Chapter 944 Fort Yukon Base

It took Qi Lin almost a day and a half, after traveling through most of Alaska, to arrive at this old-era military fortress near the Yukon River.

However, the Fort Yukon that Qi Lin saw was completely different from the Fort Yukon he imagined - in his expectation, this place should be a ruins destroyed by the war, although there were a large number of underground structures built under Fort Yukon. Shelter, but Fort Yukon above the surface is definitely not inhabitable by humans... Not only was Anchorage flattened by bombing, Fort Yukon was also hit by a high-priority nuclear strike.

But he was wrong... The ruins he imagined did not appear. Instead, there was a huge ground fortress. This fortress was even more majestic than the original Jiange Fortress, and judging from the newness of the walls, this fortress This fortress has probably been built for quite some time...

As far as Qi Lin knows, the only refuge built on the surface of the human world currently only exists in Greenland, which is sparsely populated, lacking in supplies and of little strategic value. A large number of refugees who fled to Greenland from North America and Europe are in the Arctic Circle. A new home was built within it, and the European branch of the Consortium Alliance also set its headquarters on this large island covered by ice and snow all year round.

But Alaska is different. Although like Greenland, both places are very close to the Earth's North Pole, Alaska was one of the important battlefields of the Third World War and the forefront of the confrontation between several major forces. 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 dropped on this land was no less than those of the super cities on the east coast of the United States.

Like Anchorage, the Fort Yukon area is also a heavily irradiated area, but based on what Qi Lin perceives so far, the radiation pollution in the area where this giant fortress is located is not very strong, and is only about as high as It just sets the threshold for lightly polluted areas.

Anyone who knows something about nuclear radiation knows that if humans want to return to the surface to rebuild their homes, the main difficulty is not to build new cities on the ruins, but how to clean up and purify those residues Radiation pollution above the earth's surface... Not only is the cost of this purification project exaggeratedly high, but the time it takes also uses "ten years" as the most basic unit of measurement - and this is why those big consortiums squeezed out the One of the reasons for trying to curry favor with the organization is that they all hope to be allocated as large a territory as possible after returning to the ground...a territory as large as possible without radiation pollution.

Only that kind of land can meet the needs of human reproduction. As for the radiation areas that are like festering sores on the surface of the earth, unless there are coveted resources in the radiation areas, no one will care at all. .

The reason is simple. If you want to restore this kind of radiation zone to a level that allows humans to gain a foothold, the manpower and material resources it needs to consume, if converted into military power, are enough to snatch back several times the area of ​​land from other people. No one will Go do thankless things, especially these businessmen who always put their own interests first.

...But...when did this fortress appear? This confidentiality work is done very well, right? !

Qi Lin lay down behind a reverse slope, activated his eagle eye ability, and began to carefully explore the fortress that appeared out of thin air.

The outer wall of the fortress is more than forty meters high. The reinforced concrete wall is covered with a combined urban defense armor plate. Soldiers wearing power armor patrol back and forth on the top of the wall. In addition, From time to time, several "Comanches" landed in the fortress or rose from the fortress and flew to other places.

The heavy metal gates of the fortress are tightly closed, and outside the city wall, there is a dense human wall several kilometers thick surrounding it - the main members of this human wall are those among the living dead. The lowest-level "rotten corpses" were attracted by the fresh meat still dripping with blood hanging on the city wall. They surrounded the entire Yukon Fort base tightly, and countless pairs of festering and pus-filled sky were raised above their heads. The ten fingers, so rotten that one could even see the bones, were scratching at the air in vain.

Qi Lin made a rough estimate and found that the total number of rotting corpses surrounding the walls of the Fort Yukon base was likely to exceed one million... or even more, just... such a large number of living dead. , where did they gather 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 in the wasteland, this lowest level of rotten corpses is completely Being at the bottom of the food chain, it is difficult for them to form a large-scale tide of corpses, because after a certain number of rotting corpses gather, they will attract those wasteland predators with keen sense of smell and kill these useless creatures wantonly. The fighting corpse left with satisfaction after a meal.

The carrion is not a parasite. They cannot sweep hundreds of kilometers like the Kuroshio... They cannot even cross the Alaskan Mountains. According to the records in the "Wasteland Ecological Research Report", this kind of creature often does not leave their "lifetime". "... Or rather, how far away they lived before the mutation. If you want to find this kind of living dead who have lost their minds, the best place is the ruins of cities and villages, rather than the deserted desert."

Generally speaking, carrion is a kind of "native creature". They basically have no migration habits. The number of carrion that can appear in a place generally does not exceed the number of humans originally there...

Thinking of this, the corners of Qi Lin's eyes couldn't help but twitch slightly - these millions of rotting corpses are probably the aborigines of the underground shelter in the Yukon Fort area!

If it weren't for them, so many rotting corpses would not be able to gather in this area. Moreover, the number of these rotting corpses is almost comparable to the number of refugees recorded in the Yukon Fort area in the old era.

Qi Lin suddenly understood how the radiation in this area was purified!

As we all know, neither "zombies" nor "zombies" are actually formed after the death of humans. They are just a special form of humans after being mutated by radiation. The living dead can be regarded as a brand new biological species, and Compared with original humans, they are more adapted to the environment after being contaminated 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 an energy-concentrating vortex to absorb the radiation energy in the environment when evolving, but ordinary people absorb The amount is just much smaller than him.

