Lu Sheng raised his flashlight and shone it inside.

The research lab was very large; they were in a square room of about 300 square meters, with several electronic doors leading to unknown directions on the inside.

The room is evenly divided into left and right sides. On the left is a row of observation rooms separated by partitions made of a special hard material. Each observation room has an independent special bed.

Some beds still showed signs of complex reinforcement and restraint devices, likely specialized tools used to restrain patients. The right-hand area was neatly arranged with various advanced, high-precision medical devices. At the far end were two rows of filing cabinets, filled with bound volumes of research materials.

Next to the filing cabinet were two medium-sized medical insulated cabinets, with numbers flashing on the display screen.

"The warming cabinets still have power?" Ma Dongmei frowned as she stared at the two warming cabinets at the far end of the room.

"Go take a look." Lu Sheng winked.

Ma Dongmei deftly put on her gas mask and gloves and nimbly walked towards the insulated cabinet.

"The power is out. We're using the backup battery now, but it's almost depleted." Ma Dongmei checked the connection wires of the warming cabinet and then opened the cabinet door.

The insulated cabinet was filled with rows of sealed test tubes, the long, thin tubes almost all containing a slightly greenish liquid that resembled a luminescent agent.

Ma Dongmei flipped through the tubes and picked out two sets of test tubes to bring over. "Each set has five tubes, and they are all labeled with dates. I don't know what kind of medicine they are."

Lu Sheng and the others placed the two sets of test tubes on the table and each took one to examine it carefully.

Each set of test tubes was labeled with a date; the two sets that Ma Dongmei took were produced about a month before the apocalypse.

Xu Yi had already found the filing cabinet and was quickly searching through the densely packed documents. Just as everyone was examining the liquid in the test tubes, Xu Yi pulled out a thick research notebook, his expression gradually becoming serious.

"What does it say here?" Zhang Xiaojuan asked curiously as she leaned closer.

The research notes were written in English. Zhang Xiaojuan pretended to read them for a long time, occasionally frowning and resting her chin on her hand as if she were concentrating intently.

Han Rui leaned closer curiously, "Can you understand it?"

"I can't understand anything. The few words I know have been eaten with rice for ages. At most, I can only say 'one car e one car go, two car bang bang people die'."

The people present: "..."

Lu Sheng, Sun Tiantian, and Xiao Yu originally wanted to join in the fun and help with the translation, but they only glanced at it before giving up.

The hundreds of pages of paper were completely devoid of Chinese characters, and the lengthy texts were filled with obscure and difficult-to-understand professional terms.

With the current level of college students barely passing the CET-4 (College English Test Band 4), they can only recognize a few unimportant words sporadically.

Lu Sheng only recognized some terms that sounded like "genetic modification" or "upgrade".

Although I don't recognize the document, I do recognize the date on the document.

The group flipped through the files at random and found that the dates of the documents in the filing cabinet on the left were almost all concentrated within the month before the apocalypse.

The files in the right-hand filing cabinet are relatively few, and the dates are mostly after the apocalypse.

"Teacher Xu, what exactly is written in this? Why do you look so upset?" Xiao Yu, a dark-skinned physical education student who hadn't even passed the CET-4 (College English Test Band 4), was scratching his head at the English materials that looked like gibberish.

Xu Yi carefully pulled out several documents from the filing cabinet, his expression solemn and serious. "These are all research materials on a new type of highly infectious virus, and the time period is right before the outbreak of the apocalypse."

"The test tube contains an activator of human potential developed by this institute, a study that continued until last month when it came to an abrupt halt."

Everyone was stunned upon hearing this.

"Last month... Today is only the 3rd, which means this research only recently stopped?"

"Doesn't that coincide with the day the Zhou Shan refugee camp was wiped out? Was this research forced to stop because of the parasites?"

Su Zheng immediately led his men back to the scene of the fierce battle, but soon returned.

"Among the debris scattered at the scene, there were indeed some fragments of clothing that looked like protective suits and white coats."

Everyone present momentarily went blank, and an abstract and bizarre idea flashed through Lu Sheng's mind.

"Do you guys remember those computers we brought back from the Oasis?" Sun Tiantian's face tightened as she cautiously reminded them, "Little Mouse Zhang Xin said that the Oasis database records that the zombie virus existed before the apocalypse, but the research institute at the time didn't report it..."

The research lab at Zhoushan Shelter also houses research on the new virus, and even drugs that seem to enhance human abilities...

Is it really just a coincidence?

"The Zhou Shan refuge was quite powerful in the early stages of the apocalypse. There are many people with strong combat abilities in the base. Could it be that they drank this potion?" Zhao Mujia speculated irresponsibly.

While everyone was still completely clueless about what superpowers were, a large number of people with awakened superpowers appeared in the Zhou Shan refuge, which was an event that defied probability theory.

Thinking of this, Lu Sheng's delicate eyebrows furrowed slightly.

The origin of the zombie virus is now even more mysterious.

Regarding the origin of the virus, in her previous life, as an unknown person, she could only hear about it through various channels. But combining the various clues she has obtained now, it is certain that the zombie virus existed before the outbreak of the apocalypse, and that research organizations have already discovered and extracted this virus.

But why has no one reported such a serious matter to the relevant government departments?

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