Chapter 71
After entering the fallen Jeju base, Xue Ling finally discovered that she was different.
——She has sharper "claws" than any other zombie.
They first encountered two large dogs infected with the zombie virus.
This was the first time Xue Ling saw infected animals. After being infected, they showed the same condition as zombies, with their skin and flesh drying up and hardening.
There are also differences between them and human zombies. Their shapes have become deformed, and their eyes are cloudy gray.
And it attacks everything that moves, dead or alive.
Xue Ling and his team encountered two large infected dogs with deformed skulls and twisted and distorted teeth. Their skin and flesh were spread out, and when they ran, the skin and flesh would be lifted up and thrown off, revealing the dry muscles under the skin. It was simply too hard to look at.
They were probably raised by some wealthy families in the base to look after the house. They had collars and ropes around their necks, which had worn away the flesh around their necks, leaving only a circle of red flesh.
Xue Ling was startled by the sudden appearance of the infected dog and reflexively used her hands to block its attack.
She felt her fingers moving across the dog's neck like cutting a piece of tofu.
Anyway, just as she came to her senses, the infected dog with a split brain fell in front of her.
As for the other infected dog, Wen Jiuze treated it slower than she did.
He used a machete to cut off most of the infected dog's neck, then stabbed the dog's neck twice, finally stopping it completely.
Just by looking at the force and movement with which he chopped the infected dog's neck with the knife, Xue Ling couldn't help but wonder if the neck of his infected dog was a hundred times harder than the one in front of her.
She walked over doubtfully and tried it. Her blackened fingertips easily pierced into the infected dog's neck.
He pulled Wen Jiuze's finger over and tried to poke it in the same way, but failed to get it in and felt obvious resistance.
She immediately widened her eyes and opened her hands to Wen Jiuze to express her shock.
When did she super evolve?!
I thought the zombie protective suit managed by the middle-aged man was really so vulnerable, it turns out I am just too special!
"In the Gobi laboratory, Wen Yi gave you a drug that caused you to undergo a metamorphosis by mistake. From then on, you became a super corpse."
Hear nine explanations.
Because Xue Ling had lost her mind at that time, he isolated her from everyone, and only Wen Yi knew about her changes.
Increased lethality is not a good thing for an irrational zombie.
But now, it is something that makes Xue Ling happy.
Without even thinking, she typed: "Isn't this the best weapon? If you cut off my arm, it won't even need sharpening and it will be the most powerful weapon!"
It’s much more useful than the knife in Wen Jiuze’s hand!
Wen Jiuze was silent for a moment, then suddenly pulled her arm, raised the knife in his hand and was about to chop her.
Xue Ling screamed in fright and pulled out her hand hard, but Wen Jiu didn't use too much force and let her pull her hand away, and waved the knife away with a breath.
"Cut off your arm? Are you still talking nonsense?"
“…”
Xue Ling hid her hands behind her back. She didn't really want to chop off her arm to use as a weapon. She just said it casually. Why was she angry?
She was sure that Wen Jiuze was angry because of what she had just said.
But the next moment he put away the knife as if nothing had happened, gestured to keep moving forward, and didn't look like he was angry.
The two of them are currently exploring the lost area alone. Once they have a clear understanding of the situation, they will let the team follow.
She was frightened by him, but as she was on a mission, Xue Ling decided not to argue for the time being.
Wen Jiuze turned around and stretched out his hand to her, but Xue Ling walked past him with her hands behind her back.
Then she typed out a message using the watch-like short-distance communicator on her hand.
A calm female voice said, "Stay behind me."
Wen Jiuzhe: "..."
This portable watch-style communicator has the same functions as a tablet, but the input is a little more difficult.
Xue Ling tapped a few buttons beside her: "I won't bother with you for now."
Wen Jiuze also replied: "I am just helping you to dispel some dangerous thoughts."
Xue Ling: "Do I have more dangerous thoughts than you?"
Wen Jiuze pulled her and told her to be careful not to step on the zombies on the ground.
Several mutated zombies, a local specialty of Jeju City, were lying on the ground in front. These zombies were the nth batch of zombies infected by radiation-mutated zombies.
They were also different from the ordinary zombies Xue Ling had seen before. Their bodies had more or less deformities.
Xue Ling almost stepped on a zombie with an enlarged and deformed head. Next to it was a zombie with a waist bent 180 degrees. He also saw two legs of different lengths and the body of the zombie was broken into two pieces.
Finally, how does this zombie usually walk?
The zombie was broken into two pieces, but the upper part was not dead yet, and its mouth was opening and closing.
However, they did not attack Xue Ling and Wen Jiuze.
In this area, the infected animals that occupy the fallen areas pose a threat to both humans and zombies.
The zombies that scare humans outside are also the targets of the infected animals here.
It seems that a new ecosystem is taking shape in this mutant toxic circle.
"Be careful not to get bitten or caught by these mutated creatures," Wen Jiuze warned. "There are already enough things fighting inside your body. You don't need to add a mutated virus to make things more exciting."
Xue Ling: "You should be careful too, or you will become like them and have one arm longer than the other."
Wen Jiuze covered the back of her head.
Xue Ling’s condition could get worse at any time, and Wen Jiu felt a little stressed because he took the initiative to bring her into this dangerous place.
