Chapter 257 Ore Disease

The Jiliu Mine is located among a group of mountains.

Leman Rust tank was unable to go.

So Fu Qinghai and his companions took the airship from Jacob Town and headed there.

This is a huge armored airship with multiple decks, hydrogen to provide lift, and nuclear fusion to provide power. It is not the Praedwin airship of the Brotherhood of Steel. It is relatively smaller than it, but it can also park two Vertibird helicopters.

The Vertibird is a round, foldable tilt-rotor aircraft, a wasteland version of the Osprey, only smaller in size.

To lead Fu Qinghai to the Jiliu Mine Cave, a Feiniao helicopter would be enough, but Zhao Jianming chose to send an airship, which was somewhat like a show of military power.

But Fu Qinghai felt that the hydrogen balloon in the air was just a big dumpling with thin skin and big filling in front of him.

It has absolutely no deterrent effect.

The airship stopped moving and hovered somewhere above the mountains.

The loud noise subsided slightly.

"Is that it?"

Fu Qinghai pointed at the mountains below and asked.

The eyepiece zoomed in the field of vision, and as far as the eye could see, there were human-shaped sculptures and animal-shaped sculptures scattered all over the land. These "sculptures" were gray and black in color, with cracks all over their bodies, and a bright green light emanated from the cracks.

"Yes."

The man who led him here shouted:

"The Scorched have a hive mind. If one Scorched sees you, all Scorched see you."

Fu Qinghai nodded:

"That's exactly what I want."

Having said that, he jumped off the bow deck.

The tail flame burst out and the wings spread out.

Fu Qinghai rushed towards the Jiliu mine cave with a roar.

…

There is a natural mineral in the radiation universe that has great scientific research value and energy value - radiation chalcanthite.

In early 2083, the Enclave conducted a mutation experiment and accidentally created the mother of the virus by placing an irradiated pygmy bat in an environment with radioactive pyroxene. The mutated bat became huge in size and began to emit a deadly virus that could turn certain living or dead creatures into scorched corpses.

This is the origin of the blasted virus.

When humans or other organisms come into contact with organisms infected with the Scorched Earth virus, they will be infected with the virus.

At first, the victim's skin will turn black and quickly turn blood red within a few minutes. At the same time, the hair will fall out completely, cataracts will appear in the eyes, and green chalcanthite crystals will begin to grow from the inside of the skin. In addition to the changes on the surface of the body, the intelligence of the infected will eventually completely degenerate within a few days.

When not moving drastically or receiving commands, humans infected will enter the statue stage, where they will remain in one position until they begin to petrify from the inside out, eventually leaving behind a radioactive "sculpture".

The "sculpture" itself is very fragile, and its appearance is like a corpse covered by volcanic magma. Green galaxytrite cracks and some residual crystals are clearly all over the "sculpture". These "sculptures" will emit a special signal to attract nearby radiated creatures.

Although the scorched earth virus can infect even legendary creatures such as the Mothman, some creatures still have natural resistance to the disease, such as cats, bees, two-headed cows, etc. Super mutants and ghouls are also immune to the virus.

…

Fu Qinghai fell into the middle of a group of sculptures.

Dust was flying, and the surrounding area was filled with shattered green crystals.

He pulled out his chainsword, swung it, and walked into the cave.

"roar--"

A large number of Scorched Zombies rushed out of the mine.

Fu Qinghai swam upstream against the tide of corpses, cutting through the waves among the corpse fragments and green crystal fragments, killing people and horses in great numbers.

"Buzz…Snap!"

Fu Qinghai had just chopped the last radiated corpse into pieces.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Heavy footsteps came from inside the cave.

Fu Qinghai looked up.

A huge five-meter-high mountain of flesh walked towards them.

The bloated and fat body is almost human-shaped, with two big heads on shoulders, pale eyes without pupils, a bear paw growing from under the armpit, a deer hoof dragging by the feet, and rough sutures all over the body, with green crystals growing in the gaps between the sutures.

