Eh? Do you also want to try the iron fist of the humanoid girl?

The existence of "innate immunity" seems like an alien.

Chapter 37 Wonderful Thoughts

The pathology report classified as "Top Secret/SCI" answered many questions. Raphael roughly understood the reasons for the failure of the Griffin team and the source of the mutants' high resistance to attacks.

Given the impact of high radiation environments on the human body and the huge gap between the enemy and us, she was basically certain that the team had become one of the many ELID infected people in New York.

Both she, who was in New York, and the decision-makers who decided to send out this team were well aware of this.

It doesn't matter now who sent the weapons made of collapse fluid into New York.

The key point is whether the collapse fluid weapon is still worth recovering and which areas it may affect in the future.

If Congress, the Supreme Court, and the White House move quickly enough, they may have already selected sites for the new White House, Capitol, and courthouse and broken ground.

Although the location obtained by analyzing the IP address was not accurate, Rafael was sure that both the Department of Defense and the Advanced Research Projects Agency had left Arlington County.

This indirectly shows that New York’s problems may be more troublesome than we imagined, for humans.

Not only that, she also thought of her initial experience entering the dark zone. There should be only a few people left from the two groups fighting fiercely in the radiation zone.

People with low tolerance to high concentrations of radiation will quickly decay, and those who are lucky enough to escape will mostly be infected with "ELID", and by this time they should have become the severely infected people described in the information.

The skin surface ulcerates and the body's muscles and blood vessels harden.

At this point, the flesh will inevitably silicify, followed by a loss of sanity, becoming extremely aggressive before completely turning into a lump of metal.

In short, it was a heavy loss.

She definitely contributed to this. Not only did she cut off all communication networks in the war zone, she also served as a troublemaker for a long time.

She would join whichever side showed signs of decline, accurately and perfectly implementing the "balance of power" strategy.

Engage the less powerful party, unite with them, and defeat and demoralize the powerful party.

No matter who he is, no matter which force he represents.

The only problem was that she took too little time to choose sides, turning a two-way battle into a three-way melee.

If she has time, she would even like to take the time to write a short paper on the application of equilibrium strategy in practical work.

Use that battle as a case analysis, and there is a high probability that you will impress those picky editors.

After all, one can use scientific and well-organized articles to ridicule the British who are isolated overseas and claim to be an important force in maintaining European security.

In this regard, academics and editors are particularly fond of doing this.

Raphael didn't mind adding fuel to their fight and making the fire burn a little brighter.

Before long, the draft of this short essay was finalized, and I just had to find time to revise it, and then it could be prepared to be sent out.

However, the writing speed was slightly slower than she expected, and the three threads running in parallel caused the computing resources to be a little tight.

After all, a portion of the computing power is needed to maintain personality and keep the subsystems of various parts of the body running. The device that actually consumes most of the computing power is the powerful electronic countermeasure device.

If we were to say who was the first to use collapse weapons, it would be the Americans who are keen on war.

The data records that in November 1967, collapse fluid was discovered at the D-11 Beta-Zuma ruins.

DARPA quickly conducted nine months of testing of the collapse fluid.

After confirming the dangerous properties of collapse fluid, the ecstatic Pentagon encouraged the president to use collapse fluid first in the Vietnam War.

The president, anxious to save face from the Cuban Fools' Crisis, did not hesitate to order the use of collapse fluid to bomb North Vietnam.

There is also a 30-second low-altitude reconnaissance video.

There are occasional glares in the images, which optical imaging experts believe are traces left on the film by strong ionizing rays.

This is the same type of light spots that appeared during ARPA experiments.

From this, it can be inferred that the bombing site was filled with strong ionizing radiation, so much so that reconnaissance aircraft flying at 2000 meters were exposed.

Based on long-term observation of the bombing site, ARPA's relic technology researchers noticed that many bizarre bears with protruding teeth and siliconized skin appeared in the area;

The half-meter-long metallic spider can also spray highly corrosive acid to hunt other creatures in the bombing area.

In a sense, the ecology of the bombing zone has entered another biosphere cycle.

There are silicified and crystallized trees, ELID-infected organisms, and even mutated silicified fungi that turn dead ELID-infected organisms into silicon compound particles.

