night were even more troublesome than zombies, and I couldn't kill them if I was shot in the head."

"They seem to be the same kind of bug monsters we last encountered in the Union Territory."

"You didn't attack us for revenge, did you?"

Rick immediately shook his head when he heard this, and said:

"No way, our vacation plans are all improvised, even if not many people in the organization know about it, Florida is so big, how can they know where we went."

"It must have been a pure coincidence."

Clay Manting said with some guilt:

"Uncle Rick, it's my fault, I initiated the vacation plan, and everyone was caught."

Hearing the girl's guilty voice, Glenn also coughed and got up from the ground, he reached out and touched Clementine's head, and said a little weakly:

"It's none of your business, little girl, it's just a coincidence, if we hadn't had to go on vacation with you, maybe it wouldn't have happened."

After speaking, he turned his head to look at Sean, and then leaned into the iron cage to look at the lock cylinder there, and then said with some surprise in his voice:

"Brothers, their locks are too old-fashioned, I know its structure, and I should be able to pry it open with a dagger."

When the other people heard the news, they immediately came to their senses, if they could escape from this iron cage, no matter what, it was better than staying in the cage and waiting for death.

However, Rick, who has a relatively calm personality, thought about it and said aloud:

"Don't rush yet, we have to recover for a while, and wait for more information before we act."

He leaned over and whispered to the others:

"We still have wounded people, so we can't take too many risks."

"And you see, there are many other captives here besides us, maybe we can find a way from them to help us escape together."

………………

At night, the base of the People's Union.

Professor Marlock's experiment lasted for several hours, which made Leon, who had been waiting for news, more and more anxious.

And after nearly ten hours of searching, there is no good news from the search team, you must know that the longer it drags on, the more dangerous Clementing and the others will become.

It's a pity that now the satellite systems are all disabled, and ordinary radars can't search for ships in the sea, and Lyon has no other way than to wait.

And just when he thought he was going to be so anxious that he couldn't sleep all night, there was good news from Professor Marlock's side.

"Your Excellency, things are going a lot smoother than expected."

The bald professor's voice was tired and excited.

"There are a large number of parasites in the body of this modified body, dozens of times more than the samples we brought back from the Federation."

"Moreover, there is a higher-level parasite with higher authority in the head of this modified body, which is probably why he was able to manipulate his puppets."

Listening to Professor Manoke's explanations, Leon didn't really care about these messes, and he asked directly:

"Did you get the location of their lair?"

Who knows, Professor Marlock said with some regret:

"I'm sorry, Your Excellency."

"I separated the brain from the body functions of this modified subject, and managed to free him from the parasite's control."

"However, the mod named Ethan doesn't know where his lair is."

"They used to use the induction between parasites to find their own nests, rather than specific coordinates."

"And after I separated his brain from the parasite, he lost the ability to sense the location of the nest."

After hearing this, Leon said with some annoyance:

"So, do we get an idiot who knows nothing?"

Professor Marlock smiled a little awkwardly and quickly explained:

"Ethan was not ignorant, and he told me that his master's name was Declera, a Spanish noble count."

"I've been working with a mysterious organization since before the disaster began, and the current parasite modification technology was given to them by that organization."

"And after the disaster began, they developed a lot of power in Spain because of their preparations, but in the end, for various reasons, the power was collapsed."

"Today, in addition to having a territory in Spain, the Count of Della is left with a giant cruise ship that has been converted into a lair."

"The giant cruise ship is probably parked near a deserted island a few dozen nautical miles from the port of Cape Collier."

"According to Ethan's intelligence, the giant cruise ship is about 300 meters long and 30 meters high, and there are probably more than 2,000 parasite-modified humans living inside."

"However, inside the giant cruise ship, in addition to the forces of his master, Count Dekra, there is also a unit from that mysterious force."

"Their leader, Bishop Sadler, is a religious-like organization that is said to have mastered special parasite modification techniques and is very powerful."

Leon patiently listened to Professor Marlock's information and exhaled softly, no matter what, it was not in vain to be able to get this information.

And with this information, the search team's search area will be much narrower, and the targets of desert islands and giant cruise ships will be quite conspicuous, and it should be much easier to find them.

Thinking of this, Leon politely said to Professor Marlock:

"I'm sorry, Professor, but you should be able to understand my anxious feelings."

"Rick, they mean so much to me and to our organization, and we have to get them back."

"Please continue to work hard to obtain more useful information."

(End of chapter)