Carrying the fat man's body, Liu Chang walked out to the street, found a leather pipe in an abandoned car by the side of the road, inserted it into the car's fuel tank to draw gasoline, and poured it on the fat man who was riddled with holes.
And after he finished all this, Li Qingshui led two soldiers out.
"Oh, is he still dead?" Shen Mingyi looked at the corpse on the ground and sighed slightly, "My condolences."
"Yeah." Looking at the fat man one last time, Liu Chang passed Li Qingshui's lighter, lit the flame, and threw it on the fat man.
The blazing flames rose up, melting his body, and scorching the lurking alien life in his body.
"Let's go." After the flames finished burning, Li Qingshui took a look at the charred corpse, stepped forward and patted Liu Chang's shoulder. "He died without pain."
"Well, this is the only thing that can make people happy." Liu Chang nodded, "Next, where shall we go?"
"Institute." Li Qingshui looked to the northwest, "I would like to see how effective human technology can be in this natural world."
"Where is the research institute?" Liu Chang turned to look at Shen Mingyi.
"At the intersection of Huayuan Road and Guangdian South Road in the original Jinshui District of Zhengzhou, there used to be an urban village called 'Xuzhai'. The urban village was completely flattened during the urban reconstruction project in 2002, and then it was restored to its original location. A large-scale research base has been established." Shen Mingyi tried his best to recall the materials of the research institute given to him by his teacher before he left, and said: "It is a large-scale biological research base. It seems that since the end of 2002, many such research bases have been built around big cities. It seems that the country has attached great importance to biological research since the various red mist incidents in 2002, and it should be that they knew a lot of red mist's secrets in advance."
"It's just that I didn't expect that the red mist would suddenly descend on such a large scale." Li Qingshui looked at the red sky and sighed: "Let's go, let's go and see!"
"Okay." Putting away his sad emotions, Liu Chang touched the fat man's finger bones in his pocket, carried the little girl on his back, and followed the team along the main road of Zhengzhou to the northwest of the city.
As the small team went all the way, Liu Chang kept an eye on the situation on the side of the road, and sure enough, he saw many differences between Zhengzhou and Kaifeng.
Due to the impact of the large-scale human ecosystem, the other creatures here are much weaker than those in Kaifeng. The weeds on the ground are no longer tall, and mutated monsters are rarely encountered. Along the way, he even saw many humans looking for food on both sides of the street. It can be seen that the number of survivors here is much higher than that in Kaifeng, and people don't have to be limited to the protection of the army.
"It's really a peaceful place." Liu Chang couldn't help but sighed as he walked on the grassy street.
"That's right, this place is to Kaifeng, just like Kaifeng is to the wild jungle, it's much safer and more peaceful." Li Qingshui also looked around at the surrounding environment and humans, "I just don't know what these surviving people rely on for food , If you only eat these plants on the ground, something will happen sooner or later. If I were someone from the research institute and proposed a research direction, I would definitely put the issue of food first.”
"Oh, then you will be a member of the research institute soon." Liu Chang turned his head.
"It's a pity that the newcomers passed by, so it doesn't count." Li Qingshui frowned, "And I don't know the exact number of brain mutants."
"You will know when you get there." Liu Chang said, "But as I said beforehand, I don't think there will be many brain mutants. If all human beings are like you, then I really feel that the end of the world is not counted. What's the matter, human technology will multiply a hundred times within a year, and the human biosphere will become unshakable again in the shortest possible time!"
Liu Chang was talking, and saw a human-sized cat walking towards him from a distance, but the cat ran away as fast as it could after smelling the group of people from a distance— There was a clear sense of danger.
"What a smart guy, is it also a brain mutant?" Seeing the reaction of the "little" cat, Liu Chang couldn't help admiring it.
"What did you say?" Shen Ming, who didn't see this scene, asked Liu Chang who was "talking to himself".
"Nothing. Keep going."
"oh."
After a night's rest, several people have recovered a lot of their physical strength, and they hurried on the road quickly. After more than an hour, they passed through more than half of Zhengzhou City, walked from the east to the north, and arrived at the research base that Shen Yi mentioned before—— "Biological Gene Science Research Park".
The words "Park" are hung on the plaque at the gate, and the characters are huge, showing the grandeur and majesty. And around the park, there are also a large number of troops stationed, and each soldier is guarding this very important place no matter how you look at it.
Standing at the gate of the park, Li Qingshui and Liu Chang watched as Shen Ming went to the soldier in charge of the park and negotiated for a long time, and then the soldier went in to report. After a while, a division-level soldier walked out directly from the inside, and from a distance, led by Shen Mingyi, greeted Li Qingshui and the other two.
"This is Mr. Li!" The teacher walked up to Liu Chang and the two, and after distinguishing their faces, he immediately overflowed with fifteen points of enthusiasm, "Welcome, welcome!"
