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The two walked into the affiliated hospital one after the other, and the paladin had to quicken his pace and chase a little closer.

It was getting dark at this time, the nurses in the hospital were changing shifts, there were no emergencies in the town, and a few people walked in without attracting attention... Unlike other hospitals, this is an affiliated hospital of a university, where interns, faculty and staff will meet In and out, nothing worth noting.

Walking in the forefront was Professor Hill, carrying a medicine bag in his hand, he quickly got into the locker room, changed into protective clothing, and walked towards the conspicuous iron gate on one side of the hospital.

Herbert, who was hiding behind the corner, frowned and pushed his glasses.

This is not any of the visiting areas... but the direction leading to the morgue.

Chapter 36 Mortuary

In the morgue of the hospital, more than a dozen fresh corpses are being parked today.

It is said to be "fresh", because of course the hospital cannot keep the patient's remains indefinitely... unless there is medical research value and the consent of the person and the family is obtained in advance, otherwise, when the time comes, the funeral company will hand over the remains The instrument company, what should be handed over to the police should be handed over to the police, and what should be handed over to the family should be handed over to the family.

When Professor Hill walked in, he deliberately checked the status of each corpse.

Among them, five or six corpses had obvious trauma on their bodies, and they had just been sent in not long ago, maybe some security incident happened outside... Most of these dead people would not come to claim them, so they were just right for the first batch of experimental samples.

After he got the potion, he actually tried to analyze its molecular formula in the laboratory, but he failed at all.He can't even separate the different components that may exist in the medicine. You don't know what this thing is made of. How to use extraction or fractionation?

But the results are not without.

He found all the raw materials needed for the medicine, and successfully obtained the fluorescent green liquid in strict accordance with the preparation process, which proved that the process was indeed stable and easily reproducible.

He couldn't wait any longer, he had to try the actual effect of this potion on the dead.

Speaking of the dead, of course there are the most in the hospital morgue.

Professor Hill deliberately pushed out several traumatic corpses, and used a large needle to draw a tube full of medicine, preparing to give these dead corpses intravenous injection.As for whether to sterilize before injection... forget it, they are all dead, aren't they?

Herbert, who was standing outside the door of the mortuary, was looking in through the windshield on the door. When he saw Professor Hill take out the green potion, he suddenly realized: It was not Dan who did it, but you, an old guy, stole me. research results!

He immediately opened the door and rushed in, yelling at Professor Hill: "Stop it, you despicable old bastard! You completely refused to believe my theory in class, but you want to steal my results here!"

"Herbert West..." Professor Hill turned his head, "...I have to admit, you are really a genius, and your theory is correct. I have read through your experimental data records, and you really Reversed death."

"Hmph, are you starting to agree with me again now? Put down the potion in your hand, that's my invention..." Herbert sneered and said to this guy.

"Your invention? You are just a student in your 20s. You have neither your own laboratory nor research resources. How did you invent this kind of thing?" Professor Hill turned cold, "No, this is mine. Invention, the fruit of my life's research at Miscatone."

Before Herbert could say anything, he turned around resolutely and inserted the needle into the neck vein of the corpse.

Since it is a dead person, the heart has of course stopped beating and no longer plays the role of pumping blood, and the blood in the blood vessels cannot flow normally; but as Herbert said in the experimental records, this medicine "is in the blood It has a strange diffusion force, and it will flow through the blood circulation system of the subject's body almost instantly, and further penetrate into the body tissues of the subject, activating the 'life force' in their body that has not completely dissipated, that is, the vitality of the cells. "

Almost instantly, the fingers of the dead man lying on the steel bed moved, as if the blood in his body started to flow again.

Professor Hill has already pulled out the syringe quickly, and walked towards the next corpse, but Herbert, the real inventor of the potion, froze in place, watching the dead man twitch violently, blood oozing from the wound on his chest again, Then the hands and feet made a human-like behavior—he was trying to get up.

The effect of the medicine applied on the human body this time is much stronger than the last time... He couldn't help but feel a sense of accomplishment that he had finally accomplished a goal.

The time at the University of Zurich and Dr. Gruber was actually not a "resurrection"...Because Gruber's corpse hadn't been revived for a few minutes, the uncontrolled energy in the medicine caused his body tissues to consume too much energy. As a result, the pressure in the body increased, the muscles were torn, the brain was burned, the cranial cavity was under excessive pressure, and even the eyeballs were ejected, and finally completely disintegrated and melted.

That didn't bring the "life force" back to the body, it just burned the remaining energy in the body, allowing the dead to move for a while, which is no different from the fact that the frog on the dissecting table can still twitch its limbs.

