Chapter 78 Hatching Little Zombies 20 “You can stand anywhere you want. …
078 Hatching Little Zombie 20
Jin Lan held her head and lay on the ground, trembling: "I said, I said, I used 'Resurrection', this is a prop..."
Lu Jiu heard this sentence clearly.
He changed his stance and looked at He Lin again.
He Lin narrowed his eyes at this moment.
Lu Jiu's gaze swept towards Zhang Mu and Zhao Lushan again.
Zhang Mu frowned, and Zhao Lushan was a little confused: "Ah?"
…Lu Jiu withdrew his gaze.
Jin Lan said to herself: "I came from the fast-travel game, I am a player, the world you are in is an unfinished mission world. I originally had a system, but that system disappeared, leaving only a treasure chest. 'Resurrection' is the Tao in that treasure chest-"
"What are you talking about?" Zhang Mu interrupted him again, "Are you kidding us?"
Jin Lan looked up blankly.
He saw the expressions of the people in front of him. At first he didn't understand why they looked at him in such a strange way. Gradually, he seemed to understand something.
"…Didn't you hear me? You didn't hear anything I said?!"
Zhao Lushan frowned, "What are you pretending to be? You said something and then stopped, making it completely incomprehensible, and then you pretended that some mysterious force had erased your words? Jin Lan, have you watched too many TV dramas and think everyone else is a fool?"
"I'm not acting!" Jin Lan said excitedly, "Quickly break through the game, can you hear me?!"
This time, Jin Lan stood up straight and faced them.
People outside the cage can see it clearly.
——He did move his lips, but there were three words that they could not hear.
Zhang Mu's face changed.
Zhao Lushan still looked suspicious: "You are just acting, you are deliberately making mouth shapes but not making any sound..."
"I'm not acting, I'm talking the whole time!" Jin Lan was going crazy, "I knew it, I knew it wouldn't work if I just said it like that! The Quick Travel Bureau will erase all information related to them!"
Zhao Lushan was completely confused.
What he heard was, “I knew it, I knew it wouldn’t work to say it so directly, __ will erase all information related to them.”
What is happening before them now, is it a poor performance or a mysterious metaphysics?
Zhang Mu stood up straight and whispered, "Boss..."
Zhao Lushan couldn't see it, but he could.
Jin Lan had been speaking with force, and this person did not deliberately lower his voice when saying certain words.
He wasn't acting.
So...how do we explain this situation?
Even though he was as calm as a curtain, he couldn't help but get goose bumps at this moment.
…
After hearing this, He Lin turned his head and looked at Lu Jiu.
He asked, "You couldn't hear his complete words either?"
Lu Jiu was stunned: "Well...yes, everyone is the same, right?"
The man just looked at him.
"But Jiujiu, you don't seem surprised."
"...You don't look that surprised," Lu Jiu said calmly, "What should we do now? Let him repeat it again, and then we can try to see his lip shape?"
"What do you think?"
"..." Lu Jiu was a little confused about what He Lin was thinking at the moment, "I think it's better for us to stop here."
Immediately, Zhang Mu and Zhao Lushan also looked at him.
"This situation is so weird, isn't it? If there is a force that doesn't want us to hear Jin Lan's complete words, then even if we try to see his lip shape, that force may continue to stop us."
What Lu Jiu said at this moment were all his real concerns all along.
"How will it stop us then? Blind our eyes?"
"—or maybe he cut his lip."
He Lin said this gently and calmly.
Lu Jiu was stunned.
Jin Lan's face changed drastically: "Quick Play would never treat players like this! Don't talk nonsense! It's impossible, absolutely impossible!"
Lu Jiu lowered his voice: "He Lin, are you serious? If that power would choose to do this, it would have broken Jin Lan's vocal cords just now...Are you really that curious about what Jin Lan said?"
"I'm not curious about him." He Lin looked at him and said.
Lu Jiu's heart skipped a beat.
"But," He Lin retracted his gaze and chuckled, "I'll listen to you."
