TSIAGBICATMWI Chapter 159

Chapter 159: Research Institute

Xie YunChuan straightened up and looked around at all the bodies lying on the ground. They were almost identical in size, and all had slender skeletons and hunched spines. “These are monkey corpses.”

“What?” Gu Tangxi exclaimed in surprise.

“Whether it’s a human or a zombie, they were originally human. The shape of their bones after death is also human. Even if they are buried for a thousand years and dug up, wouldn’t they still be a human skeleton? What’s wrong with saying that these are not human corpses?” Xu Yuzhe replied calmly.

“Now it’s not a question of whether those corpses are human or not, it’s that these are actually animal corpses! … Monkeys?” Gu Tangxi sighed to the heavens. “My God, now even animals are infected. Is this really not giving humans any chance to survive?”

Gu Tangyue’s face was covered with dark clouds, and she waved her hand listlessly, saying, “It’s over, we won’t even have meat to eat in the future.”

Wuu, what’s the difference between a life without meat and a walking corpse? My poor chickens, ducks, fish, cattle, sheep, pigs… all my dear and lovely little animals! I love you so much, but you are so ruthlessly leaving me.

Although we didn’t catch many living things to eat before, it’s still better than them all turning into zombie monsters! It’s a little comforting that they are living well there. Now, ha, not only can we not count on catching some wild game to improve our food, but we also have to be careful not to become the prey’s meal.

Xie YunChuan was embarrassed, “It’s not that pessimistic. It should only be animals that are relatively close to humans that can be infected.”

“Such as monkeys, gorillas, apes…” Xu Yuzhe continued, sharing the same speculation as Xie YunChuan.

Judging from how long the end of the world has been going on, all common animals have no tendency to mutate. It’s impossible for them to suddenly become infectious. The only possibility is that monkeys were infectious from the beginning. It’s just that the time it takes for them to mutate into violent monsters after being infected is longer than humans. Moreover, in the chaos of the apocalypse, Xie YunChuan and the others have been a scattered group without organization or teams, without reliable sources of information. They haven’t encountered it themselves, so naturally they don’t know that some animals can be infected with the virus.

Furthermore, humans evolved from ancient apes. Human flesh and blood are suitable for nourishing zombie viruses, so it’s not surprising that a few families of animals that are closely related to humans are also suitable for the virus to reside in.

After their reminder, Gu Tangxi and Gu Tangyue immediately reacted, “Ah… oh! That’s good, that’s good.” Gu Tangxi really breathed a sigh of relief. Gu Tangyue’s originally dull and lifeless eyes also lifted slightly, revealing a bit of light, no longer lifeless.

The way to turn a bad piece of news into good news is to first say an incredibly bad situation, pulling the psychological defense line to the lowest value, and then say that things are not that serious. The heart that has fallen to the bottom of the valley will instantly leap up. Hey, the bad news becomes good news in an instant.

Just like now, originally knowing that a few more kinds of animals can also be infected and mutated is bad news, but compared to all animals being infected and mutated, the former is not so unacceptable.

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“Ding! Ding! Ding!”

“Alarm! Alarm!”

“Experimental subjects are agitated! Experimental subjects are agitated!”

“Please release sedative spray immediately, please release sedative spray immediately!”

Inside the experimental subject containment chamber of the Fourth Research Institute laboratory at Mist Mountain Base in Li City, red warning lights flashed, emitting a piercing alarm sound.

Outside the chamber, through the clear transparent glass wall, Dr. Wu stopped and concentrated on observing the abnormal behavior of the monsters in the cylindrical isolation chambers. He allowed the monsters with sharp claws to roar angrily and dig and knock on the cylindrical glass surface. After a few minutes, a rough but strong voice rang out, “Xiao Li, release it.”

So, Xiao Li, who had been standing in front of a red button waiting for instructions, immediately pressed the button. Suddenly, bursts of white mist sprayed out from above all the chambers. The originally manic experimental subjects slowly slowed down their movements until they stopped.

The sedative spray here is not ordinary medical sedative, but—cold air. The bodies of the mutated zombies have been completely controlled by the virus, so ordinary medicines used by ordinary people cannot work. Fortunately, these viruses are relatively sensitive to temperature. A certain degree of low temperature will suppress the agitated viral factors in their bodies and reduce the activity of the virus.

However, in order to use cold air to directly achieve the point of freezing and eliminating virus activity, this is not difficult to achieve on the extracted virus bodies, but it is very difficult for viruses that have invaded the host and completed parasitism.

At least, outside of narrow and closed experimental equipment like isolation chambers, in an open outdoor environment, it is impossible to achieve large-scale cooling and freezing of zombies through artificial means. Therefore, this method of solving the zombie crisis does not work, and the researchers in the laboratory can only continue to do a lot of research and testing in order to find other ways.

Xiao Li was constantly monitoring the situation of those zombies. As soon as he saw that the zombies’ agitation was under control, he immediately turned off the release button for the corresponding chamber. The body strength, virus activity, evolution status and other data of these experimental subjects are changing all the time, and the required sedation temperature is also different and difficult to grasp, so people can only manually control the release amount by observing with the naked eye.

After closing all of them, Xiao Li walked to Dr. Wu’s side and asked suspiciously, “Strange, why did they go crazy at the same time today?” It is not strange that these experimental subjects become agitated from time to time, but what is strange is that more than a dozen experimental subjects broke out together today.

The various data of these experimental subjects are different. The things injected into them and the verifications done on them are also different. It stands to reason that the virus activity should not be stimulated at the same time.

Dr. Wu decisively ordered, “Immediately contact the other three research institutes to see if their experimental subjects have similar situations. Also, call the guard team and mobilize all research personnel to conduct a full-scale test on this batch of experimental subjects as quickly as possible. There must be some factor that is affecting them at the same time. See if we can measure something. Also, contact the energy fluctuation testing station to see if they have detected any special energy field signs.”