9.2

Lei Chuan had been following Bai Mohan’s side for two months now, and his emotions had changed from the fury of hating to tear each other apart to the calmness of today. He wanted to see if Bai Mohan’s so-called great cause of saving all mankind could succeed or not. He firmly believed that Bai Mohan was a psychopath, and that his so-called medical research was nothing more than a way to fulfill all his destructive fantasies.

It was because people like him existed that the end of the world happened. They were dirtier than zombies and deserved to be completely obliterated. If he could return to his body and escape the institute, he would make everyone here pay.

Because of his hatred, he paid special attention to Bai Mohan and followed him around every day to observe his every move. He realized that he knew nothing about common sense in life, and couldn’t even make instant noodles. He only sleeps two or three hours a day, and in order to save time he doesn’t even want to take off his clothes, and once he makes progress in his experiments he will stay awake for several days and nights in a row.

He’s like an iron man, working so hard that it’s hard for normal people to imagine.

Right now he was looking at a petri dish through a microscope, and after a few minutes put it in the thermostat and headed for the restroom. He closes the door to the cubicle tightly, flips open the toilet lid ring, bends over, bends his knees, and sprays out a large mouthful of blood, splattering it and coloring the clear water inside the toilet bowl red.

He scooped up a ladle of water from a bucket placed nearby and flushed the bright red liquid down the pipe, then used a rag hidden in the tank to wipe up the blood droplets scattered around the area until he had cleaned the cubicle all as usual before stepping out to clean his hands.

His expression was so bland, as if what he had spewed out was not a large mouthful of blood, but a cloud of saliva. Lei Chuan stood beside him, staring at his extremely pale side face with a complicated gaze.

Lei Chuan knew that in order to stop himself from blowing himself up, this person must have paid a price unimaginable to normal people. His own body was almost shaken to pieces, he must not be any better, but he had healing powers, but he refused to even see a doctor, or else he wouldn’t have gone to such lengths to cover it up.

He remembered what he had said – I am walking on the right path and will pay any price for it.

Does this so-called any price include himself?

Thinking of this, Lei Chuan laughed sarcastically. He cautioned himself never to be mesmerized by a demon, and never to forget the sharp pain when the other party cut his flesh with a scalpel.

Zhou Yunsheng pressed down the severe pain of the double trauma to his body and soul and moved back to the laboratory one step at a time. He couldn’t let anyone find out Bai Mohan’s true physical condition, he didn’t have time to stay at the medical clinic for treatment, and if he didn’t develop a vaccine as soon as possible, his remaining energy wouldn’t be enough to allow him to return to Star Ocean space.

The consequences of not being able to return to the Star Ocean space while his soul was severely damaged were very serious, he would most likely be thrown into the space-time turbulence by the consciousness of this world, and without the need for the Lord God to make a move, he would be blasted to slag by a string of raging data.

So this mission is all about success.

Just as he walked to the entrance of the lab, he heard a female researcher cry out in fear, “Dr. Bai, the effects of the dormant agent injected into Experiment No. 1 should have passed long ago, but he hasn’t woken up. Is something wrong with him?”

Because Lei Chuan was strong, Bai Mohan would regularly inject him with a dormant agent in order to ensure that he stayed honestly on the test bench, and each injection would make him dormant for at least a month and a half. More than two months had passed since the last injection, but he had never opened his eyes.

Zhou Yunsheng heart thumped, quickly walked to Leichuan side to check his pupils, no reaction, but the heartbeat and breathing are normal, is he brain dead? Is he brain dead? Or is he subconsciously in a deep sleep? What’s the point of researching a vaccine? Lei Chuan pressure will not know! When I can not afford to leave, is the time Leichuan reborn, he will be like the original with the most brutal method to kill Bai Mohan, everything is still unchanged.

Zhou Yunsheng covered his face and shed a sympathetic tear for himself.