Dr. Gruber was Herbert's first mentor, and all his theoretical frameworks came from his mentor's teaching, but he went one step further than his mentor.

So far, he still remembers what his teacher said: "If the definition of death is the cessation of life activities, then all the 'deaths' that we humans have witnessed so far are actually inaccurate at the moment they are announced. The human body has dozens of Trillions of cells, the vast majority of which continue to function after we 'die' as a whole, perhaps even permanently if properly supported."

At this moment, in the morgue of the Affiliated Hospital of Miscattoni Medical College, this theory was confirmed right before our eyes and at this very moment.

Suddenly there was a hoarse roar from ahead, and Herbert woke up from the excitement of completing the greatest invention of his life. It turned out that Professor Hill had already divided and injected the medicine into the five corpses.

The first corpse to receive the injection had already fully crawled up, with a disturbing yellow light in his eyes, and he was touching the wound on his chest dully.

"Damn it," it cursed.

This sentence of course further proves that the corpses revived by the potion still have basically similar intelligence to that in life. This is the first time Herbert has observed this phenomenon from potion experiments... Of course, this is also the first stable version of the potion. One application to the human body.

But what it said next was a bit scary. I don't know if it can be regarded as a human thing. It slowly turned its head and looked around, and said, "I'm still very hungry..."

While talking, it jumped off the steel bed, staggered to another corpse lying there, stretched out its hand and tore off a large piece of flesh from the outside of its thigh, put it into its mouth and began to chew.

"……what?"

Herbert's eyes widened. Why did the resurrected corpse behave like this?

It is true that the cat also developed unusual aggression... but at the time he thought it had something to do with the characteristics of the test object itself.Cats have the instinct of hunting and are not afraid of humans. It is not incomprehensible to attack humans after resurrection.

After all, his previous experimental data was too little, and he failed to observe and record a sufficient sample size of the resurrected creatures, so it was impossible to judge whether what happened before him was normal or not.

Professor Hill, who had completed all the injections, turned around and saw the same scene, so he couldn't help being stunned for a moment.

But after that, the guys who got up had already surrounded them one after another. On their naked bodies, the large or small wounds began to swell with dark red dirty blood, and from time to time there was a trace of yellow-green fluorescent color coming from under the skin. flashed through the tiny blood vessels.

In their eyes, the person in front of them is not a "life-given person", but a living body.

"What are you doing, stop quickly...ah!"

Professor Hill, who was yelling and cursing viciously, was quickly held down by several living corpses whose strength had become extremely powerful, and there were creepy screams from the depths of the morgue.

On the other side, the first "man" who got up first stared directly at Herbert who was standing there stupidly by the door.

As if he felt that the flesh and blood of a dead person was not as good as a living person after all, he didn't tear up the innocent corpse next to him, but rushed towards Herbert with a smirk.

Just like the effect on the black cat, the strength of the corpse far surpassed that of ordinary people. Herbert, who was so startled and fell to the ground, only heard a "boom", and the iron door above his head was hit by that guy. A piece was dented.

The living corpse bounced back by the iron door let out a roar, stretched out its hand again, and grabbed Herbert's chest.

At this moment, the iron door behind him was suddenly kicked open, and a powerful hand grabbed the collar of the back of Herbert's neck, and dragged him out of the morgue, causing the living corpse to rush into space.

Paladin Jess held a bent crowbar in his hand. After pulling Herbert out and throwing it aside, he rushed up and swung the stick down on the living corpse's head.

Unfortunately, this time the living corpse was not the dead cat last time. It raised its arms to block Jess's attack. Although the ulna was broken by Jess, it protected its head and did not suffer any fatal injuries.

Although the word "fatal" is used on it, there is always something wrong.

Jess is also very experienced in dealing with this kind of thing. Zombies are the most indispensable monster in the world of Sanctuary.The guy behind really researched this kind of thing that only Rasma believers would be interested in!

The nurses and doctors on duty in the hospital finally heard the voice and ran towards here one after another.

Jace yelled at them, brandishing a crowbar, "Don't come here! Get someone who can handle it, we've got to burn this place down!"

Dan, who found it with great difficulty, also appeared in the crowd, and he knew what happened when he looked here. He quickly pulled Herbert up and shouted in his ear: "Now you are satisfied! Go to Horsey Dean!"

When Herbert got up and ran out, Dan hurriedly persuaded the doctors and nurses who wanted to help.

Judging from the still-fresh performance of the dead cat, the big brothers inside are definitely not easy to mess with, so let those who are capable of fighting stand in front for a while...

