Chapter 52: (two more)
"I met your teacher."
Confronted with the question, Tang Xiao answered in general terms, "In some...maybe not very common sense."
There is a very routine rule in the real game world, that is, players are not allowed to disclose the existence of the game and the system.
Although even if she didn't say it, Chen Guang and the others would give full play to their imagination and automatically imagine a set of logical and complete backgrounds and reasons, and Zou Yiduo in front of him obviously did the same.
He showed an epiphany expression, in addition to shock, there was a bit of awe and sadness in his eyes.
"I see..." he said in a lost voice, "You don't need to explain, I understand."
He held the Pixiu necklace around his neck, "Although I am engaged in a scientific career, I always believe that there are more areas that we have not been able to reach outside the existing scientific field. Human evolution has also allowed these areas to be developed in advance..."
Tang Xiao: "…"
If she guessed right, the young man thinks she has hit a ghost.
Forget it, just hit the ghost. She had the right to acquiesce, and let Zou Yiduo speak to herself in relief.
"Sister Xiao," he suddenly asked, his tone much softer, "Teacher, what does he look like?"
"Don't get me wrong," he added quickly, "I don't doubt you, I just want to know about the teacher's current situation..."
Tang Xiao: "…"
If she heard correctly, he called her Sister Xiao.
Chen Guang and Fat Zhou are only nineteen years old, so it’s okay to call her sister, but Zou Yiduo is obviously twenty-five years old, a few years older than her, and she is also diligently called Sister, why does she feel that something is not right?
Tang Xiao said politely: "How old are you this year?"
Zou Yiduo immediately replied, "I'm twenty-seven, what's wrong, sister?"
He is a self-acquaintance, and once he is used to talking, he can't stop, "Actually, I really did not expect that you are so powerful and so young. The teacher said that the younger you are, you may become an evolutionary person. The higher the probability. If I give birth four or five years later, maybe I can." He sighed enviously, "You mean, sister?"
Tang Xiao: "…"
Okay, it won't hurt to be called anyway.
Suppressing some strange premonitions, she recalled the experience on the second floor of the experimental building.
"I haven't met your teacher in person," she said honestly, "I only learned a lot about him from the side. He is optimistic, tenacious, and a respectable person. I hope the living people can protect this world well. There, I also saw his last creation, He Shou Wu."
Hearing Tang Xiao's statement, Zou Yiduo's eyes turned red again, and there were faint tears in his eyes. When he heard He Shouwu, he quickly asked, "What is He Shouwu like?"
Tang Xiao: "It is a very, very creative robot. The function is also very powerful, but we have a short contact time, so the functions developed are relatively simple."
Zou Yiduo nodded again and again, "If the teacher can really develop Polygonum multiflorum, it must be like this."
He thought for a while, wiped his face, and said sincerely, "Thank you."
Tang Xiao can clearly feel that if he was wary of them at first, he has lowered a lot now, at least he will no longer look at her quietly with fear.
The car restarted, and Fat Zhou finally woke up. The first thing he woke up was to touch his face, "I didn't turn into a zombie, did I?"
Finding that he was still in a human state, he was relieved. Just as he was about to laugh at them, he spit out a big mouthful, and spit it all on the mat.
"It should be the effect of medicine." Tang Xiao explained. She looked at Fat Zhou and apologized frantically, and told Chen Guang and Chen Lingling, who was helping him to clean up, not to worry, and the knot of her brows became even tighter unconsciously.
From here to the capital, it takes at least two days and two nights to drive, can Fat Week survive until then?
[Ding, system announcement: Zhaixing City and the surrounding areas have been infected by the virus, and the resurrection point of this map is invalid. 】
[Ding, system announcement: Chaiyang City and surrounding areas have been infected with virus contributions, and the resurrection point of this map will be invalid. 】
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It has been a day and a night since the corpse tide in Star City, and the system sends out prompts one after another.
In 24 hours, three resurrection points have been declared invalid. Players who died in these areas are randomly transferred to other resurrection points to be resurrected.
Indeed, when the battlefield was opened, the game rules issued by the system clearly stated that there are ten resurrection points in the entire apocalyptic world, distributed in ten maps. Points will be void.
However, until more than a month after the start of the battlefield, no map was completely broken, so that players thought the process was very slow, but they did not expect that the situation changed overnight and was beaten. Was caught off guard.
