The prince of heaven only wants salted fish

Finally, under Xie Qi's questioning, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince used the excuse "You didn't die when you couldn't even beat a zombie" to get rid of him.

Although Xie Qi himself was not very satisfied with this perfunctory explanation.

But anyway, with Xie Qi's disturbance as an episode, the atmosphere of the whole meeting was much more relaxed.

In fact, the reason why Ji Cheng told others this was mainly to serve as a reminder - the physical fitness and combat effectiveness of zombies may also be improved. If you don't know this, you may fall into the gutter if you go out rashly.

After all, the development of drugs is taken care of by their dedicated researchers, and others can't help much. As long as you can stay alive, it's the best.

And because of the addition of Qingshan Hospital, everyone also redistributed their tasks: the researchers and He Jiankang are still the same, the drug research drug research, the responsible for farming and developing the back mountain continue to farm and develop the back mountain, but the dozen people on Xie Qi's side and the more than 30 people on Qingshan Hospital's side were disbanded and reorganized. In addition to doing logistics work, they also have to take turns to go out to explore.

After all, the population of the processing plant is close to three digits. Apart from other things, the daily food consumption alone is a considerable number. Although the storage capacity of the Qingshan Food Processing Plant is not small, it is obviously not a solution to keep eating up the mountain.

And whether it is for defense considerations or the need to develop phase II drugs, they also need more people to join their side.

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Time flies and more than half a year has passed.

Counting the previous time, it has been nearly a year since the beginning of the zombie outbreak. A year is enough for humans to begin to adapt to this hugely changing world-of course, it has also paid a bloody price.

As Ji Cheng and his team began to explore outward with the Qingshan Processing Plant as the center, in addition to looking for survival supplies, they also met many human teams, most of which escaped from the urban area of ​​S City: although the urban area is prosperous, it is also very populous. After the richest batch of resources were divided up and the physical strength and combat effectiveness of the zombies gradually increased, the livability of the urban area has obviously dropped significantly.

In this case, if the team with insufficient combat effectiveness has some brains, it should come out to find another way out.

A considerable number of these teams joined decisively after contacting Ji Cheng and his team: they had sufficient numbers, strong combat effectiveness, abundant food resources, clear division of roles, and even their own bases for cultivating fields, dredging canals and diverting water. Where else can you find such a place that is like heaven in the end times?

The remaining teams that did not join all had their own ideas and goals. Some of them thought they were capable enough, while others aimed at other small bases near S City.

Although the government army had established a special base in the neighboring L City, it was not close after all. It was extremely difficult to travel under the current circumstances. In addition, a saying gradually spread over time: the conditions for receiving and reviewing at the government base were very harsh. Although the conditions inside the base were good, they were only enjoyed by a few people. In fact, more people could only set up simple tents outside the base. In addition to being able to fight zombies together, their lives were not guaranteed at all.

Under such circumstances, unofficial small bases were born all over the country. Ji Cheng and his team did not publicize that they were researching drugs to fight zombies, and they were not conspicuous among them.

However, even so, "Qingshan Base" is a well-developed and well-known base among all the bases, and the reason is as mentioned above: the discipline here is strict and the division of labor is clear, as long as you enter the life, it can basically be guaranteed, and there are even fresh vegetables that are more precious than gold!

Not to mention the above, just the last point, there are even several small human bases nearby that have attempted to launch a sneak attack on Qingshan Base - of course, they were all knocked down by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

Now, when the zombie outbreak is almost a year old, Qingshan Base has become the largest and safest human survival base in S City.

Even though the zombies, or those extraterrestrial parasites, have generally completed the first round of evolution, according to the researchers' estimates, the physical fitness of the zombies is basically more than 1.2 times that of ordinary humans, and Qingshan Base still stands firm in the siege of zombies.

But despite the good survival situation, Ji Cheng and his team's second-generation drug development process is not smooth.

Although the extraterrestrial parasites have a slow evolutionary trend, the first-phase drugs have always been effective against them. Ji Cheng and the researchers slightly improved the formula and caught a few evolved zombies for experiments, and finally came up with the best solution.

It’s just that the first-phase drugs are easy to improve, but the research progress of vaccines that work on living people, or the so-called second-generation drugs, has not made significant progress.

After all, compared with the first-phase drugs, the second-generation drugs also need to consider the applicability to the human body, etc. There are no special mice for drug experiments in this environment, and Ji Cheng and his team can’t just catch healthy living people and inject them directly, so they can only try their best to weaken the drug properties to avoid damage to the human body.

