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Chapter 14 Research Institute Saves People

Walking 20 meters along the passage, there was not a single zombie in the office area on the left, ten people continued to move forward, and the laboratory on the right was also empty, only messy tables and chairs, some broken arms and limbs, and red The black blood can prove that there was turmoil here too.

The silent air magnified the uneasiness in their hearts. The situation here is very wrong.

There are dozens of zombies on the first floor, but none on the second floor!

The steel door on the second floor leading to the third basement floor was wide open, and the bottom was as quiet as a pool of stagnant water, without even a single ripple.

That dangerous feeling reappeared, Jiang Lingzhi's limbs tensed, and she didn't even dare to breathe too heavily. Her panicked eyes met Shen Mo's quiet gaze, and he patted her hand to comfort her.

Lu Shuxing frowned tightly, his cheek muscles tensed, and he felt like he was facing an enemy, "Jiang Lingzhi and Shen Mo are the last ones, everyone, go down, be careful."

Ten people walked through the long passage and saw the empty offices and laboratories around them. There were no living people or zombies. Except for the messy tables, chairs and equipment, they couldn't see or hear anything. It was dangerous. The feeling is getting stronger and stronger, and there is a sense of uneasiness in the air.

A group of people moved forward slowly until they reached the control center of the deepest research institute, but nothing happened.

Lu Shuxing raised his hand and knocked on the closed door of the control center, but there was no sound from inside.

He raised his hand and knocked on the door again, "Is Professor Yang there? We are people from Chenxi base."

Suddenly, there were a few banging sounds of tables and chairs being bumped into.

The people hiding in the control center were saved from desperation. A man with a hoarse voice choked with sobs and hurriedly said, "Yes, Professor Yang is inside. Great, finally someone came to rescue us."

"I'm still alive, I'm still alive..." With the joy of escaping from death, there was a burst of loud cheers inside.

After the combination lock beeped a few times, the heavy steel door opened from the middle, and a burst of hot air rushed in, as well as a smell that even masks could not resist.

Jiang Lingzhi thought to herself, luckily she was wearing a mask, otherwise she would be fainted if she came here suddenly.

There were five men and three women inside, each with pale faces, thick blue-black eyes, greasy hair tied in knots, and ragged clothes.

One of them, a 60-year-old man with wise eyes and a very weak body, should be Professor Yang Wei'an.

"It's dangerous to stay here for a long time." Lu Shuxing felt that the threat had not disappeared, as long as he could save people, he didn't care about taking equipment and materials.

"Yuwen, Dayong, Xiaoyong, and Pippi will lead the way. The rest will follow me to the end, and act now." Lu Shuxing arranged several soldiers to protect Jiang Lingzhi, Shen Mo and the people in the research institute, He intends to leave the institute immediately.

A dozen people quickly retreated from the control center.

At this time, I don't know where around, suddenly there was a short chirping sound, Jiang Lingzhi's scalp was numb, like the sound of a mouse.

"That mouse, the man-eating mouse, it's not dead yet." A stubble-bearded man looked around in a panic, screamed loudly, and his calf was still trembling.

All the people in the research institute panicked. The muscles on their faces froze instantly, and their faces turned pale instantly. Two people were nailed there motionless like logs, and a woman was so frightened that she burst into tears.

"Back, go back to the control center." With an order, several people who were stunned by the stimulation woke up, and a dozen people hurried to the control center.

At this moment, a gray-black mouse the size of a watermelon flew over. It stared at everyone with its green eyes, showing sharp teeth in its sharp mouth. Its four claws were also thick and powerful, and its tail was half a meter long. Three fingers thick.

"Ah... help!" While running, a thin and short man was bitten off by a mutant mouse.

Immediately, Shen Mo slashed at the mutated mouse with a knife, and the knife touched the back of the mutated mouse, and the mutated mouse fled quickly, leaving only a few severed mouse hairs, which fell to the ground.

"Ah, I was bitten!"

"hiss……"

"it hurts!"

"Help me..."

People kept screaming, and there was noise all the way.

In the end, they retreated to the control center. In just a few tens of meters, the mutated rat scratched and bit five people, including the two soldiers brought by Lu Shuxing, Pipi and Huazi.

