Chapter 639: The Trade Show
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
As the host, Si Kongchen sat in the middle of the room. As everyone took a seat, Lu Zhuofeng started a conversation with laughter.
“Chief Si, I’ve been thinking that the effective range of the antidote is a little too small. It’s only ten meters in radius. In fact, its effect is only about the same as that of an attack launched by a level-six superpowered man. A level-five ice-power possessor might be able to deliver the same effect.”
Apart from Si Kongchen, three board members from Huaxia Base were also on the scene.
Hearing Lu Zhuofeng, Hu Zhiyong responded with a smile, “Be patient… The antidote with an effective range of ten meters in radius is only the first generation of antidote. It’s more like a half-finished work, so we didn’t produce it in large batches. If you use ten doses of it at one time, the effective range will expand. Even though it still can’t reach a hundred meters radius, the number can be improved to seventy at least. If you gather all the zombies that you want to kill in an area with the radius of seventy meters and throw ten doses of the antidote into the crowd, the effect will be pretty good.”
With the good things about the antidote, he covered its shortcomings. Meanwhile, he said that the antidote was only a half-finished work, and his words revealed a new message.
“Eh? Are you saying that you’ve also developed a finished antidote?” Lan Lu asked with surprise. Hearing that, all the others had their expressions changed.
“Chief Lan, you are right,” Hu Zhiyong smiled as he looked at him and continued, “The antidote with the effective range of ten meters is only the first generation of the antidote indeed. We have also developed the second generation and a third. Their effects will surely be different. We will explain to you while showing you their effects.”
“There are the second and third generations!” The others were stunned at first, then had their eyes glowing.
It seemed that none of them were well-informed enough. Huaxia Base had really been hiding the information deeply. It was impressive indeed! Clearly, they leaked some information on purpose to divert the others’ attention, so that the really important things could be kept secret.
“So, the show is on!” Liu Zhinan said smilingly, then clapped his hands. Following his move, a few pretty girls walked to the others and gently put a list on each of their tables.
That was the list of prices of the antidotes. Three generations of the antidotes were on the list, followed by the names and the required number of the supplies for exchanging the antidotes.
The people browsed the list. Soon, their intention was attracted by the noises from the square.
A few soldiers in white exposure suits and gas masks dragged a chained, messily dressed commoner into the square.
The commoner had both his feet and hands chained. Those soldiers hung him in the middle of the area, which was surrounded by ten-meter-tall barbed wires.
Seeing that, the people on the scene immediately figured out what was going on. However, they didn’t say anything and just watched calmly, as that was arranged by Huaxia Base.
After being hung up, that man started struggling. However, his struggles were completely useless.
Most of those soldiers left after fixing that man on the middle of the barbed wire area, with only one soldier left there. He walked to the Southeast corner and lifted a square lid on the ground, exposing a hole. After that, he quickly left, locking all the doors.
Before long, a hand reached out of that hole, and then another hand was seen. After that, a head was stuck out. A creature quickly crawled out of the hole, looking like an ordinary zombie.
Seeing the zombie, the man who was hanging on the barbed wire started screaming with fright, struggling even harder.
Soon, more and more zombies crawled out of the hole; all of them were ordinary zombies. They shambled around with their arms dropped. Noticing that human, they quickly, instinctively raised their arms and reached out, crowding toward that human in the meantime.
“Roar!”
“Roar!”
“Roar!”
Being attracted by scent of the living human being, more and more zombies crawled out of the hole and gathered toward the man. The entrance of the barbed wire area was facing the zombie hole, so those zombies soon gushed into the area.
“Two-hundred zombies have been released. When they all go into that ten-meter-square area, we’ll first show you the effect of one dose of the antidote, and how to use it,” Hu Zhiyong stood up and walked to the gla.s.s with excitement, pointing at the square while talking to the others.
“No wonder we heard that you only have a small amount of the antidote. It turns out that you have a plan. Impressive!” Wu Chengyue smilingly glanced at Si Kongchen and said.
Si Kongchen had been wearing no expression today. Only Hu Zhiyong and Liu Zhinan were doing the talking. Both of them were members of the board. As Wu Chengyue looked at him, Si Kongchen finally responded.
“Sure! We only wanted to surprise you,” he said blandly.
All zombies gathered in that ten-meter-square wire area, looking at the man hanging in the air and eagerly reaching out to try and touch him. However, that man was about three meters away from the ground. So, without leaping up, those zombies weren’t able to touch him.
“Roar!”
“Roar!”
“Roar!”
“Help! Ah! Help! Help!” That man screamed as loudly as he could. He knew that no one would come to save him. He was only screaming to ease his fear.
“Alright, we are ready. Now, everyone, you’ll be witnessing what the antidote can do,” Hu Zhiyong laughed as he raised a hand and gave the man behind him a signal.
Soon, a man in an exposure suit showed up on a fence wall around the square and threw a test tube into the wire area. Contained in the test tube was the antidote. Before the antidote fell on the ground, he swung an arm forward and released a fireball. The fireball hit the test tube, and then detonated the antidote.
“I a.s.sume you have all known that the effect of the first generation antidote will show up in one and a half hour. So, you need to wait for one and a half hour to see the effect,” Hu Zhiyong turned around and glanced at the others as he said with a smile.
“Are you saying that we should wait here for one and a half hour without doing anything else?” Lu Zhuofeng snorted coldly and said with a slight discontentment.
“You, of course, won’t be bored. We have prepared a show to entertain you,” said Hu Zhiyong composedly with a faint smile.
“Really? We have a show to watch? Great! We even get to have some fun. I’m curious about what kind of show Chairman Hu has arranged for us,” Li Zhengye from Sky Fire Base laughed and said.
“It’s just a small game,” Hu Zhiyong responded with a smile.