Chapter 146 There are some things you cannot ask
"It should be over there."
Qiao Lan pointed in the direction where the strange smell was most severe.
This smell is the result of negative mutation of human flesh after being injected with the Saint Yester medicine, mixed with the smell of medicine, a disgusting smell.
Qiao Lan could never forget this smell.
My heart was in turmoil, and scenes from my past life flashed before my eyes.
That painful memory happened in another small town hundreds of miles away from City C. At that time, there was a laboratory in Saint Yes, which mainly studied human body modification.
It is a horrific place where the blood and tears of countless survivors of the apocalypse are intertwined.
A dried-up pond outside the town served as the laboratory's corpse dump. All the failed experimental subjects were carelessly discarded there, sprayed with a special preservative powder to prevent them from rotting normally. Instead, they dried quickly in the sun, preventing the spread of the disease.
This is how Saint Yesh treated the bodies. Innocent test subjects were tortured while alive and were not respected in death.
Qiao Lan deeply remembered the tragic scenes he saw in his previous life. He never expected in this life that not long after the end of the world began, Saint Yes would dare to build a laboratory in the city and openly abandon corpses.
Too rampant!
"It's outrageous! How dare they use innocent people for drug experiments!"
Captain Xiao was furious after hearing Qiao Lan's introduction to Saint Yes Company. The two twin awakened people beside him were also shocked and angry. They had never expected that in this world, besides the thugs who burned, killed, and looted, there were organizations even more evil than the thugs.
"Should we continue to pursue the main culprit of the riot, or deal with this laboratory?" Captain Xiao asked Ye Qi for his opinion.
Qiao Lan said, "It's not necessarily a coincidence that the main culprits of the riot disappeared near here. They may have some connection with the laboratory."
If there is not enough support behind it, it is difficult for ordinary people to set up a large-scale base in a short period of time. For example, Ye Qi's base was established with the support of the arsenal and the help of Qiao Lan's supplies. So, could it be that Saint Yes is behind the thugs' territory in the south of the city?
Ye Qi agreed with Qiao Lan's opinion.
It is very possible that an evil company that regards human life as worthless will support the establishment of an equally evil base of thugs.
He suggested: "Let's follow the smell to find the laboratory first, and collect clues about the main culprit of the riot."
"good!"
Of course, the members of Team Xiao hated the laboratory and wanted to destroy it right away.
The five of them sped up and ran along the edge of the pit, relying on Qiao Lan's ability to detect smells to search for the laboratory.
"Thirty-seven, thirty-eight, thirty-nine..."
After running about a hundred meters, they saw a thin man squatting at the edge of a pit, muttering to himself, which attracted the attention of several people.
"What is he counting in the pit?" Captain Xiao was surprised.
"have no idea!"
In fact, as they approached this area, they saw fewer and fewer survivors on the road. When they reached the body pit, there was no one around. It was quiet, no survivors stumbling along the road in search of food, and no sounds of life could be heard in the remaining buildings.
It seems that the place where the Saint Yes Laboratory exists is where people are fleeing or dying in the surrounding area of radiation.
Now a person suddenly appeared and behaved very strangely, and everyone immediately became alert.
Soon the five of them ran to the thin man.
The man also noticed them, but he only took a glance and continued looking at the corpse pit and counting.
"Forty-one, forty-two, forty-three..."
The five people exchanged glances and half-surrounded him.
"What are you counting? Who are you and why are you here?" Captain Xiao walked up to the other party.
The thin man looked to be in his twenties, very young, with dark skin, high cheekbones and small eyes. If he had walked among the crowds on the street before the end of the world, he would have had a very ordinary and inconspicuous appearance.
When questioned, he became a little impatient and turned to frown at Captain Xiao.
"Come to get medicine? Go get it directly. Don't meddle in other people's business. There are some things you can't ask."
He gave everyone a warning look and continued to face the big pit, squatting and counting.
"From the tone of his voice, he sounds like someone from the laboratory." Qiao Lan's eyes were slightly cold.
Captain Xiao reached out to grab the man's collar, trying to pull him up from the ground and interrogate him.
But in the blink of an eye, the man's figure disappeared from the spot, and when he reappeared, he was squatting on a stone in the pit, nearly ten meters away.
It can be called teleportation.
But there was no energy fluctuation around him.
The five people were slightly surprised.
He looks like an ordinary person, but he has great abilities?
"Aren't you here to get medicine?" The thin man was also startled and looked at Qiao Lan and his group seriously. "Where did the Awakened come from? I advise you not to cause trouble here."
"Are you threatening us?"
Team Xiao jumped onto a rock near the enemy.
The man immediately moved further away cautiously and said impatiently, "Hurry up and don't disturb me, otherwise you won't be able to leave later."
"Why can't we leave?" Team Xiao chased after them.
The man frowned deeply. "Are you tired of living? Don't think you can run rampant just because you've awakened a little ability. This world..."
He suddenly stopped talking and looked at the distance in surprise, "It will change!"
He jumped back to the edge of the pit, left the pit, and snorted at Team Xiao who was still in the pit: "Why don't you get out of here?"
Captain Xiao, who had a bad temper, did not get angry with this man at this time.
Because something unbelievable happened in the pit.
Suddenly, some of the discarded corpses began to move, like people who had been sleeping for a long time suddenly waking up. Slowly and leisurely, using their hands and feet, one by one, they went from lying down to standing.
His eyes were dull and lifeless, and his body retained the color and stiffness of a corpse, yet he could move.
They turned their dead eyes towards Team Xiao one after another, and then, stumbling and threateningly, they tried to pounce on Team Xiao.
The movements were not fast, but very ferocious. Its mouth kept opening and closing, emitting a strong foul smell, as if it wanted to bite people!
"...Forty-four, forty-five, forty-six..."
The thin man no longer paid attention to Qiao Lan and his group. He stared at places far and near in the big pit and continued counting.
At this time, Qiao Lan and others suddenly understood.
What he was counting were the corpses that were about to undergo mutation.
Wherever he counted, a copy of a dead body would stand up one after another, either quickly or slowly.
One after another, they locked onto Team Xiao who was still standing in the pit and rushed forward.
The corpses close to the edge of the pit became interested in Qiao Lan and his group, and crawled to the edge of the pit and tried to climb out.
“…Zombies?”
Ye Qi took the lead and stood in front of Qiao Lan.
Even though the bodies were still one or two meters away from the edge of the pit, he subconsciously wanted to protect Qiao Lan.
"Yes, zombies."
Zombies, like those in movies and TV series, actually appeared in the apocalypse. However, they didn't spread through human-to-human transmission, but rather were a side effect of Saint Yes's potion, affecting only corpses. These creatures were incredibly powerful against ordinary people and were once a nightmare for survivors.
Qiao Lan felt heavy in his heart, yet also a little lucky.
I feel sad for these innocent experimental subjects who cannot rest in peace even after death and have turned into zombies.
But he also knew that this was a rare opportunity to collect crystal cores in bulk.
These zombies also have crystal cores in their bodies, which are different from those of the awakened ones. The quality is not very good, but they also contain a certain amount of energy and can be absorbed.
"Behead!"
Qiao Lan taught his companions how to deal with zombies.
These zombies rely on electrical signals transmitted from the brain to guide their actions, and they can be subdued by simply blocking nerve conduction.
She put away her gun, drew her knife, and prepared to dig out the crystal core.
The thin man who was counting looked at her in surprise, "How do you know how to behead people?"
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