Yamafu Military Affairs

Chapter 501 Deadlock
The bright red sun above was obscured by the radiation clouds floating in the sky and gradually sank into the horizon. The fierce ultraviolet rays dissipated reluctantly, and the dim yellow sand swept across the sky, and night was approaching.

A two-headed black-scaled monster snake heard the noise and just came out of its cave to hunt, but before it could raise its head, it was burned into charcoal by the scorching high-temperature flames.

The heavy alloy armor boots crushed the snake corpse into the sand. Qin Huai looked at the black and dry mountain in front of him. A large piece of brand new bulletproof glass was nailed on the severely weathered rock wall. In the double-layer gap, there was a huge cyan-gold dragon head painted with fluorescent paint, which was bright and lifelike.

Tianrui Dragon Rider.

The Big Ben Institute prepared for Albert and his team a research base that was converted from a large-scale shelter in the former Soviet Union. It is hidden underground in the mountains and is very sturdy with abundant supplies. Even if World War IV breaks out in the future, as long as it does not suffer a saturation nuclear attack, the people living in the base will have a considerable chance of saving their lives in any extreme situation.

According to the operating manual sent by Wei Yueyan earlier, Qin Huai opened the lid of the sixteen-digit mechanical combination lock box embedded in the mountain. After entering the correct password, the unique sound of hydraulic machinery rang in his ears. Then, large clouds of steam gushed out of the exhaust ducts hidden behind the rocks. The gear-shaped gate, which was five meters long and wide and shining with the green light of high-strength alloy steel, slowly sank into the mountain, retracted a full meter, and then rolled to the side and shrank into the cliff, revealing a deep passage.

Although the light was dim, Qin Huai still relied on his extraordinary eyesight to see clearly through the heavy steam the several automatic weapon terminals hidden inside the mountain and hanging from the ceiling on both sides of the passage.

【G10 tungsten steel alloy base door and defense system】

Category: Security Measures

Manufacturer: Pompeii Arms
Production date: 32nd year of winter.

The main attack system visible at the terminal is a few cruel-looking automatic machine guns, all black with sharp edges and corners. The angles at which each of them points are very particular. With a quick calculation of the landing point, it can be found that their interwoven firepower network has tightly blocked the entire passage.

There are several different lenses in the distance, and judging by their appearance, they should be sensors for visible light, infrared, sound waves, and magnetism.

Even if we look at the design of this attack system from today's perspective, we can't find any obvious shortcomings. The only thing that may be questioned is the lethality of these guns. After all, after the winter, all creatures are constantly distorted and evolved in the strong radiation, and strong species that can withstand ordinary machine gun fire continue to appear. If the old Soviet weapons are still used in this base, Qin Huai will have to consider how to complete the replacement of the entire fire control system.

Qin Huai turned on [A Glimpse], and black ripples reflected back from those guns.

【Thor M82A3 automatic cannon】

Quality: Rare!
It has a range of 800 meters and a maximum firing rate of 8,000 rounds per minute. It can fire a variety of bomb types including armor-piercing incendiary bombs and high-explosive incendiary bombs. It has extremely strong destructive power against any target and is a metal storm that can tear apart all armor and flesh at close range.

Optional accessories: Archimedes spiral drum, standard type III accessory rail, Falcon optical rangefinder aiming system
Note: Pompeii Arms is the highly praised uncrowned king, and no one can escape from its lock.

"Not bad, it seems Big Ben is quite kind."

Qin Huai nodded, and just as he was about to walk in, he heard the rumbling sound of tracks coming from the depths and gradually approaching.

Soon, a silver-gray Bear tank with an unusually eye-catching thick and long gun barrel drove out of the dark passage. A soldier wearing a radiation protection suit and a clock spire badge on his chest opened the hatch, leaned out his upper body with a swift movement, looked at Qin Huai vigilantly, and said in a deep voice: "Hello, please show your identity card immediately!"

The black ripples swept across the tank commander, and Qin Huai immediately got all his information.

Name: Tang Chen

Type: Fourth-level Red Lotus Vanguard

Genetic ability: Greatly enhances the physical strength of the transformed, improves all body functions, especially focuses on bone strength and thickness, can withstand high-powered rifle shooting, even when facing some extremely terrifying anti-material sniper rifles, will not be killed in one shot.

