Shi Yuanye and Chen Qinqin followed behind Zhang Xiaoqiang as they walked towards the entrance of the valley. Zhang Xiaoqiang had redesigned the two mountains at the entrance of the valley as a fortification. Large amounts of construction materials had been transported in regardless of the cost, and the simple fortifications had been transformed into permanent fortifications. At the same time, generators and diesel had been transported in.
All of these things could only be transported in through the mountain roads. The mountain roads were difficult to traverse, and it was impossible to use vehicles. Other than people carrying them on their shoulders, the only things that could be used were bicycles and wheelbarrows.
Looking at the fortifications that were being built, Shi Yuanye felt a little heartache. A lot of manpower and resources had been wasted here. After all, the original defense system here was not bad. He thought that even if the Botanical Research Institute was here, there was no need to make things like this.
When they arrived at the lake, Zhang Xiaoqiang brought the two of them to a lift at the foot of the mountain. The three of them followed the lift to the middle of the mountain, which was about ten meters high. They walked up a rocky path and came to a natural cave. The cave was very big, at least a thousand square meters. The walls and ground all had traces of being tidied up. Simple wooden tables took up half of the space in the cave, and the other half was filled with various experiment tables and research equipment.
Walking past the simple wooden tables, Shi Yuanye saw that there were three clay pots on each wooden table. There was a strange plant growing in each of the pots. The plant was a single plant, and it looked like a pearl necklace that had been torn off and stuck into the soil with glue.
At the very top of the plant, there was a very strange fruit. To be precise, it looked like the beak of a woodpecker embedded in the largest pearl. The black and green thorns extended seven or eight centimeters, the thorns facing the outside of the earthen jar. On the thorns, there was a transparent silk thread hanging down, hanging into the small bowl at the side of the earthen jar.
The small bowl was already half filled with a transparent gelatinous substance. For a moment, Shi Yuanye couldn't tell if the gelatinous substance in the bowl had been sucked dry by the beak-like thorn, or if it was the thorn that was spitting silk into the bowl.
Then, he realized that there were other arrangements for these plants. Women in white with masks on their faces walked quietly between these wooden tables. From time to time, they would spray water on these plants with the sprayer in their hands. The crystal-clear water droplets slowly flowed down the small pearls in the middle of the plants and were completely absorbed before reaching the last pearl.
"Or is it Zombie Decaying Water?"
Shi Yuan Ye could smell the stench in the air, and asked Zhang Xiao Qiang suspiciously. His interest in the plants was piqued, Zhang Xiao Qiang was a man who cared about profits. If he had to give up on dealing with the zombies 200 miles away, and reap the benefits of the entire Silver Stream Plains to farm here, would it mean that the benefits here were greater than the outside?
"Yes, at the end of the siege, I ordered them to drive the zombies to a few dangerous places and seal the gaps. Now, we have 100,000 zombies trapped in Helan Mountain. I have placed 10 evolvers and 20 veterans in each place, so there should be no accidents.
These zombies are the fertilizer for the Botany Research Institute. Now that we have made a breakthrough, it is all thanks to the zombies. Don't worry about these things, I will show you our results …. "
Zhang Xiaoqiang brought Shi Yuanye to the experiment table, and saw a few men and women in white coats testing something. Shi Yuanye had never seen these people before, and they all had all kinds of old wounds on their faces. They also looked like they had been starving for a long time.
Zhang Xiaoqiang didn't care about these people, and walked to a shelf. He took something and handed it to Shi Yuanye. When Shi Yuanye took it, his right hand shook violently, as if he couldn't control his strength. The thing was too light.
Zhang Xiao Qiang handed him a helmet covered in camouflage cloth. It looked no different from the field helmets they were using. However, when he held it in his hands, he couldn't feel the weight of the helmet. At the same time, he couldn't feel the thickness of the helmet either. It gave off the impression that it was made of plastic to scare people.
Shi Yuanye looked at the helmet in his hand, but he couldn't see anything special about it. He looked at Zhang Xiaoqiang curiously. Zhang Xiaoqiang just smiled and didn't answer. He grabbed the helmet and brought Shi Yuanye to a cave next to the experiment area. The cave was long and narrow, and one side of the wall was chiseled with many small holes. The sunlight from outside shone into the hole, and countless golden light beams lit up the cave, but there was even more dust dancing in the light beams.