However, there are too many people, and things are chaotic. There are always a few people who don't know the situation and want to see what's going on, but they are dragged in by the living corpses in the morgue. Can't stop it.

He could only push the guy who was wrestling with him to the depths of the mortuary, took a few steps back, put a crowbar on the handle, and temporarily blocked the door.

"Burn it."

Seeing through the transom on the door that those unlucky white coats had been gnawed into blood gourds, Jess said with a gloomy face.

Chapter 37 Incineration

Outside the hospital, Megan's father, Dean Horsey of the Miskatonic School of Medicine, was rushing to the scene of the accident with a large group of campus police.

As soon as I walked to the door, I saw a man with blood all over his face and body, and with his right hand covering his left arm, staggering out from the other side.

Dean Horsey looked at it for a long time before he recognized from the sparse hair on the top of his head and tall and thin figure that it was his old friend and expert in brain neurology, Professor Carl Hill.

"My God, Carl, what's wrong with you?" He hurriedly led people to meet him and said.

"I'm fine, Alan. I've suffered a little injury." Professor Hill said, and secretly looked around at the people around him, but he didn't find the little bastard wearing glasses, so he hurriedly murmured behind him: "How many people are there over there?" A doctor is dead, go and see. I'll go to the inpatient department to find some medicine to stop the bleeding."

In fact, this is a bit of a problem. Why do you have to go to the inpatient department if you want to find a hemostatic drug?Isn't there enough medicine in the emergency room?

However, when he heard that a doctor died unexpectedly, Dean Horsey's head buzzed, and he didn't care whether there was anything unreasonable in his old friend's words, so he immediately assigned a campus policeman to follow Professor Hill: "You, Escort Professor Hill to the inpatient department, and the others will follow!"

After finishing speaking, he hurriedly led people into the hospital, all the way to the morgue.

Maybe it's an illusion, but Dean Horsey always felt that there was a yellow light flashing in his old friend's eyes...

Dan and Jess, together with two stronger doctors, blocked the door of the mortuary with a medicine trolley. Can't resist.

Seeing this situation, Dean Horsey gave an order, and a group of campus policemen rushed up immediately, drew their pistols and aimed at the door.

…The campus police are indeed equipped with guns. Some university campus police are even equipped with semi-automatic rifles. I don’t know who they are going to use against them.Most of the time, what they have to face is just unruly students. If they really need this kind of firepower to fight against the enemy, I'm afraid they may not dare to fight.

Even though the school police officers in Miskatonia are well-informed, they couldn't help but look at the dead bodies with yellow eyes and bleeding mouths frantically hitting the iron door of the morgue, trying to squeeze out. Some are trembling and their hands are trembling.

They couldn't help but look back at Dean Horsey who brought them here, only to see the old man wave his hand violently.

"What the hell are you waiting for, shoot!"

At the urging of the dean, a group of campus policemen fired bang bang bang bang, pouring bullets at the living corpses.Fragments of glass and steel flew everywhere, and Jess could only raise his hand to cover it, while pushing Dan and several doctors to crawl away quickly.

The campus police officers stopped shooting when the corpses in the morgue turned into..."corpses" again.Ready to open the morgue door.

Jess on the side hurriedly stopped: "No, no, no, they won't die completely, we have to burn this place with a torch now."

Seeing him face to face, Dean Horsey next to him couldn't help but asked suspiciously, "Excuse me, who are you?"

Arkham is not a big city, and most of the residents around this area are related to the medical school. As the dean of the medical school, he is very familiar with the people living nearby, but no matter what, he can't remember whether the person in front of him has anything to do with it. He has dealt.

Before Jess could figure out how to speak, Dan beside him answered first for him: "This is my cousin, who came to play with me recently."

Dean Horsey looked at the skin color of the two people speechlessly, but still decided to trust Dan... Interracial unions are not news these days, so there is nothing surprising about them.

He then asked, "What did you just say? Burn what?"

"Didn't Herbert tell you?" Jess remembered that it seemed that Herbert went to the dean just now, why did he still want to hide the truth at this moment... that would only kill more people.

Fortunately, the dean shook his head and denied: "No, Mr. Herbert West told me that there was a mistake in a certain medicine he developed, which caused casualties, so I temporarily locked him in the confinement room of the library. Bring someone over."

"This... potion was indeed invented by Herbert." Dan replied hesitantly, but Jess next to him followed his words and said to the dean: "...but it was 'Professor Hill' who did this. , I saw it all outside the door.”

After finishing speaking, he tried his best to imitate the tone of people in this world and described the whole process, especially emphasizing the "stealing of research results" that Herbert said and Professor Hill's action of injecting those medicines into the neck of the corpse.