On the big belly in the middle, a huge mouth was opened, and the huge mouth was full of dense clusters of green ultra-green crystals. The sharp crystal clusters surrounded the huge mouth, opening and closing.

Scorched virus + Stitched Monster?

Could this be... the Scorched Abomination?

Fu Qinghai was not afraid at all and quickly stepped forward.

The Stitched Monster just raised the giant axe in his hand, and "swish", his hand was broken. Just as he raised his huge foot, "swish", his foot was broken again. Fu Qinghai was like a sword master who turned a storm of swords in front of hatred. The sharp blue teeth cut the Stitched Monster into pieces of meat. The green crystal fragments splashed in all directions, making the surrounding cave walls explode, until...

"squeak--"

A sharp hissing sounded from above the cave.

A huge pig-faced bat, more than ten meters long, flapped its wings desperately, quickly passed over Fu Qinghai's head, and flew towards the exit of the cave.

It's the Scorched Queen!

That's it.

Was the purpose of sending out the Scorched Abominations was to create an opportunity for the Scorched Queen to escape?

Fu Qinghai decisively abandoned the shattered stitched monster in front of him, turned around and stood up, with the flying backpack spewing out dazzling flames. Fu Qinghai caught up with the giant bat and chopped it down with his sword.

"Swish!"

The Scorched Queen was cut in half, and her organs mixed with green crystals sprinkled down. The giant bat slammed its head against a stone pillar in the cave, struggled for a few times, and then stopped moving.

The bodies of the Scorched Corpses are covered with Ultramarine crystals, making their skin thick and their defenses strong. The Scorched Corpse Queen, as the top of the hive consciousness, has even more blood and high defense, but in front of the indestructible Blue Fang, these are nothing but tofu dregs.

Fu Qinghai was about to go over to check.

"Ah… fuck!"

An angry curse sounded from deep within the cave.

Fu Qinghai turned around and looked.

A figure wearing a white coat and leather gloves slowly emerged from the dark and deep cave.

It was a fellow who looked like a skeleton, with dry, leathery flesh tightly attached to the bones, making him look less like a completely white skeleton. Flies buzzed around him, the fascia on both sides of his cheeks were pulling, his upper and lower jaws opened and closed, and he spoke in human language:

"Why, I don't understand why?"

It's that lich!

Fu Qinghai looked serious, leaned over and pulled out the steel sword stuck in the side of his calf, and at the same time put one hand into the bag on the side of the weapon buckle, which contained the golden brass knuckles and screaming beetles.

The lich didn't care about Fu Qinghai's little trick at all. He waved his skinny arms impatiently and said incessantly,

"You can't kill me. Every time you come to destroy the experimental organisms I cultivated with great difficulty, are you tired? Is it fun? Yeah?"

"Did you piece the scorched creatures together to form a stitched monster?"

Fu Qinghai asked.

"Yes, yes, so what."

Pale blue flames spewed from the lich's eyes, and the shadows around him were dark and distorted, affected by an unknown force.

"I also used necromancy to strengthen this virus, so that it can infect corpses and even other zombies. If you guys hadn't bothered me every now and then, I would have developed the 'ultimate virus' before the perfect humans."

Facing the tall and mighty Space Marine, the lich picked his withered nose hole and said nonchalantly.

"You also know about the 'Ultimate Virus' plan of Perfect Humanity?"

Fu Qinghai asked again.

"Why else do you think I would stay here, in this fucked up world that doesn't even have the four elements? Judging from your expression...wait, you know what I mean?"

The lich was a little surprised, as he had just said it casually.

Fu Qinghai said in a deep voice:

"Gabriel told me."

The lich was even more surprised:

"You mean you were not sent by Zhao Jianming?"

Fu Qinghai said:

"I did receive the bounty mission."

