On the wasteland, there were at least eight to ten thousand official shelters affiliated with Huaxia.
Any shelter leader who had a clean background and was willing to shelter civilians could apply to be affiliated with Huaxia, as long as they sent an application to the designated personnel and provided so data. There was no specific threshold regarding the application.
The only condition was that there should be more than fifty people in the applicant’s shelter.
Not only was this condition a thod used at the initial stages to calm the hearts of the people on the wasteland and instill discipline, but it also ensured that commands could be transmitted effectively through the official communication network during tis of ergency.
According to Lu Yongyi, this so-called Dragon Flag Shelter was the strongest shelter among all the official shelters.
It had to be created at the right ti, in the right place, and by the right people!
After thinking about it for a while, Su Mo replied to Lu Yongyi with an “OK” emoji. He did not add Long Anguo as a friend and start chatting with him imdiately.
He went over to the captain’s quarters and organized his thoughts first instead.
The human higher-ups had conducted three experints before deciding to use this Superpower Suppressant.
The foreign races’ strength would rebound within three or four days. Under normal circumstances, there was no way they had not observed that from their experints.
However, the humans managed to allow this serious negative impact to go unnoticed. Perhaps the suppressant had an unusual reaction when it ca into contact with the seawater, or perhaps there were errors in the experintal data.
Looking at the short list of keywords written on the piece of paper in front of him, Su Mo organized his thoughts again.
This ti, Su Mo no longer hesitated, and opened his ga panel and chose to add Long Anguo as his friend.
One second!
No, imdiately!
Almost as soon as Su Mo sent the friend request, the other party approved the request. It was frighteningly fast, as if the other party had been waiting while watching the friends list.
At the sa ti, before Su Mo could say anything, the man nad Long Anguo sent a greeting first.
[Long Anguo: Hello, Leader Su!]
Long Anguo used the title Leader Su.
This form of greeting made Su Mo feel slightly surprised. At the sa ti, the corners of his mouth could not help but curve up into a smile.
After thinking about it, Su Mo did not reply via text. Having no intention to conceal the interior of Hope One’s captain’s quarters, he directly chose to initiate a video call.
It was too difficult to communicate the current situation using text alone!
Only a face-to-face conversation where he displayed his trump card could make the official strongest shelter recognize the severity of the current situation. If he was successful, he could then use the power of the official communication network to mobilize all the humans.
On the other end, Long Anguo accepted the video call request imdiately.
Buzz… Buzz…
It buzzed thrice until the call connected. According to Su Mo’s experience with video calls, he estimated that the distance between him and Long Anguo’s fleet to be between 5,000 kiloters and 10,000 kiloters away.
Considering that Hope One was currently in the Fifth Ocean Region, which was located in the middle of the entire war zone…
Then Dragon Flag Shelter’s fleet’s location was obvious!
However, before Su Mo could think about the deep aning behind these locations, the buzzing sound gradually faded, and was replaced by Long Anguo’s face—imposing despite his calmness—at the center of the screen.
It was the face of a middle-aged man of about forty-five years of age. He was square-jawed, and there were two deep wrinkles on his forehead.
At this mont, Long Anguo was wearing a big smile, so the wrinkles took on the shape of a mustache. It softened the seriousness that a square-jawed face naturally had, and added a touch of kindness!
“Hello, Leader Long!”
As expected, after he was connected to the video call, Long Anguo could barely restrain his shock; it was clearly visible in his gaze. Su Mo smiled and took the lead in greeting him.
Every ti Su Mo tried to find ti to renovate the captain’s quarters in Hope One, sothing would suddenly happen, causing him to postpone his plans.
Thanks to that, the captain’s quarters still retained its original tallic style, looking rugged and uninhibited.
On Earth, the people would teasingly call this style apocalyptic. On the wasteland, though, it beca a testant to a person’s strength.
At a ti when everyone was still sailing on wooden ships, most other people would not know what a tal battleship represented. For Long Anguo, who was sailing on Dragon Flag One…
He completely understood!
At the sa ti, he also understood that this was not ant to be an unintentional display of Su Mo’s strength, but an intentional demonstration!
This ship was made of tal. Long Anguo thought about the Dongfeng-17 missile from before. If there were so supporting weaponry on this ship, this tal battleship could co and go freely everywhere on this wasteland. No man or creature could stop it!
Long Anguo had spaced out montarily. However, after seeing Su Mo’s smile and after the person beside him reminded him, Long Anguo imdiately reacted. He said hurriedly, “Hello, hello, Leader Su!”
Unlike Lu Yongyi, what Long Anguo did first was to basically put the two of them at the sa level.
In other words, through Long Anguo’s attitude, Su Mo could also slightly estimate the current attitude of all the human higher-ups toward himself.
Very friendly!
Su Mo nodded. He no longer bothered to be polite, choosing to dive straight into the crux of the matter, “Chief Long, let’s do away with the pleasantries. I’d like to talk about so key points with you.”