At this point, they came to the preliminary research conclusions:

The radiation mutation effect of the collapse liquid bomb is far beyond the radiation hazards caused by a nuclear bomb explosion.

For the US military at that time, since the effect of the collapse liquid bomb was so strong, they had to let the Vietnamese monkeys in the jungle with cold guns and cold cannons have a good taste of it.

Among the large amount of information sent by the Ministry of Defense's Advanced Research, Raphael found the log file of that time.

The military developed a defoliant called Agent Orange, which was planned to be sprayed from low-altitude, slow-flying aircraft onto forests, jungles, and vegetation where the Vietnamese were hiding, causing trees and other plants to lose their leaves.

Destroy their hiding places and force the North Vietnamese troops to leave the jungle.

When the collapse fluid weapons were available, the commanders at the time immediately swept useless toys like "Agent Orange" into the trash, and dropped the first batch of relic technology bombs on the Vietnamese as quickly as possible.

As for the jungles where Vietnam is located, both in the south and the north, they have now become a de facto no-man's-land.

The more information Raphael read, the more absurd everything that happened in New York seemed to him.

The FBI and CIA, as permanent intelligence agencies with anti-terrorism responsibilities, turned a blind eye to terrorist activities and allowed extremely dangerous weapons to enter the city;

During the same period, bioterrorists brought artificially modified smallpox virus into the city and released the virus during the Black Friday shopping festival without anyone noticing.

It's simply a mess that can't be settled.

Humans are always full of creative ideas when it comes to killing their own kind.

Ah, the roar of the jet engine came again. Raphael interrupted his thinking process and turned his attention to the C-130 Hercules transport plane flying low.

The crew was very cautious. When they flew close to the city, they also regularly released interference heat baits. Regardless of whether there were anti-aircraft weapons on the ground, they would release them first.

This is the valuable experience the crew gained from the battlefield.

Two transport planes dropped a large amount of supplies near Hudson Park. Did the federal government decide to increase its investment in the JTF joint combat force? Or did they have other plans?

After taking a quick look at the information sent by his employer, Raphael felt that agents, rangers, and JTF joint operations forces were all just chess pieces on the chessboard that could be moved at will.

Fuck, eat shit, she thought.

As for New York and its inhabitants? They are merely the basic elements that make up the chessboard. Without them, the game cannot be played, but without them, no one can play.

So we have to lock down the city that never sleeps, lock down Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island.

What should we do next? She thought, of course, to find the batch of bombs and assess whether the collapse fluid bombs are ready for transfer.

If he couldn't transfer, Raphael planned to jump into the river directly.

Let go of the need to help others and respect the fate of others.

Chapter 38 The Geiger counter solemnly announces: Start swinging! (Please vote and support)

The TVs hanging high in the department stores were open as normal, but the ads were only for normal people living outside the New York blockade. The lonely broadcast voice floated over the square, making people feel lonely.

Those advertisements remind people struggling in the city in countless ways that you are abandoned, unwanted, and of no use to the world, and even if you want to leave, you can't.

Why listen to commercials, then? scavenger Renzo Parker asked himself angrily.

Screw the JTF, screw the Purifiers, better let them fight each other - after all, it's theoretically possible - and then New York will be finished.

A can of Coca-Cola in complete plastic packaging. Well, I got something today.

Parker was ecstatic and carefully put away the canned soda drinks. His life was guaranteed for the next few days.

Although the packaging may be contaminated with deadly viruses, the guys who always buy these things don't care at all, which shows that they have the means to remove the virus attachment.

He really wanted to have such technology, so that he could learn from these people and open trading markets everywhere.

If you think about it carefully, you will know that disinfection technology is only the entry condition for establishing a black market. The real foundation for black market merchants to gain a foothold in the steel forest is actually the military force that is so strong that others dare not attack them.

After putting the drinks in, the backpack became extremely heavy, and Parker thought, it's time to leave this damn place. He reached out to turn the door handle and faced the dark corridor, but when he saw the emptiness in the building, he took his foot back.

The inexplicable force that had been trying to penetrate him was warning him not to act rashly. Something inharmonious was waiting somewhere outside for its prey to fall into its trap.

