Chapter 77 Luo Xinghe

The two figures quickly disappeared in the direction leading to 'Paradise'.

Liu Ning led Lu Nange and her group toward the laboratory.

Fighting scenes were everywhere on the road.

Whenever they encountered someone wearing a red ribbon along the way, the group would lend a helping hand.

Outside the laboratory, the situation was far worse than imagined.

"Yan-ge! Nan-nan! I'm going to fight, to improve my skills through real combat!" He Zhuo rubbed his hands together, eager to get started.

Gu Wan flexed her wrists: "Nan Nan, brother, I'm going to exercise!"

Lu Xici, Lu Beiye, and the rest of their companions had eyes full of eagerness.

Lu Nange pointed to the roof of the laboratory building: "You guys go ahead, be careful. I'll go up and take a look."

The group rushed off in several different directions and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Only Lu Nange, Lu Beiye, Chi Yanzhou, and Wen Qing remained.

Lu Nange bent down, looking Lu Beiye straight in the eye: "Don't you want to go?"

Lu Beiye tilted his head: "I want to go, but staying by my sister's side is more important!"

"Then let's go upstairs and fight with your sister?" A smile flashed in Lu Nange's eyes.

The little guy's eyes suddenly lit up, and he nodded emphatically.

As they stepped onto the stairs, Lu Beiye and Chi Yanzhou stood on either side of Lu Nange and Wen Qing.

Those superhumans who recklessly charge forward are basically killed instantly.

The downstairs was noisy, but the top floor was eerily quiet.

Lu Nange uses her psychic abilities to explore further.

There was only a middle-aged man and a zombie on the top floor.

At the end of the dimly lit corridor, a man in a white coat was mechanically feeding bloody chunks of meat through the iron gate.

The dull thud of rotting flesh hitting the ground was mixed with the greedy chewing sounds of zombies.

"Click." Lu Beiye's small hand pressed on the nearest iron door.

The metal door frame twisted and deformed instantly.

The man in the white coat suddenly turned around, and Lu Beiye stopped.

"boom--!"

Chi Yanzhou kicked the twisted and deformed door hard, and the entire iron door crashed to the ground.

The iron bucket in the man's hand crashed to the ground with a thud, splattering foul-smelling blood everywhere.

Lu Nange looked at the man who stood up: "Xie Zong?"

Xie Zong leaned against the wall and stood up: "You know me?"

Lu Nange: "A scumbag who uses living people for experiments."

Xie Zong suddenly burst into maniacal laughter: "Foolish! I'm giving ordinary people superpowers! I'm creating miracles!"

He spread his arms wide, looking like a madman: "I am bestowing divine power upon mortals! This is evolution..."

"Shut up, you piece of trash!" Lu Nange's wind blade grazed Xie Zong's cheek.

Xie Zong dodged awkwardly as countless thorny vines pounced on Lu Nange and her companions.

"Crack!" Lightning struck down from Chi Yanzhou, burning the vines to charcoal.

Lu Beiye tapped his temple, as if remembering something, and controlled the twisted iron gate to crash down on Xie Zong.

Taking advantage of the chaos, Lu Nange grabbed Wen Qing and rushed into the inner room.

Next door to the room where the zombies were, the freezer was full of medicines, which she put into her system backpack without saying a word.

I wonder if there's any antidote that Liu Ning and the others mentioned!

Turning to look at the iron cage in the room—the female zombie inside had orange eyes.

"A level three zombie, a level three zombie kept in captivity?" Lu Nange: "Are you crazy?!"

Xie Zong, enraged at the sight, shouted, "Stop!"

He roared hysterically, "Don't go near her!"

"I told you to stop! Didn't you hear me?! Stop!"

Lu Beiye's face darkened: "I was going to play with you..."

He looked up abruptly, his eyes blazing with anger: "But how dare you talk back to my sister!!!"

Several golden throwing knives whistled out, leaving Xie Zong with no way to dodge.

"ah!"

Amidst screams, Xie Zong, his body charred black and convulsing, still used his bloodied and mangled fingers to dig at the ground, crawling inch by inch toward the zombie room.

Blood left a long trail behind him.

Lu Beiye waited sullenly for the lightning to dissipate, then suddenly darted forward—

"Bang!"

