The Walking Dead: Rebuild

Chapter 182 The Great Harvest
With the death of the mutated giant scorpion, this battle also came to an end.

In the ruins of a building more than 300 meters away from the giant scorpion's body, Kewela put away the newly obtained high-energy laser gun and was very satisfied with the power of this thing.

She picked up the communicator rather arrogantly, snorted and said:

"Humph, dear, this monster doesn't look very strong. The Apache helicopter you sent was a bit wasted."

Leon didn't care about his wife's ridicule. He smiled and explained:
"Thanks to Giant Tom for holding back the mutant giant scorpion in this battle, otherwise, think about it, how many people would have to be sacrificed if we only relied on tanks, planes, and our soldiers to kill this man who could sneak into the sand at will?" Where’s the monster.”

Keweila laughed, walked out of the hiding place, and walked towards the position of the giant scorpion's body, while saying:

"That's something you, the president, should consider. I'm too lazy to worry about it."

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After the battle, it was quickly time to harvest the spoils.

When Leon and Kevella came from the command center to the corpse of the mutated giant scorpion, Professor Malok and his apprentice Reiner gathered around the corpse and went to work.

They were holding various utensils, cutting here and there on the corpse, and injecting injections there. With unknown fanaticism on their faces, they collected various samples. They looked like hungry idiots, a bit infiltrative. .

The old Professor Jacob was also very interested like them. He held a notebook and recorded and studied the body structure of this mutated giant scorpion, and made a clicking sound from time to time.

The two Lyons did not disturb them, but focused their attention on the body.

The body of the giant scorpion is huge, surpassing the mutated spiders and pink octopus monsters they hunted before. From its shattered carapace, you can see a large amount of white, tender meat like crab meat, filling the entire body. The whole body.

Just looking at them can speed up saliva secretion and create an eating instinct to devour them.

As a time traveler who is invulnerable to all poisons, Leon has eaten many ingredients that ordinary people cannot use, but he rarely sees high-end ingredients like this that can make people appetite just by looking at them.

Noticing that his red-haired wife Kevera who was following him also swallowed quietly, Leon smiled secretly in his heart.

After becoming a family, his wife and children were inevitably influenced by him and became gourmets who love delicious food.

After he decided to go back, he asked Hathaway to test whether the mutated giant scorpion's gravy was edible. If it could, then he would use his rights to intercept part of it for his own mouth and tongue.

I will notify Malok and others later and ask them to decompose the giant scorpion's body as soon as possible to ensure the freshness of these ingredients in the shortest possible time.

However, just as he was daydreaming about whether to steam or grill these plump white meats, Professor Mallock and Professor Jacobs walked over, talking and laughing, with excited faces on their faces.

The bald professor waved his hand at Leon, which should be the black carapace shattered by the Gatling cannon, and said excitedly:
"Your Majesty the President, we are very lucky. This big guy is full of treasures."

"Look at this carapace fragment."

With a smile on his face, Professor Marlock handed the carapace fragments to Leon.

After reaching out to take it, Leon's first feeling was that it was very light, almost as heavy as plastic of the same volume.

Thinking of the attack power of the mutated giant crab, Leon held the carapace fragment with both hands and used [-]% of his strength to move it in one direction, but it didn't move at all.

You know, with his current physical fitness, even with [-]% of his strength, he is twice as strong as those famous world weightlifting champions in his previous life.

Without trying to destroy the carapace fragment, he handed it over to Professor Malloc, then took out a pistol from his belt, and fired several shots at the corpse of the giant mutant scorpion.

The small-caliber bullets used by the pistol hit the black carapace of the mutant giant scorpion, but unexpectedly only wiped out some sparks and a shallow white mark.

Leon's brows jumped, and he turned to look at Professor Mallock and Professor Jacob, who also had surprised expressions, and said:

"It's a very good protective material. It's light in weight and has good defensive power. It's very suitable for making armor."

"And, based on the size of this mutated giant scorpion, the number of carapace we can get should be quite a lot."

Malok nodded in agreement and said:

"I think so too, so I came here to ask you if you can send more researchers here."

"This mutated giant scorpion is too big. If we want to dissect it without losing as much material as possible, we need some professional people to help us."

Of course, Leon had no objection to such a request. He quickly conveyed the order. It is estimated that a plane will arrive here soon with more researchers.

Professor Jacob standing aside also smiled and said:

"Leon, the situation here is also very good."

"It should be because it has lived in the radiation area for a long time. The degree of mutation of this mutant giant scorpion exceeds those samples we obtained before. It contains a large amount of Z elements in its body. Based on its volume, it may be a mutation Two to three times the size of an octopus."

"It's enough for me to produce thirty miniature nuclear batteries with the same energy level as before."

Leon was also very happy to hear the news, but he still reminded Professor Jacob:
"Professor, before we get information about the next super mutant, we must leave part of it to make virus inhibitors."

"Moreover, the next time we make a miniature nuclear battery, we don't need to make it to this energy level. It's too wasteful. Only one-tenth or even one percent is enough."

Jacob nodded with a smile. He only thought of his own research task just now, and it was indeed not as thoughtful as Leon thought.

The work continued until evening. With the help of Giant Tom, the claws, eight thin legs, and the remaining three tails of the mutant giant scorpion were removed, leaving only the bare main body.

Then, with the efforts of the residents of the temporary base, these parts were transported to the base using horse-drawn carriages.

However, after dismembering the mutant giant scorpion in this way, Leon suddenly discovered that if they were transported separately, there was no need to send people to pull the researchers from the base over. This would not only take time, but also easily destroy the dead mutant giant scorpion. Rot occurs and is very resource consuming.

