Chapter 122 Doctor Zombie

If Qi Lin's conjecture is true, is it because of the invasion of this private army of the consortium that caused the nuclear leak, and then all the talents in Base 404 were spared?

Thinking of this, Qi Lin couldn't help but move his heart. If this is the case, then this 404 base can be regarded as a perfect stronghold tailored for him-it has a lot of supplies, weapons, and there are deadly weapons for ordinary people. Radiation, easy to defend and difficult to attack terrain.

And if you want to control this base, the authority of this visitor is definitely not enough. As for how to increase the authority in your 404 base...

Qi Lin looked into the depths of the base, where there was a tower-like building rising from the ground and connected to the dome of the underground space hundreds of meters high. Anyone with a discerning eye could see that there was The core hub of the entire 404 base is located.

It is impossible to count on the unreliable AI who almost killed himself, and now pretends to be dead. If you want to gain control of the base, the first step must be to enter the core building of the base.

This 404 base, or this city, except for its high level of technology, its layout is exactly the same as those of the small towns of the old era, with passages, alleys, shops, supermarkets, factories... Qi Lin is even on a large building , I saw the signboard of "Mass Sales KTV".

"...This is a town at all..."

On the side of the road, Qi Lin found a vehicle similar to the electric patrol car of the old era. After looking at the structure of this electric car, Qi Lin found that there was a slot for a nuclear battery, and immediately took out a piece of it. The standard nuclear energy storage battery that was carried on the body was plugged in.

Although the technology of this kind of nuclear energy battery has been very mature in the old days, it is mostly used in military purposes, but it is relatively rare in civilian use. I did not expect that here, I found an ordinary looking The means of transportation can actually use nuclear energy batteries.

Of course, Qi Lin started the car not to use it for transportation, but to find some valuable information——with the restart of the car's power system, a touch screen under the steering wheel also lit up.

The operating system of this electric car is very simple and clear. After the boot animation, three options appear directly, namely "navigation (automatic driving)", "radio station" and "driving record".

Qi Lin clicked on the driving record first, but it was blank, obviously either the data was lost or it was cleared by someone.

Since there is no one to clean up the battlefield outside, Qi Lin is more inclined to the former. After all, nuclear radiation will have a certain impact on electronic products.

Then, Qi Lin turned on the radio again, and a meaningless current noise came out of the built-in loudspeaker of the electric car immediately—the function of the radio was not broken, but in this underground space, the bands that can be received are very limited , Moreover, even if the radio station can receive the signal on the ground, it is meaningless. The miniature brain that comes with each player is much easier to use than the radio station.

Then there was only navigation left, and Qi Lin turned on the automatic navigation system with the last hope... Fortunately, he was not disappointed this time, and a large string of place names popped up on the display screen.

"Supermarkets, food factories, water supply stations, medical examination centers, research institutes, core towers... Wait, the core tower? It should be that one, right?" Qi Lin raised his head, and his eyes fell on the city center. The eye-catching tower above.

The depth of this underground city is nearly ten kilometers, and this high tower is about five kilometers away from where Qi Lin is now.

"Are you sure about the destination: the core pillar tower?"

"confirm."

"Do you want to turn on navigation?"

"confirm."

"Please select the driving mode: manual driving/automatic driving."

"Autopilot."

The electric car started to move slowly, but Qi Lin jumped out of the car instead, picked up the gun, and hung it at a distance of about forty to fifty meters behind the car.

The electric car is very quiet when driving, but Qi Lin doesn't want to sit in it and become an eye-catching living target.

Judging from the AI ​​at the entrance corridor and the deadly mechanism, Qi Lin is not sure that the city must be safe now.

Especially the core pillar tower, Qi Lin would never believe that such a mysterious core of the base has no defense measures at all.

However, before the car drove a hundred meters, it stopped for some unknown reason. Qi Lin observed behind for several minutes and found nothing unusual.

"No power? Impossible... That is a brand new battery. According to the power consumption of this car, it will definitely be able to drive for several months without stopping..."

Qi Lin walked to the side of the electric car full of doubts. At this moment, the display screen on the car suddenly flickered violently for a few times, and then two words appeared on it——

"Hello."

"?!" Qi Lin was startled, although he calmed down immediately, after looking around, he turned his eyes back to the display screen.

Could this be that AI again?

Before Qi Lin could think about it, a second line of text appeared on the screen: "I am a survivor of Base 404. You can communicate with me by voice. There is a sound receiving device in this car."

"Survivors? Didn't the AI ​​at the entrance say that there are no survivors in this base?" Qi Lin asked suspiciously.

"It just tells you that there are no living people on the base."

"Are you a living dead... Zombie?" Seeing the word "living", Qi Lin suddenly understood.

"right."

The living dead, that is, zombies and zombies, are brand-new species produced by the human beings left on the ground under the action of radiation. However, in fact, whether it is zombies or zombies, the word "corpse" comes from People's misleading understanding of them.

The living dead are not corpses resurrected by viruses like in "Resident Evil". To be more precise, they are not dead things, but a kind of "abnormally evolved" human beings.

Both zombies and zombies are new species born to adapt to the high-radiation environment after a nuclear war. Although even scientists like to describe the living dead with "before life" and "after death", there is one thing that everyone agrees with. Recognized: Zombies and zombies are a kind of "creatures" just like those mutated creatures.

It's just that mutated creatures are mutated from animals or plants subjected to radiation, and the living dead were originally human beings.

Excluding the living dead, there is actually a kind of mutants on the wasteland, which are also mutated by human radiation, but the number is very small.

The bodies of the living dead also have a metabolic system, but due to mutations, they can absorb energy from radiation, so they eat little or no food at all.

In addition, great strength, long lifespan, infertility, etc., are also well-known characteristics of the living dead.

As for the difference between zombies and zombies, it is simply that the former's brain has been alienated and reduced to a beast dominated by instinct, while the latter's brain is relatively intact and can think like a human being.

Like the zombie that Qi Lin met at the Radiation Lake back then, although his brain was somewhat damaged, he still had a sense of self-consciousness and thinking ability, so he belonged to the category of zombies—and in Thunder City, there were also a small number of zombies. Zombie NPCs that can communicate with human players exist.

It seems that the person who communicates with himself through the display screen of the electric car is not only a zombie, but may also be a high-level zombie with a very high IQ.

"Then can you tell me what this base 404 is for?" Qi Lin asked.

The other party seemed to be silent for a while before a long string of text jumped out on the screen.

"This base is a secret research organization of the old republic. I am one of the leaders of this base. You can call me Dr. Wang. I will tell you the specific information after I arrive at the core tower."