Chapter 797 Prelude to the zombie tide, countdown to return!
The mighty Longlong Fairy River runs through the entire wasteland.
The weather in December was already slightly cold, and the breeze on the river was blowing with a chill that made people shrink from their necks.
However, as the most unsuitable season for travel, it is also the winter when all living creatures subconsciously take a rest.
On the Longlin River.
A fleet that stretches for several miles is moving forward resolutely, and the crew members who can be seen everywhere have changed into thick and warm cotton clothes.
Hundreds of small boats were at the head, and hundreds of large ships were at the tail.
Compared with when the fleet first set off three months ago, the large and small ships in the Tianyuan fleet are no longer as new as before as they continue to sail and fight.
Undisguised patches and scars can already be seen on the exterior of most ships.
Even on the tail of the main cruiser in the center of the fleet, an obvious dark gap can be seen, which has not yet been repaired.
But it is precisely because of this that the entire fleet has become less flashy and more composed.
It has lost the elegance it once had, and now has a frightening ferocity.
Ship deck.
Somo picked up a cup of hot ginger tea sent by the guard, leaned against the railing and took a sip. The tea with a strong ginger flavor went straight down his throat, bringing with it a comfortable warmth.
There is no reference for time during the voyage, and it passes extremely quickly. It often takes three to five days to reach the destination on a single voyage.
After more than three months, he had used various means to smooth out two-thirds of the way down the Changlong Xianjiang River from Tianyuan territory.
Now we are not far away from the destination of this trip, the Longwei River at the end.
It will take more than a month at most to completely complete all the tasks of this trip and open up this trade route.
and.
Along the way, whenever he arrived at a new place, the first thing he did was to try his best to find out all kinds of information.
From the most common information about previous refuges, to slightly valuable information about excavation of ruins, to all kinds of mineral resources, natural resources, and energy resources.
It doesn’t matter whether it has been excavated, whether it has had an owner during this period, or whether it has already lost its previous value.
Relying on the trading point to open the way, Soma has now collected hundreds of pieces of information about the ruins, and even more about minerals, rare and exotic treasures, etc.
Not only that, relying on the increasingly powerful influence during the fleet's journey, he will also see novel technologies in various territories along the way, and use various means to exchange, buy, and rob them all.
Anything that would benefit the development of the territory, anything that had some potential, Sumo would take it all in, and he would print copies of them without missing a single one and put them into his pocket.
Today, the number of these technologies is close to fifty, and the categories involved are as many as hundreds.
Although these technologies are still a bit unsatisfactory compared to the technologies used by Yusanjia to dominate the market.
Moreover, the game may not necessarily let him take back all the gains at the end of the ruins mission.
But this level is already the limit of what he can do.
The next step is to start completing various tasks assigned by the game and try to get your score as high as possible to get better rewards.
As he drank the hot tea in the cup, he recovered his thoughts and softly exhaled a breath of hot breath, forming a small pale white circle in the air.
Compared with the information he collected, he was actually more concerned about how adventurer terminals were made in the Adventurer League.
After understanding the power of the ocean and further testing it with Xing Yue along the way.
As for the Adventurer Terminal, he is now 100% sure that this tenfold is definitely using a power similar to the power of the ocean.
Only this kind of power can open space and store items in it.
According to the news from the Adventurer League headquarters that Sumo has been trying to find out over the past three months, the production of the terminal is actually not at the same place as the location where the mission is released.
He wanted to find the production location of this device, which could not be found in the three major territories, and obtain the production materials inside.
Extremely difficult!
Unless...the other party comes to you on his own!
Creak.
There was a sound of a hatch opening on the deck, coming from the left side, attracting Somo's attention.
"Commander Su, our Tianyuan fleet is already approaching the Fu'an United Territory. According to previously detected information, although a dock has been spontaneously built here to accommodate us, the blood epidemic in their territory has become very serious.
It's starting to spread outward. Do you think we should get out of the way?" Zhang Long, director of the Fleet Data Integration Department, came over with a thick book of information.
Liu Neng, the minister in charge of personnel coordination behind him, was not slow and also emerged from the opened door.
"Fu'an United Territory is actually a temporary camp with a current population of about 30,000 people. It was a temporary territory formed after the collision of more than a dozen small territories. According to our intelligence, 60% of the people inside it are already
People are suffering from blood plague, and the situation is not optimistic. The threat level is currently rated as orange-red."
"Is it already this serious?"
Along the way, Sumo left most of the navigation tasks to Lu Yongyi because he had to collect all kinds of information.
Including the blood epidemic that was gradually raging, he only heard about it and didn't really take it to heart.
Now after listening to the two people's report, he began to frown and took the information, sitting on a raised place on the deck and reading through it.
"The blood epidemic transmission channel is currently unknown, and there are three known channels."
"First, it is transmitted through blood. Once a small amount of blood is exchanged, the disease will immediately take root in the new host."
"Second, it is transmitted through gases. Bodies that died of blood plague infection cannot be burned, but can only be buried. Once burned, blood plague gas will be produced, and if inhaled into the mouth and nose, the disease will be infected."
