Chapter 197

Lu Xiao encountered his comrade-in-arms, who was covered in wounds and looked disheveled.

They also learned about the base's situation from the other side.

A week ago, the X-drug began to circulate secretly in the base.

Because of Wang Tao's big mouth, many people in the base heard about the X-potion, a magical potion that can awaken superpowers in ordinary people and upgrade superpowered individuals.

The goddess Rong Rong awakened her purification abilities after using the X drug.

However, this drug has not been officially announced yet; people have only heard that the research institute is preparing to mass-produce it.

Just as everyone was eagerly anticipating what was to come, Ruan Qing suddenly announced that she had an X-potion.

At first, people didn't really believe her, but after she introduced Fang Jianming, people finally believed her.

Only the institute and a small number of base management personnel knew that Fang Jianming had been dismissed from the institute. Others did not know the inside story and only knew that Fang Jianming was a PhD from the institute and had once been featured in the journal Science.

Although people were puzzled as to why Fang Jianming was secretly selling X-potions, their desire for superpowers and greater strength made them overlook this oddity and eagerly buy X-potions from Fang Jianming and Ruan Qing.

They secretly injected themselves with the power and soon awakened their superpowers. They excitedly practiced their powers and imagined dominating the world in the future.

However, the unexpected happened on the fourth day.

The first group of people injected with the X drug suddenly mutated and became zombies. They were not ordinary zombies, but zombies that had evolved with special abilities.

They quickly infected even more people, and the virus began to spread within the base.

It was only after the first mutation incident that the base learned that someone had secretly injected X-drug into Fang Jianming.

The base commander immediately sent men to arrest Fang Jianming and Ruan Qing, but by then the two had already escaped.

Since no one knows who has been injected with the drug, these people are like time bombs hidden in the crowd, ready to explode suddenly and infect a group of people around them.

Just like that, the entire base was in an uproar. Within three days, the zombie virus spread rapidly throughout the base, and in the blink of an eye, the entire base was completely overrun.

"Where is the base commander?" Lu Xiao pressed.

"They've turned into zombies! There are less than a hundred survivors left in the entire base!" His comrade was heartbroken, wiping away his tears, his already dirty face instantly becoming muddy.

Lu Xiao felt a sharp pain in his heart and stared intently at the base.

"What should we do? Should we leave?"

"No! My sister is still inside, I have to go save her!"

"Where are the survivors? Is my daughter still alive?"

"Shouldn't we prioritize saving our own lives?"

"Are the people at the research institute still there? I heard the results for the zombie virus cure are coming out soon, we have to save them!"

The crowd was abuzz with discussion. Some were too scared to run away, while many others wanted to rescue the people, hoping their loved ones were still alive.

"We can't let these zombies get away with this. They've been injected with pirated X-series drugs, making them more powerful than regular zombies. If they escape, they'll kill even more people!"

Xiao Mingxu's voice was serious as he earnestly advised Lu Xiao, "We've encountered these zombies in the underground research institute before. They're terrifying, and we must kill them!"

“We must go to the research institute. Su Ke cannot die! He will definitely be able to develop an antidote!” Rong Rong added immediately.

The two men's words instantly made Lu Xiao decide. Without further hesitation, he led everyone back to the base.

The base originally housed five million people. At the very beginning of the apocalypse, people reacted quickly, clearing out a piece of land, using natural walls for defense, and leaving soldiers behind to keep watch, thus creating a human survival base.

Afterwards, as more and more survivors came to seek refuge, the base sent out search teams to clear out the zombies, gradually expanding the base's area.

Even so, the living space for humans in the base is still very small, with several people often crammed into one room.

The base is densely populated, so the virus spreads very quickly.

After Rong Rong and the others went inside, they were met with a dense horde of zombies.

Lu Xiao and his men opened fire instantly, their eyes red-rimmed, but they had no choice but to kill. Now, they were killing their former comrades, friends, or relatives.

Rong Rong's eyes also welled up with tears. She saw a little girl screaming at her. The girl had cute braids and was pampered like a princess by her parents even in the apocalypse.

Two weeks ago, when she was on a mission, the other person ran up to her with cookies, wanting to share their only food with her.

She still remembers the little girl's sweet voice calling her "goddess sister".

"Don't be sad." Yin Wang hugged Rong Rong tightly from the side.

Both of them looked at the little girl in front of them. The little girl had already rushed towards Rong Rong. Yin Wang was about to use his mental power to kill her when Rong Rong directly grabbed Yin Wang's hand.

She wanted to test whether her superpowers would still work on the little girl.

Rong Rong shone the golden light on the little girl, who suddenly stopped moving, her expression blank, no longer craving flesh and blood, as if she had completely lost her zombie instincts and was frozen in place.

Then the little girl visibly returned to normal; the blue color disappeared from her body, the veins vanished, and her blood returned to its bright red color.

Superpowers are useful!

Rong Rong was overjoyed. She immediately expanded the golden light, enveloping all the zombies within a 50-meter radius of herself.

In an instant, the zombies seemed to be frozen in place, all standing there blankly.

The people who were fighting noticed something was wrong, stopped their attack, looked around, and then turned back to look at Rong Rong.

Everyone was bathed in golden light, and even if a new zombie ran into the area where the golden light was, it would also be frozen in place.

It was as if a celestial being had bestowed blessings upon everyone.

The zombies slowly turned back into normal humans, and the first thing they did upon regaining consciousness was to kneel on the ground and worship their true god.

Rong Rong's radiance shone even brighter under the divine blessing of the golden light. In the past, people would stare at Rong Rong's face greedily, but now they felt that looking at Rong Rong even once was a desecration of the gods.

Most people bowed their heads respectfully, but only people like Lu Xiao still stared at Rong Rong without blinking.

People become calm when they are extremely excited or happy.

Everyone suppressed their excitement and quietly waited for the baptism to end.

Once all the zombies within the golden light's range had returned to normal, Rong Rong finally collapsed from exhaustion, and Yin Wang caught her.

Lu Xiao gave Yin Wang a deep look, then exchanged a few seconds of eye contact with Xiao Mingxu before turning to direct everyone to take the recovered people to a safe area.

He thought Rong Rong's first knight would be Xiao Mingxu, but unexpectedly it was Yin Wang, who had an intellectual disability.

But he was completely helpless when faced with the other party, and could only regret that he had arrived too late, or that he was not innocent enough.