All personnel, prepare to go to the confidential document room.” “After blasting the gate, collect all virus research materials and original antibodies, move out.”
Meanwhile, on the other side of the intersection, Yan Hao covered his continuously bleeding shoulder and gritted his teeth as he stood up: “Ying Jie?” Zhang Ying Jie had already climbed up from the ground covered in broken bricks and tiles, leaning against the wall root and continuously coughing blood. Yan Hao thought he had internal injuries, staggering over and squatting down. Before he could speak, Zhang Ying Jie suddenly pushed him away.
With a sound, Zhang Ying Jie vomited a mouthful of black blood! Yan Hao was stunned. Zhang Ying Jie barely raised his head, with a bellows-like rough breathing coming from his chest. His face was already ashen, his eyeballs filled with red veins, dark purple eye sockets, and lips cracked from dryness.
“If I… can’t recognize you later…
Zhang Ying Jie pointed to his temple, giving a miserable laugh: “Give me a clean cut here…” Yan Hao’s expression was blank, his lips trembling as he shook his head. Before Zhang Ying Jie could finish, Yan Hao knelt down and tightly embraced him. Yan Hao couldn’t make a sound, his shoulders and even arms violently trembling, hot tears bursting forth.
After a while, he finally trembled and patted Yan Hao’s back. “Don’t be like this, at least everyone is still okay… at least everyone is still here, the 118 unit is still here, right?” “You must complete the mission,” Zhang Ying Jie choked up, saying: “You must take the materials and antibodies and get out, understand? You must reach the South China Sea, and when headquarters develops the vaccine, the entire country, the entire earth…” Yan Hao broke into uncontrollable sobs. “Listen to me, Yan Hao!” Zhang Ying Jie pushed him away slightly, staring into his eyes and enunciating each word: “You can’t be like this. Do you know why headquarters parachuted Rong Ge as team leader? Because you’re meticulous, you’re reluctant, you always care about everyone…
What would Rong Ge do now? He would never waste time crying! “Get up, move forward!” Zhang Ying Jie stood up with difficulty, leaning against the wall, his gaze fixed ahead, gritting his teeth: “I, as a soldier, haven’t completed my mission yet. How can I die here!”
Bang! The bullet hit the zombie’s bandage-covered head, splashing a cloud of dust. Bang! The zombie staggered but continued walking forward. Ten meters, five meters, three meters. Si Nan fired three shots, threw away the empty 64-type pistol, exhaled a mouthful of hot blood, and punched towards the opponent’s temple! Si Nan’s heavy punch was comparable to a professional boxer’s, hitting the zombie’s temple without reservation. But this zombie that burst out of a coffin merely tilted its head slightly and grabbed Si Nan, throwing him out with a bang! A series of crashing sounds followed as Si Nan’s body flew more than ten meters and smashed into the wall, landing heavily on a floor of glass and metal fragments. “…” Si Nan silently cursed, his bloodshot eyes making it difficult to see clearly. Blurrily, he saw the zombie walking towards him step by step. This zombie was wrapped in thick gray-yellow bandages, looking like a mummy, with its facial features completely covered, only revealing bloody sharp teeth.
Although its movements weren’t very agile, it wasn’t as stiff-jointed and dried-up as the ordinary zombies outside. Instead, it possessed unimaginable brute strength, and even direct headshots couldn’t cause any damage. Si Nan slowly shook his head. What the hell was this thing?!
In the circular underground experimental site, besides the powered-down elevator, there was nothing else to climb. Was he going to die here today?
As the zombie drew closer, Si Nan struggled to get up. In his hurry, he noticed a row of glass tubes as thick as fingers beneath him, mostly crushed by himself, with a scarlet liquid splashing half his body, looking like blood. He had no time to think about what it was, dodging the zombie’s iron claws and making a lightning-fast leap to the side.
“Roar—” The zombie’s movement was even faster than he imagined, grabbing his leg and pulling him back. Si Nan was in a sorry state, but fortunately, his kicking strength was greater than his punching strength, and he managed to break free just before being bitten, immediately getting up and rushing forward.
He couldn’t escape the experimental site, so he could only run along the circular metal wall, with the zombie closely pursuing. Several times Si Nan felt his clothes’ back being hooked, but at critical moments, he would break free again, barely avoiding the zombie’s pursuit using large equipment.
After all, the zombie wasn’t a living person and wasn’t very agile among the complex equipment, smashing countless machines with loud bangs. In the dim light, one chasing and one escaping, running seven or eight laps around the football field-sized experimental site. Si Nan was truly at his limit, almost coughing blood while running, when he suddenly tripped on a cable, falling forward.
The zombie crushed an iron chair with one foot, its decaying breath right behind him. Si Nan drew his dagger, like a silent fish in the air, pressing the blade against the zombie’s throat. The zombie lowered its head and roared, its sharp teeth almost touching Si Nan’s head, yet the blade couldn’t penetrate its neck!
Si Nan had never been this close to death before. Each second of stalemate felt like a year. His arm muscles bulged with veins, and blood even seeped from his fingernail crevices due to excessive exertion. The zombie’s mouth inched closer, almost touching Sinan’s eyelashes! At that moment, a voice came from above: “Sinan!!”
Yan Hao knelt on one knee, carrying an assault rifle: “Get out of there!!” Sinan fell backward, using the knife blade pressed against the zombie’s neck to slide back several meters along the ground. As the zombie tried to get up, Yan Hao pulled the trigger—The 9mm armor-piercing bullet shot out, precisely hitting the zombie and instantly blasting it away!
This coordination was impeccable.
Yan Hao succeeded in his strike and immediately handed the assault rifle to Zhang Yingjie, pulling out a rope and throwing it into the pit: “Sinan! Come up!” Sinan caught his breath and struggled to get up. His entire body was covered in blood. Within ten meters of him, his pheromones would be completely exposed. Sinan staggered across the experimental field towards Yan Hao, just about to grab the rope when a beast-like figure suddenly pounced from the side. Bang! Sinan was knocked down! The zombie, blasted by the armor-piercing bullet, was violently torn apart. It grabbed the rope with a lightning-fast movement and yanked Yan Hao down from the pit’s top! This unexpected turn caught everyone off guard. Zhang Yingjie had no time to aim and shoot. Yan Hao tumbled down more than ten meters into the giant centrifuge. But that wasn’t the end. The other end of the rope was tied to his waist. The zombie grabbed the end and pulled hard, instantly flinging Yan Hao over! Zhang Yingjie roared: “Yan Hao!!” His finger touched the trigger, then released it—the zombie had grabbed Yan Hao. Shooting now might not kill the zombie, but would definitely blast Yan Hao into a bloody mess! Sinan suddenly turned back: “No…” His pupils contracted then rapidly expanded, reflecting a blood-red light. The zombie bit into Yan Hao’s carotid artery!
Yan Hao’s painful cry rang out, blood gushing and quickly staining half the zombie’s bandaged face crimson. Sinan stepped on the sharp metal fragments and lunged forward, one hand pushing the zombie’s heavy steel-like body, the other reaching for Yan Hao. In the panic, Yan Hao forcefully pushed Sinan away, trembling as he pulled out a grenade and shoved it into the zombie’s embrace—
