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The next morning, someone knocked on the door early in the morning. Ruan Jiyan opened his eyes and sat up, and took two seconds to react before opening the door.

The person who came to knock on the door was the deputy captain beside Captain Bai Mei. She was holding a bowl of hot cabbage and lean meat porridge in her hand. Her face was serious as she handed the porridge to Ruan Jiyan.

"Ms. Ruan Jiyan, please go to the church on the right side of the activity square to find Captain Baimei after breakfast." After saying this to Zhou, she saluted and left.

Ruan Jiyan brought the porridge back to the room, washed up, got dressed, drank the porridge quickly, and went downstairs to find Captain Bai Mei.

When she arrived, Captain Bai Mei was on the phone. Ruan Ji Yan just stood there without saying a word until Captain Bai Mei finished the call.

Captain Bai Mei put away the communicator and said to Ruan Jiyan, "You must have always wanted to know where your other companions went."

"I'll take you to see it." Then she walked to the back of the square.

Ruan Jiyan followed Captain Baimei to many places he had never been to before. Behind the activity square was another training ground.

This training ground is a military training ground, and the training ground in the activity square is open to everyone for training and has no closing time.

However, this military training ground has strict requirements for personnel. Anyone entering this training ground must be a military member and have a number, and it is only open eight hours a day.

The training ground is clearly separated from other places by a wire mesh boundary. Behind the training ground is a large pond. Looking behind the pond, you can see an open space.

The temperature in the morning is not as high as that in the afternoon. Now you can see that there are many people in that field.

Ruan Jiyan looked at the figures moving on the land, his face became more gloomy and his eyes became colder.

Captain Bai Mei did not move forward. She stopped for a few seconds before turning around and saying to Ruan Jiyan, "You should have heard from other people in the shelter that a group of people were arranged to grow crops in the plantation because of some things."

"Because of me?" Ruan Jiyan asked.

"Did anyone else say that?"

"It's not because of you, but it's a little bit related. But don't you think it's good for them to be here? They don't have to go out on dangerous missions, and they don't have to worry about suddenly turning into zombies. Although it's hot here, at least it's safe."

"Why is that?" Ruan Jiyan didn't expect that Chen Xi and Qi Yun were both arranged here. A lot of things happened during the time she was taken away.

"Because of mutants."

"I?"

"It's not because of you. Don't you have another partner? It's because of him."

"Fang Ming, why?" Fang Ming also turned into a mutant. That was a long time ago.

"To be precise, he is not a mutant, he is a zombie. But we did not detect his identity at that time, and he followed us back to the shelter. Later, when we were on a mission again, he suddenly injured many of our team members, and all of them were infected and turned into zombies."

"He injured us and then left, leaving behind a group of members who were infected by him and turned into zombies. We have been looking for him since then, but there is no clue."

"After that incident, the team was in panic for a long time. Based on his condition at the time, we speculated that he must have been infected a long time ago. But no one knew when he changed. Because you, him, and your partners were not completely immune to suspicion, we originally wanted to kill them all."

"But it was very unfair to sentence them to death. Later, the military chose to observe them first. Before they were completely cleared of suspicion, they helped grow crops here and avoided the possibility of contact with external dangers."

Ruan Jiyan looked at the busy people from afar, remaining silent.

"You can go and see them." Captain Baimei looked at her.

"No." She didn't dare to look. Their current situation was partly caused by her. Before she rescued them, she didn't dare to face Chen Xi's sincere eyes and Qi Yun's tenderness.

She doesn't deserve it.

"Then let's go back." Captain Bai Mei looked at her scarlet left eye with some sadness in her eyes.

They returned to the laboratory. Captain White Rose had to leave as she had a mission. Dr. El was still in the laboratory. She was the only one in the entire sample warehouse.

For several days afterwards, Ruan Ji Yan came to the laboratory but didn't see anyone. Dr. El has been extremely busy recently, and Captain Bai Mei seems to be doing some big task as well. She would go and look at Chen Xi and Qi Yun from a distance from time to time.

Chen Xi has calmed down a bit in the past few days. She was still immersed in grief a few days ago because she always thought that Ruan Jiyan, like Fang Ming, had turned into a zombie and left.

She was sad about this for a long time, but she unexpectedly saw Ruan Jiyan by the pond two days ago. She was not so sad anymore when she saw that she was living well and working with the military.

