Chapter 33
"who?"
"Searching for spring."
!!
Xu Zhou was happy, she hadn't seen him for a long time!
"How did he find this place..." Oh, Xu Zhou remembered that she had not completed today's reward task yet.
"Who knows? There are a bunch of people following him, including my younger brother, the Dongxuancai I met before, and some others I don't know." The system saw very clearly that Xunchun was the main contributor.
The two men next door also heard the noise and poked their heads out of the door frame.
"What's that noise? Why is someone banging on the door?"
"I don't know. Are you here to rescue this zombie?"
Hearing this, Xu Zhou said, "What a coincidence! How did you know they were here to save me?"
As soon as she finished speaking, the straps on Xu Zhou's wrists and ankles automatically broke free. She slowly sat up, rubbed her wrists, and looked at the two men with a half-smile. She had just seen the fear in their eyes.
"She, she, she...how did she untie the straps..."
The man in black subconsciously tugged at the corner of the man in white's clothes, his voice trembling and his face tense.
The two of them are not very strong in combat, and all they do in the organization is research work. They have very little experience in actual combat. In addition, they succeeded by a sneak attack just now, and they didn't expect that the bandages would be broken free by the zombies now. Who knows what other abilities the advanced zombies can have? The second-generation zombies researched by that madman are enough to give them a hard time.
The banging on the door outside was getting louder and louder. The door was shaky and looked like it would be broken down soon. He didn't want to fall into the hands of the zombies and die in an instant.
It will be too late if you don't run now.
"Let's run quickly." said the man in black.
The man in white rolled his eyes and coughed twice, "Well, let's make a deal and let us both go."
The man in black widened his eyes. His brother was truly impressive! He actually negotiated with zombies.
?
Forehead……
Silence spread in the room, and Xu Zhou stopped rubbing his wrist for a moment.
"He is so flexible!" The system spoke first.
"I really didn't expect him to be this style." This wasn't the way he looked when he said he wanted to use her as an experiment, Xu Zhou recalled.
The man in white had the expected reaction. Without hesitation, he grabbed the man in black and ran away. He wanted to take advantage of the moment when the zombie was stunned so that he could quickly escape through the back door.
System: "You don't want to chase?"
Xu Zhou: "Let's see if they can run away on their own. I'm not good at running. Thanks, system."
Her bandages were able to be undone, thanks to the system activating the protective shield and breaking the bandages apart. It was just a try, but I didn't expect it to actually work.
"We're close friends, why should I say thank you?"
"Thank you, it would have been nice if you had suggested that idea sooner."
“…”
Xu Zhou came down from the operating table. The marks of the bandage on her wrist had not disappeared. She was about to walk over and open the door.
The door opened a second faster, and Xunchun was the first to open. Xu Zhou's appearance caught his eye the first time, and he quickly stepped forward and hugged her tightly, burying his head in her shoulder.
Familiar smell, familiar hug.
A warmth came from his shoulders, and Xu Zhou hugged his waist again, saying cheerfully, "Hi, are you happy to see me?"
Xunchun didn't say anything, but just held her tighter.
Xunyou and the others who came in later were very considerate and left, and even closed the door considerately.
"I was so scared, I thought you...had an accident." Xunchun's voice was a little hoarse, and the last three words were very light, but Xu Zhou still heard them.
"Don't I let you know I'm safe every day?" Xu Zhou patted his back gently.
"You didn't have it today." Xunchun no longer dared to recall his despair this morning. He waited for a long time, but the familiar flower never appeared. He jumped out of the car at a fork in the road, but was stopped by others.
"You can't blame me for this, blame the system." Xu Zhou decisively put the blame on the system. Of course, this wasn't really a blame, it was the truth. If the system hadn't been upgraded, she would have definitely reported safe on time today.
System: "Hey? Me?"
"Yes, it's you. Who told you to upgrade?"
"I..." The system was speechless. Yeah, who knows? It also didn't know why it suddenly needed to upgrade yesterday.
Xunchun didn't say anything.
"Okay, I'm fine, right? Besides, I'm a zombie. Have you ever seen a zombie as powerful as me?" Xu Zhou comforted Xunchun.
"have."
"Who?!" Xu Zhou became alert and she didn't allow it.
"you."
"Oh, so it was me. Then I will show mercy and forgive you."
Xu Zhou pretended not to know that Xunchun had quietly wiped the corners of her eyes. After all, the dampness on her shoulders couldn't be faked. She secretly glanced at his expression. Hmm, he looked fine.
Xu Zhou stretched out his hand.
"Okay, we're all safe. Hold hands."
Xunchun held her hand tightly.
The two zombies didn't reminisce for too long, and Xu Zhou also completed the reward task in the room.
When they came out of the room, Xunyou’s first words were "I'm sorry, sister-in-law". Dongxuancai greeted him, and the remaining three nodded, but Xuzhou did not miss their gazes.
"Let's rescue the others first." Dong Xuancai said.
Following his footsteps, a group of five people and two zombies went down the stairs to the third floor. The layout of the third floor was only one corridor. In the middle of the wide corridor on the first floor was a large room, which was currently locked.
