Chapter 209 Listen to her
The truck drove out of White Shield Base smoothly and gradually reached the edge of the White Shield Base's controlled area.
Xiang Xin directed the route methodically while personally monitoring road conditions and safety with equipment.
Seeing that there was no danger, Xiang Xin turned on the alarm of the monitoring equipment and went to the back of the car to find Lin Xi.
Before the staff could even process what had happened, they left the White Shield base, but seeing the tense situation, they dared not ask any further questions.
They were sitting close together, and one of them was in a bad state.
Song Heng's nosebleeds have been nonstop ever since he left the research institute, and now his eyes are covered in bruises and he looks dejected.
Lin Xi felt a pang of worry. She didn't know much about this field, and medical resources were scarce during their journey, so she was powerless to help Song Heng.
"What's wrong with the teacher?"
Zhao Jing replied blankly, "Radiation."
"What does this mean? How can there be radiation?"
Zhao Jing glanced at Lin Xi: "When the door first opened, she was wearing protective clothing. The teacher wasn't, and his current reaction seems to be a side effect of radiation. And the symptoms are quite severe."
As soon as she finished speaking, everyone's eyes turned to Lin Xi, seemingly angry but unable to speak out.
Why do you have protective clothing but the teacher doesn't?
However, Song Heng's lack of resentment left them with no grounds to question Lin Xi.
Upon hearing this, Xiang Xin, combining it with Lu Wei's instructions to her, roughly guessed everything.
She sat down next to Lin Xi and touched Lin Xi's arm to comfort her. Then she checked Lin Xi up and down, paying special attention to whether she had lost hair or had a nosebleed. She said with some heartache, "My poor San San, she is facing such a dangerous situation alone to protect everyone."
Xiang Xin immediately understood why Lin Xi had ignored her when she asked Lin Xi to open the door, and only opened the lab door after the fighting sounds in her earpiece stopped.
When the door to Laboratory 2 opened, Lin Xi could have easily rushed out of the inner laboratory and run away if she really valued her life. However, she closed the door and turned back to deal with the two hardened zombies to prevent the radiated zombies from escaping.
It protected the people outside the door.
Upon hearing this, the researchers in the car exchanged bewildered glances, their eyes revealing obvious panic and unease.
Even though they didn't directly face the radioactive zombies, they were still exposed to radiation.
Only lead plates can effectively block radiation. The moment the inner laboratory door opened, the door to Laboratory 2 also opened, and radiation leaked out from the inner door.
They were not as obviously affected as Song Heng, but they didn't know the extent of the impact.
Someone timidly asked, "What is the radiation level in the laboratory?"
What type of radiation?
This question was directed at Lin Xi, but no one called her by her name.
Lin Xi heard a radiation alarm sounding in her mind, and gradually she came to her senses and realized that the alarm was not just in her mind, but was actually sounding inside the truck.
Xiang Xin rushed to the driver's seat and picked up the monitor screen, and Lin Xi also came to her side.
The screen shows a large number of humanoid figures rapidly approaching the truck.
Anyone still able to be seen outdoors now cannot be a living person; they must be a zombie.
"Can you tell what kind of zombie it is?" Lin Xi asked, frowning.
They escaped from the White Shield base by urgently requisitioning a truck. This truck had not been specially modified and its shell was not tough enough. It could still run over ordinary zombies and pass through hordes of zombies.
If a truck encounters a horde of zombies with hardened bones or a hardened body, and it cannot pass directly through the horde and gets entangled, the outer shell will eventually crack, leaving the people inside without protection and destined to die.
However, Lin Xi knew there was a 90% chance it was a hardened zombie.
Ordinary zombies are long gone in the wild; only hardened zombies are impossible to eradicate.
This area is close to the White Shield Base, the origin of hardened zombies, and has the largest number of hardened zombies in the vicinity.
Thinking of this, Lin Xi recalled the design drawings he had seen hastily in the White Shield secret laboratory. They were conceiving of evolving hardened zombies into the third generation, with even their eyeballs hardened and their exteriors indestructible.
Humanity's situation became even more difficult at that time.
She didn't see any zombies with eyes that couldn't be penetrated in the lab, so she figured they probably hadn't developed a finished product yet and that the chances of them encountering such a zombie were slim.
But thinking about this, Lin Xi was really puzzled. What exactly was the White Shield Base going to do?
Lu Wei had analyzed with her that the White Shield Base was a base that was independent of the command of the relevant departments. With the world's power structure being reshuffled after the apocalypse, the White Shield Base seemed to want to become an independent and complete regime.
However, high-end weapons such as nuclear weapons are strictly controlled, and White Shield Base does not have such weapons. Although they have arrested a group of researchers, they have not yet produced the relevant weapons.
Besides the warlords controlled by Yue Mingyuan, there are also many civilians in the White Shield Base.
The relevant authorities cannot directly bomb the White Shield base, and the White Shield base is temporarily unable to resist the relevant authorities.
To break the balance, the White Shield base needed its own weapons, so Yue Mingyuan focused on developing zombie bioweapons.
But if zombies evolve into hardened zombies with no flaws in their bodies, other bases will be helpless against them. What can White Shield Base do then? Are they just going to stay in the underground city forever as an independent warlord?
Lin Xi always felt that there was something she hadn't figured out.
She looked back at the carriage behind her, where there were refrigerated boxes containing vaccines and antibody samples, as well as several boxes brought out from the laboratory containing various medicines and research materials. She would find an opportunity to study those materials later.
Lin Xi's gaze swept over Song Heng; he was simply too conspicuous among the group—
Everyone lived underground for a long time, so their skin was very pale. But Song Heng's pale complexion and dark eyes stood out in the crowd. His skin even had faint red spots.
Lin Xi turned her gaze away and looked at Xiang Xin.
"I can't see clearly, but it's definitely a hardened zombie." Xiang Xin's expression was also very serious.
Besides the vehicle's flimsy exterior, the group of armed men also lacked sufficient weapons and ammunition.
Lin Xi glanced at her watch: "Have you contacted Liang Hui yet? Lu Wei said Liang Hui would come to pick us up."
Xiang Xin shook his head: "Not yet. I sent him my location using a special device."
As the vehicle moved forward, the instruments detected an ever-growing horde of corpses.
Lin Xi made a decision: "Change direction for now. We can't get through a horde of zombies this size."
The driver and the other staff mostly ignored Lin Xi's instructions and looked at Xiang Xin.
Avoiding the planned route and finding another way is a very dangerous decision.
Because they were unfamiliar with the roads here and didn't know which roads were safe to travel on, if some roads were filled with debris and they were surrounded by hordes of zombies, they would have no choice but to abandon the vehicle and run away. Even well-trained armed personnel might not be able to save their own lives, let alone the clerks behind them.
But charging straight into the horde of zombies would be certain death.
Xiang Xin firmly believed in Lin Xi: "Listen to her."
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