Chapter 01 Civilized Sinner 1
My sin.
My debts.
I burn.
No one can stop it.
——Yan Nan.
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"Yan Nan!"
An angry voice echoed throughout the dark space, and the operator looked at the scene around him in a daze.
The door was opened violently and then slammed shut by the visitor.
"Senior Brother...?"
The officer did not speak, but he heard the sound coming out of his throat.
A man in a white coat ran in breathlessly. He held onto the table supporting the instrument, his chest still heaving violently. The man stared at Yan Nan: "What on earth did you do?! Outside... outside..." The man was so emotional that he had difficulty even saying a complete sentence.
Yan Nan walked over and held the man's hand, and asked anxiously, "What happened? What happened, Brother?"
But the man shook off his hand. Yan Nan was unsteady on his feet for a moment and fell to the ground. He propped himself up and looked up at his senior brother.
The senior brother stood with his back to the light, his face shrouded in darkness, with only two dark reflections flashing in his angry pupils.
He gritted his teeth as he watched the young man finish the sentence word by word: "Yan Nan, you are destroying the world."
At this time, the door was knocked open and a team of armed special police rushed in. He didn't have time to react before he was pushed to the ground by the strong men. Yan Nan's chin hit the ground and he couldn't help but scream in pain. The boy subconsciously raised his head, and immediately another hand reached out and pressed his head firmly in place.
The floor was extremely cold, Yan Nan closed his eyes, but could only see countless pairs of legs surrounding him. Then, there was a sound of hard soles hitting the ground, and a pair of pitch-black tactical boots stopped in front of him.
A businesslike voice reached his ears: "Yan Nan, you are suspected of spreading infectious viruses, which poses a serious threat to social and citizen safety. Now, you are arrested..."
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Yan Nan suddenly sat up from the laboratory table, and what he saw before him was a vast, bright space. The light tubes on the ceiling were arranged horizontally and vertically, and the huge electronic screen and tall transparent cabinets separated the space.
He looked at all this and for a moment he didn't realize where he was.
"Dr. Yan? Dr. Yan, are you listening?" Until someone pushed his arm, he rocked his swivel chair and looked up. A young man in a white coat faced him and gently pushed his glasses. It seemed that he had been talking to him since just now.
"Ah...ah, what did you just say? Excuse me, could you please repeat it again?" He subconsciously pushed his glasses and said calmly.
The man nodded calmly, "Dr. Yan, the results are out, and I've sorted out the data for you... Um, do you want me to get it for you now?"
"Okay, no, just tell me where you put it, and I'll go and see it myself later." Yan Nan nodded first, then rejected his kindness.
"Dr. Yan..." the man seemed a little hesitant. "If you are not feeling well, you might as well take a rest. I will leave the information with Assistant Lin in District 7."
"Okay, thank you. You've worked hard. I'll go after I rest for a while." Yan Nan smiled.
The man nodded and left.
Yan Nan stepped on the ground and turned his body back. He let out a long sigh and held his forehead with some shock. The intense emotions left in the dream still lingered in his heart and would not dissipate.
[System, what's wrong with me?] He then realized that his entire back was soaked with cold sweat, and the thin shirt material was tightly attached to his skin.
He leaned back in his chair, tilted his head back, and stared at the gray ceiling above with unfocused eyes.
[You just received the original owner's memory, and your spirit body was exhausted, so you fell asleep. Did you dream of something bad? ]
Yan Nan slowly calmed down, [I probably just dreamed about the original owner's memories before the end of the world.]
[That's not bad...] The system paused for a moment, [Most villains in the story have strong mental power. You just merged with them, so it's normal to be affected a little.]
【I gradually got used to it.】
Yan Nan said yes. He was in a spacious room full of technology. The light tubes connected one by one made the whole space extremely bright. On the huge instrument screen, line after line of data was constantly refreshed. Many researchers with neat and decent clothes were busy shuttling around in it. Everything was in order.
This is a perfectly normal scene before the end of the world, but in today's chaotic world, all of this seems so rare and expensive.
Outside the base there are people struggling for survival who are in rags, but they are able to keep their clothes clean.
This common gap between people seems to be no different from the one before Doomsday.
He couldn't help but think of the original villain he replaced.
Yan Nan is a scientist who grew up step by step from an orphanage. He was a loner since childhood, but he had an extraordinary IQ. With the help of a philanthropic entrepreneur, he completed his studies and further training. In order to repay his gratitude, he joined the sponsor's company after graduation.
The villain had an extremely unfortunate childhood, and grew up to be a dark and antisocial person with high IQ. On the surface, he is a young and promising genius scientist, but he has been secretly conducting crazy research on the zombie virus, and finally by chance, he really made it.
Later, the truth was exposed, he was reported by his colleagues, and was hunted down and arrested by the special department. He was desperate and broke the test reagent containing the virus and sprinkled it into the company's drinking water. Everyone in the company was infected with the virus and turned into zombies. All members of the special department who came secretly to investigate were not spared. The virus spread, but Yan Nan, the culprit, has survived to this day.
A sudden virus storm swept the world in just a few days. The sick people died, but they became alive in another biological sense. This is the zombie that people used to love to describe in literary works. And now it really appeared. After just a few months, a great civilization that lasted for tens of thousands of years collapsed. And the mysterious virus that billions of humans were helpless against was created by Yan Nan, a small and unknown researcher.
It is now the third year since the virus outbreak. After a brief period of chaos, the survivors have established a new order on the ruins, just like returning to the ancient times when cities were built to resist foreign races. Powerful superpowers and ordinary people who depend on them gather together to build bases in the doomsday to resist the zombies, rest, reproduce and continue civilization.
He is now staying in such a base. The city lord here is Mei Tai, who is powerful and kind-hearted. Under his personal charm, more and more people gather in this base, and it becomes more prosperous and powerful.
Only a powerful psychic like him would have enough ability and resources to build such a complete virus research institute in doomsday.
The institute has been searching for surviving scientists and has been working to crack the complex and ever-changing zombie virus, with the primary goal of developing a serum to resolve the virus and rebuild civilization. However, the chief researcher here -
It’s Yan Nan.