No, Lei Chuan’s healing ability was that powerful, he would never be brain dead, he was just unwilling to wake up. Strong people like him, even if they fall into a deep sleep, they will always leave a trace of perception of the outside world, this vigilance is rooted in the bones, and will never change easily. Let’s bet on this one, my gambling luck has always been good!

He reassured himself as such, which calmed him down.

Lei Chuan looked at his reddened eyes, at the hint of sorrow that flowed out of him, and the tip of his heart trembled, so slightly that he didn’t even realize it.

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Subject #1 had never been able to awaken, but as long as he was still alive and his blood stayed fresh, the researchers wouldn’t be too concerned. Zhou Yunsheng carefully wiped down the body of No. 1 every day, striving to brush up the negative infinity favorability a little bit, which was also considered to be doing his part for Bai Mohan in the future. He had a premonition that when Lei Chuan was reborn, he would be rejected out by the world consciousness and the real Bai Mohan would return.

At this moment, he was wiping Lei Chuan’s arm with a clean white towel, with a reverent and focused expression as if he was treating a valuable treasure. Lei Chuan stood opposite him, his gaze growing more and more complicated.

This man’s physical condition was getting worse day by day, today he vomited blood again, Lei Chuan could even find solid chunks of flesh in the bright red blood, which seemed to be his internal organs that he coughed up. His body was in full exhaustion, and that feeling of severe pain that churned within his five insides was not something a normal person could endure, but his calm expression remained unchanged, he didn’t even furrow his brows for a second, only to fall to the ground as he walked out of the restroom.

As he supported his body and struggled to get up, Lei Chuan stretched out an arm to assist, then was shocked by his own subconscious action.

He was irritable, depressed, and had violent ups and downs, hiding in a corner alone and brooding for a long time before returning to Baek Mok Han.

He watched him clean himself up, watched him carefully observe the petri dish, watched him confer with the researcher about the course of the experiment, watched him sleep on the cold floor with his clothes on.

Many days passed in this way, and Lei Chuan became more and more at peace.

The three computers in the lab were calculating day and night, and the progress bar reached eighty percent from the original fifty percent, and every researcher who passed by the computers couldn’t help but stop and stare at the progress bar with hopeful eyes, as if it would cast a magical spell when it reached its full capacity, restoring the purgatory-like world back to its original, beautiful form.

Lei Chuan had also formed such a habit. At this moment, he was standing straight in front of the computer, staring at the data that kept jumping above without a moment’s notice. When he heard Bai Mohan’s footsteps, he immediately stepped aside for fear of blocking his line of sight, and laughed to himself when he reacted.

Zhou Yunsheng leaned over to see how far the computer had run. Just yesterday, 007 had stopped running due to energy depletion, and if he wanted to restart it, he could not do so unless he fed his soul power into it. But the world consciousness was rejecting him more and more strongly, and he could only barely keep this body, there was really no extra energy to replenish 007.

So it’s up to these three computers to work out the right results.

It’s a good thing that 007 Ultra High Speed Computing helped before, I think we’ll be able to get the results in another two months.

Zhou Yunsheng straightened up and exhaled a mouthful of turbid air. Just then, the overhead lights suddenly flickered twice then went out completely, the three computers made a buzzing sound, and the screens changed from blue to black.

“The power is out! Why is the power out? Didn’t I say that the lab should never lose power, are the people up there eating shit?” A researcher angrily yelled.

Although these computers were the most advanced computers that could be found in the post-apocalyptic world, many of their functions were problematic due to their long years of use, and one of the biggest problems was the inability to save data after a power outage. Bai Mohan had repeatedly asked the upper echelons of the base to ensure power supply to the lab, and while they had promised, they obviously didn’t take this to heart.

The fact that it stops at the very moment when the result is about to be calculated means that the previous years of calculations have been wasted and everything has to start all over again.

And the world has long been devastated and bruised, so how much longer we can wait is anyone’s guess.

