Hammer 40k: Far East Storm

For soldiers or warriors, possessing virus weapons is always the most frightening thing. It is an invisible terror, far more terrifying than being killed by the enemy on the battlefield. But for the empire, virus weapons are not something that is worth worrying about for the top leaders. From another perspective, this weapon is actually very inefficient.

Because in the final analysis, the virus itself is a parasitic bacterium that relies on the host to survive. In the history of evolution, the truly excellent bacteria are the bacteria called "probiotics". This kind of bacteria will not only not cause harm to people when entering the human body, but also effectively improve people's health level, improve the host's intestines, and balance the body ecology, thereby achieving the effect of prolonging the host's life. From another perspective, this also improves the bacteria's own ecological environment and prolongs its own life.

Harmful bacteria are different. They rely on plundering and invading the host's body to develop themselves. When the host dies, the bacteria can only find a new host or a suitable environment to continue to survive, otherwise they can only die naturally.

In the world where Li lives, biological and chemical weapons are something that people are afraid of. A natural epidemic virus can make the whole society panic, because it is a world that puts human rights at risk.

In the civilized world, people pay more attention to individual rights and equality, and emphasize the embodiment of individual values. The human beings in that world live on the earth, which is like a cradle, and only use telescopes to carefully spy on the magnificent universe outside the solar system. This world is a galaxy full of wars, and human beings are in war all year round. Human beings in wars can not only do extremely cruel things to the enemy, but also to their own people.

When encountering danger, geckos know how to cut off their tails to escape, let alone humans. Therefore, in the jurisdiction of the empire, once people in an area are infected with the virus, the common practice is to immediately establish an isolation zone, which completely separates this part of the infected area from the normal world outside the area, and anyone who tries to escape from the isolation zone will be ruthlessly shot.

At the same time, the virus emergency mechanism will be activated, and medical personnel will study the composition and weaknesses of the virus. Of course, all researchers understand that the main purpose of this research is not to save the people infected by the virus. Lack of communication, ideological control, and strict confidentiality will slow down the research process. When the experts come up with something, the infected people are almost dead.

The main purpose of studying the virus is naturally to reduce the losses in such incidents in the future.

Simply put, the empire can easily sacrifice a small number of people for the majority. For the gecko, this is to cut off its tail to protect itself, but for the empire, this is not even a hair on its body. The empire owns countless worlds, and even the empire's own administrative officials do not know how many planets the empire owns, let alone how many people there are. Sacrificing people in an area is simply not painful for the empire, and it has no feeling at all.

Therefore, it is simply a pipe dream to use virus weapons to create terror and chaos in the Far East. Not to mention that the empire's governors can easily establish quarantine zones, when necessary, the empire's officials will even order artillery fire to completely raze the infected area without hesitation.

Not to mention that the performance of this virus seems to be just ordinary. It spreads quickly and the infected will die quickly. These are not special things. Most naturally formed plagues have this characteristic. But Leroy obviously regards this virus as an extremely important weapon. In order to test the effectiveness of this virus weapon, he even poisoned a company of storm commandos that he trusted most. And from the time sequence of his handling of things, he valued this virus weapon more than the "psychic bomb". He just imprisoned Li Anjie and did not rush to do anything to the little girl.

Why is this?

Just as Li was thinking, he suddenly saw something covered with a white sheet in the corner of his eye move.

Li stood up immediately and looked over, "What is that?"

"What?"

"What is under the white sheet?"

"Corpse," Fleming said calmly, "I have been using this corpse to study viruses. What's wrong?"

"Are you sure he is dead?" Li frowned.

"Of course, he's been dead for almost a week." Fleming shrugged and said, "I dug out all his internal organs."

"But he just moved."

"It's not something strange," Fleming said nonchalantly, "Don't be afraid. Under certain circumstances, static electricity or magnetic fields can cause the dead's muscles to twitch. It's like the reaction when dissecting a frog, you should have learned it."

