Word count: 5329Update time: 2013-01-01 20: 02: 00
Shane"s trump card allowed him to quickly regain his position as the union president. In the following time, the information of the various situations on the surface came flooding in like snowflakes. The severity of the situation had exceeded Sean"s expectations.
The first platoon had been wiped out, including a hundred men and Glenn, the captain of the team, who had the ability to reach the fifth step. It was a great loss for Remter, and Sean could not help but scold him for his stupidity. After receiving the surface formation report, Chownok refused to open the entrance to the base for soldiers and civilians. Of course, it was because he was afraid of death that he did not dare to do so. In fact, if the second and third platoons were used as cover when the zombies attacked, at least half of the soldiers and civilians would survive.
But it was too late for Theon to do so now. The first platoon was completely wiped out, and more than half of the civilians had died. The rest didn"t just hide in the wilderness. The living corpses had finished cleaning up the ground and were now in the siege phase. As Sean opened the entrance to the base, what awaited him wasn"t civilians but a large amount of living corpses. Naturally, he wouldn"t do such a stupid thing, but he gave Pera an order to send him to prison.
Then, an hour later, Theon gave a speech outside the Union Hall. Almost all the remaining two thousand citizens of Remter were present. Looking at the fl.u.s.tered faces, Theon said quietly to Pera, "These poor people need a savior."
Leaving the words ringing in her ears, Theon strode out of the union hall.
In the square outside the main hall, everyone"s eyes were on Sean. Sean stepped forward and said loudly, "My dear brothers and sisters, I believe you know what is happening right now. Yes, the home we love is being trampled by the dead. Just now, I had received exact figures. On the surface, all the soldiers in the first platoon had been killed overnight. They were respectable people, and they never left their posts, not even a second before death! In addition to them, more people were dying or dying. Amongst them, there may be relatives and friends. All of this shouldn"t be so bad. Even if we can"t save everyone, we can at least save a large portion of them. "Then, do you know why it became like this?"
The square was silent, the citizens staring blankly at Theon. Shane snapped his fingers, and the rattlesnake soldiers led him out. So when he was escorted out of the hall and saw Theon and the people in the square, he seemed to say something, but only a vague sound came from his mouth.
Shane pointed his cane at him and shouted, "That"s him, our honorable President." After receiving the ground troops" warning, not only did he not send out the second and third platoon to a.s.sist, he even gave the order to close the base"s pa.s.sageway. As a result, a large number of people on the ground had died. If the living corpses were the killers, then Jonok was the devil. A devil whose hands are stained with nearly ten thousand lives! "
The citizens were stunned. Listening to Sean"s words, they realized that their families and friends might be able to survive. All this hope, however, was stifled by a simple command from Chownok. And so …
"Demon!"
It was unknown who shouted in anger first, but following that, repeated sounds of punitive exclamations rose and fell. At the end of the day, if Theon"s soldiers had not kept order, he would have been torn to shreds by the angry men.
Sean raised his hand. "Quiet. Everyone, listen to me. I will give you a satisfactory answer for what Chownok has done, but now is not the time to convict him. We have more important things to do, and that is to defend our homeland. "
"I believe that many of those present were people who partic.i.p.ated in the construction of the Remter, and I am one of them." Theon gestured, and Pera followed. Through a few simple commands, the electronic screen in the union hall reflected the scene of the residential area on the surface. From the view of the screen, although there weren"t many living corpses, there were still living corpses wandering around. Then, Sean said, "At the beginning of the construction, due to defensive considerations, when I was designing this city, I had already secretly set up a tactical platform in the residential area. Once it was activated, they would form effective ground fire and could help us temporarily beat back the living corpses."
Hearing this news, the citizens became excited, and constantly shouted "Long live" to Shane. Shane had to signal them to quiet down again, and he added, "However, because of Chownok"s policy, the addition of his new residential building to the ground floor damaged the array of previously designed platforms, leading to a dead angle of fire, which made the tactical platform extremely limited. I need to blow up these obstacles, but I don"t have enough soldiers, gentlemen! "
"Now, I need you to answer a few questions …" "I want you to answer me. Do you want to sit here and wait for death, or do you want to follow me to the ground and blow up those things that are preventing us from saving ourselves? Or do you want to take out your weapons and fight? Or do you want your loved ones to die?"
As he said the last sentence, Sean raised his voice, making his words sound like a hammer pounding on everyone"s hearts.
Among the citizens, a white-haired old man raised his hand and shouted, "I"ll go, let me kill those b.a.s.t.a.r.ds!"
Then, more and more voices rose up, converging into a gigantic volume: "Let me kill them!"
"Very good, now go to the armory and retrieve your weapons." "Gentlemen, I am proud of your bravery!"
