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Just after subduing the mutated monster here, Lei Zhe's voice came from the direction of the archive room door: "Irene, Xue, are you all right?!"

Ah Xue turned his head and saw Lei Zhe and Su Ze who had rushed over, and he was really relieved.

A dazzling white light hit the corner of Su Ze's eyes, and he raised his hand uncomfortably to block it, the white light swept him from head to toe like a chasing light on a stage, accompanied by a familiar frivolous voice: "Isn't that your brother-in-law? "

Lan Shangwu turned around and wanted to get back the flashlight that Meng Anru had touched. Meng Anru held the flashlight in both hands, and while hiding, he kept looking in the direction of the young man in black: "I'm not lying to you, it's really Su Ze!"

Lan Shangwu couldn't help but glanced down, Meng Anru considerately adjusted the flashlight to the maximum, shining on the pale and handsome face of the young man in black, Lan Shangwu frowned and said, "Su Ze?"

The cold eyes of the young man in black glanced upwards, and Meng Anru stuffed the flashlight into Lan Shangwu's hand in the blink of an eye.

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The two groups of people gathered in the archives room. Su Ze heard Lan Shangwu talk about it. It turned out that after Lan Shangwu and Meng Anru separated from their convoy four years ago, the two decided to go north.

"It's your decision, you haven't discussed it with me." Meng Anru interjected unwillingly.

Lan Shangwu ignored him and continued: "We have been active in the Xincheng area for the past few years. There are indeed some settlements there, but because of the cold climate, the conditions in the settlements are much worse than those in the south, but Lilou War and... ...Lan Aowen's sphere of influence is far away, so it is considered safe from this aspect."

"Then why did you come to Zion City?" Lei Zhe asked curiously.

Lan Shangwu gestured to the corpse of the monster on the ground: "We also encountered this kind of monster in Xincheng, and the number of monsters has been increasing recently. I thought it was a bit weird, so I started to investigate."

"Investigate?" Ah Xue adjusted his glasses, looked up and down this handsome man in a neat suit even in the last days, guessing the identity of the other party.

Meng Anru was leaning on the file rack with his hands crossed behind his head, and seeing the young man's question, he rolled his eyes in Lan Shangwu's direction: "Interpol, now I'm starting to think of myself as the international FBI."

Seeing that Lan Shangwu didn't take Meng Anru's words at ease, Lei Zhe thought that this man had a very good temper. If he said something, he would definitely roll up his sleeves and smack that girl. He is a pretty boy with such a long ponytail, so he's a bitch. Yes, he would definitely make the other party cry, but since the upright man didn't care, he ignored Meng Anru and continued to ask, "How did you come to Zion City for investigation?"

Lan Shangwu said: "We met a person in Xincheng. He seemed to have worked in the Biological Research Institute of Zion University for a while before, and was fired for leaking research documents. That person was drunk and revealed to us..."

"Study all the successfully developed virus antibodies!!"

Meng Anru, who was leaning on the shelf, suddenly sat up straight and yelled so loudly that everyone present was startled.

But the news was so shocking, everyone forgot to blame Meng Anru for the spoiler after hearing it, and said in unison: "Really?!"

Satisfied, Meng Anru leaned back on the shelf and stopped answering. Lan Shangwu next to him said solemnly, "At least that's what that person told us."

"Then did you find it?" Tunan asked eagerly.

Lan Shangwu shook his head: "We only found this." He took out a black diary from Meng Anru's backpack, "This is Professor Zeng Mosheng's diary. I found it from that safe. I think he will keep it. There must be his intentions for locking the diary in the safe, and you came here before we checked it." He handed the diary to Irene opposite, "Since it is your father's diary, you should read it. "

Erin took the diary, took a deep breath, and opened it.

All eyes were on the girl.

The diary is a bit old, but because it was locked in the safe, it was intact in the explosion.The diary is not recorded every day. It only records some important events related to R&D in pieces. The earliest page is six years ago.At that time, the Obispo virus had not yet broken out around the world, but there had been several sensational zombie attacks on humans in the United States, and the first confirmed case of infection by the zombie virus occurred in San Luis Obis, California. Sibo Town, at this time the virus has not yet caused people to panic, it has just got its own name.

Irene lowered her head and read the diary softly, while Ah Xue held a flashlight for her.Irene's intuition was right. Judging from the content in the diary, Professor Zeng Mosheng initially developed drugs for a large pharmaceutical company in the United States. Of course, he was not the only one involved in the research and development, and each participant was only responsible for one link in the research and development. Therefore, the overall appearance of the drug is unknown, but this is also a common practice in the industry and belongs to the commercial secrets of pharmaceutical companies, so Zeng Mosheng has no doubts, and only roughly understands from his own research that this is a virus that is used to attack cancer cells. Of course, there are certain risks in it, but he didn't realize it at that time, because this virus was extracted from a rare ancient virus, and being able to carry out such research would be of great benefit to anyone engaged in bioengineering. It is a rare opportunity for everyone.