“This is about the Superpower Suppressant that was released last night. I want to know if your team encountered any anomalous results during the first three rounds of biological testing.”
Hearing those words, Long Anguo was stunned. The smile he carried on his face quickly faded away, which was replaced with a serious expression.
“Before using the Superpower Suppressant, we conducted three complete rounds of experints. It wasn’t just the people at Dragon Flag who conducted it. Six large shelters across the whole wasteland participated in this operation. During our sample experints, a total of almost 30,000 foreign races were experinted on. The experintal subjects also included two thousand volunteers and three thousand mutant creatures.”
“There were quite a lot of anomalous results, but all of them were observed among the foreign races. We did not observe any anomalous results among the humans, so you can rest assured!”
Long Anguo was very cautious when it ca to the affairs of humankind. As he spoke, he instructed the people below to bring him a complete copy of the data.
He had obviously misunderstood Su Mo though. He propped up the copy of the results on the human experintal subjects in front of the screen for Su Mo to read.
The results of the experints on the foreign races were put aside casually.
After scanning through the data written in the report for a while, Su Mo shook his head. “Leader Long, I’m not talking about the results of the experints on humans. What I wanted to see were the anomalous results of the experints conducted on the foreign races. According to my source of information, I’m afraid that our experints this ti have resulted in the situation for us humans taking a turn for the worse. There will be big trouble.”
“If we don’t handle this well, I’m afraid that not even 1% of the human race will survive. I’m not being paranoid. This disaster will descend upon us in two days!”
On the other side, Long Anguo’s expression displayed his shock. However, befitting of his role as the leader of the Dragon Flag Shelter, he reacted to that statent very quickly.
He did not dwell upon the aning of Su Mo’s words just now, but instead instructed the people around him to spread out the experint data regarding the foreign races out on the table.
The angle of the cara was then adjusted. Relying on the extrely high-definition video feed, Su Mo quickly scanned through the data, starting from the first line of data on the report.
“Doomsday Calendar Month 2, Day 3. The first large-scale biological experint on the foreign races. Test location: Polar Bear Shelter. Number of subjects: 320 foreign races (12 clans).”
“Concentration: 0.03”
“Test Results: 268 foreign races were affected to a certain extent within 15 minutes of inhaling the suppressants. In 30 seconds, they lost all their abilities. The remaining 52 subjects turned into dried corpses within 1 minute, and no subjects escaped.”
“Treatnt: The subjects were locked up for inspection.”
“Doomsday Calendar Month 2, Day 3. The second large-scale…”.
…
From the start of the first large-scale experint, the data of more than thirty experints were inspected. No problems were discovered during those experints.
This lasted until Day 18 of Doomsday Calendar Month 2, when the 122th experint was conducted. The first anomaly was born.
The subjects were a group of mutant Fire Spiders. Their strength was low. If they were ranked on the foreign races’ ga panel, their strength rating might not exceed even 0.1.
However, it was such a weak creature that cast a shadow on the experints.
After receiving the experintal suppressant, their strength weakened like the other living beings, but a fire spider suddenly started to attack the fire spiders next to it like crazy after it beca weakened.
Each ti it ate one of its kind, its strength was restored accordingly.
After eating twenty-six in a row, its strength returned to its previous level, and its strength continued to increase as it devoured other living organisms.
Strangely, when it ate sixty fire spiders, its strength decreased rapidly again, and it even beca weaker than before.
As it had hard those belonging to the sa clan, it died a tragic death. It was instantly surrounded and attacked by the other fire spiders.
The other spiders that devoured this fire spider did not start getting stronger like the researchers expected; they remained the sa as other ordinary foreign races, with no changes in their abilities.
After the results of this experint were shared to other large shelters, they conducted similar tests, but failed to get a similar result.
After reading through all the results of the experint, Su Mo did not see evidence of the recovery of any of the foreign races within a few days after their abilities had disappeared.
Even on the third day of the third Doomsday calendar month, exactly one month after the first experint, the strength of the foreign races from the first experint had not recovered.
They were still as weak as ever, and they still stayed in the quarantine zone set up by the humans.
After the first couple of days of taking the suppressant, they would cause a ruckus at night, but after that they would behave obediently for the rest of the ti. They seed to have realized that it was necessary for them to adapt to the situation.
This was the only variable in the three experints.
After sweeping through the rest of the data to make sure he had not missed anything, Su Mo’s heart sank. He said directly, “Leader Long, are any creatures that you experinted on still alive?”
Long Anguo nodded. “Of course. There are quite a few of them in our base now. The foreign races are easy targets recently, so we conducted a few more rounds of testing.”
Before Su Mo could speak, Long Anguo imdiately said, as if he had thought of sothing, “Are you saying that…”
“I request that a squad be dispatched imdiately to capture and kill all those foreign races from three days ago to test if their abilities have returned!”
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