At the Sunflower Survival Base, in the four-story building.
Ding Yun, considering that solving problems required first understanding their root causes, decided not to blindly believe what was presented on the surface.
Therefore, she specifically retrieved a quantum artificial intelligence from her soul space.
She instructed it to infiltrate all satellite networks worldwide, and using that as a base, further infiltrate all accessible networks to gather information related to zombies.
The miracle factor was also included.
Even if it was a local area network, as long as one person using it had used the satellite network, that entire local area network would fall.
After this operation, while she couldn't claim to have collected all relevant information globally, gathering sixty to seventy percent was not an issue.
Subsequently, Ding Yun further instructed the artificial intelligence to classify and organize the collected information, judging the importance of the gathered data based on its source, secrecy level, and other factors.
She then sorted them clockwise based on their importance.
The most crucial pieces of information were placed at the very front.
Afterward, she specifically had breakfast and took out a new tablet from her soul space, before proceeding to review the information collected by the artificial intelligence through the tablet.
Initially, she was somewhat absentminded as she started reading. However, as she delved deeper into the content, Ding Yun could no longer remain calm. This was because the artificial intelligence had unearthed a wealth of data from numerous secret laboratories and databases, placing them at the forefront. This data included information on human elimination plans, human evolution plans, and a series of other related data.
Upon seeing such data, how could Ding Yun possibly remain calm!
According to this information, the previously disclosed content and explanations from the authorities were largely false.
Firstly, the miracle factor was indeed brought by a meteor, and some countries did receive portions of it for research. However, only the major powers of the Western Continent received it. Countries on the Eastern Continent and weaker nations received not even a sliver.
Not to mention the inhabitants of the Northern and Southern Continents.
Related research was exclusively conducted by those major powers in the Western Continent, including the subsequent disclosure of research results and the publication of papers. They controlled everything.
If their research had been normal, it would have been one thing. But the crucial point was that after discovering the possibility of longevity and evolution from the miracle factor, a large number of powerful figures and ancient families excitedly and eagerly pushed forward.
They even resorted to inhumane methods for this purpose.
They secretly abducted numerous humans for experimentation.
And they eventually discovered that while the modified miracle factor could promote human evolution, humans themselves could not absorb energy from the universe. Nutritional fluids and the like could not replenish much energy.
Only the life essence of fellow humans could serve as the most suitable energy source for evolution.
However, they couldn't extract life essence from a large number of people continuously, nor did they possess the means to do so. Thus, they turned their attention to the brain cores of humans who failed in evolution.
They discovered that the core was actually an aggregate of human life essence, which had become that way due to insufficient life essence for evolution.
Theoretically, as long as there were enough cores,
Safe and harmless evolution potions could be manufactured.
The subsequent emergence of ability cores and such was a later development that the initial researchers were unaware of.
With these research findings, coupled with experimental data and theoretical support, those who sought longevity at all costs immediately formulated the human elimination plan and the human evolution plan. Their aim was to lobby the high-ranking elites of the Western Continent with whom they had vested interests.
They persuaded them to jointly execute the plan.
And they claimed that by doing so, they would not only eliminate the lower-class humans and destroy threatening nations, but also further elevate themselves from humans to gods!
Shortly after, the modified miracle factor was leaked. Although the Western Continent's elites lacked an antidote, they were well aware of the infection pathways of the miracle factor. Therefore, as long as they maintained strict safety precautions and avoided being scratched by the initial wave of infected individuals, they would be safe.
And so, under their conspiracy and planning,
The zombie apocalypse that radiated globally occurred.
Most countries, while aware that the virus was leaked by them, did not know that it was intentionally manufactured and leaked. Furthermore, the zombies mutated extremely rapidly and spread quickly, causing many countries to lose control of order within days. Thus, apart from verbal condemnations, they were powerless in other aspects.
After all, the Western Continent nations also possessed devastating weaponry.
They couldn't possibly engage in a mutual destruction with them, could they?
After the zombie apocalypse began, research in the Western Continent never ceased. Concurrently, they initially intended to directly use the cores of newly mutated zombies – ordinary cores that had not undergone any evolution and had not developed abilities – to produce perfect evolution potions.
However, after only a few attempts,
They discovered that it was not feasible.
This was because the life essence contained within the cores of low-level zombies was not substantial. Approximately ten thousand of them were needed to produce one perfect evolution potion. This was not the most critical issue. The most crucial issue was that the zombie virus within these low-level zombie cores was highly active and deeply intertwined with life energy, making it impossible to eliminate.
Consequently, the perfect evolution potion manufactured this way contained a zombie virus content exceeding ten thousand times the intended amount.
The principle of the perfect evolution potion was that one part zombie virus, or rather, the modified super-miracle factor, combined with ten thousand parts human life essence, was precisely enough for an individual to complete evolution. In the absence of a way to eliminate the zombie virus, they did conduct an experiment.
The final result was not only a failure in evolution but also the creation of an extremely terrifying zombie.
A monstrous zombie, over twenty meters tall,
Its destruction required the deployment of numerous super-weapons.
However, as zombies continued to evolve, it gave them new hope, and they persisted in their research without interruption. It was not until they discovered that after zombies evolved abilities, the zombie virus within cores containing abilities could be easily eliminated that they achieved a new breakthrough.
And based on this, they manufactured ability-type perfect evolution potions. Currently, they were working on resolving the final challenge of determining human attributes. Once this problem was solved, the evolution potion would be considered fundamentally successfully researched.
But this was not the most outrageous aspect. What was most outrageous was that Ding Yun later discovered a final plan among these plans. It was their intention to release their newly developed ultimate version of the zombie virus after they had successfully evolved using the ability-type perfect evolution potion.
Afterward, anyone who failed to successfully evolve
Would be infected and turn into a zombie.
The entire world, apart from these newly evolved humans, would only consist of failed evolutionary zombies.