9.3

After the meeting ended, the scientists in white coats left one by one. Zhou Yunsheng, who had walked to the corner of the stairs, was stopped by Wu Han Yuan with his hand outstretched.

“Dr. Bai, everyone’s job is to save mankind, your research hasn’t seen any results for several years, but my research is close to success, why don’t you close down your project and come over to help me? My project team is still missing a deputy leader.”

Bai Mohan was the head of the research institute, Wu Han Yuan’s words had the meaning of humiliating him, but also had the meaning of squeezing him to climb up the ladder. His research projects are favored by the upper echelons, and along with that, he has also received a lot of attention as a person, and the resources he receives are many times more than what they were in the past. On the contrary, Bai Mohan’s group had fewer and fewer resources, and even the last power supply came at the latest.

Zhou Yunsheng was exasperated and laughed, slowly saying, “I am fundamentally different from you. I am committed to destroying zombies, while you are committed to making more and more of these monsters. Are you really saving humanity instead of destroying it? Wu Han Yuan, more deeds will lead to your own death, sooner or later, you will get your retribution.”

Wu Han Yuan shouted at his hastily departing back, “I will be retributed, what about you? The lives in your hands are no less than mine!”

Zhou Yunsheng’s footsteps were slightly lurched, and he quickly continued to move forward, seeing the chief of the escort stealing glances at his own face from time to time, he spoke plainly, “Don’t worry, I’ve already suffered retribution, but everything I’ve endured is worth it, sooner or later you’ll all know one day.”

The captain of the guards converged his eyes.

Lei Chuan followed him, his brow furrowed in a deathly frown. He knew what he called retribution, his body was already at the end of its strength.

A few days later, Wu Han Yuan intended to conduct a large-scale experiment, and in order to show off, he deliberately invited the base leadership and the heads of several other research groups to visit.

The room surrounded by the huge meteorite tempered glass held a dozen or so zombies, all of them at level seven or above, and there was even a level ten water zombie among them, who was constantly attacking the glass panel surface with water arrows in an attempt to escape.

Fortunately, the glass was so strong that it would last for hours without shattering even if there were two more level ten zombies.

“Are your mutated zombies ready?” The base leader looked at Wu Han Yuan with an ambitious light in his eyes. If he could form an army of zombies, then this Earth would become his world.

“Get ready to release it right away. This is the trump card in my hand, the level is unknown, but the fighting strength is comparable to a eleven level zombie.” Wu Han Yuan clicked a blue button on the console, a side door slowly rose in the glass room, and a muscular, lanky zombie dragging a thick, long lizard tail behind it popped out like a stringed arrow, pressing down on a zombie and frantically gnawing on it.

When the crowd saw what it looked like, they unanimously drew a breath of cold air. This zombie had completely lost its human appearance, covered in scaly armor, its skin was a bright green with moldy spots, its huge mouth took up a third of its features, and its sharp teeth spread all the way to the base of its ears.

It bit off the head of one of the walkers with a single opening of its mouth, tilting its neck to devour it before attacking several other walkers ferociously.

The laboratory was suddenly filled with blood and flesh, and there was a series of miserable howls.

This was simply a lopsided slaughter, if such a zombie army was formed, the base would certainly be invincible and sweep through the end times. The leaders looked at each other and nodded in satisfaction.

Wu Han Yuan held the frames of his glasses rather smugly.

Lei Chuan stared expressionlessly at all this, his heart that had been calm for a long time once again fluttered with a monstrous rage. In the zombie’s step by step under the tightening of the survival space of human beings is already getting smaller and smaller, but these people still research than the zombie even more terrible monster, they have not thought of these monsters once out of control will appear what the consequences?

A bunch of idiots with only ambition and no intelligence!

Zhou Yunsheng was also cursing the upper echelons of the base in his heart at the moment for being stupid. Who gave them the confidence to use a chip to manipulate such a monster? Even as a top hacker, he did not dare to guarantee that he would be able to develop a 100% controlled chip.

He accumulated a trace of soul power at his fingertips and input it into 007, and immediately gave the order to invade the chip to tamper with the program after it was activated. Then he operated the crystal core inside Bai Mohan’s brain, condensing the last trace of spiritual energy remaining inside the core into an invisible cone of spikes, and continuously bombarded a certain point on the meteorite glass, only stopping when he blasted out a small, invisible hole.

As a ghost, Lei Chuan was able to see things that were invisible in third dimension space. He noticed a bright white energy escaping from Bai Mohan’s body and stabbed many times hard towards the meteorite glass. What was he planning to do?

