Chapter 1362 Wall-climbing zombies, a major discovery!
On a hillside eight kilometers away from the Oil City, Lao Xie and more than a dozen people parked their Big Mac there, and a wave of zombies surrounded them.
The effect is almost the same as the last time I used the potion.
The only difference is that this time the zombies are attracted for longer.
It has been a week since Lao Xie opened the potion and the smell of the potion was released, but zombies are still surrounding Big Mac.
Time flowed slowly, and four days passed in the blink of an eye.
On this day, Uncle San and others were holding binoculars on the wall and could see that the zombies around the hillside were retreating.
This means that the effectiveness of Type III zombie attractants is reduced.
Another day later, most of the zombies that had originally gathered on the hillside returned to the wall of the trading market.
The thunderstorm disaster has lasted for nearly three months now.
The trading market has not changed much from the past, except that people starve to death or die of disease every day.
Faced with this situation, Oil City is powerless.
Food is limited, and they don't know how long the natural disaster will last.
Although Li Yu found Qingyuan for divination, it was not a 100% guarantee and they did not dare to gamble.
Lao Xie and the others are back, and so is the zombie wave.
It is still the volunteers taking turns in the oil camp and the trading market.
During this period, they discovered that there were more and more mutant zombies.
Whenever such zombies are discovered, combatants directly join the battle and use firearms to kill those mutant zombies.
It is difficult to kill these mutated zombies with just the steel pipes in the hands of volunteers. Only occasionally when volunteers happen to hit the eyes of such zombies, the zombies will die.
Oil City Conference Room.
"There are more and more zombies that can climb walls. 23 of them were discovered yesterday alone. These zombies mutate very quickly and are now able to climb walls."
Xiao Jun looked serious and stood up to report the current situation to everyone.
He is the chief official who just came off the wall of the trading market this morning, and he knows the situation outside best.
Everyone was shocked when they heard the news. They never expected that this kind of wall-climbing zombie could change so quickly.
From the first mutant zombie discovered, which could only stay on the wall for two seconds, it only took a month and a half for it to evolve into the ability to climb the wall.
Even if it can climb like a gecko, it can climb quite quickly.
This has led to a sudden increase in the manpower required on the fence, and combatants need to be on it at all times. Once discovered, they will be shot with guns.
These climbing zombies are hidden among ordinary zombies and are difficult to detect under the cover of heavy rain. Unless such zombies start climbing against the wall, they are easily discovered.
This also means that even when the oil formation is activated, combatants need to take turns watching it to prevent one or two climbing zombies from running out.
The third uncle also felt that it was a bit tricky. It was okay that this natural disaster had continued with no end in sight, and the zombies had mutated into such disgusting variants.
Now that the Type III zombie attractant has been used up, the trading market and the oil city can only continue to support themselves by relying on the volunteers in the oil array and the trading market.
Although bullets can easily kill wall-climbing zombies, bullets are not unlimited and will always be used up.
We don’t know when the natural disaster will end, and the number of wall-climbing zombies is also increasing. This uncertainty is the source of fear.
At this moment, the operator sitting in the back suddenly said to Uncle San:
"Minister, the city lord of the headquarters base is looking for you."
The third uncle immediately stood up and walked to the radio station. After chatting for a few words, his face became a little solemn, but soon there was a hint of joy.
"Okay, I get it."
The third uncle turned around and returned to his seat at the top. Everyone was looking at him. They also wanted to know what news was coming from the headquarters base.
The third uncle saw everyone looking at him, took a drink of water and said:
"Zombies that can climb walls have also been found at the headquarters base. This is good news and bad news."
"Let the headquarters base get samples of this mutated zombie as soon as possible, so they can study it as soon as possible and come up with ways to restrain this zombie.
However, this kind of zombies also appear at the headquarters base, which means that this kind of wall-hanging zombies are not found near Oil City. They are not a special case, but a common occurrence.
In the future, we may encounter this kind of zombies more often."
After everyone heard the news, their expressions were a little complicated.
The Oil City here is no better than the Da Zhangshu Base, it does not have complete scientific research equipment, and there are no professional biological experts.
The sooner the headquarters base gets the sample, the sooner it may be able to come up with a solution.
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Big camphor tree base.
Scientific research institute.
Under the bright incandescent light, Li Yu stood with his hands crossed, quietly looking at the zombies in the bulletproof glass.
Through the transparent bulletproof glass, you can clearly see the soft burrs on the zombie's hands and feet, stuck to the glass, and the zombie crawling along the glass.
The iron chains on his feet made a clanging sound.
In addition, this zombie's chest protrudes, revealing hard bone spurs.
"Is this the wall-climbing zombie found in Oil City a month ago?" Li Yu asked after looking at the zombie for a while.
