0p0 Chapter 107 Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Chapter 107 Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
DAY108
South China Security Base
Early in the morning, Lin Yun knocked on Gu Nanfeng's room door, intending to take them to the cafeteria for breakfast. Because the dormitories were arranged by the base and each bed was assigned to a specific person, they did not change their dormitories without permission.
Like Lu Yuan, Wei Cheng was full of curiosity about the base. He walked around and observed everything. Zhong Qiang and Yang Xiao were two good guides. They introduced Lu Yuan and the others to every part of the base, every structure, every department, and every function.
Lin Yun and Qin Yuan were still discussing Du Wenqing's matter. They also talked about the situation at the Huaxi Base. According to the information Lin Yun obtained from the South China Command, Zhang Hao also fell into a coma with a high fever after returning to the Huaxi Base. He had recently evolved a superpower, but it seemed to be a dual-attack type superpower. Qin Yuan was really unhappy when he heard this. It seemed that those who evolved earlier were still considered defective products.
As for Pei Sihao and Gu Nanfeng, who were walking at the back, Pei Sihao had only woken up from a high fever the day before. He didn't have Lu Yuan's medical machine in the base, so it was actually harder for him than for Gu Nanfeng. Every time he wanted to give up in his consciousness, he would think that he hadn't seen Gu Nanfeng yet, and that Gu Nanfeng was still out there, his fate unknown. Now, looking at Gu Nanfeng beside him, he realized that all the suffering he had endured was worthwhile, because he had woken up and seen Gu Nanfeng, a healthy Gu Nanfeng, who, like him, possessed dual-elemental abilities.
The group ate breakfast in the canteen. It has to be said that the food at the South China base was much better than that at the G City base. This was all thanks to Ji Lang and his supply team, who had brought back almost all the supplies from neighboring provinces H, X, and even D before the zombies destroyed the city.
After breakfast, in accordance with the base's strict requirements, they needed to report to Team Leader Liu at the research institute and have their basic physical data checked for the day before they could engage in other activities at the base. However, if they were going out on a mission, they only needed to report to Team Leader Liu as soon as they returned.
Outside the research institute is a hydroponic cultivation area. Although the Huaxi base is now mainly responsible for the planting and supply of grains and vegetables, the other three bases have not given up on their own cultivation. The continuous heavy snow has likely caused most of the animals in the inland areas to freeze to death, even if they were not infected by the zombie virus. In fact, what is most annoying is not the lack of grains and vegetables, but the lack of meat, eggs and poultry.
After meeting with Team Leader Liu, Lu Yuan strolled over to the cultivation group, which was responsible for the hydroponics work near the entrance. Once inside, Lu Yuan first took out various kinds of seeds from his spatial storage, then a large number of eggs. He didn't know if these eggs could hatch into chicks, but with so many eggs, surely a few would be lucky enough to hatch.
This operation thrilled the breeding team so much they were practically flying. They ran around the research institute announcing the good news that the base had produced eggs.
Lu Yuan secretly did these things without Gu Nanfeng and the others, who were waiting in line for Team Leader Liu's testing, knowing nothing about it. By the time they had all finished testing today's data, the news had spread from the research institute throughout the entire South China base.
If it weren't for the heavy blizzard inland, they would have liked to send eggs to the inland areas by helicopter. After all, there's no point in going through all that trouble to send a bunch of frozen eggs there.
Team leader Lin of the breeding group wished he could build a multi-million dollar safe to lock up and incubate these precious eggs, after all, they were the future of humanity, and couldn't be bumped or damaged. He kept running to the technical team, demanding that they custom-make incubators for these eggs according to his specifications.
One of the greatest questions in human history is: which came first, the chicken or the egg?
At least at the current South China base, they came first...
Because of the cultivation group's publicity, the commander-in-chief of the South China base took time out of his busy schedule to visit the research institute. He was an old man with white hair, who seemed to have been a senior colonel when Pei Sihao's father was still serving in the military.
