Apocalypse: Transmigrated General's Daughter Uses Space to Survive-Chapter 565: Securing the Sect
"The zombie evolution seems to be happening too fast." Chu Miao explained.
"Is it because of the component Professor Wu mentioned?" Chu Hao asked in a serious tone that is usually not present in his conversations.
"That is part of the reason, but something feels wrong. It’s as if the immortal qi in the crystal cores isn’t natural. It’s as if something is stimulating the zombies. Deliberately feeding them. But that doesn’t make sense." Chu Miao said with her brows furrowed in confusion.
"Let’s not think about that for now. Let’s get rid of those zombies infesting the city first then we can figure out other things later." Grandpa Chu advised.
"Alright then. Let’s go and get the teams assigned. This time, the teams will attack according to their strength." Chu Miao didn’t want a repeat of what happened the previous day.
"Are you joining the battle today?" Chu Hao asked as they walked out of their apartment and headed downstairs.
"I will, later. For now, I want to go with Second Grandpa to check how the walls he was talking about are coming along." Chu Miao didn’t want to leave anything to chance, so she had to inspect the walls in person.
"Okay then. I’ll see you later." Chu Hao left first and Chu Miao rushed to catch up to Butler Cheng, who had left earlier than them.
Outside the sect, earth element users stood in formation. Cultivators who had awakened the earth spirit root also joined in whether it was a strong root or weak.
Massive waves of soil lifted from the ground as if controlled by invisible hands. Fire ability users followed, superheating the compressed earth. Metal element users infused molten metal dust into the structure.
As the wall rose, layer by layer, the slob of mud turned into a hard structure that couldn’t be broken even by the strongest weapon on earth.
This was the genius invention Butler Cheng had created. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺
Twenty meters high and one meter thick. The wall rose gradually as the builders who had exhausted their power moved to the back to give space to new ones.
When the fire scorched across the surface, the wall hardened into a dark metallic sheen.
Chu Miao appeared silently atop the half-finished wall. She pressed her palm against it and let spiritual energy travel through the structure down to its foundation.
However, she wasn’t satisfied completely. She stood up and formed hand seals. Spiritual runes formed at her fingertips and flowed into the wall.
The runes reinforced the wall and added some elements of shock absorption and energy diffusion into it.
In this way, the impact of attacks on the wall will be reduced significantly.
If the sect was ever besieged, the reinforced wall could buy the people time to escape into the bunker.
Once she was done, she stood there watching the people continue to build. However, her mind was already calculating how to solve the tunneling problem.
There were so many tunnels underground that collapsing them would probably take down half of the city.
"I guess I will have to think of setting up formations underground near our city. That way, no zombie will be able to pass through no matter how strong they are."
They needed to build a fortress to protect the last survivors if possible.
As long as some humans remained, even if it’s just a million people out of the close to seven billion on earth before, that would be an achievement.
With people from different races and cultures, everything about humans could be said to be preserved and new marriages and procreation would fill the world again with people some day.
In the makeshift laboratory built in one of the buildings inside the community, Professor Wu and Professor Tang worked without rest.
They had recruited more people as the sect expanded and people of all professions joined.
Now, the sect was similar to a self-running machine.
There were people from all kinds of backgrounds living together and everyone has taken up a role depending on what they did before the apocalypse.
Teachers joined the school to teach young children how to read and write.
Specialized teachers and professors also opened another branch to teach youths who were supposed to be in college.
Craftsmans also passed their skills to those interested and so on.
In the lab, transparent tubes carried the newly refined chemical compound. It shimmered faintly blue under the fluorescent light.
Even though Mu Nan had studied physics, over the last few months he had learned a lot about chemistry and was helping out in the lab.
He was studying the data derived from the conversion of the liquid chemical to gas.
"Conversion into aerosol form is stable," Professor Tang reported. "But dispersal efficiency depends on altitude and wind speed."
"We can control wind with cultivators," Mu Nan said calmly.
In the recent months, cultivators in the sect had become widely accepted as part of the present instead of some legends seen in history books and movies.
Now, even those who couldn’t cultivate understood how cultivators work.
Professor Wu adjusted his glasses. "The compound destabilizes the evolution component by approximately seventy percent in zombies at the early and middle stage of evolution. As for those who have fully evolved and gained intelligence and skills. For higher-evolved ones..."
He hesitated for a moment, but then continued.
"It weakens them, but cannot fully suppress it."
"I believe that is enough. Our warriors aren’t that weak. As long as the zombies are affected even a little, it is an advantage for us." Mu Nan emphasized.
"That’s true. Now we just need to worry about how to get it to the zombies. We don’t have much of the chemical for now, but since we are still perfecting it, we will make more in the future." Professor Wu said with a sigh.
"How is the transmission carried out? I don’t think zombies can breathe, so even if it is in gas form, getting it into their bodies will still prove to be a challenge." An apprentice asked the question that many had ignored.
Indeed, zombies are basically dead humans and cannot breathe. So, how will the grass get into their system?
