[One year passed, and humanity finally developed Gene Serum 1.0. The higher-ups no longer had to hide in isolation rooms, and they were elated.]
[After the Grand Elder injected Gene Serum 1.0, he ordered the production of enough serums to distribute to all of humanity. At the same time, he commanded Elder Zhao and other biochemists to begin research on Gene Serum 2.0. Half a year later, the combined forces of the ten major bases, with over ten million soldiers, all injected Gene Serum 1.0, becoming humanity's strongest force for counterattacks. Humanity no longer feared the super zombies that had evolved over the past two and a half years.]
[With the superhuman army, steel city walls, and various heavy artillery weapons, humanity sounded the horn for a counterattack. With the protection of superhuman troops, armored city walls, and powerful artillery, humanity no longer needed to worry about super zombies breaching the base. They even began taking the initiative to reclaim lost territories. Zombies were starting to suffer crushing defeats.]
"Has the balance been broken? This time, humanity took just two years to develop Gene Serum 1.0. Not bad, not bad," Lu Jie muttered with a smile.
With such a terrifying external threat and instability within, it was not uncommon for people to succumb to the invasion of the mutated MR virus, resulting in zombification.
Although under humanity's harsh policies, there had been no major issues, the problems still persisted.
All these factors forced humanity's biochemists to do their utmost, pushing their minds to the limit in order to develop Gene Serum 1.0.
Additionally, Lu Jie had provided them with the best samples. With this foundation, developing the serum in two years seemed normal.
"However, balance must be maintained," Lu Jie said as he stood in the air, watching humanity's military forces systematically clear out the zombie waves outside the base. He took a bite of an apple, his lips curling into a smile.
Humanity's combat power now surpassed that of the zombies.
The existence of super zombies, without the aid of technological weapons, was extremely dangerous. For example, in the New Era Arc, super zombies like Lin Hua and others easily slaughtered 20,000 of humanity's superhuman troops.
However, with humanity's current arsenal—fighter jets, tanks, cannons, and other weapons—super zombies were no match. A few ordinary missiles would be enough to kill them, not to mention humanity had intercontinental missiles and nuclear warheads.
Previously, humanity had hidden away, as the real threat from zombies was the mutated MR virus causing internal problems. The zombies themselves were secondary.
Now that this issue had been solved, and steel bases had been established early on, humanity had prevented the risk of highly intelligent super zombies—those created from the infected superhumans—taking control and causing internal strife. The exhausting, protracted battles were avoided, and zombies were now just targets for human forces.
If Lu Jie didn't intervene, humanity would likely start reclaiming continents like Asia and other regions, and that was a scenario Lu Jie didn't want to see.
He needed to create a strong crisis for humanity, making them fight for their survival. This way, Gene Serums 2.0 and 3.0 would be developed more quickly.
In the end, only then could Gene Serum 4.0 be created, allowing Lu Jie to become the true transcendent being.
"Well, how should I intervene next?" Lu Jie pondered.
Should he release the J-virus?
That option was impossible.
The J-virus was too terrifying. Without the Gene Serum 1.0 to become a superhuman, even if someone was injected with the mutated MR virus serum, regardless of their physique, ordinary humans would immediately be turned into zombies, but not just any zombies—they would become super zombies.
In the end, humanity would spiral into extinction without any possibility of survival.
"There's no other choice. Let me become the boss on the zombie side." Lu Jie sighed. "I must strengthen the zombies' power."
Lu Jie shook his head, then vanished from his location, appearing in a forest.
He decided to reveal himself and disguise as the Zombie King, completely mimicking its aura and form.
It must be said, the system's feature was quite convenient. He could freely choose his disguise.
Next, Lu Jie summoned a large number of zombies. He even injected a full vial of the mutated MR virus into a Tyrant-level super zombie, turning it into a Tyrant Lord.
This Tyrant Lord was even more powerful than the one from the "Bio-Apocalypse Zero: Transcender" arc, but still within the range of a zombie lord.
Humanity's regular missiles couldn't kill it. Only high-yield intercontinental missile carpet bombings could. Even humanity's steel walls were at significant risk from this creature.
Without intercontinental missiles, only dozens of newly evolved superhumans who had injected Gene Serum 3.0 could team up to defeat it.
Since Lu Jie himself had created this terrifying zombie, he wasn't worried about it disobeying. After all, he was disguised as the Zombie King.
The Zombie King had absolute control over lower-level zombies, just as super zombies could control ordinary zombies.
Lu Jie led the Tyrant Lord and a massive wave of zombies, heading to attack the human superhuman troops stationed at the steel base's outpost.
Before Lu Jie and his zombie horde arrived at the outpost, humanity had already detected the zombie wave.
"What is that?" a second-level officer at the outpost stared in disbelief at the video, showing the 30-meter-tall Tyrant Lord. He gulped.
"That should be a Tyrant-level super zombie... But normal Tyrant-level zombies don't even reach half its size," a third-level officer said, horrified.
"Notify all units to prepare heavy artillery defense. Also, deploy fighter jets and tanks to bomb the zombie horde. The mutated Tyrant zombie must be destroyed," the second-level officer ordered in a deep voice.
"Also, send the footage back to the base," he added after a moment of thought.
Immediately, the entire outpost went into action.
Fighter jets soared through the sky, approaching the zombie horde. Tanks were arranged outside the outpost, ready to fire at any moment.
Meanwhile, the superhuman troops, armed with heavy sniper rifles, planned to take down zombies with headshots before considering close-quarters combat.
According to biochemists like Elder Zhao, even superhumans who were infected with too much mutated MR virus would be at risk of becoming super zombies.
If they were severely wounded, showing symptoms like skin decay or dizziness, they had to carry hand grenades and detonate their own heads—preferably in the middle of the zombie horde.
This iron-handed policy, though brutal, was the best way to eliminate potential threats. Humanity's soldiers mostly followed it strictly, and so far, there had been no issues.
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