Doomsday rat

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This was not made up by Hong Tao himself, but by the naval pilot who taught him to fly.Regardless of whether it is a passenger plane or a fighter jet, it is impossible to rely on passengers to fill up the take-off weight.The amount of luggage, food, fuel, and ammunition determines whether the take-off weight of the aircraft exceeds the standard.

If you really want to overload the crew, if you save one ton of fuel, you will have to go up ten more people if you convert it into a big fat man.If there is no luggage, it is estimated that dozens of people can be packed in.

During the ten days in early July, Hong Tao flew a total of 8 sorties, picking up 181 Japanese and Korean survivors from Kobe Airport, Kansai Airport, Hiroshima Airport in Japan, and Gimpo Airport in South Korea.

Quality is a mixed bag.I don't know if it's because of race or other reasons, but the survivors in Japan and South Korea account for a very large proportion of children, at least a quarter of them are under the age of 15, and the proportion of the elderly and women is also quite high.

Fortunately, the proportion of young and strong is also high, and there are many urgently needed talents.For example, there is an aircraft pilot who maintains large passenger aircraft.There is also a tower air controller, and these Randy can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

In addition, the proportion of skilled machining, electrical work, communication network maintenance, doctors, and active soldiers is also quite large.The most interesting thing is that there is also an Ozeki-level sumo wrestler.That tonnage goes to the nose when landing and to the tail when taking off, and even the flaps are saved!

Chapter 365 new enemies

But from July 7, the flight had to be interrupted.The sky was overcast with thunder and lightning, and it rained almost every day for half a month.Sometimes it is showers, sometimes it is drizzle. It is really desperate to take off and land without accurate weather forecast.

Several major events happened in the world these days, so Hong Tao had to stop going abroad to find foreign aid, calm down and think about what to do next.

First of all, the chairman of the Survivors Alliance, Mr. Pascal Flo of France, led thousands of French, Italian, and Belgian refugees after a long journey, and finally found a suitable base in a place called Poshgren in southern Norway.

There is a dam there, with abundant water and electricity, the terrain is relatively high, close to the river, and the climate is not too cold.Regardless of the development of industry or agriculture, or fishing and hunting, they are more promising.

This is good news, but with it comes bad news.According to the statistics of the alliance, there are more than a dozen living corpses and blue devils that have appeared in Europe alone. Two Eastern European groups and one German group have encountered large-scale zombie siege.

The most serious situation is in the British mainland, where the living corpses seem to grow the fastest. Not only can they gather a large number of zombies to besiege humans, but they even use buildings to carry out ambushes.The living corpses are hidden very concealed, and it is difficult to be found and killed.

At present, many large cities in southern England are occupied by living corpses. Whether survivors hide in buildings or in the suburbs, they are always in danger of being attacked.Most of the British survivor groups had to gather in advance to the seaside, looking for ships to transfer to Norway in batches.

On the other side of the Atlantic, the situation in the eastern United States is also not very rosy.Not many living corpses were found there, but the number of blue devils was increasing.They used to be alone, but in the past two months there have been signs of groups.

Compared with the zombie group led by the living corpse, these blue monsters are more difficult to deal with.They are more agile than humans, and their skin and bones are so tough that they are basically indestructible with light weapons.Once approached by them, even escaping is an extravagant hope.

Now the survivors in the eastern part of the United States no longer dare to rely on their own guns to live their own lives. Many people hold groups to find various nearby military bases, trying to use heavy weapons to fight against the threat of the blue devil.

Some people began to move to the central region. Many groups that were connected before have lost news. I hope they are only temporarily lost, and they can appear on the alliance channel again after they settle down.

Relatively speaking, the living corpses and zombies in Asia and Australia are relatively safe, and the number of blue devils is not large, but the climate change here is more severe than that in Europe and America.

The increase in rainfall is worldwide, whether in Europe, America, Australia or Asia, the rainfall has increased significantly since March and April.But the increase is most obvious in Asia. Even some areas with very low rainfall all year round, such as Mongolia and the northwestern provinces, now, like the Yangtze River Basin, it rains for several days.