As soon as this thought surfaced, the mutated zombie inside the lab suddenly went berserk. It quickly killed the last level ten zombie, then pounded the meteorite glass hard and hissed angrily at the humans observing it.

The upper echelons of the base couldn’t help but take a step back, a horrified look on their faces.

“It’s fine, it can’t get out. It just ate a lot of zombies and its emotions are in a state of excitement, it will quiet down when it finishes digesting.” Wu Han Yuan hurriedly explained.

But unfortunately, this zombie could not be quieted at all, and under its furious attack, the meteorite tempered glass unexpectedly appeared with spiderweb-like lines.

“No good, the glass is going to break, everyone get out of the way!”

This reminder was too late, the glass shattered as soon as it was said to shatter, not giving the crowd the slightest time to react, the mutant zombie popped out, opened its fishy mouth and bit off Wu Han Yuan’s throat, the warm blood spattered everywhere, the unprecedented fresh sweet taste stimulated the mutant zombie’s madness even more.

It shook off Wu Han Yuan’s corpse and attacked towards the upper levels of the base, and the accompanying high-ranked xenos hastily formed a human wall to block it.

Zhou Yunsheng had long since quietly retreated to the outermost perimeter after piercing the glass. He had no intention of making a big deal out of the situation, lest it affect his research, so he ordered 007 and detonated the chip inside the zombie’s brain.

With a muffled sound, the mutant zombie that was still ferocious and abnormal just now collapsed unexpectedly, a bowl-sized hole appeared in the back of his head, and the blue crystals that were crushed into powder could be vaguely seen slowly flowing out along with the black and red blood.

Is this the so-called savior of humanity? If such a legion was truly formed, there was no chance that it would be humanity itself that would be exterminated! The upper echelons of the base clenched their teeth with palpitations.

As for Zhou Yunsheng, he led his research team to leave long before the chaos ended, and as he walked, the crystal core inside his brain finally shattered into powder bit by bit, and was silently absorbed by the brain marrow. From then on, he was an ordinary person with no hands.

Lei Chuan had heard the researchers privately discussing that Dr. Bai had stopped Experiment #1 from blowing itself up at the cost of shattering his crystal core, and had gone from being a king’s realm aberration to an ordinary person. They often bemoaned because of this, but Lei Chuan knew that Bai Mohan’s crystal core was not shattered, and he could see that his body always overflowed with white spots of light, which was the characteristic of a spiritual alien.

But now, he saw those points of light like the stars before dawn, disappearing without a trace one by one, and when he walked to the door of the laboratory, the light around him completely dimmed, turning into a completely ordinary person. But his expression was as calm as ever, as if nothing had happened.

Lei Chuan heard someone sighing, saying that it was fortunate that the experiment had failed, or else mankind would have another natural enemy, and how would we all survive in the future.

Is it necessary to trade one’s King’s Realm crystal core just to stop an experiment? Was it worth it? He simply had no way of understanding Bai Mohan’s brain circuits.

Due to the forced activation of 007, Zhou Yunsheng’s soul was inevitably harmed. He forced down the feeling of severe pain that was churning within his five insides and hurried towards the lounge, and as he was about to close the door of the room tightly, a large hand braced itself against the doorframe.

“Doctor, I got you two backup generators, from now on our lab will never be afraid of power outages.” The escort chief said happily.

“That’s great, thank you.” Zhou Yunsheng’s tone was very natural, but the hand gathered in his sleeve was clenched into a fist, and streaks of veins popped out on the back of his hand. He could hardly suppress it anymore.

The chief escort coyly waved his hand and had turned to walk out two or three steps when he seemed to remember something and ran back, quickly bracing himself against the door panel, “Doctor, I’ve also gotten you a new batch of beakers and petri dishes ……”

Before the words were out of his mouth, a thick stream of blood splattered across his face before a pale hand tugged at the collar of his shirt, pulling him into the room and unlocking the door.

Fortunately, there was no one at the door! Zhou Yunsheng was secretly happy while covering his mouth that kept spraying blood. This body was about to die, he had a feeling that at most two months, at least one month, would be the time for him to leave.

“Bo, Doctor, what happened to you?” The chief escort wiped his face and realized that it wasn’t just blood, it was also mixed with finely chopped guts, and he couldn’t help but be incoherent with fear.

Zhou Yunsheng took off his jacket and rolled it into a ball, spitting all the blood on it, and straight after several minutes before he got his strength back, he slowly walked to the edge of the bed and sat down, waving his hand, “I’m fine.”

