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Annie screamed and struggled desperately, trying to shake Ren Jianmo off.
It was a pity that the phrase ‘lianxiangxiyu’ didn’t seem to exist in Ren Jianmo’s dictionary. He grabbed the chestnut-haired woman’s arms with one hand, and pinned them behind her back, immobilizing her. With his other hand, he rolled up the sleeve on her left arm up to her shoulder.
His movements were neat and tidy. If it weren’t for the current situation, Ji Dong would almost think he was on the filming site of some criminal investigation film. Just now, it seemed as if Ren Jianmo’s movements were all designed and arranged by a professional military figure.
However, his attention did not stay on Ren Jianmo’s dazzlingly smooth and excessive skills for long and immediately shifted to Annie’s exposed arm.
Ji Dong saw that on the outside of Annie’s upper arm, there were five deep, red, round scars of an equal size arranged in a plum blossom shape. The diameter of the pattern was about one centimeter.
This scar, whether in shape or color, looked exactly like the one on the arm of the female corpse by the filing cabinet!
Not only Ji Dong, but the other people present also saw the scars on Annie’s arm.
Ren Jianmo immediately loosened his grip on her.
Annie didn’t struggle or scream anymore, and only backed up to the wall in silence. She tugged the sleeve of her left arm back into place, held her arm tightly with her right hand, lowered her head, and didn’t say a word.
“What’s going on here?!”
Rose’s face was blue, her features were scrunched up in anger, and her expression was rather furious.
She took a step closer towards Annie and asked in a stern voice.
“Is there really a vaccine? Where is it?!”
Annie bit her lip and hung her head, not saying a word.
Rose became even more enraged, her hands tightened into fists, and the veins on the back of her hands bulged. If she hadn’t needed to question Annie, the one person who knew the truth, she would have drawn a gun and shot her in the head by now.
To tell the truth, Ji Dong must admit that if there was a vaccine that could resist the mutation, he wanted it.
After all, in this kind of zombie [Film] where you will mutate after being bitten by a monster, getting vaccinated in advance was equivalent to saving your life—as long as you did not suffer fatal injuries.
And, since they were not the locals of this [Film], the participants could survive as long as they could successfully return to the [Peach Blossom Spring], even if they only had one breath left, so the vaccine was truly important for them.
Ji Dong bit his lips and took a step forward.
Someone moved faster than he did.
The last surviving soldier had already pounced on her.
He held down Annie’s shoulder and lifted the whole person over, then swung his fist and punched her right in the cheek.
A tall, young, strong male or a soldier with years of training… the force of his fist could be imagined.
His outburst came so suddenly that the others had no time to stop it.
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Annie grunted, her face was knocked to the side, but she didn’t put up any resistance. For several seconds she just hung her head, almost as if she had been directly knocked unconscious.
——Motherfucker!
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“If you knew there was a vaccine, why didn’t you say so earlier?!”
He growled and shouted.
“If you had said it earlier, Da Ma wouldn’t have died!”
The soldier struggled to twist his head to look at the body of his companion who had no head left and shouted hoarsely, “He could have been saved!”
Ji Dong didn’t know if this big soldier brother was really that close to his teammate or not.
But, he could imagine just how terribly his psychological pressure had accumulated.
In addition to Rose and Mo Tiangen, who were participants, there were originally ten local soldiers from this [Film] but after a single day, he was the only soldier left. Moreover, a few minutes ago, his teammates were directly executed by their immediate superior because he was bitten by a monster and was about to mutate. He didn’t even have a chance to say any last words.
As a special forces soldier, he could not resist the decision of his superiors, and he knew that what Rose had done was indeed the right thing to do.
But while reason was one thing, sensibility was another.
The last surviving soldier couldn’t question Rose’s decision, but who didn’t want to live? Who didn’t fear life and death?
Anyone who encountered the same situation, it was inevitable for them to put themselves in the shoes of others—if the person who had been bitten was me, would the headless corpse at the end of the barrels of my companions’ guns have been me?
“Calm down! Brother, calm down!”
Mo Tiangen was still trying his best to hold down the soldier who was having a mental breakdown and trying to calm him down as soon as possible.
At this time, Annie, who had slipped and fallen at the foot of the wall, slowly raised her head.
Her cheek was completely swollen, with a horrific bruise spreading from her cheekbone to the left corner of her mouth, so it was clear that the soldier’s punch had indeed used all his strength.
“Cough, cough.”
Annie coughed with difficulty a few times and spoke, “There is a vaccine yes…”
Her teeth were knocked loose and she had also bit her tongue, so her pronunciation sounded slurred when she spoke, “But I don’t have it on me at all…”
Rose replied through gritted teeth, “Then where is the vaccine?!”
“I don’t know!”
Annie glared up at her, her large, deeply defined brown eyes looking both angry and aggrieved, “If I knew where it was, I would have said so a long time ago!”
She growled back in a low voice.
“But how can I possibly know where the vaccine is hidden when I can’t even recognize the way here!”
With that, the chestnut-haired woman turned her head to stare at the soldier whose eyes were still glowing red as if he were a bull in rage and hissed.