"Lord, please bless your people," Parker cried out, and walked out of the small workroom full of garbage. This should be the office of a manager of the mall, so the dozen drinks fell into his hands.

If, what if, those lunatics who kill people crazily with fire came, hiding in the workshop would only make him a turtle in a jar.

Only by keeping moving can you fight your way out of the chaos.

After weighing the pros and cons, Parker returned to the dark corridor. The echo of the soles of his shoes hitting the floor and the sound of silence seemed so terrifying in the corridor.

A cool breeze blew towards him, and he took a deep breath eagerly, his emotions already rising...

Looks like we'll be leaving soon.

Suddenly, there was a loud noise in the distance. In panic, Parker heard a sharp and piercing whistle, and then he felt like he was hit by something and took two steps back involuntarily.

He felt the pain and half turned around. At this moment, another bullet flew past him and hit the wall with a bang.

Who is it? Is my life over? Parker looked at the enemy in the distance.

The madmen who vowed to burn everything loomed at the edge of his vision.

Once upon a time, he remembered, life was different. He had had happy days before the greenback virus came.

After living a decadent life for so many days, he has been unable to remember the details of his happy times.

Hunger like a wave hit his mind, even though the pain surged up like a tide, but he wanted to eat something more. But no, it was not time to eat yet, and the daily rations were fixed.

If he does not exercise restraint and does not consume according to plan, he will fall into the dilemma of food shortage in the future and eventually starve to death.

The heavy breathing and the heavy footsteps of the Purifiers came one after another, complementing each other and finally dispelling the dead silence that had gathered in the corridor.

"Are you going to kill me?" Parker covered his lower abdomen, sat on the ground motionless, experiencing the last feelings of life.

"You need to be purified." The tall and strong man with his head covered by a gas mask said dully: "The fire will free you, Amen."

puff...

A column of fire spurted out from the muzzle of the gun, completely enveloping the scavenger who didn't care about protecting himself from others.

There is no need to show mercy to such people. They don't even understand why this place is blocked. If you want to survive, go north along Sixth Avenue. As long as you can pass the inspection of the group of soldiers, you can get shelter and food.

So, why not go?

The Purifiers did not stop these ordinary people from seeking asylum; instead, they cooperated quite well with the recovery operations of the northern soldiers.

From the perspective of the Purifier camp, rounding up the scavengers who were hiding and running around like rats was actually blocking the continued spread of the virus.

Why not give them a hand?

It's just a piece of cake, not to mention that the two sides have reached some consensus on some urban affairs.

Oftentimes, the Purifiers' mechanics would help the northern army repair propaganda equipment and power lines, and they would also send a team of instructors to provide basic combat training and hazardous material handling training to the Purifiers' fighters.

The more important reasons are the radiation hazards and the increasing number of mutants and mutant creatures that have appeared recently.

In the absence of external aid, the two parties had to reach a cooperation.

As for the Lex Gang, they were a bunch of idiots whose brains were damaged by violence, and no one wanted to enter their underground base. Anyone who saw the groups of headless bodies hanging in the air would feel uneasy.

On the other side of the mall, Raphael followed the map and walked slowly here. He stood under the neon-lit mall sign and stared at the open dark space.

There is blue sea and blue sky outside.

The sky is crystal blue, with a few white clouds floating in the sky as embellishment.

This was the first time she had seen such a clear blue sky since she came to New York in December.

"Should I go in?" she asked herself.

After a few days of silence, the Geiger Counter burst into unprecedented vitality again. After Raphael approached, it immediately turned into a poltergeist, making a constant creaking sound.

Raphael took out the counter from his waist and found that its eyes (display screen) had already rolled back and it was unconscious.

No matter how it adjusted, it couldn't pick itself up again.

Instead, the amplifier speakers with simpler structures stick to their posts, making noises tirelessly to remind their owners that this place is very dangerous.

The civilian products don't look very good, I have to choose a counter with better physical quality, she thought.

But for now, as long as the speaker can still emit sound, it will be enough to remind her that she is still in the radiation zone. As for the strength of the collapse radiation, it can be roughly judged based on the frequency.

The efficiency is very low, but this is also a helpless choice.