Dong Xuancai looked regretful: "Oops, I forgot to ask where the key is."
"The main thing is that we didn't know there was a lock here."
When going downstairs, Xunchun briefly told Xuzhou what happened after they separated.
He found Xunyou and Dongxuancai, and together they went to the base. There, Dongxuancai told him about the red-eyed zombies; Xunyou also revealed something he had been hiding, about the New Sequence. Through zombie research and human experimentation, the New Sequence aimed to create an obedient, commanding zombie king, who would control the rest of the zombie population and establish dominance.
Xunyou was one of those captured by the New Sequence for experimentation. Those worse off had their blood drawn for testing, were injected with drugs, and the results were constantly revised based on observed changes. Many died among them.
"Will they have a lot of needle holes on their hands?" Xu Zhou asked.
Xunchun nodded.
The teenagers she met in the van were all test subjects of the New Sequence. They had been imprisoned by the New Sequence for several years just to complete this absurd experiment.
"They are so cruel, they are not human beings." The system cursed.
In the face of natural disasters, there are always people who kill others for their own desires.
Xu Zhou clenched his fists.
Everyone stood outside the locked door, planning to break it down again. Xu Zhou and Xun Chun were at the back, and only then did they step forward.
Xu Zhou said, "I have a bunch of keys here. Let me try to see if I can open it."
She was referring to the set of keys the woman had handed her. She didn't know what the keys the woman had given her were for, but the two men hadn't taken them. She'd have to try them out to see if they worked.
There were two keys on the key ring. Xu Zhou picked one at random and tried to insert it into the keyhole, but it didn't go in. This key was not the right key to open the lock. Xu Zhou changed to another one, and this time it went in smoothly. Xu Zhou turned it to the right, and with a "click", the lock opened.
"That's great! You got the keys." Dong Xuancai praised.
"That's right, it just saves us the time of breaking down the door, which is not easy to break down."
"I don't know where the new sequence got the door from. Can this door be used in the base?"
"Fortunately, my sister-in-law is here."
As they talked, they opened the door.
Xu Zhou held the key without saying anything. The woman... unexpectedly, she had already given her the key.
Now is not the time to think too much, Xu Zhou withdrew his thoughts and followed Xunchun into the house.
The room had no windows, no ventilation, and a strong stench of decay and mildew. What caught my eye were numerous iron cages, each about half a person's height. Dozens of them were neatly stacked in the room, each containing a human, all of whom were identically emaciated and pale. The cages were filthy, and so were the people inside.
There were many bottles and jars on the operating table next to the iron cage. The brightest color was red. You could tell without looking at the labels that they were blood drawn from these people.
"Depend on--"
I don't know who cursed the quintessence of Chinese culture first. In this situation, swearing is a natural choice.
Although I knew the behavior of the new sequence in advance, I couldn't help but feel angry when I actually saw it.
The noise from the door attracted the people in the cage. Among them, Xu Zhou saw the five people he had met in the van. They had blank expressions on their faces, staring numbly at the light coming in from the door.
"Get them out first."
Everyone suppressed their emotions and released these people separately.
There are also locks on the outside of the iron cage, and the keys to these locks are hung on the wall. Perhaps because they know that they have no ability to resist, the people of the New Sequence don’t worry at all that the keys will be taken away by them. In addition, there is also a lock on the outside of the door, so even if they open the iron cage, they cannot open the door outside.
All the cages opened, and everyone inside came out, standing neatly in the empty spaces in the middle. No one spoke, they just stared at Xu Zhou and the others.
No one wanted to escape.
Perhaps they have been like this for the past few years, released from the iron cage by the new sequence people, used for experiments, and then locked up in the iron cage again, over and over again.
Xu Zhou felt a pang of heartache.
Dong Xuancai: "Come with us, we are here to rescue you. Now you are free."
Many heads turned.
The five teenagers in the van also looked over. They still remembered that when Xu Zhou was captured, he was in cahoots with the New Sequence, and their eyes were full of hostility.
Dong Xuancai was a stranger, and they were used to being obedient, so no one contradicted him and followed him out of the room.
They left through the back door.
Xunchun explained to Xuzhou that it was the woman who told them to leave through the back door and that there were people waiting for them downstairs.
The back door was also locked, opened with the other key in Xu Zhou's hand. Opening the back door revealed a specially designed escape staircase on the third floor, leading directly down to the first floor. Everyone dispersed, surrounding the rescued people, with Xu Zhou and Xun Chun walking at the back.
A group of dozens of people began to walk down the stairs, and everyone subconsciously walked lightly.
The stairs were a bit long, but luckily they didn't encounter anyone along the way, so they made it down to the first floor. The campus was still filled with smoke, and it was unclear whether it hadn't dissipated or if someone had re-introduced it. In any case, many red rays appeared within the smoke.
The red rays were scanning randomly, as if looking for something.
After going down the stairs, there was a red brick wall not far in front of them. There was a small door in the wall, and a familiar figure was standing by the door waiting for them.
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