He pulled the gun from his waist, raised his arm, and pointed it at Jin Lan.
Jin Lan's eyes were red with anger: "I have said everything you asked me to say! I have said it all!! Why can't you let me go?!"
Zhao Lushan came back to his senses and cursed, "The first thing you did after resurrection was to instigate other bases to deal with us. Why can't you let us go?"
“I, I won’t do it again,” Jin Lan’s tears flowed down. “Please, I really won’t do it again. After I get out, I will stay away from you and never appear in front of you again… Please, please, I really don’t want to die… I came to this world with great difficulty, not to live like this…”
He Lin held the gun quietly and did not pull the trigger.
Lu Jiu suddenly had a feeling - this man seemed to be waiting for something.
But what is he waiting for?
Jin Lan fell to the ground again, crying and begging.
In the dim light, something seemed to happen suddenly.
Lu Jiu took a quick breath when he heard 111.
Immediately following.
"ah--"
A shrill scream.
Jin Lan suddenly hugged her head, fell to the ground, and began to twitch violently.
As if he was struck by lightning, his body was stiff and trembling, and it arched and bent in a deformed manner.
Zhang Mu and Zhao Lushan were stunned by this sudden change, and Lu Jiu was also a little confused.
What happened to Jin Lan?
"111, 111!" Lu Jiu called out in his mind, "What happened?"
"Jiujiu, I, I don't know," 111 said, "Jin Lan's soul code seemed to have come out just now, but now it has retracted!"
"Why does your voice sound a little strange?"
"It seems like there was something wrong with the system of the Quick Pass Bureau just now. I'll go ask!"
111 disappeared.
And He Lin put down his gun.
Lu Jiu came back to his senses, looked at the man again, and frowned.
He had been standing behind the man since entering the prison.
He had been observing this man's every move, every change in his expression, but at this moment he found that he really couldn't understand it.
After He Lin put down the gun, he leaned back in his chair.
When Jin Lan's convulsions subsided, he asked calmly, "What can we gain by letting you go?"
Jin Lan was still lying on the ground, unable to stand up. Hearing these words, he began to tremble again.
He Lin's tone was very calm, but every word he uttered made Jin Lan feel a deep chill.
"Base No. 1 never makes a losing deal."
Perhaps it was the desire to survive that made Jin Lan suddenly remember something.
A certain memory of his suddenly came back to him.
He suddenly remembered that on the way to Base No. 1, he was briefly awake for a few seconds and heard the conversation between the two people who were driving in front.
They mentioned the "original strain".
"...I heard that Base No. 1 wants the original strain?"
"Yeah, it seems to be related to the antidote. The original strain must be present for evolution to occur..."
"Can it still evolve?"
"Yes, someone over there succeeded."
…
Evolution? Antidote? Original strain? Has anyone succeeded?
At this moment, among the myriad of threads, Jin Lan seemed to have grasped something.
His memory went back to that snowy night. He recalled that they were squatting downstairs of that small building and saw He Lin's figure appear behind the curtains of a room upstairs. He felt doubtful at that time.
Why did He Lin and Lu Jiu come to the ruins area?
Where did the Indominus Rex go?
At the same time, a question that had arisen earlier suddenly popped into his mind.
——Why is it that Lu Jiu is the deputy of the adventurer team, but he has no recollection of ever meeting this young man?
There are many mysteries, but the answers seem to be behind that layer of translucent paper.
Jin Lan stood in front of the paper again. As long as she raised her hand and poked it, the paper would tear.
The memories in his mind were in a chaotic mess, and among the hundreds of millions of pictures, Jin Lan finally caught a glimpse of something.
He became excited and trembling. He stretched out his hand like lightning, grabbed one of the pictures, and pulled it fiercely in front of his eyes.
That was the scene that afternoon when we met the adventurer team.
——At the end of the long queue, there was an iron cage being transported alone, with a zombie locked inside.
At that time, one of their team members sighed and said: "This is our teammate... He was bitten by the original strain zombie."
At that time, Jin Lan listened to the sad words and just cast a casual glance at the iron cage.
