After seeing off Xindu and his group, there was still no news from Jiang Tong.
Jiang Yu's dazed mood improved, as if he had turned back into the cold and cool guy who kept people at a distance, hid in the shadows when nothing happened, and didn't communicate with anyone.
It was as if Jiang Tong had never appeared.
However, although there was no news about Jiang Tong, disappearances occurred one after another in Dongyang and several neighboring bases, and just now, Su Tao received a call from Pei Dong, saying that they had found a skinned male corpse in an abandoned gas station outside the suburbs not far from Dongyang.
What Su Tao didn't expect was that after finding out the identity of the male corpse, he turned out to be a tenant of Taoyang!
It is speculated that he was kidnapped and killed on his way home.
That morning, Su Tao accompanied the tenant's family to the suburbs to identify the body.
After confirming that everything was correct, the tenant's parents and fiancée all knelt on the ground.
The gray-haired old father stared at the bloody corpse with his mouth open, unable to utter a sound.
Su Tao turned her head and felt a nerve in her head beating non-stop.
She didn't have much impression of this tenant. She only heard Meng Qian say that he was kind-hearted and had helped Fang Zhi stock up when he was busiest.
Pei Dong said coldly, "It's 'Painted Skin'."
Su Tao nodded with difficulty and asked, "Is there no way at all? Just let it kill people everywhere?"
It was as if we were back to the time when Gu Yi was killing people indiscriminately in Dongyang.
People are in panic everywhere and can't stand it all day long.
Humans are so powerless and passive in the face of mutated zombies.
Pei Dong shook his head. "No, Academician Qiao told me before that mutant zombies grow very fast. This 'Painted Skin' is probably even more powerful than Bone Wing. I was thinking of devoting all of Dongyang's strength to hunting it down. Now that I think about it, without Major General Shi, that would be a fantasy."
Su Tao's head is as big as a bucket.
Including Jiang Tong, who is still an unknown, there are now three mutant zombies gathered in Dongyang and Taoyang.
There is probably no such precedent in the country or even in the world.
Jiang Tong didn't know whether he was really gone after being missing for so long, or was planning something.
Once she is successfully instigated by the Painted Skin to massacre humans, the most cruel and bloody prelude to the end of the world will roar towards all humans.
At that time, Dongyang and Taoyang will be the first to bear the brunt.
Su Tao felt her scalp tingling just thinking about it.
"Have you reported this to Changjing?"
Pei Dong said: "It has been reported. Changjing has sent volunteers. They will arrive tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, but I don't think it will be very effective. Even if they catch it, they can't kill it completely. Unless we can crack the genetic key of the mutant zombies and develop a medicine to deal with them-"
Pharmacy Pharmacy
Su Tao suddenly remembered what Shen Wencheng said.
If they could get another mutant zombie to research, they would have a good chance of developing a potion.
One more. Who to catch?
The Painted Skin is vicious and cunning. Even if it can be caught, it cannot be subdued, let alone cooperate in making potions for humans.
That can only be Jiang Tong.
If Jiang Tong still had some human conscience or attachment to family, using Jiang Yu as bait would most likely make her voluntarily walk into the laboratory without any effort.
When this thought flashed through Su Tao's mind, she was struck by lightning.
no.
Even though she had never seen how Shen Wencheng and the others dissected and sliced the bone wings, she knew that being used as an experimental subject was extremely cruel.
If it was a painted skin, Su Tao would send it to the dissection table without hesitation.
But Jiang Tong can't.
Su Tao suddenly felt a splitting headache.
It seems like I have reached a crossroads of choice, and every path is narrow and dark, making people feel desperate.
"Taozi?" Pei Dong frowned and called her, "You're not feeling well? You look very bad."
Su Tao waved her hands somewhat weakly: "I'm fine, I'll go back first."
She wanted to be alone and think it over.
But until night fell, she still hadn't come up with a solution.
From a big picture perspective, if Jiang Tong is not sacrificed, thousands and thousands of innocent humans will be slaughtered by mutated zombies in the future.
What if after a while, the number of mutant zombies increases sharply, and no medicine to fight them is available?
Humanity will be completely defeated.
Su Tao was lost in thought, squeezing out some toothpaste and applying it on her face as if it were facial cleanser.
Shi Zijin leaned against the door and asked, "Can you rub it into foam?"
Su Tao rubbed it hard without realizing it, but there was still no foam. She lowered her head to squeeze out some more "facial cleanser", only to realize that she had used it wrong.
At the same time, a burning and cold feeling came over my face.
Su Tao was stunned for a long time, then suddenly lowered her eyes, with toothpaste all over her face, and said blankly:
"Which is more important, conscience or human life?"
The reason she didn't choose Jiang Tong as the experimental subject was because her conscience was reminding her that the Painted Skin, who had done more evil than Jiang Tong, was still at large, and it was the Painted Skin, not Jiang Tong, who should be dissected.
But time is life. The sooner the medicine is developed, the less casualties humans will suffer.
Shi Zijin said without hesitation:
"Human life, without life, where is the conscience. I suggest you make Jiang Tong a test subject as quickly as possible. Taotao, you are the superior, sometimes you have to be ruthless."
Su Tao was stunned: "You know everything."
Shi Zijin nodded: "It's not difficult to guess if you ask around."
Su Tao was silent for a long time and then said:
"I'm just an ordinary person. I didn't read much since I was a child, and I haven't seen much of the world. I don't know what life is like, nor do I know how to sacrifice one's life for justice. Teacher Bai only taught me to act with conscience, but he didn't teach me how to be a leader, a leader, or even a savior."
When she first got the system, she just wanted to make her life better.
Later, I hoped that the people around me would live a better life.
In the end, the burden became heavier and heavier, and now she has the illusion that the future of mankind depends on her one thought.
The pressure is too great.
Shi Zijin's heart softened when she said this.
Indeed, she is just an ordinary girl who is not even twenty years old. It is already very good for her to have achieved what she has today.
Su Tao rubbed her face violently to wash off the toothpaste:
"I'll talk to Jiang Yu."
In order to cut the Gordian knot, she asked Jiang Yu to come to her study that night.
Although she still couldn't bear it, she still told him the plan and reason for using Jiang Tong as bait.
After saying that, she turned her head away, not daring to look at Jiang Yu's reaction.
She could have hidden the news that Jiang Yu was seriously injured from Jiang Yu and lured Jiang Tong into the trap.
But she didn't want to deceive him.
But sometimes, the truth is much more cruel than deception.
Jiang Yu listened quietly, fell into a long silence, and then began to laugh softly.
His body was shaking, and his already thin and withered figure was trembling in his empty sleeves.
Finally, the laughter turned into wailing, like a heart-wrenching cry, each sound piercing the heart.
Su Tao couldn't hold it in any longer, and tears started to flow down her cheeks.
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