Chapter 77 Hatching Little Zombies 19 Quick Travel Exposed?

077 Hatching Little Zombie 19

When the brothers from the base came to pick up the medicine, Lu Jiu was taken away for a physical examination.

After completing the body scan, he got off the bed and heard He Ying calculating: "When your condition was still stable, your human form time had been extended to 5 hours. Now...how long has it been since you came back from the ruins area?"

"It's been five hours already," Jiang Wen said while holding Lu Chenxi in his arms. "But Xiao Lu has been in human form since he passed out. If that's the case, wouldn't it be more than 24 hours?"

"No, no, no, at that time, Lu Chenxi was about to hatch, and Jiujiu's condition was not stable to begin with, so he can't be counted..."

Lu Jiu lowered his head and looked at his clenched and unclenched hands.

He Lin crossed his arms in front of him, saw the movements of his hands, and looked at his thoughtful expression, and asked inquiringly: "Do you feel like you are about to transform?"

Lu Jiu shook his head and whispered, "I feel...I seem to have stabilized."

“…” He Lin raised his eyebrows.

His eyes seemed to be asking: Is it because of Lu Chenxi?

If you appreciate this look again, you can understand the meaning of "I've worked so hard in bed for so long, but it's not as powerful as my son breaking out of his shell?"

Lu Jiu smiled speechlessly: "What are you competing with your son?"

He thought about it and said seriously: "I feel that this matter may have nothing to do with you and Chenxi. The only person who is really concerned is me."

Seeing that He Ying and Jiang Wen were also attracted by his words and looked over, Lu Jiu said: "It seems that every time I have a strong desire to stay in human form, the time I can maintain my human form will become longer."

It was only now that Lujiu summarized the rules.

Every time he did it with He Lin, he would forget the time.

Every time he reached the middle of the process, he would start to wonder in a daze: How much time has passed? How long will it take before I turn back into a zombie? But he must not turn into a zombie before the end, otherwise he would really have a psychological trauma...

Although he fell into a coma two days ago, he could actually vaguely feel the movements around him.

He felt that He Lin had been sitting beside his bed for a long time, and he felt that Brother He, Brother Jiang, and many other people came and went, and left and came again.

He kept thinking in his heart: Wake up quickly, open his eyes quickly, he wanted these people to see that he was healthy, wanted them to feel at ease...

He Ying was stunned: "Ah? Then you never had a strong desire to maintain your human form before?"

Lu Jiu thought for a second.

"Actually, I've always thought that the zombie state is pretty fun...?"

He Ying: “…”

The case is solved.

The scan results showed that Lu Jiu was in good health!

However, he felt that his body functions seemed to have been further improved - his five senses became sharper and his strength became stronger, as evidenced by the fact that he punched a hole in the wall of the medical room.

During the time he was nurturing the little dinosaur eggs, the little dinosaur eggs seemed to repay him in a secret way.

After Lu Jiu finished the inspection, it was Lu Chenxi's turn.

Just as Jiang Wen was about to put the kid into the machine, the kid suddenly transformed into a skeleton.

——It’s strange, Lu Jiu is obviously a zombie. No matter how tattered a zombie is, it is impossible for it to turn into a skeleton directly. Lu Chenxi has clearly changed into a different species. I don’t know if it can be regarded as an alternative evolution.

The little skeleton's bones were extremely thin, and they seemed like they would fall apart at the slightest touch. He was sleeping soundly, and when Jiang Wen was about to change the way he held him and put him on the machine, he started to struggle and howl as if he knew something was going on, and Jiang Wen was so scared that he didn't dare to move.

…Then He Lin took action and grabbed the little skeleton’s cervical vertebrae.

The little skeleton suddenly stopped and became as quiet as a chicken.

He Lin mercilessly threw his own child onto the machine and said calmly, "Change back."

Lu Chenxi: “…………”

He turned back into a big fat boy, put his hands together on his abdomen, and was sent into the machine peacefully.

