Chapter 156 She is the love of my heart
Yan Chu raised his eyebrows slightly. Sure enough, Ji Liang hardly told any truth about Yuan Lin.
Ling Ziyue snorted lightly and looked back at Yan Chu.
"He and Yuan Lin were good friends who studied the same major at the same university before the apocalypse. After the apocalypse, they fled together and ended up staying at the Tomorrow Base. After that, one became a doctor at the base, and the other a laboratory researcher."
"But after entering the Tomorrow Base, Yuan Lin fell in love with a woman."
"It's a pity that even though he tried his best to look up to her, she was no more than a speck of dust in her eyes," Ling Ziyue leaned over and whispered in Ji Liang's ear, "After all, a D-level esper... isn't even qualified to be a backup."
Ji Liang's pupils suddenly shrank and he looked at Ling Ziyue in disbelief.
Why, why would he know?!
Ling Ziyue was right. Yuan Lin fell in love with a woman, but that woman had never looked at him straight in the eye.
The reason is very simple, Yuan Lin is just a D-level mutant.
Compared to the A-rank psychics surrounding that woman, he was nothing.
Yuan Lin was unwilling to see the white moonlight in his heart being with another man, and finally one night, he couldn't help but go to find Ji Liang.
"Are there any extra zombie crystal cores in the laboratory? Can you secretly give me some?" Yuan Lin pleaded with him.
Ji Liang shook his head in embarrassment. "There are only a few zombie cores in the base that can be used for experiments, and they are strictly guarded. How can I possibly get them?"
Yuan Lin immediately lowered his head in disappointment.
Ji Liang originally thought that the matter was over, but he didn't expect that Yuan Lin came to him again a few days later and pulled him into the house mysteriously.
"Yesterday, a person with superpowers died despite failed rescue efforts. Before he was buried, I secretly opened his skull and took out his crystal core."
As he spoke, Yuan Lin spread out his hands, in which lay a crystal clear translucent crystal.
Ji Liang gasped: "You are crazy! How dare you!"
Quite a few people knew that there were crystal cores in the brains of people with special abilities. After all, many people had witnessed with their own eyes the horrific scene of evolved zombies digging out the crystal cores from their companions' brains and swallowing them in one gulp.
But they are zombies, how can humans dig out human crystal cores by themselves!
Yuan Lin immediately shushed him, signaling him to speak softly. "I just wonder, if humans can absorb zombie crystal cores, why can't human crystal cores? Don't they look similar?"
Upon hearing this, Ji Liang subconsciously lowered his eyes to look at the human crystal core in his hand.
It does look similar to a zombie crystal core.
If Yuan Lin didn't tell him, Ji Liang himself wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
Yuan Lin placed the crystal core in his hand: "But I tried to absorb the crystal core yesterday, and there was no movement. Although it looks similar, it is still different from the zombie crystal core."
Ji Liang was silent for a moment, and for the first time he looked at his friend with strange eyes.
Ever since Yuan Lin fell in love with that woman, he seemed to be possessed and was obsessed with becoming stronger.
He is almost completely different from the gentle and sincere Dr. Yuan of the past.
But after all, they have been friends for so many years, Ji Liang couldn't say anything to him for a while, and could only say tactfully: "I will keep this a secret for you. Don't do such a thing again next time. If you are discovered, you will be kicked out of the base."
Yuan Lin was helpless: "I told you this because I treat you as a good friend, don't you want to study it? Maybe humans can absorb human crystal cores?"
After Yuan Lin left, Ji Liang couldn't sleep all night.
The sentence "Humans absorb human crystal cores" kept spinning in his mind.
He is a scientific researcher who knows that as long as something is not absolutely impossible, it is feasible, but it requires a certain specific method.
Later one day, when he followed the team out of the base to look for experimental equipment, he accidentally saw a man eating the crystal core in the brain of another dead zombie.
No, that's not a human, his eyes are red, he is a high-level zombie!
Everyone immediately took a defensive stance, but when the zombie discovered them, it did not attack them.
Instead, he seemed to be frightened and turned around and ran away.
While others looked at each other in confusion, Ji Liang suddenly understood at this moment.
Zombies can actually eat zombie crystal cores.
Since zombies can do it, humans can do it too!
He immediately reported this idea to the commander of Tomorrow Base, hoping that Tomorrow Base would allow him to start this experiment.
The commander of Tomorrow Base has received a lot of bad news recently. Some small bases collapsed completely because of the attack of a second- or third-level zombie.
There are not many A-level mutants in Tomorrow's base. If the third-level evolved zombies invade, their ability to resist risks will be worrying.
At this time, the idea proposed by Ji Liang was exactly what he wanted.
A base without strength is doomed to die soon. The central base is tens of thousands of miles away from here, and if something really happens, it will be impossible to save them in time.
So the commander immediately agreed to Ji Liang's research.
Ji Liang also said that he did not want to report the matter to the central base and wanted to concentrate on research.
The commander also agreed immediately.
He had a clear plan in mind.
If this research can really succeed, his base will become the most powerful base in one fell swoop. Maybe in the future, Tomorrow Base will be the real central base.
Of course, it is best not to talk about such good things.
After Ji Liang started this research, he told Yuan Lin about it as soon as possible.
After hearing this, Yuan Lin asked to be his first experimental subject without hesitation.
Ji Liang was stunned for a moment, frowned and refused: "No, no, what if something goes wrong..."
Yuan Lin's eyes were dim: "It doesn't matter, the situation won't get worse than it is now."
He remembered the cruel words she had said to him—
"Do you think you, a D-class psychic, can protect me in this apocalypse? Stop bothering me. I really don't want to see you."
Ji Liang was puzzled: "What do you mean by the worst case scenario?"
"Nothing." Yuan Lin smiled and patted his shoulder: "Ji Liang, I'm counting on you."
Ji Liang once successfully extracted the energy from the zombie crystal core and incorporated it into the reagent. He studied day and night, and it didn't take long for him to extract the energy from the human crystal core using the same method.
He actually didn't have much confidence that he could succeed on the first try, but Yuan Lin was determined to let him go right ahead.
"If it wasn't me this time, and if your experiment succeeded, do you think I'd still have a chance in the future?" Yuan Lin lowered his eyes. "A D-level psychic like me is only fit to be someone else's crystal nucleus nutrient."
Ji Liang couldn't understand how his good friend, who was once so high-spirited in college, could become so decadent and lacking in confidence.
"Why do you have to become stronger?" Ji Liang asked in confusion, "Is it because of that woman?"
"That's right," Yuan Lin looked at him with complicated eyes, "She is the love of my heart."
Ji Liang was stunned.
Although he knew that Yuan Lin was unrequited love, he never expected Yuan Lin to go to this extent.
Just to make the other person look at you straight in the eye, you are even willing to risk your life?
"Who is the person you love?" Ji Liang asked with a frown.
Yuan Lin's expression suddenly dawned on him: "Her name is... Yue Xueer."
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