…At this moment, he suddenly turned his eyes and looked at Lu Jiu.
He met Lu Jiu’s dark eyes.
His eyeballs trembled.
……Hahaha! !
Hahahaha! So that’s how it is! So that’s how it is!!
Jin Lan gasped.
He said: "I, I have something to trade with you!"
"I have the original strain! I have the original strain virus culture fluid, it's on me! But my deal is that you must let me go and give me one of your antidotes!"
Zhao Lushan and Zhang Mu tensed up instantly.
He Lin remained unmoved.
"We have already extracted the live virus from the original strain of zombies."
Jin Lan froze and yelled, "How much virus can you extract using this method? Is it enough for your research? Do you know how much I have? I have a full 10 milliliters of culture medium!"
"Do you know how much virus is in this 10 milliliters of liquid? Do you know what this means, He Lin? Even if you capture all the existing original zombies, you won't be able to extract so much from them! Your researchers will go crazy when they see this amount of virus culture fluid! They will go crazy!"
He Lin's voice remained steady.
"Even so, why should I make a deal with you? You said that the culture medium is on you. If we kill you, we can get it."
"You wish! You wish!! Before you kill me, I will crush this bag of liquid! Once the culture medium spreads under the skin, it will not be so easy for you to extract the virus completely!" Jin Lan covered her thigh and roared threateningly.
——He buried the 10 ml of liquid under the skin of his thigh!
Lu Jiu said coldly: "Jin Lan, how can we be sure that you are not using some other liquid to fool us? What if we let you go and find out that there is no virus in the 10 milliliters of liquid?"
Jin Lan's face twisted.
"You have no idea where these 10 milliliters of virus came from!"
"So where did it come from?" Lu Jiu asked back, "If, as you said, we can never extract this amount of virus culture fluid from living zombies, then where did you get this 10 milliliters of liquid? Jin Lan, aren't your words contradictory?"
“——This 10 milliliters of culture medium was obtained from my father’s laboratory! The zombie virus came from that laboratory, don’t you understand?!”
After Jin Lan roared, he realized something belatedly.
The entire prison has become extremely quiet.
Jin Lan's teeth began to chatter.
He looked at the four people in front of him who had become extremely quiet, his face flushed with boundless fear and shame.
He squeezed out the words from between his teeth.
"...My father and I...want to save humanity...There are too many natural disasters, and humans can't survive in such an environment...We have come up with a way to make humans evolve, to evolve to the point where they can resist natural disasters...This evolution can only be achieved through viral infection..."
"Halfway through the experiment, the zombie virus was leaked as a semi-finished product... Dad was the first person to be infected with the virus... Dad was also a victim... We are all victims..."
"We didn't do it on purpose... We didn't complete the experiment at all... If we could carry out the experiment as we originally planned, we would succeed and save all of humanity..."
The only sound in the entire prison was Jin Lan's hysterical mumbling.
Lu Jiu exhaled slowly and put down his hands.
He and the other three looked at each other.
"Jin Lan, we can agree to your deal."
*
The prison door was opened.
When the sunlight shone on her face, Jin Lan narrowed her eyes for a moment.
His hair was stuck to his temples by cold sweat, and after experiencing such a huge ups and downs in his emotions, he became a little dazed.
He saw the residents of Base No. 1 gathered outside the prison.
They looked at him with resentment.
He flinched.
Zhao Lushan came over, unlocked the handcuffs on his hands with the key, stuffed a plastic bag into his hand, and said coldly:
"Here are the things. I've told you how to use them. The antidote is in the syringe, but injecting the antidote alone will leave you disabled. You must first apply the black liquid on the cotton swab to the wound or mucous membrane, and then inject the antidote. This will ensure that you can return to normal."
Jin Lan subconsciously glanced at Lu Jiu standing beside her.
Zhao Lushan sneered: "Don't think about it. Lu Jiu was directly infected with the original strain, so it was able to evolve after being directly injected with the antidote. Have you forgotten that you have handed over the original strain virus to us? You only have the mutant strain you made up in your body now!"
