"Don't touch them. Wait for forty-five minutes. If I'm not wrong, these two might not be human anymore …"
Zhang Xiaoqiang's words were contradictory. No one could understand him, but that didn't stop them from following his orders. The hall fell silent. Only the child's writhing and screaming in the net, and the guards' barely audible groans could be heard.
Not even 45 minutes had passed, only 40 minutes had passed when a soldier crawled up, stood up shakily, and quickly pounced on Xu Hao …
"Bang …"
"What's wrong with him?"
Xu Hao kicked the soldier to the ground. Just as he asked the question in his heart, he shut his mouth. The soldier's eyes had already lost their pupils, and his eyes were white. The teeth in his mouth had crisscrossed, and his fingernails seemed to have suddenly grown several inches longer.
"Bang …"
Zhang Xiao Qiang used his pistol to answer Xu Hao's question. The bullet pierced through the soldier's neck, and the artery was torn open. However, what flowed out was not bright red blood, but black viscous blood.
Without a doubt, the soldier had mutated into a zombie. Bullets that could kill ordinary people didn't do much damage to the zombie. It struggled again, trying to get up.
"Bang, bang …"
The hall was filled with the sound of gunfire. The zombie's head was smashed into several pieces, and the zombie fell to the ground. Then, another zombie with its eyeball gouged out also stood up. Just as it stood up, it was shot by a soldier who rushed in from outside with a rifle at close range.
"It's … it's that child who did it. He can spread the virus …"
Shi Yuanye screamed and backed away. He was more afraid of zombies than humans. Although he was determined to kill all the zombies, he still panicked when a zombie appeared next to him.
"Drag the body out and burn it …"
Zhang Xiao Qiang did not mourn for the loss of the two soldiers. He had seen so much life and death that he was numb to it. All his attention was on the child. The child had turned from a normal person to a zombie in front of his eyes. This caused Zhang Xiao Qiang, who was a zombie, to have mixed feelings.
A deep fear struck his heart. If one day, because of other reasons, he also became a zombie, then would he still be himself?
Wouldn't he be his enemy?
"Major Shi, is the Yinchuan Army's Virus Research Institute still there?"
Zhang Xiaoqiang turned around and asked Shi Yuanye. Shi Yuanye was staring blankly at the zombies on the ground and didn't notice Zhang Xiaoqiang's question. It wasn't until Xu Hao pulled his sleeve that he came back to his senses and looked at Zhang Xiaoqiang blankly.
"Major Shi, I say, is your Virus Research Institute still around?"
Zhang Xiaoqiang was annoyed, and his tone was a little harsh. Ishihara could hear Zhang Xiaoqiang's impatience, and he immediately broke free from the strange feeling he had when he saw a zombie.
"We have never given up on the research of the virus. During the retreat, the staff and most of the equipment were still in good condition. However, it will be difficult for you to take over. The director of the research institute is a Taiwanese, and he doesn't like us. We are just using each other …"
Hearing Shi Yuan Ye's words, Zhang Xiao Qiang was a little suspicious. It was such an important department, why would the military allow an outsider to control it? After all, he had almost killed the doctor's assistant due to his carelessness. Wasn't it because Elena was French?
"Other than the second rainwater, what else have you researched?
Why don't you become an evolved person yourself? "
Zhang Xiaoqiang had long noticed that among the officers he met, except for Wang Shaohua, the others were all ordinary people. Logically speaking, with the rainwater, the officers should have become evolved people to ensure their survival.
"Sigh!
It's not as simple as you think. We have to start from the time when we built the lab … "
At first, no one thought of building a biological laboratory. With their stomachs full, they only thought of finding supplies. Unexpectedly, at this time, a young man named Li Haiyun found the highest person in charge of the military and showed him his identity card.
Li Haiyun was born in Taiwan. His ancestors were executives of the national government. After the retreat to Taiwan, he was the third generation. He was different from his brothers who chose to go into politics or business. His interest was in molecular biology. As a 24-year-old genius doctor, he was in charge of a biological lab in Taiwan.
When the apocalypse broke out, he was on a plane to Russia to participate in an academic exchange. During the riot, the plane accidentally landed in a field near Yinchuan City. Unexpectedly, he was rescued by the passing army.
