I haven’t finished fighting the battle in Volume 3! Chapter 58: Zombie Virus Time Lock
Shen Jin stood on the roof and looked down. He was shocked to find that those ordinary old man and old lady zombies in the morning...had turned into evolved zombies!
Without exception!
Some zombies were not even half covered with moss in the morning, but now they have grown full green hair, as if the evolution of zombies has directly transcended time. "Zombies don't follow the basic laws of evolution anymore???"
"roar!"
The zombies below had already spotted Shen Jin. Several agile old M-shaped zombies had already started to jump upwards. Shen Jin took out his Desert Eagle, which he had not used for a long time, and shouted, "Bang!"
With Shen Jin's current motion capture vision, he can completely catch up with the speed of the M-type zombie, predict its position in the next second, and shoot it in the head with one shot.
"Bang!"
Shen Jin shot at the head of an L-shaped zombie below, but it didn't explode in the head, just hit the head, and the bullet got stuck in its head. "So... these suddenly evolved zombies are as strong as the normal evolved zombies before..."
After Shen Jin finished testing the data he wanted to know, he pressed down the lever, and the [jetpack] sprayed out two streams of air, carrying him up, leaving a few M-type zombies helpless and furious on the roof. "There is another feature... The zombies that suddenly evolved in the whole yard are all L and M-type zombies, and there are no deformed zombies. Is it a coincidence?"
This question was left for the zombie-killing team to look at when they went out to kill zombies. Shen Jin returned to the villa and called Yang Ao. The two began to watch the video recorded on their mobile phones. "Brother Jin, have they really evolved? It's too mysterious, right? Those old guys... I can't even walk properly, how can they evolve?"
"I also find it incredible. Let's watch the video..."
The two sat in Shen Jin's room, watching today's video. In the video, after the two left, the zombies in the nursing home were still wandering around as before. Occasionally, a few ran out, and a few zombies from other places came in. Since there were no living things in the nursing home, the zombies' behavior had been very normal. Fast forwarding 10 times, it was a normal day, and there was no change in the zombies, until...
evening!
"boom!"
The two of them clearly heard a thunderclap coming from the phone. At this time, the sky had already darkened, and it was at the junction of night and day...
All the zombies below suddenly looked up at the sky in unison!
It was unclear what the rotten eyeballs could see, but... they were all looking up at the sky, as if something was attracting their attention. The zombies stopped wandering, and the entire video seemed to be stuck. Yang Ao glanced at the progress bar and found that the video was still moving forward, "Slow down..."
Yang Ao adjusted the video to normal playback speed. The two of them clearly found that those ordinary zombies that had not evolved had evolved visibly. Green hair emerged from their bodies and covered their entire bodies. Some zombies' weak bodies swelled up... and turned into L-shaped zombies. Some zombies stretched their bodies and lay on the ground to become M-shaped zombies. In less than a minute, the transformation from ordinary zombies to evolved zombies was completed. Then, all the zombies lowered their heads and began to wander normally again...
"It's just...it's quite sudden!"
After watching, the two were surprised. Shen Jin pondered for a moment and said, "The evolution of zombies is like... a time bomb. At a certain point in time, they will evolve directly, no matter what state they were in before!"
"Yes, it looks like that. I didn't expect... that they would evolve so forcefully. In the video, why did the zombies suddenly stop? What were they... looking at?"
Yang Ao noticed that the zombies were behaving strangely. "When the lightning struck... they seemed to have heard some kind of command, just like they were being controlled by the Z zombie leading the zombie tide, and they moved in unison..."
The two thought for a long time but could not find the principle of the zombies' evolution this time. Shen Jin suddenly said, "Why did Tianluodiwang know? Did they master some secrets of the zombie virus? Otherwise, let's call Tianluodiwang Bureau to ask? This is too weird..."
If zombies can suddenly evolve for the first time, will they suddenly evolve for the second time?
If the streets are filled with first-level evolved zombies in the future, how will humans survive?
The city wall is a joke to the M-type zombies who are good at climbing and the harpy zombies who can fly.
"Okay! I'll call and ask!"
Yang Ao used his satellite phone to call the Tianluodiwang consultation center. "Busy tone, it seems that there are a lot of people calling!"
"Keep fighting. I won't feel at ease until I figure this out!"
Yang Ao called more than ten times before he was connected to the Tianluodiwang hotline. After he asked his question, the person on the other end replied, "Listen to the broadcast at 10 o'clock tonight!"
