End of Century

He opened the iron box, and in an instant the metal was plated with a layer of isolation in the study to prevent the leakage of crystal nucleus energy from attracting coveters.

I saw two crystal nuclei with relatively delicate shapes and sizes placed in the irregular, apparently improvised, roughly made iron box.One of them has a pure white luster, and the other has a transparent luster, which is entangled with orange and red silk threads, which is extremely magnificent.

This gem-like crystal nucleus made the team members gasp.

Wang Hehe was even more surprised: "It, they... How did you kill those two intelligent zombies, old man?! Could it be that their evolutionary direction is very cruel? Or have you already determined that it is impossible for them to restore human thinking and intelligence? "

Hou Ying cleared her throat pretentiously.

He re-covered the iron box, threw it on the table casually, sat back beside Li Xuanyuan, and said, "I didn't kill them, but just dug out the crystal nucleus to let them calm down."

Everyone was aroused curiosity, Hou Ying explained the characteristics of Jinghu Lake, which is the geological lake formed by falling meteorites, in detail, including the repulsive force of Jinghu Lake and the purest energy flowing out of the repulsive force in a short period of time. body, and his ease of progression there.With everyone stunned, Hou Ying explained: "Those two intelligent zombies don't listen to discipline. I tied them to the ground before going out to prevent them from being torn apart. I didn't have time to untie them that day, although They also received the favor of Mirror Lake, but their welfare is much worse than other zombie animals."

After a pause, Hou Ying seemed to think of something funny, she leaned on Li Xuanyuan and said: "Those two lifeless things dare to lose their temper with me. I came to you in a hurry, and I didn't want to bring this Two burdens, just leave them there."

Everyone said in their hearts: If it were me, I wouldn't be able to beat you to death.

Li Xuanyuan said: "The next Mirror Lake cycle, do you want to go back?"

Hou Ying: "I have roughly estimated that the repulsion cycle of Mirror Lake is about once every three months. If there is nothing else at that time, I will go back and have a look. Also, this cycle is derived from the ability of marine creatures. The evolution time is predicted. Have you noticed that in about three to four months, marine life will undergo another major evolution. If this evolution produces a time difference between mutant creatures and zombie creatures, it will detonate the war of marine life and tsunamis."

Liu Zhan understood, "Brother Monkey, what you mean is that the zombie creatures in the sea evolved because of the meteorite that fell into the sea?"

Hou Ying nodded, "That's right. But what really caused the riots should be the outer biota. If it's the inner circle, there can only be zombie creatures, and these zombie creatures don't need to devour mutant creatures or their own kind, they can rely on meteorites to The source body and complete the evolution."

"Doesn't that mean that we have been dealing with shrimp soldiers and crab generals?"

Dongfang Bai pulled off Wang Hehe's hand covering his mouth, and said in surprise.

Hou Ying nodded again.

Everyone looked at each other, speechless for a moment.

Li Xuanyuan straightened his back, frowned and said: "Back then, most meteorites landed in the uninhabited high seas. The land in these places is very far away, and most of them are in the center of the ocean. In other words, the large-scale migration of creatures in the sea is due to It is completely attracted by the source body of the meteorite. In this way, the ocean will become harmless due to the ability of the source body. The sea and land do not affect each other...The reason why the Pearl River Base has been attacked by tsunamis and supernatural creatures is because there are A certain meteorite source body landed too close to here."

Hou Ying hummed approvingly, and that was exactly what he was going to say next.

He said: "I think, based on the density of meteorites landing in the ocean, there should be no mutated marine life in the central ocean. The sea area facing the Pearl River base is probably the only place where mutated marine life exists. A biological riot that endangers the mainland."

Jiang Tao was puzzled: "Didn't it mean that the meteorite source bodies are all zombie creatures? If the meteorite crash point is really close to here, then how come there are mutant creatures here?"

"Zombie!"

"It's because of the zombies!"

Wang Hehe and Liu Zhan reacted almost at the same time.

With a flash in Li Xuanyuan's eyes, Liu Zhan explained to others: "It must be that the spreading zombie virus was absorbed by humans in the first place, and they became zombies, absorbing a large part of the virus and sharing the burden of marine life." pathogens, so evolution diverges. Is that so, Monkey?”

"I'm just a guess, but it's probably not far from the truth."

Hou Ying said so.

Li Xuanyuan didn't know what he thought of, he stood up suddenly, and under the suspicious eyes of everyone, he turned on the projection in the study, and released a satellite map of the Huaguo region.

He took a deep breath and said: "When we received the mission, the captain's terminal was bound to the meteorite landing satellite detection terminal of the research institute. Before the mission was cancelled, there was a meteorite landing result on the terminal. Chengtu. Although the mission was cancelled, and the captain's terminal authority was lost, I... still roughly remember the place where the meteorite landed."