Drug testing was initially carried out on animals, but as the research progressed, uncontrolled mutations occurred in the test body. Zeng Mosheng discovered that the prototype strain of the virus became very powerful after being integrated with the DNA of other organisms and viruses. It can kill cancer cells, but it seems that it is easier to combine with normal cells. Zeng Mosheng thought that no matter what the ultimate purpose of this drug is, it was too dangerous. The mysterious order requires them to continue research and development.

At this time, Zeng Mosheng had already realized that things were unusual. All the personnel involved in the research and development were under different degrees of surveillance. When he saw that the new test subjects brought by the pharmaceutical factory turned out to be death row prisoners, he felt that he was already on the verge of riding a tiger.

This biochemical drug, or rather the modified RNA virus, accelerated the metabolism of the subject's body, and the trauma that was fatal to ordinary people could heal quickly at a speed visible to the naked eye, but the drug did not allow the subject to maintain Rational, the subject became extremely aggressive. In order to replenish the energy lost by the body's rapid metabolism, this aggressiveness towards people evolved into an extreme bloodthirsty and fleshthirsty. After the mutation, the subject almost bit everyone. .

Zeng Mosheng has secretly understood that the so-called "big foreign order" of the pharmaceutical factory is not for the development of anti-cancer drugs at all, but for the development of drugs that can transform soldiers into killing machines, but it is obviously not a pharmaceutical factory that turns people into irrational walking dead. And what the behind-the-scenes would like to see, but even so, they did not deal with the group of out-of-control experimental subjects, but kept the prisoners who had turned into zombies in secret and continued to observe and study.

At this time, the virus had already acquired the ability to infect through droplets. Zeng Mosheng felt that this could not continue. Not long after, his research team learned that an "experimental sample" had disappeared from the underground laboratory. At this time, Zeng Mosheng made up his mind to find a way get away.

He tried every means to escape from the experimental base and smuggled back to the country.It didn't take long after that to spread on the Internet that someone in the United States witnessed a zombie attacking a person, and the attack happened in the town of San Luis Obispo, where the experimental base was located.After he fled back, he made no noise, but took the risk to bring back the virus samples. This choice was later proved to be correct, because when people were still discussing the sensational zombie attack, the virus had already spread rapidly and drifted across the ocean. Crossing the sea, infected people were soon discovered in various countries.

Zeng Mosheng was studying virus antibodies alone in his private laboratory. Judging from the records in his diary, he had long since distrusted the government at that time, but it was very difficult for him to do vaccine research and development alone. At the same time, the outbreak of the epidemic was so fast that governments of all countries were caught off guard. The United Nations research team knew little about the virus, and everything had to be restarted, and he had important information about the virus in his hand. After a while, seeing that Zion City also began to frequently attack people with zombies, Zeng Mosheng finally had to tell the truth to the government.

Zeng Mosheng got one of the most elite teams. They conducted experiments day and night in the underground laboratory of Zion University Institute of Biology. The research and development progress has gone up, but this is still a drop in the bucket compared with the speed of the virus.

Irene read the diary in a low voice, and everyone recalled the days when the virus raged wildly and everyone panicked. There were new isolation areas and blockade areas in the city every day, and the roads that could pass unimpeded yesterday were loaded with live ammunition the next day. There are always traffic jams on the highway, because too many people want to escape from the densely populated city.In order to store food and hide at home, people fought in supermarkets, and even smashed and looted supplies. There were violent incidents everywhere, and the police force in the city was completely insufficient.

Now they don’t need to look at the diary to know that the virus antibody has not been developed as scheduled. In order to reassure people, the government mass-produced and launched the immature vaccine in advance. This vaccine has not even had time to do clinical trials. There is no way to produce antibodies that can fight the virus for a long time, and the immunity period is not even three months, only a mere ten days, because the immunity period is too short, and the vaccine is very precious, this type of vaccine cannot be provided to people who have not been bitten by zombies People do preventive use.

Lei Zhe said thoughtfully: "So there is actually no way to fundamentally alleviate the epidemic. Obispo can be transmitted from person to person only by air, and the incubation period is another week. Wait until symptoms appear before getting vaccinated." , it’s long gone.”

Of course, this is only a stopgap measure. In order to ensure that antibody research and development can continue smoothly, the government deployed special police outside the research institute.During this period, a staff member was fired for leaking antibody research secrets, which confirmed the words of the person Lan Shangwu met before, but so far there is no possibility that the antibody can be successfully developed, and since that person is so He has been fired a long time ago, so how can he know whether the antibody has been successfully developed?Probably drunk and talking nonsense.

Thinking about this, the group couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.

