Chapter 194: Chapter 194 Search
In the open space outside the Human Alliance base.
Ethan was hung in the air by an iron chain, about three or four hundred meters above the ground. The driver had no intention of killing him, nor of letting him go, so he let him fish in the cold wind for nearly half an hour.
This made Ethan's limited intelligence fall into a state of confusion. He didn't know what their commander Kevila was going to do next, nor did he know whether he should break free from his restraints and launch a desperate attack now.
In a building thousands of meters away from him, the President of the United Nations, Lyon, was discussing his condition with a doctor.
"Professor Manock, Colonel Daryl has only tracked the traces to the beach. What we can be sure of is that Rick and the others have been taken away by sea. We cannot determine their location."
Leon's expression was a little gloomy. He didn't expect these guys to move so quickly. Even if he sent people to track them as quickly as possible, Clementine had already been taken away.
"Are you sure you can find information about Rick and the others from this guy's head?"
Professor Mallock pushed his glasses and said with some embarrassment:
"I'm sorry, Mr. President, if the other party is a purebred human, I'm about 90% sure."
"But according to what you said, we are not even sure what form his body is in."
"I'm not sure how much information we can get from him. Maybe things will become easier, or maybe we won't get anything at all."
"And you see, besides us, there are many other captives here. Maybe we can learn something from them and help us escape together."
In the end, Ethan's idea of a fight to the death never had a chance to be carried out, and he lost all consciousness in infinite regret.
"This giant cruise ship is probably parked near a deserted island several dozen nautical miles from Cape Collier Port."
"Impossible. Our vacation plans were all improvised. Even within the organization, not many people knew about it. Florida is so big, how could they know where we went?"
Unfortunately, the satellite system is now completely paralyzed, and ordinary radars are unable to search for ships in the ocean. Lyon has no other choice but to wait.
Rick and others were assigned to a separate iron cage.
Of course, Lyon did not place all his hopes on Ethan.
.........
When everyone was ready, after Leon gave the order, the soldiers arranged outside also began to act.
Originally, Ethan didn't care much. As bodies that have been highly modified by parasites, they have extremely high resistance to various toxins, radiation, viruses and the like, and most of the internal organs in the body are just decorations.
"Moreover, inside the head of this modified body, there is a superior parasite with higher authority. This is probably why he can control the puppets under him."
"However, inside the giant cruise ship, in addition to the forces of his master, Count Dekla, there is also a force from that mysterious force."
The bald professor's voice was tired but also excited.
"Damn, those monsters I encountered last night were more troublesome than zombies. They couldn't be killed even after being shot in the head."
"They seem to be the same kind of bug monsters we encountered last time in Federation territory."
And with this information, the search team's search range will be narrowed down a lot. The deserted island and the giant cruise ship are also quite conspicuous targets, so it should be a lot easier to find them.
Moreover, this anesthesia spread very quickly. Before he could make any movement, in just a few seconds, he lost control of his entire body, and then even his brain was quickly affected by this extreme anesthesia.
So, while Joel and Dak were still in a coma, Sean, Rick, Glenn and Clementine had actually woken up quietly, and after more than ten hours of intensive self-healing, their physical condition had recovered to a large extent.
Leon sighed when he heard this. He actually knew the difficulty of this matter. No one could be completely sure, so he continued:
A few minutes later, in order to make sure whether he was really anesthetized, special staff shot him several times in non-lethal positions. After confirming that he had no reaction even after being shot and bleeding, they carefully put him down.
Professor Mallock smiled awkwardly and explained quickly:
"Ethan is not completely ignorant. He told me that his master's name is Dekla, a Spanish noble count."
"Then find a way to get in touch with the base."
"Did you find the location of their lair?"
Listening to Professor Manock's explanation, Lyon didn't really care about all this nonsense. He asked directly:
They can drink even highly toxic substances like drinking water, and they are not afraid of others injecting anything into their bodies.
"After I separated the brain and body functions of this modified body, I successfully freed him from the control of the parasite."
After hearing her voice, Rick also sat up, covering his left arm. His left arm was the most seriously injured in last night's battle. Although it had recovered for a period of time, it would be impossible for him to use it to fight in a short period of time.
Just when he thought he would be so anxious that he couldn't sleep all night, good news came from Professor Mallock.
Rick immediately shook his head and said:
"Although we have lost all our guns, I still have a dagger hidden."
Lyon listened patiently to Professor Mallock's information and breathed a sigh of relief. No matter what, it was not a waste of effort to obtain this information.
"Now, besides a territory in Spain, the Count of Dekla only has a converted giant cruise ship as his home base."
"They used to use the induction between parasites to find their nests, rather than specific coordinates."
However, he soon realized that something was wrong. The parts of his body that had been injected with the unknown liquid quickly lost consciousness and fell into a state of paralysis. Even the surrounding parasites lost contact without warning.
"Their leader is called Bishop Sadler. They are an organization similar to a religious structure. It is said that they have mastered special parasite transformation technology and are very powerful."
"So, we got a clueless idiot?"
Hearing the girl's guilty voice, Glenn also coughed and climbed up from the ground. He reached out and touched Clementine's head, and said weakly:
"It's none of your business, little girl. It's just a coincidence. If we hadn't insisted on going on vacation with you, this might not have happened at all."