Bai Jie next to her nodded and said:
"Based on their description in Oil City: bone spurs protrude from the chest, soft burrs grow on the hands and feet, the ability to climb, and a hard skull.
The characteristics they described are basically consistent with this zombie, and I think it should be the same type of zombie."
"Have you found anything through research? What do you think are the conditions for this kind of zombie mutation?" Li Yu twisted his neck and made a clicking sound.
Bai Jie took out the slice research report from the table next to her, glanced at it and said:
"Since zombies can eat their own kind, sensitive zombies and powerful zombies have appeared one after another. Through slice studies, it was found that the virus content in this kind of wall-climbing zombie is ten times higher than that of ordinary zombies."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "It is even about three times higher than the agile and powerful zombies."
"So we judge that the reason why this kind of wall-climbing zombie mutates is the same as the formation of several other mutant zombies: phagocytosis of the same kind increases the amount of virus, and it is catalyzed by trace elements in heavy rain, which leads to changes."
While Bai Jie was talking about this, Li Yu got closer and observed the wall-climbing zombies imprisoned in the bulletproof glass.
The wall-climbing zombie inside has no hair on its body and has sunken eyes. The biggest difference from other ordinary zombies is the bone spurs protruding from its chest.
Roar!
The zombies imprisoned inside saw Li Yu and pressed themselves against the bulletproof glass. They immediately climbed down and roared through the bulletproof glass.
But because the mouth was welded shut by an iron shield, the iron shield was welded directly to its head, which resulted in a hoarse and weak roar.
It just lay on the glass for a few seconds and immediately ran back to the corner of the glass room.
"It's so ugly." Looking at this ferocious zombie, Li Yu couldn't help but complain.
This was also the first time he had seen this kind of zombie. He had never survived a thunderstorm disaster in his previous life, nor had he seen this kind of wall-climbing zombie.
"Ahem, haha." Xiaolan, Ma Di, Zhao Ke, Kong Shuang, Wang Yin and other scientific researchers next to them all suppressed their laughter after hearing Li Yu's complaints.
This city lord's angle of concern is quite unique.
"It looks a little restless..." Li Yu looked at the zombie jumping up and down, seeming very uncomfortable.
"Was this zombie so restless when he was just caught?"
"Well, that's how it was when we were arrested."
Li Yu stared at the zombie, and his keen observation allowed him to find that the zombie seemed to be avoiding the light source in the room.
He just rushed over and pressed against the glass, then quickly retreated back into the glass room.
Seems to be trying to avoid the light in the room,
But this was in a scientific research room, the light was diffuse, and the incandescent light was very bright. After all, this zombie couldn't completely avoid the light.
"Go and turn off the lights in the laboratory." Li Yu squinted his eyes and said softly.
"Hmm?...Okay, Xiaolan, go and turn off the lights." Bai Jie was a little confused at first, but soon realized Li Yu's intention.
He wants to conduct a light sensitivity test. They study the characteristics of zombies and always use various methods to test, including light tests, light tests, hearing tests, smell tests...
Light test.
In fact, every other zombie they caught before would have gone through this test, which was a basic operational test. However, this zombie had just been caught and had not been tested yet. It was just sliced into pieces for pathological research.
Bah!
The incandescent lamps in the row on the left were instantly turned off.
The light in the laboratory dimmed a bit.
But this zombie didn't move at all, remaining the same as before.
"continue."
Bah!
The middle row of incandescent lights is turned off.
The laboratory was mostly dark.
Everyone focused their attention on this zombie, trying to see if it would be less restless.
The zombie, who originally had his back to everyone, suddenly turned around slowly and seemed to be much calmer.
It’s really useful!
Li Yu's eyes lit up, "Night vision device."
Ma Di quickly found a pair from the cabinet next to him and handed it over. This kind of night vision device is equipped in their scientific research institute and is used to study the changes in the movements of zombies under different light levels.
All scientific researchers have a pair of night vision goggles and wear them.
"It's all off!"
Bah!
The laboratory fell into darkness instantly, and I couldn't see my fingers.
But through the night vision goggles, they saw the wall-climbing zombie leaping over and slamming into the bulletproof glass.
"Um?"
However, after it hit the glass, it did not run away immediately like it just did, but continued to hit the bulletproof glass.
Boom, boom, boom!
The bulletproof glass was knocked out with a muffled sound.
It is absolutely impossible for this zombie's strength alone to break open the bulletproof glass.
Seeing this zombie still staying here, Wang Yin exclaimed:
"Is it afraid of light?"
"Flashlight!" Li Yu did not rush to make a judgment and shouted towards Bai Jie.
