The Walking Dead: Rebuild

Chapter 142 Fungal Viruses
Da da da!Da da da!
Under the dim light, it was impossible to see the enemy dozens of meters away. Under the urging of the boss, the wolf boys could only bite the bullet and divided into two waves to chase the two armored men.

However, they soon discovered what suppression of vision is. The enemy was hiding in the darkness and could attack at will. However, they could not accurately determine the enemy's position. They could only guess based on the flames coming from the enemy's muzzle and attack randomly. .

And for some reason, even though they also hid in the darkness together, the armored man still saw their position and attacked accurately.

What makes the wolf boys even more desperate is that even if they are lucky and the bullets they shoot hit the armored man's body, they will be bounced off by the armored man's special armor and cannot cause any harm to them at all. I can only watch them take away one by one, the lives of the companions around me.

After a few minutes, the battle in the darkness grew quiet.

The boss of the wolf clan was holding an automatic rifle and cautiously approached the battlefield where the two sides were fighting, hoping to launch a sneak attack while the other party was fighting with his younger brother.

But he soon discovered that like the other boys, he could not determine the location of the enemy. Seeing a dozen boys being killed at a speed visible to the naked eye, his mood became even more manic, and his few intelligence is consumed quickly.

Finally, when he saw that the only master lockpick among his men, Andy, was shot in the head by a bullet that came from nowhere.

The one-eyed man completely fell into a rage. He picked up an automatic rifle that was left behind after the death of his subordinate. He held two rifles in his left and right hands, pouring firepower into the darkness while rushing towards the enemy as fast as he could. , where the armored man is.

However, when he finally got closer to the opponent, he was less than 20 meters away.

bang.

What greeted him was a shock bomb that flew towards his upper body.

Ding! ! !
There was a loud noise that shook his soul. The one-eyed man felt as if his brain had been hit hard by a hammer. His eyes were dark, his head was buzzing, and blood seemed to be flowing out of his ears. He lost all control of his body in an instant. Control.

Then, with a snap, he fell to the ground and fell into a coma.

As the boss of the wolf tribe fell into a coma, the alley leading to the weapon warehouse entered a brief silence.

After more than ten seconds, Jasmine and Lao Li walked out of the darkness. Their movements were still slow and unhurried. They walked up to each of the killed wolf clan members and skillfully used daggers to destroy their brains and cut off their brains. The possibility of them turning into zombies.

Finally, the wolf boss, who was stunned by the shock bomb, was dragged under the light.

After glancing at the messy alley with corpses everywhere, Jasmine's expression didn't change at all. She shouted in the direction she came from:
"Come on, Diana, it's safe here."

"Come here, all of you."

As soon as the words fell, in a corner in the distance, Diana came over with a pistol and three men in their prime. As they trotted, they carefully observed the dozen corpses on the ground, looking at Jasmine and The looks in Lao Li's eyes became more awe-inspiring and submissive.

Along the way, they saw these two strange warriors killing each other and killing each other. They killed more than 20 intruders in less than ten minutes.

It simply exceeded their understanding of modern warfare.

Jasmine looked at the four of them, pointed to the guns next to the corpses of the wolf clan members on the ground, and said:
"Diana, distribute these weapons to your residents, it's time to fight back."

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Early the next morning, while Leon was still handling official business in the office, he received a communication request from Jasmine.

Holding a cup of coffee, he enjoyed Avril's massage service. After listening to Jasmine's narration, he asked:
"Alexander Community?"

“This community wants to ally with us?”

"Yes, Your Excellency the President."

Jasmine's voice was still so calm and calm, completely different from the wild and active tone when the two of them came into contact at a distance.

"Their leader is Diana, who used to be a politician in Ohio. Although her character is a little naive, she is quite reasonable."

Although Leon knew a lot about the Alexandria community in his heart, he couldn't show his prophecy, so he asked:

"Jasmine, tell me all the information you know."

"You should know that not everyone is qualified to form an alliance with our people."

"Yes, Your Excellency the President."

Jasmine paused for more than ten seconds and seemed to organize some words before saying:
"The Alexander community is not large, with only about 100 people."

"However, after yesterday's attack by a predator group called the Wolf Clan, they have lost more than 20 people, and some others have suffered varying degrees of injuries."