Although surveillance camera systems are not so popular in this era, there must be ones in hospitals.

Therefore, Horsey didn't doubt that this strange man would lie to him. Afterwards, he only needs to check the surveillance camera in this corridor, and everything will be clear, right?

He is now more concerned with another issue.

"I ran into your Professor Hill just outside the door, he seems to be fine..."

The two people on the opposite side immediately showed indescribable expressions, and said in unison: "No way?"

Just as a few people were staring at each other, the school police next to them yelled in panic again and began to shoot into the door cracklingly.

Dean Horsey turned around for no apparent reason, only to see that those guys in the morgue had climbed up again.Among the dead bodies scattered all over the place, those few were obviously different...their eyes had a strange yellow light, and the entire front had been smashed into a sieve by the firepower of the school police just now. Crawling out of the river of blood, he opened his bloody mouth wide, causing some of the more timid intern nurses outside to faint from fright.

Of course, the campus police had never seen such a scene before, they subconsciously fired while shouting, but they could no longer stop those guys from moving.A campus policeman who was closest was dragged in by those living corpses, and was torn into many pieces alive, screaming in pain until the entire head and a section of the spine were forcibly torn off from the torso.

"Don't let them come out again!"

Paladin Jace yelled, rushing forward, kicking back someone who was trying to climb out of the broken transom, resisting the door that was about to be knocked open.The campus police, who had just woken up from a dream, hurriedly carried over a cabinet that they didn't know what it contained, and with all their strength, they finally blocked the door of the morgue again.

"Don't wait, Dean, burn this place quickly, or you will lose control!" Dan shouted.

Dean Horsey made a painful decision at a critical moment. Only he has the right to announce this decision: "Push some oxygen cylinders and burn this place directly. Hurry up!"

[128. No. 128]

Oxygen itself is non-combustible, it is only a necessary combustion aid in the process of "combustion"... But if a large amount of pure oxygen is added to the combustion process, it will create a very spectacular effect.

For the first time in the history of this university, this town, and even the entire United States, the dean and medical staff set fire to their own hospital in partnership.

Speaking of which, there is really everything that can be used to set fires in hospitals.Alcohol, ether, gauze, film, pharmaceutical packaging, pure oxygen, etc., and even a little careless management of these things may cause a combustion accident.

The school policemen removed the cabinet blocking the door, Dan picked up the incendiary bomb made on site, swung his arms round, and threw it into the gap of the twisted and deformed iron door, and the morgue burst into flames.

Then came Paladin Jess, who put his feet against the wall on the other side of the corridor, pushed the oxygen cylinder tied to the iron bed, and pointed it at the morgue. With all his strength, he smashed the gas cylinder into the morgue room.

The high temperature of the flame will quickly cause the pressure in the oxygen cylinder to exceed the safe limit, and the explosion of the oxygen cylinder and the liquid oxygen inside will be vaporized and released in an instant, which will further increase the intensity of the combustion; just as everyone at the door hid in a safe place, they heard There was a "boom" in the morgue, and a large piece of the wall in this part of the hospital collapsed. Whether the things inside were dead or alive, of course, they had been burned to ashes in the violent deflagration.

Many medical staff were still lying on the ground, their heads were buzzing, and they couldn't stand up for a while.

Horsey, who was already very old, was shocked by the explosion and almost fell apart. It was only with the help of Jess that he sat still, barely regained his sanity, and arranged for the school police to contact the local police station... …despite having “police” in their name, they are still essentially school staff, only given the same law enforcement powers by the local police department.

In addition, he has not forgotten the most important thing, grabbed another campus policeman and said: "Go and see where Professor Hill is... go to the inpatient department. Didn't we arrange someone to follow him just now, and tell him to report the location, Don't act rashly."

The firefighters came the fastest. The fire in the morgue was about to be extinguished. Just a few minutes was enough for the entire room to be burnt to ruins. Those living corpses that could be called terrifying did not even have a single living cell left.Combustion in a high-oxygen environment proceeds more rapidly, with stronger flames and more thorough reactions.

The living corpses who were unwilling to rest in peace were directly cremated this time.

It is impossible for the hospital to treat any patients recently, and it is not easy to resume normal operation after such an "accident".

While the firefighters were still busy at the scene and the medical staff were still guiding a few patients to the inpatient department, Dean Horsey stood on the lawn beside the inpatient department with a few people, watching the fallen The man on the ground had a gloomy face.

That was the campus policeman he sent to follow Professor Hill. After calling for more than ten minutes without responding, his colleagues discovered the location of the death.