Since the beginning of summer, the most call signals in the Asian League are not because of being besieged by zombies, but because of various floods and landslides.Who would have imagined that living on a high loess slope would one day have to abandon traditional cave dwellings due to too much rainfall.

In addition, there are frequent earthquakes. Since June, there have been news of earthquakes in Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asian countries, the Indian Peninsula, the Middle East, and the northeast and southwest regions of China.Some were only slightly felt, while others were houses collapsing, landslides and ground cracking.

If living corpses, zombies, and blue devils were the biggest dangers for survivors in the past, then according to the current trend, nature may be another threat.

Although zombies don't like water, they are numerous and can afford to die. There are not many survivors. The sudden change of nature is like adding a sharp sword to human beings. It fell on the head, and it was not light when it fell.

But not everyone has the same understanding of nature.In order to let everyone have an intuitive concept, Hong Tao specially organized a field trip.I found a sunny day and drove for dozens of miles, and took the executive director and heads of various departments to Wanping City.

"Guys, let's take a look, this matter is really not alarmist..." Facing the turbulent Yongding River, even he, who was mentally prepared, was a little moved.

Where is the Yongding River?Just look at the branches and debris in the river to know how strong the water is upstream.

The upper reaches of this river are in Shanxi and northern Hebei, and are regulated by the Guanting Reservoir along the way. It is the largest river west of the capital.If it has such a large amount of water, one can imagine what the upstream Guanting Reservoir would look like.

"Oh, what Lao Hong said is right. It seems that specific measures for flood fighting and disaster prevention must be put on the agenda. There is really no delay!"

If the water level of the Yongding River represents the safety of the northwest side of the city, then there is another river that is the symbol of the northeast side, the Chaobai River!When the convoy ran from the West Fifth Ring Road to the vicinity of the East Sixth Ring Road, and saw the same turbulent North Canal and Chaobai River, Liu Quan was the first to make a firm statement.

At this time, there is no need for water conservancy experts to give pointers. Only individuals can see what these two big rivers that are already level with the road represent.Their upstream is the largest water source in the capital, Miyun Reservoir, and there is Huairou Reservoir in the middle.

If there is a problem with these two reservoirs, the entire east and south sides of the city will become a swamp country, and it can spread as far as the TJ urban area. No one can guarantee whether there will be any problems.

"..." More than a dozen people present looked at Hong Tao in unison.

"I don't have scales on my body, so I'm useless. Go back and gather manpower and vehicles, and bring generators and medicine rib tubes. Headed by the Ministry of Energy, let's go to the dam for an on-site meeting!"

They were so exhausted that they knew how to do it, and those who couldn’t do it idled to death. Hong Tao called them here because he wanted to work together and share the responsibilities.

To solve the problem of flooding, Hong Tao couldn't think of any clever way, so he could only use the existing reservoir.The first option is to restore the power supply to the sluices and open the sluices while the dam is still holding up.

The second solution is that once the gate cannot be opened, the dam will be blown open with explosives before the reservoir is filled. Don’t wait for the dam to burst when the reservoir is full, and force a long stream of water to flood the east and south areas of the city. , as a flood discharge area.

But no matter which method is used, Shunyi, Xianghe, Wuqing, and Tianjin will become a whole country, and land transportation will be partially or completely interrupted. It is hard to say whether Langfang and Baodi will be affected.

So far, there has been no official cleanup in downtown TJ.There was no one on the radio channel, not necessarily the local area.When the flood came, the threat of zombies could basically be eliminated, but the local survivors would also suffer.Their deaths must also fall on Hong Tao's head, whoever gave the order is the responsibility.

But as the leader of a team of nearly a thousand people, Hong Tao had to give this order.You can't just watch the living people around you suffer, and go out of your way to ensure the safety of those who only stay in the possibility.

So, no matter who you are as a leader, you may face that multiple-choice question that has always been debated and still has no conclusion: there is one person on one railroad track, and ten people on the other railroad track.If you were asked to be a switchman, should you let this one person live or let ten people live!

It wasn't just Hong Tao who encountered this multiple-choice question, and it wasn't just the Revival Alliance that was affected by climate change.From July to mid-August, more than half of the survivor groups in Asia shifted their focus to confronting nature.

