Industrial Cthulhu doesn't believe in the end times.

Chapter 117 A Chilling Guess

Chi Xiaoyun was taken to the hospital, and the others no longer stayed where they were.

Su Xun stopped Jiang Yi: "I told you to rest, but now I have to work overtime. Go and organize a conference call to notify the senior leaders of the Jianghuai Corps to attend, and at the same time request a connection with Secretary-General Feng."

"clear."

The group headed to the base command center together. Along the way, Su Xun didn't rest and instructed, "Find the previous census data on ability users in various regions and select a group of mental ability users."

"Also, ask again if there are any newly promoted Tier 3 Transcendent beings in the neighboring areas. If so, tell them to prepare, as the battles in Haizhou in the future... may require their help."

While psychic ability users are rare, they do exist. Regular superhumans who reach the third tier will experience a significant boost in this area, gaining far greater resistance to thought distortion than ordinary people.

Placing these people in key positions would greatly reduce instances where a single parasite like Chi Xiaoyun could manipulate a group of people to storm the radio station.

At this point in time, the number of third-tier superhumans is still not large. Within the Taimon Base, apart from Su Xun, only Xu Huan has reached this level.

However, this only applies to the base; although Tier 3 is rare, it has appeared in various places.

Xu Huan was once one of the strongest people in Binhai City, but now there are many times more survivors in the world than in Binhai in his previous life.
Moreover, Xu Huan in his previous life had not even reached the ninth rank.

Most of those ninth-tier extraordinary individuals have not yet been born. Apart from Su Xun himself, only Xu Zhao in this generation has ever come close to that level. He had mentioned it when he heard the news from Yanshan Base. Now Xu Zhao has reached the third tier and is even approaching the fourth tier.

Besides him, there is also Lin Hai, who is currently in the Yunmeng area. He died on the dam at the sixth level in his previous life. If not for that, his final achievements might not be lower than Xu Zhao or even Su Xun. Xiao Zhenru, who is currently in the Xinfu safe zone, is in a similar situation.

These are just some people Su Xun knew in the past. Admittedly, those who could obtain information from Su Xun in his previous life were already strong individuals who had been filtered by the environment. However, there are also many dark horses emerging in this life.

Thinking of this, Su Xun sighed. They had acted very quickly, but the progress of the zombies was indeed incomparable to that of humans at present. This was even after the safe zones in most areas had been firmly established and the real large zombie groups from his previous life had been basically dismembered, yet a fourth-level zombie king still appeared.

If we follow some of the theories from before the Cataclysm, the Zombie King in the current environment can be considered the answer to the current version.

They were already top-tier beings with the potential to reach the ninth rank, and were protected by a massive horde of zombies.

Although Su Xun spoke contemptuously of the spiritual parasite that had taken over Chi Xiaoyun's body, it was more of a provocation, hoping that it would request more power from the original body. Unfortunately, it did not work.

In a real fight, a fully-grown zombie king is not to be underestimated.

It just so happened to run into Su Xun's hand. Its most powerful technique was completely ineffective against Su Xun himself, but against others, this unpredictable attack method was virtually invincible.

Such a large-scale operation to wipe out zombies from an entire region cannot be carried out by Su Xun alone.

However, the Zombie King, which is considered the answer in this version, remains at the fourth tier, and the secret realms in various regions have gradually stabilized after the last rise, without any major incidents like the one in Haiqu occurring again.

All the intelligence reports basically confirm that the factors that would give rise to a fifth-order extraordinary individual are not yet complete in the current environment.

Walking along the road, Su Xun pondered for a moment, and finally shook his head. In his previous life, the emergence of the fifth rank among humans was a long time later. How to walk the path of the extraordinary needed to be explored from scratch. At that time, the environment was not yet a bottleneck for their advancement.

Su Xun has now reached the threshold of the fifth rank, but he's stopped there. He has a premonition that if he takes another step forward, the surrounding spiritual energy will be unable to sustain the operation of this realm, and he might fall into a situation like those at the tenth rank in his previous life, spending most of his time in slumber until the environment changes again. In the current rapidly changing situation, this is something Su Xun cannot tolerate.

Those zombie kings seem to be stuck here as well, but they probably don't have such a clear understanding. Right now, they probably see themselves as a stepping stone to advancement.

The zombie king of Haizhou is most likely after his memories, but what about the one in Yanshan?

Remembering its identity, Su Xun frowned.

There was no time to think about these things. After arriving at the control center, Su Xun explained the current situation in detail to Qin Chang and the others, and had the details recorded to be reported to the high-level officials from various regions who would be attending the meeting later.

Previously, he had only briefly written some things using the document that Jiang Yi had handed over, mainly arranging for people to protect the broadcasting station.

Upon discovering that there was something wrong with Chi Xiaoyun, he immediately realized that she might take action against the broadcasting station. Fortunately, he reacted in time and ultimately no problems arose.

Qin Chang didn't have a detailed understanding of the current situation. After listening to Su Xun's explanation, he slapped his thigh and sighed, "Alas! No wonder we haven't heard from the liaison officers we sent south to contact the Jianghuai Corps. They've probably all been intercepted in Haizhou."

Haizhou is located south of the Taimeng Block, directly bordering Langya and Haiqu. When Su Xun arrived in Haiqu, he also dispatched several small teams in that direction, but there was no response.

Nowadays, there are too many unexpected things a small team might encounter outside the safe zone, so they really didn't expect that the problem was with the shelter in Haizhou itself.

Patting Qin Chang on the shoulder, Su Xun reassured him, "Those people may not necessarily have died when they arrived in Haizhou. According to my estimation, the situation in Haizhou may not be as bad as we imagine."

A city is very large, and Haizhou, lacking a subway, had to build numerous shelters. These shelters were relatively independent of each other, making it difficult for a single Tier 4 zombie king to completely take over all the shelters without being detected by the higher-ups of the military.

Because it was an emergency meeting, the communication was connected quickly. Feng Zhengze had just spoken with Su Xun, and now it was just another phone call. The high-ranking officers of the Jianghuai Corps were in position in no time.

Both sides have received the intelligence that Taimon just transmitted, and they are probably reading it while entering the meeting.

That's why, when Su Xun picked up the microphone, he heard a rather chaotic sound, as if the person on the other end of the microphone had knocked something over.

"I'm sorry, Commander, I... this information is really..."

Judging from the voice on the other end, it was a middle-aged man. By the standards of a corps leader, the other party was actually quite young, and he had already lost his composure.

He couldn't help but be flustered, even terrified, because it was an entire city!
Haizhou has a considerable population. Even after the cataclysm, there should still be hundreds of thousands of survivors scattered in various shelters. Not long ago, they submitted a report that everything was normal, but now they have received news that the shelters have been completely taken over by zombies.

Have these people already completely fallen into the hands of zombies?

Upon realizing this, the middle-aged man could barely stand, let alone maintain his composure!
The thought that the person in charge from Haizhou whom he had spoken with during their routine conversation might actually be a zombie was chilling!

Where exactly have its tentacles extended? Are there people in this command post that it has parasitized as well?

Could it be that I was also influenced by this, which is why I was completely unaware of this matter all along?
(End of this chapter)