Seeing the neatly arranged eggs and various seeds in the cultivation group, he patted Lu Yuan on the shoulder with admiration, praising him for his strong sense of crisis and his ability to sacrifice space to preserve the seeds for the continuation of human life amidst such chaos. He also gave Lu Yuan a generous amount of points.
Since the chief commander had arrived at the research institute, they requisitioned the institute's conference room to formally discuss the operation to eliminate the "Zombie King" at the South China Security Base.
During the meeting, Qin Yuan first reported on the situation in N City, X Province. Qin Yuan focused on explaining the situation of Du Wenqing, the "zombie king" killed by Du Wenqing, and Gu Nanfeng's suspected ability to identify zombie energy bodies through mental abilities.
Afterwards, Lin Yun introduced Qin Yuan and the others to the information that the South China Base had obtained from the other three major bases regarding the occurrence of "zombie kings" in each city.
“According to Captain Lin, the zombie kings encountered in the other three bases were all of different levels.” Gu Nanfeng summarized from Lin Yun’s introduction and continued, “When we were in N City, I detected that in addition to that incredibly powerful gray-black energy cluster, there were many energy clusters of different sizes accompanying it. I believe that zombies that can form energy clusters are zombies that have evolved superpowers, because Captain Lin, Captain Qin, and the other six of us all had energy clusters.”
"So, what they encountered might not be a 'zombie king,' but rather a high-level zombie that has evolved superpowers leading ordinary zombies in an attack on the city?" The white-haired old man sat at the main table in the conference room. Although he was nearly seventy years old, his mind was still clear.
“Yes, so far, the largest zombie energy cluster I’ve seen is Captain Du’s. When he first mutated, his energy cluster was actually about the same size as that grayish-black energy cluster, the only difference being the color. But when we left N City and met him again, his energy cluster had clearly become much larger.” Gu Nanfeng tapped the table lightly with his right hand. “The evolution among zombies may also be related to cannibalism.”
“This is indeed firsthand information. I’ll immediately share it with the other three bases.” Pei Sihao’s job at the South China base has changed to head of the information liaison department. Upon hearing what Gu Nanfeng said, he immediately instructed his subordinates to share the information.
"There are only eight of you superhumans in our base. I don't necessarily require you to kill those 'zombie kings.' The most important thing is to find more survivors and superhumans to protect yourselves." As the meeting drew to a close, the white-haired old man assigned the eight of them their first task: to go to the port city and eliminate the "zombie king" there as much as possible.
"Understood!" The eight men immediately stood up and returned at the same time, with Lin Yun and Qin Yuan instinctively giving a military salute.
This mission is no longer the kind of supply team mission they used to undertake at the G City safe base, where they went out to find food. Instead, they are now truly facing zombies.
After the meeting ended and they had lunch, the eight of them boarded Ji Lang's supply ship together. This ship was their base at sea. Ji Lang and his team did not have any special abilities and could only be ordered to provide support at sea. Now that they had Lu Yuan, they could launch yachts a certain distance from the port and ensure the safety of the supply ship.
"Actually, I could go with you guys too." Ji Lang was quite annoyed that he didn't have any superpowers. Zhong Qiang was brainless, Yang Xiao looked like he couldn't even kill a chicken, and Gu Nanfeng looked like a refined and scholarly researcher. Lu Yuan was even weaker than Yang Xiao. All of these people had superpowers, so why didn't he?
"Stop talking about this. We'll have to focus on protecting you later." Yang Xiao rolled his eyes at Ji Lang. He didn't know why, but he felt annoyed with this person from the first time he met him. He had already complained about it on the ship yesterday, and he didn't expect Ji Lang to bring it up again today.
"How could you..." Ji Lang wanted to say more, but Lin Yun interrupted him.
“Captain Ji, the matter of superpowers is still uncertain. Captain Du had superpowers and ended up becoming the ‘Zombie King.’ We have superpowers, but no one can guarantee that we won’t end up like him.” Lin Yun looked at his seven teammates. “Perhaps, not having superpowers is the best.”