Chapter 155: Your Doom Has Been Delivered (38)

Jiang Xunchu pulled a thin chain out from his clothes, with a ring hanging from it.

He took off the ring, pulled Ling Qiong's hand, and slid it onto her finger.

The ring was adjustable, so it fit Ling Qiong just right.

"I bought this when I was eighteen, and my name is engraved on it," Jiang Xunchu said, holding her palm. "Now, I'm giving it to you."

Ling Qiong withdrew her hand and spun the ring around. "Does this mean you're giving yourself to me?"

Jiang Xunchu turned his head away, looking somewhat awkward. "...Mn."

"Why did you buy a ring when you were eighteen?"

"...Bought it just for fun."

Ling Qiong's eyes rolled around craftily. "You didn't have someone you liked, did you?"

Jiang Xunchu denied it without hesitation. "No."

"Aren't I that person?"

"..."

Jiang Xunchu didn't want to talk to Ling Qiong anymore.

"Miss Xu!" An Changjing's panicked voice came from a distance. "Holy crap, Miss Xu, you guys better hurry back!!"

The zombies that were originally heading toward the base had unexpectedly changed direction at this moment, charging toward their side.

The scene looked just like a sudden diversion of a flood.

If the zombies weren't charging at them, the sight would have been quite entertaining.

"Let's go." Ling Qiong shoved Jiang Xunchu into the car and urged Fang Sanqian to drive.

Ling Qiong and Jiang Xunchu exchanged glances, each seeing a trace of a hypothesis in the other's eyes.

The reason these zombies were suddenly rushing toward them most likely had to do with something in Jiang Xunchu's body that could suppress them.

"Are they trying to kill you?"

Jiang Xunchu replied, "Very likely. If what they said wasn't a lie, this is a natural predator, and naturally, they want to eliminate it."

The virus had quite a lot on its mind.

Ling Qiong looked at the zombies chasing closely behind in the rearview mirror. "They used to rely on blood to tell us apart, but now they don't seem to need that anymore."

Jiang Xunchu said, "The virus is evolving much faster than we imagined."

Ling Qiong rubbed her chin and pondered for a moment. "Why don't you try controlling them?"

"Control them?"

"Since you can suppress them, it's possible you can control them. Isn't that what the laboratory was researching?"

Jiang Xunchu asked, "How do I control them?"

Ling Qiong scratched her head. "Just think about it in your mind?"

Jiang Xunchu: "..." Would that even work? Could it be that simple?

Ling Qiong said, "Trying doesn't cost anything."

Jiang Xunchu: "..."

The zombies behind chased fiercely on their heels, with no intention of stopping at all.

After trying a few times, Jiang Xunchu gave up. This simply didn't work.

It wasn't that easy to control zombies.

...

The zombies chased them across a province before they finally managed to shake off the horde.

However, zombies would still suddenly pop up along the way.

With Jiang Xunchu around, they were like a moving signal source, and the zombies could always find them.

Moreover, the speed at which the zombies found them was getting faster and faster.

The virus was growing stronger.

They were determined to eradicate Jiang Xunchu, this threat.

"Past this route is City C. I remember there's a laboratory there; I want to go," Jiang Xunchu said, holding the map and sitting down next to Ling Qiong.

"Huh?" Ling Qiong asked, confused. "What are you going there for?"

"Research."

Ling Qiong: "..."

Jiang Xunchu analyzed calmly, "My father injected it into my body, and he was ninety percent sure it was safe."

"His primary reason was to protect this substance, and his secondary reason was probably the belief that I could find a way to research a vaccine for the virus. He didn't trust anyone else; he could only trust me."

"Oh, then let's go." Ling Qiong scratched her head. "By the way, is this your major?"

"I have the foundation, and I can learn what I don't know." Influenced by Jiang Luyun, although it wasn't his specific major, he had the foundational knowledge.

"..."

An honor student really is different, huh?

Jiang Xunchu folded the map. "Actually... you don't have to come with me. Following me now is very dangerous."

Ling Qiong muttered, "It's even more dangerous if I don't follow you."

"What did you say?"

"I said, no matter how dangerous it is, I want to stay with my older brother."

"..." That wasn't what she had muttered just now, was she?

...

On the way to City C, Ling Qiong met some survivors and learned from them that Base S had not been breached by the zombies.

Those zombies had only mounted a symbolic attack before retreating shortly after.

Even so, that attack still caused heavy losses to Base S.

It was said that another chaotic incident broke out in the base later on.

The two base leaders fought once more over the control of the base.

In the end, Leader Wang led a faction and withdrew from Base S.

Ling Qiong figured Mu Chen must have followed Leader Wang.

With the male protagonist around, they would probably make a comeback before long.

As for that Base Leader Zhao...

Villains couldn't jump around for much longer.

...

They had originally thought the laboratory in City C might have fallen.

To their surprise, there were still people inside.

When they broke through the defenses from the outside, the people inside were startled.

These people were all staff members of the laboratory, looking disheveled and desperate.

"Are you here to rescue us?" Seeing them felt like catching a glimpse of hope.

Jiang Xunchu shook his head. "...No."

"..."

Because they had been rushing to complete a very important experiment, the people in the laboratory hadn't paid much attention to outside affairs and had cooped themselves up inside day and night.

Then the zombie virus broke out.

A portion of the people in the lab had mutated, but they managed to lure those individuals into a room and lock them in.

After that, they had been trapped here.

They survived until now on the laboratory's emergency rations.

Before their arrival, the rations had completely run out, and everyone was so hungry their eyes were glowing green as they debated whether they should venture outside.

Fang Sanqian and the others carried in some food and distributed it to them.

Too preoccupied to be polite, the group began to devour the food ravenously.

"Why did you guys come here?" asked the person who looked like the leader after eating his fill.

"We want to borrow your laboratory to research a vaccine," Jiang Xunchu said. "Are your laboratory equipment and facilities still operational?"

"A vaccine?"

Everyone looked at each other.

They had also tried to research the virus previously, but they lacked professional talent, and later on, driven by the pressure of survival, they had given it up entirely.

"Can you research a vaccine?"

This young man looked... very young indeed.

"We have to try," Jiang Xunchu said. "Having hope is always a good thing."

Perhaps feeling that Jiang Xunchu made sense, they nodded one after another.

"Most of it is still usable, but... our laboratory's generator is broken."

"I'll fix it." An Changjing raised his hand. "I know how to fix generators."

"To reach the generator, you have to go through a long corridor to get to the other side, and over there... there are zombies."

"..."

It was fortunate they had chosen the right direction to enter; had they chosen the other side, they might have been fighting zombies right now.

"Do you have an isolation room?" Ling Qiong suddenly asked.

"We do. Why?"

Ling Qiong patted Jiang Xunchu's shoulder. "Go wait in the isolation room first. I'll take An Changjing to fix the generator."