Chapter 797

The mighty Changlong Xianjiang runs through the entire wasteland.

The weather in December is already slightly cold, and the breeze on the river is blowing, blowing the chill that makes people shrink their necks.

But as the most unsuitable season for travel, it is also the winter when all creatures subconsciously rest.

On the Longlin River.

A fleet that stretches for several miles is moving forward firmly, and the crew members everywhere have changed into thick and warm cotton clothes.

Hundreds of small boats are at the head, and a hundred and ten large ships have their tails down.

Compared to when the fleet first set off three months ago, the large and small ships in the Yuan fleet are constantly sailing, and they are no longer as new as before in the constant battles.

On the exterior of most ships, undisguised patches and scars are already visible.

Even the rear of the main cruiser in the center of the fleet can see an obvious dark gap, which has not been repaired yet.

But it is precisely because of this that the entire fleet has lost a touch of glitz, and has more composure.

Less of the elegance of the past, and more of a frightening ferocity.

ship deck.

Su Mo picked up a cup of hot ginger tea brought by the guard, leaned against the railing and took a sip, the tea with a strong ginger flavor went straight down his throat, bringing a comfortable warmth.

There is no reference to the time during the voyage, and it passes very quickly. It often takes three to five days for a voyage to reach the destination.

After more than three months, the long dragon Xianjiang down the Tianyuan territory has been leveled two-thirds of the way by him using various means.

Now it is not far from the destination of this trip, the Longwei River at the end.

It will take more than a month at most to complete all the tasks of this trip and open up this business route.

and.

Along the way, every time he went to a new place, the first thing he did was to try his best to find out all kinds of news.

From the most common information about the sanctuary of predecessors, to the information about the excavation of relics with a little value, and then to various mineral resources, natural resources, and energy resources.

It doesn't matter whether it has been excavated, whether it has an owner during this time period, or whether it has already lost its previous value.

Relying on the trading point to open the way, now Soma has collected hundreds of various news about the ruins, and more about minerals, rare treasures and so on.

Not only that, but relying on the increasingly powerful influence of the fleet's journey, he will also see novel technologies in large and small territories along the way, all of which will be exchanged, bought, and robbed by various means.

Anything that can benefit the development of the territory, and everything that has a little potential, will be accepted by Soma, and if not a single one is missing, a copy will be printed and included in the bag.

Today, the number of these technologies has approached fifty, involving hundreds of categories.

Although these technologies are still a bit underwhelming compared to the technologies of the Yu Sanjia territory to press the bottom of the box.

And the game may not necessarily let him take all the gains back at the end of the relic mission.

But this level is already the limit of what he can do.

The next step is to start completing the tasks set by the game, and try to pile up the score as high as possible to strive for better rewards.

After sipping the hot tea in the cup, he recovered his thoughts, and Soma let out a small breath of hot air, forming a pale white circle in the air.

Compared with the information he had collected, he was actually more concerned about how the Adventurer's Alliance made the Adventurer's Terminal.

After clearing the power of the ocean and further testing along the way with Xing Yue.

As for the Adventurer's Terminal, he is now 100% sure of this tenfold, and definitely applies a power similar to the power of the ocean.

Only this power can open up the space and store items in it.

And according to the news from the Adventurers Alliance headquarters that Somo has been trying to find out about in the past three months, the production of the terminal is actually not the same as the place where the mission is released.

In a place where the three major territories could not find it, he wanted to find the production location of this device and get the production materials in it.

Extremely difficult!

Unless... the other party comes to you!

creak.

There was a sound of the hatch opening on the deck, coming from the left side, attracting Soma's attention.

"Commander Su, our Tianyuan fleet is already approaching the Fu'an United Territory. According to the information we have detected earlier, although a dock has been built to support our mooring, the blood epidemic in their territory has been very serious. It began to spread out. Do you think we should avoid it?" Zhang Long, the director of the fleet data synthesis department, came over with a thick document.

Liu Neng, the minister in charge of personnel coordination behind him, was not slow, and also came out of the open door.

"The Fu'an United Territory is actually a temporary camp. The current number of people is about 30,000. It is a temporary territory formed after the collision of more than ten small territories. According to our information, there are already 60% of them. of people suffering from blood disease, the situation is not optimistic, the threat level is currently rated as orange-red”

"Is it that serious?"

Along the way, Sumo left most of the tasks of the voyage to Lu Yongyi because he had to collect all kinds of information.

Including the blood epidemic that was gradually raging, he just heard about it, and didn't really take it to heart.

Now listening to the report of the two, he began to frown and took the information, sitting on a raised part of the deck and looking through it.

"The transmission channel of the blood epidemic is currently unknown, and there are three known channels"

"First, it spreads through blood. Once there is a small amount of blood exchange, the disease will immediately take root in the new host."

"Secondly, through gas transmission, the dead bodies of blood plague infection cannot be burned, but buried. Once burned, blood plague gas will be produced, which can be contracted by inhaling the nose and mouth."