As a Taiwanese, he did not have a good impression of the military. As an outsider, he did not fit in with the survivors around him. Under the situation of food shortage, he had to find a way to solve his hunger problem. Hoping to get lucky, he went to the highest director.
Since then, the virus lab was built. In the beginning, they were not valued. The equipment and supplies were the simplest. Li Haiyun could not do anything about it. However, through the first rainwater, he learned about the relationship between rainwater and the evolution of zombies. Through the research of evolved zombies, the military found the weaknesses of evolved zombies. At the same time, they recovered many villages and towns.
As his results increased, the lab became more important. Especially when they unexpectedly received the second rainwater. Through secret human experiments, they became evolved humans. Li Haiyun wanted to hide it, but how could he hide it?
He had to bargain with the higher-ups, using supplies and equipment to exchange for it.
Li Haiyun's plan was ignored by the military. They directly took over the lab and controlled the rainwater. After that, they divided the profits. After confirming that it was harmless, all the higher-ups and their relatives used the rainwater. Half of the rainwater was used. Then, they selected high-quality soldiers from the military who absolutely obeyed orders, and the rest were divided. As for the researcher who discovered the rainwater, he only kept one person's worth of rainwater as research material.
This caused Li Haiyun and the researcher to resent the military. Because the families of the officers all used the rainwater, Shi Yuanye and the other officers naturally did not have a share. This was also the main reason why most of the officers were ordinary people.
Hearing this, Zhang Xiaoqiang understood. At that time, the higher-ups were in a hurry to escape and brought all their family members with them. This resulted in the lack of space on the plane. Otherwise, all the evolved humans would have been taken away. At that time, the Silver Stream Army would no longer have an evolved army.
"Don't kill this child. Keep him under strict control. When the time comes, hand him over to Li Haiyun and tell him everything about this child. At the same time, emphasize that this child is a survivor who drank the rainwater once …"
Zhang Xiaoqiang was testing the waters. He used the zombie child as a knock on the door to test Li Haiyun's ability. If he could not give the same explanation as the doctor, there was no need for this virus lab to exist at all.
As the child's limbs were tied up and dragged away, the migration of the Blood Wolf Flag camp officially began. Zhang Xiaoqiang asked Alatan and Ao Dou to use the confiscated guns to expand the Blood Wolf Flag's team to 1,500 people. They were to take over the Blue Wolf Cavalry and Black Wolf Flag camps. At the same time, he told Alatan and Ao Dou that if they encountered any situation at the Black Wolf Flag camp, everything should be the same as before. Zhang Xiaoqiang's words were vague, but Alatan and Ao Dou understood. After Alatan and Ao Dou made a solemn vow, Zhang Xiaoqiang knew that there would be two more camps erected at the two Wolf Flag camps.
Large flatbed trucks with rubber tires were loaded with all kinds of supplies and headed towards the small town of Qi County. The cavalry regiment left a battalion to guard the camp, while Zhang Xiaoqiang, Xu Hao, and the others were led by Rakshasa to the border defense regiment's camp that was blocking Wu Yun Gale Rilei's way.
Previously, Wu Yun Gale Rilei had taken a huge risk to get the ZK9 that attacked his market from the base. He thought that Wu Yun Gale Rilei had already taken care of the camp and seized all the transport planes. He did not expect that Wu Yun Gale Rilei's ability to deal with humans was so strong, but his ability to deal with mutated beasts was extremely poor. Not to mention helicopters, he did not even have a main battle tank.
"I have never seen that thing with my own eyes. I only saw it through the video they brought back. It was very scary. One with black hair, one with red hair …"
Rakshasa described the appearance and power of the two mutated beasts to Zhang Xiaoqiang in detail. Zhang Xiaoqiang had already sketched out the general appearance of the two mutated beasts in his mind. Zhang Xiaoqiang had seen this kind of mutated beast before, or rather, he was very familiar with it, because he had two of them himself.
A height of 2.3 meters, a dark red tongue, fast movement ability, and an insane defense ability. It had sharp claws that could tear apart armored vehicles and sharp teeth that could break steel spears. Wasn't it just a police dog from the military camp?
Mutated dogs were a type of mutated beast that had stronger survival abilities after the end of the world. They also had the habit of gathering in groups, so they could be considered a mutated army. Zhang Xiaoqiang had once encountered one when he went to the colony, and it had left a very deep impression on him …