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Chapter 944 Fort Yukon Base
Chapter 944 Fort Yukon Base
It took Qi Lin almost a day and a half to arrive at this old military fort near the Yukon River after traveling through most of Alaska.
However, the Fort Yukon that Qi Lin saw was completely different from the Fort Yukon he had imagined—in his imagination, it should be a ruin destroyed by war, even though there are a large number of underground buildings in Fort Yukon. However, Fort Yukon above the surface is definitely not suitable for human habitation... Not only Anchorage was bombed and flattened, but Fort Yukon was also hit by a high-priority nuclear strike.
But he was wrong... The imaginary ruins did not appear, replaced by a huge ground fortress, which was even more magnificent than the original Jiange Fortress, and judging from the newness of the walls, this The fort has probably been established for ages...
As far as Qi Lin knows, the only refuge built on the surface of the human world is only in Greenland, where the population is sparse, the supplies are scarce, and there is no strategic value. A large number of refugees who fled to Greenland from North America and Europe live in the Arctic Circle. A new home was established within the consortium, and the European branch of the consortium alliance also set its headquarters on this big island covered by ice and snow all year round.
But Alaska is different. Although, like Greenland, these two places are very close to the North Pole of the earth, Alaska is one of the important battlefields of World War III, the forefront of the confrontation between several major forces, and the population density of this land. It once surpassed the east coast of the United States, and at the end of the war, the number of nuclear bombs that fell on this land was no less than those super metropolises on the east coast of the United States.
Like Anchorage, the Fort Yukon area is also a heavily radiated area, but as far as Qi Lin perceives the situation, the radiation pollution in the place where this giant fortress is located in front of him is not strong, but it can only be reached It is just beyond the threshold of lightly polluted area.
Anyone who knows something about nuclear radiation knows that the main difficulty for human beings to return to the surface to rebuild their homes is not to build new cities on the ruins, but how to clean up and purify those leftovers. Radiation pollution above the surface... Not only is the cost of this purification project exaggeratedly high, but the time it takes takes "ten years" as the most basic unit of measurement—and this is why those big consortiums were overwhelmed before. One of the reasons why they go to curry favor with the organization, they all hope to get a piece of territory as large as possible after returning to the ground... a piece of territory as large as possible, free of radiation pollution.
Only such land can meet the needs of human beings to thrive. As for the radiation areas that are like festering sores on the surface of the earth, unless there are coveted resources in the radiation area, no one will care at all. .
The reason is very simple. If you want to restore this kind of radiation area to a level where human beings can gain a foothold, if the manpower and material resources it needs to consume are converted into armaments, it is enough to snatch back several times the area of land from other people. No one will To do thankless things, especially these businessmen who always put their own interests first.
... But ... when did this fortress appear?This secrecy work is too good, right? !
Qi Lin lay on the back of an anti-slope, activated the eagle eye ability, and began to carefully investigate the fortress that appeared out of thin air.
The height of the outer wall of the fortress is more than 40 meters. The reinforced concrete wall is covered with a combined city defense armor plate. Soldiers wearing power armor are patrolling back and forth on the top of the wall. A few more Comanches landed in the fort or took off from the fort to fly elsewhere.
The heavy metal gates of the fortress are tightly closed, and outside the city wall, there is a densely packed circle of human walls several kilometers thick—the main members of this circle of human walls are among the living dead The most low-level "rotten corpses", they were attracted by the fresh meat still dripping blood hanging on the city wall, they surrounded the entire Fort Yukon base firmly, and countless pairs of festering and festering Shuangtians were raised above their heads, The ten fingers that were so rotten that the bones could even be seen were constantly scratching the air in vain.
Qi Lin roughly estimated that the group of carrion corpses surrounding the base wall of Fort Yukon may have exceeded 100 million... or even more, just... so many living dead, Where did it come from?
The real wasteland is not exactly the same as the doomsday described in "Resident Evil". The living dead have never been the masters of the wasteland world. Compared with the many powerful mutant creatures on the wasteland, this lowest-level carrion is completely Being at the bottom of the food chain, it is difficult for them to form large-scale hordes of corpses, because after a certain number of rotting corpses gather, they will attract those wasteland predators with a keen sense of smell, killing them wantonly The rotting corpse with fighting power left satisfied after a full meal.
Carrion corpses are not parasites, they cannot sweep hundreds of kilometers like the Kuroshio... They can't even cross the Alaska Mountains, according to the "Research Report on Wasteland Ecology", this kind of creatures often will not leave them "during life "... Or how far away they lived before the mutation, the best place to find this kind of uninspired living dead is the ruins of those cities and villages, not the uninhabited desert.
In layman's terms, carrion is a kind of "native creature", they basically do not have the habit of migrating, and the number of carrion that can appear in a place will generally not exceed the number of human beings there originally...
Thinking of this, the corners of Qi Lin's eyes couldn't help twitching slightly—these millions of carrion corpses are probably the aborigines of the underground shelter in the Fort Yukon area!
If it weren't for them, so many carrion corpses would not be able to gather in this area. Moreover, the number of carrion corpses can almost match the record of the number of refugees in the Fort Yukon area in the old era.
Qi Lin immediately understood how the radiation in this area was purified!
As we all know, neither "zombies" nor "zombies" are actually formed after the death of human beings. They are just a special form of human beings after being mutated by radiation. The living dead can be regarded as a new biological species, and Compared with the original human beings, they are more adapted to the environment after being polluted by radiation.
In the process of human beings mutating into the living dead, their bodies need to absorb a certain amount of radiation energy, just like Qi Lin needs to drive the energy-gathering vortex to absorb the radiation energy in the environment during evolution, but what ordinary people absorb The amount is much smaller than him.