"Third, liquid transmission. Drinking a large amount of liquid mixed with the blood of an infected person can also be a target for the disease to take root."
The beginning of the material introduces in detail the general infection route of blood plague and its symptoms after onset.
In the early stage, infected people only have an urge for flesh and blood and have an uncontrollable desire to hunt.
In the mid-term, the infected person's body will decline rapidly, begin to suffer from extensive organ failure, and then complications will develop.
In the later stages, the infected person's blood will gradually decrease and gradually degenerate into a mummy until death.
"So scary?"
Su Mo was shocked and quickly continued to read the information below.
It's already early December, and there are still about five months until the zombie wave arrives.
But before that, why did a blood epidemic suddenly appear? Isn't this...
etc...
Looking through the various cases collected later, an idea flashed in Sumohu's mind.
"Could it be that...?!"
People infected with the blood plague will be unable to restrain their desire to attack and try to attack others.
And after the same kind of people are attacked and exchange blood, they will also be infected into new blood plague receptors.
This is very similar to the so-called main force of zombies in the upcoming zombie crisis.
And if you look at it aside from the mid-term and late stages, this so-called blood epidemic is just like the prelude to the zombie tide!
If it is not controlled, the corpse tide may not arrive before it arrives.
The number of humans must first be reduced by at least half!
"Over there in the territory, what about the research on blood plague?"
"Blood plague cannot be cured. Unless the infected individual undergoes a systemic blood transfusion within a short period of time and all the old blood is replaced, there is a slight possibility of recovery. All other methods can only delay the onset of disease and the degree of pain."
Being stared at by Su Mo, Liu Neng felt a little hairy all over his body.
"But a few days ago, the Academy of Sciences has researched and formulated a blood plague inhibitor, which can greatly delay the life of infected people and reduce the pain caused by the disease. After we received the formula and produced it, the infected people on the ship were also
The treatment effect has been verified and it is indeed very good.”
"Take me to see" Sumo stood up without hesitation.
If the blood plague is really the prelude to the outbreak of zombies, then if these infected people are left on the ship, wouldn't they turn into bombs at any time?
It is unclear where Connie, who was once assigned by him to study the virus, has been in the past eight years.
There is no way to see or hear what disaster happened in the wasteland in the second year, and whether the so-called zombie disaster broke out.
Sumo was extremely cautious and soon followed the two of them to the medical room in the cruiser's cabin.
"Commander, please put on this protective suit, just in case."
It is said to be a medical room, but in fact it has become a small prison, with arm-thick steel bars outside to block all places where one can escape.
Putting on the heavy black protective clothing handed over by the medical staff, Sumo coughed lightly and strode in.
Entering the nose, there is a strong smell of disinfectant.
There are many beds in the medical room, and at a glance, it can be seen that there are over a hundred people.
After taking the so-called inhibitors, these people were still in good spirits. Before they noticed that he came in, there were many people playing cards and chatting.
It wasn't until the door opened that he stood up and greeted him respectfully.
"How do you feel physically? Do you feel anything strange?"
Walking to bed No. 1, which had been infected the longest, Sumo sat down and looked at the middle-aged man with a sallow complexion.
It's better than expected. Compared with the zombies I saw on the train before, these people obviously still have complete sanity.
This made Sumo feel slightly relieved.
"Commander, apart from being very thirsty and always wanting to drink blood, I don't have any other feelings."
"Yes, yes, I still want to fight with someone, but I always feel dissatisfied with the other person..." He touched his head nonchalantly, but the man did not dare to lie, and honestly explained all his symptoms.
"What about you, how do you feel?" Sumo looked at bed No. 2 again.
The infected person is a strong woman. Compared with the middle-aged man, her complexion is much better, and she seems to have a slight blush.
When Su Mo asked, the woman shook her head repeatedly: "Commander, I don't have the same feelings as Lao Liu, I just..."
"Just what?" Seeing the woman squirming, Sumo asked repeatedly.
"Uh...I...uh...desire...no, the demand in that area has increased a lot."
hiss...
Seeing the woman's brows through the protective clothing, Sumo shuddered quickly and walked to the hospital bed in the back.
This blood epidemic is too strange. Doesn’t everyone have different symptoms?
"Commander, I also want to drink blood, and I have always had an irrepressible urge to run out and keep jumping. Look at my legs, they have strengthened a lot recently. I feel like I can jump three meters high now!"
"Commander, I want to eat meat. They said that my metabolism has become very fast and I must always take in high calories. But look at me, my strength has become great now. I can easily lift a 60kg dumbbell.
loose"
"Commander, I want to drink blood and eat meat. My changes are not obvious physically, but I feel that my brain is much smarter than before. Do you think my head is much bigger than before?"
"Commander, I'm so thirsty. I drink more than ten or twenty liters of fresh water every day. I only weighed one hundred and ninety pounds before, but now...it's three hundred and ninety pounds now, and...and mine.