“You call that okay? You’re going to fucking die!” Lei Chuan yelled at his ears and covered his mouth with a trembling hand, the blood penetrated his palm and fell on the white coat that had been dyed dark red, the scene was shocking. It was clear that he was a ghost without five senses, but Lei Chuan felt that the blood was like lava, bringing him an unbearable burning sensation.

His eyes were scarlet and bloodshot, and he wanted to use both hands to pinch the man’s slender neck and shake his head violently to clear it, but just as he reached out his hand for fear of breaking him, he could only sit down beside him in dismay, letting out a sigh of hopelessness to the point of no return.

The head of the escort shook his head incredulously, “How can you be fine in this condition? Doctor, I will take you to a doctor immediately.”

“Yes, hurry up and take him!” Lei Chuan stood up and urged, but unfortunately no one could hear him.

Zhou Yunsheng smiled bitterly and waved his hand, “It’s useless, my body can’t be cured by anyone. Instead of dying in a hospital bed, I would rather die in the lab. The experiment is about to succeed, no one has the ability to combine the gene chains except me, I will definitely last until the end. You should not tell anyone about this matter, so as not to cause unnecessary panic.”

The head of the escort guard shook his head repeatedly, his mood incomparably heavy. It turned out that the Doctor, who was invulnerable in everyone’s eyes, was already so weak? It was difficult for him to accept his departure, and unconsciously, the ill feelings he had towards him had all been replaced by deep reverence.

Zhou Yunsheng looked straight at him with a sharp gaze and said slowly, word by word, “Do you remember what I once said? In order to achieve my goal, I will stop at nothing, and that price includes all the ordinary people and the aberrants who made sacrifices for the experiment, as well as myself. Our lives are worth nothing compared to the billions of living beings on Earth. Don’t feel bad, everyone will have this day.”

The chief escort shook his head with red eyes, a few tears falling onto the clean white floor tiles with a faint sound. After a long time, he spoke in a muffled voice through clenched teeth, “Doctor, you are a good man. Although many people have died at your hands, you are still a good man. This is not the retribution you should suffer!”

Zhou Yunsheng waved his hand and laughed bitterly, frowning and unable to speak because of his strong desire to vomit blood.

The head escort silently helped him clean up his room, his fingertips trembling as he rummaged through five or six blood-stained clothes from under the bed. He packed the clothes in a duffel bag and quickly took them away to destroy them when no one was looking.

Zhou Yunsheng unlocked the door to his room, rinsed his mouth, and lay down on the bed and went straight to sleep.

Lei Chuan’s eyes stared deep into his pale face, wanting to cover him with the quilt, but realizing that he could not do anything about it. He sat quietly beside him, his mind thinking a lot, and as if he thought nothing.

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Due to the failure of the experiment, the base leadership outlawed Wu Han Yuan’s research group, and several other groups divided up his resources. Zhou Yunsheng’s lab acquired a number of advanced equipment and several business-savvy researchers, which more or less advanced the progress of the experiment.

Two months later, a female researcher pushed a refrigerated box into the lab, her voice trembling, “Doctor, the vaccine has matured, do you want to see the effect now?”

The individually busy researchers froze like puppets, staring at the silver-gray box with hopeful but anxious eyes. They desperately wanted to know how this vaccine would work, but were afraid to find out.

Zhou Yunsheng slowly took off his rubber gloves and walked towards the safety lab next door. Everyone immediately followed.

The glass room held an unconscious human. He had been infected with the zombie virus for six hours now, his teeth and fingernails had mutated to varying degrees, and in another hour or two he would have completely lost his mind and become a complete monster.

“Inject him.” Zhou Yunsheng waved his hand, and immediately, an Ice Exalt took out the vaccine directly from the refrigerated box and walked in to inject the man.

After holding his breath and waiting for ten minutes, the other party never responded. Did the experiment fail? The researchers couldn’t stop their hearts from despairing. Dr. Bai was the number one person in biotechnology in China, even his research had failed, who else could find out the correct formula? Was there any hope for mankind?

With billions of zombies around the world and survivors turning into zombies every day, when will killing alone be the end? It was as if they saw a dark future.

“The medicine doesn’t work that fast, wait a little longer.” Zhou Yunsheng was as calm as ever. In the past half year, he had absorbed Bai Mohan’s knowledge at a rapid pace every day, and his current attainments in biotechnology had long surpassed him. He knew that the formula Bai Mohan had come up with was correct, and he also knew that there was absolutely no problem with the molecular formula he had formed.

Everyone’s panic and confusion immediately settled down.

