Sinan violently coughed up a mass of thick blood, trembling hands pushing himself up. For several seconds, he didn’t know where he was or what had happened, his mind briefly disoriented. But memories from the past few hours quickly flashed back, pain crawling through his nerves, his injured internal organs causing his trachea to spasm, making him vomit the last bit of water from his stomach. Had the zombie gorilla died? That guy Zhou Rong, who seemed like a casual soldier but was surprisingly reliable – was he saved? Sinan finally stopped retching, thinking of Zhou Rong, lying disheveled on the ground and gasping, slowly sitting up. At that moment, he suddenly heard a sound from ahead – thud. The sound was particularly clear in the silent space, and Sinan looked up. This was an underground circular glass laboratory, open at the top, with an elevator leading to the upper space. The circular metal walls emitted white light, illuminating the experimental site, about the size of a football field. Another, slightly louder – thud!
Sinan looked at the scene in the center of the experimental site, his pupils involuntarily contracting, finally understanding what had awakened him from his unconsciousness. It was a coffin. Black pine wood, slightly muddy, as if just excavated from a 19th-century British manor, looking utterly out of place in this modern biomedical laboratory surrounded by equipment. Even more striking was a massive silver cross slanted into the coffin lid, with leaf decorations on its edges, heavily oxidized and almost cutting the coffin in half. Thud! The coffin lid pushed upward.
Sinan stood up, staggering backward, his chest heaving with a terrifying premonition. Thud!!! Massive force cracked the coffin lid, the silver cross toppling to the ground with a heavy impact! Sinan turned and rushed to the elevator, pressing the keys frantically, but the control panel remained unresponsive! Bang—! The heavy lid split in two, accompanied by a cry that was part demon, part beast, as the dark figure in the coffin sat up! Sinan stared at it intently, an extremely terrifying speculation rising from the depths of his heart, chilling him to the bone.
☆、 Chapter 22
The tactical flashlight illuminated the cracked wall, Zhou Rong observing for a moment, gesturing to the right: “This way.” The three moved quickly along the wall’s edge.
