The most ruthless person in the apocalypse

Chapter 1034 In a Dream!
"Towing an aircraft carrier! Isn't that... a bit of an exaggeration?"

Zheng Xinyu felt that these guys had really wild imaginations.

"We can't move it, and the sea is barely rippling right now. What can we do if we don't tow it? Luckily, we've secured the port, and we have enough ships we can use!"

"The cargo ships in the port are all frozen in the ice, with only their rear ends sticking out of the water. Are we going to chisel them out?"

Zheng Xinyu's face was exaggerated. Today, she went to the port with the logistics department's external team to move supplies. When she saw the situation there, the continental shelf on the shore was frozen dozens or even hundreds of meters into the sea. Larger cargo ships could still have a small portion of their cargo in the water, but all the smaller cargo ships were trapped in the ice!
The closer you get to the shore, the thicker the ice becomes, making breaking through it no easy task.

"There is no other choice, and we need to be quick. We need to start tomorrow. Everyone, put down what you're doing and go all out to break the ice!"

Zhang Su felt uneasy. He wondered if anyone had noticed the helicopter from Tianma Island circling Qinhai Bay, but he couldn't rule out that possibility!
"Okay, sure! Um, won't you try a bite?"

After asking about the important matter, Zheng Xinyu pointed to the lunchbox.

"I'll save it for tomorrow, but I need to take a picture first. Even if I can't post it on WeChat Moments, it'll still be a memorable moment."

As he spoke, Zhang Su took out his phone and snapped a picture. He then closed the box and put it back on the table. After putting his coat back on, he left his residence. Before resting, he had something else to do: use a calming spell to help the four people in Cui Lengxuan fall asleep.

Things are different now. With advanced instruments and equipment, Fu Weijun and Xie Yanshan are full of energy and don't feel tired at all. Zuo Fengjuan and Duan Wuhu, on the other hand, are clearly struggling, especially Duan Wuhu, who is still recovering from his injuries and has been working on the two of them since the afternoon...

"Brother Zhang, you should try to persuade them. They're acting like they don't care about their lives."

Duan Wuhu was very distressed; his ribs still hurt, and he wanted to sleep and rest.

Zhang Su glanced at Duan Wuhu and the tired Zuo Fengjuan, then said to the busy Fu Weijun, "Dr. Fu, Rome wasn't built in a day. You should rest when you need to."

"Mr. Zhang, based on our observations and research, we have a general understanding of the situation of these two zombies. Would you like to know more about them?"

“In that case… Lao Duan, Xiao Zuo, you go and rest first. I’ll talk to them.”

Zhang Su immediately became interested; it's normal for people to have double standards.

Fu Weijun and Xie Yanshan were not foolish enough to expose this, so they immediately explained the situation of the zombies to Zhang Su.

"Mr. Zhang, although zombies look like humans, their body structure and the cells that make up their bodies have changed. They have been replaced by tiny zombie robots, which can also be understood as a zombie virus. You remember all this, right?"

Fu Weijun was laying the groundwork for what he was about to say.

"I remember that, and then what?"

"Then these two zombies exhibited something we'd never seen before. The basic units that make up their bodies, similar to human cells, changed again, unlike ordinary zombies! Come this way..."

Fu Weijun led Zhang Su to the dissection table, and Xie Yanshan handed Zhang Su a pair of surgical gloves. These supplies were all brought back from Guishi Island.

"Look at the cross-section of his muscle tissue, here's the cross-section of the bone, and these are its internal organs. Mr. Zhang, can you feel what this resembles?"

Fu Weijun didn't point it out directly, but let Zhang Su figure it out for himself.

"Like metal?"

Zhang Su blurted out, and when he touched it, the cross-section showed a metallic texture, but it also had a certain degree of flexibility, which was quite incongruous!
“That’s right, the cells of these two zombies have become metallic, but it’s a metal that we can’t identify, and it’s not from our planet.”

Xie Yanshan adjusted his glasses, his eyes filled with a mixture of curiosity and weariness.

“Back on Turtle Island, Wu Baokang fired a rifle and the bullet bounced off. I felt something was wrong then, and now it seems my guess was correct.”

Fu Weijun's face was filled with joy, showing no fear of the zombies becoming metallic life forms; on the contrary, he was quite excited...

Zhang Su frowned and said, "This... has become a silicon-based life form?"

"No, no, no. Mr. Zhang, this is not silicon-based life!"