Lei Chuan stood straight beside the man, sometimes looking at the infected in the lab, sometimes looking at the pale side of the man’s face, his mind ebbing and flowing like the waves of the sea.

After waiting for another half hour, a researcher exclaimed, “His skin color seems to have lightened. Before it was greenish gray, now it’s a waxy yellow.”

“Yes, there’s blood on the face. I’ll go in and take a look.” The chief of the guards, a gold-type psychic, cloths a layer of steel on the surface of his body and opens the door to walk in to check it out.

He held the infected’s hand and found that the dark, sharp nails had returned to their normal color and shape, the pupils that had been dilated had coalesced again, the teeth were no longer growing, and the mouth was no longer secreting thick, yellow, fishy saliva. The infected person was clearly on the mend, and although he was still in a coma, his breathing and heartbeat were getting stronger and stronger.

While he was rummaging around, everyone noticed the changes, and their faces showed ecstatic looks.

Zhou Yunsheng spoke faintly, “Transfer him to the general ward, and take care to tie up the seatbelt to avoid a repeat of the situation.”

His calm, self-possessed demeanor was powerfully contagious, and everyone flew out of their oblivious joy and trained to place the infected on mobile beds and push them away.

After seventy-two consecutive hours of observation, this infected person finally got rid of the control of the zombie virus. When he woke up he thought he was dreaming and asked several times in succession where this was and if it was heaven.

The researchers had no time to pay any attention to him, and they all hugged each other tightly, their mouths letting out joyful laughter, while their eyes streamed with gurgling tears. Because of their success, the whole world would change as a result!

Zhou Yunsheng stood in the doorway with his arms crossed, his expression as calm as ever. He didn’t join everyone’s revelry, but chose to leave silently. He climbed up the stairs one layer at a time, and when he got tired, he sat down and rested for a while, then proceeded to climb up.

Lei Chuan followed him step by step and said, “Where do you want to go? If I had a body, I could carry you up. The experiment was successful, you should go see a doctor instead of walking around alone.”

He had gotten used to talking to himself to this man.

Zhou Yunsheng finally climbed to the top floor, pushed open the old creaking iron door and walked out, finding a clean empty space by the balcony and sitting down.

It was evening now, and the bright red sunset was already half-sunk behind the skyscrapers, and the sky was filled with clouds reddened by the evening sun, laying layer after layer, unbroken, as if extending to the end of the world.

The news of the successful development of the vaccine had already been publicized, and people’s cheers of surprise could be heard all over the base, and some people even let out a loud cry because of their extreme joy.

Lei Chuan walked to the edge of the balcony, hung his head and looked down at the crowd of people gathered in twos and threes to embrace and celebrate underneath, and said, ”Don’t you want to come over and take a look? The base hasn’t been this lively for a long time, like New Year’s Eve. Speaking of which, I don’t even remember what New Year’s Eve is like.”

He turned back with a smile, then froze.

The man was seen to have taken off his thick glasses and looked away from the evening sky with a calm gaze, two lines of crystal clear tears snaking down his pale skin to form a teardrop hanging on his chipped jaw.

Lei Chuan had never seen the man show an expression other than calmness, even if he was vomiting blood one bite at a time, his demeanor seemed to be light and breezy. His heart and mind is more determined than anyone else, Lei Chuan had thought that he would never be moved by anything, until now he realized that he also has emotional and fragile times.

His eyes, brimming with tears, were more magnificent and moving than the clouds burning in the sky.

Lei Chuan looked dumbfounded and uncontrollably walked over, spreading his palm to catch the teardrops that were about to fall.

With a snap, the teardrop pierced through his palm and fell to the ground, quickly evaporated by the residual temperature of the ground. Lei Chuan repeatedly clenched his fist, feeling the spot that had been pierced throbbing faintly.

Zhou Yunsheng wiped away his tears, put on his glasses, stood up and walked towards the iron door. Staying in the laboratory for half a year without seeing the light, the eyes can not stand for a moment, stinging very much, and the air of the end of the world is fishy and unpleasant, it is really not appropriate to let off steam.

Just as he walked to the entrance of the lab, he saw a researcher run over and quickly said, “Doctor, the leader called us to a meeting, everyone is here, just waiting for you.”

Zhou Yunsheng naturally knew what the upper echelons of the base would say, and a hint of sneer passed through his eyes.

The personnel of the research team had all arrived, and the leaders warmly praised everyone’s achievements and awarded them with generous prizes, and after half a day of miscellaneous nonsense, they warned everyone that they were absolutely not allowed to divulge the relevant information at the end of the day. They intend to rely on the vaccine to stifle the power of China, both big and small, in order to satisfy their ultimate pursuit of power.