While the machine was scanning, Lu Jiu couldn't stop laughing.

It's already the third world, and this kid is still like this!

After the scan, Lu Chenxi was also very healthy.

Apart from the fact that he would suddenly turn into a skeleton and scare people, there was nothing wrong with this kid.

Today's work has come to an end!

…

After finishing here, He Ying immediately ran to the front to meet up with Dr. Li and threw himself into the research again - although the latest version of the antidote combination allowed everyone to return to normal, how to achieve physical evolution like Lu Jiu was another new problem.

Lu Jiu picked up Lu Chenxi and went home with He Lin.

On the way, Lu Jiu suddenly remembered something.

"By the way, where are the people from the Wise Group?"

Just now when he was running around in the base, he seemed to see that the pig sty was empty.

He Lin said calmly: "The net has been closed."

Lu Jiu was stunned: "The remaining member of theirs escaped? ...Then you got all their information?"

He also subconsciously wanted to ask, how did you deal with them.

But the next second he thought - of course, kill them all.

There is no reason to let that group of people go, nor is there any reason to bring them back and continue to support them.

But--

Lu Jiu called out 111: "Have you captured the soul code of the player who escaped from this world in your quick-pass game?"

111: "I'll go ask!"

A minute later, it came back and said doubtfully, "No, it seems that the Quick Pass Bureau didn't sense the appearance of the code at all."

Um? ?

Lu Jiu was a little confused.

Jin Lan died, but the soul code of the escaped player did not appear?

What does this mean? Isn't Jin Lan an escaped player?

Did he recognize the wrong person from the beginning to the end?

*

The wind blew in gusts, blowing up the yellow sand on the ground.

The yellow sand was floating and swirling, and as the wind died down, it finally fell slowly, like a light rain, covering the ground... and the backs of a few scattered corpses.

The sun gradually sets and the sky becomes dark.

These corpses lay face down motionless, and their posture would not change until their flesh rotted away and turned into bones.

Flies buzzed around them.

The vultures alighted among them.

It rolled its eyes, looking left and right, as if faced with such a delicious meal, it suddenly didn't know where to start.

Just as it locked onto its first target and lowered its head—

It suddenly spread its wings and flew!

"Cough! Cough cough!"

A "corpse" suddenly pulled its face out of the yellow sand, turned its head to the side, and began to cough violently while breathing heavily.

After coughing for a long time, he finally propped himself up from the ground and raised his hand to wipe his face covered with sand.

It’s Jin Lan.

He is still alive.

At this moment, he wiped his face and looked around - this was a very desolate wilderness, and the city seemed very far away.

Next to him were the four companions who had sneaked into the ruins area with him. Each of them had a bloody hole on the back of their head, with maggots crawling in and out of the holes.

Jin Lan took just one look and felt so disgusted that she almost vomited.

He immediately touched the back of his head and confirmed that there was no similar bloody hole there. Only then did he feel relieved that his head was intact.

Then, a feeling of fear mixed with anger rose from his chest.

He Lin actually played tricks on them like this...that man actually killed them like this!

Fortunately, fortunately he had a plan in advance...

Jin Lan is a player who escapes from the game quickly.

His memory was awakened five years ago.

He remembered how he came to this world, but his system 329 disappeared for some reason.

In his hand, he held the points accumulated from completing past missions - these points had been reduced a lot for some reason - and a collector's treasure chest.

But for some reason, the "Rock Solid" and "Brand New" in this treasure chest are no longer usable.

Jin Lan has kept this treasure chest hidden all along, determined not to use it unless absolutely necessary.

Unexpectedly, three months ago, when a new strain of virus was artificially edited in the laboratory, a fool violated the regulations and caused everyone in their Wise Group to be infected with this strain.

The incubation period of this strain is very long, but even they themselves are not sure how long it is because their editing work is not yet complete.

