Gu Qingqiu was so frightened that she sat up straight almost instantly, her back drenched in cold sweat.
It was a dream... but Gu Qingqiu still felt uneasy. She gently touched her stomach until her heartbeat calmed down, then got up and went to the shower room.
The mirror in the shower room reflected Gu Qingqiu's current appearance: short hair that reached her ears, with two simple black hair clips above her earlobes, tightly gathering her hair behind her ears, revealing a smooth and fair face.
She was very thin and frail in this world, perhaps because of the lack of food resources and nutrition in the post-apocalyptic world, coupled with the fatigue of spending long hours in the laboratory. This made her belly protrude more noticeably, but fortunately, the thick laboratory suit made it not so obvious for the time being.
After taking the Forget-Me-Not herb, past events should have vanished like bubbles, so Gu Qingqiu's brief palpitation when she saw Ji Xingqiao in her dream gradually disappeared as the hot water in the shower washed away her.
She doesn't even have any special feelings for the child in her womb now. In the apocalypse, this child might become a burden, and even if it is born, it might not survive. It's rather pitiful.
After drying herself off and putting her lab coat back on, Gu Qingqiu entered the observation area of the laboratory once again.
Shen Yiting lay blankly on the operating table, staring at the ceiling. Her limbs were restrained to prevent her from escaping. She had clearly heard Gu Qingqiu's approaching footsteps because her ears twitched, but she did not speak or move her gaze.
Gu Qingqiu casually pulled up a chair and sat down next to her, took out a notebook, and asked routinely, "Did you close your eyes today?"
Shen Yiting replied numbly, "No."
Gu Qingqiu drew an "X" on a line in her notebook, then asked, "Are you feeling unwell? Tired? Hungry? Sore?"
Shen Yiting, sparing with words, replied: "No."
Gu Qingqiu asked many more questions until every line of information in the notebook was recorded.
Putting down her notebook, Gu Qingqiu stood up, scanned Shen Yiting's body with a device, and instructed her assistant to come in and draw a vial of blood from Shen Yiting.
Shen Yiting finally reacted. She turned her head and looked at Gu Qingqiu with resentment: "You old witch who disregards human life! You will be punished! You will die a horrible death!"
Gu Qingqiu said calmly, "Don't worry, I've already received my retribution. When it's my turn to die, I will die naturally."
To Shen Yiting, this appearance was nothing short of provocation and mockery, fueling her anger. She cursed Gu Qingqiu in her heart while praying that Luo Ze'en would come to rescue her soon.
Gu Qingqiu didn't care what Shen Yiting thought. Anyway, she had done so many bad things, so one more wouldn't make a difference.
Besides, she is indeed in a bad mood right now. Thinking about her situation and the difficulties she has to face, no one would be happy.
However, after receiving the information transmitted by the male protagonist system, Gu Qingqiu had already discovered that the real purpose of the South Base laboratory capturing superhumans for human experimentation was not to study the conditions for superhuman awakening, but to create a vaccine that could prevent zombie attacks.
When the zombie outbreak first occurred, the western base misused what it thought was a successful vaccine without conducting sufficient experiments and observation of reactions. This caused many people who received the vaccine to become mentally unstable, and some even mutated into zombies. As a result, all bases across the country urgently suspended vaccine experiments and issued a ban, prohibiting further research on such vaccines.
Therefore, Gu Qingqiu could only find a seemingly perfect excuse to secretly conduct her research.
In fact, Gu Qingqiu is also an awakened superpower, but her superpower is mental. She now has extremely precise calculation ability and memory, not to mention her intelligence. She just glanced at the experimental records and already understood the general situation.
Gu Qingqiu's research is now more than halfway complete, and she has a general research direction in mind—she discovered that the genes of people who awaken superpowers will mutate. By extracting the mutated genes and combining them with crystal cores taken from zombies, and then adding some immune drugs, when the proportions of these elements reach a certain reasonable range, there is a chance to develop a real zombie vaccine.
However, the human genome contains approximately 3.16 billion DNA base pairs, some of which make up about 100 genes. It would be very difficult for Gu Qingqiu to accurately locate the real mutated gene among so many genes and fuse it with the zombie crystal core.
Because there was no prior research or references, Gu Qingqiu could only use the most rudimentary but also the most rigorous method—exhaustive enumeration.
However, this is a huge undertaking with two major variables, which is difficult for Gu Qingqiu to complete on her own. Therefore, she set up a program in the computer to start calculating automatically. The current progress is 12%, which means that Gu Qingqiu has only eliminated 12% of the possible combinations.
Even if computers worked day and night, they could only grow at an extremely slow rate of 0.0001% per minute.
Gu Qingqiu needs more people with superpowers to more accurately locate the mutated genes and study their commonalities.
The male protagonist, as expected, is naturally blessed with a halo; somehow, he managed to successfully hack into the laboratory's communication screen.
Just as everyone was busy in the lab, the lights suddenly went out, and a handsome face with a fierce look appeared on the big screen. He grinned wickedly and said, "Hey, guess how much of the experimental data that wasn't saved was left during the power outage?"
Everyone's expression was not good. Gu Qingqiu spoke up, her tone very serious: "Please stop interfering with our work process for your own petty love affairs. You should know that our efforts are all for a better tomorrow for humanity."
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