After ordinary people absorb radiation, part of the radiation energy acts on the mutation of the human body, while part of the radiation energy is deposited in the body of the living dead... According to the law of energy conservation, under the ebb and flow, the external environment Naturally, the radiation pollution in the environment has been eliminated bit by bit.
However, not everyone can mutate into the living dead. After being irradiated, the most normal change for most people is to suffer from various radiation sickness, and then die in pain... But this For the number of living dead, the mutation rate is probably not 90.00%, but more than [-]%.
Qi Lin speculates that these people should have been injected with some kind of special drug, or have undergone some simple "transformation". This method can prevent them from directly dying of radiation sickness, but can successfully mutate into a living dead, thus Become a living tool to purify environmental radiation...
This kind of thing... can no longer be simply described as "cruel"... But what Qi Lin cannot deny is that this method is indeed very effective, and the efficiency is extremely high...
This group of living dead surrounding the Fort Yukon base absorbs the radiant energy in the environment day after day, and when the remaining radiant energy in this area is completely absorbed by them, they will naturally die. With the exhaustion of the body, the tissues and the main brain don't even need to expend energy to clean them up. They just need to wait for them to die on their own, and then transport their bodies to the wilderness and throw them away.
Moreover, this human wall composed of living dead can also be regarded as the outermost layer of defense of the Fort Yukon base. The response can provide early warning information for the defenders on the wall at the first time.
The person who can come up with this strategy is undoubtedly a genius, but also... a guy who is extremely cold-blooded and inhuman...
To enter the Fort Yukon base, take the "Comanche" is the only way, and apart from this kind of helicopter that can be completely invisible, other flying vehicles are even difficult to approach the sky above the Fort Yukon base—— It was not because of the powerful anti-aircraft firepower of the Fort Yukon base, but because of the rancid smell emitted by a large number of carrion corpses gathered on the ground, it attracted countless carrion birds like mutated vultures to hover in the air for a long time.
Although these carrion-eating birds are attracted by the smell of carrion corpses, this group of raptors will never mind trying the taste of fresh meat, or in other words, fresh meat with a strong smell of blood is more attractive to them Big——During the one hour of observation, Qi Lin has seen more than one mutated carrion bird risking being shot into a sieve by a machine gun and swooping down to snatch the fresh meat hanging on the city wall to attract corrosion piece.
So far, Qi Lin can basically confirm that Qin and Lingkui, who were captured by the mastermind and the organization, should have been brought to this Fort Yukon base...
Judging from the scale of this Fort Yukon base, the various equipments inside are definitely not inferior to the underground headquarters of the organization, and it is absolutely not a problem to complete the last step of the Utopia plan here.
Especially after having rare samples like Qin and Lingkui.
Both of them are innate psychic powers. Through the research on them, the mastermind may be able to overcome that technical difficulty, and as long as that technical difficulty is overcome, in an instant, the game cabins all over the world will become One coffin after another—and those who sleep in them will never wake up.
Time was running out, and it was impossible for Qi Lin to continue spending time outside the Fort Yukon base. He put on a snow-white cloak, and under the cover of ice and snow, he quietly moved towards the outside of the corpse group.
Or it is too far away from the city wall, it is difficult to smell the bloody smell of the fresh meat hanging on the city wall. The carrion corpses located on the periphery of the corpse group are not as crowded as the inside, and most of them are scattered on the snow. He stood there occasionally in a daze, letting the mutant carrion birds that swooped down from the sky snatch him away.
These scattered carrion corpses on the periphery are the main targets of those mutated carrion birds that are not obsessed with blood. The internal density of the corpse group is too high. Rotten corpses are both safe and easy. Anyway, there is no difference in taste and meat quality between single and crowded corpses.
Qi Lin quietly approached a rotting corpse wearing a tattered military uniform. Before the latter noticed him, a dagger without a trace of reflection suddenly flew out from the snowdrift. From the rotting corpse It penetrated into the lower jaw, penetrated the throat of the carrion corpse, and reached the position of the brainstem.
The carrion with its brainstem destroyed died on the spot, and when its body was about to fall, a pair of hands suddenly stretched out, caught the carrion's body, and dragged it into the snowdrift.
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Taking off the military uniform that was almost indistinguishable from the sack on the rotting corpse, Qi Lin looked at the badge on the chest. It was the number of an army of the US Army stationed in Alaska. According to Harveys, this army After the nuclear war broke out, the troops should have moved to the underground and shelters of Fort Yukon.
And now the rotting corpse wearing this military uniform appears here, which obviously confirms Qi Lin's previous guess - the millions of rotting corpses surrounding the base of Fort Yukon are all in the underground shelter of Fort Yukon of the aborigines.
Putting the tattered military uniform on his body, Qi Lin cut open the abdomen of the rotting corpse with a knife, and smeared all the disgusting pus and blood on his body. In order to disguise himself more, he He even cut off the scalp with a lot of hair left on the head of the carrion corpse, and pasted it on the top of his head.
After doing all this, Qi Lin slowly stood up from the snowdrift. He lowered the speed of the energy-gathering vortex to a level close to the state of "fake death". Within a few seconds, his body temperature had become the same as that of a dead person. There is no difference.Immediately afterwards, Qi Lin walked towards the Fort Yukon base with a limp, imitating the walking style of a rotting corpse...
Disguised as a rotting corpse and passing through the corpses, this was the only way Qi Lin could think of to get to the Fort Yukon base other than hijacking a helicopter, and what he had to face next was the towering city wall and the A heavy metal gate.
(End of this chapter)