That night, in the midst of collapse and despair brought about by the sudden accident, Jin Lan had no choice but to open this collector's treasure chest, and among the remaining two functional props, she chose "Resurrection".

As the name suggests, this function allows players to be resurrected after death.

It is the most powerful function, but at the same time, it is also the most difficult function to use in the hands of players.

The manual clearly states that the player must use "Resurrection" within one second before death. One second later or earlier, the item will become ineffective.

However, how many players can accurately predict the time of their own death?

Death always comes suddenly. At present, it takes more than a second for players to open the treasure chest and select the function!

Even if a player recognizes this function early on and holds it in his hands, when death suddenly comes, the player may not have time to react and will not be able to activate it in time.

Therefore, "Resurrection" is of no use to most players!

He just happened to encounter the most special situation.

He knew that his death was approaching, either this month or next.

He pays attention to the changes in his body every day and is ready to use the "resurrection" method at any time.

But he didn't expect that when he used this function in the end, his body was not taken over by the virus, but a gun was pointed at his head.

…

Jin Lan clenched her teeth.

"Resurrection" can only undo actual deaths.

He did not die from the zombie virus, so the zombie virus was not eliminated from his body.

At this moment, he could feel that the virus was still replicating in his body.

His death is still ahead.

If it were before, he would have definitely kept the antidote a secret in order to get it.

Once the major bases know the existence of the antidote, even if their Wise Group successfully develops the antidote, they will definitely not be able to use the first batch produced.

——All the major bases will keep a close eye on them!

They may end up working for others in vain, and turn into zombies and die because they don't have time to inject the antidote.

But now, he can't care about so much!

He can hardly protect himself, how can he think about such long-term things?

He wants to tell everyone about the antidote and make He Lin and Base No. 1 the target of public criticism!

He has to hide behind various major bases. Only in this way can he get access to the antidote and have a chance to survive!

*

It's getting dark.

Jin Lan ran towards the city, towards a place where he might be able to find a cell phone or other communication tools.

He didn't know where he was at the moment, but he could roughly feel that this place was not far from the ruins area or Base No. 1.

I think they are all dead, so He Lin is not too afraid of their corpses.

By the time Jin Lan ran to a main road, she had run out of energy.

He felt dizzy, saw stars, and was about to faint.

At this time, he saw a car in front of him on the road with the driver's door open. Two adult men were crowded beside the door, seemingly trying to figure out how to start the vehicle.

Jin Lan felt that those two people looked familiar.

"Hey, you guys!" he shouted.

The two men were startled and looked towards him.

Their first reaction was to pick up the sticks that were placed in the driver's seat of the vehicle.

"It's me, Jin Lan!" Jin Lan recognized who the two men were. "Are you Zheng Yu's subordinates?"

The two men looked at him in doubt and surprise - it was completely dark, the light was dim, and Jin Lan was covered in dust, so they couldn't be sure if someone was trying to trick them.

When Jin Lan came closer, they were surprised: "Why are you here? Did you escape too?"

They were cellmates during the time they were imprisoned in the prison at Base No. 1.

Later, the group of wise men were taken out as a group. They heard from the prison guards that the group of wise men were not released but were locked up in an outdoor pigpen.

"It's a long story," Jin Lan took a breath and asked, "Where's Zheng Yu? Is he out too?"

"I don't know... The prison collapsed due to the earthquake. We didn't have time to take care of him and just escaped."

"Do you have a cell phone?"

"How could there be such a thing!"

"Can you start the car?"

"No, the car is out of gas, what do you want to do?"

"I'm going to contact other bases... I'm going to tell everyone that He Lin has the antidote! We can use this information to exchange for the right to stay in other bases!"

The two men looked at each other.

Then they said, “Okay, let’s do it together.”

The three of them stayed in the car all night.

At dawn the next day, they set out for the base that was closest to them in their memory.

On the way, they found a cell phone.

This phone still has power, it was obviously left here by a traveler accidentally.

