Apocalypse: The Stronghold System

Chapter 103: Behind the First and Second Disasters?

Fan Chen looked at the zombie corpse as big as a headless building, and for some reason he felt that there was a threatening danger coming from this corpse. "Seat without a trace, remove the Plasma Cannon."

Just saying that, the black clouds in the sky split open with a huge hole, revealing a dense white light. This light illuminated the dark night, even the Wood Protection City until it could see it.

Boom up!

The light hit the corpse of a giant zombie, causing a loud explosion with molten or evaporating rocks. Although the light had no mass and it should have been impossible to make an explosion sound, but when it hit the corpse, it blew up the corpse and smashed the rocks, the explosion came from there. And, when the electrical process burns gas into plasma, this process produces a sound that sounds like an explosion or rumble.

Especially when firing it, the sound produced will be louder, and will sound slower because the plasma shot is faster than the speed of sound.

Fan Chen looked at the ground that was melting, turning into hot lava within a radius of 500 meters. He went there, observing that there was nothing left.

But just as he was about to leave, the vision system managed to catch an object moving over the lava.

He approached the moving object, and he saw it was a fairly large worm, having a diameter as thick as a little finger and a length of about 23 centimeters.

This worm has wrinkles all over the body, the back of the tail looks there are sharp thorns like fangs, or maybe like a heavy sting. The head, which has no eyes, has a mouth with sharp teeth that sparkle like metal.

Fan Chen takes a tube made of glass that has temperature resistance with temperature -350° — 1,500° Celsius, and is able to withstand pressure up to 15,000 psi.

This glass is very hard, even stronger than the glass used for spacecraft today. This glass also has a thickness of 1.5 cm, is able to withstand a maximum load of 500 kg, and is able to withstand bullet fire at a speed of 1,687.5 m/s.

The glass is capable of withstanding fire from SVLK-13S Sumrak with 408 CheyTak (10.3 × 77 mm) bullets coming out of the barrel at 900 m/s.

Fan Chen opened the lid of the glass tube made of 0.5 cm thick hard metal. This glass tube itself was indeed used to store strange objects as he saw this time, before, he also took a little zombie meat and stored it in another tube for research purposes.

He took out an iron rod that was usually used to catch snakes, he used this to take out worms that were trying to escape, and then locked them inside a glass tube.

The worm inside looked wild, it slammed its body against the glass wall violently, making a sound like a small bang, but fortunately the glass did not get scratches at all.

"This worm, what mutated worm? Is this the brain of this big zombie? But, the hundreds of zombie corpses that every day came to the headquarters, did not have worms in them. This worm is also able to withstand plasma attacks with a temperature of 10,000° Celsius."

Fan Chen pondered about it for a while, trying to figure out what kind of worm this was capable of withstanding the high temperature, and was currently still continuously banging his body in the glass tube.

"This has to be meticulous, I'm going to meet Academy Song, and it should be that after a long time, the research data on Wind Pigeons has come out."

Fan Chen stored the glass tube inside the box made of titanium, then he flew towards the southwest to return to Mingyue Defense.

With a speed of Mach 5, Fan Chen only needed 17 seconds to arrive at Mingyue Defense. He looked at Fan Xiaoyu and Katerina who were waiting for him on the outer wall that was already illuminated. The two stood expectantly, looking worried, and the HK Armor stood behind in an open condition, ready to catch in case of any danger situation.

"Waiting long?"

"No ..." Fan Xiaoyu shook his head and said, "It's only been ten minutes, but the Mil Mi-26 Helicopter hasn't arrived yet, we both went home first."

"Sister, what is this?" Fan Xiaoyu pointed at the silvery-gray metal box that her brother was carrying.

"Storage box, there is an unknown object inside, I want to meet Academy Song and ask him to research this object. I feel this object is the reason behind the First and Second Disasters."

Although Fan Chen knew that Gaia was behind all of this, it was according to the system, but he could not directly swallow the information. He wanted to make sure it was directly real data.

"But ..." Fan Chen looked at the time already showing at 20:31. "It's been five hours since Song Academy returned from the Ecology Laboratory."

Fan Chen paused for a moment, then again said, "It shouldn't matter, after all this is very important." He looked at Fan Xiaoyu and Katerina. "Let's go together."

At Level 05 Refuge, he obtained the Villa Blueprint, or, arguably the mansion because it was over 500 square meters in size, and had luxurious facilities inside.

The residence of Academy Song at the top of the cliff with a height of 20 meters from the ground level of Mingyue Defense, and to go up there must use the escalator stairs.

Those who were able to have a residence like this were still Scientists and Engineers who made great contributions to Mingyue Defense. Katerina, could have it, but refused, and chose to stay at the Hospital.

It didn't take long to arrive at the mansion, he saw Academician Song sitting on a poolside chair, waiting for Song Meiya to finish grilling the meat.

Fan Chen landed slowly on top of the pond, making water splatter in all directions.

"Song Academy, I know this is disrespectful when it comes to recess. But, I need your help researching the objects in the box."

Academy Song took a towel to clean the water splashing onto his body. "What object?"

Fan Chen moved to the edge of the pool on the other side, then jumped out of the HK Armor and stored it.

Unlike Fan Chen, Fan Xiaoyu and Katerina who landed, directly sent the HK Armor to return to the sky to patrol.

Fan Chen opened the titanium box, took out a glass tube containing worms.

Academy Song wore glasses, he saw worms that kept banging his head and tail into the tube.

"Worms?" Academy Song was shocked, his eyes wide open. Then he looked up at Fan Chen and said, "Captain, we also found a worm like this in the brain of the Wind Pigeon, but it was very small, needle-thin and along the index finger. We suspect these worms are the reason why animals can mutate, these worms take control of the animal's body, use it as a host to thrive."

"But, because these worms are so small, we found no more information. But with a worm of this size, it is expected to be able to dig up more information."

Fan Chen pondered, trying to think further about the worm that was inside the tube. "You think, once this worm has developed, will it come out of the host's body and spawn more worms?"

Academy Song shook his head. "I don't think it has the ability to take over its host body by damaging the brain, but it has no other ability. The small worm does not have high body resistance, it is because when we remove it from the brain of the Wind Pigeon, this worm looks weak and almost dead, he said, so we keep it in a cultivation tube to preserve its life."

"Did all mutant animals have parasitic worms in their brains?"

Academy Song shook his head and replied, "No, just Level 80 — 100, we currently do not know the reason. Then for the animals in Mingyue Defense, it is certain to be free from parasitic worms, so it is safe to consume."

Academy Song took his robe hanging on the chair and put it on. "Come to the lab." He issued an identification.

Fan Chen nodded, he followed Academy Song into the house, went to the kitchen section and there was a two-door refrigerator.

With a wave of identification marks in front of the refrigerator, the refrigerator door opens, showing an elevator connected to the Ecology Laboratory inside the cliff with a laboratory area of 600 square meters (30 × 20), and, it has five floors.

This laboratory is only temporary, after the Main Project Volume 2 (Underground City) is completed, all the laboratories inside the cliff will be moved, and all the laboratories will be moved, and the empty space inside the cliff will again be filled with solid rocks and soil.

It could have been left empty, but Fan Chen did not want to when there was an earthquake, suddenly the cliff collapsed due to the empty inside.

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