The most talked about in the channel is where there is a flood, where is flooded, which team is forced to evacuate and other topics.Living corpses and zombies seem to be no longer the main threat, and often no one mentions them for several days, making them very non-existent.

In comparison, the capital is considered lucky.There are floods, and the flood of Yongding River has cut off most of the roads to the west and southwest of Beijing.

The Miyun Reservoir and Huairou Reservoir have finally opened part of the floodgates through the continuous efforts of hundreds of people for several days and nights. Although the east of the city’s Fifth Ring Road is not Zeguo, it has become a Jiangnan water town full of ravines and lakes.

Chapter 366 Jiao Si's Secret

During this period, Hong Tao drove the infantry fighting vehicle around the Fifth Ring Road twice. The first time he was able to pass through, but the second time some sections of the road were already submerged.

At the same time, it also proved Yu Zhen's statement that the Type 04A infantry fighting vehicle does have the ability to ford water, as long as the wind and waves are not too big, it can drive smoothly on the water.

The situation in the city was relatively better. The moat was full once, and after blowing up several sluices along the way, the accumulated water was drained out smoothly.However, all the underground passages, including subway tunnels and air-raid shelters, still have accumulated water. The foundations of many bungalows in the old city could not withstand being soaked for a long time, and many collapses occurred.

Hong Tao took the time to go back to the courtyard by the sea, how can it be described as miserable.The grass in the yard is half the height of a person, and the roof is also lush green.Standing on the Drum Tower and looking around, the original gray-black old city seems to be covered with a huge camouflage net.

At that time, millions of people shouted for greening and greening all day long, but after decades of doing it, there was still no progress.As a result, all of a sudden, there were no people there, and nature took over the work. No one needed to care, and the greening rate increased to over 80.00% within one year.

Roofs, walls, roads, and even iron fences are covered with green vines.The building area is slightly better but limited. After the unremitting efforts of Xiaoniaohefeng, the roof and balcony are also green, which looks like the hanging garden in the poster.

"This is a jujube tree!" Hong Tao also saw a small tree on the roof of the building by the moat, so he went up to investigate on the spot, and then let out a long sigh.

I have to admire the vitality of the plants. It is really a small tree, which grows in a little dust at the corner of the roof. The root system penetrates the waterproof layer and firmly grasps into the gap.Although the conditions are difficult, he looks quite stubborn and has an unyielding character.

With plants came animals.It used to be a novelty to see a weasel in a corner fence. If a family raises a rabbit, adults and children passing by will take a closer look.

But this summer, the city has almost become a zoo, not to mention the permanent residents with urban household registration such as mice, weasels, sparrows, crows, and magpies, and more of them are Beijing drifters with temporary residence permits or no documents at all.

A pheasant with colorful tails, a hedgehog covered in spikes, a rabbit digging holes everywhere, a fox with a sharp-mouthed monkey cheek and a smirking face, a rampant badger that barks its teeth when it sees people, and a wild boar that loves anyone who can eat extended family.

They have invaded from the Fifth Ring Road to the Fourth Ring Road, the Third Ring Road, and the Second Ring Road...they are so narrow at the beginning, and they may be a little awkward in broad daylight. As soon as the sun goes down, they are everywhere on the street.You can live in whichever yard is bigger, and play in whichever park is royal, and you can live without a ticket. After playing enough, you have to eat and drink.

This scene also happened in Ditan Park. In order to win the war for living space, and to keep the few acres of crops that the Ministry of Agriculture had worked so hard to serve, Hong Tao took the lead in launching the Wall Clearing Campaign.

He asked people to use various machines to cut down almost all the century-old trees in the park, including their disciples and grandchildren, leaving only two circles near the wall.As long as it doesn't rain, bonfires are circled outside the wall to drive away various animals and birds.

The park is full of hundreds of animal traps made of waste materials by the mechanical team. With dozens of sticky nets found in the fishing gear shop, three-dimensional traps are set up around the farmland and greenhouses to prevent them from defending themselves. .