However, the result is that the experimental effect of the second-generation drugs is not optimistic.

Because of the fear of being discovered by the government base next door, and for the sake of experimental ethics, the second-generation drug was only studied secretly at the beginning: although Qingshan Base is one of the bases with the highest safety factor, many human teams go out to explore every day, and it is almost inevitable that they will be attacked and injured by zombies. Some of them have not been infected and mutated when they return to the base. For such people, Ji Cheng and his team will send special personnel to negotiate, and inject them with second-generation drugs after obtaining their consent to observe the effect of the vaccine.

In addition, some seriously ill people who have not been bitten by zombies will also be questioned.

Although the number of such subjects is not large due to the scale of the base itself, the results after they received the drug injection are all the same: no case of successful stop mutation.

Generally speaking, after being bitten by a zombie, it will mutate within 24 hours, and those who have not been bitten and died normally will mutate within half an hour of death. The second-generation drug developed by Ji Cheng and his team usually extends this time by double or more - but it is just an extension.

In the end, Ji Cheng and his team directly took the first-phase drug that had not been weakened, but the result was still the same.

This means that they have never been able to solve the parasites lurking in all human bodies.

If these extraterrestrial parasites cannot be solved, it means that humans will eventually become extinct. If the humans in this small world become extinct, how can they counterattack?

Although he still has a skeptical attitude towards the idea of ​​a reversal of luck, Ji Cheng knows very well that if he fails in this small world, where will his face as the prince of the heavenly realm be placed? !

So later, His Royal Highness even thought of manually summoning external aid to cheat - although this small world lacks spiritual energy and it is extremely difficult to communicate with other planes, as long as he is willing to pay a certain price... it is not impossible.

However, just when Ji Cheng was about to make up his mind to do so, Guan Shanye's words gave him inspiration.

At that time, the research and development of the second-generation drugs was stuck in a bottleneck. The researchers worked day and night and almost tore through the data notes brought back by Ji Cheng, but there was no new inspiration. Even though the Qingshan base has expanded back to the urban area of ​​S City, and Xie Qi has helped them build two small generators while rescuing some research institute equipment, the operating conditions are much better than at the beginning of the apocalypse, but there is still no progress in drug research.

In order to expand their thinking, sometimes doctors from Qingshan Hospital will join the brainstorming of researchers - they are at least fellow practitioners, trustworthy, and have more time to deal with zombies.

In the discussion, everyone gradually realized that there might be some key ingredients missing in the second-generation drugs, so that they cannot completely disinfect the parasites lurking in the human body that have not yet erupted. But the human brain is not a machine after all. Now there is no network or paper materials to check. Even if they know that there is something missing, everyone is still like a headless fly, without a specific direction.

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Although Ji Cheng can remember everything with his strong mental power, he has to read it first!

That day, he was holding his chin up in the meeting, thinking about whether to summon Siming Tianshen or Zhan Qing, while others were chatting casually. Brainstorming for too long, everyone felt that their ideas were running out.

It was at this time that Guan Shanye looked up and sighed: "It doesn't make sense. Doesn't medicine say that things are mutually reinforcing and mutually restraining? How could this vaccine not be developed?"

Others also laughed and echoed: "There's nothing we can do. Alien parasites are not under the jurisdiction of our planet's medicine. It's just so awesome-"

Ji Cheng suddenly said: "Brother, what did you just say?"

Guan Shanye, who was called, was stunned: "Me?"

Ji Cheng nodded.

Guan Shanye was a little confused, and slowly repeated what he had just said: "I said, it doesn't make sense. Doesn't medicine say that things are mutually reinforcing and mutually restraining..."

Ji Cheng stood up: "That's it!"

Mutual reinforcing and mutually restraining! Why didn't he think of it before!

——The so-called mutual promotion and mutual restraint is like the fact that there are often organisms with toxic resistance or detoxification living near highly toxic plants. If you look closely, this theory is not completely true, but sometimes it has a magical effect.

For example, now——

Ji Cheng suddenly remembered that when he quietly returned to the outer space experimental base more than half a year ago, there were several plants next to the outer space meteorite in the display cabinet?

That kind of plant!!

Ji Cheng's eyes were burning, and he finally realized what he had missed these days.

When he was in the heaven, he was forced to make up for so many lessons, but he even forgot this common sense!