A wave of sorrow that had been condensed to the extreme and wanted to condense into a solid body spread within the institute, a female researcher sobbed, followed by another person who could not stop crying, soon, the cries of despair became a continuous stream. They fought hard for more than a thousand days and nights, they sacrificed so many compatriots, in exchange for only the darkness in front of their eyes.

At this moment, Lei Chuan forgot about all that hatred, and actually felt a sinking feeling because of their despair. No longer an experiment lying on the bed, but a bystander floating in the air, he seemed to be able to look at everything around him more rationally.

The captain of the escort flew over and explained, “A eleventh grade zombie suddenly broke into the base and damaged the motor room. After strangling this zombie, the mechanics will be able to make repairs, so there’s no telling when the call will come from above.”

The full level of alien ability is twelve, and then up is the king’s realm, and then maybe there is the saint’s realm and the god’s realm, and after taking out the three realms in the legend, eleven and twelve level zombies can be considered the top of the world’s existence, and if you want to kill it, you don’t know how many people’s lives and time to be consumed.

The wait seemed endless, and the cries of the fellows became more and more desperate.

Zhou Yunsheng was the only one who remained calm as he quickly spoke, “Are there any more lightning system adepts in the base? Can you dispatch one or two over?”

The guard captain smiled bitterly and shook his head, “There is only one in ten thousand Thunder System Adept, our base only has one, Lei Chuan, and he is currently lying on the test bed.”

Zhou Yunsheng fell silent, his pale face could not be hidden even in the darkness. Lei Chuan thought he would gloat, but when his eyes touched his thin, paper-like figure, he inexplicably felt his chest suffocating. He brushed his head away, not wanting to look at him again.

“Get me a pen and paper and a candle, I’ll do the math myself.” Zhou Yunsheng fumbled to sit down.

What kind of concept is one’s own? A serum protein molecular formula would take several minutes to calculate with a computer, and with a human brain it would probably take several days and nights. And those three computers’ calculations contained tens of millions of molecular formulae, and the human brain simply couldn’t have that kind of powerful arithmetic ability.

Everyone thought Dr. White had gone mad. A female researcher forgot to cry and said, “Doctor, do you know which step of the calculations the computer went to before powering down? How can you do the math if you don’t know? Your face is getting worse and worse, it’s better to take this time to rest.”

“I know, I happened to be looking at my computer before the power went out. You guys go back to resting, I’ll do the math. I have a measure of my own body.” Zhou Yunsheng waved his hand and took the candle and pen and paper handed by the chief of the escort.

The dim candlelight illuminated his resolute face, and everyone could not persuade him, so he had to leave one after another.

Lei Chuan stood straight and stared at the top of the man’s dark head and sneered, “You have a point? You have a fart!”

“Dr. Bai, you haven’t slept much for two days in a row, you’d better go back and lie down for a while, it’s not likely that the call will come when you open your eyes.” The chief of the escort had already left, but after thinking about it, he walked back again and persuaded in a low voice.

“This world can’t afford to wait, the surviving humans can’t afford to wait, and I can’t afford to wait even more.” Zhou Yunsheng replied without lifting his head as he wrote out a series of formulas on a piece of paper.

The head of the escort had no choice but to stand and stare at him, and after three hours couldn’t support himself and staggered away.

Lei Chuan wrapped his arms around, woodenly watching the man writing and drawing on the paper. He is a ghost, does not know fatigue, the man seems to know no fatigue, this counting counted for three days and three nights. When the lights came back on, he looked up to see, and it was several minutes before he stood up stiffly and slowly to turn on the computer. He was slow as a robot now.

The researchers sniffed and held their breath to look at the screen that was gradually returning to the on screen.

Zhou Yunsheng called up the arithmetic program and found that the progress bar had indeed returned to zero, and the blankness was so blinding that it called everyone’s eyes red, and some people even let out a distressing cry of grief.

Zhou Yunsheng, however, did not even frown, substituting the results he had calculated into the program. The computer immediately operated according to the formula entered beforehand. It was much faster to have the results and then verify the right and wrong.

