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A crossed mesh screen with very thick holes was just beneath the baffle, and only the pinky could enter the holes.
Teacher Dagen pulled the mesh and looked down, his gaze falling straight on a swollen and deformed face!
“Hiss!”
His entire body shuddered, and he instinctively flung his neck back, forgetting that he was in a narrow ventilation pipe, so the back of his head banged directly on the inner wall of the pipe.
——Dong!
Although the sound was not loud, it spread far and wide thanks to the metal as its medium and even Ji Dong and a few people behind him could hear the echoes that lingered in the pipe.
Mo Tiangen’s hair stood up.
He knew he was in trouble.
——”Why am I so cursed?”
It’s just a corpse that’s been dead for half a month! It’s not the first time I’ve seen one, so why have such a big reaction!
Mo Tiangen scolded his stupidity in his heart, holding his breath and looking down through the mesh of the vent.
Sure enough, the sound of the collision just now had attracted a Skeleton Monster. Through the pipeline system, the positioning of the sound was not very accurate. The monster only lingered under for a while, only to stagger away after failing to find any prey.
All the people hiding in the ventilation pipe breathed a sigh of relief.
Mo Tiangen began to remove the mesh screen below.
In fact, without tools, it was difficult to remove the panels with bare hands—and most importantly, without making a sound.
Teacher Dagen pried the left and right screws with his military knife, sweating profusely and leaving his palm with several bloody cuts, before eventually removing the damn screen after five minutes.
Then he poked his head out of the vent and looked around for a long time. The Skeleton Monster who had just heard the sound had gone far away.
Mo Tiangen made a gesture behind him, then jumped down the vent with light hands and feet.
The others followed suit, one by one.
They were now in a rectangular laboratory.
A researcher with glasses fell to the ground on his back, with his head facing the vent.
But because he had been dead for a long time, his whole body had decayed to the point where his face was so disfigured that they could not discern his original facial features, and his glasses were squeezed to the side by the swollen and decomposed facial skin.
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Everyone who passed by the corpse could not help but look away, save Ren Jianmo, who bent down and tugged up his sleeve.
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If the female corpse in the data room was the only evidence, this second corpse proved that the vaccine could indeed resist the infection of “Judas Tears”.
By this time, Rose and the soldier had already eagerly begun to rummage through the laboratory, opening all the containers that appeared to be able to store the medicine one by one.
What they were looking for was not the “Moon God Stone”, but the vaccine that had been on their minds since they learned of its existence.
However, they found nothing.
——Fuck!
Ji Dong secretly scolded the two people in his heart. It was too reckless.
It was important to realize that rummaging amongst a lot of fragile goods such as bottles, cans, and so on was a highly risky thing to do. In this laboratory with a single exit, it was easy to be cornered by nearby monsters if someone unintentionally knocked something and made any noise.
Thinking so, he hurried forward and grabbed Rose’s arm.
The red-haired beauty held a glass bottle, trying to distinguish the Latin on it with her CET-4 English level.
Ji Dong approached silently from behind her, suddenly took her arm, causing Rose to be startled and unconsciously flung her arm, which caused the bottle in her hand to fly out.
At that moment, Ji Dong simply felt that his little frightened heart and liver were about to jump out of his mouth!
Fortunately, Mo Tiangen was just a few steps away. Seeing this situation, he immediately came to a forward lunging action. His entirety slid more than half a meter on the ground and caught it steadily half a second before the glass flask landed.
Everyone was in a cold sweat.
Rose, who almost got them into trouble, stumbled under her feet and almost slipped, but instead just sat on the ground.
Teacher Dagen rubbed his sore elbow, got up from the ground, and put the flask back on the experimental platform.
Both Ji Dong and Rose took a long breath.
Mo Tiangen truly wanted to tell off Rose, a beautiful woman who lacked knowledge of biology and chemistry, about the basic common sense surrounding vaccines.
Such as the fact that this kind of biological serum required a low-temperature environment. Even if the huge bottle in her hand had perfectly developed vaccines, if it had been stored in a non-refrigerated environment for more than ten days, it should have expired long ago. Inserting it into the body was completely pointless.
Unfortunately, he couldn’t even open his mouth to curse, let alone make such a long lecture.
But just then, there was a loud bang from another corner of the laboratory.
Everyone’s heart suddenly became cold.
They looked at the sound and saw the last remaining soldier standing in front of the medicine cabinet, a large tan bottle had fallen at his feet, splitting in half from the middle, spilling the powder inside and scattering it all over the ground.
The next second, the soldier suddenly hissed and roared.
With the screams of “Ah ah ah!”, he shook his arm wildly, sweeping down more medicine bottles with continuous bangs, and many glass bottles shattered all over the ground!
