Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse - Chapter 994: The Origin of the Zombie Virus Revealed
Chapter 994: Chapter 994: The Origin of the Zombie Virus Revealed
The journey of over a dozen days didn’t make the family feel exhausted, as they would stop and rest for two days at each base, including at Lian Jiyue’s E City base.
To express gratitude this time towards Lian Jiyue, Su Jin also offered 1000 Snow Spirit Flowers to the E City base, which left Lian Jiyue feeling deeply honored and surprised.
“Don’t forget to invite me when something interesting happens.”
As they parted, Lian Jiyue reminded them.
“As long as you’re not busy, you can come find us anytime.”
Lu Hao smiled and said.
…
In the S City base, it wasn’t until the day after the Heart Talk Team returned that Liang Jiuhui learned about what had happened at the B City base, including Su Jin’s advancement to Level Nine Wood Element.
Lian Ze, Tang Xue, and others were also present, and after listening to the accounts of Su Jin and Lu Hao, Tang Xue couldn’t help but fret for the B City base.
“So Su Jin, how many Snow Spirit Flowers do you still have?”
Lian Ze didn’t seem concerned about Han Jin’s matters and directly asked about the Snow Spirit Flowers.
“Uh…how many flowers does your research require? I brought back quite a lot this time.”
Su Jin wasn’t sure of the appropriate number to say, fearing she might frighten everyone.
“2000 flowers for vaccine research, and the more left over, the better. We can produce as much antidote as we have flowers,”
Lian Ze gave a conservative number.
“Okay, I’ll first provide 5000 flowers.”
Su Jin’s response shocked everyone present, and Liang Jiuhui nearly fell off his seat.
“5000 flowers? Su Jin, how do you have so many?!”
Liang Jiuhui exclaimed.
“Well, after experiencing a Zombie Tide, and I’m at Level Nine Special Ability now,”
Su Jin again intended to brush it off with an excuse.
No one really knew the power of the Level Nine Wood Element Ability, and since Liang Jiuhui knew that Su Jin’s Man-eating Flower could nurture Snow Spirit Flowers after consuming zombies, Su Jin successfully evaded the questioning.
…
In the fourth year of the Apocalypse, aside from the increasingly powerful mutated zombies outside the bases, everything seemed to be moving in a positive direction.
With the antidote and Snow Spirit Flowers, more and more teams ventured out. By the end of the fourth year, almost all of Huaxia had heard of the Snow Spirit Flowers.
Consequently, various large and small bases, including those in G Province, K Province, and X Province, began flocking to S City base to purchase the antidote.
As one of the largest suppliers of Snow Spirit Flowers, the Heart Talk Team collected crystal cores by the handful daily, and even both Heart Talk Stores began selling Snow Spirit Flowers, making them even busier.
“I heard Boss Guo’s child from the Heart Talk Store was born. Is it a boy or a girl?”
“It’s a boy. Though Boss Guo said he wanted a girl, he’s actually so happy he can’t stop smiling.”
“Well, kids are precious these days, who’s worried about boy or girl?”
“No wonder I’ve seen Captain Su and Captain Lu busy at the Heart Talk Store these days. Seems like Boss Guo is off on paternity leave, haha!”
“…”
Like Su Jin, Liao Yifan chose the most convenient method since the Apocalypse, a cesarean section. She recovered positions within two hours after surgery and was already walking.
However, Liao Yifan’s swift recovery startled Guo Yang when she ran directly to her baby in excitement.
“Guo Yang, stop pouting. Boys are fine. We can have a little sister later on.”
Long-haired Liao Yifan smiled at the sleeping baby in the crib. Just like Su Jin said, meeting a netizen felt familiarly unfamiliar.
Having gone through pregnancy and childbirth, Liao Yifan no longer felt that giving birth was painful. So when she saw Guo Yang sigh that it wasn’t a little “pink wedding,” she boldly suggested they could have a sister later.
“Better not. Yifan, you’ve always wanted to go out, right? I felt sorry seeing you stuck in the base after pregnancy,”
Guo Yang said. He actually wanted to go out with Liao Yifan, like joining a team. Boys or not, their Lu Xi was bubbling with cuteness every day anyway.
“I do want to, but we’ll wait a few more months; he’s still so little.”
Liao Yifan got excited hearing about going out. Now that she had delivered, but then seeing the little baggage, she felt a bucket of cold water poured on her. She should first raise this tiny bundle a bit…
Along with the public revelation of the antidote, Tang Xue and Chang Xuan also jointly with meteorologists and scientists publicized their analysis report on the origin of the Apocalypse.
In the scientists’ view like Tang Xue, the appearance of the Zombie Virus was closely related to human activities.
The Earth inherently is a planet with an incredibly long history, even the Dinosaur Era over 200 million years ago was just a blip in its development because Earth has a 4.6 billion year history, and humans are merely a newly evolved species from 3 to 4 million years ago.
This new species slowly became the dominator of Earth.
The rapid civilization and population growth led to industrial pollution of the atmosphere, ocean pollution, land destruction, acid rain, species extinction, water pollution…
The global warming resulting from these is known even by a three-year-old. During Tang Xue and Chang Xuan’s research in the Y Autonomous Region on M Peak, over 30 unknown viruses were found in the melting ice, among which the Zombie Virus was the most deadly.
This suggests that the Zombie Virus, according to Tang Xue and others, was released from glacial melting as a super virus, and it wasn’t just present in Huaxia, but possibly appeared throughout the Earth’s 4.5 billion years of history, making it a global issue…
Once the report was published, everyone was silent.
Ice melting, global warming, who was responsible?
Humans, are we reaping what we sow?
Yet… the Earth still gave humans a glint of hope, Snow Spirit Flowers.
“Sigh, humans really should hold a reverence for nature, or we’ll just destroy ourselves,”
Environmental advocate Lu Guanhai said.
“Yes, humanity is indeed small,”
Su Jin said while tending to the mutated plants planted outside the Heart Talk Team’s villa. Although they were mutated plants, like humans, they too should have been free to grow on this planet.
Strength shouldn’t be a reason to bully the weak…
Gradually, as the news spread and time passed, countries around the world also became aware of the Zombie Virus Antidote. The wondrous herb from the East shocked survivors globally.
No one expected humanity’s hope to be in this mysterious Eastern country…
Along with the rapid development of agriculture and animal husbandry in various domestic bases, Huaxia has become a galactic favorite among the world’s survivors, especially the two Heart Talk Stores at the S City base. Many countries even expressed willingness to offer anything to lure away the Heart Talk Team, but these attempts were laughed off by the family.
