Chapter 38 Yang Sheng’s Secret Past (3)

Lushan was telling the story, but as I listened, a doubt grew in my heart. I asked Lushan, “How did you know all this? It’s just as you saw it with your own eyes.”

Lu Shan smiled and said, “Don’t forget one thing, the soldiers who went down with Mu Lin and Yang Sheng at the time could only be secret soldiers from our department, and all their actions, especially those involving classified areas, had to be written in an action report. I said I happened to see these action reports. Do you believe it?”

I lit a cigarette and didn’t answer Lushan. Obviously, I believed it in my heart. I frowned and asked, “What did they see Ding Yang become? Was it a monster similar to a zombie?” It’s not hard to guess.

Lushan also took a cigarette and lit it slowly, exhaling a smoke ring before saying, “Not exactly. I remember you once went to do something, right? The old village chief of the deserted village, that action report is still in the department.”

“Then?” I asked.

“Then? That’s easy. You can think of Ding Yang as another old village chief, but that old village chief was the one who died unjustly. This Ding Yang is alive!” Lushan said indifferently, paused for a moment, and then continued, “In 19XX, according to the information obtained, it may be the maturation and outbreak period of the mysterious plant. In a few years, do you know how many abandoned villages there were? Often, one village after another, people were transformed. In those days, there were the most legends about biting zombies, and of course, you can also understand it as the era with the most ‘plagues.

Another old village chief. This really shocked me. The outbreak year? I thought of a distant childhood when my master once revealed a saying. He said, “Do you think that’s how so many deserted villages came about? A whole village disappeared.”

I didn’t say anything, but I said to the dead man, “You continue.”

Mu Shan and Yang Sheng were stunned in the secret room. Even though they were at the forefront of science, they still couldn’t accept the monster in front of them, who was once Ding Yang.

On the contrary, the soldier was already used to it. He said, “Professor Mu, I hope you can calm down a bit. Sit down and talk first. If you can’t adapt, I can close the curtains first. Professor Ding will have these bursts before he comes to his senses, and then he will be completely sober for a while.”

Mu Shan was completely at a loss at the moment, and Yang Sheng was also scared. In fact, Yang Sheng knew very well that in this secret base, there was a certain sample that the experts of the special department had painstakingly brought back—a sample of a zombie.

Yang Sheng had seen that kind of sample before. It was dry, covered in black hair, with protruding fangs and sharp claws. The cause of the mutation was also being studied by specialized scientists, but no real conclusions could be drawn.

As usual, research on zombies is sealed up as a project that needs to be researched and broken in the future! This is the approach that many countries will take. For some strange events, including the most widely circulated and most realistic alien events, they will obtain some information and materials and conduct research on them. However, in the case of no major breakthroughs in current technology, they will be sealed up, labeled as top secret, and then wait for future research.

If these top-secret research events have breakthrough results in the future, they can even be applied to reality without causing any social unrest. These confidential events can then be slowly unsealed and made public.

Therefore, the real technological power of a country is always at least 30 years ahead of civilian technology. Strictly speaking, it can be understood as some of the technology we used in the 1990s, or even the latest technology that appeared in the 1960s, a castrated civilian version.

After seeing Ding Yang, Yang Sheng couldn’t help but think of this information in his mind, but he couldn’t equate Ding Yang with a zombie. In fact, the zombies in China all have obvious characteristics, such as the hair on their bodies, which is like the hair that makes moldy tofu. Obviously, Ding Yang doesn’t have this characteristic.

From the brief glimpse, Yang Sheng felt that Ding Yang was more like a corpse that had begun to rot. However, with his many years of experience in biology, he also saw that among the exposed flesh on Ding Yang’s face, there were new growths. How could this be? Decay and new growth appeared simultaneously on the same body.

Yang Sheng was already deep in thought. At that time, he had not yet thought that such an existence would be of great significance to mankind. He was simply curious.

“Can you tell Ding Yang what’s going on? Since you want me to take over this project,” Mu Lin’s face was gray and he obviously couldn’t accept that his former good friend Ding Yang had become like this.

