Chapter 103: Luck
His heart was the same as that of ordinary survivors, and he was a little upset. Damn, is this still the world of the walking dead? There were already enough zombies, and now there are these mutant monsters with such powerful individual strength. How can a time traveler like him happily fight zombies, pick up beautiful women, and be a king?
However, he still had a doubt in his mind. This spider monster was only slightly strong. A team of more than a dozen survivors might be wiped out if they encountered it. But even so, it was impossible for it to capture more than a hundred of Frank's soldiers silently?
There must be something fishy going on.
But soon, Lyon's doubts were explained.
Peggy and her brother, as well as the students from the armed mechanical class who were sitting next to him, suddenly covered their heads and wanted to say something, but suddenly fainted within a few seconds.
Leon was startled and immediately turned to look at the soldiers behind him. He saw that those lean and strong soldiers seemed to be hit by a special anesthetic. In a very short time, they all fell to the ground in a twisted state and did not make any more movements.
It seemed that in an instant, everyone else in the spacious room died, and he was the only one left alive.
Leon flipped Peggy's eyelids with a serious expression, observing the contraction of her pupils, then placed his fingers on the girl's neck artery to check her pulse, and still not reassuredly reached his palm into the girl's collar to sense her heartbeat.
Fortunately, judging from various signs on Peggy's body, she had just entered a deep sleep or deep anesthesia state, and was not in danger of life.
Depending on one's physical condition, one can last up to nearly a year in suspended animation before actually dying.
He sent people to transport the human-shaped silk pupae to a special room, and used the method of flooding to rescue them with great effort.
Faced with the special spider monster corpse and a large amount of special spider silk provided by Leon, these researchers seemed to have fallen into a state of frenzy, and their thin bodies were filled with infinite vitality.
The spider webs wrapped around the drones, even if they were only one millimeter thick, were difficult to break with brute force. At least even though Leon used a pulling force of more than 300 kilograms, he was still unable to break it with brute force.
The entire rescue process lasted for three days. Under Lyon's order, Colonel William moved all the people in the canning procession to Fort Benning and officially used the fort as a military base for the Umbrella Corporation.
Lyon checked the physical conditions of Sherman, Daryl and Moore beside him. These three people were just unconscious like Peggy, which made him feel relieved.
As for the remaining 400 or so silk pupae, except for Frank and his more than 100 soldiers, who were in a coma like his men.
After staying near the shelter with the doubtful worker for half an hour and seeing that he did not fall into a coma, Lyon put aside his worries and called for more logistics personnel to send the unconscious soldiers back to the ground.
After testing with more than a dozen medical devices in the hospital, Lyon and others discovered that a special anesthetic gas would evaporate from the blood of the giant spider.
However, the results of the experiment showed that flames of ordinary temperature could not destroy the spider silk, and the thermal conductivity of the spider silk was also very weak. Except for the burned area, other parts could not feel the temperature rise at all. This is a very useful fireproof material that can effectively isolate high and low temperatures.
Once the temperature of the flame rises to three or four thousand degrees, the spider silk will melt as quickly as ice and snow, quickly turning into black powder and dissipating in the air. It is very magical.
Although the other 300 or so survivors still had vital signs, they had almost starved to the point of being skin and bones, and it was even impossible to recognize their original appearance.
Once humans inhale a certain concentration of this gas, their bodies will enter a state of forced suspended animation, and the metabolic rate in the body will be reduced to the lowest level required by the body.
He also had to consider what method he should use to enter the spider cave on the ceiling, rescue those who were trapped by the spider silk, and see if they were still alive.
Unlike these researchers, although Leon was also concerned about whether the research could be put into practical use, he was more concerned about whether the survivors bound by spider silk were still alive.
Without any delay, Lyon immediately issued orders to the employees at the Umbrella base and the canning factory.
Since it was difficult to destroy the spider silk using physical methods, Lyon had to use other tools around him to conduct other experiments.
After continuous research without sleep and food, it was the first time that Leon saw that Dr. Melfa, who was known for his seriousness, had a smile on his face.
The flooding experiment that followed surprised Leon even more. When he threw a tied-up reconnaissance drone into a water tank, half of the clean water in the tank was quickly absorbed by the spider silk. The volume of the spider silk that absorbed the clean water also expanded rapidly, about four or five times, and became a rubber band-like state with a considerable degree of ductility, or elasticity.
