Chapter 24: Natural disaster? Or man-made disaster?

Every department of the research center was looted by them. Not only did they place most of the instruments in Gu Bingchen's space, but they also looted Jiang Yunqi and Long Yilan's space buttons.

According to Gu Bingchen's words, "You two are not my team members. This trip is considered a cooperation, so you naturally have to take some supplies back to report."

It makes sense, so Jiang Yunqi's space button is almost full.

The space button is different from Gu Bingchen's space ability. It should be five meters high, three meters wide and four meters long. It used to be mainly used to store mechas.

It took them half a day to stuff the instruments into the space, and they planned to return to the first floor.

This place is full of incongruity. Last time they came here, zombies were everywhere, but this time, they didn't encounter a single zombie. This made Gu Bingchen and the others feel alert and curious at the same time.

"Hey, this office, haven't we been here before?" Just as they were about to go downstairs, Tang Yichao looked towards the corner of the stairs.

The person walking in front paused, turned around, and went back to the third floor.

This office is not only at the corner, but also has green plants and cabinets. Perhaps because of the shoveling that occurred during the previous escape, the cabinet was placed across the door handle. The color of the cabinet is close to that of the door. If you don't look carefully, you might really miss it.

"You have good eyesight." Long Yilan lifted up the cabinet that was taller than her by herself. She smiled at Chu Wanyue who wanted to help, "I can do it, you don't have to do anything."

Chu Wanyue was silent and retracted her outstretched hand.

Since she said those words last time, Long Yilan has never done anything out of line. If it weren't for those vague cares, Chu Wanyue would have thought that she finally thought it through and gave up.

Gu Bingchen moved the green plant cabinet on the side, revealing the door with the nameplate.

"Gu Huan?"

Tang Yichao stepped forward and took a look at the words engraved on the nameplate: "Is it Gu Huan's office?"

Jiang Yunqi pushed open the door and walked into the room first.

The inside seemed to have been tidied up, and it was even neater than those departments. There was not a single piece of paper scattered on the floor, and except for some dust raised when the door was opened, the entire space was eerily clean.

"Someone has been here." Jiang Yunqi stepped out of the way, wiping the tabletop with his slender fingers and twisting it, "There is dust on the ground, but the tabletop is almost spotless."

The office was clearly visible at a glance, with several cabinets, an office chair, a desk, a tea table and wooden chairs for guests, and a water dispenser behind the door.

It’s a very simple and common office layout, but it’s strange because this is the end of the world.

Everything that seemed normal was abnormal now.

"Well, the owner even had time to push the office chair under the desk when he left." Gu Bingchen crossed his arms and looked around, "The last time we went to the director's office, it wasn't this neat and clean."

"Eh? Here's a work card." Tang Yichao was used to rummaging around when he arrived at a place. The neatly placed pen holders on the table were all over the table, and he actually found something for him, "Let me see whose it is, Gu...Gu Hua? This is Gu Hua's."

Gu Bingchen raised his hand to take the work card, looked down, and the name column was indeed written as 'Gu Hua', but the photo... The photo looked different from what he saw that day.

He had a good memory. The real person didn't have a mole on his face, but the person in the photo had a mole on the left eyebrow.

"Maybe... mole removal?" Tang Yichao put forward a powerful theory, "Nowadays, it seems that many people have mole removal."

Jiang Yunqi asked, "What is mole removal?"

"It means removing moles on the face or body." Gu Bing handed his work card to Chu Wanyue, and answered Jiang Yunqi's doubts.

Chu Wanyue carefully examined it and said in a very affirmative tone: "No, this is definitely not the same person."

She put her work card on the table and pointed at several places with her fingers: "Moles can be removed, and people's faces can also be reshaped, but eyes and details can't deceive people."

Chu Wanyue recalled the encounter two days ago. Gu Hua's eyes were full of contempt and disdain. The whole person looked arrogant and looked down on others.

However, the person in the photo looked completely different. Her clear and bright eyes revealed an indescribable depth. There was not a trace of smile on her beautiful face. She was neatly dressed with her shirt buttoned up neatly. She looked like a very serious, stable, and meticulous person.

The difference was so great that Chu Wanyue found it difficult to connect the person in the photo with Gu Huan whom she met that day.

Tang Yichao was a little face-blind and couldn't see any difference, but he believed Chu Wanyue, so he turned around and looked through the cabinet.

Most of the documents in the bookcase seemed to have been moved away, leaving only a few professional books and scattered notes.

"Oh, this is a diary?" Tang Yichao was lying on the ground, shaking his head, and he actually found a light blue book at the bottom of the bookcase.

The person who transferred the data probably didn't notice the notebook and accidentally kicked it into the gap of the bookcase.

"Who writes a diary these days?" Gu Bingchen suddenly remembered a hot topic that was circulating on the Internet two years ago, and he blurted it out somehow.

Jiang Yunqi glanced at him, and immediately turned his head to look at the light blue diary.

Gu Bingchen was puzzled by that look.

Wait a minute, he stopped and remembered that when he was at the base two days ago, Jiang Yunqi was always writing something in the study. Could it be a diary?