There was also a cell tower nearby, so they could make an outgoing call.

Jin Lan first contacted the head of a base who had frequent dealings with the Wise Group in the past, was naive in character, and was easy to fool.

The other party picked up the phone and was shocked to hear him talk about the antidote. "Are you serious?! He Lin really has the antidote?!"

"It's absolutely true! Chief Ye, my two friends and I are in District XX, on Road XX. Can you send someone to pick us up? I'll tell you in detail about the antidote later."

"Okay, I'll send someone to pick you up right away," the other party thought for a moment and then asked incredulously, "Are you saying that they have already developed the antidote?"

“I don’t know if the finished product has been officially released, but they are already in the process of developing it!”

“…How many people know about this?”

"Except for our Wise Group, I'm afraid no one knows! You should also understand, how could He Lin say the antidote like this? The benefits are too great! Chief Ye, we will have to discuss with other bases how to force He Lin to hand over the research data. We must work together and cannot let the antidote become He Lin's bargaining chip to threaten us in the future!"

"...Okay, I understand."

On the other end, after the leader surnamed Ye hung up the phone, he thought for a long time and called the head of a base with whom he had a close relationship.

"Hey, Lao Zhang, how are things going over there?"

"Yeah, we also suffered heavy losses here. Several houses collapsed, and zombies ran in and bit more than a dozen people. Those people are now...

"…What, what did you just say?"

"You said Base 1 contacted you and offered you the antidote?"

On the other side, the old friend said, "Yeah, I was so busy that I forgot to tell you about this! Their antidote is really effective! Call Base No. 1 and ask!"

Chief Ye was shocked.

He quickly hung up the phone, dialed the monitoring room of Base No. 1, and asked directly about the antidote.

The person in charge of the monitoring room at Base 1 said, "Yes, we have provided the antidote to three bases. A new batch of antidote has just been delivered. We are planning to contact other bases to ask if they need it."

Chief Ye stuttered, "I-We need you to give it to us? Don't we need to exchange anything?"

The other party smiled and said, "Chief Ye, of course we can't provide it for free. Producing the antidote requires materials, and our materials are limited. But we can talk about this later. We will keep a good account and give you the bill later. When we make the formula public, you can also produce it yourself."

Chief Ye couldn't believe what he heard, especially after hearing what Jin Lan had just said.

He murmured: "Jin Lan also said that you..."

He stopped himself in time.

There's no need. There's no need to bring up this matter now.

If you think about it carefully, the situation Jin Lan described can actually be applied to any base, but Base No. 1 is really unnecessary. He Lin is not that kind of person.

The reason they wanted to conduct research and development without telling anyone else was simply because they didn't want any accidents to happen along the way.

Chief Ye stopped talking, but the other party was very perceptive: "Who are you talking about?"

Chief Ye hesitated and said, "...Jin Lan, Jin Lan from the Wise Group, he told me that you have an antidote."

The person in charge of the monitoring room at Base 1 paused and said, "Wait, Chief Ye, are you saying... you have contacted Jin Lan?"

"He just contacted me. What happened?"

"just?"

"Yes!"

"Are you sure it was him?"

"I would recognize his voice and tone even if it turned to ash!"

"..." The person in charge of the monitoring room said, "Chief Ye, please wait a moment. Our Boss He is next to us. I have something to ask him."

He covered the microphone.

After a while, he came back and said, "Chief Ye, please do us a small favor."

*

Chief Ye moved quickly.

Jin Lan and Zheng Yu's two subordinates waited on the roadside for less than an hour when a car drove over from a distance.

It's a van.

When they arrived in front of them, the driver's window of the car was rolled down, and they saw a young man smoking and steering the wheel, and another young man sitting in the passenger seat.

The former greeted them: "Hey, I've been waiting for a long time."

The rear door opened automatically, and Jin Lan and the two people beside him quickly climbed in.