Just hung up.
10 o'clock in the evening is the time when all Chinese people listen to the radio, and it is also the only channel for most people to get news from the outside world every day.
The same is true at Home Base No. 1. From a 60-year-old strong old man to 8- or 9-year-old elementary school students, everyone is waiting to listen to today's news. In Shen Jin's public hospital, the old director placed an old-fashioned radio in the conference room. Some doctors and nurses on duty gathered around. What is more interesting than listening to the news is... several people listen to the news together, and then everyone expresses their opinions on the events, knowledge, and notices in it, with a sense of commanding national affairs. After the news is over, most people continue to do what they should do.
In the survivor area, in a large matchbox building, He Xiao led his 55 students to listen to the radio on the table. "All of our classmates should develop the habit of listening to the news every day. Children who yawn are not well behaved!"
These children actually don’t have a clear understanding of the end of the world. They only know that there are man-eating monsters outside and they can’t go out casually. After He Xiao and her students were rescued by the Corpse Killing Team, they were placed here. After hearing their stories, Shen Jin specially built a large matchbox for them as a dormitory and distributed some food. Otherwise, these children... would not be able to survive at all.
He Xiao, this strong female teacher, is like a mother of 55 children. She not only has to teach these children knowledge, but also has to teach them the principles of the end of the world. To understand this world, one has to start by listening to the radio!
In most places in Home No. 1, everyone stayed in their own residences, lying on the bed, holding their mobile phones and listening to the radio.
Home No. 1 has electricity supply and local area network coverage, and these modern people quickly picked up the habit of playing with mobile phones, even though the mobile phones do not have many functions.
Qi Tong was lying in bed with her phone in her arms. She turned on the 66.6 frequency band radio. The phone made a "hissing" sound. There was still some time before the news started. "Ding! Kaikai sent a message!"
Qi Tong frowned. Every night, Zhao Mingkai would come to her for awkward chats. Qi Tong didn't want to pay attention to him, but since they were all in the same team and had a cooperative relationship, she couldn't just ignore him. Today, she didn't know what kind of cheesy love words he said again.
Kaikai: "Tongtong, I like you very much, but I don't want to be with you!"
Oh? Then why have you been harassing me every day for so many days? Are you playing hard to get?
Qi Tong smiled. Such childish tricks did not arouse her curiosity at all. She could see through them at once. She was not in a hurry to reply and wanted to see Zhao Mingkai's next performance.
Sure enough, Zhao Mingkai's messages popped up one by one. Kaikai: "Because I'm a little tired. It seems that you don't look very happy every day in the end times!"
Kaikai: "Every time I look for you, you always say you are unhappy and don't want to chat. I ask you to watch a movie on TV or go out for a walk, but you won't come out. I can't do anything about you!"
Kaikai: "Tongtong, I really like you, and I want you to give me this opportunity to protect you and warm you, so that you can be happier every day, instead of only being able to communicate online at night. I am also very unhappy!"
Kaikai: "Why don't you give me a chance? What's wrong with me?"
After sending these messages, Zhao Mingkai nervously waited for Qi Tong's reply. He learned a trick from a handsome boy in the Corpse Killing Team: retreat to advance and launch a gentle offensive.
Zhao Mingkai felt that what he said was sincere and Qi Tong could understand what he meant. It was mainly because after the end of the world, Zhao Mingkai had been with Qi Tong. The more he looked at her, the more he liked her and he had always wanted her. As a result, he was now completely infatuated with Qi Tong and could not stand other women at all .
Suddenly, Qi Tong's avatar moved and she sent a message!
Zhao Mingkai clicked it excitedly. Qi Tong: "You think through me!"
Zhao Mingkai quickly replied: "Tongtong, don't talk about whether it's clear or not. We have known each other for such a long time. Have I ever been around other women? I have always been serious about you, right? What are you talking about now? I want to know you clearly? As a superhuman, what kind of woman do I want?"
Qi Tong: "You can't see through me!"
Qi Tong: "You are anxious!"
Kaikai: "I said I really like you, think whatever you want, you always think so badly of me!"
Kaikai: "You didn't listen to all I said, did you?"
Kaikai: "Now you ask your roommate to go out first, I'll go find you and talk to you in person, okay? I beg you, I don't want to be just friends like now, I want to take care of you, your pretending to be strong really makes me feel distressed!"