So, that night, after removing many various accessories that had no practical use, the Chinook transport plane directly transported the giant scorpion's torso, which weighed more than ten tons, back from the air.

As for the other dismembered claws, tail spines and other parts, a special fleet will come to transport them in the next day or two.

However, Lyon did not transfer all the ten Apache armed helicopters he brought back to the base. Instead, he kept six Apaches, as well as the corresponding pilots and engineers.Even though he couldn't stay in this temporary stronghold for too long, he could help Jesus and others complete their mission of catching intelligent zombies.

However, it can still be done by providing some support where possible.

Early the next morning, Leon and others came and left in a hurry. Even Professor Malok, who originally wanted to stay in the radiation zone to observe the mutated monsters and the ecological environment, also spent all his energy on In order to study the mutated giant scorpion, he chose to follow Leon and others back to the main base.

Only two members of the Sting Team, Jesus and Michonne, and some staff assigned by Leon were left here.

After these days of rest, the two captains will take their team members to continue to carry out the tasks assigned by the President.

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A few days later, the People's Federation Base and the Laboratory of the Scientific Research Department.

After several days of sleepless research and production, Lyon also initially saw the benefits of this operation.

"Your Excellency, these black carapace are indeed very good materials."

Professor Thomas, the research director, put an armor made of special cloth and black carapace as the main body, with many special materials added, on a simulation dummy.

He pushed a car with different types of firearms in front of Leon, and continued:
"According to your request, our scientific research department completed this set of light armor."

"You can try the defensive power of this set of light combat armor."

Seeing the confident smile on Professor Thomas's face, Leon didn't hesitate. He picked up a pistol from the cart, aimed at the armor on the dummy, and pulled the trigger.

Snapped!Snapped!Snapped!
The bullets from a magazine poured out and accurately hit the dummy 50 meters away. With Leon's extraordinary eyesight, he could clearly see that all the pistol bullets were bounced away, and they did not even hit the black carapace. leaving no visible traces on it.

However, at the gap in the carapace that he specifically aimed at, although the expensive special fabrics were not directly penetrated, very obvious dents could still be seen. Presumably, if this was worn by a real person, it would have suffered serious damage. .

After that, Leon did not stop testing, but continued to test the effects of various other firearms.

Pistols, assault rifles, submachine guns, shotguns, sniper rifles.

The results were very good. Apart from the unsatisfactory defensive power of the special fabric connected to the armor, the protection level of this set of light armor was already close to that of professional bulletproof steel plates, and was even better than the defensive power of special spider silk.

However, it is still unable to defend against attacks from heavy firearms and bombs.

And because these carapace were removed in one piece, polished and transformed according to the structure of the human body, and then sewn together with special fabrics.

Therefore, they are quite lacking in flexibility and ductility. When worn on the body, they will also restrict the wearer's movements to a certain extent, making them stiff and mechanical, making them unsuitable for dodging and other delicate movements.

But things in the world are hard to be perfect, this is common.

Leon put down the gun in his hand and asked Professor Thomas:
"There's not much of a problem with the defense, but the overall structure still needs to be improved."

"But, Professor Thomas, how much does this armor weigh? It should be quite light, right?"

Tom nodded and said with a hint of amazement on his expression:

"Yes, Your Excellency, it is hard to imagine that a material with a defensive power comparable to steel would only weigh the same as plastic of the same volume."

"For the sake of weight, we didn't add too much metal material to strengthen the defense at the joints."

"So, the total weight of this set of light armor is less than five kilograms. Even ordinary people can wear them without any problems, without worrying about physical strength."

Leon nodded with satisfaction. Mediocre things are often not outstanding and do not have much practical value. It is better to be the best in a certain aspect.

Just like now, although the defensive power of this equipment is not excellent, and it may even affect the smooth movement of the wearer, its light weight will lower the threshold for its use. Even those who are not physically gifted can still use it. There are no obstacles to using them and they are more suitable for popularization.

"So, how many pieces of this kind of armor can we make from the carapace we peeled off the mutant giant scorpion?"

Thomas seemed to have expected that Lyon would ask this question, and he answered almost without thinking:
"Including all the carapace, according to the calculations of our scientific research department, we can probably produce about fifty sets of this kind of light armor."

"However, if you allow us to use some other bulletproof materials to replace those non-lethal protective positions,"

"Although the weight will increase to eight kilograms, the number of armors can be doubled."

Leon thought about it for more than ten seconds, then shook his head and said:

"No, since it cannot be popularized on a large scale, there is no need to reduce its advantages to increase the number."

He has always followed the policy of elite soldiers. After all, there are only a few battles at the legion level, and small battlefields are often the mainstream of their battles.

"In this case, after perfecting the drawings, you should hurry up and produce this batch of light armor."

"To equip their troops, we might as well call them the Scorpion Corps."

It's a pity that Professor Mallock is an honest man. He did not appreciate Lyon's humor, but continued:

"However, we kept the two huge claws and the four dimensional words on the tail of the mutated giant crab."

"The carapace in these parts is so thick that no suitable place to use them has been found yet."

Speaking of tail spines, Leon suddenly thought of the venom in the tail spines, and someone else asked:
"By the way, Thomas, is there anything special about the venom of this giant crab?"

Professor Thomas shook his head and said:
"I don't know this either. The venom in it was not sent to our laboratory."

"That guy Mallock took it to study on his own early in the morning."

(End of this chapter)