The lich snorted disdainfully and said:

"I admit that you are strong, big man, but you know nothing about the power of necromancy. Do you think you can drive me out of this cave with just that Valyrian steel weapon in your hand?"

The lich shook his head:

"Daydreaming."

Fu Qinghai took off his gauntlet and gently touched the crystal of true knowledge.

The golden dimensional gate rotates and lights up.

Chen Xinlu and Li Xingxian stepped out of the fire circle and said:

"What about us?"

The lich was slightly stunned.

Chen Xinlu held a box with black and silver carvings in her hand. She weighed it in her hand. When she saw the box, the pale blue flames in the lich's eyes suddenly surged, rising and falling with the weighing of the life box.

Chen Xinlu chuckled:

"Could this be your life box?"

"I'm so fucking..."

The lich was stunned.

He sat there in silence.

But his silence said it all.

After a long while, he slowly spoke in a hoarse voice:

"What do you want?"

Fu Qinghai laughed:

"I have a plan for you..."

…

Half an hour later.

The lich held his life box, feeling heartbroken for losing a thousand assimilation points. He looked back at Fu Qinghai fiercely and stepped into the dimensional door that was sparkling.

Fu Qinghai didn't even look at him.

He just stared at the sealed test tube in his hand and kept playing with it.

"The Scorched Earth virus... an enhanced version."

Fu Qinghai muttered to himself,

"Coming to the Resident Evil movie universe this time is already enough."

The lich's name is Griffiths, a necromancer from the DND universe and a senior plague expert. However, his worldview in this science fiction universe is quite repressive.

He accidentally discovered the "ultimate virus" plan of perfect humans, which was the "breeding poison" plan speculated by Fu Qinghai. After that, he ignored the suppression of his worldview and stayed in the Resident Evil movie universe.

He wanted to take advantage of the perfect human's "breeding poison" plan to carry out his own research on plague and disease. Biologists are not the only ones who study viruses and bacteria. Necromancers are also experts in disease and pain.

Just like their benevolent father Nurgle, the plagues and diseases created by the Necromancers have stronger psionic magical attributes and weaker scientific reality attributes.

Griffith used the caves near the Glowing Sea as his base and the irradiated virus released by Zhao Jianming as his subject. He conducted his own research on the virus, using magical mysticism methods that were completely different from the genetic engineering methods of perfect humans.

The radiated corpse virus can infect corpses. Griffith used necromancy to enhance this infection ability so that it can infect other zombies. Because there are almost no survivors on this earth, Griffith lacks a sufficient source of corpses and can only think of a way from the zombies.

In exchange for the enhanced virus sample + research data + one thousand assimilation points, Fu Qinghai returned the life box to Griffiths and let him leave the Jiliu Mine.

After that, his research will turn to the Blue Blood Ruins.

…

Fu Qinghai was sitting in the carriage.

In his hand was an irregular, translucent green crystal.

This is the radioactive pyroxene.

Due to the impact of nuclear war and doomsday, this mineral is not systematically developed and applied in the game.

The pyrotechnic power armor has increased energy resistance, and the pyrotechnic laser gun has special attacks only against radiated creatures.

Because the scientific research capabilities in the doomsday wasteland can no longer be compared with those before the war, the major forces are busy fighting for survival and have no intention of thoroughly studying the deep value of the extreme liulin minerals.

Only a message found by the player in the terminal of the glass cave depicts a grand prospect:

"Welcome to Roco Industries(TM) Terminal Connection."

"If you have any doubts about what we are doing, I will let Dr. Eckert show you the generator technology his team is working on.

"That chunk of radioactive pyroxene is still powering the generator. Once it's done, it could power the entire mine. Do the math, damn it. Let Dr. Eckert do the math for you."

"Radialite will be the fuel source for the entire nation in the future. We are not going to stop researching it because of a few protesters. Let the politicians worry about that."

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(End of this chapter)