"I heard from this little soldier just now that you are from Kaifeng, a brain mutant?" The young teacher in his forties said something, and stepped forward to shake Li Qingshui's hand.
"Yes, Chief, I'm from Kaifeng." Li Qingshui also shook hands with the teacher cooperatively.
"Oh, that long-distance trek was really hard, and the road is also full of dangers!" The teacher said, with a regretful expression on his face, "It's a pity that we in Zhengzhou have also lost contact with the surrounding cities, otherwise how to say We should also send more troops to pick you up."
"You are being polite, chief." Li Qingshui nodded with a smile.
"Why are you being polite? We will all work together in the same place in the future, and we can be considered comrades-in-arms. If you need help in the future, feel free to ask. It happens that I am also in charge of this area, and I am the commander of the 52nd Division. Actually Speaking of which, I was also transferred from Unit 955231 from Kaifeng a few years ago, and we are considered half fellow villagers. Uh, by the way, I forgot to introduce, my name is Xie Hang, you can just call me Lao Xie." Master Xie warmly talked to Li Qingshui, and at the same time greeted Liu Chang and the others to enter the park together, "This is your friend, come in, come in and have a look. This park has been built for more than a year, and there is no Not many people have come in."
Under the leadership of Mr. Xie, Liu Chang followed him into this "Science Park". After entering here, he realized that this place was extraordinarily huge. The architectural atmosphere is not as full of "ultra-technical" feeling as he imagined. It is just an ordinary building complex. Of course, this is just a superficial phenomenon. As for what is inside, he does not know.
"This science park was built by the country at a cost of tens of billions, which is almost as high as the cost of building the Olympic 'Bird's Nest'." Mr. Xie introduced the origin of this science park while leading Li Qingshui and others to visit, " To say that this centralized state is also beneficial. Look at what the state wants to do. Funds are mobilized very quickly. It is very efficient to be able to do one thing with the power of the whole country. And I heard that in the past two years the state It is a breakthrough in biological research, and all major cities have such science parks, and I heard that the one in Beijing is even bigger!"
"It seems that the country is not completely unprepared for the coming of the end." Li Qingshui was led into a reception hall by the teacher as he spoke, and then the latter said with a smile: "Mr. Li, please sit down first, I'll call Dr. Chen, he's one of the people in charge here, if that old guy hears that a brain mutant has come over from Kaifeng, he will be very happy!"
"Okay, thank you, sir!" Li Qingshui also responded with a smile on his face, watching the troop chief leave here.
After seeing his back going away, Liu Chang, who was sitting on the sofa, also showed a somewhat relaxed expression: "It seems that they attach great importance to you!"
"Yeah." Li Qingshui also nodded in relief, "This makes me feel a lot more at ease, now it's up to the higher authorities to make arrangements."
After Li Qingshui said this, he stopped talking, and Liu Chang also cooperated and kept silent.
After a while, the door of the reception room was opened again, and a man who looked to be in his fifties, but whose hair was darker and shinier than that of a young man walked in. Liu Chang's eyesight is very good. From the moment he entered the door, he saw the text on the business card pinned to the person - "The leader of the third research group of the Institute of Biology, Chen Xudong."
This Chen Xudong is not wearing the white coat of a scientific researcher as Liu Chang imagined, but also a military uniform. After living in the military area for so many days and knowing the army, he also recognized the rank represented by that person's shoulder badge this time. major general.
The highest military rank for Chinese researchers. In China, major general is the highest honorary rank, and above major general, the rank represents not only honor, but naked military power.
After this Chen Xudong came in, Mr. Xie also came in to say hello, then turned around and left with interest.
"Old Chen, I brought you the man, you have to remember that I did this for you!"
"Don't worry." Chen Xudong patted Mr. Xie on the shoulder and sent him out of the reception room.
And then, his sharp eyes stared at Li Qingshui.
"It's called Li Qingshui?"
"yes."
"follow me."
The first conversation between the two was extremely brief. After these three sentences, Li Qingshui and Liu Chang followed him out of the reception room and walked into a strange room.
"This is the test room, with various test props and supporting facilities. Let's go in and test the degree of brain mutation!" It was also the first time that he smelled the breath of "super technology" in all kinds of instruments that he couldn't understand.
"This young man with a baby in his arms, just wait here for a while." Chen Xudong looked at Liu Chang.
"good."
After nodding, he watched Li Qingshui follow Dr. Chen into the room full of technological atmosphere, and after a while, he heard the "humming" sound of the machines inside and Li Qingshui's calm voice when he was answering the questions.
Ten minutes later, the two came out from the inside. Chen Xudong, who came out again, no longer had the calm face just now, but put on an expression of extreme shock and excitement—this expression was so undisguised that even Liu Chang This ignorant person can see the degree of horror at a glance.