"No, not this kind of twitching." Li sighed and said, "I think I understand, Fleming, come here, walk behind me. Slow down, don't turn your head, don't turn your head to look back."

"What's wrong?" People are like this many times. You ask him not to turn his head to look back, but he still can't help looking back. Fleming is the same. He turned his head and looked back in confusion. Then this young hygienist who has been in contact with corpses for a long time, who can eat, drink and sleep in front of bacterial culture tanks and corpses without changing his expression, can't contain his inner fear and screamed in shock.

Because the corpse that had been dead for a week sat up from the bed, staring at Fleming with its unfocused eyes, the white sheet draped over the corpse slipped silently, revealing the hollowed-out abdominal cavity of the corpse.

"This doesn't seem to be a muscle twitch reaction." Li pulled Fleming behind him with one hand, and at the same time raised his hand to pull out the bolt pistol hanging under his armpit, "It seems that this is the true face of the virus. No wonder that guy attaches so much importance to this virus weapon. If this thing is, it is really possible to make the Far East a mess."

"How could this happen? How could this happen?" Fleming kept screaming, "He is obviously dead, how could he move? This is completely unreasonable, this is impossible, impossible! He is dead!"

"Yes, I know this without you saying it. No one can come back to life after being dead for a week and having their internal organs hollowed out!"

"But what's going on? He sat up, he is still Look at me!" Fleming was stunned when he said this. "Wait, wait, I understand. No wonder the virus on the corpse didn't die as it would in the natural environment. No wonder this virus is so strange. It turns out that it has this effect. It can bring the dead back to life!"

"Resurrection of the dead? I'm afraid it's not that simple," Li sneered, "and it probably still retains the characteristics of aggressiveness and rabies patients."

"Why, you haven't done any experiments, how do you know?" Fleming asked in confusion, "Besides, I think it seems quite honest. What's going on?"

"Honest?" As he said this, the corpse suddenly jumped and pounced on Li at a speed that ordinary people couldn't understand! Li had been prepared for it. He chuckled and pulled the trigger.

The explosive bullet blew up the corpse's head without any suspense, but due to inertia, the corpse still flew towards everyone. Li turned around, kicked sideways with one leg, and kicked the corpse with the head blown off back to the bed.

"He, he, he..." Fleming was speechless and couldn't say a complete sentence for a long time.

"Nothing, it should be so. I didn't expect that it would actually be done." Li took a deep breath and suppressed the fear in his heart. Li now fully understood that although the attack of the corpse sitting up in front of Li could not pose any threat to Li, this moving and highly aggressive corpse showed an extremely dangerous problem.

That is, the enemy has found a way to spread the deadly virus on a large scale.

If the virus is not strong enough, it will not be able to kill its host, which is more conducive to spread. If the virus is lethal enough, it will kill the host quickly, but in this way, its spread range is not wide enough. This was originally an unsolvable rebuttal, but now these lunatics have obviously found a way to solve it.

Because this rebuttal is based on an obvious fact, when a person dies, he will not move, he will be buried and burned, and the source of the virus will naturally be eliminated. Even if nothing is done, as time goes by, nature will corrode and decompose the corpse by itself, and eventually turn it into harmless soil.

But what if the corpse can move?

What if the moving corpse is also very aggressive?

Then this corpse will actively spread the virus, and the spread of the virus will turn more people into such corpses, and more corpses will want to spread the virus to a larger range, and the number of infected people will increase at a terrifying geometric rate until the whole situation is out of control.

At that time, corpses will be rampant on the earth, and the dead will be more than the living.

Zombies and terrible viruses will occupy the whole week. If there are more such planets, the entire Far East will fall into fear. Who would not be afraid of a world where the dead are rampant? This simply brings the horror in people's nightmares into reality.

And this can also explain why Leroy wanted to kill the Storm Commando around him. Although the Storm Commando is useful, how can it be more useful than the guards who have become zombies?

After all, the members of the Storm Commando are just following orders. Their ultimate loyalty is still to the Emperor and the Inquisition, not to him, Leroy.

But now it is different.