Six hours later, at the Dafengshan small airport.

Li Tianyi, leading the high-ranking officials at the shelter, waited anxiously, "Why haven't they arrived yet? Why haven't they arrived yet?"

Suddenly, a huge roar came from the sky, and a small helicopter came into view.

"Tower, guidance, quick!"

"receive!"

Under the personal command of Zhou Tianxiong, the airport's chief coordinator, the helicopter landed smoothly.

"Professor Duan, welcome, welcome!"

A man in his late fifties wearing gold-rimmed glasses nodded slightly. "Enough with the small talk, take me to the nuclear submarine!"

“Okay!” Li Tianyi originally wanted him to rest first, but seeing that the other party insisted on going, he immediately pointed to the armored vehicle next to him.

Duan Tai'an got into the car directly.

Li Tianyi followed, and the armored vehicle drove towards the South Port...

Soon after, they arrived at the dilapidated dock.

"Professor Duan, don't be afraid no matter what you see later!" Li Tianyi told him to prepare himself mentally.

Stepping outside and gazing at the devastated harbor, I felt a tightness in my chest.

A glance around revealed severed limbs and stinking corpses everywhere, swarming flies, and piles of maggots—a truly nauseating sight.

"Ugh, ugh!" Although Duan Tai'an was mentally prepared, the scene before him was like purgatory, and he found it difficult to adapt for a while.

Li Tianyi didn't urge them, but stood quietly to the side, using his eyes to warn Xiaoman and Isabelle.

After a long while, he slowly stood up straight, his face pale. "Let's go!"

"Okay!" Li Tianyi looked at Isabelle. "You stay on the shore and provide support, we're going down!"

"receive!"

The three men boarded a fishing boat and headed towards the site where the nuclear submarine had run aground.

On the vast ocean, a lone boat sails forward, surrounded by nothing but the azure sea.

People who stay in this kind of environment for a long time will become extremely irritable.

"How much longer?" Duan Tai'an paced back and forth, looking very anxious.

"At the current sailing speed, we can reach Moon Bay Island in two hours at most!" Li Tianyi pointed to the radar. "Professor Duan, you should rest. We'll be busy later!"

"All right!"

He lay in the chair, unable to fall asleep.

Xiaoman had no choice but to brew him a cup of calming tea prepared by Su Wanruo, and Duan Tai'an finally drifted off to sleep...

An hour and a half passed quickly.

Li Tianyi was somewhat impatient and increased the sailing speed.

Suddenly, a loud noise came from the starboard side of the ship, and the ship was thrown up and crashed heavily onto the sea.

Duan Tai'an fell to the ground and exclaimed in surprise.

"It's nothing, it's nothing!" Li Tianyi said with a smile. "Just bumped into a reef!"

Duan Tai'an glared at him angrily and walked towards the lookout point.

They could vaguely see a patch of green in the distance and immediately became excited, "Are we almost there?"

"Um!"

"Put on the hazmat suits immediately, quick!" Duan Tai'an dragged out his suitcase, threw out two suits, and quickly put them on.

Li Tianyi quickly switched the boat to autopilot mode, asking for advice as he put on his clothes.

The three men put on their gear, and the fishing boat was less than a nautical mile from Moon Bay Island.

"Peony, prepare for battle!"

"Professor Duan, pack anything you might need and be ready!"

Soon, they docked at the edge of the island, where a giant nuclear submarine lay aground not far away.

Li Tianyi led the way, Duan Tai'an walked in the middle, and Xiao Man brought up the rear.

The closer I got, the more panicked I became, and cold sweat poured down my back.

Gesture: Stop moving forward.

He took out his 8x scope and examined the area carefully, but found nothing unusual. His brows furrowed even more, and a vague sense of unease began to rise in his heart.

"Calling Eagle's Nest! Calling Eagle's Nest!"

"Received, please speak!"

"Conduct a comprehensive investigation of Moon Bay Island, leaving no stone unturned!"

Give me a minute!

Zhen Shuang and Wang Xueer frantically typed in commands, and two spy satellites rapidly scanned the island indiscriminately.

Countless satellite images were transmitted back to the communications room.

"No abnormalities detected!"

"No abnormalities!"

Upon receiving the message, Li Tianyi's expression turned even more grim. He slowly closed his eyes, letting the information he knew flash through his mind.

Suddenly, pointing towards the eleven o'clock position, he exclaimed, "Check this area carefully!"

The moment the command was entered in the communications room, an extremely strong magnetic field appeared, and communications were completely cut off.

The spy satellite emitted another scanning beam, which dissipated completely before it even got close.

"Level 1 combat readiness, all personnel back to position!" Zhen Shuang's pretty face was frosty as she frantically typed out the command.

Wang Xueer and others provided full support...

On the other side.

Li Tianyi and Xiaoman both looked grim as they tightly protected Duan Tai'an in the center, warily watching their surroundings.

As time went by, his whole body was soaked in sweat, and his physical strength was severely depleted.

"This can't go on!" Li Tian made up his mind. "Peony, you stay here to protect Professor Duan. I'll go investigate!"

"Be careful!" Xiaoman's eyes flashed with worry.

They left the group and rushed towards eleven o'clock, and soon discovered something amiss.

The nearby soil was dark brown and had a strange smell.

Continuing to explore, the soil had turned black and felt soft underfoot, like cotton.

Li Tianyi dared not be careless, gripping his AK tightly and cautiously probing forward.

About ten minutes later, they arrived at a place where the cave entrance faced downwards, and the surroundings exuded a faint eerie aura.

I approached the cave entrance nervously. It was very quiet inside; not a sound could be heard.

Even with a headlamp, they still couldn't find anything.

Just as I was considering whether to go in, a rotting arm suddenly emerged from the left sloping side and grabbed my calf.

"Damn it!"

Li Tianyi severed the rotting arm, forcefully lifted the soil, and a corpse with an extremely gruesome death appeared.

Ugh!

As soon as the strange sound came, a series of shouts followed.

The exposed corpse suddenly opened its eyes and staggered out.

Po Jun slashed horizontally, and the corpse's head rolled off, splattering blood all around.

Meanwhile, the bloodstains that had seeped into the soil disappeared rapidly.

Waaah...

The ground trembled, and countless rotting arms burst forth from the soil.

Li Tianyi felt a little flustered and stepped back.

Boom! Thud!

Within a 500-meter radius of the cave entrance, corpses crawled out from underground, baring their teeth and claws as they charged toward Li Tianyi.

"What on earth are these damn things?"

There were rotting corpses everywhere, so there was no time to think. I switched the AK to burst fire mode and kept killing them.

When the gunshot reached Xiaoman's side, the two of them immediately tensed up.

"Professor Duan, don't worry, Guijianchou can handle it!" Xiaoman said casually, but her heart was in her throat, and she really wanted to rush over to help.

Moments later, the gunfire stopped.

"Let's go take a look!" Xiaoman suggested.

Duan Tai'an followed closely...

At the cave entrance, Li Tianyi was still battling the rotting corpses. With each swing of his Po Jun sword, he could take away several bodies.

As their numbers dwindled, my anxiety finally subsided, and I carefully examined the corpses.

"Judging from their agility and bloodlust, they are clearly weaker than level zero monsters." Li Tianyi's mind raced, and suddenly a terrifying deduction occurred to him: "The Japanese zombie genes!"