As time passed until the afternoon, hundreds of survivors kept their guns cautiously facing the outside. However, the zombies never appeared...
But at this moment, on a section of the protective wall, a survivor who was in charge of vigilance suddenly put down the telescope in his hand.
To be precise, it fell...
He stared blankly at the end of the street, and this unusual reaction aroused the doubts of his companion: "What's wrong? What happened?"
With that said, the companion turned his gaze to the telescope at his feet. But before he could pick up the binoculars, he realized that this thing was no longer needed...
What the guard saw had already appeared within his naked eye.
The red air that spreads like poisonous gas, and a large number of monsters shrouded in it...
Some of them fly in the sky, while others climb on tall buildings...
"What is this?" he murmured, straightening up.
And the guard finally gave a shrill cry: "Enemy attack!!!!"
Ling Mo and others finally knew what they were waiting for.
Not the Canterlot Zombies, nor the Spider Queen, but a whole new... infection.
Before those monsters arrived, the red air had already swept over the Miracle Base.
"Ah!" As soon as a survivor inhaled a little, he suddenly screamed, throwing away the gun in his hand and fell to the ground convulsively.
But no one cared about him... Because the people around him also had the same symptoms.
"Quick, cover your mouth and nose!" Lucy yelled.
Su Qianrou's face was pale: "It's useless, the gas will get in through the pores."
She pointed to a psychic on the wall. The man had already covered his mouth and nose. But it still fell down the moment it touched the red air.
"Gah!"
A zombie hovering in the sky suddenly screamed. Then swooped down toward a survivor on the wall.
"puff!"
A blood hole appeared silently on its forehead, and it fell to the ground.
"The first area has lost contact..."
"Third area lost contact..."
"There is no news from the fifth area..."
Ling Mo turned his head, looked at everyone and made a decision: "Let's go back to the building."
At this moment, a fierce battle sound suddenly came from behind these monsters.
Ling Mo turned his head to look, and suddenly saw countless extremely fast tentacles in the distance.
Mutated zombies rushed out of their hiding places, throwing those monsters to the ground like the strongest hunters.
Blood splashed everywhere immediately, and the monsters turned their attention from the direction of the miracle base to the mutant zombies.
"Are they helping us?" Xu Shuhan said in surprise.
Shana stared in that direction with complicated eyes, shook her head and said, "No. They are hunting."
"Take this opportunity to withdraw, hurry up!" Ling Mo suddenly came back to his senses and shouted.
The survivors who were in panic and daze suddenly woke up and took action one after another.
The protective wall of the miracle base, lost...
A few minutes later, Ling Mo and others returned to the laboratory building.
"The command building is also full of people, but most of them have symptoms of infection."
"So does Dormitory No. 1."
"So is the warehouse!"
The report was continuously passed to Su Qianrou through the contactor, and then she conveyed it to Ling Mo without a word.
But what made her feel a little bit incomprehensible was that even though the situation had undergone major changes, Ling Mo seemed to be only surprised. There is no despair.
"Ling Mo, this may really be the end of mankind. Do you remember when the virus infection first appeared? At that time, there were billions of people. There were tens of millions of people in X city. But the people who lived by my side at the end , there are only thousands of people." Su Qianrou said in a low voice, she also maintained her composure, but it was not because she was not desperate...
In fact, when she saw the red air, she was already desperate, but she was still living by inertia.
After struggling for hundreds of days and nights on the line of life and death, compared to the ordinary people at the time, I will always learn something.
"What happened to those infected?" Ling Mo asked.
When the red air appeared, he was also stunned for a moment, but then he figured out a lot of things.
Why did the actions of the zombies in the central city change, and what was the "enemy" that Lao Zheng said could not be resisted.
In fact, the answer is very simple, virus escalation.
The virus has always been upgraded, but it was in the bodies of zombies before, but when this upgrade method cannot meet the needs of the virus itself, it will return to the original upgrade method: through the air, a full-scale outbreak. This is easier to understand when Ling Mo feels it through the female zombies.
And the zombies in the central city act as a medium for the virus to break out again.
If he hadn't manipulated Xiaobai to disrupt the virus's "plan", then there would be no buffer period.
The virus will spread to the entire city in an instant like a nuclear bomb explosion, and all humans and zombies will be infected.
However, since it is an infection, it does not necessarily lead to death.
The most important thing is that Ling Mo has already felt the feeling of being re-infected once through Xiao Bai.
But the real key point is that Lao Zheng said he was a variable, why
Ye Lian just suddenly said something in his web of consciousness: "You are between zombies and humans."
He's an anomaly since the last virus outbreak...
So it's not the zombies in Canterlot who want to get rid of him, but the virus that wants to get rid of him. When the virus wanted to make a comprehensive upgrade, it sensed him, a strange creature in the "body". It's like feeling the body is sick.
But the virus does not have the ability to think, and its intention can only be realized through the carrier. However, the carrier it chose could not implement its ideas well, which is why only Lao Zheng and the others were sent to solve Ling Mo.
Of course, this last point is just Ling Mo's guess, because judging from the Spider Queen's actions, zombies are not completely incapable of resisting before the virus. And zombies also have a psychological resistance.
To a certain extent, the human survivors at this time are actually on the same front as zombies like the Spider Queen.
"Infected?" Su Qianrou was stunned when she heard Ling Mo's question, but she still answered responsibly, "Many of them are struggling desperately."
"So are they confused? Or, have they lost their ability to think?" Ling Mo asked again.
Lin Luanqiu stood on the side and shook his head: "No, I have already asked them some questions. Although they have obvious violent tendencies, they are all sober and restrained."
Hearing this, Su Qianrou's expression suddenly changed a little bit, and her eyes regained some expression: "Ling Mo, you mean..."
"The virus in the human body has escalated." Lucy answered for Ling Mo.
Ling Mo nodded: "Yes, upgrading is not the same as mutating from a human to a zombie, because there is a virus in the human body."
Lucy nodded in agreement and said, "To make an inappropriate analogy, the virus in the mourning body is type A, then the virus in humans is type B. Ling Mo is right."
"Well, infection means that the a-type virus in the dead body is upgraded to a+1, or even +2, and the human being is also upgraded from b to b+1, b+2. That is to say, there may be some changes, but it is the same as when it was infected. Zombies are different." Ling Mo said.
After he finished speaking, Su Qianrou immediately held her hand and walked back and forth, and kept saying, "So that's what it is... So that's what it is... Then as long as they can survive this period of time, human beings may not be able to perish..."
"No, I think you're wrong." Wang Rin, who had not spoken since Lao Zheng died, suddenly raised his head and said, "After the virus escalates again, we are no longer human..."
Ling Mo's heart moved after hearing this sentence... He is the only variable.
And what about zombies? Are there variables in zombies
For some reason, Ling Mo turned his head abruptly and looked at Ye Lian who was standing in front of the window.