Although Ding Yun was well aware that the zombie souls that had successfully evolved into ability users were entirely new creations, with no relation to their former selves, the general populace could not see souls. They could only see the physical bodies.
To them, memory loss was just amnesia.
Getting hit on the head could cause memory loss too.
What was such a big deal about that?
As long as people were alive, that's what mattered.
Therefore, once this news spread, the impact would undoubtedly be explosive. Countless people would feel stained with blood, filled with regret, and even more would feel guilt and sorrow for personally killing their own relatives.
The reason many people could kill zombies without psychological pressure now was because they believed these zombies were already dead, mere walking corpses. But once they knew that zombies could, under certain conditions, revert back to humans.
How many people would still be able to strike them down?
There might even be those who would frantically search for their zombie-turned relatives, secretly feeding them, which would surely lead to extremely negative consequences.
Thus, this news was not good news for Zhao Louhai, but rather a cause for immense headaches. It was perfectly normal for him to be so focused on this issue.
"Base Commander, if you're too worried about the impact, we can temporarily conceal this information. The blood from zombies that have successfully evolved into ability users can also be called, unexpectedly discovered virus-immune individuals.
Our organization certainly won't leak any secrets. As long as you don't leak it, no one will know. Our immediate priority is not to consider whether the zombies can recover, but the zombie virus, and the major issue of those people who want to exterminate all of humanity!"
Having no other choice, Ding Yun had to remind Zhao Louhai again, urging him to focus on the priorities. Even though both matters had significant implications, the severity needed to be prioritized.
No matter how important the zombie issue was.
It was not as important as the survival of humanity.
Only by first protecting the remaining humans and eliminating all the conspirators could they have the time and energy to slowly research how to help zombies evolve or recover more easily, conveniently, and efficiently.
"You're right, I was too anxious.
Then let's discuss carefully which information can be disclosed to other bases and which cannot, and then we can analyze which bases are suitable for cooperation.
And which bases are not suitable for cooperation..."
Under Ding Yun's gentle urging, Zhao Louhai finally regained some rationality and began to carefully discuss the upcoming matters with Ding Yun. When analyzing which bases were suitable for cooperation and which were not,
it was primarily Zhao Louhai who provided the reputation of each base.
Ding Yun, using artificial intelligence, would then investigate the true internal conditions of those bases and whether their leadership was morally corrupt, driven by human wickedness and greed,
or if they maintained restraint, order, and benevolence.
A single bad person could disguise themselves as a good person, but a group of bad people could not.
While a base's external propaganda might be false, internal private discussions and the daily lives of residents could not be falsified indefinitely.
Ding Yun had the artificial intelligence investigate fundamental issues that were difficult to falsify, so the final analytical results were naturally relatively accurate.
After such a discussion and cross-referencing.
They finally identified thirty-one bases that were capable of cooperating and also had the capacity to do so. For bases with only a thousand or eighteen hundred people, or less than ten thousand,
and with very few researchers internally.
Contacting them would be useless.
They could not offer any assistance.
Informing them of these matters would only cause them undue fear and anxiety. It would be better not to tell them and to notify them after the situation was resolved. If the situation could not be resolved, then letting them die unknowingly without fear or anxiety could also be considered a peaceful death.
Next, naturally, using Zhao Louhai as the hub.
Using their samples of immune individuals' blood as bait.
They contacted the base commanders of the thirty-one bases they had decided on and began video conferences using satellite communication.
As soon as the video conference began, Ding Yun first used artificial intelligence to add dozens of firewalls to their video conference, ensuring that no one could infiltrate, and also confirmed that no one beside the base commanders was eavesdropping.
Only then did they officially begin to present the relevant materials.
To gain everyone's trust, Ding Yun had prepared more thoroughly this time, not only providing relevant data but also supplementary evidence, satellite maps, and the like.
After the presentation, there was a period for exchange.
And everyone unanimously agreed to cooperate.
The reason they agreed so readily, in addition to the substantial evidence provided by Ding Yun, was that they had already long suspected that something was wrong with the Western Continent. However, because they lacked evidence, and the zombie apocalypse had arrived too quickly, they had no time to take any countermeasures. It was difficult enough to protect themselves, let alone collect evidence on foreign territory.
The evidence provided by Ding Yun not only confirmed their previous suspicions but also revealed that some people on the Western Continent were even more insane than they had imagined.
How could they not hasten to cooperate closely?
If they didn't cooperate, humanity would be annihilated.
What benefits could there possibly be?
With the negotiations concluded, Ding Yun quickly returned to her hometown and brought her grandparents into the Sunflower Survival Base, settling them in another location. To ensure they wouldn't cause trouble, she specifically sealed their abilities with her mental power and drew a tube of blood from each of them, also drawing a large tube of her own blood.
This was divided into thirty-one portions to be sent out by the base commanders.
Then, Ding Yun also borrowed two kindergarten teachers from the base commander. These two teachers were specifically responsible for educating and guiding her grandparents, who were now like a blank slate. Sealing their abilities earlier was to prevent them from harming the teachers, and also because Ding Yun would no longer provide them with flesh and blood, but rather normal food.
After successfully evolving, they no longer had such a craving for energy and could eat normal food to obtain energy, and could even autonomously absorb cosmic energy, although guidance was needed.
These were the matters Ding Yun would be busy with later.
In addition, she actively kept up with the research projects of the cooperating bases, offering ideas or providing methods for making various versions of gene-modification potions.
With their concerted efforts, especially the continuous supply of one tube of blood per week from Ding Yun's grandparents and herself, after a month, they finally made a new breakthrough, successfully creating a low-level evolution potion using the active components in Ding Yun's grandparents' blood and inactivated zombie virus.
In addition, they also used Ding Yun's blood.
To create an ability-stimulating potion.