By the time Ye Yunyi and her team reached the upper floor, Zhang Sheng was nowhere to be seen. Even the surveillance cameras had been destroyed.
“They escaped. There must be a secret passage here. Let’s search for it,” General Sun said.
Everyone fell silent and stared at Ye Yunyi, who listened intently. She walked to a painting in the monitoring room and, sure enough, found a button. Pressing it opened a door, revealing an elevator.
"You go after them." General Sun arranged for a few people to take the elevator and give chase.
With Zhang Sheng's escape, the ambulance that had been causing trouble for two years was finally breached.
Minister Tang took over the biological research institute and saw the humans being held captive for biochemical experiments. Some had already turned into evolved zombies, while others still retained their humanity, but all had been injected with the virus and could only remain imprisoned for observation.
The doctors who conducted the experiments—the pervert whom General Sun and his group had previously heard about—were arrested, and the others were also detained to extract information about the data, progress, and feasibility of the experiments.
In addition, the supplies at the aid station were inventoried, and porridge was cooked and distributed to those on the outermost perimeter as soon as possible. Those who were starving and about to die held the porridge and wept.
Meanwhile, General Sun handed over the management of the ambulance to Ye Yunyi. Ye Yunyi put Wang Zixiang and Zhao Yong in charge, while she herself rushed back to Mei City to find Dr. Shen.
Next, they need to find the so-called immune individuals; she needs to check the progress of the antidote.
Because there were still many things to do, Ye Yunyi left secretly without attracting the attention of General Sun and Minister Tang.
When Ye Yunyi met Dr. Shen, he had become quite unkempt. His beard had grown to resemble the beards of Taoist priests on television, and his hair had grown very long, haphazardly tied up with a rubber band. His eyes were sunken, with large dark circles, and he was thin and looked much more haggard. However, his eyes were still bright as he checked the data and vaccines back and forth.
Seeing Dr. Shen like this, Ye Yunyi's eyes welled up with tears.
He was truly risking his life to research it.
Ye Yunyi didn't disturb him, and stood quietly at the door watching.
After a long while, Dr. Shen suddenly became excited, "It's done! It's done!"
As he shouted, everyone in the lab gathered around. Dr. Shen picked up a reagent and said, "This reagent is the antidote. It can not only suppress the zombie virus, but also kill it."
He then added another drop of reagent to the zombie virus liquid and showed it to everyone using a magnifying glass.
Everyone took turns watching, watching the active zombie virus slowly become still and eventually die after the reagent was dripped in. Everyone's face was filled with a happy smile.
It's finally coming to an end.
Ye Yunyi was the last to witness the process of dying from the zombie virus, and she was so moved that tears streamed down her face.
"Dr. Shen, you've worked hard." Ye Yunyi said to Dr. Shen.
"I have not let you down." Dr. Shen smiled with particular satisfaction.
"Yes, everyone has worked hard." Ye Yunyi turned to the people around her and said.
"The aid station has been breached, and the antidote has been developed. We can finally go back to normal life."
"Everyone has worked so hard, go and rest first. I'll give the antidote to Minister Tang. Also, Dr. Shen, I'll come pick you up later to meet Minister Tang of the Medical Department."
"Okay, sure."
Ye Yunyi went home to see her parents and children, told them about the current situation, and reassured them that everything would be alright.
In the evening, she drove Dr. Shen back to the ambulance and introduced him to Minister Tang. Minister Tang valued Dr. Shen highly, as he was able to create the antidote.
Although Dr. Shen had tidied up, it was still evident how much effort he had put into creating the antidote.
Subsequently, Minister Tang personally organized a medical team led by Dr. Shen to conduct experiments on the antidote on zombies.
Those zombies that had been infected for a long time and had completely lost their individual consciousness died shortly after the injection. Those who still retained human consciousness gradually lost their zombie characteristics after the injection, slowly returning to normal human form.
On the night they captured the aid station, Sun Jiangjun and others contacted the Central Committee and subsequently reported the progress to the Central Committee.
When the antidote for the zombie virus was developed, the central government sent people to collect samples and production data. The antidote was then produced centrally and distributed to various parts of the country in batches.
After Wang Zixiang took over the ambulance, he also brought Xiao Fang and others back. With the previous experience, they made a count of the ambulance's supplies and registered and sorted out the personnel at the ambulance.
The previous supplies were redistributed, and work positions were rationally arranged, making everything orderly.
After resolving the issue of the aid station, General Sun stayed for a week. Seeing that things were basically settled, he led his troops back home.
Minister Tang was unwilling to go back, mainly because Dr. Shen was unwilling to leave, saying that the cooperation of the immunized individuals was still needed.
With the antidote available, General Sun and Minister Tang no longer bothered to find out who was immune. They focused solely on developing the antidote and the vaccine.
After another two weeks, with the help of a more specialized team and more advanced equipment, they successfully developed a vaccine against the cadaver virus. After three phases of clinical trials, it showed almost no side effects.
When this news came out, the whole country was in an uproar.
Two years after the apocalypse, survivors still exist in various places, and radio stations, which had been silent for a long time, have finally started broadcasting again. In some places, there are still working radios, which are playing on a loop the news that a zombie virus vaccine has been successfully developed, passed clinical trials, and will be mass-produced for everyone to be injected with.
It's as if those two years when the country lost contact with the outside world barely existed.
However, cities like C are a minority nationwide; most government agencies still fulfill their responsibilities to serve the people.
When they heard the news, they all cheered.
It seems that the days of bustling traffic and people coming and going will soon return.
Everything will be the same as before.
Some of the people who left Jiangyue Community because of the attack on the ambulance decided to go back, and Ye Yunyi's family also moved back to their original place.
Those who had left Wangjiagou before all missed their homeland and went back.
At the new base they found in Meishi, some people stayed behind, and everyone tidied up again, slowly restoring it to its previous state.
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