Chapter 64: Mutated Sea Fish

The sun shines in through the cracks in the cave ceiling, tiny dust particles float in the air, and the waves hit the shore, making a rustling sound.

This world is not perfect, but it is not as devastated as it is now.

Tang Yichao rubbed his sore eyes, squatted down, picked up a small branch, and wrote and drew on the muddy ground, leaving a mess of traces all over the ground.

In a disaster, he lost his amiable mother, the director.

The children in the orphanage have not seen the vastness of the world before they have encountered disasters, and they will never have the opportunity to grow up.

Resentment?

Of course there was. He even thought maliciously, why didn't the future interstellar space be directly infected by the virus and face a catastrophe again, so that their world would not suffer a disaster.

However, on second thought, the owner of the diary had never expected it.

With the determination to die, he dragged the starship full of viruses into the wormhole, and he was shattered to pieces, but the virus crossed the boundaries of time and space, not only surviving, but also turning another world into a hell on earth.

For a moment, the room was silent.

Long Yilan hesitated to speak. She wanted to say something, but she had no place to comfort.

Although this disaster was not caused by her, it did originate from their planet.

While feeling guilty and ashamed, she was also angry.

"I'm sorry."

A clear voice broke the dull and sad atmosphere.

Jiang Yunqi bent down, his expression serious, and said solemnly: "I would like to apologize to you on their behalf."

Behind him, Long Yilan and Xie Er bowed together and apologized sincerely.

Gu Hua turned her face away, her eyes red, and her mood was complicated.

"What is this?"

Xu Huili was the most emotionally stable among all the people present. His attitude was more accurately described as indifferent.

He looked around and noticed a scrapped machine on the ceiling. The light reflected on the water surface happened to hit the machine, and the center of the round hole flashed with blue light.

Hearing this, Xie Er stepped on the operating table, raised his hand, removed the machine, took out the tools, and violently disassembled it. A chip the size of a fingernail fell to the ground.

Tang Yichao opened his palm and caught it quickly.

The chip was as thin as a cicada's wing. He handed it to Xie Er carefully, fearing that he would break it if he used too much force.

"This... this is the system monitoring inside the starship." Xie Er pushed the glasses on his nose, lowered his eyes, and carefully observed the chip in his hand. After thinking for a moment, he took out a sophisticated instrument from the space button.

"What is this for?" Gu Hua's eyes lit up, and she suppressed the urge to touch it.

"Similar to... your computer." Xie Er inserted the chip into the instrument, paying attention to the reading progress on the blue screen, and taking the time to answer Gu Hua's questions.

The chip may have been affected by the magnetic field, and it took a long time for the progress bar to complete.

Several videos appeared on the blue screen.

Xie Er took a quick look and saw that they were all work descriptions of the diary owner.

Jiang Yunqi pointed to the two most eye-catching videos.

One was the shortest and the other was the longest.

Tang Yichao sniffed and put his mood in order, becoming a happy puppy again.

He came up and said, "Watch the short one first."

Xie Er nodded and followed his instructions and clicked to play.

[On March 21, Star Calendar, I am Researcher No. 095. The 491 Starship I am driving has been anchored in the starry sea for many days. 】

In the video, a thin man in a silver uniform stared at the camera. He had a handsome face and a scholarly temperament, but his eye sockets were sunken, his lips were pale, his eyes were bloodshot, and his exposed skin was purple.

【I conducted a secret experiment based on your highness's information, and everything went smoothly at first. However, just three minutes ago, I was bitten by one of the experimental subjects. 】

【The experimental subject was not afraid of pain. After I removed its limbs, it continued to crawl until I blasted its head with a laser gun, and then I was able to control the situation. 】

The man seemed to have used up all his strength. He was trembling and sweating. His lips were bitten by himself, and blood dripped onto his uniform.

[I found a treatment gun and wanted to treat the wound that was still bleeding, but I found that the wound was rotten and smelled bad. My eyes were bloodshot, like a monster.]

Jiang Yunqi followed the blood dripping and looked at the wound on the man's neck.

The wound was purple and black, and yellow pus was flowing out, which was exactly the same as the symptoms after being infected with the zombie virus.

[In addition, my eyes gradually became unclear, as if they were covered with a layer of mist, and my sense of smell and hearing improved.]

[What scared me even more was that I wanted to eat raw meat, that kind of bloody raw meat. I was like a monster with a mental breakdown, watching myself eat the living experimental subject.]

The man smiled bitterly, and Tang Yizhao realized that his white teeth were still stained with the white hair of the little white mouse.

Unable to hold it back, Tang Yichao bit his throat and gulped.

[This virus... can control my nerves, turning me into a monster that drinks blood and eats flesh.]

[I must not let these viruses survive!]

[Sorry, Your Highness, thank you for saving my life, and I am very grateful for your kindness.]

At this time, the man in the video no longer had much rationality, his scarlet eyeballs covered with gray, he held his last breath and pressed the starship's self-destruct device.

The man closed his eyes, and a relieved smile rose on his handsome face.

The last scene of the video was a colorful fireworks.

The shocking scene made people speechless.

"Self-destruction..." Xu Huili licked his dry and chapped lips and asked, "After self-destruction, can the starship still pass through the wormhole?"

Long Yilan reasonably guessed: "Maybe the starship is parked near the wormhole."