Irene turned to the next page and read in a solemn voice: "The epidemic has become more serious during this time, and Obispo seems to have reached a climax of periodic outbreaks. I am afraid that this kind of 'zombie wave' will also be staged periodically in the future... ..."

The outbreak of the "zombie wave" was obviously more severe than what Zeng Mosheng recorded at the time. Within a few days, the diary recorded successive accidents such as network breakdowns and power outages without warning.

On the day when the Xiacheng District of Genglin City was hit by a missile air strike, hordes of zombies attacked the research institute, and the special police officers fell victim to the zombies. After another week, they finally lost contact with the outside world completely, and their phones couldn’t get through, and their mobile phones had no signal. .

"The best news now is that we still have the Zion Dam Power Station. I heard that this power station can operate for two years without any maintenance personnel. I hope this statement is not too exaggerated," said Ai Lin Nian said, "In other words, if the power transmission line is intact, there are only two years left for us."

Except for the girl's voice, there was no sound in the archives room. Tunan looked up at the dark and silent institute. It is not difficult to imagine the situation of Professor Zeng Mosheng and his team in despair.

Ai Lin's voice suddenly paused, and A Xue asked, "What's wrong?"

The girl stared at the words in the diary and frowned: "Someone in the laboratory was infected..."

This period of diary records is very chaotic. The long-term closed experiment has overwhelmed the team members. Now they have lost the protection of the government. They are not even sure whether the government still exists in such troubled times. Now they find that there are infections around them One can imagine the fear in his heart.

The news that someone was infected is already a bolt from the blue, but the worst is yet to come.They took blood from infected people for testing before vaccinating them, and were horrified to find that Obispo had mutated.

The early immature vaccines had little effect on this mutated Obispo type. Some people suggested killing the infected, but most of them couldn't do it.Hesitation, even if it is only a day, is fatal in their current situation.The morning after the meeting to discuss how to deal with the infected person, the infected person disappeared from the isolation room.They saw the mutant for the first time when watching the surveillance video. The underground laboratory was closed most of the time, and the mutant was obviously an infected person.

"Sure enough..." Lan Shangwu murmured.This is the first case of a mutant. If the people in the laboratory fail to kill this mutated monster, it will naturally take the mutated virus out and spread it.Judging from the results, the researchers should have failed to kill the monster.

This is just a group of scientific researchers who are powerless to compete with beast-like mutants. All they can do is to distract the mutants and seal off the experimental area to protect the research results at this stage.

But it is precisely because of this mutated virus type that it has opened up another way for their research. Irene can feel from the lines that her father and colleagues in the laboratory are encouraged by the progress of the research. Can't help but get up quickly, Ah Xue got closer, everyone held their breath and focused, even Meng Anru, who was listening casually at first, couldn't help but get serious.

At a certain moment, Erin put down the diary, looked up, was shocked for a while, and then said: "The antibody serum has really been successfully developed..."

"Did it succeed?" Meng Anru got up from the file rack and turned to Lan Shangwu, "Where is the antibody? Why didn't we find it?"

Lei Zhe also became excited: "It must be hidden somewhere," he hurriedly urged Irene, "See if there is anything written in the diary!"

Irene looked down at the diary again, and this time she didn't bother to read page by page. She browsed quickly, but she didn't find a clear clue to record the antibody, so she turned all the way to the last page.

A lot of blood was sprinkled on the last page of the diary, and two paragraphs were recorded intermittently.

——We must escape with the serum and find a way for the government or other energy to produce serum.Without weapons, it is not easy to break out from the siege of zombies, but even if only one person escapes, there is hope.At least we will not become zombies and monsters, and we can die with dignity and satisfaction.

This first paragraph should have been written by Zeng Mosheng in a relatively stable environment. The lines of handwriting are very clear, and it can be seen from the lines that they are determined to die.But the next paragraph was written in very scrawled and distorted, and the nervousness and panic seemed to jump out of the paper.

——Only Lin Ran and I are left. I have never shed so much blood in my life. The monster has no reason not to come at me. Lin Ran will definitely be able to escape with the antibody serum. It is impossible for God not to leave us a way of life.

At this point, the handwriting was so sloppy that I couldn't read it clearly. As Irene carefully discerned her father's handwriting, her voice was choked with sobs: "...I heard its voice... No matter who finds this diary, no matter whether Lin Ran Has it been successful, I hope at least someone knows that there was a group of hardworking people here, I hope someone knows that the Obispo virus is not invincible..." The girl thought of this, took a deep breath, and gently closed the Diary, "This is the last diary."

At this point, everyone can piece together the complete plot without further reasoning. At the last moment, Irene's father used himself as a bait to hold back the mutant, covered Lin Ran from escaping, and locked the diary in the safe inside.

Lei Zhe patted Irene on the shoulder lightly: "At least now we know that someone escaped with antibodies, and your father's research results were not in vain."