"Third, liquid transmission, drinking a large amount of liquid mixed with the blood of infected people will also be called the target of the epidemic."

The beginning of the data introduces in detail the general infection route of blood plague and the manifestations after the onset of the disease.

In the initial stage, the infected will only have an impulse towards flesh and blood, and have an uncontrollable desire to hunt.

In the mid-term, the body of the infected person will rapidly decline, and extensive organ failure will begin, and complications will occur.

In the later stage, the blood of the infected person will gradually decrease, gradually degenerate into mummy, until death.

"So scary?"

Su Mo was startled, and hurriedly continued to read the following information.

It is already early December, and there are still about five months before the arrival of the corpse tide.

But before that, how come a blood plague suddenly appeared? Isn't this...

and many more...

Looking at the various cases collected in the follow-up data collection, a thought flashed in Su Mohu's mind.

"Could it be that....?!"

People infected with blood plague will not be able to restrain their desire to attack and try to attack the same kind.

And after the same kind is attacked for blood exchange, they will also be infected into new blood plague receptors.

This is very similar to the so-called main force zombies in the upcoming corpse tide crisis.

And if you put aside the middle and late stages, this so-called blood epidemic is like the prelude to the corpse tide!

If it is not controlled, I am afraid that the corpse tide will not arrive.

The number of human beings must be sharply reduced by at least half!

"In the territory, what about the research on blood plague?"

"The blood plague cannot be cured. Unless the infected individual is exchanged for blood in a short period of time, and all the old blood is replaced, there is a possibility of recovery. Other methods can only delay the time and degree of pain of the disease."

Being stared at by Su Mo's straight eyes, Liu Neng felt a little hairy all over his body.

"But a few days ago, the Academy of Sciences has researched and formulated a blood plague inhibitor, which can greatly delay the life time of the infected and reduce the pain caused by the disease. After we received the formula and made it, the infected people on the ship also It has been verified that the treatment effect is really good”

"Take me to see" Su Mo stood up without hesitation.

If the blood plague is really the prelude to the outbreak of the corpse tide, then keeping these infected people on the ship will turn into bombs at any time.

It is unclear where Connie, who had been assigned by him to study the virus for the past eight years, went.

There is no way to see and hear what disaster happened in the wasteland in the second year, and whether the so-called zombie disaster ever broke out.

Soma was extremely cautious, and soon followed the two to the medical room in the cruiser's cabin.

"Also ask the commander to put on this protective suit, just in case"

Said to be a medical room, in fact, it has become a small prison, and outside there are steel bars with the thickness of arms, which hoop all the places that can escape.

Putting on the thick black protective suit handed over by the medical staff, Soma coughed lightly and strode in.

Into the nose, is a strong smell of disinfectant.

There are a lot of beds in the medical room, and at a glance, it can be seen that there are more than 100 people.

After taking the so-called inhibitor, these people are still in good spirits. Before they found out that he came in, there were still many people playing poker and chatting gossip.

It was not until the door opened that he stood up and greeted him respectfully.

"How do you feel about your body, do you feel anything strange?"

Walking to the hospital bed No. 1 with the longest infection, Soma sat down and looked at the middle-aged man with a sallow complexion.

It's even better than expected. Compared to the zombies I saw on the train before, these people obviously still have complete rationality.

This can't help but make Su Mo slightly relieved.

"Commander, other than...except I'm very thirsty and always want to drink blood, no...no other feelings."

"Yes, yes, I still want to fight someone, but I always feel dissatisfied with each other..." He touched his head embarrassingly, but the man didn't dare to lie, and honestly told all his symptoms.

"What about you, how do you feel?" Soma looked at the second hospital bed again.

The infected person is a sturdy woman. Compared with the middle-aged man, his complexion is much better, and he seems to have a hint of blush.

When asked by Soma, the woman shook her head again and again: "Commander, I don't have the feelings of Lao Liu, I just..."

"Just what?" Seeing the woman wiggling, Su Mo kept asking.

"Um...I...Um...desire...No, it's because the demand in that area has increased a lot"

hiss...

Through the protective suit, seeing the woman's eyes full of spring, Soma shuddered and walked to the hospital bed behind.

This blood epidemic is too strange. Is everyone's symptoms different?

"Commander, I also want to drink blood, and I've always had an uncontrollable urge to run out and keep jumping. Look at my legs, they've grown stronger recently, and I feel like I can jump three meters high now!"

"Commander, I want to eat meat. They said that my metabolism has become very fast, and I have to consume high calories all the time. But look at me, my strength has become great now, and it is easy to lift a 60kg dumbbell. loose"

"Commander, I want to drink blood as well as eat meat. My physical changes are not obvious, but I feel that my brain is much smarter than before. Do you think my head is much bigger than before?"

"Commander, I'm so thirsty. I drink ten or twenty liters of fresh water every day. I used to have only one hundred and ninety pounds, and now... now I'm 390 pounds, and... and mine. The skin, getting rougher and thicker..."