Ji Dong saw that there was a white thing hanging on the soldier’s palm.
The thing was only palm-length and was thrown out by the soldier’s erratic actions. He finally saw it clearly—it was actually the skeleton of an animal whose flesh had faded away! The body was long and slender, and there was a thin tail equal to the length of the body, it should be a rat’s!
——Fuck!!
Ji Dong felt like he was going crazy.
He was really afraid of what was coming!
Compared to humanoid monsters, small things like these tiny infected experimental animals that had mutated were the sneaky killers whose attacks couldn’t be prevented.
“Get out of here!”
Rose also knew that something was wrong. Regardless of the rules of not speaking, she suddenly shouted.
At this time, the soldier also finally got rid of the small monster hanging on his hand.
The rat’s dead bones were flung by him to the medicine cabinet, hit the cabinet door with a bang, rolled down, and planted into a large pile of bottles and jars.
“Go to hell!”
The soldier screamed in pain and crushed the rat’s head with one foot.
Then, he looked at his injured palm and raised his eyes to Rose and the others.
He was very young, looking only in his early twenties, and at that moment, his eyes were full of despair—he knew that he had no way to live.
“Ahhhhhhh!!!”
The soldier shouted, drew his gun, and swept away a barrage of bullets towards the glass facing the corridor.
Outside the corridor were two Skeleton Monsters that came upon hearing the sound.
The bullets certainly didn’t do them any fatal damage, and on the contrary, enraged these terrible mutants.
The two monsters got down on all fours like felines, stretched out at a great angle, then leaped over the broken glass window and lunged toward the gun-wielding soldiers.
“Get out of here!”
Rose grabbed Annie and pushed her to Mo Tiangen, then took the lead and bolted out the door, running forward without looking back.
She was a ruthless and decisive woman who would only think of her own life as the priority in a life and death situation.
Mo Tiangen picked Annie up by the waist and followed Rose.
Ji Dong took one last look at the soldier in the lab who had been pounced on by the monsters, and also went after them with Ren Jianmo.
They, the only remaining five-man squad, were now in the core area of Zone B2.
There were three labs in the B2 area, symmetrically distributed in a zigzag shape.
Ji Dong and the others escaped from the largest laboratory above. They need to go through a T-shaped corridor that forked left and right after turning and go to any of the two labs below to hide from the monsters, or simply find a way to crawl into the ventilation ducts for a while.
Fortunately, most of the scientists working in the core area of the laboratory had been vaccinated in advance. The number of Skeleton Monsters wandering on this floor was much less than that in the logistics area below. Besides, they were currently attracted by the sound of gunfire, fighting, and the soldier’s screams so they did not come to them.
They blindly selected the left one, ran into the laboratory, and closed the door in a panic.
However, this laboratory was divided into the inner and outer areas.
The outer layer was the preparation room, and the inner layer was blocked by a piece of frosted glass, so it was impossible to see the situation inside.
A triangular sign with a yellow background was posted on the door separating the two areas. Teacher Dagen studied it and concluded that it should be a warning sign of “Radioactive Material”.
Rose and Ji Dong suddenly brightened up when Mo Tiangen said so.
Ji Xiao’niao remembered that Annie and the priest once said that the Research Institute found that the “Moon God Stone” could emit some rays that could promote cell regeneration. Isn’t it “radioactive material”?!
“Quick, go open the door!”
Rose obviously also remembered this. She nudged Ji Dong and ordered in a low voice.
Ji Dong used his ID card to swipe the lock.
But this time, the door did not immediately open directly, instead, an artificial intelligence beep came.
[Hazardous biosecurity alerts have been activated in this lab, do you confirm to open this door?]
At the same time, with the sound of artificial intelligence speaking, the original opaque frosted glass window slowly slid open, revealing the inner layer of transparent glass.
The crowd could not speak at once.
Because through the partition window, they saw that in the inner compartment, there were three huge glass cabinets.
Those cabinets looked as if they were used in pet stores to display kittens, puppies, and rabbits in the typical live-animal cabinets, except that the space within each one was quite large, and there was no doubt that they were indeed used to house experimental animals.
The two glass cabinets on the left and in the middle housed the skeletons of several oddly shaped animals.
They were smaller than a human but larger than the average common domestic dog.
Ji Dong suspected that if they stood up on their hind legs, their forelimbs could probably reach their shoulders, and the mouth and nose were unusually developed, full of fangs, looking like a pack of wolves in the novels he had read before.
What’s worse, the glass cabinet on the right had a large opening, and the animal held inside was probably now in the laboratory, wandering around aimlessly.
——One, two, three, four.
Ji Dong counted. There were four heads.
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