Chapter 71: Blood Plague Serum
Under the modern firepower, a few Zombies couldn't stir up much of a wave at all.
The northern suburbs were at least an hour's drive from the high-tech zone.
So by the time Xu Zhengyang arrived at the scene, those few Zombies had already been shot dead.
In addition to that.
There were also over ten pedestrians who had been attacked and killed, piled up alongside the Zombie corpses in a small square by the roadside, with a warning line drawn around the square.
No one knew how the Zombie virus was transmitted, so before the chemical defense equipment arrived.
No one dared to approach the warning line!
As for those pedestrians injured by the Zombies.
They had now been gathered and isolated, sent to a special hospital for treatment.
Seeing this, Xu Zhengyang felt a bit relieved and said, "Fortunately, my task is to collect blood plague samples, not to kill Zombies. Otherwise, I would have failed the mission before I even arrived..."
At that moment.
Two military green camouflage vans rushed to the scene.
Once the vehicles stopped.
More than ten soldiers dressed in fully enclosed chemical defense suits streamed out of one of the vans.
Each pair of them carried a stretcher.
Upon arriving at the scene, they immediately placed the Zombie corpses and the pedestrian corpses onto the stretchers and carried them into the other van.
Seeing this, Xu Zhengyang's heart stirred.
So he rolled over and quietly slipped into the van where the bodies were stored, like a raccoon.
The soldiers moved quickly.
In just two minutes, seven Zombie corpses and twelve pedestrian corpses were loaded into the van.
After placing all the Zombie bodies in the van, the soldiers immediately closed the doors.
...
Feeling the vehicle had started moving.
Xu Zhengyang finally felt bold enough to begin rummaging through the Zombie corpses, searching for the "blood plague samples" on their bodies.
Not knowing which part of the Zombie was the "blood plague sample," he could only try one by one.
After a moment.
When Xu Zhengyang saw the number on the task bar change from (0/3) to (1/3), he exclaimed in surprise, "So the blood plague sample is the Zombie's heart!"
As he spoke.
Xu Zhengyang immediately took action, extracting the hearts from all seven Zombie corpses and storing them in his Dimensional Space Pocket.
After doing all this.
Xu Zhengyang cleaned the blood off himself and then hid beside the van door, waiting for the vehicle to stop and the doors to open.
...
After driving for more than forty minutes.
The vehicle finally reached its destination, coming to a screeching halt.
The moment the chemical defense soldiers opened the van doors, Xu Zhengyang, like a spider, crawled out directly from the ceiling of the van and hid on the roof.
Two minutes later.
Once the soldiers had moved all the corpses out of the van, locked the doors, and left, Xu Zhengyang jumped down from the roof and returned to his shelter...
*An hour and a half later.
As soon as Xu Zhengyang stepped into the shelter's area, a series of system subtitles appeared before him:
[Main Task: Blood Plague Sample (Completed)]
[Reward: Blood Plague Serum *2]
With the system prompt appearing, two futuristic syringe-like injectors appeared in Xu Zhengyang's hands.
Xu Zhengyang performed a Detection on the injectors:
[Blood Plague Serum]
[Effect: After use, it grants carbon-based life forms complete immunity to the blood plague virus]
(Warning: Please store the Blood Plague Serum in an environment of -20° to -18°)
After reading the attributes of the Blood Plague Serum, for safety, Xu Zhengyang immediately used one of the serums on his arm.
Immediately after.
He hurried back to his medical room and stored the remaining serum in the medical room's refrigerator.
Just as Xu Zhengyang finished all this and was about to leave the medical room, a series of system prompts suddenly appeared before him: [You successfully created two doses of Blood Plague Serum. Your medical room has a new crafting list: (Blood Plague Serum)]
[Blood Plague Sample (3) = Blood Plague Serum (1)]
Seeing the system prompt appear, Xu Zhengyang felt a surge of joy; he hadn't expected this timed challenge task would yield such unexpected rewards! Xu Zhengyang exclaimed in delight, "In that case, once I get some more blood plague samples, I'll send a few Blood Plague Serums to Uncle Chen as well."
After saying this.
Xu Zhengyang returned to his beach-style bedroom and began to enjoy this rare leisure time!
Three days later.
After enjoying two days of leisure time in the shelter, Xu Zhengyang felt like his bones were about to turn to mush.
But the shelter wouldn't be completed for another twenty days, and he had no new tasks to undertake before the expansion was finished.
At that moment.
Xu Zhengyang had a thought and set a goal for himself: "Let's go browse the antique markets across the country! Maybe I can find some oddities to increase my Mental Strength! At the very least, I might pick up a few bargains to replenish my dwindling funds!"
With that said.
Xu Zhengyang immediately had Da Bai book him a plane ticket to the capital and also asked Da Bai to book a hotel near Panjiayuan.
*I must say.
Those ancient monks and Taoists in our country really had something.
Xu Zhengyang spent twenty days wandering through various antique markets across the country, not only setting two small goals for himself.
More importantly.
He also bought an oddity that could increase his mental limit by 3 points:
[Peace Charm]
[Effect: Wearing it increases Mental Strength limit by 3 points]
...
After returning to the shelter.
The third phase of the shelter's expansion, overseen by Da Bai, was now nearing completion.
Once everything was finished.
Xu Zhengyang followed Da Bai's design plans and used the four-dimensional cube to reconstruct the layout of the shelter.
Finally, a system prompt appeared before Xu Zhengyang: [Main Task: Expansion III (Completed)]
[Reward: Shelter Plugin · Electromagnetic Shield]
...
[Shelter Plugin · Electromagnetic Shield]
[Effect: When equipped in the Shelter Control Center, you can consume energy to generate a spherical electromagnetic shield centered around your shelter for protection.]
After reading the attributes of this Shelter Plugin, Xu Zhengyang couldn't help but exclaim, "Awesome!"
With that said.
Xu Zhengyang immediately went to the Shelter Control Center to install the electromagnetic shield plugin!
It was now eight in the evening.
At this time, Baicheng was already shrouded in darkness, so Xu Zhengyang didn't hold back and directly ordered Da Bai, "Da Bai, start the power generator at full capacity; I want to test the defense of the electromagnetic shield!"
"Yes, Master."
Before Da Bai could finish speaking, the boiler's blower at the power plant had already started running at full speed, and the turbine's rotation speed had reached the maximum limit of the unit!