Chapter 533: The Academy of Sciences

"I'll go take a look." The air underground was limited and they couldn't stay for too long. Ning Yuan tried to make his breathing slow.

"Together." Gu Sheng took out the emergency flashlight from his backpack and followed him.

As they opened the car door, the land outside moved back to make way for a car door.

"The weeds got caught in the wheel bearing, let's clean it up".

"Got it," Gu Qingji responded, and gave a few crystal cores to the mutant vine on his wrist that was obviously burned, and released it, "Is everyone okay? Is anyone injured?"

Liu Yang: “Not bad.”

Cheng Chuan: “Yeah.”

Xiongjie: "It's okay, how about you?"

"Well enough"

None of them mentioned the danger they had experienced, even though each of them had felt they might die here.

Gu Qingji shone a flashlight around the car and wondered, "The car won't last much longer, right?"

Xiong Jie raised his eyebrows, "They are coming."

He stretched out his hand and waved in one direction, and the confined soil layer immediately squirmed out a passage, and a car of the same model drove over.

"The car broke down?" Antonio poked his head in.

"The grass has caught the tire." Ning Yuan cleaned up a few tires and looked at the people who came. "How are you doing?"

"Not bad." Antonio saw that they had packed up neatly and didn't talk any more. The earth-type mutant led the way, and the two cars chose a direction and left quickly.

When the lack of oxygen reached its limit, the two cars quickly left the underground and returned to the ground.

Without bothering to exchange information, the mutant animals around them swarmed towards them all at once, and after a fierce struggle, they finally escaped with difficulty.

The two teams rested in front of a collapsed structure that left only a skeleton and a mottled floor structure that could fall off at any time.

Ning Yuan sat on the rooftop smoking and asked Antonio, who was repairing the car body with his supernatural powers, "How did you know we were in danger?"

"We don't know," Antonio shrugged, "we just think it's abnormal."

The two cars were not far apart, and driving at the same speed allowed them to stay in touch, but Antonio's car had an accident and was forced to stop.

They thought there would be a huge battle, but the zombie army seemed not to see them and ran away into the distance passing by them.

Being in the zombie team, surrounded by bustling and ferocious zombies, made everyone's scalp tingle. Finally, Antonio signaled everyone not to disturb the zombie team, and they built a passage underground to get away from the zombie army.

None of the tens of thousands of zombies chased them.

"I think they are being controlled, or there is something more attractive there." After repairing the dented car body, Antonio took the crystal core handed over by Ning Yuan, absorbing it while repairing the cracks on the roof.

Antonio wanted to contact Ning Yuan to tell him about the situation, but they were already out of the coverage range of the walkie-talkie. He could only estimate the direction of the other party and block them in advance, but who knew that they would fall into a pile of zombies and be surrounded.

"This shouldn't be the case? We're both people with special powers, so why would they attack you?" And those were obviously zombies with special powers.

Antonio frowned in confusion.

"They were controlled before. After the control was released, the flesh and blood began to attract them, and they turned to attack us," Ning Yuan explained and turned to look at Cheng Chuan who was still weak.

"Do you think he is a psychic?"

Cheng Chuan shook his head and lowered his head for a while before saying, "Either it is the same as me, or it is... a very powerful zombie."

In silence, he added, "I...I feel it's the latter."

Cheng Chuan covered his head with his hands, recalling the unconscious feeling of wanting to surrender and obey, as if it was an instinct engraved in his genes.

The zombie energy had indeed caused changes in him. Even before, when he was affected by the zombies' response, he had the illusion that he was not human.

Cheng Chuan took a look at the dark skin and felt an indescribable emptiness in his heart, as if a wandering soul could not find its way home. He was an alien among humans and he was still an alien among zombies.

Ning Yuan handed over a glass of water, Cheng Chuan took it and took a sip.

The ice water entered his body, making him more sober. He looked up and saw the worried eyes of his teammates. He smiled and said, "I'm fine. Thank you for what happened earlier."

He was caught off guard and lost control at first, and almost hurt them, but these people just tied him up. Even though he had already shown signs of becoming a zombie, they still didn't throw him out and were still trying to find a way to make him wake up again.

The dilemma that Cheng Chuan had just gotten into suddenly became clear. He thought about the worried looks of his children at home when he left, and they were still waiting for him to go back.

That's his home.

Cheng Chuan described the feeling when he was controlled, "First of all, it is very difficult for someone like me to upgrade." He succeeded in upgrading with great difficulty by maintaining a complete balance of the two energies in his body under the precise measurement of various instruments in the laboratory. If he had relied on his own feeling, it would have been almost impossible, and he would have been completely transformed into a zombie long ago. Therefore, the possibility of the existence of people with a higher level than him is almost zero.

