He tightly covered Yan Hao’s bleeding neck with his coat, using more strength than ever before – as if racing against an invisible fate.
“…Ah…Ah ah…Ah…!”
Si Nan suddenly turned back, looking at Zhang Yingjie.
The drug was reacting violently in Zhang Yingjie’s body, but in the worst way possible – his blood vessels protruding and turning blue, as if strangled, his eyes staring blankly upward.
Then, under Si Nan’s desperate gaze, his body arched upward, expelling the last bloody foam from his throat, and crashed down motionless.
- He was dead.
He stared into endless darkness, his gaze hollow and vacant, yet his face slightly turned towards Si Nan and Yan Hao, as if wanting to look at his comrades one last time.
Until the very last moment of life, he remained human, conscious and in pain, showing no signs of zombification.
Si Nan couldn’t make a sound, tightly gripping the empty syringe he had just used on Yan Hao, slowly turning his neck –
Behind him, Yan Hao’s dying struggle suddenly intensified.
Si Nan pressed his ear close to his lips, straining to hear a single word: “Jie…” Zhang Yingjie was dead. Si Nan’s heart sank, his boiling emotions instantly doused with cold water. “…It’s okay,” Si Nan rasped, averting his gaze: “You’re all fine… don’t worry.” Yan Hao smiled almost imperceptibly, though his cracked lips couldn’t even manage a curl, then passed out. Si Nan was exhausted, but Yan Hao was still in extreme danger. He dared not let himself pass out, biting his tongue to stay awake. The underground experimental site was extremely cold. Si Nan rubbed his arms, his teeth chattering, looking around nervously and trying to find a way out, but after circling the entire circular space, he found no solution. Was he really going to wait for his teammates to rescue him? “Zhou Rong…” Si Nan called tentatively, “Zhou Rong!” He looked up towards the pit: “Zhou Rong!” “Captain Zhou!” Si Nan was almost angry and desperate: “Rong Ge!!” “Roar—” A roar came from far above the pit, followed immediately by gunfire! Si Nan was stunned that calling him actually worked, hearing the heavy machine gun sound like a storm, then a loud thud of something falling! Zhou Rong shouted: “Si Nan!