"Did you really escape?" Tunan frowned and looked at the diary in Irene's hand, "The last entry in this diary was written two years ago, why no one knows about the antibody serum so far? "

Everyone was silent. Tunan was right. Assuming that Lin Ran had successfully brought out the antibody serum, it is impossible to hear any news until now. The most likely thing is that Lin Ran is also dead, and the antibody serum has disappeared. .

Ah Xue looked at the end of the darkness in desperation. In his vision was the crooked safe, and the few photos were still falling on the ground. He walked over by a ghost and picked up the stack of photos.The photos are all related to the experiment. The data on the computer and the analyzer may be too slow to record with a pen. I am worried that I will not be able to use the electronic device to record, so I took a photo to capture the virus. And the characteristics of the antibody and a series of key experimental data.He couldn't understand these, and was about to take them with him just in case, when he suddenly turned to the last photo.

That is not a photo of the experiment, but a group photo of the staff of the R&D team.

There are seven people in the group photo, but they are not as energetic as the general team photos. Everyone looks very haggard, and some even have their hair and beards just caressed. It can be seen that they are deciding to escape with antibodies At the last moment, everyone got together to take a photo, but Ah Xue didn't have the heart to express his gratitude. The boy with the black frame mirror stared at a certain figure in the photo, feeling that he was going crazy.

Standing on the right side, he is very familiar with that young man in a white coat!

Looking at the photo, he trembled all over, and turned around suddenly: "Lin Ran is not dead, he escaped!!"

Lei Zhe heard Monk Zhanger: "What are you talking about?"

Ah Xue couldn't wait to pass the group photo to Lei Zhe, pointing to the young man on the right side of the photo, his hands were shaking with excitement.Now Lei Zhe and Su Ze finally saw the person in the photo clearly, and their expressions could be described as shocked for a moment.

Tunan and Irene also approached wonderingly, Tunan just asked "what's the matter", when he saw the person in the photo, he was dumbfounded for a moment: "This is not..."

Erin stared at the young man in the photo, covered her mouth in disbelief: "Wu Ming?!"

"That's right, Lin Ran is Wu Ming! Wu Ming is Lin Ran!" The boy in the black-frame mirror was very excited, "Professor Zeng Mosheng said, 'There are only me and Lin Ran left', so Lin Ran can only be Wu Ming." , so Lin Ran did escape with the antibody serum!"

"Wait, wait!" Lei Zhe raised his hand, the news was so explosive that he felt he had to digest it slowly, "You mean that Lin Ran has been in the coral colony for the past two years with the antibody serum, Then why didn't he say it?"

"It's useless to say it..." Tunan sighed, "It is impossible to mass-produce antibodies under the conditions of the coral colony."

"The coral colony is not good, he can find someone else..." Lei Zhe was also dumbfounded at this point, only to realize that things are not that simple. If there is really someone on this continent who has the ability to help mass-produce antibodies, the first one The only thing that comes to mind is Lou Zhan, and the second thing that comes to mind is Lan Aowen.

The young man in the lace shirt said nothing, bent his knees and propped his head sullenly.

Meng Anru whistled: "How wonderful, maybe Lou Zhan will be recorded in the annals of history in the future, the savior of mankind~~"

Lei Zhe looked up at Lan Shangwu: "Can you shut up your servant?"

Lan Shangwu was also very depressed, and he took a deep breath: "Shut up."

Meng Anru glared at Lan Shangwu, then at Lei Zhe, and said with a betrayed chilling look: "Lan Shangwu, if I hadn't opened the safe for you, you wouldn't even have to listen to the diary. If you get it, you still want me to shut up, thank you for your ruthlessness, I will definitely tell your brother the news!"

Lei Zhe covered his forehead with a headache: "How on earth did you endure this guy?"

Lan Shangwu didn't change his face and said: "Just treat him as a hallucination of schizophrenia."

"You think too highly of your spirit, it can't split such a high-end illusion!"

Tu Nan on the side smiled wryly: "It's useless to tell Lan Aowen, Wu Ming is already dead..."

There was silence in the archives room again, Lei Zhe fell headlong on the wall, wishing to keep popping up and being strangled in the cradle, it might as well never have happened...

"I know where the antibodies are."

The boy in the black-framed mirror suddenly spoke out, his voice extremely calm and determined.

Erin raised her head in surprise: "You know?"

Ah Xue closed his eyes, until today he finally understood why Wu Ming said that he used his companions as zombies, and understood what the so-called selfishness of Wu Ming was for, and now all the puzzles have finally been put together satisfactorily :

"Actually, Brother Wu Ming told me before he died..."

Lei Zhe seemed to have a mystery behind what he said, but Su Ze raised his hand suddenly: "Shhh!"

The sniper in black suddenly interrupted the boy's words, looking into the depths of the darkness:

"Someone."