Qi Tong: "You're addicted to criticizing!"
Qi Tong: "You want to penetrate me right now!"
Kaikai: “…”
Zhao Mingkai felt a toothache. Why was this woman so stubborn and kept making random guesses?
Damn... your guess is so accurate!
Today is another day of failed attempts to capture Qi Tong. Zhao Mingkai has gotten used to it. This has been happening for a month in a row. But the more Qi Tong behaves like this, the more he likes it. He likes Qi Tong's...straightforward nature.
“Ssssssss! Cough cough!”
The broadcast began, and everyone's attention was focused on the living area on the second floor of the villa. Shen Jin led everyone to listen to today's broadcast, because Tianluodiwang wanted to explain the reason why the zombies completed their evolution in unison.
"Hello, dear listeners and friends. Today, the China Tianluodiwang exclusive channel brings you the evening news. First of all, friends who are listening to the radio, please be sure to find a safe place. Zombies are less active at night and generally do not move easily. Make sure there are no zombies standing around..."
"Today's latest satellite observation data: Currently, the remaining population in our country has dropped to 8%. The number of zombies has dropped significantly in this month. Extraordinary people from all over the country need to unite and fight against the zombies together!"
"Today I will mainly answer everyone's questions about the evolution of all zombies this evening. Fellow citizens who want to ask questions about this issue, please do not call the Tianluodiwang hotline. I will give you a unified answer here..."
After a pause, the sound of turning a script came from the radio, and then the host continued: "Although we cannot produce an effective vaccine for the zombie virus, our research on the zombie virus has been ongoing. We try to translate its genetic code to find a way to control it, but... the genetic code of the zombie virus does not match all the existing genetic coding data on the earth. It is a completely new form of code, and we need to translate it from scratch!"
"During the translation process , our scientists discovered a strange phenomenon. A section of the zombie virus gene is constantly changing, like... a progress bar, constantly decreasing. It's not just one zombie, but zombies across the country and around the world. The progress of this gene is the same. When this gene is reduced to the final end, a new gene is activated. Through comparison, we found that... the newly activated gene is the inducing gene that causes zombie evolution. So, we came to a conclusion: the zombie virus gene naturally carries a time lock. When a certain time is reached, it will enter the next stage. Just like the most sophisticated instrument, no matter how the zombie virus mutates in the world, this gene exists in every zombie!"
"And the day when the time lock on the zombies will run out... is today! Not only our Tianluodiwang, but also other extraordinary research institutions in the world have reached the same conclusion after multiple video conferences. It has indeed come true today..."
"The zombie virus has a time lock, and... there is more than one. Today we studied the latest zombie virus and found... that the second time lock has begun to move. It is estimated to reach the end in 180 days. The next gene that is activated is similar to the unique gene of the first-order evolved zombies!"
"So, in half a year, we humans will most likely face the first-order evolved zombies all over the world..."
"The above is the most likely conclusion that the Dragnet Bureau and the Federal Academy of Sciences can draw. Fellow citizens... Although we are still in trouble now and zombies have become more difficult to kill, this is still the easiest time to kill zombies. In the future, the challenges facing mankind will escalate again!"
"During the next six months, please all of you fellow countrymen, please throw yourself into the battle against the zombies, activate your extraordinary powers, and let us Chinese... fight to the death!"
The broadcast ended here and no other programs were played. After 5 minutes, the previous segment was repeated.
Time lock...
This news spread throughout China. During the past six months of the apocalypse, humans had gradually become adept at fighting zombies. Even ordinary people could pick up weapons to fight ordinary zombies, and the extraordinary people were continuing to clear out the zombies. In this month, a large number of zombie vacuum zones appeared across the country, and a large number of civilian settlements emerged. The production of "genetic drugs" by Tianluodiwang continued to increase, the number of extraordinary people in local government offices increased, and the areas that could be controlled were further improved. Everything was moving in a good direction, so much so that the survivors were full of hope for defeating the zombies. However, today's news from Tianluodiwang once again shocked everyone.
The evolution of all zombies, today is not an end, but the starting point of the next round of zombie evolution. In half a year, as long as half a year, the zombies' time lock will be completed, and they will all become first-order evolved zombies, the kind of zombies that can crush the existence of first-order extraordinary people. Only second-order extraordinary people can be said to be superior to first-order evolved zombies. How many second-order extraordinary people can there be in China?
Shen Jin looked at the people around him and fell into deep thought...