As long as Ruan Jiyan is still alive, nothing else matters. She is willing to stay here for a year.

Cai Cai and Xiao Mingye are being taken care of by Captain Baimei, so they should be safe. As long as they are all safe, Chen Xi has no other requests.

…

As soon as Captain Bai Mei was free from the mission, she came to find Ruan Jiyan. She was holding a child in her arms. Ruan Jiyan looked at her when she came in and stood up suddenly.

"After they went to the plantation, I asked someone to help look after the child. Now he has grown into a chubby, white little dumpling." Captain Bai Mei gently tapped Xiao Mingye's chubby little face with her finger, and the child immediately started giggling.

Ruan Jiyan took the child and held him in his arms. Perhaps it was because he smelled a familiar scent that he hadn't smelled for a long time, the child's smiling face suddenly wrinkled, and he burst into tears the next second.

Ruan Jiyan was a little at a loss, so Captain Bai Mei took the child over and coaxed him, "From now on, you will take care of him. Once you get familiar with him, he won't cry anymore."

"Okay, take Xiao Mingye out for a walk. I have a mission to attend to and have to leave first. Dr. Al's experiment will probably take a whole day. You can come find him then." After saying that, Captain Baimei left in a hurry.

Before Ruan Jiyan could say anything, Captain Bai Mei disappeared without a trace.

The child stopped crying, and she just remained in one position, not daring to move.

Ruan Jiyan sat on the chair in the laboratory, not daring to move.

Dr. Earl came out after a long time. Seeing Ruan Jiyan was stiff as if his acupuncture points had been set, he quickly asked his assistant to help take the child. Then he couldn't help laughing at Ruan Jiyan's appearance.

"Hahahaha, this is the first time I see you with such an expression. As if you are afraid of smashing him. It turns out you are afraid of children." The little old man laughed at Ruan Ji Yan mercilessly. Ruan Ji Yan felt a little embarrassed and just let him laugh without saying anything.

"Okay, you'll be busy these days. You don't have to come to the lab to see me for the time being. Just spend some time with the kids. Haha." He took off his gloves and mask, washed his hands, and issued a release order to Ruan Jiyan.

Ruan Jiyan rolled his eyes at him secretly, then stiffly took the child handed to him by the assistant and walked out of the laboratory step by step as if he had just learned to walk.

…

She had been taking care of the children for several days without leaving the dormitory. She had originally planned to find Captain Bai Mei to discuss when to release Chen Xi and Qi Yun. However, before she went to find them, she saw several armored vehicles at the entrance of the square from the dormitory building.

Captain Baimei was seen walking in a hurry, directing other team members to carry things one by one from the car. Those things all looked like the mutated zombie they had brought back before.

Finally, a man got out of the car. He looked very impressive, had a strong aura, and a slightly smug look on his face.

Looking at the things being carried into the laboratory elevator one by one, Ruan Jiyan's face turned pale.

Sure enough, that night, just after she finished her meal and put her child to sleep, there was a knock on the door.

This time it was Captain Baimei. She looked very bad and her brows were furrowed as if she had encountered some difficulties.

Ruan Ji's implicit question was: "What happened?"

Captain Baimei just opened her mouth, and then was surprised again: "How did you know?"

Ruan Jiyan: Nonsense, the number of cars that drove in today was so huge, and I’m not blind.

"I saw from the dormitory window today that they brought back a lot of experimental samples from outside."

"That's right, those brought back are the same mutated zombies we caught outside before. These groups are really perverted, and their evolution speed is beyond the imagination of normal people." Captain Bai Mei had a complicated expression and couldn't help cursing.

"We previously discovered that these mutant zombies seemed to have a backbone in an instant, and were directed forward, their movements became more violent and more difficult to kill. The mutant zombies discovered now not only have the characteristics of the previous zombies, but also have sharp fangs and very long nails, like natural weapons, making it even more difficult for people to fight them at close range."

"Dr. El needs to conduct research and experiments on the zombies these days, and he may need your protection. After all, the zombies are restless, and close contact with them still needs to ensure the doctor's safety."

"Okay, that child may still need your help to take care of him. Also, I have a request." Ruan Ji Yan said, his voice softening.

Captain Bai Mei was a little surprised: "It's a rare opportunity for you to ask me for help. Just tell me and I'll do my best to help."

