This Wave of Zombies is No Good - Chapter 33
Fang Yanzhou explained, “The R reagent we developed has some side effects. Although it can quickly repair cells, accelerate wound healing, and make the recipient more perfect, the current side effect is that the body will become more sensitive, more prone to pain, and the stress protective response is stronger. That is, before the cells start to repair, it will aggravate the injury…”
“What does this mean?” Zou Fang didn’t understand.
Fang Yanzhou sighed for the inability to communicate, and tried to organize his thoughts into a language that Zou Fang could understand, “For example, it’s like people will have a fever. It seems that the fever is worsening the condition, but in fact, the fever is due to the pyrogen directly acting on the temperature regulation center, the temperature regulation center function disorder or various reasons causing excessive heat production, reduced heat dissipation, leading to body temperature rising above the normal range. When you have a fever, your immune system will be enhanced, which is a protective mechanism. The side effect of the R reagent is that it causes the sudden opening of the overly strong protective mechanism, which will cause the human body to be unable to adapt.”
“So what will the side effects lead to?” Zou Fang still didn’t understand, almost saying a sentence in human language.
Fang Yanzhou further simplified the summary, “Dizziness, emergency shock, severe pain, fever, increased bleeding, generally appear about 1 hour after the injury, then the body’s cells begin to repair, will accelerate the recovery, the stress response will also disappear. There may be other side effects. We will check where the problem is and improve it in the future. Of course, the benefits of the R regeant will gradually manifest, it can further enhance the physique, complete the limit that ordinary people cannot do.”
Zou Fang nodded, half-understanding, but did not pursue it further.
His understanding was that the unstable side effects of the R reagent were contrary to the original intention of this drug development. The original purpose of this drug development was to hope that the recipient’s wounds could recover quickly, relieve pain, and make soldiers fearless of death.
“The current drug is not perfect, but other advantages are also very obvious. Just by being able to pull the seriously injured person back from the line of life and death, it’s enough to surprise people.”
“Did you see my younger brother this time?” Zou Fang asked again.
Fang Yanzhou nodded, “I saw him.”
“And still with the one surnamed Yu?”
“Yes.”
The air froze for a moment, silent.
In the end, Zou Fang sneered, “This time it’s quite mature. I’m not afraid if he plays, I’m afraid if he’s serious. Next time we meet, I have to meet that surnamed Yu in person.”
Fang Yanzhou suddenly asked a seemingly irrelevant question, “I don’t quite understand something, why would the army commander allow Zou Lang to go to K Division?”
“Actually, you can see that my father has always let me and Zou Lang go to exercise, like I have been to many dangerous environments in my early years, and my father also supported Zou Lang when he first went to the rescue team, but he strongly opposed him going to K Division because the missions of K Division is too dangerous.” Zou Fang paused slightly, “But later my father changed his mind, because in the current environment, there is no place that can be called safe, and K Division is relatively simple.”
Fang Yanzhou nodded, “Nowadays, more and more people know about the ‘key’, and your Zou family will become more and more dangerous.”
Zou Fang took a breath and said, “From my personal point of view, I even doubt the existence of the ‘key’, at least I have never heard my father mention anything about the key.”
Twenty-two years ago, a huge tragedy occurred, leading to the closure of the 285 Research Institute, and the series of incidents triggered by this still affect the political situation today.
The genius doctor Jiang Shuhuai left a testament at that time, saying that there would be a major disaster in the world, and he left a “key” to close Pandora’s box for the world.
No one cared about this sentence at the time, until the outbreak of the zombie virus.
When people started desperately looking for solutions, this sentence was brought up again.
Many people have reason to suspect that this “key” was held in the hands of Zou Rui, who went to search the 285 Research Institute, that was, the father of Zou Fang and Zou Lang.
Nowadays, whether it was the reformist or the conservative faction, the Zou family that held the “key” and the military had become their object of wooing and threatening.