On the contrary, the two sub-bases in Huairou and Nankou Town are more worry-free. There are originally mountainous areas and there are no major rivers nearby, so there is no need to fear floods.In addition to vehicles, there are weapons inside. It is estimated that it is a bit murderous. In addition, there is less food, and small animals do not like to get close.

Moreover, with the increase of rain, the vegetation is dense, and the air in the mountains is more fresh. As long as there are a few days of sunshine from time to time, it will not feel humid.Birds singing and flowers fragrant during the day, frogs singing and insects singing at night, it feels like a holiday villa.

Since the medical laboratory moved here, the three scientific researchers have been working very steadily.They are not young anymore, they don't have so many ideas, they have food, drink, green mountains and green water, and respectable jobs living here, and they have both spiritual and material harvests.

The ancients said that there are specializations in the art industry.Since Wang Jianzhong from Changsha joined the laboratory, the research on zombie diseases has made significant progress.After his preliminary identification, although the organisms that cause zombie diseases seem to have some characteristics of bacteria and fungi, they are fundamentally viruses.

It’s just that this kind of virus has never been heard of in the medical field, and there are no relevant records, so how it came about, what are its characteristics, and how to treat it, there is still no clue, and we must slowly find the law through experiments one after another.

With the addition of survivors from Japan and South Korea, two more pathologists joined in. After two months, Hong Tao received a report from Fan Chunling, asking him to come and report on important situations.

After receiving this news, Hong Tao didn't dare to delay for a moment, and drove over in his own saber-toothed tiger without taking anyone with him.As soon as he entered the garage, the Japanese doctor gave him a full-body disinfection. He took off his butt and put on a chemical protective suit before he was allowed to enter the test area.

The new laboratory is the row of houses next to the wall in the garage, which has been remodeled to add air conditioning, air filtration equipment, and one house is double-storey.There is a small room made of tempered glass in the house, where the real virus tests are done, and outsiders cannot enter even after disinfection.

Hong Tao didn't want to go in either, that kind of place sounded creepy.But he saw an acquaintance in the next room, Jiao Si.No, it shouldn't be called an acquaintance, it should be called... It doesn't seem appropriate to call it anything.

After being separated for a few months, Jiao Si seems to have gained weight, and his body is also clean. He is wearing a well-fitting hospital gown, and he can vaguely tell that he was a handsome young man before the mutation.Although his skin has turned blue and his hair has fallen out, his bones and appearance are still the same as before.

Jiao Si obviously also remembered Hong Tao. When he saw the Japanese doctor, he had no special expression, but when he saw Hong Tao, he was stunned immediately, and his black eyes shrank into small black spots.Two seconds later, he lowered his head and shrank desperately into the corner of the cage, but the corner of his eyes still glanced at the door from time to time.

"If you dare to glance at people out of the corner of your eye again, I'll break your other leg!" The living corpse actually had the ability to remember and recognize people, which made Hong Tao's back feel chilly.But in order to determine whether this guy really knew him, he had to walk over and squat down, pointing at its broken leg and showing the most usual smile.

"呵...呵..." Jiao Si immediately stopped pretending, and kept baring his teeth at Hong Tao, while making a sound like a snake spitting out a letter from his throat.However, it never dared to approach this side of the cage, and the fierce look in its eyes was not so determined, more like a bluff.

"Wow..." A living corpse that only has memory and recognizes people!Even though he was locked in a cage, with thick shackles on his feet, and his hands wrapped in special gloves, he looked harmless, but Hong Tao was even more nervous than when he grabbed it, and he even pulled out his pistol.

The result was even more worrying. Jiao Si knew the gun, at least he knew that it was the thing that knocked down the zombies around him when he was caught. He immediately shut up and bowed his head, not daring to demonstrate anymore.

"Captain Hong, Captain Hong, you can't do it! You can't do it..." Just as Hong Tao was thinking about whether he should shoot this thing down, the door to the room next to him opened, and Wang Jianzhong, the vicious dog, hadn't even buttoned his clothes. He rushed forward as if rushing for food, and blocked the gun with his body, as if his own son was locked in a cage.

"I said Doctor Wang, this guy seems to have evolved again! If this goes on, he will pick the lock someday if he doesn't keep it all right!" Following Wang Jianzhong and Fan Chunling who came out later, Hong Tao went back to the room where he first came in and sat down, but still A little scared.