"It's Chen Xi and Qi Yun, my friends..."

"Don't worry, they will be back in a few days, but I have been busy these days and I don't have much time to submit the application. It will probably be around by the time you finish this period."

"Okay, thank you." Ruan Jiyan nodded.

"You're welcome. Leave the child to me and you go and do your work." Captain Bai Mei took the child and watched Ruan Jiyan leave the dormitory.

Although Ruan Jiyan didn't have much affection for Captain Baimei, she felt most at ease leaving the cat and the child to her.

She walked to the door of the laboratory and saw that there were many people inside, struggling to tie up the zombies they had brought back and put them into the sample warehouse.

Ruan Jiyan walked in slowly and found that there were many zombie specimens in the sample room. Those specimens were large and small, placed one by one, and they evolved step by step from small to large.

An ordinary zombie specimen is like an immature child in front of a mutated and evolved zombie specimen.

Ruan Ji Yan was a little stunned. She had seen one type of mutated zombie before. The size of that zombie had not changed much and was similar to ordinary zombies. However, the zombie specimens became larger and larger. The last zombie specimen put in was not only huge in size, but also had fangs and sharp nails.

Ruan Jiyan finally understood why the shelter had to replace its combat weapons. Judging from the previous pistols, they were not enough to deal with this kind of mutated zombies.

The zombie specimens were still alive, their hands and feet bound with steel ropes, but the largest mutant zombie was already dead, and they were unable to capture a living, larger zombie with fangs and claws.

Even if they caught him, they couldn't bring him to the shelter. They couldn't risk the safety of everyone in the shelter for a test.

Dr. Earl walked forward and picked a zombie that had not yet been put into the specimen chamber. He took out a scalpel, cut a small piece of flesh from the zombie's arm, and then held a small iron plate to catch the cut flesh.

Dr. Earl cut a few pieces of flesh from several zombies, and then asked the team members who were helping to move the corpses to the specimen warehouse. He carried a large porcelain plate and brought in all the meat in the small iron plates.

Ruan Jiyan watched the zombies being put into the sample room one by one before following Dr. El into the laboratory.

Dr. El put on goggles and protective clothing. Hearing the footsteps, he told Ruan Jiyan without turning his head: "Put on protective clothing, mask and goggles, and come with me."

Ruan Jiyan didn't say anything. She put on her goggles, mask and hat and walked over to Dr. Al. He took a step back and pushed the microscope in front of her: "You can see what the virus looks like. Of course, the virus sample on this slide is dead. The living virus should still be on the freshly cut meat. I should be able to see it when I get the slide out."

After listening to him finish speaking, Ruan Jiyan slowly bent down and moved closer to the microscope, then began to observe the virus displayed under the microscope.

She only glanced at it for a few seconds, then looked up and saw Dr. El working on a slide. The staining stage was over, and he was using alcohol to decolorize it. After he finished working on it for a long time, he handed the new slide to Ruan Jiyan after it dried: "Here, take a look."

Ruan Jiyan took over and began to observe. Dr. Al turned on a camera, which contained photos that Dr. Al had taken when he had examined Ruan Jiyan before.

The virus in the photo was exactly the same as the one Ruan Jiyan was looking at. Dr. El put down the photo, picked up a small tube of unknown medicine, sucked a drop with a plastic dropper, and dropped it on a piece of meat cut from a zombie. After waiting for just a few minutes, Dr. El picked it up and made another slide, and also made a slide without the addition of the medicine for comparison, and asked Ruan Jiyan to observe it.

Ruan Jiyan was comparing the viruses on the two slides, and Dr. El said to her: "Although the virus in your body is exactly the same as the virus in these zombies, this only proves that you are infected. In addition, we have other surprising discoveries. The viruses carried by the zombies will die after encountering special drugs, but the virus in your body has no effect on any drugs."

"We suspect that the virus in your body has undergone a different mutation, which may be the reason why you were infected with the zombie virus but did not become a zombie. At present, we are not sure whether the virus you carry is good or bad, so we can't easily put you back into the crowd. Please forgive me, this is not my wish. For the bright future of mankind, someone must make sacrifices."

"Of course, after these research projects are completed, I will not restrict your freedom. You do not belong here, and I cannot imprison you. You will face many difficulties in the future. This is just one of the hardships of your becoming..."