At this point in the conversation, the communication device that Zou Fang was carrying suddenly rang, Zou Fang picked it up and looked at it for a moment, his expression changed slightly, “Wait, I have to leave for a while.”
“Oh? Something happened?” Fang Yanzhou said as he led Zou Fang out.
“It’s my useless younger brother, it seems to be in trouble again.”
“How so?”
“The student assessment of K Division, someone took advantage of a loophole.”
“Are you going to take action?”
“Probably not.” Zou Fang’s steps were hurried, but not flustered, he made a metaphor to explain, “There is a piece of candy, the more you hold it in your palm, the more others will know that you cherish it, the more you put it casually, the less people will care about it. They just want to kill or capture my younger brother, to threaten my father to hand over the ‘key’ or military power, but based on my understanding of my father, even if our whole family dies, he will not hand over anything. Those people will soon find out that the road is impassable and will give up.”
As they spoke, the two of them got on the elevator and walked to the door of the research institute.
“But even so, I still have to go back and deal with it. This time, the target may not only be my younger brother, but also the K Division.”
“Has it come to such a point of armed confrontation?” Fang Yanzhou lowered his head, as if talking to himself, then he opened his mouth and said, “That’s a pity, I thought I could have dinner with the colonel.” There was an undisguised perfunctory feeling in his tone. It was as if he had met an unfamiliar person on the road and casually asked if he had eaten.
Zou Fang turned his head and looked at Fang Yanzhou, his expression was always serious, “Next time, there will be a chance.”
In N City, the sun finally set completely, the entire city fell into darkness, after casually eating something and cleaning up half a street, the four-man squad began to look around.
Yu Jingting looked at a row of Sha County snacks, printing shops, kitchen and sanitary shops, and asked the other three, “Where are we sleeping tonight?”
“From my personal point of view, I recommend the third one, this building has two floors, multiple rooms, and can rest better.” Zou Lang said.
Wei Lin nodded, “From a strategic perspective, this building is easy to defend and hard to attack, relatively safe.”
“Looking around, it seems that the third one is more suitable…” He Ye also agreed.
Three votes were cast.
Yu Jingting turned his head and looked at the sign of the third shop on the street, which read “Fragrant Foot Massage Parlor”…
He wanted to say something, but Zou Lang and He Ye already had their arms on each other’s shoulders and walked in familiarly, while Wei Lin followed silently with his bag on his back.
As if they wanted to accompany each other for a big, protective, and healthy time.
Yu Jingting had never been to such a place before. He struggled with his thoughts at the door, but finally followed in, at least there was a bed inside.
The foot massage shop was dark, and there were no zombies that had turned from the foot massage girls to greet them. There were traces of blood in several rooms, indicating that a tragedy had happened here. The foot massage shop was not big, and everyone quickly checked around. There were a total of eight rooms on the second floor.
“Choose a room with windows for easy retreat.” Yu Jingting said.
Suddenly, He Ye walked over in the dark and said, “Instructor, I want to ask you a few moves. Let’s sleep together tonight.”
Yu Jingting gladly accepted, “Okay.”
In the darkness, Zou Lang and Wei Lin’s faces sank.
Wei Lin was the first to speak, “How come I never noticed before that you’re so eager to learn?”
“I…” He Ye had never noticed before that Wei Lin spoke in such a strange tone, and was momentarily at a loss for words.
Zou Lang coughed lightly and said, “Hey, dead 38, with so many rooms, can’t you let the instructor have a good sleep?”
He Ye was full of question marks, “Why can’t we sleep well together?”
Zou Lang said seriously, “Don’t you have a clue that you snore in your sleep?”
“I snore in my sleep? You guys never told me, and my previous teammates never mentioned it!” He Ye couldn’t believe it.
“If you don’t believe it, ask Wei Lin.” Zou Lang pushed Wei Lin out.
Wei Lin touched his nose and said, “Hmm… there is such a thing.”
“Then why has no one ever said it?” He Ye was confused and skeptical.
