Chapter 80: Phoenix Nirvana, rebirth from the ashes
The members of Dawn were exhausted physically and mentally at this moment. After hearing Luffy's order, they immediately set out to return. There was no need to worry about the passage on the black iron railing. In the apocalypse, all survivors would basically be unable to move. If they could come in on their own,
, that’s good, just expand the number of personnel.
Arriving at the supermarket, Lin Qiaoni called out Professor Wang, who was still completing the organizational charter, and said, "Professor Wang, we have the test product, come and observe it!"
tester?
The injured survivor once again felt like crying.
"By the way, what's your name?"
Lin Qiaoni asked, ignoring his almost desperate expression.
"Tao Anlong."
"I would like to emphasize again, to be honest, you have no choice. If you don't follow what we do, you will 100% turn into a zombie and then be shot in the head by us. According to our method, you may survive, and you will be able to survive."
Become an evolver and no longer be afraid of viruses." Lin Qiaoni looked at Tao Anlong and said calmly, "Now I'll give you a chance to choose whether to be a test subject or not!"
Tao Anlong felt the state of his body. At this moment, he felt a wave of emptiness in his body, and his brain was dizzy and swollen, similar to the symptoms of a severe cold and fever. He understood that this was the virus that was eroding his body.
As Lin Qiaoni said, he had no choice.
"Okay, let's get started!" With that said, Lin Qiaoni took out ten body bags from the supermarket warehouse and handed them to Li Xia, "Let him swallow them!"
As the female captain of the Dawn Organization, Lin Qiaoni is closer to her than Luffy. Lin Qiaoni will arrange for her to do some things.
Li Xia held the body bag and said, "Here!"
"What is this?" Tao Anlong asked.
"Are you sure you want me to explain? It's a long story..." Lin Qiaoni said seriously.
"Uh..." Tao Anlong said with a crying face, "Let's forget it!"
After saying that, he took the corpse bag and swallowed it one by one.
When everyone saw this, they tightened their weapons in their hands.
There is a chance of becoming an evolver by swallowing a corpse sac, but they estimate that there is still a high probability of becoming a zombie.
At this moment, they were all staring at Tao Anlong. If this guy turned into a corpse, they could kill him as soon as possible.
"How are you feeling now?" Professor Wang came closer and asked.
"My whole body aches, my brain is swollen, I feel dizzy, and my consciousness is a little blurry."
"What's the extent? Can you still bear it?" Professor Wang asked again.
"Okay!" Tao Anlong gritted his teeth and said two words from between his teeth.
But everyone could see that what he endured was very difficult.
Professor Wang got closer, and he saw that in Tao Anlong's staring eyes, the color of his pupils was constantly alternating between black and gray.
He murmured, "The process of corpse transformation is a gradual process!"
Then he shouted, "Hold on, hold on, and you will survive!"
But what he said sounded nice, as if he felt like standing and talking without pain in his back. Tao Anlong opposite him could no longer bear the pain that was transmitted to his brain when every cell in his body was damaged.
He yelled out in a hissing voice.
Beads of sweat dripped from his forehead. Finally, he couldn't bear the pain anymore and collapsed to the ground. His whole body began to twitch and then twisted in an exaggerated way. The color of the pupils in his eyes never turned black again.
Luffy shook his head, it seemed that Tao Anlong had bad luck and poor willpower.
Although there is a desire to survive, it is only one factor that affects whether the corpse transforms or not.
He smelled a similar smell from Tao Anlong's body.
The last time Lin Qiaoni took the body sac, she tried to scare Luffy, but he saw through it. The reason was that Lin Qiaoni smelled so strongly of living flesh that he couldn't help but want to take a few bites.
To be honest, staying with the members of Dawn is a kind of torture every day, and it is also a test of his perseverance.
Not eating human flesh does not mean that you don’t want to eat human flesh.
"Roar!"
At this time, a brief roar came, and Luffy suddenly turned his head. This was a first-order zombie.
Only first-level zombies have the ability to compress their lungs and use short bursts of air to roar.
Ten corpse bags actually fed a first-level zombie.
Just when Luffy wanted to say be careful, he heard a "Puff..." sound.
In an instant, at least three fire axes were thrown at the zombie Tao Anlong.
This first-level zombie that had just transformed into a corpse smelled the scent of a living person. As soon as he made an attack gesture, his head was opened without causing any ripples.
The survivor who came with him swallowed and opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't say a word.
Tao Anlong has turned into a zombie, and killing him is a matter of course.
But a feeling of extreme loneliness suddenly arose in my heart. Just a few hours ago, there were eight of them, but now, everyone was dead and he was the only one left.
There is no happiness, only loneliness.
"Professor Wang, what do you think?" Luffy asked, pointing to the body on the ground.
Professor Wang thought for a moment and said, "I guess that the process of transformation is the struggle between the zombie virus and the human immune system, just like the influenza virus. Some people have good physical fitness and milder symptoms. Even if they don't take injections and take medicine, they will still have three or four symptoms."
The weather will get better, but some people have to take injections and medicine to relieve their pain. However, the zombie virus will destroy the human genetic material, and the influenza virus will only cause various cold symptoms. In fact, these symptoms are the human immune system
Indiscriminate attacks on viruses and normal human cells."
"That means that if the human immune system is strong, it can prevent corpse transformation?"
Professor Wang shook his head and said, "No, because there are many people with strong immune function, but they can also transform into corpses. It is probably as you guessed, leader, and it has something to do with perseverance. Whether perseverance is strong or not has nothing to do with immune function!
The reason why zombies rot is because zombie viruses destroy human cells and tissues. On the one hand, the zombie virus destroys human cells and tissues, and on the other hand, it is the indiscriminate attack of the human body's own immune system. Therefore, people will feel
It’s very painful, and this pain should be more than just pain!”
"Well, that's right!" Lin Qiaoni said at this time, "The whole process was indescribably painful, and I just thought about dying. Sometimes I felt like every cell in my body had exploded, and sometimes I felt like my whole body was being pricked with needles.
I felt like I couldn't breathe, and there was pain as if my whole body was being burned with a branding iron, and suddenly it was as sharp as if I had fallen into ice water."
She said with lingering fear.
"Well, as you guessed, the leader, if you can survive this painful process, you will become an evolver. If you cannot survive, you will become a zombie!" Professor Wang said, "The specific process of the zombie virus invading cells still needs to be determined.
Professional equipment to observe.”
"Why does it sound like..." Wu Mengjiao said quietly, and when she saw everyone looking at her, she suddenly felt scared.
She is different from everyone here. She has eaten the flesh and blood of living people. She has always been worried about not being accepted by others, so before today, she had always been very low-key and basically silent. At this moment, her head felt hot.
After saying this, he immediately attracted everyone's attention.
"What's it like?" Lin Qiaoni asked.
Wu Mengjiao shrank her neck and said carefully, "It's like a phoenix rising from the ashes and reborn from the ashes.
If you succeed in Nirvana, you can transcend human limits and become an evolver; if you fail in Nirvana, you will become a zombie!"
Everyone nodded unconsciously, as if it really made sense!
Lin Qiaoni looked at Luffy subconsciously.
Of course Luffy understood what Lin Qiaoni meant.
"MoDan, does this count as my success or failure in nirvana?"