When the young man in the passenger seat got out of the car, Jin Lan didn't realize what was about to happen.

When the young man appeared at their car door and revealed three pairs of handcuffs in his hands, Jin Lan still didn't react.

He subconsciously asked: "What's wrong——"

The man raised the silver handcuffs and smashed them down on their heads!

"What are you doing?!"

"What do you want to do?!"

“Ahhh—”

In just a few hits, Jin Lan and the other two were knocked unconscious.

From beginning to end, the young man in the driver's seat did not look back. He flicked his cigarette and said, "Fortunately, Chief Ye didn't follow his ways, otherwise we would have become enemies with Base No. 1 for no reason."

In the trunk of the car, his friend handcuffed all three men and got up and returned to the passenger seat.

"Okay, let's go and send someone to Base No. 1."

*

When Jin Lan woke up again, he found himself back in the familiar prison.

Dim light, cold and hard ground, and a damp smell.

Outside the vertical metal railings, four people were looking at him.

There was a chair in the middle, and He Lin was sitting on it.

Lu Jiu stood one step behind him, with his arms folded.

Zhang Mu and Zhao Lushan leaned against the wall.

The familiar fear quickly swept over Jin Lan's body, and he trembled slightly: "What do you want to do..."

"How did you come back to life?"

A low voice came.

He Lin was looking at him with great interest - in fact, before this, the man had never looked at him with such interest.

Jin Lan trembled violently: "What resurrection? I don't--"

"I shot you in the head," Zhang Mu interrupted coldly, "and I dragged your body to the wilderness. Tell me the truth, what did you do?"

Jin Lan breathed rapidly, his fingers clenched tightly, his nails scraping the ground, but he felt no pain at all, his mind was completely blank at this moment.

"If you don't want to tell me," Zhang Mu took out a gun and pointed it at him, "we can try again."

“No! No!” Jin Lan immediately hugged her head and fell to the ground. “It can only happen once. I can only be resurrected once! Don’t kill me, don’t kill me!”

Zhang Mu and Zhao Lushan's expressions changed immediately.

Zhao Lushan cursed: "If you don't want to die, tell the truth!"

"I, I don't know if I can say..."

"What do you mean? What do you mean you don't know if you can tell me? Who stopped you?"

"You don't understand, you don't know..." Jin Lan was close to collapse.

"Zhang Mu, shoot!"

"No! No!" Jin Lan screamed again and hid everywhere. "I'll tell you, I'll tell you!"

…

Lu Jiu tried to keep calm and glanced at the man next to him.

He Lin remained seated quietly the entire time. No matter how Zhao Lushan and Zhang Mu questioned him or how Jin Lan shouted, he remained quiet and only looked at Jin Lan with a scrutinizing and inquiring look.

It is difficult to figure out what is going on in those narrow, dark grey eyes.

Suddenly, the man turned around and looked at him.

Lu Jiu was shocked.

He did not look away immediately, but looked at He Lin calmly for a second before slowly looking away.

In his mind, 111 said, "…It should be 'Resurrection', which is the functional item in the collector's treasure chest! Jin Lan must be the escaped player, and he used this item to revive!"

Lu Jiu didn't expect this either.

A day ago, he thought he had recognized the wrong person, but today, Jin Lan was resurrected.

Did Jin Lan successfully transform into a zombie? When Zhang Mu thought he had killed Jin Lan, he actually didn't kill the zombie Jin Lan?

But what Zhang Mu blew up was Jin Lan's head. No matter how powerful the zombie was, it would not be able to survive after being shot in the head.

So, what is it?

What brought Jin Lan back to life?

What saved his life?

When everyone in the base was confused, surprised, and horrified by this incident, Lu Jiu began to think deeply.

If Jin Lan was really an escaping player, he used the ability granted to him by the quick-play game to avoid death once.

So at this moment, Jin Lan's appearance undoubtedly put the huge monster of the quick-travel bureau in front of all the indigenous people of this world.