He paused at this point, the reason why he explained so many details abnormally, Li Xuanyuan didn't seem to be telling them, but to strengthen a certain guess in his heart.

Using a sensor pen, he circled six red circles at special locations on the map of Huaguo, stepping away from the projection.

Li Xuanyuan: "These six places are where our country's meteorite landed."

As soon as he finished speaking, the other teams who understood the deep meaning of his words stood up one after another, fixed their eyes on the satellite map, and all of them changed their expressions.

Just because the uninhabited land where the meteorite landed is only a short distance from the current base of human survivors!

Is this a coincidence?

This is definitely not just a coincidence!

Liu Zhan stepped forward two steps ahead, took the sensor pen in Li Xuanyuan's hand, circled the locations of the four major bases and connected them with the corresponding meteorite landing sites with a straight line.Li Xuanyuan quickly reported the straight-line space distance between the two, and Liu Zhan marked it tacitly. Even Li Dong, Zhou Tianyi, and Gao Xiaoming, who were still confused, would feel sorry for them and exclaimed: "This , Is this too close?!"

The farthest one is not more than 350 kilometers away, and the nearest Pearl River base is only about [-] kilometers away!It's just because the places where they landed happen to be uninhabited areas with geographical characteristics, which makes them seem inconspicuous.

Liu Zhan tried his best to keep his voice steady, and said: "From the north, there was originally a Changbai base here that died due to internal fighting." He then drew the corresponding location on the map, "The original site of the Changbai base, It corresponds to the meteorite landing site in Xingling. The Yellow River base corresponds to the meteorite landing site in the plateau sandy land. The one on the Chuanyuan base is the Jinghu Lake that Brother Hou visited before, and the one on the Yangtze River base is Hucheng—we carried out the earthquake The location of the rescue mission, the survivors here were the first to be sent to the Yellow River base, and the meteorite landed in the lake-bottom experiment site where Xiaohai’s father used to work!"

"Pearl River Base... We should be no strangers to it. It's near Mutant Bird Island, and it should have landed on the bottom of the deep sea."

After Liu Zhan finished speaking, he looked at the thoughtful Hou Ying.The latter narrowed his eyes and said in a low voice: "It seems that it is in line with my original guess."

Qiao Daye scratched his bald head frantically, and said, "Can you speak clearly? Don't let people guess! Could it be that the reason why we activate the power is because we are close to the meteorite source body? It shouldn't be. , isn't the closer you are to the faster you die?!"

Hou Ying said: "Theoretically, this is true. But it may also be because the concentration of the zombie virus is the highest in the places where these landing sites are located. To a certain extent, the two types of people who respond to the zombie virus have undergone two levels of differentiation. One is the supernatural beings that produce antibodies, and the other is completely eroded zombies. Except for these areas, in the three months after the end of the world, the four major bases hardly found any human survivors elsewhere. "

"That is to say, for the benign lesions to appear in those who stimulate supernatural powers, the prerequisite is that the concentration of the zombie virus is strong enough, and the other condition is that there are enough receptors to absorb the zombie virus, which makes some people develop Incomplete antibody. Didn’t you find it? These meteorites that seem to have landed in no man’s land are near the most densely populated place in China. The reason why there are two kinds of marine life coming from the waters of the Pearl River base There is also a reason for the mutation mutation."

"As for ordinary people..."

His reasoning stopped here, and Liu Zhan, Wang Hehe, and Li Xuanyuan, who had completely followed his thinking, were all excited.

Wang Hehe's body softened, and he sat back on the sofa and said, "So, ordinary people are the big bosses? They, they don't respond to the zombie virus at all? Are they completely immune?"

To put it bluntly, both supernatural beings and zombies are infected by the zombie virus, but they are just different signs of the disease.

But ordinary people, who are no different from ordinary people before the end of the world, are the ones who have not been infected by the real zombie virus.The reason why marine creatures do not appear in normal form is because human beings with supernatural powers protect and protect ordinary people, and they follow the law of the forest where the jungle preys on the weak, so they have two levels of differentiation.

From this point of view, the direction of the zombie virus' transformation of the world is already clear.

These creatures, except for ordinary people whose special existence has not been wiped out, have all become infected by the zombie virus.

Liu Zhanze said: "The immunity of ordinary people also has a certain limit. Don't forget that after the Zombie Empty City effect occurred in the Yellow River Base, some ordinary people became diseased by zombies, and a small number of people awakened their abilities because of this. But , Compared with the current environment, unless there is a second meteorite explosion and the base does not cause a zombie empty city, ordinary people will still be immune to the zombie virus."

Gongsun Jing finally got an answer out of her complicated thoughts: "So, to get immunity to the zombie virus, you can only get it from ordinary people?"

Everyone looked at each other, shocked by this conclusion that seemed like a fantasy.