The office of the Xiacheng Branch of the International Association for Scientific Exploration is located on the 18th floor of the "Shangding" triplex high-rise office building in Lilan District, Xiacheng. It is located on the lower side, only about fifty meters from the ground. It is the limit for low-altitude bus exploration by civilians.
The lighting is impressive.
However, the rental prices for the floors below here are quite cheap. The "Wildness Explorers Chapter" under the association rented all the space from the first to the seventeenth floor at one time, renovated it, and opened up multiple spacious areas for members' activities.
For ordinary employees working in the association, those "wilderness explorers" are purely helping lunatics who have money and nowhere to spend it. If they have money for renovation, they can rent a perfect location in the core CBD and do whatever they want.
As for this, a lot of efforts have been made to renovate it, but most of the facilities are still idle?
The most typical example is the luxurious circular conference room that opens up the bottom three floors and can accommodate thousands of people for discussions. However, it has been used less than ten times in the more than ten years since it was built.
Today, the conference room finally opened again, and hundreds of people entered one after another, leaving the usually idle association employees dumbfounded.
Can there be so many wilderness explorers in Summer City?
I couldn't see the meeting organization materials, and the employees didn't know the content of the meeting, the time schedule, etc. They just felt that the meeting was very long. When I went in in the morning, after lunch, it still wasn't over. Even during the earthquake period, no one was there.
Come out for safety.
Speaking of earthquakes, white-collar workers working nearby found that the number of earthquakes they felt seemed to be much higher, at least ten or twenty, according to reports from the Seismological Bureau.
That's it, those wilderness explorers are still having a calm meeting, which is really cowardly.
September 28, 2096 at 2 pm.
The light inside the circular conference room was dim, and half of the simulated skylight lighting equipment that had been turned on all year round was broken. The large-scale and diffuse shadows not only obscured the messy venue, but also penetrated into the hearts of the participants.
Zhang Yingying gently held Susan's fat hand, and the body heat of the two of them combined, making the chill in the darkness retreat slightly. Susan was mumbling something that no one could understand, and the injury on her shoulder was still aching.
, tilt it another two centimeters, and the carotid artery will be torn.
In the center of the conference room, on the podium shaped like a parliament, Ouyang Chen, the president of the Xiacheng Wilderness Explorers Branch, was still wearing a straight dress, bow tie, and antique plain glasses, looking like an elegant scholar.
He looked around at the looming faces in the dim light, and said calmly: "Now, the identification is over. The meeting actually numbered 429 people, and the final number of people who participated in the briefing session was 420."
The nine people who were deducted have now turned into corpses...some of them can't even find their corpses!
The air in the conference room has solidified.
"I informed the meeting of the relevant situation, and invited Mr. Hu Yuli, the executive president of the Xiacheng region of Quantum Company, to give an in-depth explanation."
On the side of the podium, Mr. Hu Yuli, who had also made waves in the shopping mall, looked pale and tried to remain calm, nodding slightly in all directions. This was all he could do.
Ouyang Chen pushed up his glasses and began to speak formally. The projector behind him also began to operate simultaneously, revealing a ruined area of the R&D area.
"First, a brief explanation: In the 'Aberration Laboratory' in the Xiacheng R&D Zone, Quantum Corporation, the government, and the military jointly conduct aberration vivisection research. The project has been ongoing for two years. And just about half a month ago,
Quantum Company changed the experimental subject. This is a special species, which is a parasitic state of aberrations caused by rare dark side creatures. Its code name is 'Human-Faced Spider'."
A large number of pictures flashed on the projection, all of which were related files kept in the laboratory. The participants stared at it all coldly and continued to listen.
"Yesterday, around 5:13 a.m. on September 27, an equipment operator in the laboratory was controlled by a dark side creature and forcibly destroyed the power supply. Before the backup power supply was activated, the dark side creature drove the aberration and tried to escape.
laboratory.
"Quantum Company controlled the situation and killed the aberrations at 5:19, and the dark side creatures separated from their hosts. At 5:24, Quantum Company also killed the dark side creatures. But before that, the dark side creatures
In ways we don't yet understand, some kind of... virus was released."
Ouyang Chendun emphasized again: "The virus, we can only say this at the moment. According to statistics, centered on the Quantum Company Laboratory in the R&D Zone, the virus has spread as far as 520 kilometers away, covering the entire Xiacheng metropolitan area and all
Satellite city.
"The central radius of ten kilometers is the core area of virus infection, with the largest number of infected people. According to preliminary statistics, there are more than 700 people, mainly laboratory personnel and some residents. Beyond ten kilometers, the number of infected people drops rapidly. According to preliminary research statistics, the current virus
'has three characteristics:
"First, except for the core areas, the infection rate among ordinary people is not high, and no cases have been found yet; but for people with abilities, it is very bad. The current rate is 9 out of 1,000. I think it should be related to the mode of transmission.
There is a connection, after all, the senses of those with abilities are much sharper than those of ordinary people."
The atmosphere in the conference room was even more depressing. The infection rate of nine per thousand was calculated based on human lives. Today's participants were close to half of the registered people, and in the identification just now, four people were infected, and none of them were infected.
It resulted in the casualties of five other people.
"Second, special conditions are required to stimulate this virus. Intense emotional changes, especially negative emotions, are the most obvious triggers. According to the internal experimental report of Quantum Company, the survival time of the virus in the human body is about eight to eight to
Between eighteen hours. During this period, if you remain calm, you will be completely annihilated. However, if there are negative emotions, the survival time will be greatly extended, and there is a very high probability of being activated. The specific data is not yet conclusive.
"Third... You have just seen it. The activated virus will absorb the host's blood energy and transform into dark side creatures. And these dark side creatures will eat each other, merge, and continue to grow. Every time they grow,
Their form and power level are closer to their 'releasers'."
Ouyang Chen put aside the explanation of the situation and turned to look at Hu Yuli. Behind his plain glasses, his eyes were cold:
"So we have to ask, is the 'human-faced spider' really dead? When these dark side creatures absorb enough nutrients, engulf and fuse, will it represent its rebirth? Is there any research, support or research on the quantum kilometer?
touched upon this situation?”
Hu Yuli could only shake his head: "The current research is not in-depth yet, we really don't understand..."
He tried his best to shirk Ouyang Chen's question, but it didn't mean he had passed the test. Ouyang Chen's question was just the beginning.
Soon, another voice came from the conference room: "What happened to the news that the medicine was stolen before? This is completely different from the news you released before!"