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The office of the Xia City branch of the International Science Exploration Association was located on the eighteenth floor of the Shangding triplex office building in the Lilan District of Xia City. The location was a bit lower, only fifty meters above the ground. It was the limit of low-altitude public transportation for civilians.
However, the rental prices for the floors below were quite cheap. The Wilderness Explorers Branch of the Association rented all the space from the first to the seventeenth floor in one breath. They remodeled and opened up many spacious areas for the activities of the members.
From the perspective of the ordinary employees working in the Association, the Wilderness Explorers were a bunch of lunatics who had money but nowhere to spend it. They could rent an excellent location in the central business district with the money for remodeling. They could do whatever they wanted. Why did they have to spend so much energy remodeling while the vast majority of the facilities were still unused?
The most typical example was the luxurious round conference room on the bottom three floors. It could accommodate over a thousand people discussing business here, but it had been used less than ten times in the ten years since it was built.
Today, the conference room finally opened once more. Several hundred people entered one after another. The employees of the Association, who usually had nothing better to do, were stupefied.
How could Xia City have this many Wilderness Explorers?
The employees couldn't see the organizational materials of the conference. They didn't know the contents of the conference, the time schedule, and so on. They just felt that the conference was very long. They went in in the morning. It was past lunchtime, but it still didn't end. No one came out to avoid the earthquake in the middle.
Speaking of earthquakes, the white-collar workers working nearby discovered that the number of earthquakes they felt seemed to be much more than the number of earthquakes reported by the Earthquake Bureau. They felt at least ten or twenty earthquakes.
Even so, the Wilderness Explorers still calmly held the conference. They really were brave.
September 28th, 2096, 2: 00 in the afternoon.
The interior of the round conference room was dim. A small half of the lighting equipment that simulated sky light had been turned on all year round. The shadow that spread out on a large scale covered the messy conference room and seeped into the hearts of the participants.
Zhang Yingying gently grasped Susan's plump hand. The body temperature of the two combined, causing the chill in the dusky darkness to slightly retreat. Susan was muttering some words that no one could understand. The injury on her shoulder was still faintly aching. Two centimeters more and her carotid artery would have been torn.
Ouyang Chen, the president of the Xia City branch of the Wilderness Explorers Association, stood on the podium in the center of the conference room. He wore a well-ironed suit, a bow tie, and a pair of vintage glasses. He looked like a refined scholar.
He looked around at the faintly discernible faces under the dim light and calmly said, "Now, the identification is over. There were 429 people in the meeting, and 420 people participated in the final meeting. "
The nine people who had been deducted had already become corpses … some of their corpses could not even be found!
The air in the conference room had frozen.
"I will be the one to report the relevant situation in this meeting. I have also invited Quantum Corporation's Xia City Area Executive Director, Mr. Hu Yuli, to give an in-depth explanation."
At the side of the podium, Mr. Hu Yuli, who was also a powerful businessman, was pale. He tried his best to remain calm and nodded slightly to all sides. This was all he could do.
Ouyang Chen adjusted the frame of his glasses and began his speech. The projector behind him began to operate at the same time, displaying the ruins of the R&D Area.
"First of all, a brief explanation: Quantum Corporation, the government, and the military have jointly conducted research on the Mutant in the Xia City R&D Area's' Mutant Laboratory '. This project has been going on for two years now. And roughly half a month ago, Quantum Corporation switched the test subject. This is a special species. It is a rarely seen parasitic state of the Darksider life form towards the Mutant. Its code name is' Human-Faced Arachnid '. "
A large number of pictures flashed on the projection. They were all related files that had been preserved in the laboratory. The participants stared coldly at all of this and continued to listen.
"Yesterday, which is September 27th, around 5: 13 in the morning, a facility operator in the laboratory was controlled by the Darksider life form. He forcefully destroyed the power supply. And before the backup power supply was activated, the Darksider life form drove the Mutant in an attempt to escape the laboratory.
"Quantum Corporation carried out a control of the situation. At 5: 19, the Mutant was killed. The Darksider life form separated from its host. At 5: 24, Quantum Corporation killed the Darksider life form. But before this, the Darksider life form used a method that we are still unable to understand to release some sort of … … virus. "
Ouyang Chen paused and repeated his emphasis, "Virus. For now, we can only say this. According to statistics, with Quantum Corporation's laboratory in the R&D area as the center, the virus has spread as far as 520 kilometers away. It has covered the entire metropolitan area of Xia City and all of the satellite cities.
"The center has a radius of 10 kilometers. That is the core area of the virus infection. The number of people infected is the greatest. Preliminary statistics show that over 70% of the infected are mainly laboratory personnel and some residents. Beyond 10 kilometers, the rate of infection rapidly drops. According to preliminary research statistics, the virus currently has three characteristics:
"First, outside of the core area, the rate of infection among the general populace isn't high. We have yet to discover a case. But for ability users, it is very bad. The current rate is 9 out of a thousand. I believe that it should be related to the method of transmission. After all, ability users are far more sensitive than ordinary people. "
The atmosphere in the conference room became even more oppressive. This 9 out of a thousand infection rate was calculated using human lives. Today's participants made up nearly half of the registered personnel. And in the identification just now, there were four infected people who caused the other five casualties.
"Second, there are many carriers. The rate of infection isn't high. In order to activate this virus, special conditions are needed. An intense change in mood, especially a negative mood, is the most obvious cause.
"According to Quantum Corporation's internal experiment report. The survival time of the virus in the human body is approximately between eight to eighteen hours. During this time, if the virus is maintained in a calm state, then it will be thoroughly annihilated. But if there is a negative mood, then the survival time will be greatly extended. Moreover, there is an extremely high probability of activation. The concrete data has yet to be determined.
"Third … … Everyone has seen it just now. The activated virus will absorb the energy of the host's blood and energy, transforming into a Darksider life form. And these Darksider life forms will devour each other, fuse, and continuously grow stronger. Every time they grow stronger, their form and power level will draw closer to their 'emitter'. "
Ouyang Chen tossed aside the explanation of the situation and turned to look at Hu Yuli. His gaze was cold and clear behind his flat glasses:
"Therefore, we must ask. Is that Human-Faced Arachnid truly dead? When these Darksider life forms absorb enough nutrients and devour and fuse, does this represent a new life for it? Does Quantum Corporation have any research that supports or touches upon this situation? "
Hu Yuli could only shake his head: "The current research hasn't gone deep enough. We really don't understand … …"
He had forcefully evaded Ouyang Chen's question, but it didn't mean that he had passed the test. Ouyang Chen's question was just the beginning.
Soon, a voice came from within the conference room: "What's the matter with the news of the stolen medicine? This is completely different from the rumors that you guys released before! "
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