"What's more, we still don't know whether injecting the new antidote after being directly infected with the original strain will be successful, and whether there will be any risks."
"Jin Lan, don't be too greedy! Let's go!"
Jin Lan was pushed and took a step forward.
As soon as he took a step, the wound on his thigh was torn.
Jin Lan could feel the blood flowing down his thigh, and the severe pain made him dizzy.
He bit his lip and forced himself to move forward... Only by moving quickly could he escape from such an angry gaze...
…
Time goes back to one day ago. In the secret research team laboratory.
He Ying said: "I think the problem still lies in the strain. If you think about it carefully, although Jiujiu is infected with the original strain of the virus, he has been transformed through the antidote. He is not a zombie of the original strain in the strict sense!"
"We can't achieve the same evolutionary effect as him by smearing his blood and then injecting the antidote! We must have the real original strain of the virus!"
"I even suspect that there is a difference between level 1 infection and level 2 infection—"
Seeing everyone's confused expressions, He Ying explained, "Level 1 infection is when the human body is directly infected with the virus in the environment, and Level 2 infection is when zombies infect humans."
"I suspect that the reactions of level 1 and level 2 infected people will be very different after being directly injected with the antidote. Jiujiu is a level 2 infected person!"
Dr. Li concluded: "No matter what, we still have to capture a few original zombies and bring them back alive."
Everyone was talking about it.
“That’s too difficult.”
"Yes, the original strain of zombies is too difficult to deal with. It is already difficult to kill them without being killed by them, and you have to capture them alive..."
"It would be great if we could extract the original strain of the virus directly from the environment..."
…
At this moment, the sun gradually rises to the sky.
Jin Lan moved his feet and staggered through the entire Base No. 1.
The gate of the base was right in front of him.
Suddenly, a stone hit him.
He screamed in pain and turned around in panic, only to see an old man in his sixties or seventies pointing at his nose and cursing, "You evil bastard!"
"You and your father killed everyone!"
The crowd was excited.
"Wise Group, how dare you brag about yourselves like that!"
"shameless!"
"Something that harms people!"
Jin Lan turned around, shrank her neck, and quickened her pace despite the pain.
With tears in his eyes, he arrived at the gate of the base and stepped out under the indifferent gaze of the guards on both sides.
…
Three hours ago.
"Jin Lan is still alive?!"
"How is that possible? I saw Zhang Mu blow his head off with my own eyes that day!"
"He used some kind of metaphysics, didn't he?!"
"Shit, let's catch him and torture him!"
"I always feel like this is so weird, can I just kill him?"
"No!" A shout interrupted them, and Dr. Li hurriedly appeared in front of everyone, "I just contacted a friend and learned something unexpectedly. Jin Lan's father worked in the XXX laboratory during his last period of life!"
Facing everyone's confused faces, Dr. Li paused and said, "The zombie virus first broke out near this laboratory. Don't you know?!"
Everyone was shocked.
"What's the meaning?"
"The emergence of the zombie virus is related to Jin Lan's father?!"
Dr. Li said to He Lin who was looking at him from the side, "I suspect Jin Lan may have the original strain virus culture fluid in his hands. We have to trick him!"
"If we ask him directly, he won't tell us the truth. At least he won't let us know how much he has. We have to give him some information, but we can't let him know too much about us. Let Chief Ye's subordinates cooperate and put on a show..."
…
The door to Base No. 1 slowly closed behind him.
Jin Lan took a breath, stopped, and opened the plastic bag that Zhao Lushan had stuffed into his hand.
There is a syringe in the bag with 5 ml of clear liquid in the needle.
There was a cotton swab wrapped in a plastic bag with a black stain on the tip.
Jin Lan took out the two things tremblingly.
He hesitated for a moment, then pulled down one side of his pants, exposing his left thigh.
There was a five-centimeter-long open wound on the side of his thigh. Just now, the group of people took away the original virus culture fluid that he had hidden for several years.
Over the years, Jin Lan had no idea why she had hidden the culture medium.