“Probably… they’re afraid you’ll hit them.” Wei Lin explained.
“Then I’ll sleep by myself.” He Ye stiffened his neck and said indignantly.
“Let’s go, it’s safer for two people in a room, I’m not afraid of your snoring.” Wei Lin happily led He Ye away by the collar.
Yu Jingting watched their backs and sighed, couldn’t help but feel, silly and happy children are too easy to fool…
Zou Lang was quite satisfied with this result. He went in and put his bag on the foot massage bed.
This room was just a bathroom, the two of them simply washed up, Zou Lang pushed the foot massage bed, combined two foot massage beds into a double bed. He patted the bed and said, “Instructor, come on!”
“Hold on!” Yu Jingting began to pile up things within reach of the head of the bed, ropes, grenades, silent pistols, daggers… Finally, he inserted his long knife in the middle, and then curled up on the bed, his eyes shining brightly at Zou Lang, “Sleep.”
Zou Lang only felt himself soften…
At this time, in another room, He Ye went out to check the shower room of the foot massage shop, turned on the switch, and a sound of water came. He was as excited as if he had discovered a new world and said to Wei Lin, “There is still water, I’m going to take a cold shower!”
Wei Lin nodded and began to tidy up the room.
Today, He Ye had the worst of it, being splashed with blood from two zombies, and his hair was full of blood scabs. He hastily took a cold shower, wiped his hair with a clean towel from the foot massage shop, and walked in with a military flashlight in his mouth.
Wei Lin had already tidied up the room, half lying on the foot massage bed, also holding a military flashlight in his hand. He looked up and saw under the dim light, He Ye’s upper body was still not dressed, and water droplets were clinging to his eight-pack abs and Adonis belt.
As soon as He Ye entered the room, he also saw Wei Lin. At this time, Wei Lin was leaning on the foot massage chair, had taken off his hat, his hair was a bit messy, and he was holding…holding…a book.
Wait a minute?
He Ye almost thought he had seen it wrong!
A book?!!!
A book called “Operation Guidance and Maintenance of Submarines”?!!!
At that moment, He Ye was so surprised that he opened his mouth wide, and the military flashlight fell out of his mouth.
He Ye felt that even if he came out of the shower and saw Wei Lin holding a c*ndom, he would not be so surprised, but Wei Lin with a book in his hand!
They were parachuted in from thousands of miles away to fight zombies, and of all things, he brought a book?!!!
And it’s such a boring book!
He Ye finally couldn’t help but curse, “Wei Lin! Are you a freak?” He looked like a little cheetah, with it’s fur standing on end.
“Me? A freak?” Wei Lin looked at him, a puzzled expression on his face.
“Why did you bring a book?”
“Didn’t you hear the rules? Books are not prohibited.”
“That’s not the point, is it?”
At that moment, He Ye’s anger reached its peak!
This was the anger of a poor student towards a top student. He Ye wished he could pin Wei Lin to the ground and give him a good beating!
Could it be that this person has become obsessed with this book? Is the book actually his true form?
Wei Lin looked calm. “Hasn’t anyone ever told you that knowledge is power? And that knowledge can save lives?”
Upon hearing this, He Ye became even angrier.
The soundproofing in the foot massage shop wasn’t very good. Yu Jingtang was about to go to sleep when he heard voices. He listened carefully but couldn’t hear clearly, and frowned slightly, “It seems like there’s a quarrel next door, I’ll go check it out.”
Zou Lang held him back, “Instructor, don’t go! Let them be. As long as there are no zombies, it’s fine.” Then Zou Lang took something out of his pocket, tore the packaging, and stuffed it into Yu Jingtang’s mouth.
Yu Jingtang subconsciously opened his mouth and bit down, feeling a sweet taste in his mouth.
It was a piece of candy.
“I picked it up when I passed by a small supermarket today, unfortunately, there was only one.” Zou Lang patted him and said, “Go to sleep.”
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