After getting this method, Leon felt a little relieved. At least, if Frank and others were still alive, he at least had a way to rescue them from the spider silk.
However, the test results surprised and delighted Leon. The spider silk spit out by the giant spider is simply a treasure. Not only is it very light, equivalent to ordinary cloth, but its toughness is beyond imagination.
He returned to the ammunition warehouse and found a transport truck. With great effort, he finally moved the giant spider corpse onto the trailer. He then transported it directly to a small warehouse in the shelter where an unknown material was stored. He then sealed and locked the warehouse.
After receiving the notification from Lyon, the researchers in the Umbrella Base rushed to Lyon at an extremely fast speed, just like starving ghosts reincarnated.
Judging from the situation of these four people, the other warriors should have been unconscious, but Leon was still awake. It was most likely his special ability, the special energy that made him immune to all poisons played a role, and the source of the poison must be the spider monster they killed.
As long as enough clean water is absorbed, Lyon will be able to use the elasticity of the spider silk to peel them off the drone.
Fortunately, as the largest military base in Georgia with a permanent population of more than 200,000, it has a fairly complete large hospital.
The logistics department employees welded some temporary ladders out of steel, extending them from the ground to the spider's nest. Using these ladders and oxygen cutting guns, they rescued the thousands of human-shaped silk pupae hanging on the roof.
If he used a sharp dagger to cut the spider silk of this thickness, Lyon would have to use a force of more than 55 kilograms to cut it.
Regardless of the life or death of Frank and others, what Leon is most worried about now is the coma of his men. Is it a short-term one or permanent? If, if this coma is permanent, then this operation will really suffer heavy losses.
Lyon transferred ten nurses and three doctors from Umbrella Corporation here to take care of the more than 700 unconscious patients.
According to Lyon and his team's current medical knowledge, there is no way to resolve this state of suspended animation.
After thinking for a few minutes, Leon decided that before taking any action, he must figure out the characteristics of the spider silk. Otherwise, even if he entered the spider's nest, he might not be able to do anything.
But the result of this experiment surprised Leon even more. He took out the oxygen cutting gun used to cut steel to conduct the experiment. He originally thought that these spider silks must be afraid of the burning of flames like ordinary spider webs.
Although it is not known how this spider monster releases its venom, this also explains why Frank and his soldiers were captured silently by the spider monster.
They had been busy for nearly three hours, clearing away all the residues that might have emitted poison, but the unconscious soldiers still showed no signs of waking up.
Its toughness seems to have exceeded that of ordinary steel. No wonder it can easily withstand the shooting of drone bullets.
The result was regrettable. Among the total of more than 1,300 silk pupae, more than 900 had turned into mummy-like corpses. There was no fluid in their bodies. The blood and flesh in their bodies had been sucked dry, leaving only a shriveled skin wrapped around their bones.
After thinking for a few minutes, Leon decided to move the spider monster's body away and lock it in a closed space. Otherwise, if the body might continue to emit the kind of toxin that could make people comatose, the people in the room would never wake up.
Leon sighed, made a radio call, and called down one of the welders above to serve as a test subject. He also ordered the other workers to continue to expand the cut opening at the gate of the first floor of the underground base until it was large enough for cars to pass through.
He also found some cleaning tools, collected the blood and flesh residues splashed on the ground by the spider monster, and put them into a sealed box.
After getting this rare material, many ways of using it instantly came to Leon's mind. Not only could he make them into strong ropes and super animal nets, he could even weave these spider silks into various composite protective clothing. It can be imagined that the defensive power of this protective clothing must be amazing.
Perhaps it was because the more than 400 survivors were already starving to the point of skin and bones that the spider monster disdainfully did not suck them into mummies.
Even Professor Jacob, who is not young anymore, seemed to have regained his youth and studied the samples day and night.
This situation made Leon very distressed. Although he could keep these people alive by injecting nutrients such as grapes, he also lost his capable subordinates such as Maul, Daryl, and Peggy, as well as nearly half of the elite fighters of Umbrella Corporation.
This would cause him as a manager considerable trouble both in terms of combat effectiveness and in the internal public opinion of the Umbrella Corporation.
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