At first, he seemed to be thinking that maybe one day he could continue his father's research and allow his dead father and him to return to the throne of savior.
Later, he thought that if something unexpected happened, he could use this part of the virus culture fluid to deter others...
And finally.
These viruses have become bargaining chips.
wrong.
They are the steps to evolution! In a way, he and his father succeeded after all, didn't they?!
Jin Lan pressed both sides of the open wound on her thigh with her hands.
Then he gritted his teeth and used force to pry open the wound.
The blood gushed out faster, and the pain made the veins on his forehead bulge, but he continued to push harder and harder until the wound was torn deeper -
…
An hour ago.
"Jiujiu, are you saying that if Jin Lan proposes a deal, we can agree? Why? He is in our hands, and we have the final say on whether he lives or dies. How can he be the one making the decision?"
Lu Jiu analyzed to He Ying: "Brother He, when the Wise Group was detained last time, He Lin had them searched from head to toe, but they didn't find any virus culture fluid, right?"
"We seized their cars, computers, and everything else, but we didn't find any suspicious liquid storage inside. So if Jin Lan had the original strain of the virus, where could he hide it? A very mysterious place? Or did he hide it on his body like he hid the drug?"
"Jin Lan is a very cunning person. Knowing that he has the bargaining chip in his hand, he will not easily tell us the answer. He is afraid of death, but if it really comes to an extreme situation, he may choose to die together with us."
He Ying said, "Then there is no need for us to really agree with him! Can't we just pretend to agree and kill him after he hands over the things? Jiujiu, if you don't want to be the bad guy, I can do it for you."
Lu Jiu pulled the corner of his lips and said lightly:
"Brother He, it's not that I don't want to be a bad guy, but even if we hand the antidote to him and let him go——"
"——Humans sometimes destroy themselves."
…
Outside the base.
Jin Lan let out a low roar, and the skin on his thigh tore apart, revealing a transparent sac hidden deeper inside.
There is a small amount of transparent liquid in the sac.
Jin Lan gasped and laughed.
When he left his father's laboratory, he hid two samples of virus culture fluid on himself just in case.
Jin Lan sometimes hesitates about his own caution, wondering if he is being unnecessary and asking for trouble. However, facts have proved that his caution is not wrong!
Without the worries that day, he wouldn't have the opportunity he has now!
He not only has to recover, he also has to evolve!
It's all nonsense to say that it's still unknown whether the original strain combined with the new antidote will be successful. He Ying and his team must be very sure that the problem lies with the strain, which is why they want to get the virus culture fluid so much!
Even the so-called risks were very likely a lie they told him about!
If he were to be injected with the antidote in the usual way at this moment and return to "normal", it would be unknown whether he could achieve evolution in a similar way in the future!
Even if there was a problem, it would be nothing more than what they called a "disability", right? As long as he could survive first, he could figure out a way to solve it on his own...
Look at Lu Jiu, look at his arrogant look, he must have become completely different from ordinary people!
Jin Lan also wanted to experience the taste of evolution. Wasn't it that he and his father initially devoted themselves to this research in order to be able to surpass mortals?!
Jin Lan took out the syringe from the bag, removed the needle cap, took a deep breath, and used the needle tip to pierce the small sac embedded in the flesh of her thigh.
The capsule ruptures and clear fluid rapidly infiltrates into the surrounding muscles.
Jin Lan felt a sharp pain, and soon her body temperature began to rise noticeably.
The original strain of the virus began to transform his body.
Jin Lan clenched the syringe with trembling hands and inserted it forcefully into her thigh muscle!
He gasped heavily, and with a rapid heartbeat, he pushed the plunger and pushed all 5 ml of antidote in!
——
The syringe falls.
Jin Lan sat down on the ground.
His body began to change dramatically, sometimes feeling cold and sometimes feeling hot.
He began to experience tinnitus, his vision began to shake and double, and dazzling colorful lights flashed continuously.
Jin Lan felt very painful at one moment and very happy at another.
But one thing is certain -
His body is being transformed!