Everyone was shocked to find that the blank progress bar was climbing at a speed visible to the naked eye, and after ten minutes it finally stayed at eighty-three percent, and then the three computers started normal checking again, and a variety of molecular formulas kept jumping out on the screen.

They clearly remembered that before the power failure, the progress bar showed eighty percent. In other words, Dr. Bai had calculated three percent of the molecular formula with his own brain alone, and it was completely correct, what kind of horrible arithmetic ability was this? Is he still a human being?

It was only then that everyone suddenly recalled that Dr. White was a King’s Realm psychic alien, and it didn’t seem to be so hard to accept that his computing power was comparable to that of a computer.

The researchers looked towards Dr. Bai with wildly adoring eyes, and all the depression and despair that they had felt before were far away from them at this moment. Their leader was that powerful, surely he could turn all the beautiful visions into reality, all they had to do was to follow his footsteps closely.

The head of the escort returned from his shock and said softly, “Dr. Bai you’ve worked hard, leave this place to them, you hurry back to rest.”

Zhou Yunsheng nodded his head and walked towards his lounge with a normal face. Unlocking the door to his room and taking off his lab coat and glasses, he crouched down on the sink and panted sharply, and as he panted, he suddenly spewed out a mouthful of blood, which dyed the sink and mirror all red.

Lei Chuan, who was standing beside him, was taken aback and couldn’t help but hiss loudly, “What’s wrong with you? Are you alright? You need to hurry the fuck up and get to a medical clinic! You’re going to die if you keep this up!”

The man is that ruthless, ruthless to others and even more ruthless to himself. His so-called whatever it takes includes his own life, right?

Lei Chuan tried to hold him, to carry him, to grab his collar, but touched only a ball of air. In the end, he could only pull his own hair, watched this person with a flat expression of the splattered blood clean up, and then fainted on the cold floor tiles.

“Somebody, White Mohan has fainted!” He rushed outside to the corridor and yelled at everyone who passed by, but no one paid any attention to him, instead, they lightened their steps for fear of disturbing Dr. Bai’s rest.

“Your leader is about to die and you are rushing to his rescue! Do you hear me? He’s dying!” He ran through every corner of the Institute, yelling at the top of his lungs, banking on the hope that someone might see him, hear him.

He was clearly a ghost and would not feel tired or hungry, but when he returned to Dr. White’s rest room and saw the people still collapsed on the floor tiles not knowing if they were alive or dead, he suddenly felt exhausted to the point of exhaustion.

He reached out, trying to probe the man’s nostrils, but realized that he had no touch on his skin at all. He stared unblinkingly at the man’s chest with red bloodshot eyes, hoping to see a hint of a rise and fall.

But he was too weak, and the rise and fall seemed to be there and then it didn’t, making his heart clench. Feeling drained of strength, he slid down the wall and sat on the floor, burying his face deep between his knees.

One man and one soul just quietly ushered in the dawn.

Zhou Yunsheng coughed twice and awoke with a sharp headache, the aftermath of overusing his brain. If it was him in his heyday, the formula given by Bai Mohan would not take him a day to figure out.

Damn this B-rank world! He inwardly cursed the world consciousness that was intent on ostracizing him at all times, then stumbled up and cleaned the washroom with the remaining water in the bucket.

Noticing that his clothes were also stained with blood, he balled them up and shoved them under the bed, changed into a clean set of clothes, and looked in the mirror to make sure there was nothing wrong before opening the door and heading towards the lab.

“Were there any anomalies in my absence?” He asked the researcher sitting at the computer.

The researcher immediately rose and bowed ninety degrees and said in a reverent tone, “Reporting to the Doctor, there is nothing wrong, the progress bar is currently up to eighty-three and a half percent.”

“Very well, you continue to keep an eye on it.” Zhou Yunsheng patted him on the shoulder and walked over to the thermostat to check the condition of Subject #1, drawing ten milliliters of blood from his carotid artery, mixing it with the zombie virus and placing it under the microscope for observation.

He was so engrossed in his work that he forgot everything around him.