The little guy, after taking the power pill, kicked Xie Zong with all his might, sending him flying.

The man slammed his fist onto the reinforced glass, and cracks instantly spread across the entire pane.

"Splash!"

The moment the glass shattered, Xie Zong fell like a rag doll, vomiting a mouthful of blood.

But his eyes remained fixed on the zombie room, his pupils swirling with a morbid obsession.

Lu Nange slowly squatted down, her shoe grinding against Xie Zong's bloodied and mangled hand: "This is...your family?"

"Huff...huff..." Xie Zong convulsed violently like a dying fish.

"Please...don't touch her..." His voice was terribly hoarse.

"I can serve you, I can perform superpower transplants."

You can be like the Su family, yes, I can build you an even stronger superpowered team than the Su family.

Give me a little more time, and I can increase the success rate of superpower transplantation to 20%, or even higher!

Lu Nange: "We don't need it!"

"Then what do you want?!" Xie Zong's eyes bulged. "Food? Crystal cores? Potions? Or—"

Lu Nange: "Why don't you tell me why this level three zombie, which you've kept in captivity, has absolutely no offensive capabilities?"

Xie Zong suddenly fell silent, a strange tenderness appearing on his blood-stained face: "She's not a zombie...it's Xinghe...my Luo Xinghe..."

"Bullshit!" Liu Ning's angry curse rang out from the stairwell.

The girl staggered over and kicked Xie Zong repeatedly, shouting, "Sister Xinghe is not your lover!"

You shameless old man, Sister Xinghe has her own lover, and they're about to get married.

It was you! You coveted Sister Xinghe, you used your position as her mentor to deceive her...

Ugh, garbage! I can't even bring myself to say that!

Wen Qing grabbed Liu Ning: "Catch your breath before you fight again."

Liu Ning's chest heaved violently, but he froze the moment he saw the iron cage—the orange-eyed female zombie was unconsciously banging against the bars.

The girl suddenly went berserk, kicking and punching Xie Zong: "What did you do to Sister Xinghe again...you beast!"

Xie Zong lay paralyzed in a pool of blood, laughing maniacally: "What do you know? Xinghe loves me! Xinghe loves me!"

"Pah!" Liu Ning spat fiercely.

"You dare to challenge me! You have quite the nerve! You think you can hide all that?" She kicked him several times before finally stopping.

She turned around, panting, and saw Lu Nange and the others carefully observing Luo Xinghe around the iron cage.

As long as the level 3 zombie is gnawing on chunks of meat, it will stop banging against the cage and barely even lift its head.

"Finished venting?" Lu Nange raised an eyebrow at Liu Ning.

Liu Ning hurriedly straightened his disheveled clothes and hair, his cheeks flushed: "My benefactor, I'm not usually like this! You're such a scumbag..."

As she spoke, she couldn't help but kick Xie Zong again, then pulled her foot back as if she remembered something, her neck and above instantly turning red.

"benefactor..."

Lu Nange patted Liu Ning on the shoulder: "It's okay."

Lu Nange's shoe sole pressed against Xie Zong's Adam's apple: "Why don't you tell me why Luo Xinghe isn't aggressive?"

Xie Zong closed his eyes and pretended to be dead.

Lu Nange exerted force with the sole of her shoe, and Xie Zong's hands, which were about to struggle, were nailed to the ground with a "clang".

"No answer? Fine, then I'll kill you first, then kill her."

"Cough...I'll say it!" Xie Zong coughed up blood and foam: "During the flood...Xinghe and I were together...we were very much in love..."

His eyes darted around: "On the day the zombie outbreak occurred...we were discussing our wedding..."

Liu Ning raised his foot to kick him, but Wen Qing stopped him: "Let's hear his excuses first."

"But... she got bitten while protecting me..." Xie Zong's voice choked with emotion: "She loved me so much..."

"Enough!" Lu Nange abruptly pulled her foot back: "A coward who pushed the girl he claimed to like into the midst of zombies during a time of crisis..."

Xie Zong seemed to have his dirtiest secret pierced by those words, and he shook his head frantically.

No, no, I didn't mean to!

My plan was to help Xinghe by untying the ropes binding her and helping her escape!

The zombies suddenly rushed in, and I didn't react in time..."