Chapter 157 One wrong step, all wrong steps
When Yue Xueer's name was mentioned, Yan Chu was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at Wu Yingzhou: "Isn't Yue Xueer working for you?"
Wu Yingzhou shook his head repeatedly: "She has been missing for several days. I searched the base thoroughly but couldn't find her."
Missing?
Yan Chu looked at Ji Liang suspiciously. Could this guy have done it?
Ji Liang immediately denied it: "No, this really has nothing to do with me!"
Ling Ziyue raised an eyebrow: "But you did think about taking action, didn't you?"
Ji Liang froze, and slowly raised his head to meet Ling Ziyue's all-seeing gaze. His Adam's apple rolled with difficulty: "Your ability... is to read minds, right?"
He smiled bitterly: "Every thought that goes through my mind cannot escape your eyes."
Ling Ziyue remained silent, neither admitting nor denying, but in Ji Liang's view, this silence was the cruelest acquiescence.
Ji Liang lowered his eyes: "When we escaped from the base, I saw with my own eyes that Yue Xueer's boyfriend had his neck bitten off by a zombie in order to save her."
His nails dug deep into his palms, his knuckles turning white. "But that woman wasn't sad for even a second. After entering the Jiangcheng base, she couldn't wait to start flirting with new lovers! She treated all the sincere fans who liked her as stepping stones..."
At this point, Ji Liang suddenly looked up, his eyes filled with deep hatred. "My best friend has become half-human, half-ghost, for a woman like this! I wish I could strangle her to death with my own hands!"
As he spoke, his shoulders suddenly slumped as if he had lost his temper. "But she's climbed up on Captain Wu, and I... I have to give up..."
Yan Chu glanced at Wu Yingzhou silently.
Wu Yingzhou covered his face in embarrassment.
He had no idea, he really just wanted to find someone who could do the job!
Ji Liang confessed everything that happened later without Ling Ziyue having to explain it.
After being injected with the reagent, Yuan Lin began to have a persistent high fever. After two days of high fever, Yuan Lin's fever finally subsided, but he became confused and had memory loss.
Fortunately, the side effects did not last too long. After a few days, Yuan Lin gradually regained consciousness. However, when he tried to release his supernatural powers, he found that his supernatural powers were still the same as before, with almost no changes.
This basically means that the first experiment has failed.
Yuan Lin left Ji Liang's laboratory in a daze.
After that, just three days later, riots suddenly broke out in the base. The base fell and Ji Liang fled in panic.
"You all know what happened later." Ji Liang leaned dejectedly against the back of his chair, as if his backbone had been taken away.
Yan Chu's eyes darkened as he asked, "When I went to the Tomorrow Base to clear out the zombies, I saw a monster several hundred meters tall. Do you think this monster could be related to Yuan Lin?"
Ji Liang was stunned for a moment: "How many hundred meters high?"
"We later interviewed the other people who escaped, and quite a few mentioned seeing a monster several meters tall before fleeing the base."
Yan Chu paused and continued:
"So I guess it expanded to such a large size by constantly devouring the zombies around it."
Ji Liang stood up suddenly, and the chair scraped against the ground with a harsh sound.
His face was as pale as paper, and his lips trembled. "What did you say? Devouring zombies?"
Yan Chu narrowed his eyes slightly: "Do you know something about this?"
Ji Liang was stunned for a moment, and suddenly he let out a shrill, bitter laugh, which sounded particularly harsh in the silent room.
His voice became fragmented:
"The first reagent... the crystal core used... came from an A-level devourer..."
The whole office was in an uproar.
Putting the whole thing together, this means that the reagent injected into Yuan Lin's body actually worked.
The only effect was that it turned Yuan Lin into a monster that could only devour zombies non-stop.
In the end, the entire Tomorrow Base was destroyed.
When Ji Liang realized this, his legs went weak and he could hardly stand. His shadow also became distorted under the light.
So, the deaths of those 100,000 people were the result of his willful behavior?
If he hadn't done this experiment, would those people have not died?
Watching Ji Liang stagger away, Ling Ziyue withdrew his gaze and looked at Yan Chu thoughtfully.
"Sister, you're so cruel. You didn't have to tell him the truth at the end."
"Of course I have to tell him," Yan Chu said with a cold look in his eyes, "otherwise how will he know that he has done something wrong, and how will he willingly give up the experiment?"
She knew too well the greed in the human nature. If that experiment succeeded, a bloody storm would immediately break out among the major bases.
By then, there would be no need for zombies to take action, humans would be able to tear each other to pieces.
"By the way, remember to keep this matter a secret for me and don't let more people know about it." Yan Chu earnestly instructed Ling Ziyue.
The monster that Yuan Lin turned into took a lot of effort to kill, even for someone as strong as her and Gu Qinyuan.
If a second one is created, a large base can be destroyed in minutes.
It would be impossible for Ji Liang to continue the research. It would be the best outcome for this matter to end with her.
Ling Ziyue listened to the thoughts surging in her heart and suddenly laughed softly. The laughter was like a spring breeze blowing across the water, with an indescribable tenderness.
"Sister, you are truly... unique."
He said softly, the emotions flowing in his eyes were unclear.
Yan Chu looked at him puzzledly: "What do you mean?"
Ling Ziyue just smiled at her, his eyes curved into crescents.
If the people who discovered this experiment were from the central base, even though they would strongly condemn it openly, they would immediately control Ji Liang in private and then conduct research in secret.
Finally, the method of becoming stronger is firmly in the hands of a very small number of people, further strengthening their ruling power.
In the end times, Ling Ziyue has heard the voices of countless people, those greedy, calculating, and power-hungry thoughts.
Even the so-called "righteous people" only think about the interests of the base and the interests of the country.
Only Yan Chu.
She is for humanity.
Ling Ziyue put away her thoughts and approached eagerly, like a cat begging for food: "Sister, can you let me stay for dinner today? I heard that your boyfriend's cooking is very delicious, I want to try it too~"
"Go if you want to," Yan Chu smiled, "as long as you're not afraid of being thrown out of the window by Gu Qinyuan."
At this moment, Yan Chu suddenly remembered that Gu Qinyuan had mentioned that in the previous six world lines, such a thing had never happened in the Tomorrow Base, and it had persisted safely to the end.
Is it because He Fan was the commander of Tomorrow Base before?
He Fan had the same goal as her. It was likely that he realized the problem when Ji Liang proposed the experimental request and rejected it directly.
Naturally, the subsequent series of events would not have happened.
All I can say is that one wrong step leads to all wrong steps.
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