With that, he turned around and walked into the hall. Paula followed closely. Theon listened to the waves of excited roars outside and whispered, "So, we have two thousand more soldiers."
Looking at the man with the twinkling eyes, Paula"s heart was filled with reverence. Although Shane didn"t have any ability, he might not be able to turn 2,000 civilians into brave soldiers just like Shane. This was no longer something that could be done with one"s ability, but a type of charm.
Sean"s charm.
"But this isn"t enough. Although courage can make people fearless, it can"t change their natural limitations in terms of physique and strength. At the very most, it can only buy us some time." "Pera, keep in touch with our allies. Right now, they are the only ones who can save us. "
She nodded, put the tablet down on the table, ran her fingers through it, and sent an email to a designated mailbox. On the mailbox, there were countless soldiers holding their guns to the sky.
That was the symbol of the Heroic Spirit Hall!
As soon as Sean sat down, he saw a flash of an icon requesting a call on the computer screen on his desk. Theon immediately opened it, and a window popped open, revealing a lean man.
The man was around 30 years old, and behind him was a room with a wolf"s corpse.
"Bobby, what"s going on?" Sean asked hurriedly.
Spicer, the best scout in the Cobra unit. Before Theon could take over President Remter"s chair, he had already allowed Sby to sneak out of Remter in order to survey the ground.
"Not very well, sir." "I have reason to believe that this is not a simple attack."
"How so?"
The scene changed and a new window popped open. The scene was of a dark corridor filled with the corpses of civilians. The lights in the corridor flickered, giving the scene a sinister and terrifying look. "This is one of the videos I took. If you look closely, sir, maybe we"re not dealing with the three thousand zombies …"
As he spoke, the dead bodies on the screen began to tremble violently. Soon after, the corpses rose from the ground in slow, sluggish movements. They stood like logs, then gradually began to move. At that moment, one of the corpses pounced towards the screen. The scene shook violently, but before that, Sean could see clearly that the corpse"s eyes were bloodshot.
This was the sign of a living corpse.
In other words, the civilians of Remete in this corridor had become living corpses. New living body.
The scene changed again, but it was Sby who s.h.i.+fted the camera toward the window of the room. Therefore, Sean could see the streets below the main building. They were filled with people walking towards the entrance of the base. Occasionally, one or two of them would turn their heads to look in the direction of the video.
A living corpse! Large numbers of living corpses, which had been transformed into living corpses from the civilians of Remulte, were like a huge wave as they slammed towards Remulte.
Shane had his mouth wide open, unable to speak. Living corpses could transform corpses, but normally they would not do so. The ordinary corpse turned into something similar. It was both a virus and a living organism of a living corpse. Moreover, living people were only food to them, and they would not waste their life on food. But now, they were creating a large number of their own.
Remter was not facing three thousand living corpses, but more than ten thousand Corpse Demons!
"Oh my G.o.d..." Shane sat in his chair, looking ten years older.
"— — Divide up. Wa, ka, ka ~ ~ ~"
In the sky above Eternal Night City, streaks of red electricity constantly exploded within the radiating clouds that enveloped the city over a long period of time. It became the unique embellishment of this huge city. The thousands of lightning arresting devices distributed around the edges and center of the city would guide the red lightning that fell toward the city to the ground. However, they would be absorbed by special instruments that covered the ground and eventually converge in one place, becoming one of the sources of electricity in Eternal Night City.
The city, known as the Eternal Night, was illuminated almost all day by flickering lights. Unlike the day and night that Asgard"s expensive holographic plates created, Eternal Night City was exposed to radiation to remind people living in it that they knew what kind of world they lived in.
In such an environment, in order to change his life, even the entire world. The people who lived within it had to put in ten times or even a hundred times the effort for this. However, the irony was that the people who could change the world were often the few people who stood at the top of the pyramid. Although politicians often speak of "the change of the world depends on the people," the truth is that it is only those who stand at the peak of power that really determine the direction of the world"s current trends.
Outside the Science and Technology Academy Building in Eternal Night City, Oglock"s rack sat quietly to one side. However, this top ranked person in the mainland was not in the car, nor was he in the building. Instead, he was in an important base named "Dark Core" on the forty-ninth floor of the underground world.
The Dark Council"s chairman, Oglock, was walking through a deep but brightly lit pa.s.sageway in the underground base. Beside him, staff members were pa.s.sing by, but no one stopped to greet him. Here, Oglock"s ill.u.s.trious ident.i.ty was gone, but this disregard was something he had long since gotten used to.
Oglock reached the end of the pa.s.sage. After a series of tests, the metal door slid open on either side, opening a room that led to Dr. Shaw"s work.