“Besides, people who are bitten by monsters will mutate in just a few minutes, do you think we can find the vaccine to save your companion in such a short time!”
“You slut!”
After hearing Annie’s reasoning, the soldier became even angrier.
Rationally, he had to admit that Annie was right, yet emotionally, he couldn’t help but direct the death of his companion and his intense anger towards the chestnut-haired woman who had hidden information from them.
“Alright, stop arguing!”
Teacher Dagen suddenly shouted, took out his verve to deter quarreling children, pushed the still fluttering big soldier away a few steps, and sternly roared, “Be quiet, I have something to say!”
Although Mo Tiangen was not very tall, in terms of size, he was the most sturdy of all the people there. When he didn’t open his mouth, he seemed to be a harmless person, but when he glared and bared his teeth, it made people feel that he could completely overturn a cow with one hand.
The last surviving soldier was so appalled by his roar that he immediately went mute, resentfully shut his mouth, and retreated a few steps away.
“Okay!”
Teacher Dagen twisted his head to look at Annie and asked a series of questions in one breath.
“Describe to me now, what does that vaccine look like? Does it need to be refrigerated? What kind of container was it kept in? Is there a label on the container? Is it a dry powder or a liquid? What color is it?”
His string of sentences was completely out of character for his role. It was impossible for a large soldier in the marine battle to be so knowledgeable on vaccines.
However, the [Peach Blossom Spring] did not have a penalty system for a participant acting out of character, and the only two locals on the scene voiced no objections.
“…”
Annie was stunned by the question and pondered for a few seconds before slowly speaking and answering.
“The shot I got was given to me by a supervisor I know well….”
She pushed her messy hair behind her head.
“Well, I think you’ve all guessed that I’m in a lover’s relationship with him… I’m the object of his affair and, frankly, a mistress…”
Rose interrupted impatiently and wanted to interrupt her bullshit confession, but Mo Tiangen spotted the doubt in her words and preempted her by asking.
“Why did he get a vaccine for you?”
Annie’s eyes flickered for a moment, parting her gaze, involuntarily showing a struggling hesitation.
There was a short silence before she lowered her voice and answered brokenly.
“Because… I sent my son… to the Research Institute… for them to do research…”
Everyone: “?!”
Ji Dong was simply stunned by this sudden divine unfolding!
He reflexively looked down and glanced at the watch on his wrist.
——Crap!
The pointer on the progress bar, which has not been moved since entering the Research Institute, jumped forward at this time!
This meant that the words that Annie just uttered were actually the key information for the plot to progress!
“What could I do?!”
Annie’s injured cheek was swollen even more, and her mouth was tilted to one side. When she spoke, she touched the wound, and every word hurt her so much that she gasped.
But even so, she was still emotional when speaking of her son.
“There’s nothing I could do about that baby’s illness! I’m not his real mother. I’m only thirty years old this year! Why should I have to help someone else raise a child and suffer like this? Why?”
In her confused statement, Ji Dong managed to clear the causal relationship of this clue.
Annie fell in love with one of the most handsome young men of her age in Sunset Town ten years ago and got married. Unexpectedly, the other party was a gangster who idled around all day. After marriage, they had bumps and quarrels, and they were very unhappy.
Just when she was planning to divorce her husband and then leave the town to wander outside, her husband hooked up with a young girl in the Research Institute behind her back. They had an affair and even had a child.
Later, her husband fell into a ravine with his little lover while drunk driving, destroying the car and killing the pair of wild lovebirds.
Who would have thought that the one-year-old child in the back seat was very tough, and was thrown out of the car when it overturned and was caught by a tree branch. Fortunately, he survived.
In this way, Annie was left to raise the boy left behind by her husband, after he cheated on her, alone.
As if that wasn’t enough, little did she know that this little burden had a genetic disease.
He had congenital Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, which could not be cured by the current medical knowledge. Annie could only see his body’s condition decline year by year, gradually becoming stiff, weak, and losing the ability to walk.
Annie, a single mother, had few financial resources. She had to pay for expensive medicines and take care of a child who gradually lost his ability to move. She had no choice but to rely on beauty to find a job as a cook in the Research Institute, and then climb up by getting into a relationship with one of the supervisors.
Later, the supervisor told her that they were doing research with “Judas Tears” and found that some of its secretions contained an unknown component, which could make necrotic neurons repair themselves. If combined with the radioactive light of the “Moon God Stone”, it might delay or even cure her adopted son’s disease.
Annie was moved.
So she sent her adopted son to the institute and asked the supervisor to give the child the new reagents that had not even passed the animal experiment stage…
“And what was the result?”
Hearing this, Mo Tiangen couldn’t help but ask after him.
“Heh.”
Annie sneered and shook her head, “I don’t know, I haven’t seen Su Lin for months.”
She pointed to her arm.
“However, the supervisor told me that the extract of ‘Judas Tears’ had shown a certain concern in live animal experiments and that there was a possibility of infection through wounds, so I was given a vaccine in advance, saying that… ”
Annie paused.
“Anyways, I agreed, just in case.”
Thank you for the chapter！
Somewhere inside my mind is whispering the vaccines are made of that child’s blood… -.-
I was thinking that the child became the first “monster”.