Chapter 147 Starting the Grass to Scare the Snake

Chapter 147

What Mei hated the most was being treated like a little kid!

Calling her a little loli was something she could barely tolerate as a nickname, but titles like "Oriental doll" were truly unacceptable to her.

Therefore, not only did Will fail in his attempt to close the distance with Mei, but he also caused her to unhappily turn her face away, ignoring him completely.

Seeing that the other party wouldn't even look at him, Will scratched his head awkwardly, puzzled as to what he had done to offend her.

"Mr. Caird, at today's speed, about how many days will it take us to reach the base?" Mo Chen asked, pretending not to see this scene, while the corners of his lips curved upward in a good mood.

"Uh, it will probably take about another month. The Goddess of Dawn is located in the central region of our country, which is quite far from here. Besides, we still need to make supplies stops at other bases along the way, so it will be a bit slower!" Will hurriedly explained.

"Oh, is that so?" Mo Chen replied noncommittally.

"Actually, I also want to reach the destination quickly, but having so many people to feed is really a big problem! To be honest, we didn't expect so many people to come! We originally thought that nearly 200 people from your country was already a lot, but we didn't expect even more people from your country! Didn't you encounter any danger along the way?" Will shrugged and said with an exaggerated expression.

Hearing this, Mo Chen couldn't help but reveal a sarcastic expression, and was just about to say, "You people are probably wishing that everyone would die at sea, as long as those scientists arrive safely!"

However, before he had time to speak, Ling Feng took the lead and said, "Not bad. By the way, there is one thing I forgot to tell the person previously responsible for the reception: people from your country met with a disaster at sea, and not a single person on the whole ship survived. No one else will be coming."

"Oh, god! How unfortunate!" Will first showed an incredulous expression, then spoke in a grief-stricken tone, "I need to report this news immediately. We can chat more at dinner."

With that, Will hurried away.

"Colonel Ling is so awesome, chasing people away with just a sentence! I thought he was going to waste more time here!" Seeing that the person had left, Mei couldn't help but praise Ling Feng.

Even though Mei didn't care much for the other's personality, she had to admit that Ling Feng was truly formidable in certain aspects!

Upon hearing her praise, the expression on Ling Feng's face did not change. He only habitually pushed up his glasses and then calmly said, "Overpraised!"

Mei looked at him, feeling that his degree of facial paralysis was on par with Ye Jingxuan's, and the expressions on their faces were equally pitifully scarce!

Not wanting Mei to focus her attention too much on others, Mo Chen found a topic and brought it up: "Do the people of Country A have some kind of plan? Otherwise, why would they delay the itinerary like this? Given Country A's road conditions, it should take at most 20 days to get from here to the Goddess of Hope Base, or even less. What is their purpose in dragging the itinerary out to a month?"

"Are they intentionally delaying time to wear down the strength of our country and Country A?" Lin Shaojie recalled what Will had said earlier and felt that his deduction was very likely.

"Didn't expect so many people to come back?"

Just listen to what kind of talk was that?

Wasn't the implication behind those words that they hoped more of them would die?

"There is such a possibility. Dragging out the time it takes for us to reach our destination as much as possible is very likely meant to probe the bottom line of our people from Country A, and by the way, to consume our strength. However, I think there is another possibility. That day, I infiltrated Country A's database and was discovered by them; they must be on guard. Besides strengthening network defense, they are very likely transferring some confidential materials. I worry that the reason they are delaying is to buy time for their transfer!" Mei bit her lower lip slightly and said after thinking for a moment.

"The possibility you mentioned is very high!" The others nodded in agreement, feeling that this possibility was extremely high.

"What are your plans?" Ling Feng asked calmly.

Based on his understanding of Mei, she was not such a rash person. With her computer skills, if she wanted to silently infiltrate the other's database, the other party would absolutely not be able to discover it. Since the other party had discovered it now, it must mean she intentionally let them find out, so Ling Feng directly asked about Mei's intentions.

"As for plans, I do have some! I deliberately let the other party discover that someone had broken into the database, and let them know that I touched those research materials concerning the zombie virus, just to see the other party's reaction. If they get nervous and take action, it shows that Country A indeed holds some very important things in their hands—so important that even knowing I was alerting the enemy, they still had to take action. Because those things are simply too important; too important for them to dare take even the slightest risk." Mei did not hide anything and directly told them her purpose.

"Everyone has read quite a few of the materials as well. Did you make any discoveries?" After explaining, Mei turned to ask instead.

"Naturally, there are discoveries! In the materials you gave me, a certain code name appeared multiple times. According to the data display and my analysis, this should be closely related to the research on the zombie virus," Mo Chen said first.