The skin becomes rougher and thicker..."
"commander..."
Time passed little by little.
Soma kept walking back and listened to these people's explanations of their symptoms.
Compared with the people who contracted the blood plague according to the data, most of the people who were treated in the medical cabin were in good condition.
No one died without treatment, and no one was in so much pain that he couldn't get out of bed.
But the more he heard about these different symptoms, the colder Somo's heart became.
Nothing else.
The more diverse the symptoms of a disease, the less likely it is to be completely treated.
Hundreds of people, more than 30 different symptoms.
This alone shows how difficult this blood epidemic is.
And if these people who gain different abilities become members of the zombie wave in the future...
Su Mo walked out of the medical cabin with a sullen face, took off his protective clothing, and walked non-stop to the cabin where Lu Yongyi was.
Sure enough, I still underestimated the difficulty of the zombie wave in the mission.
This kind of world-destroying disaster will obviously come in five months.
But now, a clue has emerged.
Calculated based on the remaining time of the voyage, at least three of the remaining five months will be wasted.
With only two months left, even if it was close to the upper limit of human biology, Sumo was not sure that he would be able to develop a way to overcome the blood epidemic in such a short period of time.
"It seems that I have to return early. I must find the adventurer terminal technology as soon as possible and return to the territory to study ways to fight the blood epidemic."
"Complete the mission and get the reward. Only then can I take back the things I found."
"If you can't finish it, you can only take the minimum living allowance, and you can't take away the armor. It would be a big loss if you can't take away the other things..."
Go all the way up.
Sumo's first thought was to find a way to find Connie, the dark child who was researching anti-zombie viruses at the time.
On the surface, he established a laboratory underground in Magu Shelter and put Yan Xiaqing in charge of researching the antidote.
But in fact, Connie, who was secretly sent out, was not idle either, and was also tasked with research.
If it is determined that this blood epidemic is related to the previous zombie virus, then there must be something in common between the two, and a lot of research procedures can be omitted.
It's just that I've searched through the territories on the game panel and can't find any information about Connie.
There is no accurate information on where the remaining alien races have fled to.
If you want to find it, you still have to...
"The Adventurers Alliance, it seems that we are going to risk our lives again!"
"Fortunately, Lao Lu is here. He will be responsible for the rest of the fleet's journey. I can rest assured that the fleet will sail without delay."
Su Mo felt certain, pushed open the door of Lu Yongyi's cabin and walked in.
...
Fu'an United Territory.
Temporary pier.
Earlier, when the Tianyuan fleet went all the way down the Changlong Xianjiang River, it actually needed to send its own people to build a docking dock.
Very few territories would send manpower and material resources to build facilities in order to welcome the arrival of this obviously aggressive fleet.
But as the three major battles were settled.
After the Tianyuan Fleet relied on its own strength to break up six large territories.
The situation has gradually changed!
When more and more people saw the strength of the Tianyuan fleet and saw the changes in the benefits gained by those territories they passed along the way.
From fearing the arrival of the fleet, to looking forward to the arrival of the fleet.
It only took a month, and most civilians even went to build the dock spontaneously, just hoping that the Tianyuan fleet would come over soon.
"Brother Xun, do you think we can be the first to trade with Mr. Su?"
Watching countless ships approaching from a distance, a group of children led by Zhou Xun crowded nervously at the front of the pier.
They looked at the mighty Tianyuan cruiser, their eyes exuding expectation and envy from the inside out.
"Of course, I have collected a lot of information, Master Su will definitely be interested!"
Zhou Xun spoke confidently, with a hint of cunning flashing in his eyes.
Unlike ordinary people in the camp, his way of learning information is not limited to word of mouth.
Relying on the device he got by accident, he could even communicate with people at long distances, and he had already figured out Mr. Su's preferences.
As long as the fleet stops, he will rush up immediately, there will be no problem.
unless...
"Brother Xun, the speed of the fleet doesn't seem to have slowed down. They..."
Pointing at the small ships that had passed by in front of them, some people couldn't help but roared in the air, their eyes excited.
However, many people suddenly discovered that the fleet's route still remained on the center line, with no intention of stopping at all.
"Don't worry, they will definitely leave room for Mr. Su's car."
Zhou Xun comforted those around him and comforted himself.
Along the way, the fleet stopped in the territory of thousands of people. There are 30,000 people in their Fu'an United Territory. There is no reason to stop!
As long as the Tianyuan cruiser stops, as long as it stops.
Staring at the tall ship with the blue and red military flag, Zhou Xun kept mumbling in his mouth and praying in his heart.
However.
When the ship sailed past the pier without any hesitation, it kept a cold attitude and sailed past the pier.
When more and more people around us shouted "stop", some even knelt on the ground and kowtowed to pray for the other party to stop.
Only then did he suddenly realize.
Fate made a joke with everyone present, hope turned out not to belong to anyone present.
Everything he did, everything he worked for.
Facing the cruel reality, just like ordinary people facing a blood epidemic, there is nothing they can do!