Bai Jie quickly found a flashlight and handed it over, but what she didn't notice was that what she handed over was a UV flashlight.
UV flashlights like this one are often used in scientific research institutes and medical treatment.
Especially in this kind of virology research institute, ultraviolet lamps are basically the basic configuration.
It can effectively disinfect viruses in the air.
In the medical field, ultraviolet lamps are also widely used, including several categories: disinfection, diagnosis, and treatment.
The characteristics of ultraviolet light make it have good sterilization and anti-inflammatory effects, and can directly kill bacteria or viruses in superficial tissues.
Human beings are fine for a short period of time when exposed to ultraviolet rays.
However, long-term exposure will cause damage to the eyes or even blindness, and may also cause skin cancer.
despair!
Li Yu pushed the button and shined light at the wall-climbing zombie.
"Why is this color purple-blue?"
Looking at the color of the light, Li Yu frowned slightly.
After Bai Jie saw it, she quickly said:
"Sorry, City Lord, I took the wrong one. This is an ultraviolet lamp. I'll get it again for you."
As she said that, she ran to the drawer at the back and rummaged around.
"No!"
Li Yu said suddenly.
"Um?"
Bai Jie stopped what she was doing and saw Li Yu still looking at the zombie, so she looked over curiously.
I saw the zombie trying its best to avoid the ultraviolet light, just like a mouse seeing a cat, running away like crazy.
This is different from the state under the incandescent light just now.
Under the incandescent light, although it appeared a little annoying, it was definitely not to the point of being scary.
And Li Yu used the ultraviolet light in his hand to illuminate it, and the zombie avoided it very quickly.
Just fear!
Terrified to the extreme!
"Find some more ultraviolet lights and let's shine on this zombie together." Li Yu's tone was faintly excited.
He felt as if he had found a way to restrain this zombie.
soon.
Everyone took out their ultraviolet flashlights and shined them on the zombie.
Under the illumination of several beams of ultraviolet lamps, the wall-climbing zombie was unable to escape, its beating became faster and faster, and the iron chains on its feet made a rapid sound.
The other side.
Ma Di even pushed an ultraviolet headlight specially used for sterilization and pointed it in the direction of the wall-climbing zombie.
Plug in the power and turn on the switch.
bass!
A diffused light as big as a suitcase lights up.
In an instant, strong ultraviolet light was directed at the zombie, and the light from the flashlights held by Li Yu and the others was swallowed up.
The entire laboratory is emitting purple-blue lights, which looks a bit magical.
Ho ho ho!
This wall-climbing zombie roars and jumps, but has nowhere to hide.
Boom, boom, boom!
The zombie hit the bulletproof glass hard.
This was the craziest time this zombie had ever been since it entered the laboratory. It seemed that it was on the verge of death, causing this zombie to completely explode.
Boom, boom, boom!
Everyone watched the zombie crashing wildly, but Li Yu didn't shout to stop, so they had no choice but to continue watching.
After dozens of seconds, the zombie's impact force became smaller and smaller.
Until one minute later.
thump!
The zombie fell to the ground, not sure whether it was dead or alive.
"Turn on the lights." Li Yu shouted after seeing the zombie fall.
Xiaolan immediately ran over and turned on the incandescent lamp.
The laboratory suddenly regained its brightness, and Ma Di unplugged the ultraviolet headlight.
"hiss!"
Everyone looked at the scene in front of them and took a deep breath.
There were some white debris stuck to the bulletproof glass, which seemed to have peeled off from the zombie.
The zombie on the ground, whose originally white skin instantly turned pitch black.
It was as if sulfuric acid had been poured over the zombie from head to toe. The surface skin was corroded, and the bones of the zombie could even be seen.
The bones were also darkened.
The zombie's head seemed to have been melted, leaving a black liquid on the ground, and the skull was tanned.
"City Lord, I understand!"
Madi shouted excitedly:
"This kind of wall-climbing zombie has the ability to climb walls because it has devoured a large number of its kind and accumulated a large number of viruses, leading to mutations.
They are more agile and powerful than ordinary zombies.
But at the same time, they are more afraid of the sun than ordinary zombies. To be precise, they are not afraid of the sun or light, but the ultraviolet rays in the light!
Ultraviolet light is what they are really afraid of!"
Ordinary zombies can actually survive in the sun, but when exposed to the sun, their movement speed will slow down.
On the contrary, at night, it will remain normal.
On a rainy night, it reached its peak of strength.
And this kind of wall-climbing zombie has the highest virus content in its body among all the mutant zombies they have seen.
The cumulative accumulation of viruses gave this zombie extremely strong strength, a hard skull, and even the ability to climb walls.
However, it also magnifies the small weaknesses of ordinary zombies to the extreme.