I caught this thing myself, and I wanted to get a living specimen for the doctors to do experiments on.But I didn't expect it to be able to evolve in a cage. This reminds me of Frankenstein in many movies, and all of them end up breeding tigers.

"Hehehe, it's not that scary. We've roughly figured out the situation. As long as it doesn't ingest human tissues, especially the brain, it won't evolve." Wang Jianzhong explained that he was afraid that Hong Tao would actually shoot the living corpse with a gun. At the same time, he tried to take the gun away.

"...It evolved by eating people!"

A word awakened the dreamer, and Hong Tao suddenly remembered the living corpse in the South Korean embassy.Before grabbing Jiao Si, it was gnawing.In this way, the living corpses attacking people are not for the purpose of spreading diseases, nor for feeding their hunger, but for a higher goal!

Chapter 367 Jiao Si's Secret 2

"To be precise, it relies on the human body's nerve cells to support its own brain cells... It's not right, its brain cells have been occupied by viruses, and it should be supporting special viruses."

"After it was sent, I found that it was always staring at a bottle of soaking specimens, and that bottle contained the tissues of another living corpse. Since there are already living specimens, those tissues are dispensable Yes, I simply gave it to it. As a result, it was stuffed directly into my mouth, and I smiled while eating...it should be considered a smile."

"Later, I put the corpse that had just died of illness in the base with it. As a result, it became more excited and almost gnawed the skull of the corpse. Through multiple comparisons, within three hours after he ate the human brain , the virus in the brain is the most active and proliferates very rapidly."

"A very interesting virus, and a very smart virus. It uses human cells as hosts, but does not completely kill the hosts, like symbiosis. It also divides labor and cooperates. The skin and bone cells of living corpses and zombies have been transformed. , but those viruses do not have the function of brain cells, but only provide energy for the body."

"The virus in the zombie's brain should be the first generation, and it is only responsible for sending limited instructions to other body viruses. But the virus in the zombie's brain has mutated at least once, and has more complex computing capabilities, much like our brain cells .”

"No, it's not right to say that. It should be a virus that controls the human brain cells. Let's say they are still alive. In fact, the brain cells and some body cells are not human at all. They are dead, but the parts of their bodies The cells and tissues are the same as those of humans. For example, the internal organs also need to supplement calories, and they also have to eat carbohydrates and proteins, which is completely different from zombies.”

"So far, we have found a total of three different virus versions from zombies, and two from living corpses. Their genomes are all double-stranded, with both DNA and RNA, which is unprecedented in the world. See and unheard of new discoveries."

"What's even more puzzling is that there are both closed-loop molecules and linear molecules, some with membranes and some without membranes, and they are irregular, which makes them basically unaffected by nucleases..."

Wang Jianzhong's eloquence was much better than Fan Chunling's. From the idea of ​​the experiment to the results of the experiment to the characteristics of the virus, he spoke eloquently, his eyes were shining, and he was full of praise.He knew that he was trying to eliminate the virus, but those who didn't know thought he created the virus, so how could he still feel proud.

"Stop, stop, stop... Doctor Wang, I don't need to talk about the principle, I don't understand it. Just tell me the general conclusion, what is this thing afraid of, and is there any way to treat or prevent it?"

Looking at Wang Jianzhong, whose mouth was full of foam, Hong Tao knew how much he hated him.I only asked one question, but in exchange for so much professional knowledge, on the surface it looked like I made a profit, but in fact I lost everything, I didn’t understand the fart, and wasted time.

"As long as there is a host, it can be self-sufficient and live forever. If the host does not exist, it will enter a dormant state. If the environment is too harsh, it can enter a deep dormancy, just like fungal spores."

"However, it's unclear how to wake it up. None of the known methods will work, including the artificial implantation of living cells. I have a guess. It must not be made by humans, or even a life form on Earth."

"It should come from a place with a harsher environment, and even the cold and radiation of space cannot kill them. They may have existed on the earth for tens, hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of years, and suddenly they meet the awakening conditions and put Humans as hosts."

