The plan to kill the King of Zombies, the King of Zombies appears

 "Head of State, you're watching this video."

Liu Xiamu pointed at the video and continued, "The capture of the Chief Administrator proceeded unusually smoothly, but as he was leaving, all the zombies around emerged, letting out demonstration-like howls, and one of them even attempted to block his path."

"After the zombie horde broke out of Qingzhou, based on footage captured from high altitude, the Zombie King went to Tongzhou, while Blackstone Province is in the opposite direction of Tongzhou. Therefore, it can be confirmed that the Zombie King is not in Blackstone Province."

"Combining this with the attacks on the three retreat evacuation forces from Tongzhou, Wuzhou, and Quanzhou, I speculate that the Zombie King is not only able to control the actions of all zombies within a certain range, but also able to understand through the zombies what they have experienced or encountered."

Liu Xiamu paused and fiddled with the mouse casually.

The video on the laptop screen shifted, playing back a high-altitude footage.

"Head of State, this is the best evidence."

Liu Xiamu pointed at the video.

In the footage, after Li Changqing successfully captured a live zombie, all the zombies that were previously acting independently in various cities suddenly switched to collective actions.

Each group of zombies consisted of more than ten individuals, and the distance between them was not far.

Moreover, all the zombies periodically raised their heads and gazed towards the sky.

Once the video finished playing, Liu Xiamu pulled up another video.

This video had been edited.

It showed Xiao Wenjing annihilating Huanzhou's police force, scaring away tens of thousands of refugees in Huanzhou with just her presence, forcefully destroying a blocked highway, infecting a large area of Huanzhou, devouring survivors, and Xiao Wenjing grabbing a human to teach her how to read books.

After watching this video, Wu Boxue's heart was filled with astonishment, and the muscles around his eyes twitched.

"Oh my god!"

Kathy also let out a gasp, covering her mouth with her hands.

"When I first saw this video, my reaction was the same as yours."

"I immediately conducted another observation and analysis of the zombies within the fifteen cities and came to a conclusion."

"This female zombie is the second one, besides the Zombie King we've discovered, that possesses intelligence."

"But based on her behavior, it seems that she only has rudimentary intelligence and has not yet mastered its use."

Subsequently, Liu Xiamu pulled up several video screenshots.

The protagonist in all of these videos was Xiao Wenjing.

"And in these images, the actions of this female zombie were all unconscious."

"From unconscious actions to single-handedly annihilating hundreds of Huanzhou's police, unilaterally blocking the highway, and grabbing a human to learn how to read books, this proves that she has grown."

"Combined with the emergence of zombies with various abilities, it also indicates that this growth is the evolution proposed by the Research Department."

After finishing his speech, Liu Xiamu shifted his gaze from the video to Wu Boxue, waiting for his response.

"Phew!"

Wu Boxue exhaled deeply, marveling at the speed of the zombies' growth.

In such a short period of time, they had evolved to possess intelligence and become so powerful.

If this was allowed to continue unchecked, the blockade of the moat would be powerless to stop the zombies' expansion.

Then, Wu Boxue looked at the zombie locked in the iron cage, his throat working, but unable to utter a word.

Based on Liu Xiamu's deduction, if the Zombie King was truly able to understand through the zombies what they had experienced or encountered, then the questions he was about to ask would be known to the Zombie King.

Li Changqing immediately discerned Wu Boxue's concerns and led him into a soundproof room within the laboratory.

Once the door was closed, Wu Boxue asked with relief, "What about the trace of the Zombie King?"

"Leader, the Zombie King drove out of Huanzhou and is still within our surveillance range."

"Moreover, before the female zombie demonstrated those conscious actions, she had two encounters with the Zombie King."

"Academician Liu also speculates that the evolution of intelligence in zombies may be related to the Zombie King."

As Li Changqing spoke, he used his laptop to pull up the videos of Xiao Wenjing entering the Huanzhou building twice, as well as Lin Chuan exiting the building and driving away from Huanzhou.

 In addition, there were also live aerial tracking footage being transmitted back.

"Li Changqing, given that we know the specific whereabouts of the Zombie King, do you have confidence in killing it?" Wu Boxue asked Li Changqing with a determined gaze after watching the video.

Li Changqing immediately furrowed his brows and looked at Liu Xiamu beside him.

At present, they only knew the whereabouts of the Zombie King, but nothing about his abilities and strength.

Whether he could kill it or not, Li Changqing did not know.

Therefore, he dared not answer.

"Governor, I believe we can try," Liu Xiamu suggested.

"The Zombie King can control the zombie army and will not easily reveal its strength. If we want to know more about it, we can only take the initiative to attack and force it to act.

"Even if we can't kill the Zombie King, we can still gain secrets about it through this method. We can also prepare defenses in advance based on the actual situation."

"Alright, then let's immediately initiate the operation to kill the Zombie King and the intelligent zombies," Wu Boxue ordered.

"Li Changqing, you will personally be in charge of commanding this operation."

"In addition, tomorrow morning, the first batch of airdropped supplies will be sent to each city. Order the surviving police personnel in the blockaded cities to launch mobile counterattacks against the zombies to slow down their development and gain sufficient time for the research on the Zombie King and zombies."

With Liu Xiamu's support, Wu Boxue immediately issued the orders.

"Yes," Li Changqing accepted the mission without hesitation.

He fully understood the urgency behind Wu Boxue's "immediately."

Without wasting a single second in the soundproof room, he quickly left.

After leaving the laboratory, Li Changqing immediately issued an order to the person in charge outside to convene a meeting of all elite personnel in the military base.

He also gave orders to notify all fighter jets to enter combat readiness.

Capturing live zombies required preparation and personnel selection.

Killing the Zombie King was ten to one hundred times more difficult, and Li Changqing could not afford to be careless.

...

As Li Changqing left, Liu Xiamu's eyes revealed a trace of concern.

He hoped that the Zombie King could be successfully killed, but he also hoped that it would survive the attack.

According to the current speculation of the research department, if the Zombie King were to die, the disaster would essentially be over.

The survivors of the fifteen cities would be saved, and the Wu Kingdom would return to peace.

However, Liu Xiamu was unsure whether the Zombie King's life was connected to the zombie horde.

The Zombie King could control all zombies, and if it died, would the zombie horde follow suit?

If all zombies were suddenly wiped out, it would pose a challenge for the research department's future studies.

But for the safety of the entire nation, Liu Xiamu had to support the plan to kill the Zombie King.

Research difficulties were just difficulties.

With years or decades of effort, they could eventually be overcome.

But people could not be revived once they died.

Wu Boxue's blockade of the fifteen cities had already made Liu Xiamu feel uneasy, and he could not allow his own research to continue to doom the survivors of those cities.