National Gardener: I can choose the evolution path of spiritual plants.

Chapter 225 Cabinet Meeting
The sun rose from the east, Watanabe's vision broadened, and he saw lush trees and plants growing in the distance.

Although the area near the nuclear power plant is deserted due to the impact of radiation, the vegetation is extremely lush.

For people with the virus. It's all food.

Watanabe walked towards a big tree. To the infected, wood fiber was like meat to ordinary people. It was rich in protein and extremely delicious and chewy.

The sound of gnawing on trees travels far in the silence.

Inside Watanabe's body, the viruses have undergone drastic changes. They begin to clean up human cells destroyed by radioactive substances, and then replace and assimilate them.

Two days later, Watanabe, who had eaten vegetation within a radius of several hundred meters, stopped eating.

At this time, he was completely unrecognizable. His body had grown from a short 1.6-meter-tall man to over 5 meters tall, and his body had become as strong as a giant.

His skin was covered with tumor-like bumps and was as ugly gray as tree bark.

Returning to the nuclear waste water storage site, Watanabe reached out and grabbed a large metal can of nuclear waste water and poured it into his mouth.

If there were someone there, they would be extremely shocked. He could lift a metal tank weighing thousands of tons so effortlessly!

“Is this the extraordinary power?”

Watanabe Shinno drank a ton of nuclear waste water, threw down the metal can and laughed wildly.

After a long time, he stopped smiling and fell into deep thought.

"I have gained extraordinary strength, but it is not ideal. My body has become too large, which is not conducive to movement. I can only hide nearby temporarily. It is better to hide during this period of time so that I can become stronger and develop my kind."

Watanabe Shinno smiled and said that the Fire God believers had given him inspiration before.

If you want to achieve your ambitions, then the Cabinet will be an obstacle. The more turbulent the Radiation Island is, the more advantageous it will be.

"I'm not the kind of brainless guy who relies on attacking passers-by to gain followers. Wouldn't it be better to just release the virus through the water plant?"

Watanabe Shinno walked to the edge of the nuclear power plant ruins, and when he reached a place with signal, he took out his cell phone and called his most trusted friend.

"Let me show you a video."

"Wow, a giant? So realistic!"

"this is me!"

"Yoshi, you can talk!"

"Baga, be quiet!"

"Watanabe-kun, why are you like this?"

"This is the power of the rabies virus! I can now lift a nuclear waste water storage tank weighing thousands of tons!"

"powerful!"

"Cooperate with me tonight to open the water treatment pool at the water plant, and I'll get some nuclear waste water over there."

"what?"

"Of course, happiness is better shared than happiness alone. Good things need to be shared by everyone. I want to spread the virus to the residents of this county through the water plant."

"Brother, what are you going to do? This is too exciting!"

"I want to build a city for giants!"

Watanabe Shinno said, "I want to be the emperor of this Radiation Island, lead the islanders to create a new era, and leave Radiation Island, retake the Shenzhou continent that our ancestors almost succeeded in occupying, and even take over the entire world!"

"Watanabe-kun has great ambitions. I admire him!"

That night, with the help of his friends, Watanabe Shinno quietly sneaked into the Sendai Prefecture Water Plant.

Watanabe Shinno followed his friend through the reservoir, clarification tank, filtration tank, dosing tank and other places, and finally came to the "clear water tank" at the back of the water plant.

The drinking water for residents of Sendai Prefecture will be pumped under pressure through this huge clean water tank and delivered to thousands of households.

Wow!
Without any hesitation, Watanabe Shinno jumped directly into the clear water pool.

Then take a bath in it.

The clear water pool is very large, and Watanabe Shinno, with a body over 5 meters tall, still looks inconspicuous even after jumping into it.

Similarly, in such a large pool, the viruses excreted by the body will be diluted quickly.

Increasing the virus concentration to the point where it can spread to everyone is not something that can be done overnight.

But some things, if you do them, they are 1, and if you don’t do them, they will always be zero.

Watanabe Shinno has planned to take a bath in the waterworks every night for a month.

Pee in it by the way...

At the same time, he has infected many animals. When the virus concentration in these animals reaches a certain level, they can also be thrown in for a bath.

……

Day 55 of virus release.

Lin Zhi has been very happy recently. Except for the 13 volunteers organized by the Cabinet who were infected with the virus, the number of people infected with the virus is increasing rapidly every day.

The reason is that virus infections have appeared in Sendai City and its surrounding areas near Fukushima.

Although the Cabinet took measures to lock down the city and implement isolation measures on the second day after the virus infection was discovered, it was still unable to stop the spread of the virus.