“Strictly speaking, Ding Yang was brought back by our department. At the time, their research topic was cave lizards. In order to obtain first-hand information, Professor Ding and his team went to the depths of the XX desert.” The soldier still had that same unhurried tone.

“The XX Desert, just to study lizards? Is he crazy? There…” Mullin didn’t continue. In this world, there are many places that are sealed off just like the top-secret projects.

Until the mystery of those places is solved, or there are still a lot of dangers in that place, it will be set as a restricted area.

Unless the department has obtained valid information about the restricted area and the danger has been completely eliminated, it will not be truly unsealed. Even in order to eliminate the impact on the public, it will be turned into a scenic tourist area, allowing people to explore the mysteries and satisfy their curiosity, but they will not really discover anything.

The XX Desert was naturally a restricted area back then, with some incredible things going on in it, and there were many local legends. In Mulin’s view, it was a crazy thing to go to the XX Desert for the sake of a lizard.

But he also knew his friend, a scientist with a rigorous personality, who would be the first to ‘fight’ and command respect. Many scientists don’t have this spirit. Don’t think that the front line of scientific research is not dangerous.

“In fact, the relevant departments did not approve of the research in the depths of the XX desert for that topic at the time, because the investment would be greater than the actual significance of the topic itself. In the eyes of many people, even if the greatest results were achieved, it would be nothing more than the discovery of a new lizard. Is such an investment worthwhile? Because Professor Ding Yang is a national treasure-level scientist, it would be even more unacceptable to risk his life in that mysterious place. There are still too few top professionals in our country.” The soldier explained to Mu Lin.

“Then why did he go? Why did he end up like this?” Mullin asked.

“He went because the operation was upgraded, and the highest level was upgraded, so Dr. Ding Yang went! And the reason for the upgrade was that one of the locals who discovered this cave lizard went crazy.” The soldier continued to explain.

“Madness, can you be more specific?” Mulin’s brows furrowed.

“Specifically, at that time, a local in that remote village developed symptoms of rabies and began to attack the other people in the village. Those who were attacked by him would definitely develop the same symptoms within three days, losing their reason and becoming like beasts with only the instinct to eat and a strong aggression.” The soldier explained in great detail.

Mulin looked at the soldier strangely and said in a deep voice, “Apart from the short duration of the symptoms, what is the difference between these symptoms and real rabies?”

Rabies is a strange disease. It has existed since ancient times, and once it strikes, there is no cure! What makes Mullin ashamed is that in the information he has, there are very few cases where rabies has been cured, and all of them were cured by people Mullin considers metaphysical! They came without a trace, and there was no way to investigate them. The only information he had was that rabies could hurt the soul.

But the soul… Well, although Mullin has come into contact with some, he is still not completely convinced of its existence. There is insufficient evidence!

“Yes, on the surface, it looks no different from rabies, but in fact there is a major difference. These people become incredibly strong, beyond the scope of human beings. In addition, their ability to withstand blows is greatly increased. Witnesses say that knives cut into their bodies without causing pain. They are even stabbed in the stomach and still jump around fearlessly, completely unaffected, and even their blood does not flow much. This is a fundamental difference from rabies.”

“Is that so?” Mullin was a little surprised.

“That’s right. The cave lizard and the locals going crazy were two separate incidents. We didn’t even get any information about the crazy incident at first. It wasn’t until the people in that village couldn’t stand the increasing number of crazy people and started asking the local army for help that we learned about the incident! What’s more, because the unit that reported the cave lizard and the local people going crazy was the same unit, someone in our unit looked into it and discovered the connection between the two incidents. The first person to go crazy in the area was one of the witnesses to the cave lizard. What’s most special is that he had been attacked by the cave lizard and almost lost a leg. The soldier finally explained everything to Mullin.

Mulin’s face had become extremely ugly at this point. If that was the case, then the cave monitor lizard was carrying an extremely terrifying virus, and it was contagious.

Throughout human history, this kind of terrifyingly contagious biological virus has only been particularly evident in one legendary thing—zombies!