Dr. Shona was wearing a sensor helmet and was operating a comet brain called Ormisga in a series of complex operations that Oglock couldn"t understand. Even the arrival of the Speaker did not distract Dr. Shaw in the least. Once the isolation door was closed, he stood by and waited for the doctor to suspend his work.
In front of Dr. Shaw, a screen of light unfurled, revealing a complex set of formulas that flew through the vast sea of data. Even Oglock was dazzled by them. But these things were clearly not difficult for the Doctor, and his eyes were glowing with excitement and fervor. He was no longer simply working, but burning his life to explore the mysteries of the universe.
In Oglock"s eyes, Dr. Shaw"s face was emaciated from lack of rest, and his emaciated face was morbidly pale as he used drugs to stimulate his nerves so that he could stay energetic most of the time. Dr. Shaw"s hair had been stripped off, revealing a neat bald head, which reminded Oglock of another honorable man.
Dr. Rafiel.
The fat old man, like Shauna, was a student of Dr. Halson, who had presided over the whole plan in the old days. But the divergence of understanding of the nature of the world, combined with the split between Oglock and Ben Douglas, separated the two excellent doctors.
Perhaps, after this research, this old thing Shauna would have to take a long vacation. Oglock thought.
"Og, you"re here."
Dr. Shona"s excited voice brought the Speaker to his senses, and Dr. Shona was already in his sensor helmet, jumping off the operating platform at Ormithga.
"Shauna, my old friend, did you discover something when you came looking for me in such a hurry?"
"It"s a big discovery, old b.a.s.t.a.r.d." Shauna was pleased that he would call Oak a b.a.s.t.a.r.d only in a state of excitement and pleasure, the language they had used in their youth to scold each other.
If this was said by someone else, this person would have already become the corpse of Oglock"s subordinate. But the sound of Dr. Shaw"s voice made him feel even more affectionate. It was as if time had returned to forty years ago, when the parliament was first established. Many like-minded comrades had gathered together and fought for the same goal. It was touching.
Unfortunately, time was gone.
Oglock"s attention returned to Dr. Shaw. There was not much chance for someone of his caliber to get distracted, but tonight, Oglock seemed to have gotten distracted a little more.
On the other side, Dr. Shona had already called up a few charts. It seemed like a gene sequence, but it was much more complicated than a normal gene chart. Even with Oglock"s computational ability, he was unable to read much useful information from these diagrams.
"Look at this, old friend." Shaw pointed at them. "Do you know what this is? It"s the core of the disorderly code, and yes, it"s a big piece of genetic code, as you can see. However, it was also a gene. Its complexity was several orders of magnitude higher than that of a human"s. What"s more interesting is that such a gene has a similar fragment that exists in modern organisms! "
Oglock shuddered. With his usual calm composure, he was moved by Dr. Shaw"s words. "Speak carefully!"
"Well, for the sake of your stupidity." Apparently, Dr. Shaw was in a good mood to make such a pa.s.s at Oglock.
The chart on the light screen disappeared and was replaced by a spherical model wrapped in countless data. Shauna pointed to the data on the surface of the model. "See, this is the initial data presented by the disorderly code after it has been a.n.a.lyzed. At first I interpreted them as ordinary two-dimensional data, but you know how long it has been. Until one day, I suddenly thought about what would happen if I read the data in three dimensions. "
"So, it became what you see now." Dr. Shona opened his arms and folded them across his chest, lamenting, "It is certain that the disorderly are not the product of Earth. Even if they are all in the skin of humans, they are not the same. I have to say, these outsiders are quite unexpected. For example, who would have thought that this data had something to do with stereoscopic functions? "
At this moment, Oglock noticed a flas.h.i.+ng light in the data ball. He asked, "What is this?"
"The core." Dr Shaw said: "It is a repository of information, and all the data on the outside is derived from it. I can only decipher a very small part of it now, but the message it shows is the genetic chart you just saw. Note that this is not a perfect genetic diagram. There should be a long tail behind it. Do you know what that means, my friend? "
"Limit... You mean, the disordered person might not have the limit to their evolution, or the limit to their evolution is too big, at least far exceeding all the information we have? " Oglock caught the point.
"That"s right, it seems that you aren"t that stupid." Dr. Shaw nodded at Oglock. "But this is only one of them. Secondly, by comparing it with some of the information in our database, I discovered that, with the exception of humans, almost all mutants have the same piece of gene as the disorderly. They are not all the same, but at the most critical genetic node, their data is accurate to 4 digits after the decimal point! Friend, allow me to make a bold guess here. "
"As you know, the evolution of mutated organisms occurred almost overnight. And the genetic node"s data was also previously seen. It was as if someone had inserted this piece of data into them all of a sudden, and now, the same data was also found on the disordered person. That"s why I think that the genes of the disordered and mutated beasts are at least a part of the same creator! "