Be transformed in healing!
He is really evolving!
Jin Lan grinned and a muffled laugh came from his throat.
Come on, come on.
Let him see what he can evolve into.
Let him taste the flavor he has been waiting for for many years.
Dad, did you see that? We did it! We did it!
The day when all mankind knows the truth, they may hate us for a short time, but they will soon understand that we are truly the saviors.
The step that mankind will step on is ultimately laid by us, by us!!
In his madness, Jin Lan did not notice that a dark shadow appeared in front of his vision.
He was immersed in a wonderful experience, in blissful imagination, in his own world, feeling ecstatic.
Until the shaking of the ground became more and more obvious, and the dark shadow pressing on the horizon became clearer and clearer...
Jin Lan discovered while laughing... those seemed to be zombies... they were all zombies... they were crowded together and running towards him frantically...
The smile on the corner of his mouth suddenly froze.
Jin Lan shuddered, and a chill rose from his tailbone.
He suddenly turned over, and rushed to the gate of Base No. 1, screaming heartbreakingly: "Open the door! Open the door, let me in! Let me--"
Halfway through his run, he was overwhelmed by the rapidly approaching tide of zombies.
It was like a small leaf being easily swept away by the sudden waves.
His head, neck, shoulders, back, and thighs were all bitten.
Mouths and rows of teeth clasped his body.
Amidst the shrill screams, Jin Lan was torn to pieces.
…
The monitoring room fell silent for a moment as the surveillance cameras outside the base saw this scene.
After a long while, someone whispered, "We gave him a choice."
However, as the saying goes-
Sometimes humans just bring about their own destruction.
As expected, Jin Lan had hidden another virus from them, and as expected, he ignored the warnings and chose the path that might be more tragic.
He Ying said slowly: "...So, this is the 'side effect' that will occur after a level 1 infected person is directly injected with the antidote."
Humanity will reverse its zombification and evolve.
But at the same time, he seems to be a delicious meal in the eyes of zombies.
Before his evolution is completely complete, he will be smelled by the swarming zombies and eaten up completely.
As a result, the only test they could still perform was the injection of the antidote after level 2 infection.
He Ying and Dr. Li looked at each other, sighed, turned around and left together.
Lu Jiu continued to look at the picture on the big screen in silence.
Many people around had already turned their eyes away from the big screen and started whispering.
They didn't notice... a strange black ribbon floated out from the tide of zombies outside the base.
It floated and floated, and at a certain moment, it disappeared in the wind.
111 appeared in his mind: "The Quick Transmigration Bureau just told me that they have captured Jin Lan's soul code!"
Lu Jiu asked, "Just now you said that there was a problem with the quick-pass system. What happened?"
111 seemed to have a headache: "Hey, I don't know yet! The quick-through game is a mess now, no one knows where the problem lies, I'll go ask again!"
"Then you go first."
After saying this, Lu Jiu turned his head and looked at the man standing next to him.
Their memories went back to half an hour ago, when they first entered the prison.
…
The prison door was opened, and Zhang Mu noticed that there was only one chair inside. He immediately said, "I'll go get another one."
"No need!" Lu Jiu said immediately. When the other three turned around, he cleared his throat and said to He Lin, "You go sit down. You are the chief judge. I will just stand."
Only by standing at the back can you observe everything.
Hearing this, He Lin just looked at him with a look that he couldn't understand. Then, the man chuckled and said something.
"You can stand wherever you want."
Lu Jiu was stunned.
The man raised his hand and stroked his cheek, then turned his face and kissed him tenderly.
Then, before he could come to his senses, he turned and walked into the room.
…
Right now.
The man standing next to him was looking at the big screen quietly.
Lu Jiu didn't know whether He Lin noticed the ribbon that appeared and disappeared strangely.
Only after the zombie tide gradually receded and this absurd show came to an end, did the man turn his head to look at him, stretch out his hand and spread it out.
"go home?"
Lu Jiu stared at him.
"...Yeah. Go home."
He put his hand on it.
Hold it firmly.
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