Following that, Ye Jingxuan also nodded and said, "Indeed, I also saw the code name appear multiple times. Although the materials do not explicitly state what it is, reading between the lines of those materials shows that Country A attaches great importance to the project."

"The materials on my side, in addition to that, contain a large number of research reports on the direction of human evolution, among which the research on the zombie virus occupies a fairly high proportion." Ling Feng pushed up his glasses and stated his discovery.

"Humph, trying to use the modified zombie virus to promote human evolution—the people of Country A are truly wishful thinkers!" Xirier sneered and spoke.

Before the others could react to his sudden outburst, Mei had already nodded understandingly: "It seems Xirier has already made clear discoveries on his side, so let me share my findings! Country A previously stated that they discovered the cause of the zombie virus outbreak. To be more precise, the emergence of the zombie virus is deeply connected to Country A."

"The zombie virus was developed by them? They made this stuff flood the whole world, and even their own country is full of zombies everywhere—what on earth are they trying to do?" Lin Shaojie couldn't help asking upon hearing this.

Mo Chen and the others were also somewhat puzzled.

"Country A has always had the ambition to rule the entire planet; does the military know about this?" Mei didn't answer right away; instead, she looked at Ling Feng and asked.

"Mn!" Ling Feng gave a response, his expression calm without a trace of surprise. From his attitude, it was not difficult to see that the military had known about this long ago.

"Then do you know that Country A has always been conducting research on supernatural warriors? By using drugs to stimulate the human body's potential, they enhance the soldiers' various capabilities while weakening the brain's sensitivity to pain, fatigue, and other sensations, allowing soldiers greater combat effectiveness on the battlefield!" Mei continued to ask.

This time Ling Feng did not answer, but judging by his expression, he was clearly completely unaware of this intelligence.

"You mean..." An Ziyou hesitantly chimed in.

Before he could finish, Mei had already nodded: "It is just as you think—the drug they researched is the prototype of the zombie virus! It's just that this drug was originally not contagious; it mutated later and turned into a highly infectious virus. As for how the zombie virus spread globally all at once, I haven't found relevant materials yet, but roughly inferring, it should be related to the several wars Country A launched against our country before the doomsday.

What I want to say is that Country A has not given up on the research of supernatural warriors even until now. The emergence of zombies and ability users has provided them with a new research direction: how to make humans unable to feel pain or fatigue like zombies, while possessing special abilities and still retaining human consciousness—this is their current research direction, the so-called Project!"

Hearing Mei's words, the first reaction of several people was that the people of Country A were crazy!

The second reaction was that if they really succeeded in their research, Country A might actually have a chance to rule the entire world.

As for Ling Feng, his thought was much more direct: this trip to Country A must disrupt the other party's plan no matter what; their plan must never be allowed to succeed!

Thinking this, Ling Feng pondered for a moment and asked, "What is the source that caused the drug to mutate? Did Miss Mei find anything?"

Ling Feng keenly realized that the reason causing the drug to mutate should be the top priority of the entire plan. If they wanted to disrupt the other party's plan, this key point had to be figured out!

"Colonel Ling is truly perceptive! Although there is no conclusive evidence yet, I have already guessed what this source is! But before I say it, can Colonel Ling tell me where the new energy of the Snow Mountain Experimental Base came from in the first place?" Mei asked.

Actually, this question had always puzzled her. As the source of origins, the energy contained within the Dark Energy Source was so immense that ordinary people could simply not imagine it; merely the energy leaked during fission could easily reduce this planet to nothingness.

She originally thought that the technology of this world had reached the level of being able to split the Dark Source, but as she gained a deeper understanding of this world, she found that they simply could not achieve this point!

Just imagine, if they couldn't even fully control a single fragment, how could they possibly control the entire Dark Source?

Following this direction, the matter of the small valley earlier could be explained.

The Dark Source shattered into several pieces due to unknown reasons, and one of the fragments fell near the Moonflower Base in a small valley. Because of the special nature of the Dark Source itself, it failed to attract the attention of our government before the doomsday.

After the doomsday, the government or the military discovered the anomaly in that place, and only then issued a commission task, sending people from the nearest Moonflower Base to investigate. If they had known that there was an energy fragment identical to the new energy there, they absolutely would not have sent only the Moonflower Base!

After all, our country had long ago classified the new energy as an SSS-level secret!

However, if this guess was correct, the origin of the Dark Source fragments remained unsolved, so she needed to know how the piece in our country's hands came about, hoping to find clues to the origin and fission of the Dark Source!