Note 1: The king of soldiers from the Black Star Chariot [Supreme Special Operations Team] received a transfer order from the Big Ben Research Institute three months ago. He formed a special team with Jason, a fourth-tier soldier [Wilderness Darts] from Pompeii Arms [Ashes of Sin], and Daisy, a fourth-tier soldier [Earth Pulse] from Tanya Mining [Red Guard], to be responsible for the security of Tianrui Dragon Riders.

Note 2: The Supreme Special Operations Team of Black Star Chariot, the Sinful Ashes of Pompeii Arms, and the Red Guard of Tanya Mining, together represent the top individual level, comprehensive execution, tactical level, equipment and genetic ability of [Demon Winter]. Among them, the King of Soldiers who specialize in frontal combat is enough to defeat the Yanfu Walking at the peak of the Nine Stars. If they can fully develop their genetic abilities, they will be able to fight against the Baji Walking.

"I am Qin Huai, the founder of Tianrui Dragon Riders. Albert reported to me earlier that the research and development progress of the new gene medicine was in a dilemma, so I came back to solve this problem."

Qin Huai took out a blue metal card with a glassy luster from his arms. The front was engraved with the ferocious dragon head logo unique to Tianrui Dragon Riders, and the back was a spire clock, symbolizing the cooperative relationship between Tianrui Dragon Riders and Big Ben Research Institute.

This was given to him by Wei Yueyan through the Yanfu dialogue. It was placed in the winter wasteland outside Big Ben. It was the top-level identity certificate, equivalent to a license issued by the three giants. It could enter 90% of the neutral shelters in the survival zone unconditionally and enjoy a very low purchase price. It could be used as collateral for a fourth-order gene potion of the highest purity.
In short, this identity card may not prove anything in the eyes of other wasteland thugs, but the battle-hardened Black Star Soldier King Tang Chen in front of him naturally knows how to distinguish the authenticity.

He took the metal card thrown by Qin Huai, lifted the electronic tactical board fixed on his left forearm, and inserted the card into it.

[Begonia Type II Electronic Tactical Board]: A portable personal terminal produced by Black Star Tank, only available to members of the highest special operations team. It can realize instant communication, call for artillery support, input and output maps, accept confidential missions from a distance, check information, and identify the value of spoils. It can also serve as a bank card between many large forces recognized by Black Star.

Note: If you have powerful hacking skills, you can try to crack the Black Star Chariot's intranet firewall and steal some valuable confidential information.

"Hello, Mr. Qin, please follow me."

After verifying the identity and confirming it was correct, Tang Chen breathed a sigh of relief. He jumped off the tank, handed the card back to Qin Huai, and took the initiative to lead the way.

"Thank you for your hard work." Qin Huai nodded slightly and followed the Bear tank through one checkpoint and dividing gate after another.

After a while, Tang Chen pointed to the huge freight elevator in front of him and said, "This is the last door."

It was a silver-white gate large enough to accommodate a Bear tank, and it was guarded by nearly twenty fully armed black-clad soldiers.

The entire freight elevator is made entirely of steel, which is rugged and practical, and its craftsmanship is clearly influenced by the heavy industry aesthetics of the old Soviet era.

As the friction sounds of the hydraulic machinery and the guide rail car rang out one after another, Qin Huai and Tang Chen came to the underground and walked out of the door. It was a relatively spacious room, about two hundred square meters, covered in cold white light, precise and solemn.

Qin Huai looked around calmly. In addition to seeing some people in white coats debugging equipment and preparing reagents, he could also see operating tables integrated with many tools.

Further into this room is a biological laboratory filled with special instruments.

Albert, whom Qin Huai brought out from [Liuguangmeng], was lying on an operating platform as big as a wall, fiddling with the densely packed dials with his hands. The culture medium tank connected to the central console not far away gave feedback according to his instructions.

"Are these culture tanks not the ones currently installed in Big Ben?"

Qin Huai looked at the machines lined up in front of him with many strange circuits exposed on them, and compared them in his mind with the simple, precise, and aesthetically pleasing culture tanks in Big Ben. He found that these "bathtubs" that were more than two meters high and resembled sterile glass culture tanks for plants were obviously full of age and looked like products from before the cold winter.

"No, it's something left behind by the Romanian Ilich. I want to study it and see if I can optimize the existing culture tank."

Albert raised his head. After some operation by him, the liquid level in the culture medium tank not far away had been lowered, revealing the research specimens inside.