"Secondly, Captain Lu and I have discussed the experiment together. The difference between mental control of zombies and my control of zombies is different from the feeling just now, and I didn't feel any mental power."

He looked at Ning Yuan with an inquiring look.

Ning Yuan: “Me neither”

Gu Qingji, who was walking around and inspecting the surroundings, also shook his head.

One team includes Lu Weiyi, a man with wild ideas. He has experienced various superpowers and is very sensitive to the fluctuations of superpowers. What's more, these two have had close contact with the mental power of SS at its peak. If they deny it, it means that it is almost certain that the other party is not a mental system.

So……

A zombie that can control zombies.

"It can't be the legendary... Zombie King."

Lin Mo's voice attracted everyone's attention. He scratched his head awkwardly, "Haven't you read novels? "The Coming of the Corpse King", "I am the Corpse King, Who Am I Afraid of", etc...."

Seeing that they were really confused, Lin Mo explained, "According to the setting, as zombies continue to upgrade, a Zombie King will appear. The Zombie King is immortal, and the zombies will instinctively obey the orders of the Zombie King. He will lead them to form a new population and create a new era."

“……”Ning Yuan.

He thought it was a bit far-fetched, but since supernatural powers were possible in the end times, he didn't dare to deny it.

especially……

During the previous meeting in Kyoto, Su Yan and his team did mention that they felt there was a zombie controlling the movements of the zombie army.

"This novel is very interesting. Do you still have it? Can you lend it to me? Dean will definitely like it." Antonio became interested and stopped participating in the discussion. He turned to Lin Mo and asked about the plot of the novel.

"Where are we going next?" Xiongjie asked the most practical question.

Judging from the current situation, they are no match for these zombies, especially when traveling in a wild forest with dense weeds. Even if the chassis performance of the modified car has been enhanced, they still can't hold out for long.

Moreover, Ning Yuan frowned and was about to speak, but he looked at a few people, swallowed the guesses in his mind, and finally said.

"Let's go to the assembly point and wait for the people at the base to pick us up."

**

Yuebanwan Joint Research Institute.

As soon as the guide finished speaking, all the visitors were shocked and began to discuss in low voices. Not only the people from the Kyoto base, but even the reception staff at Yueban Bay were asking each other about this matter.

"Since such a thing exists, does it mean that zombie energy and superpowers can coexist?" someone asked.

"That's what the theory says, but... we don't have enough data," the guide said with an embarrassed look on his face, "we can't figure out why this situation occurs."

"And..." The guide looked at Zhuang Mingxu cautiously, "He doesn't really cooperate with our experiment."

A glance with obvious hints made everyone turn their attention to Zhuang Mingxu.

Zheng Yi asked directly, "Lao Zhuang, what's going on?"

Zhuang Mingxu ignored him and looked at the instructor with a half-smile, "Which tutor group are you from?"

"I'm Professor Zhuo Shu's assistant, Ding Han," the man said respectfully.

The professors at the Joint Research Institute teach in different disciplines, and are divided into departments such as physics, chemistry, biology, microbiology, and human body according to their original majors.

Zhuo Shu is the dean of the School of Life Sciences.

"If I remember correctly, you should have collected and observed teeth, hair, blood, muscles, tissues, and even living habits, right? We also cooperated with you in trying all new experiments as soon as possible?" Zhuang Mingxu adjusted his cuffs slowly, "So what do you mean by non-cooperation?"

His words were tantamount to admitting that there was indeed a half-zombie person in Yueban Bay.

"Is it true?"

"What would it look like if zombie energy and superpowers coexisted in one person?"

"What do you usually eat? Do you drink blood?"

"Will it turn into a zombie?"

…

The murmuring sound continued to be heard, but Zhuang Mingxu remained motionless, looking sharply at the person in front of him.

Ding Han showed no fear at all, like a simple and passionate young man. He looked up at Zhuang Mingxu and said, "Director Zhuang, the development of every drug will go through countless experiments. We need more than just a few teeth and blood. We need the full cooperation of the experimental subjects."

"The research and development of zombie potions is related to the future of mankind. You can't delay the research progress because of your own selfish desires. Look at the ordinary people outside who are transformed into zombies every day, and look at those superpowers who may be in danger at any time. They need us..."

Ding Han's passionate voice sounded like he was giving a speech, and Zhuang Mingxu spoke casually with one corner of his mouth curled.

While the two were confronting each other, someone had already informed the head of the joint research institute of what was happening here.

After a while, several men and women in white coats strode from the end of the corridor.

At the front is the director of the institute, Sun Haicheng, who is a researcher at the Yuebanwan base.

The woman jogging behind him, who belonged to a different base, was Zhuo Shu.