The biggest reason is that the source of the virus has not yet been found.

So as of this morning, including the millions of mice, the total number of infected people has exceeded 150 million.

And a day ago, he had strengthened the four abilities of the virus to level 7.

And updated the new mutated virus abilities of "troll" and "coward".

As the virus's capabilities are updated, more and more ambitious people appear and make crazy moves in various cities on Radiation Island.

Compared to the infected people who have lost control of their emotions, these people with demonic abilities are more terrifying because they are crazy but still retain their rationality.

Among them are ordinary workers, beggars and scavengers at the bottom of society, wealthy businessmen or elites, and even official staff of the cabinet.

Although news reports have repeatedly emphasized that the Cabinet has dispatched the army and the "Flame Squad" to maintain order, so that the public does not need to panic too much.

But Lin Zhi could feel that fear had already shrouded the entire radiation island.

As long as the Cabinet does not take better measures, the order on Radiation Island will collapse completely sooner or later.

……

Tokyo, House of Representatives.

Thirteen cabinet ministers gathered together for a secret cabinet meeting.

In addition to the ministers, also present at the meeting were Inaka Juro and his assistants.

"The above is the research result. Through a large amount of data, we have mastered the preparation of a vaccine for the leukemia virus. We can also use instrument testing and medication to customize demonic abilities for most people."

Inaka Juro smiled and said, "We found that when a human body awakens a certain ability, it will not be infected by other new mutant viruses. Therefore, after vaccination, not only can you gain abilities, but you can also be immune to new mutant virus infections."

“What is the difference between taking a vaccine and being infected directly by the virus?”

"It's the same for people who are out of control, except that the virus in the body of the infected person is active and can continue to reproduce, mutate, and evolve."

“For recipients of the vaccine, the vaccine in their bodies is inactivated and cannot continue to reproduce, mutate or evolve.

In addition, human cells will be replaced by viral cells under the influence of the virus. After acquiring the virus's ability, the vaccine needs to be continuously injected, otherwise when the cells die, they will not be replenished and will collapse. "

“Is it useful to vaccinate people who have already been infected with the virus?”

"It's no use!"

"Doesn't that mean it doesn't matter whether you get vaccinated or not? It can even be said that vaccines are more troublesome than being directly infected with the active virus."

“Having said that, there is one benefit to the vaccine.”

Jing Zhong Juro smiled and said, “First of all, if everyone is vaccinated, then no matter how the virus mutates outside, the residents will not be infected again.

After all, viruses mutate and evolve various abilities. What if, under such a large population, they evolve lethality or other characteristics? Therefore, it is best to vaccinate all people and limit the virus to the current stage.

Secondly, through vaccines, we can decide the fate of residents’ lives and deaths.

After vaccination, life theoretically has a long life span, how can we not control it? "

"I see. Although this will increase the financial burden a hundred times, it is indeed a solution."

“By the way, how do we deal with losing control of our emotions and the growth of evil thoughts in our hearts?” asked a cabinet minister.

"The demon virus feeds on emotional substances secreted by the human body, such as hormones. This is the root cause of emotional disorder. Emotions can be stabilized by taking emotional substances regularly."

"Can the production cost and scale of emotional materials supply the entire Radiation Island?"

"Of course, we already have mature technology. Through bacteria, we can easily produce various emotional substances. If we expand the scale, it will be enough to supply the entire Radiation Island."

"I see. In this case, aren't emotional substances the same as white powder?"

"Yes, that's why we don't have to worry about the residents' evil intentions growing, because we control their lifeblood."

"Haha, such a huge benefit should have encouraged the growth of evil thoughts, right?" a minister laughed.

"I'm just a scientist. Once I invent or research something, it's up to you to decide how to use it."

“What is the current production of emotional substances?”

"If pharmaceutical factories across the country start production at the same time, they can supply 50 people."

"That's enough. We will select 30 personnel from the island's security bureau and vaccinate them. We need extraordinary power to maintain order."

"If there are serious riots in a certain area, we can send out the army, mobilize tanks and fighter planes, and use missiles to carry out devastating strikes."

"Even if the use of force affects innocent people, order must not be allowed to collapse, otherwise Radiation Island will be truly finished."

"Yes, that's right. As long as we persist for a period of time, expand the scale of the pharmaceutical factory, and produce enough emotional substances to supply 2 million people, the virus will be basically defeated."

"Before that, we must step up vaccine production, vaccinate the entire population, and build a national immune system."

……

The Imperial Palace, central Tokyo.