It is neither a living person nor a dead person, but a "corpse" with residual neural consciousness!
[γ-level radioactive zombies corroded by Tianrui]

Originally a survivor of a nuclear disaster, he was infected by strong radiation and turned into an ordinary zombie with low intelligence and hunting instincts, but with keen five senses and agile movements.

Later, he was captured by Tianrui Dragon Riders and used as an experimental consumable. Now he is on the verge of genetic collapse, his low-level intelligence was destroyed, and only the more violent hunting instinct remained.

Note 1: According to the Big Ben Research Institute database, this is the lowest level and most rampant zombie monster in the Winter Wasteland. It was classified as "γ" by the authorities before and after Winter. Its activity level is equivalent to that of an adult hound. Ordinary people can kill it with guns, but the blood of γ-level zombies carries strong radiation and they often live in groups, so they are still highly dangerous.

Note 2: After the injection of liquid Tianrui, the genes in his body, which had already been distorted by radiation, were further eroded by the more domineering Tianrui. While the characteristics of dragonization appeared, the genes in his body could no longer be sequenced and studied by normal scientific means.

The zombie's face was covered with proliferating black scales, its pale gums were exposed through its rotten cheeks, its skull pierced its scalp, dirty blood was flowing everywhere, its finger joints were the size of ping-pong balls, with sharp black nails and canine teeth, and its naked body, although shriveled, exuded a gloomy and violent aura, like the dark sky during a thunderstorm season.

"Tell me what the situation is now."

Qin Huai withdrew his gaze from the zombie, took the experimental records of this period, and asked.

"It's not going very well. Based on the Tianrui materials you provided, I led the team to prepare a number of medicines with different concentration gradients. Animal experiments have shown that it can effectively maintain the health of organisms, strengthen their bodies, and change their genetic expressions. From the cell state, it is shown that the attack power of beasts injected with liquid Tianrui will be significantly stronger, but their lifespan will also be shortened accordingly."

Albert paused and continued, "However, in a wasteland where the average life expectancy is less than 40 years old, shortening life span is hardly a problem. What is really terrible is the human experiments we conducted with zombies, mobs, and clones. Although the experimental results are amazing, the advantages and disadvantages have also reached two extremes and are almost impossible to reconcile."

"According to the research of Volunteer No. 7, he is a wasteland mule with cancer. His physical fitness is extremely poor. If he had not been injected with the first-level gene potion [Double Gun Savior], he would have gone to hell long ago. But after being injected with Tianrui, his organs showed an effect of breaking through physiological limits, and his metabolic cycle became extremely slow. Not only did the cancer cells starve to death, but the lifespan of the cells also reached an astonishing level of thousands of years."

"But unfortunately, he couldn't withstand the erosion of Tianrui's blood. In the end, his genes collapsed, his mind became insane, and he became a victim."

Albert pressed a green button on the center console, and a huge culture dish about four or five meters high was pushed out by a robotic arm and tracks. In the golden formalin solution was a disgusting deformed monster.

This monster was as tall and thin as a telephone pole with a wooden frame on top. Its arms, arms and side ribs were connected by black wing membranes. Its deformed facial features did not resemble a human, but rather some reptile, extremely ugly and terrifying.

【Volunteer No. 7】

Status: Genetic collapse
Note: The Pamir Plateau used to be majestic and vast, with high mountains, deep lakes, and meadows under glaciers, where there were fresh fish, wild donkeys, argali, pikas, antelopes, cranes, tigers and leopards. However, under the influence of crazy human infrastructure and strong radiation, this land has suffered a devastating blow. Years of radiation have made the genes of all creatures no longer stable. It only takes a few months of evolution for the big fish in the lake to grow appendages and crawl onto land.
In such a drastic evolution of species, animals often suffer from genetic collapse because they cannot withstand it, and the horrible creatures in a state of genetic collapse often quickly rot and die within a few days. Such a phenomenon is not uncommon in the extreme environment of winter, but the evolutionary failure like Volunteer No. 7, who has obviously collapsed genetically but has not been corrupted and decomposed, is still the first case even in the records of Big Ben.

In order to study genetically modified drugs and find out the factors and mechanisms of Tianrui's influence on the genes of different organisms, Albert led the Tianrui Dragon Riders to conduct hundreds of live experiments. But without exception, all the experimental subjects ended up with insanity and genetic collapse.

Note: He who wears the crown must bear its weight.

"Arrange another experiment, and I will take charge of it myself this time."

Qin Huai put down the experimental records in his hand and said slowly.

(End of this chapter)