And Jiang Yunqi didn't understand at a glance that the sentence just now was a hot topic on the Internet a few years ago. Did he misunderstand it?

Damn, does he need to explain it?

Gu Bingchen fell into wild thoughts for a while.

Jiang Yunqi really didn't misunderstand anything, he just felt that what he said was quite right.

He saw that Gu Bingchen was daydreaming again for some reason, so he took the diary and started to look through it.

"This is not a diary, it's a work log." Jiang Yunqi's clear voice brought Gu Bingchen back to his senses. He stepped forward and his eyes fell on the beautiful handwriting on the paper.

[October 13, no progress in the experiment.]

[October 15, the experiment progressed 30%.]

[October 19, an accident occurred in the experiment, and the inspection results showed that the data was erroneous.]

[October 21, the experiment was declared a failure, and the team was disbanded.]

He flipped through several pages of paper, which were all boring records of a certain experiment.

Jiang Yunqi flipped through a few more pages, and finally saw something different.

Gu Bingchen glanced at the time displayed on the log, and a trace of astonishment flashed across his eyes.

[On November 5, the director brought back a gray-white substance and scanned out a large number of unknown bacteria.]

[On November 6, at the meeting, the director organized a team to study.]

[On November 11, the team leader suddenly died of illness, and I took over.]

[On November 22, it was discovered that bacteria have the function of repairing human tissue.]

[On November 25, the extracted bacteria were injected into the dead white mouse.]

[On November 27, the white mouse breathed normally.]

"What...what does this mean?" A guess that he dared not think deeply flashed through Tang Yichao's mind.

This guess was extremely absurd and could not withstand any deep thought.

Chu Wanyue's face was solemn: "If I remember correctly, at the end of October last year, a meteor shower suddenly appeared in the southern Gulf region of our country, as well as in countries such as M, Y, and E."

The meteor shower was very wide and beautiful, and many netizens' comments appeared under the short video platform at that time.

One of the hot comments even joked: Isn't it a sign of the end of the world?

No one took this joke to heart, and no one could have imagined that three months after the meteor shower, that day was also New Year's Eve, and the world really fell into doomsday.

Tang Yizhao certainly remembered it, and he was even there and witnessed the grand and beautiful meteor shower with his own eyes.

It's not that no one has linked the meteor shower with the end of the world, but everyone is rushing on the road of escape and survival, and no one has spent the time to investigate how the end of the world came.

"This... this is not necessarily true, is there anything else in it?" Tang Yichao's face turned pale, and his voice trembled a little.

Jiang Yunqi and Long Yilan had just arrived and did not know the details, so they did not speak to interrupt their conversation.

"And more." Jiang Yunqi turned to the key points again under the burning gaze of others.

Gu Bingchen, who was standing next to him, suddenly looked a little ugly.

[November 30th, the white mouse's vital signs were normal.]

[December 2nd, the white mouse's eyes were red and it was particularly irritable.]

[November 3rd, the white mouse bit another white mouse to death. A few minutes later, the bitten white mouse recovered its vital signs.]

[November 8th,... I was transferred out of the team to take over other projects.]

The work log stopped abruptly.

Chu Wanyue: "The recorded white mice have similar characteristics to zombies."

Tang Yichao gnashed his teeth, his almond eyes filled with anger and sorrow: "So, the end of the world may not be a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster?"

This rhetorical question made everyone present fall silent.

Gu Bingchen was the first to calm down, re-read the work log, and said: "The first cities to break out of the doomsday are coastal cities, followed by inland areas."

"And the places where meteor showers are discovered are also coastal cities."

"Is there a possibility..." "

This experiment accelerated the occurrence of the disaster."

Suddenly, a crisp voice overlapped with Gu Bingchen's low voice.

They looked at the source of the sound, and the tall figure of a woman appeared in front of them.

"Let me introduce myself. I'm Gu Hua, and I'm also the owner of the work log in your hands."

...

In the Huayuan community, Ke Fei widened his eyes, looked at the two corpses inside the door, then turned to look at Li Hui who was squatting behind the door and trembling. Because of surprise, his voice unconsciously rose: "What did you say? Gu Hua ran away?!"

The boy huddled in the corner, his shoulders shaking. He buried his head in his arms, his tone panicked, and said with a crying voice: "I don't know, I was scared. When I came in, I saw Sister Gu Hua surrounded by two zombies. She killed one, and when she saw me, she jumped downstairs."

"Then, then I took a lot of effort to chop off the head of the other zombie, sob ... I'm so scared, does Sister Gu Hua not want me anymore...?"

Fang Xiaoya frowned, walked into the room, squatted down to check the two corpses lying on the ground, both were zombies, one was a male zombie, and the other was an elderly zombie.

There were marks of being chopped on the necks of the zombies with a knife. Unlike the male zombie whose head and body were separated, the neck of the elderly zombie had several knife marks. She glanced at the kitchen knife thrown on the ground, it should be the hand of the thin boy.

"Tell me, what happened at that time." Fang Xiaoya frowned, her eyes fell on the boy in the corner.

Li Hui raised his head, tears streaming down his face, his face pale, his clothes covered with zombie blood: "A few minutes ago..."