"This community has adopted a policy of isolation and solitude since the beginning of the apocalypse. It has been living in a fence made of steel plates. It basically has no experience of fighting against predators and zombies."

"According to my observation, apart from their population and relatively favorable community environment, they don't have much value."

"However, because it was originally a resort community prepared for the rich, most of the residents in the Alexandria community are peacetime elites, doctors, lawyers, university lecturers, financial people, etc."

"But I feel like this community is too under-equipped to survive alone in this apocalyptic world."

"If we leave it alone, they may disappear automatically in less than a year."

Leon nodded. Now the Rick team in the plot has joined the Human League. Without this team, the Alexandria community is like an exposed piece of fat. Really, anyone can take a bite.

Whether it was out of the power of developing the People's Alliance or out of love for the original characters, he felt that the Alexandria community should be given a chance.

Thinking this, Leon cleared his throat and said:
"With the current situation of the Alexandria community, they are not qualified to be our allies, because allies are entities that can provide help to each other, not unilateral charity. They do not have this ability."

"You can tell Ms. Diana that we can establish trade relations with the Alexandria community, exchange what we need, and share intelligence to a certain extent."

"Of course, Jasmine, you can also tell that lady that their best choice is to join our People's Federation and become one of us."

"In this way, we can ensure their life safety, provide them with a safe living environment, and let them live under the light of civilization and order."

After Jasmine understood what Leon meant, she stopped discussing the affairs of the Alexandria community with him. Instead, she told him that she had found the petroleum engineer Rob.

Leon was very happy about the news and immediately praised Jasmine and promised to give her some rewards afterwards.

After all, no one in the entire People's Federation organization is good at talent in the field of oil extraction.

Now that a professional talent in this field has finally arrived, we must make good use of him.

He immediately decided to send a helicopter to pick up old man Rob and his family, gather people, and start oil industrial production as soon as possible.

After all, it will take less than a year or two for all the gasoline and diesel in the world to completely deteriorate. By then, all fuel engines will be turned into scrap metal.

Both airplanes and cars will no longer be usable, and surviving humans will have to rely on legs or horses for transportation.

In that case, the entire world would be almost stuck at the technological level of the medieval period.

And if in another ten years, when all the gunpowder on the market has expired and the firearms and artillery have lost their effectiveness, then except for a few organizations that can complete industrial production, all human beings will have no choice but to enter the age of cold weapons.

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Seattle, Washington.

Under the apocalypse, zombies are rampant in Seattle. This once prosperous city has almost lost all its vitality, and there is a foul smell of decay everywhere.Whether it's the zombies that crowd the roads and are still wandering around, or the skeletons that can be seen everywhere, with only rotten flesh remaining, everything makes this place a hell on earth.

However, under this hell, under the city where countless zombies are rampant, a secret research center affiliated with the Freemasonry continues to be busy.

"Professor Charles, there seems to be a symbiotic reaction in Laboratory No. [-]."

"The radiant energy in the air is declining rapidly."

"The radioactive fungus is repairing the host's bodily functions."

When the bald professor named Charles heard the news, he immediately put down the human corpse he was dissecting and rushed into Laboratory No. [-] with a face filled with enthusiasm and excitement.

"Great, is the radiation fungus we cultivated really successful?"

In a sealed observation room in Laboratory No. [-], hundreds of zombies that were still mobile were stripped of their clothes, their limbs were tied, and they were tied to medical beds.

Their expressions were ferocious, their skin was pale with woody fibers, and their chests and brains were cut with huge holes. A spore-like fungus was parasitic in their blood vessels and internal organs, and was growing from their bodies. Slowly spread out from the wound.

A black iron box hangs from the ceiling in the center of this laboratory, and inside the iron box are stored radioactively contaminated nuclear materials.

The bald professor named Charles came to the operating platform of Laboratory No. [-] with a feverish expression. He kept flipping through the various information scrolling on the screen and mumbling to himself.

"Great, great."

"I made it, I made it."

"As long as this radioactive fungus is implanted in the human body, humans can survive in a radioactive environment without hindrance."

"No need to eat, no injuries, and can repair the damage caused by any disease to the human body."

"As long as the radiation fungi continue to proliferate and repair our bodies, we can fight against any disease, and we can even be immune to aging."

"As long as our radiation fungus is implanted, human beings can achieve immortality."