After all, an organization that can come to the port by boat to capture people and send them away in batches must be located not too far away.
Bruises and scratches are not a big deal, but fractures and internal bleeding are extremely dangerous. Dak, the young man with a weaker constitution, has fallen directly into a deep coma, and Joel, the oldest, has become very confused due to a concussion.
Unexpectedly, Professor Malloch said with some regret:
"I'm sorry, Mr. President."
After hearing this, Leon said angrily:
They share the same origin as the parasites in their bodies. In places with high concentrations of zombie viruses or severe nuclear radiation, Rick and others' bodies will heal and recover at an extremely fast speed. This giant cruise ship, as Dekla's lair, is just such a place.
Sean, who was lying on the other side of Rick, also sat up, holding his bloody head. He endured the pain and fumbled around his calf, then found a military dagger in his trouser leg. He took it out and showed it to everyone, saying:
"It must be pure coincidence."
"There are a large number of parasites in this modified body, dozens of times the number of the samples we brought back from the Federation."
"As long as we can get in touch with the base and let His Excellency the President know that we are here, no matter what monsters are here, they will not be a match for us, the Human Alliance."
The other people immediately perked up when they heard the news. If they could escape from this iron cage, it would be better than staying in the cage and waiting to die.
"Brothers, this lock is too old-fashioned. I know its structure and should be able to pry it open with a dagger."
Moreover, after nearly ten hours of searching, there was no good news from the search team. You know, the longer the time goes, the more dangerous Clementine and others will be.
"Mr. President, things are going much more smoothly than expected."
"However, this modified body named Ethan does not know where his lair is."
At the same time, in Count Dekla's giant cruise ship, the seriously injured Rick and others had been moved to the dungeon of the cruise ship by the low-level servants wearing cloaks.
Eight specially made sniper rifles, under the control of sharpshooters, aimed remotely at the target hanging under the armed helicopter. What they fired were not attack bullets, but special syringes filled with super anesthetics.
Clementine, who had recovered the best from her injuries, quietly opened her eyes. After carefully observing the area, she found that there were no guards in the dungeon. She sat up and whispered to Rick and the others around her:
"According to Ethan's intelligence, the giant cruise ship is about 300 meters long and 30 meters high. There are about 2,000 humans who have been transformed by parasites living inside."
Clementine said with some guilt:
"Uncle Rick, it's my fault. I was the one who initiated the vacation plan, and it caused everyone to get caught."
Regarding this transformed monster, Leon's order to Professor Mallock was that as long as he could get information about Rick and the others, it didn't matter if he was dissected into pieces.
"Last night, Karl and the others should have escaped with the others. If nothing unexpected happened, the President should have known that we were captured and must be trying to find a way to save us now."
"Clementine, the first thing we need to determine is where we are now?"
Today, at the port of Cape Collier, not only are there nearly a hundred engineers from the Armed Mechanical Department operating drones to conduct a carpet search of the nearby waters, but many ships from the Port of Miami have also been dispatched and deployed on the sea to conduct searches.
At night, Human Alliance base.
After saying that, he turned to look at Sean, then moved closer to the iron cage and looked at the lock cylinder there, then said with some surprise in his voice:
Because of the long-term injection of virus inhibitors containing element Z, their bodies have undergone tremendous differences from those of ordinary people. Both their physical strength and recovery abilities are far beyond those of ordinary people.
He leaned in closer and whispered to the others:
"We still have injured people now, so we can't take too many risks."
Professor Mallock's experiment lasted for several hours, which made Lyon, who had been waiting for news, more and more anxious.
.........
"They have been cooperating with a mysterious organization since before the disaster began. The current parasite transformation technology was given to them by that organization."
"You're not attacking us just for revenge, are you?"
After completely controlling the monster, Ethan was sent to Professor Mallock's laboratory at an extremely fast speed. The laboratory had already prepared for various experiments.
"And after I separated his brain from the parasite, he lost the ability to sense the location of the nest."
"Anyway, let's try it first. If it doesn't work, we'll find another way."
After last night's battle, each of them suffered varying degrees of injuries.
This is a dungeon with a very harsh environment. It is located at the bottom of a giant cruise ship. It is cold and damp, with mosquitoes, rats and ants everywhere. There are mutilated corpses, excrement and vomit everywhere, and many prisoners who have been driven crazy are imprisoned in cages and are whispering in despair.
Ethan was hanging in the air, and had not yet made up his mind whether to take action when he suddenly felt a slight numbness in several parts of his body. Several things like needles and syringes pierced his body, and some unknown liquid was injected into his body.
"After the disaster began, they developed a lot of power in Spain because of their prior preparations. However, in the end, due to various reasons, their power was disintegrated."
"Uncle Rick, the guards have left, what should we do now?"
Time is urgent and everyone is racing against time.
However, neither Dekla nor Ethan knew that among these six people, except for Dak and Joel, the other four were infected with the zombie virus.
However, Rick, who was more calm, thought about it and said:
"Don't worry, we still need to recover for a while and take action after obtaining more intelligence."
Although this carpet search is time-consuming and labor-intensive, it is not a waste if it works.
Thinking of this, Lyon politely said to Professor Mallock:
"I'm sorry, professor. You should understand my anxious mood."
"Rick and the others are important to me and our organization. We must rescue them."
"Please continue to work hard and strive to obtain more useful information."
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