"Your Majesty, today's cabinet meeting is recorded."

The eunuch placed the laptop computer containing the meeting video in front of Emperor Tomohito and clicked play.

Emperor Tomohito looked at the video quietly with deep eyes.

After a long while, he said, "I know, you can go down now!"

"Hi, His Majesty the Emperor!"

After the eunuch left, Emperor Chihito showed a gloomy look on his face and sneered, "The rabies virus? God will not let me go."

He waved his hand, and a deep black vortex appeared in front of him. He reached in and slowly pulled out a rotten crow.

"Go ahead and keep a close eye on Inaka Juro. Once you have any new research results, report them in a timely manner."

……

On the 60th day after the virus was released, Lin Zhi was conflicted as he read the latest news reports.

The Cabinet announced that all citizens will begin receiving vaccinations to build up their immune systems.

This news was expected, but it was difficult for Lin Zhi to accept.

The viral vaccine is an inactivated vaccine and can only provide one infection point for forest plants, but cannot provide infection points continuously.

Once all people are vaccinated, although he can harvest more than 2 million infection points at a time, he will no longer be able to harvest infection points continuously in the future.

Even if the vaccine recipients continue to receive the vaccine, the virus transmission system will not recalculate the infection points.

In addition to losing more than 200 million sources of continuous infection points, we will also lose the breeding ground for virus mutations.

Of course, universal vaccination also has one benefit for Lin Zhi.

That means the Cabinet will no longer be afraid of the virus being transmitted from animals to humans and will certainly relax its epidemic prevention efforts.

It will not be like it is now, where as soon as an animal is found to be infected, all animals within a few miles will be killed.

Of course, in the future we will also kill some large ferocious animals or mutated animals that have lost control of their emotions.

But it is impossible to kill all animals.

For example, it is definitely impossible to kill pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks, fish and the like.

Well, fish are an emerging route of infection with upgraded transmissibility.

Because of the coastal areas around the radiation island, when the fish were infected, the virus quickly spread throughout the radiation sea covered by the isolation cover.

The ocean is vast, and the cabinet discovered that the fish were infected. There was no better way than to ban the consumption of fish.

To get back to the point, poultry and livestock have simple emotions, and as long as the feeding environment is comfortable, it is actually difficult for them to get out of control.

Currently, rats and other animals in the outside world are out of control. A big reason for this is that the Cabinet is hunting and killing animals in order to eliminate the virus, causing the animals to face the threat of death.

As long as the poultry and livestock are not out of control and the viruses on them do not pose a threat to humans, the cabinet will not take any action.

Furthermore, the bodies of poultry and livestock infected with the virus are strengthened and their meat becomes more delicious.

While these are sources of meat, they can also provide infection points for forest plants.

By then, there will be a situation where the virus and humans on Radiation Island can live in peace.

The number of poultry, livestock and fish is much greater than that of humans. As long as they survive, it seems that it will not be difficult to evolve the virus to level B within a year?
Lin Zhi calculated and found that this was not the case.

Level 13 is a Class B virus.

It takes 12 trillion infection points to enhance the virus's ability from level 13 to level 10, assuming that there are billion invertebrates and vertebrates on Radiation Island.

It would take three years to accumulate 10 trillion infection points.

Now, there are 10 months left until the main mission.

Unless, the virus is able to infect invertebrates.

After all, invertebrates make up 95 percent of all life in the world.

But Lin Zhi guessed in his heart that this should be impossible.

When the virus is at level 1-3, each upgrade of the enhancement path can upgrade one corresponding ability.

At levels 4-6, you can upgrade 2 corresponding abilities.

At level 7, the first two corresponding abilities merge into a greatly enhanced final ability, and a third new ability appears.

The final level probably means that when the virus is strengthened and upgraded, this ability will no longer be enhanced.

Specifically in terms of communication enhancement capabilities.

It is very likely that even if the communication ability is enhanced to level 8, the ability of "ultimate communication" cannot be enhanced further.

It can only ever spread vertebrates, but cannot increase the "invertebrate" transmission pathway!

Of course, you need to reach level 8 to know if this is the case.

Soon, on the 61st day after the virus was released, Lin Zhi had accumulated million infection points, and he strengthened his transmission capabilities.

The reason why 1 million infection points were accumulated so quickly was mainly due to the contribution of infected fish in the irradiated sea area.

Currently, tens of millions of fish have been infected.

Lin Zhi did not hesitate and strengthened his communication capabilities.

Then, with a nervous mood, he looked at the system panel expectantly.

(End of this chapter)