"Great, great."

While muttering to himself, Professor Charles ordered his researchers to put on protective clothing and enter Laboratory No. [-] to collect the radioactive fungi that reproduced in the corpses.

This is a special mutated fungus that he fused the DNA of various fungi, spawned in the zombie virus and radiation environment. It not only combines the characteristics of the zombie virus that can absorb radiation to provide energy, but also takes into account the parasitic ability of fungal organisms.

Unlike destructive zombie viruses, these radioactive fungi will form a symbiotic relationship with the host after entering the body.

In order to ensure the survival of the host, they will fill in the integrity of various organs and body tissues in the host's body in a very short period of time, allowing the host's life to survive. As long as these radiation fungi do not die, then the host they parasitize will We can also achieve eternal life together.

Professor Charles squinted his eyes and watched the radioactive fungi parasitizing the zombies being collected one by one by the researchers into the petri dishes. He couldn't help but start thinking in his mind.

As a biology expert who is not so valued among the Freemasons, he is now on the verge of developing a method for humans to evolve and become immortal earlier than Professor Manhattan, the most powerful professor in the institute.

Just complete a few more human experiments to make the radiation fungus more suitable for the structure of the human body.

Perhaps, soon, in the future new world created by Freemasonry, he, Charles, will be regarded as the greatest scientist in the new world and will be worshiped by all new humans.

Unfortunately, Professor Charles, who was not taken seriously by the Freemasons, did not notice that when the researchers harvested the radioactive fungi, countless extremely tiny, invisible fungal spores were attached to various parts of their protective clothing. Was taken out of Research Room No. [-].

This radioactive fungus, considered by Professor Charles to be the most powerful parasitic fungus in the world, has quietly begun to spread in Seattle without everyone's knowledge.

No one knows what kind of changes this mutated spore creature formed through artificial intervention will bring to a world that has long become desolate.

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Alexandria Community.

Three days have passed since the wolves invaded. This originally peaceful community has experienced being invaded by predators, resisting the invaders, burying relatives and friends, cleaning up corpses, repairing walls, and other tasks they have never done before. back.

Everyone's heart is filled with fatigue, fear, and sadness.

Carol and Lao Li had already led the soldiers back to their own stronghold of the People's Federation. Before leaving, out of a humanitarian spirit, they also helped the Alexandria community clean up the zombie swarms that had gathered due to the noise of the battle.

So currently, among the members of the People's Federation, only Jasmine is still in this community.

In this rescue operation, Jasmine and the others expended a lot of ammunition and energy. In addition to gaining the friendship of the Alexandria community, the biggest gain was the capture of sixteen wolf captives.

With these coolies at their disposal, the construction of the Kentucky stronghold will become easier in the future.

As for how the People's League gets along with the Alexandria community, it depends on the residents of this community.

At Diana's house, Jasmine was having lunch with them.

"Really? Is your organization unwilling to form an alliance with us?"

There was no expression on Jasmine's face, she picked up a glass of red wine, took a sip, and said:
"Yes, Ms. Deanna."

"Although we, the United Human Community, are a noble organization."

"But what we value is equal mutual assistance and exchange of equal value, not selfless dedication."

"President Leon told me that if you are unwilling to join our organization, then the only help we can provide is to open trade."

"You can use the resources or labor you have to exchange for the goods you need."

Deanna was somewhat silent when she heard this, while her youngest son Spencer whispered with some complaints:

"The world is like this, why can't we unite together and still have to worry about belonging."

Jasmine smiled contemptuously and said without any scruples:
"It is precisely because the world is difficult that we care more about the lives of our own people in the People's League."

“Instead of spending resources helping other people stay alive.”

"To be honest, if it wasn't for the kindness of the President, he was willing to shoulder the responsibility of reviving mankind and help those poor survivors."

"I don't care at all whether you live or die."

Tobin Sai originally wanted to have a few words with Jasmine, but when he saw the girl's cold eyes and her terrifying fighting power, he finally suppressed what he wanted to say.

Diana was silent for nearly a minute, and finally raised her head, looked at Jasmine and said:

"Ms. Jasmine, I hope to have the opportunity to go to your base in the near future to see what kind of organization the real People's Federation is."

"Only in this way can I have enough reasons to convince myself and the residents who believe in me."

(End of this chapter)