This cave had signs of being used as a shooting range. On the rock walls, there were many small holes that had been chiseled open, causing countless pebbles to fall to the ground. On the wall near the exit of the cave, there was a row of gun racks with all kinds of standard rifles neatly arranged. Under the gun racks, there was a large barrel filled with densely packed bullet casings. There were also a few ammunition boxes stacked beside the barrel, with a few half-full magazines piled up on top of them in a disorderly manner.
The narrow cave was about a hundred meters wide, and there were a few crosses placed in the middle according to distance. Zhang Xiaoqiang walked to the first cross and tied the helmet to it. He returned to Shi Yuanye and asked, "Use a Type-81 rifle to shoot our helmets at this distance. Can the helmets block all the bullets?"
Shi Yuanye was speechless as he looked at the helmets twenty meters away. He shook his head. Although the new generation of helmets was not bad, it was not omnipotent. The kinetic energy of a 7.62mm bullet was too strong. Not to mention twenty meters, it would not be able to block it even at a distance of fifty meters.
Zhang Xiaoqiang grabbed a Type-81 rifle, loaded the clip, and pulled the bolt. With a click of the trigger, he brought the rifle to Shi Yuanye. Shi Yuanye looked at the rifle in front of him and took it hesitantly. He raised the gun and pulled the trigger at Zhang Xiaoqiang's fixed helmet.
After the single shot, Ishihara squinted his eyes to observe his results. As expected, the helmet's skin had been torn open, and at the same time, the material underneath the helmet had been blown away. Through the sunlight that shone in, Ishihara could see the wooden frame underneath the helmet.
Shi Yuanye raised the muzzle and looked at Zhang Xiaoqiang in confusion. He did not know what Zhang Xiaoqiang was doing. There was no doubt that the helmet was trash. The only thing that could explain this was the cave. The countless holes on the wall could dissipate the sound of gunfire, and it would not echo back in the cave.
"You don't understand?"
Zhang Xiao Qiang expressed his surprise, he grabbed a type 56 submachine gun, neatly loaded the magazine, raised the gun and slowly shot out a magazine of bullets. The helmet trembled violently in the rain of bullets, countless sparks flashed on the helmet, at the same time the bullets that were ricocheted whistled through the air, hitting the surrounding rock walls, chiseling out countless small stone fragments.
"What … What is this …"
Shi Yuanye did not wait for the smoke in front of the two to dissipate. He rushed to the cross and carefully looked at the fixed helmet. The skin had been torn to shreds, and Shi Yuanye could clearly see the material inside. Under the transparent skin was the lining inside the helmet. From the outside, it looked like the material in the middle of the helmet did not exist. It was just a combination of skin and lining. It was very strange.
Seeing Shi Yuanye playing with the transparent helmet in his hand, Zhang Xiaoqiang felt comfortable. He felt that it was worth it to be a monkey in the mountains.
"Glass Bulletproof Armor. That's the name I'm going to tell the user. Inside, we'll use glass armor. The real material, I call it Pearl Tears. It's the plants you saw just now. This armor grows from trees."
Hearing Zhang Xiaoqiang's words, Shi Yuanye frowned.
"What's the production rate of those Pearl Tears outside?
Also, it seems a little excessive to equip an army of tens of thousands. The helmets we're using now are enough, I think … "
Zhang Xiaoqiang laughed and raised his hand to stop Shi Yuanye. He stared at him seriously and said, "You're wrong.
"You're mistaken. I've never thought of making this into a helmet. Its usage isn't that simple. Let me put it this way. You can think of it as a futuristic super-technology. It has a melting point of 4,200 degrees Celsius, and it won't become brittle even under 30 degrees Celsius. It can even withstand a scattered burst of 1.27mm bullets …"
With every sentence Zhang Xiaoqiang said, Shi Yuanye's expression changed a little. In the end, his surprise turned into shock. When he heard that this thing was easy to make and could be molded once, he suddenly changed his expression and said, "Zhang Xiaoqiang, we can't use this thing now. We don't know what other forces are out there in the world. Not only is this thing useless to us, it might even attract the attention of other forces. It's best to research it slowly and form a system. When our technology reaches a certain level, we can take it out …"