Lei Chuan roared loudly into his ear, ”You’re a fucking human being not a god, you also need to eat and sleep! You haven’t eaten or slept for three days and nights, remember? You think passing out on the floor tiles for one night is considered sleep? You’re going to get yourself killed sooner or later!”

But the man couldn’t hear anything, still staring at the microscope without moving, his spine slightly curved, and he could even see the abrupt butterfly valleys and vertebrae through the fabric, thin and thin as if they would break at the slightest fold.

If he took off his clothes, Lei Chuan would bet that he had less flesh on him than the zombies outside. He remembered that the last time he took a bath was a month ago, which was common in the water-starved post-apocalyptic world, and he was shocked by his well-defined ribs at that time. Now that another month had passed and he was consuming his life without any knowledge of moderation, those ribs were even more frightening, he feared.

Lei Chuan like a trapped beast prowling around the man, from time to time to shine his back of the head to punch, but did not realize that this hit no longer contain resentment, but only full of helplessness and worry.

In the days and nights together, he gradually understood what kind of bright future men are willing to give their lives for. In his drawer was a photo of a little girl in a lavender dress smiling in the golden sunlight in a field of blooming lavender flowers, with a blue sky above her head and a lush forest behind her.

Every day he would take out the photo and scrutinize it, with an unprecedented bright smile on his face. In these quiet and warm moments, Lei Chuan couldn’t help but smile along with him.

Tired of tossing and turning, Lei Chuan slowly walked over to the man and stared at the top of his dark head in disbelief.

Just then, a researcher approached Dr. White to inform him of the seminar.

Zhou Yunsheng revealed an impatient expression, but still led the chief of the escort towards the conference room. Every month, the upper echelons would convene a seminar, either to check the progress of the work, or to increase or decrease the project’s expenses, and if he didn’t go, he would probably be tripped up by another project team. Moreover, Zhou Yunsheng gradually felt that the upper echelons seemed to be skeptical of his research.

Sure enough, this month’s budget was reduced by twenty percent compared to last month’s, which was a fatal blow to Zhou Yunsheng, whose experiments were at a critical stage.

“My research is the most important thing, and you can’t cut anyone’s expenses but mine. In two more months, I’ll be able to cultivate the vaccine, and this is the most critical time for you guys not to hold me back.” He closed the budget sheet and said coldly.

“Two more months, two more months, Dr. Bai you say this every meeting, who has seen the results again?” Wu Han Yuan, another medical scientist of comparable status to Bai Mohan, opened his mouth to question.

He threw a bunch of information in front of Zhou Yunsheng and smiled smugly, “Dr. Bai take a good look at it, this is the true savior of mankind, a zombie that specializes in devouring zombies.”

Wu Han Yuan is the real medical scientist with anti-human tendencies, before the end of the world, he secretly carried out human hybridization experiments, creating many monsters and taking pleasure in it, after the end of the world, he is simply like coming to paradise, more and more unscrupulous.

Zhou Yunsheng finished reading the information quickly and a thick layer of frost formed under his eyes.

“The earth is in a desperate situation because of the zombie rampage, you don’t think about destroying the zombies to save the survivors, instead you come up with monsters that are even more terrifying than the zombies, your behavior is like drinking hemlock to quench your thirst, sooner or later, you’ll get yourselves killed!” He spoke slowly, word by word.

“Dr. Bai, you’re worrying too much. As long as the chip I developed is implanted into the zombies’ brains, they will completely follow my command, going east when I tell them to go east and west when I tell them to go west, and will never cause harm to humans. I’ve already done several successful experiments under the supervision of the leaders, Dr. Bai can also come and take a look if he has any concerns.”

Zhou Yunsheng barely suppressed his anger and nodded his head in agreement. It was empty to say anything now, only when these fools were taught a painful lesson would they understand what it meant to be self-inflicted.

For the sake of Bai Mohan’s wish, and in order to get the energy of this world to repair his soul, he must let the experiment fail.