Everyone retreated to the control center. They were not so flustered anymore. Lu Shuxing slashed at the mutant rat that was chasing him, forcing the mutant rat to retreat. The distance between the two sides was widened, and they were finally no longer attacked.

The mutated rat flew towards Lu Shuxing's shoulder, trying to bite off his arm holding the knife.It was hit suddenly with a bang, the bullet stuck in its back, it chirped wildly, and rushed towards Lu Shuxing even faster.

Lu Shuxing attached the gold-type ability to the blade he was holding, quickly dodged the mutant rat sideways, and cut off the mutant rat's tail with one blow.

The chirping sound of the mutant mouse with a broken tail became sharper, it became irritable, its eyes became more oily green, it kept arching its back, and drew several marks on the ground with its sharp four claws, like a beast about to attack.

There was constant rattling gunshots, and the mutant mouse quickly dodged the bullets, its green eyes still not leaving the weak prey in front of it.

Suddenly, Shen Mo heard very light footsteps in the passage, and he hurriedly shouted, "Be careful."

It turned out that three zombies were running towards them quickly.

In the front are two zombies with the running speed of an adult man, and the one behind is also maintaining the same speed, but it gives people the feeling that it has not done its best.

In the pupilless eyes of the first two zombies, there was a small red dot the size of a sesame seed, while the red dot in the eye of the latter zombie was slightly larger, smaller than a mung bean.

As soon as Jiang Lingzhi saw the eyes of the three zombies, she shouted, "Two second-level zombies, one third-level zombie, be careful."

There was a burst of dense rattling gunshots, and the bullets hit the torso and limbs of the second-order zombies, but they still did not slow down their advancing offensive.

On one side are mutant rats that are fast and difficult to hit, and on the other side are second- and third-tier zombies that are unconscious and tireless. Neither side is easy to deal with, and neither side dares to relax their vigilance.

The mutated rat, ready to go, attacked Lu Shuxing again.

At the same time, Shen Mo met the third-rank zombie, Yuwen and Xiaoming Xiaohong faced a second-rank zombie, Dayong and Xiaoyong faced another second-rank zombie, and the injured Pipi and Huazi followed behind.

Jiang Lingzhi was very flustered when she saw Shen Mo meeting the third-tier zombies. Ordinary knives couldn't hurt the third-tier zombies at all. She said anxiously, "It can't be hurt by a knife or gun. You have to find a way to hit its eyes."

Shen Mo quickly turned his body sideways to avoid the sharp claws swung by the third-order zombies, and swung the long knife with all his strength to slash, leaving only shallow marks on it. When he saw it, he was really invulnerable.

The third-order zombie turned around, and quickly attacked Shen Mo from the front again. Jiang Lingzhi rushed over at an unknown time, and suddenly threw out several bags of fertilizer in the space, tripping the third-order zombie to the ground.

Shen Mo took the opportunity to send out a purple lightning strike to the neck of the third-order zombie, leaving a scorched black mark.

"Ho Ho Ho!" The third-tier zombie who was hit roared a few times, quickly got up, and flew to throw Shen Mo to the ground. Jiang Lingzhi at the side suddenly released a three-door wardrobe, and the third-tier zombie pierced through it without slowing down. Wardrobe.

Shen Mo was on the other side of the closet. As soon as he saw the zombie appearing, he struck the ready-to-go lightning at its eyes, and it had no time to dodge and was struck straight.

The third-order zombie roared in pain. Its crystal nucleus has not been damaged. It hates the two resisting flesh and blood in front of it. It wants to tear them apart and suck their flesh and blood.

It wants to use coercion to summon the two second-order zombies back, and hunt down the two tempting flesh and blood in front of it for it.

"Ho Ho Ho." It used coercion to make the two second-tier zombies retreat back to protect it.

Taking advantage of the second-tier zombies' retreat, Yuwen and the others took advantage of the opportunity and stabbed the second-tier zombies in the eyes, finally finishing them off.