After ordinary people absorb radiation, part of the radiation energy acts on the variation of the human body, while part of the radiation energy is precipitated in the bodies of the living dead... According to the law of conservation of energy, under the influence of one thing and another, the external environment The radiation pollution among them was naturally eliminated bit by bit.

However, not everyone can mutate into the living dead. After being exposed to radiation, the most normal change for most people is to suffer from various radiation diseases and then die in pain... But this Considering the number of living dead, the mutation rate may not be 100%, but may be over 90%.

Qi Lin guessed that these people should have been injected with some kind of special medicine or undergone some simple "transformation". This method would prevent them from dying directly from radiation sickness, but could successfully mutate into the living dead, thus Become a living tool for purifying environmental radiation...

This kind of thing... can no longer be simply described as "cruel"... But Qi Lin cannot deny that this method is indeed very effective and extremely efficient...

This group of living dead surrounding the Fort Yukon base absorbs the radiation energy in the environment day after day. When the remaining radiation energy in this area is completely absorbed by them, they will naturally die. When the body is exhausted, the tissues and master brain don't even need to expend energy to clean them up. You only 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 the living dead can also be regarded as the outermost defense of the Yukon Fort base. Whether someone is trying to sneak into the Yukon Fort base or some mutant creature is approaching, the rotten corpses will do whatever they want. The response can provide early warning information to the defenders on the wall as soon as possible.

The person who can come up with this strategy is undoubtedly a genius, but at the same time... he is also an extremely cold-blooded and inhumane guy...

The only way to enter the Fort Yukon base is to take a "Comanche", and except for this kind of helicopter that can be completely invisible, other flying vehicles cannot even get close to the sky above the Fort Yukon base—— It was not because of how powerful the anti-aircraft firepower of the Yukon Fort base was, but because of the putrid smell emitted by the large number of carrion corpses on the ground, which attracted countless scavenging birds similar to mutant vultures to hover in the air for a long time.

Although these carrion birds are attracted by the smell of carrion, this group of raptors will never mind trying the taste of fresh meat. In other words, fresh meat with a strong bloody smell is more attractive to them. Big——In just one hour of observation, Qi Lin has seen mutated carrion birds swooping down to grab the fresh meat hung on the city wall to attract corrosion at the risk of being sieved by machine guns more than once. piece.

So far, Qi Lin has basically determined that Qin and Lingkui, who were captured by the mastermind and organization, should have been taken to this Fort Yukon base...

Judging from the scale of this Fort Yukon base, the various equipment inside are definitely no less complete than the organization's underground headquarters. It is absolutely not a problem to complete the final step of the utopian plan here.

Especially after having rare samples like Qin and Lingkui.

Both of them are innate mental powers. Through 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, game cabins all over the world will become One coffin after another - and the people sleeping in them will never wake up.

Time was running out, and Qi Lin could not continue to waste time outside the Yukon Fort base. He put on a snow-white cloak, and using 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, and it is difficult to smell the bloody smell of the fresh meat hanging on the city wall. The rotting corpses on the outside of the corpse group are not as crowded as inside. Most of them are scattered and wandering on the snow. Occasionally, he stood there in a daze, letting the mutated carrion birds swoop down from the sky to snatch him away.

These scattered carrion corpses on the periphery are the main targets of mutated carrion birds that are not obsessed with blood. The density inside the corpse group is too high. If you rush down rashly, you may encounter some accidents, and hunting these lone individuals on the periphery Rotten corpses are safe and easy to eat. Anyway, there is no difference in taste and meat quality between solitary corpses and rotten corpses crowded together.

Qi Lin quietly approached a rotting corpse wearing a tattered military uniform. Before the latter noticed him, a dagger without any reflection suddenly flew out from the snowdrift. From the rotting corpse It penetrated into the lower jaw, penetrated the throat of the corpse, and reached the brainstem.

The rotten corpse with its brain stem damaged died on the spot, and when its body was about to fall, a pair of hands suddenly stretched out, caught the rotten corpse, and dragged it into the snowdrift.

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Taking off the corpse's military uniform, which was almost the same as a torn sack, Qi Lin looked at the badge on the chest. It was the designation of a U.S. Army unit stationed in Alaska. According to Harveys, this After the nuclear war broke out, the troops should have moved to the underground and shelters of Fort Yukon.

And now the rotten corpses wearing this military uniform appear here, which obviously confirms Qi Lin's previous guess-the millions of rotten corpses surrounding the Yukon Fort base are all in the Yukon Fort underground shelter. of Aboriginal people.

Putting this tattered military uniform on his body, Qi Lin used a knife to cut open the abdominal cavity of the rotting corpse, and smeared all the disgusting pus and blood on his body. In order to disguise himself more, he He even cut off the scalp that still had a lot of hair on the corpse's head and attached it to 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 state close to "suspended death". Within a few seconds, his body temperature had become that of a dead person. There is no difference anymore. Immediately afterwards, Qi Lin imitated the walking style of a rotting corpse and limped towards the base of Fort Yukon...

Disguising himself as a rotting corpse and passing through the corpses, this was the only way Qi Lin could think of to get to the Yukon Fort base besides hijacking a helicopter. Next, what he had to face was the towering city wall and the A heavy metal gate.