Xue Ling turned around and patted him hard, then said, "I have the advantage. It's okay."
Wen Jiuze likes to say "it's okay" the most, and this word sometimes appears when Xue Ling comforts Wen Jiuze.
The infected dogs are not the most terrifying thing. Too many people used to live in this area, and the garbage and corpses produced gave rise to a lot of rats.
The sight of a swarm of infected rats crawling out of a sewer hole is enough to make anyone's scalp tingle.
They have fat and ridiculously long tails, like a snake attached to their backs.
Wen Jiuze immediately grabbed Xue Ling, carried him on his shoulders, and ran out of the area.
There are too many infected rats, and it is difficult to deal with them. They are not here specifically to kill rats, so they cannot waste time here.
In addition to rats, cats are also common animals in human cities.
Unlike the alert and cute creatures we imagine, infected cats have deformed bodies and dull fur.
The infected cat suddenly attacked them from a dark corner, but Wen Jiuze reacted very quickly and deflected it with a knife.
The tip of the knife failed to cut open the infected cat's body. When it attacked a second time, Xue Ling stepped forward to block it and cut open its belly.
It was the first time that Xue Ling had to deal with an infected cat with his bare hands, and the inexperienced Xue Ling almost got covered in the food that fell out of the cat's stomach.
Wen Jiuze helped her block it for a while, and half of his body, including his hair, gave off a foul smell.
Xue Ling: "...I will have experience next time, I will definitely be able to dodge. Wait, don't hold me back yet."
Wen Jiuze reached out and grabbed her tightly.
Xue Ling, whose hands were stained with the rancid smell, said: "..."
May I ask, what was the significance of you blocking it for me just now?
The infected cat, whose belly was cut open by Xue Ling and almost split in half, did not lose its mobility. It maintained the posture of being split into two halves and ran away with its belly exposed.
When Xue Ling saw this scene, she felt a little shocked.
Could it be that all infected animals will become like this?
Next they encountered infected birds and various common and uncommon animals in the city.
Xue Ling, who had always been able to move freely in the zombie city, was in such a mess for the first time.
When they finally reached the cryogenic technology center, they encountered several infected horses.
Xue Ling couldn't help but want to curse.
Why would those rich people build a horse farm next to the cold storage center?
These infected horses are so strange that they are shocking.
The chest and stomach of the infected horse burst open, and out of it came a mess of bird wings, claws, and fur of various small animals...
Xue Ling couldn't help but imagine, could it be that the infected horse swallowed these things but couldn't digest them, so they overflowed from the gaps in the chest and abdomen, causing this blockage?
After finally passing through the horse farm and entering the freezing center, Xue Ling was shocked again by this human creation.
She once lamented that the 8027 laboratory in the Gobi Desert was not like the high-tech mysterious laboratory she had imagined, but now she encountered one that was similar.
The decoration is very stereotypical in white and silver, high-end and cold style, with machines and pupil locks and combination locks everywhere, one security door after another, and a very sci-fi freezer.
The living people in the freezer look more like dead people than the two weird-looking zombies.
Turning around, there is something more in line with the scenes in science fiction movies - the researchers here place all kinds of mutated zombies and animals as specimens in the laboratory.
Some are soaked in unknown liquids.
Xue Ling was still looking around here and there, just like Granny Liu visiting the Grand View Garden. Wen Jiuzhe, who had cleaned out many laboratories and research institutes, had ignored everything and started to pack up the things here.
And pick up their core cryogenic technology and start looking.
He came to Jeju City just for this purpose.
Xue Ling will be able to continue her life thanks to this freezing technology until a way to save her is found in the future.
Wen Yi had always said that he was a reckless man who knew nothing and only knew how to threaten others, but over the past year or so, Wen Jiuze had understood more and more.
The medicine that Wen Yi gave Xue Ling, the experiments she did on him, every report she gave, and every sleepless night, Wen Jiuze read all of this, trying to understand.
It seemed that if he understood it, he could find the possibility of helping Xue Ling recover.
He looked through the pile of data and records about cryogenic technology, trying to understand and analyze whether they could achieve the results he expected.
But this was a new field, and he only understood it vaguely. He only realized that this freezing technology was not as safe and harmless as he thought.
In his hand was a case report of a failed resuscitation attempt after freezing.
He was willing to let Xue Ling prolong her stagnant life through freezing, but he was just gambling on a possibility.
Xue Ling came back and saw him looking at these. She hesitated for a moment and said, "Are you learning? Here, right here, right now?"
She remembered that she had asked him to go to the laboratory to get information before, but he didn't want to read the instruction manual Wen Yi gave him at all. Now he knows how to study on his own?
A sense of urgency that only comes with school prompted Xue Ling to pick up an experimental report.
"Then I'll watch it too."
She felt dizzy from watching it, and for a moment she felt even hungrier, but luckily there was no one around, so she quickly sobered up.
Wen Jiuze beside him suddenly asked, "I want you to maintain your current state through this freezing technology, waiting for awakening in who knows how many years. Are you afraid?"
Xue Ling didn't answer whether she was afraid or not. She slowly typed out a sentence: "I was thinking before that the choices I made for you always ended up with bad results, but now I still want to make another choice for you."
"Wen Jiuze, you and I will freeze together, okay?"
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