Xie Yanshan quickly explained, "It doesn't contain silicon. If we define ourselves as carbon-based life forms, then it's a metallic life form! We haven't conducted any metal-related tests yet; that will have to wait until tomorrow..."

"Okay, hold on! What about the ordinary zombies we captured?"

“It’s a transitional state between carbon-based and metal, so we can conclude that this…” Fu Weijun pointed to the zombie on the autopsy table and said, “This will be the next form of the zombie.”

Zhang Su heard the news he least wanted to hear. These zombies posed little threat to him, but the other combatants were a different story; they were quite difficult to deal with, as Duan Wuhu was a prime example!
"It's not just this one problem, Mr. Zhang..."

Fu Weijun interrupted Zhang Su's thoughts and continued, "We also discovered that although its body structure is stronger than that of ordinary zombies, when it is alive, the activity of the zombie robots inside its body is significantly lower than that of ordinary zombies. This may be related to their combat power burst on Turtle Stone Island, but we cannot be sure. In short, it is very strange."

What's so strange about that...?

Zhang Su's inner thoughts were that the reason was that glowing sphere. He even suspected that the reason these zombies had changed from carbon-based to metallic was because of that sphere.

"Hey, wait a minute, I remember you guys used it to start a fire back then. Metal can burn?"

"This is also what puzzles us. We infer that the planets where this life form previously lived—yes, we have already assumed they came from outer space—would not have elements like fire, because fire would be deadly to them."

Xie Yanshan explained.

Zhang Su nodded. He had figured out one problem, but many new ones had come. Although he still had doubts, it was getting late, so he said, "Let's go. Let's stop here for today and continue our research tomorrow. Let's rest first."

At Zhang Su's urging, Fu Weijun and Xie Yanshan reluctantly turned off the lights and left the laboratory.

Yu Wen escorted Liu Lingping back to her residence but did not leave immediately. People are not made of wood or stone, and they chatted amiably along the way, spending some more time together. By the time they returned to Tianma Island, it was already 11 p.m.

Standing in the corridor, I glanced at the door of Zhang Su's residence. The lights were already off. I decided to wait until tomorrow to talk about what I wanted to say.

Yu Wen thought Zhang Su was asleep, but he was actually not asleep at all. He could hear faint and even breathing sounds, but he was staring at the ceiling with his eyes open, his mind filled with all sorts of things, like a pot of porridge, very chaotic.

"Sigh, go to sleep, go to sleep..."

The brain is like a computer; if it runs for too long and has too much cache, it will slow down. Only sleep can clear the cache and make it feel refreshed.

As Zhang Su fell into a deep sleep, bizarre and fantastical dreams surfaced in his mind.

In his dream, he flew through thick black clouds, surrounded by a sticky sensation, like passing through the body of a slime...

Strangely, his vision was unobstructed, and he could clearly see the situation on the ground!

The extraordinary eyesight is even useful in dreams, allowing one to see clearly what is happening on the ground from thousands of meters away.

Zhang Su was unaware of his location. On the ground, artillery fire raged, and hordes of zombies were attacking a lone city, with flames constantly flashing from the city walls!

Strangely, Zhang Su couldn't hear anything; it was like watching a movie without sound.

Zombies rampaged across the vast land, and firearms had little effect on them. They charged fearlessly toward the isolated city, creating a scene a hundred times more spectacular than any ancient siege depicted in movies and TV shows!
When the zombie army approached within a kilometer of the isolated city, all artillery fire stopped, as if a game had been paused.

Just then, without warning, rows of sharp spikes emerged from the ground, piercing the charging zombies right through the heart!
This mechanism effectively slowed the zombie charge, but humanity clearly did not place its hopes on these cold spears.

Using this buffer time, the city gates opened one by one, and six human legions poured out of the city gates, forming a human wall in the face of the zombie torrent.

Thousands of people were dressed in neat battle uniforms, and several large flags waved at the rear of the column, boosting morale.

Zhang Su, who was engrossed in watching the "movie," was suddenly startled. He saw a familiar figure in the crowd.

"Hey!"

A startled Zhang Su awoke from his dream and sat up.

"What are you doing..."

Zheng Xinyu murmured, waved her hand and slapped Zhang Su, then turned over and continued to sleep.

Sweating profusely, Zhang Su got out of bed, went to the window, and lit a cigarette.

The dream he just had was still lingering in his mind; there were so many scenes he hadn't even had a chance to see before it was all gone. He was very frustrated...

I wish I hadn't gone to see those somewhat familiar figures!
(End of this chapter)