Everyone fell silent, not daring to reveal their true inner thoughts. Lei Chuan, who stood straight behind Zhou Yunsheng, laughed out coldly. He had already seen through these ambitious people long ago.

“I object. My vaccine is not a tool for your means of domination. I demand that you share the information about the vaccine with all survivors around the globe. According to your selfish and self-serving practices, when will humanity be saved? You have violated my original intention of developing the vaccine, and I am firmly against it!” Zhou Yunsheng clapped his hands and left on his own without waiting for the leaders to give some grandiose reasons.

People admired him for his integrity and selflessness, but not many dared to openly leave with him.

The head of the escort hesitated for a moment, gave a military salute at the leaders, and followed the Doctor with determination.

Returning to the lab, the chief of the escort spoke worriedly, “Doctor, you were too impulsive just now. In order to prevent the leakage of secrets, the higher-ups will definitely not let you off, you should hurry up and leave with me, with your talent, you will definitely have a better development when you go to another base.”

“No need, I don’t have time.” Zhou Yunsheng opened his computer, compressing and transmitting the information to all the bases that were networked with B Base.

The transmission progress bar slowly rose, how the base that received this information was ecstatic and lost its mind, Lei Chuan could almost imagine it. This was Bai Mohan’s cause, great and selfless, so that he could not find any other words to explain his feelings at this moment other than admiration.

Lei Chuan sat down next to him, his hand hanging in mid-air for a long time before finally tentatively touching his pale cheeks, high nose, cold mirror frame, and thinning lips. His movements were soothing and gentle, as if he was afraid of touching him.

The progress bar finally reached one hundred percent, Zhou Yunsheng let out a long breath, opened the thermostat and pulled out the sleeping Experiment 1. He had to admit that as the protagonist, the other party had a handsome and peerless appearance and a strong and unrivaled physique, and even after sleeping for half a year, his appearance had not been damaged at all.

He slid his fingertips down the other man’s forehead to the bridge of his nose, his lips, the knot of his throat, his chest, and finally stopped at the small of his back.

“What are you doing?” Lei Chuan asked in a mute voice. Although he was a ghost, it was as if he felt the tingly, unbearable sensation of the man’s cold fingertips sliding past. Annoyed and confused, he ignored the throbbing that was hidden deep inside.

Zhou Yunsheng looked steadily for a long time, and finally hung his head and kissed Experiment #1’s lips. Before leaving, he wanted to confirm whether this person was his lover or not. The feeling he brought to him was very special.

The familiar feeling of wariness didn’t travel through his soul, but he didn’t know that all he was kissing was an empty shell.

Zhou Yunsheng straightened up and sighed, and without looking back, he explained to the chief of the guards, ”After I die, you transport him out. On the top floor of the cold storage room sits a light blue test tube, a spirit potion that I condensed, it might be able to awaken him from his slumber. He’s been here long enough and it’s time for him to leave.”

The head of the escort was already confused and didn’t answer for half a day.

Lei Chuan broke free from his surprise and blush and furiously roared, “You’re not dead yet, don’t talk fucking nonsense! If you want to leave, then leave with me, who knows if your potion is effective or not, do you want to shirk your responsibility? Bai Mohan, don’t forget that you were the one who got me in here in the first place by all means, you asshole!”

He kept circling around the man like a trapped beast, but he didn’t expect an ice arrow to suddenly arrive, piercing through his body and ruthlessly piercing into the back of the man’s heart.

The escort leader turned around and couldn’t help but reveal a horrified expression. The sneak attacker was the base’s eleventh level Ice Exalt, who had been ordered to come and harvest Bai Mohan’s head. With complete information, experienced researchers, and sophisticated instruments, Bai Mohan no longer had any use for him, and since he refused to listen, he might as well just get rid of him.

Zhou Yunsheng covered his chest and fell to the ground, his mouth spewing out large mouthfuls of blood while an even more powerful force pulled his soul out of his body. He knew it was time for him to leave.

“No! You can’t die, Bai Mohan! I want you to come with us! Bai Mohan do you hear me?” Seeing the man’s eyes gradually closing tightly, a huge sense of panic and despair struck his heart, Lei Chuan raged, his soul emitting an extremely piercing purple light.

With a loud boom, the B Base laboratory where the precious information was stored turned into ashes in an instant. The upper echelons of the base’s ambition to use the vaccine to control the whole of China and even the world had become a big joke.