"commander..."

Time passed little by little.

Soma kept walking backwards, listening to what the listeners said about their symptoms.

Compared with the people who got the blood disease according to the data, most of these people who were treated in the medical cabin were in good condition.

No one died, and no one was in so much pain that he couldn't get out of bed.

But the more he heard these different symptoms, the colder Soma felt when he mentioned it in midair.

without him.

The more diverse the symptoms of the disease, the less likely it is to want a complete treatment.

Hundreds of people, more than 30 different symptoms.

This alone shows how difficult this blood plague is.

And if these people with different abilities will become a member of the corpse tide in the future...

Su Mo walked out of the medical cabin with a gloomy face, took off his protective suit, and walked to the cabin where Lu Yongyi was.

Sure enough, the game's expression of the difficulty of the corpse tide in the mission was too underestimated.

This kind of world-destroying disaster is clearly five months away.

But now, a clue has emerged.

Based on the time remaining on the voyage, at least three months will be wasted in the remaining five months.

With only two months left, even if it was already close to the upper limit of human biology, Soma would not be able to figure out a way to restrain the blood plague in such a short time.

"It seems that I have to return early. I must find the technology of the adventurer's terminal as soon as possible, and return to the territory to study the way to fight the blood plague."

"Complete the task and get the reward, I can bring back the things I found."

"If you can't finish it, if you only take the minimum guarantee, you can take the armor away. It's too bad if you can't take the others..."

All the way up.

The first thing that Su Mo thought of was to find a way to find Connie, the dark child who was studying the fight against zombie viruses at the time.

On the bright side, he built a laboratory under the Magu Refuge, and let Yan Xiaqing be in charge of researching the antidote.

But in fact, Connie, who was secretly sent out, was not idle, and also had research tasks.

If it is determined that this blood epidemic is related to the previous zombie virus, then there must be something in common between the two, and a lot of research procedures can be omitted.

It's just that I rummaged through the territories in the game panel and couldn't find any information about Connie.

There is no accurate information on where the remaining aliens have escaped to.

To find it, you have to...

"Adventurer's League, it seems that we have to take risks again!"

"Fortunately, there is Lao Lu, and he is in charge of the rest of the fleet. I can rest assured that I can drive all the way without delay."

Su Mo was certain, he pushed open the door of Lu Yongyi's cabin and walked in.

...

Fu'an United Territory.

Temporary dock.

Earlier, when the Tianyuan fleet went all the way down the Changlong Xianjiang, it actually needed to send someone to build a dock.

Few territories have sent manpower and material resources to build facilities to welcome the arrival of this apparently aggressive fleet.

But with the three major battles settled.

The Tianyuan Fleet broke up the six large-scale territories with its own strength.

The situation has gradually changed!

When more and more people saw the strength of the Tianyuan Fleet and saw that they passed by along the way, the benefits of those territories changed.

From fearing the arrival of the fleet to anticipating the arrival of the fleet.

It only took a month, and most of the civilians even went to build the wharf spontaneously, hoping that the Tianyuan fleet would come soon.

"Brother Xun, do you think we can grab the first deal with Master Su?"

Watching countless ships approaching from afar, the group of children led by Zhou Xun nervously crowded at the front of the pier.

They looked at the mighty Tianyuan cruiser with anticipation and envy from the inside out in their eyes.

"Of course, I have collected a lot of information, Master Su will definitely be interested!"

Zhou Xun spoke confidently, a hint of slyness flashed in his eyes.

Unlike ordinary people in the camp, his way of getting information is not limited to word of mouth.

With the device he got by accident, he can even communicate with people from a long distance, and he has already figured out Master Su's preferences.

As long as the fleet stopped, he rushed up the first time, there was absolutely no problem.

unless...

"Brother Xun, the fleet speed doesn't seem to slow down, they..."

Pointing to the small ships that had passed by in front, some people couldn't help roaring in the air, their eyes excited.

However, many people suddenly discovered that the route the fleet traveled remained on the center line, and there was no intention to stop at all.

"Don't worry, they definitely want to make room for Master Su's car."

Zhou Xun comforted the people around him and comforted himself.

In the territory of thousands of people along the way, the fleet has stopped. They have 30,000 people in the Fu'an United Territory, there is no reason to stop!

As long as the Tianyuan cruiser stops, as long as it stops.

Staring at the tall ship with the blue and red military flag, Zhou Xun kept talking and praying in his heart.

However.

When the ship sailed past the pier without any hesitation, maintaining a high-cold attitude and passing through the pier.

When more and more people around were shouting "stop", and some people even knelt on the ground and kowtowed, begging each other to park.

He suddenly found out.

Destiny made a joke with everyone present, hoping that it didn't belong to anyone present.

Everything he did, everything he tried.

In the face of the cruel reality, just like ordinary people facing the blood epidemic, there is only powerlessness!