"There is a large-scale corpse tide in the south, and these corpse tides will not disappear until all places with living people are emptied. So far, nearly one-third of the area has been devastated. It is expected that the casualties that have already been caused will cause a greater blow to the situation that is already not optimistic. The specific data is being counted, and there is no accurate result yet."
Capital Base, in a heavily guarded conference room, several leaders in uniform are discussing.
The projector keeps projecting pictures of different regions, these are all data from the branch forces, but the people who sent the data have been sacrificed forever.
"The scientific research department is urgently studying the cause of the corpse tide. So far, there have been three different opinions. I believe that everyone has a general understanding. As for the details, we will explain in detail later. "
Standing in front of the display screen was a middle-aged man in his forties, he had a pair of eagle-like eyes, scanning the audience, "Anyway, a serious situation It's in front of us. I think the plan needs to be recalibrated."
A voice came from the seat, "Compared to the plan, I think it is more urgent that we need to know the regularity and movement direction of the corpse tide. And, will this situation come from the south? Spread to the north, and if it will, when, how, and how we can prevent it."
The person who spoke was a general who was over fifty years old, his face was tense, and his fists tapped the table vigorously, "This kind of situation must not occur in the capital. Once it occurs, The last remaining strength of our nation will be burned to the ground!"
The audience was silent. From the current data, it can be seen that all cities with large-scale corpse tides have a 100% occupation rate. No one dares to gamble on the survival of the capital.
"I propose to close the land and air passages used to accommodate refugees in the capital, implement a per capita responsibility system, strictly control population movements, and strictly prevent the possibility of a large spread of any source of infection!"
"From my personal point of view, there are three different reasons for the emergence of the corpse tide."
Outside the gas station, Zou Yiduo held a coffee cup in his mouth, stuck the paper on the wall, and drew on it. He hadn't slept all day. He was either driving or analyzing the situation to collect information. He finally had a short free time before he could eat something.
Chen Guang was refueling the car, Chen Lingling simply cleaned the body that was so dirty that the original color could not be seen, Fat Zhou was still sleeping, because of continuous vomiting and diarrhea, and a splitting headache. Unable to move, he can only replenish his stamina by sleeping and eating. Of course, due to lack of appetite, the food was almost fed by Chen Guang.
Tang Xiao was in charge of cleaning up the nearby zombies. When he came back after clearing it, he saw Zou Yiduo writing and drawing here. Looking closely, it turned out to be the distribution map of zombie activities and zombie tides.
"There is no more data now, so I can only draw a simple picture." He smiled embarrassedly, pointed to the graph on the paper and explained carefully: "The first possibility is that there are similar Because of the existence of the leader. This leader may not be in any of the currently known mutants, who control the rest of the zombies like the mother of the zerg, while creating a corpse tide to 'sweep'."
"The second possibility is that the corpse tide is caused by human activities. Changes in some biological or geographical environment will cause changes in the magnetic field. When the magnetic field changes to a certain extent, it will cause a large number of Infected people gather. Given that this often occurs at night, it can be assumed that the peak occurs at night, and the solar activity changes the magnetic field to disperse the body tide."
After he finished speaking, he pursed his lips, "Actually, compared to these two, I prefer the third reason."
Tang Xiao: "What is the third?"
Zou Yiduo drew a few strokes on the paper, and then sketched, "Sister Xiao, what do you think this looks like?"
Tang Xiao: "…Twist?"
Zou Yiduo: "QAQ"
"Okay." Knowing that he couldn't draw a twist inexplicably, Tang Xiao stopped teasing him, looked at it carefully, and judged: "Gene chain?"
"That's right!" Zou Yiduo happily clapped his hands and flattened the paper cup. He drew the exact same pattern again, "Assume this is a human gene, and this is a virus-infecting gene."
"We already know that zombies will evolve, but our previous knowledge was limited to the individual evolution of zombies, but what if the evolution of virus genes is not only reflected in individuals?"
Tang Xiao: "You mean, zombies have evolved group consciousness?"
Zou Yiduo: "No no no, that's not what I meant. I mean, in a popular concept, what if it's not the zombies that have the group consciousness, but the genes themselves?"
"If you think of the competition between genes as a war. The earth is their main battlefield. As an aggressor, the virus gene must want to achieve unique dominance, so it needs to eliminate all opposition to it. There is a threat, and even to achieve its purpose, it will manipulate all subjects to act along the same goal."
He drew a huge circle on the drawing, covering all the patterns, "So I think that the corpse tide is probably the result of virus gene selection, and its purpose is to feel When in danger, destroy everything that may pose a threat!"