Day after day passed in the game, and more and more Salvation Army soldiers escaped New York City and entered the Salvation Army's temporary base on its outskirts.
Even in the real world, a day had slipped by without anyone noticing. Many Salvation Army soldiers who had died in the game had logged in again, and with their experience, they easily escaped New York City and rejoined the main force.
By now, the Salvation Army had around fifty thousand soldiers worldwide. Together with the survivor NPCs they had rescued from the game's ruined cities, the base housed fifty to sixty thousand people-a formidable force.
These elites from every walk of life proposed all kinds of ingenious ideas for destroying the tower in New York City, including blocking its signals through full-spectrum barrage jamming.
All these suggestions were adopted, and personnel were assigned to research the various approaches.
With the earlier arrangements in place, the entire Salvation Army began operating like a precision machine.
The medical support unit led by Li Tongchen began studying the characteristics of the Evil Spirit Virus in the game, while working hard to cultivate and extract the Stone Statue Virus.
They now faced the same problem Shen Feng once had: the Stone Statue Virus would also infect this world's survivors, and they had to prevent that.
The other teams never abandoned physical attacks on the tower. Seven suicide demolition teams had already been dispatched. The first six were discovered by the zombie hordes while approaching the tower and wiped out.
The final team successfully reached the tower and detonated high explosives at close range, only to discover that a blast powerful enough to demolish a skyscraper had virtually no effect on it!
The flesh comprising the tower had clearly undergone extensive mutation. It perfectly absorbed the