Hong Tao interrupted the eloquent narration, Wang Jianzhong realized that he was a little too excited, touched the white foam at the corner of his mouth and drank a big mouthful of water to stabilize his emotions, finally he was willing to analyze the current situation from a human point of view .

"In other words, we may all have this virus in our bodies, but we just haven't been awakened!" Hong Tao was much more comfortable talking like this, and he knew what to focus on, but it's better not to know.

"...It's not possible, it's certain! Several of us have taken blood tests and found no dormant virus, but after bone marrow puncture, unfortunately, everyone has it, and it is lurking in the bone marrow!" Before answering this question , Wang Jianzhong and Fan Chunling looked at each other first.

"Then why aren't we sick?" Hong Tao felt that he might as well not come. Hearing this kind of news really made people feel powerless and helpless.

It's a waste of time to fight for a long time. If it's not guaranteed, one day a thunder will explode, and the frequency of the sound is just right, the virus in the body will be awakened, and it will immediately become a zombie.The only hope now is to refute Wang Jianzhong's theory and turn the known into the unknown, and it feels much better.

"Uh... Since we still don't know the conditions for awakening the virus, we can't judge the cause of the disease. But I guess the human body is a very complicated system, and everyone is different, with many variables."

"In fact, the virus itself is very fragile, and there are many viruses in our body. Anything that is not suitable for it will not be able to survive and grow, and will eventually be excreted by the immune system."

"For example, if you have a cold at the time, maybe the virus will be affected and unable to wake up normally. For example, some people smoke, some drink alcohol, some people are taking certain drugs, and it even has something to do with diet."

"But all of this is only for the original virus before it mutated. It doesn't matter if it is a zombie or a living corpse, if you are scratched or bitten by them, you will probably still get sick."

Wang Jianzhong is not so pessimistic, this may be called well-informed.I deal with all kinds of viruses every day, so I feel that there is nothing to be afraid of. In turn, I have to persuade others to take it easy.

"...I was scratched by a zombie shortly after the outbreak of the zombie disease last year. The wound was deep and bled a lot, but I only had a low-grade fever that night and I was fine!" Now Hong Tao no longer thinks about all human beings. It's a problem, I always feel that there are a few zombie viruses lying on my body, and I am about to take advantage of it.

"Hey... this...how about I check it for you?" Wang Jianzhong was really not sure why Hong Tao didn't mutate after being scratched by a zombie, and he didn't continue to speculate in a scientific and rigorous manner.

"Forget about the puncture..." This time it was Hong Tao's turn to hesitate, and the thought of piercing a hole in the spine felt painful.

"Hehehe, it's just a minor operation. You'll be fine after lying down for a while. You can rest for a day at most and don't do strenuous exercise!" Wang Jianzhong smiled, with a doctor's smile, like a wolf grandmother who seduced Little Red Riding Hood.

It's a pity that Hong Tao still couldn't resist Grandma Wolf's temptation in the end. He mainly wanted to know if he had the virus in his body, even if others had it, what if he didn't?

However, Wang Jianzhong did not lie. After local anesthesia, the puncture procedure was indeed not very painful.After resting in bed for half an hour, with sterile plaster on his back and question marks and exclamation marks in his head, he drove away alone.

During the period after the operation, he also chatted with Wang Jianzhong and Fan Chunling about whether the zombie disease would be transmitted to animals, and how the blue devil mutated. The answer was still uncertain.

Judging from the results of a series of animal experiments done so far, the zombie virus seems to have no interest in animal cells, no matter whether it is dead or alive, as long as it is an animal, it will be thrown out of the cage by Jiao Si.Not only does he not eat it, he hates it.According to Fan Chunling, the living corpse is a vegetarian, and does not eat any meat except for cannibalism.

As for why the zombies turned into blue devils after being irradiated, one of them studied biopharmaceuticals, one studied infectious diseases, the other studied virology, and even brought two foreign aids in pathology, all of them have no professional knowledge on this issue. opinion.

If you want to find out, I'm afraid you have to go to a nuclear physicist, and you have to prepare a more comprehensive laboratory. You don't need to ask about that kind of experiment, and you can't make do with it.