Shen Zhou, Li Jianguo, Fang Yuyang, and Yan Ling entered the gate with waterproof supplies and waited for it to open.
After confirming that they were all wearing diving suits, Chi Xiaoyu closed the gate between the first and second doors and released water to open the gate.
Just as Shen Zhou and his group were about to walk out through the outermost door, a group of zombies suddenly rushed in.
These zombies were not the slow-moving, chained, waxy corpses they had seen at the bottom of the lake, but people wearing research suits. These people looked like they had only recently turned into zombies, and apart from their gray eyes, they were not much different from living people.
The zombies surged in like a tide.
The number is around one hundred.
Soon, Chen Zhou and his companions were surrounded by these zombies.
Chen Zhou and his team quickly got into combat mode, but underwater movement was very inconvenient. They were not used to fighting underwater in diving suits and were bitten by zombies several times. Fortunately, the fabric of the diving suits was very sturdy and did not cause any external injuries.
But cloth can only block it for a while, not forever.
If this continues, they'll be torn apart by zombies sooner or later.
Qiao An'an immediately drew the long sword she was carrying on her back and signaled Chi Xiaoyu to close the sluice gate and release the water.
Ye Jing immediately understood Qiao An'an's meaning, picked up his weapon, and followed behind her.
Chi Xiaoyu closed the sluice gate to release the water while protecting Ya Ya behind her.
Once the water in the sluice gate was drained, Chen Zhou and his men moved swiftly.
After the water was drained, the inner gate could be opened. Qiao An'an and Ye Jing immediately joined the battle after opening the inner gate.
Chi Xiaoyu, on the other hand, protected Ya Ya and Da Hei while simultaneously launching sneak attacks.
These zombies are very agile.
Although Qiao An'an and her companions managed to dodge several fatal attacks thanks to their diving suits and helmets, the battle was arduous and it took them a long time to kill all the zombies.
After killing all the zombies, Ye Jing pointed to one of them and said to Qiao An'an, "I've seen this person before."
Qiao An'an: "You've met him before?"
Ye Jing nodded: "This person is one of the two bad guys who got on the elevator with Tian Mingbo back then."
As everyone looked at the zombies they had killed, their doubts deepened. This submarine was in such a safe place underwater, and they were the masters of this place. What caused them to turn into zombies?
Qiao An'an squatted down and carefully examined the zombies.
She quickly noticed that all the zombies had a scar on their heads, hidden in their hairline and not easily noticed unless you looked closely. Pointing to the hole on the zombie's head, she asked everyone, "Come and take a look, what is this?"
Seeing this, everyone gathered around.
Yan Ling: "It looks like sutures from brain surgery."
Qiao An'an: "Brain surgery?"
Yan Ling nodded: "Our dean used to have a tumor in his brain and underwent brain surgery. They opened his skull, removed the tumor, and then sutured it in the exact same spot as this."
Qiao An'an grabbed another zombie's head: "I can accept that a zombie had brain surgery before it died, but it's not reasonable for every zombie to have brain surgery before it died."
After a thorough inspection, everyone discovered that each zombie had the same stitches in the same spot.
Qiao An'an felt something was wrong the more she thought about it. She quickly walked back to the laboratory and examined Tian Mingbo's bald head, discovering that there were also sutures in the bald spots.
She said to the crowd that had caught up with her, "Ya Ya said before that people disappear every day. Does that mean that people die every day from brain surgery and are then thrown out?"
Shen Zhou felt that this conjecture had some logic: "It's very possible, which is why Ya Ya sees fewer people every day."
Qiao An'an asked, "Then why would they use their own heads to conduct experiments?"
After thinking for a moment, Chen Zhou replied, "Develop a third-generation zombie virus?"
Qiao An'an still couldn't quite understand: "Is it really that crazy to risk your own life to develop a virus?"
Human nature is selfish.
While it is undeniable that there are selfless people in this world.
But it's limited to selflessness. Performing such a collective suicide surgery just to develop a virus is a bit too much. Even the XIE cult only targets the lower-level members. I've never heard of any organization's leadership collectively sacrificing themselves selflessly.
Just as everyone was incredulous, Grandpa Gu's voice suddenly came through the walkie-talkie: "The people from the Imperial Capital Safe Zone have arrived, and they are descending towards your location."
Upon hearing Grandpa Gu's words, everyone secretly realized they were in trouble. They had actually planned their packing time carefully, but the zombies rushing in from outside had delayed them. Now they would have to run into the people from the capital.
Qiao An'an asked, "How many of them are there?"
Grandpa Gu: "Not many, about ten people."
Qiao An'an said, "It's good that they came. They were the ones who broke their promise first. Letting them take us ashore will allow us to get more supplies. Consider it their way of apologizing to us."
Fang Yuyang said with some worry: "I took hostages and hijacked their plane..."
Li Jianguo: "What are you afraid of? It's just a dozen or so people. If they dare to touch you, I'll make sure they come in upright and leave horizontally."
Fang Yuyang was skeptical, but he went with Shen Zhou and Li Jianguo to guard the entrance.
Yan Ling, Ye Jing, and Chi Xiaoyu, led by Qiao An'an, continued to pack usable supplies.
Ya Ya was also helping out.
Only Big Black was extremely anxious, constantly gripping the cage and barking wildly towards the direction of the laboratory.
Qiao An'an didn't believe that Dahei would bark wildly for no reason. She told Yan Ling and the others to continue packing their things, while she went to the laboratory to see if there was anything suspicious that they had overlooked.
She searched the lab but didn't find anything suspicious.
Just as I was about to leave, I inadvertently made eye contact with one of the children who had just turned one year old.
She actually saw smugness, sneer, and disdain in the child's eyes.
Is this... the look a child should have?
However, that look vanished in an instant, so quickly that she thought she was hallucinating.
Qiao An'an felt that it must be because the pressure was too great after diving into deep water that she had such thoughts. She told herself that it was just a child who had just turned one year old.
It's impossible for them to make those expressions.
Just as Qiao An'an was about to leave, she suddenly noticed a faint scar in the child's hair out of the corner of her eye.
Those heartless adults in the laboratory actually used such young children for experiments?
She reached out to touch the child's hair, trying to confirm if the scar on the child's head was the same as the scars on the heads of those zombies. To her surprise, before her hand could even touch the top of the child's head, it was brushed away by the child's soft little hand.
As the child brushed her hand away, he not only looked at her with a cold gaze, but even spoke to her: "What do you want?"
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