"And the huge energy generated by the self-destruction will push the starship into the wormhole. Maybe self-destruction is part of his plan."

Tang Yichao grunted, his lips moved, and he said weakly: "Then... let's watch another video."

This long video really cannot be finished in a short time, and because of some damage, the video is intermittent and there are a lot of snow screens.

"It's okay, you can take it back and look at it slowly."

Xie Er packed up the intact instruments and data one by one and put them into the space button.

"Can we really develop a vaccine?" Gu Huan murmured to herself, her words full of uncertainty about the future.

Ever since she knew that Jiang Yunqi and his group came from the future, she was excited. After witnessing such a huge thing as a starship and other sophisticated instruments, Gu Huan was excited. She thought that future technology would definitely be able to promote Blue Star's progress in researching zombie vaccines.

However, when she saw the video of the researcher who just died, Gu Huan fell into confusion.

Even people in the future can't solve the zombie virus, let alone them?

"Yes, we can." Xie Er's voice was gentle and firm, "We can do it."

Gu Hua was slightly stunned.

Yes, the road of vaccine research must be full of challenges and difficulties. If your confidence is shaken now, then what is the point of continuing to persevere?

"You... really didn't hear the sound of falling into the water?"

Xu Huili lowered his head. The sea water was turbid and he couldn't see what was under the water at all.

Tang Yichao stepped forward, pulled him back, and stared at the calm sea cautiously: "Don't get close, be careful."

I don't know since when, the surroundings became quiet and silent, without breeze or waves.

"We shouldn't stay here for long." Chu Wanyue raised her eyes. It was dark outside. Before she knew it, it was already evening. "While it's not completely dark, we..."

Before she finished speaking, Long Yilan suddenly swung her knife at her.

"Be careful!" She stretched out her hand to grab Chu Wanyue's waist and quickly retreated.

Chu Wanyue looked back and saw a dead fish on the ground.

"The sea is full of fish."

Gu Bingchen frowned and retracted his legs that were moving outward.

The turbid sea was densely packed with sea fish. These fish were large in size and had sharp fangs beside their lips.

"Damn, they must be poisonous. These fish can jump!"

Tang Yizhao turned sideways to avoid a sea fish that jumped out of the water. The next moment, flames immediately wrapped around the sea fish, and the air was filled with the smell of grilled fish.

Xu Huili, who had been hungry for most of the day, had a rolling Adam's apple and quietly swallowed his saliva.

"It smells a bit delicious, can I eat it?" Tang Yichao didn't have the same idol burden as Xu Huili. After his stomach growled, he licked the corners of his lips and stared at the grilled sea fish with his almond-shaped eyes hungry.

Jiang Yunqi was worried that the kid would really eat it, so he kicked the fish into the sea.

"Ah, it's gone."

Tang Yichao's eyes were reluctant to let it go.

Chu Wanyue condensed the ice blade and kept chopping the big fish that jumped out of the sea. At the same time, she observed these sea fish: "There is no corpse, they are all mutant fish."

The scales of the mutant sea fish are hard, and the Tang sword dagger only leaves shallow marks on them.

There are many kinds of marine life. There are tens of thousands of sea fish alone, and the mutant sea fish gathered near the cave alone are too numerous to count.

The pale moonlight was reflected on the sea, the sea water washed the beach again and again, the lighthouse in the distance flickered, and the humid sea breeze carried the strong smell of fish and the rusty smell of blood.

Tang Yichao sat on the ground without any image, behind him was a mountain of grilled fish.

The whole cave was filled with the smell of fish. He no longer had any hunger for grilled fish, but only felt that he was intoxicated by the smell of fish.

Tang Yichao's face was pale, he tilted his head, and gulped twice.

"I've killed fish in RT-Mart for ten years, but I'm not as disgusted as I am today." He covered his mouth and nose, and set a new flag, "I swear, I will never eat fish again in my life!"

The bodies of mutated sea fish floated on the sea, and the blood dyed the sea water in front of him red, making this place even more eerie.

"Sea fish can't be killed completely, they are just hiding temporarily." Chu Wanyue's face was ashen, and she couldn't stand the smell of fish in the air. After resting for less than two minutes, she stood up, shook her sore arms, and said, "Let's leave quickly."

Thanks to Gu Bingchen's strong flashlight, the dazzling light illuminated the road under their feet. They supported each other and left quickly.

Jiang Yun stood at the entrance of the cave and stared deeply at the starship in the dark.

"It doesn't matter. We can wait for a chance to transport the starship out later."

Gu Bingchen saw Jiang Yunqi's inner thoughts at a glance. Unfortunately, his space could not accommodate such a large area for storing the starship for the time being, otherwise it would definitely be put into the space.

"I'm not reluctant." Jiang Yunqi looked at the stars twinkling in the night sky and said, "I just feel that all this seems to be non-existent."

"What a philosophical statement." Gu Bingchen stroked Jiang Yunqi's palm and said with a smile, "Let's go, General Jiang, you don't want to talk to me about life and philosophy here, do you?"

"We all smell like fish."

Jiang Yunqi realized it later, lowered his head and sniffed his collar, his face suddenly changed, and he pulled Gu Bingchen and quickly followed the pace of the team members in front.

Gu Bingchen witnessed Jiang Yunqi's expression change and laughed forward and backward.