The backup food of the third-order zombie lost contact with it, and it rushed towards the weaker Jiang Lingzhi angrily. Shen Mo took the opportunity to strike a stronger lightning bolt at its injured eye again.

Jiang Lingzhi squatted down to hide, and the dead third-order zombie hit the ground behind her with a bang due to inertia, and the third-order crystal nucleus fell out of it along with the brain.

The zombie crystal nuclei are all the size of a fingernail, but different grades of crystal nuclei have different colors. Jiang Lingzhi picked up the orange third-order zombie crystal nucleus and handed it to Shen Mo.

Shen Mo hesitated for a moment, but still took it, a little embarrassed to take advantage of it, and said, "I'll give you the next one."

"Okay." Although she helped, she was still his main force.

On the other side, Lu Shuxing, who cut off two claws of the mutated mouse, finally inserted a knife into its mouth, attached a gold-type ability to the knife, cut it open from the mouth, and dropped a three-peanut-sized Red nuclei.

This is a second-order mutant mouse.

The crystal nuclei of mutated animals are all red, and the size of a peanut increases with each step.

During the fight, the second-order zombies ran into the crowd several times and scratched two men and a woman in the research institute. Dayong and Xiaoyong were also accidentally scratched.There were also nine people who were bitten and scratched by mutant rats. Lu Shuxing ordered everyone to tie them up and kill them if they were found to be zombies.

Once the threat is removed, all useful equipment and materials can be taken away.

"Professor Yang, tell Jiang Lingzhi if you need to take away any equipment and materials, and she will put them away." After the battle, Lu Shuxing was a little tired, nine out of ten people were injured, and the injury rate was too high.

Including Professor Yang, the three uninjured people in the research institute led Jiang Lingzhi to the laboratory to collect equipment, and then went to the reference room to put all the documents and bookshelves into the space.

Seeing that the door panels of the passage were thick enough, Jiang Lingzhi also lowered a few doors and installed them in the space.

After an hour or so, the four of them finally put away their available items and returned to the control center.

Of the five people who were scratched by the zombies, only Dayong Jiang Zhiyong hadn't turned into a zombie, and the others had been killed. Only the four people injured by the mutant rat hadn't turned into a zombie and were still tied up.

Jiang Lingzhi knew that people injured by mutated animals would not turn into zombies, but she didn't remind Lu Shuxing that they would know if they took some time.

Seeing Jiang Lingzhi and the others come back, Lu Shuxing felt that he could not waste any more time here, and said to the uninjured people, "Take them and go."

Jiang Lingzhi took out several wheelchairs upon hearing this, and the group left the research institute smoothly.

Back on the ground, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon.

Jiang Lingzhi and Shen Mo returned to the car, Chen Chen showed a bright smile, "Welcome back, take care of grandma by yourself."

Shen Mo was a little tired leaning on the back of the chair, he smiled lightly and said, "Okay."

Lu Shuxing's eight-person team became seven, and three of them were tied up. It is not known whether they will turn into zombies. The rescued Professor Yang's team has a total of five people, three men and two women. Two of them are tied up. car.

Lu Shuxing asked Xiao Ming and Xiao Hong to find a usable car from the parking lot of the institute.Yuwen and him drove a military car with Dayong, Pippi and Huazi who might be zombified, Xiao Ming and Xiao Hong brought the other two who might be zombified, and Professor Yang drove another car.

More than half of this day has passed, Lu Shuxing decided to continue on the road, hoping to return to Chenxi base as soon as possible.

Thinking of what Jiang Lingzhi once said, once the absorption of crystal nuclei starts, it cannot be stopped, so the supernatural person can absorb crystal nuclei of a lower level or the same level as himself.Absorbing crystal nuclei across levels may cause the supernatural user to explode due to too much energy in the crystal nuclei.

After Shen Mo rested for a while, he evaluated the energy in the third-order crystal nucleus. He felt that the energy in his body was similar to its energy when it was full.

He wanted to become stronger. If it wasn't for Jiang Lingzhi's help today, he wouldn't be able to retreat from the third-order zombies.

A few minutes later, the orange third-order crystal nucleus turned into powder in his hands, and he reached the peak of the second order.

(End of this chapter)