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To be honest, Ji Dong wanted to know what was in the suitcase as well.
Rose had a point. If it wasn’t something they needed, there was no need to trouble themselves with carrying it everywhere.
So Ren Jianmo opened the suitcase.
Inside was a syringe filled with a light blue liquid.
At this point, the child timidly spoke.
“This is… the vaccine… I have seen…”
Annie looked down at the child in her arms. Her eyes flickered as she opened her mouth, but her expression appeared hesitant.
Ji Dong felt remorse in his heart.
He regretted why he didn’t insist and tried to forcefully drag Mr. Dagen to escape together. Otherwise, with the vaccine in the box, he wouldn’t have to die!
However, at this moment, he suddenly heard the sound of bullets being loaded.
A gun was pressed against Annie’s back.
“Give me the vaccine!”
Rose’s voice was cold and ruthless, “Or else, I will kill them both, mother and son, then we will all die here together!”
Ji Dong gawked at Rose. His eyes moved from her fierce expression to her raised hands that held the gun.
At this time, he discovered that the inside of her camouflage’s left cuff—that the red-haired beauty had just tucked in her pocket—had been dyed a dark brown.
“You… you were bitten?”
Ji Dong instantly realized what had happened in the end.
The battle just now was too chaotic. He didn’t notice that Rose was bitten.
Apparently, she was wounded by a Skeleton Monster on her wrist, and if there was no vaccine, she would soon have her flesh peeled away and become a skeleton.
“Cut the crap!”
The injury on her wrist and the fear of imminent mutation made Rose extremely irritable.
She had just been trying to restrain her emotions, not wanting Ji Dong and Ren Jianmo to discover her injury. However, now that the vaccine was close at hand, her patience and acting skills had reached their limits.
“Give me the vaccine!”
“Rose, don’t do this…”
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Ji Dong knitted his brows, twisting his head to look at Ren Jianmo. He then said to the red-haired beauty.
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“Djcu Djcu Djcu Djcu!”
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Rose caught the syringe with one hand.
It was obvious that even if she got the vaccine, she wasn’t going to put the gun down until she successfully pushed it into her body. Unfortunately, she couldn’t inject herself with the drug with only one hand.
So Rose simply shoved the vaccine into the hands of the defenseless little boy and ripped the skinny child from his adoptive mother’s arms, circling him in the crook of her arm.
While aiming her gun to the rest of them, she ordered Su Lin.
“Help me get the shot. You should know how to do it, right?!”
The little boy nodded his head.
Like all children who were both frightened and intimidated, he obediently complied and pulled off the cap of the vaccine and pushed the injection into Rose’s shoulder.
When the needle entered her body, Ji Dong saw that Rose’s expression, which had been extremely tense, had visibly eased.
But she didn’t immediately return Su Lin to Annie. Instead, Rose warily took two steps backward, muttering as she did so.
“I’m sorry… I can’t help it….”
Her gaze wandered back and forth between Ji Dong and Ren Jianmo, eyes transfixed at the long-haired youth for a long time.
Rose was on guard with these two casual acquaintances of hers.
Especially in a two-on-one situation, she was afraid that the two would settle the score with her for the vaccine, so she didn’t dare to put the little boy down. After all, they still had to rely on Su Lin to lead the way, and he was valuable as a hostage.
In fact, Rose had the idea of simply sweeping a series of bullets at Ji Dong and Ren Jianmo to avoid future troubles, but she hesitated before she could take the initiative.
Although she cherished her life, she wasn’t ruthless. Not to mention that this [Film] was challenging. She didn’t think that she could successfully find the “Moon God Stone” and leave the Research Institute alone.
Rose kept thinking about these things in her mind.
Eventually, she felt sober and sensible.
——I’ve been vaccinated. I don’t have to worry about infection anymore. I won’t turn into a monster…
However, in the eyes of other people, Rose’s appearance was profoundly strange.
The red-haired beauty’s original wheat-colored skin began to have pinpoint-sized black spots scattering everywhere. Soon, these tiny patches began to spread and fuse—like the mottled black lines on the world map—all over her body.
Her face was covered with a kind of oily luster. Metallic black mucus started to pour out from her eyes, ears, mouth, and nose…
But Rose seemed to be oblivious to the changes in herself. Her eyes were out of focus, pupils turned upward, lips opened and closed as if muttering to herself…
“Okay.”
At this time, the little boy held by Rose suddenly opened his mouth and spoke clearly in a cold tone, “It’s time. Let’s go.”
As if she was programmed, Rose turned her head away and leaped to the closed elevator in two steps. She held the child tightly with one hand, and she thrusted her other into the closed door with a “bam”.
“Su Lin!!!”
Annie had nearly lost her voice from all her screaming.
“Crap!”
Ji Dong was so frightened that the roots of his hair stood up.
He saw that Rose—a woman who only had one hand free—tore a large opening in the two-centimeter-thick steel plate as if she was ripping open wrapping paper. With Su Lin in her hand, she proceeded headfirst into the elevator shaft!
———————
Ji Dong and Ren Jianmo took Annie and chased after Rose who climbed into the elevator shaft all the way to the top floor of the Research Institute.
“That wasn’t the vaccine! That wasn’t the vaccine!”
While chasing, they heard Annie say, “The color was wrong! The injection I had before and that were not of the same color! They are both blue, but the one I got was much lighter…”
Ji Dong wanted to yell at her. “Why didn’t you say it earlier? Does it make sense to say that here and now?!”
But he also knew that this couldn’t be blamed on Annie.
Just by relying on the subtle difference in its color, even professionals couldn’t just say with certainty whether their judgment was accurate or not.
What’s more, at that time, Su Lin had already said that it was the vaccine. Moreover, Annie was naturally not sure whether she remembered it correctly or not.
“Also, what the hell is going on with your son?!”
Ji Dong climbed up the elevator shaft and looked up at Rose, who was “leading the way”, and felt that her figure was completely different from the slender, chiseled female figure she had been a minute ago.
She—or rather, it should be “it”—its size has expanded several times. Its huge body almost crammed the shaft of the massive elevator—spacious enough to accommodate twelve people.
With this terrifyingly huge figure alone, it was impossible for Rose to still be a human being!
“Your son… Why can he order that monster up there?!”
Ji Dong felt that his statement was euphemistic enough.
In fact, he wanted to say that if this was put into an RPG game, it would clearly be the ultimate BOSS!
“I don’t know! I don’t know! I really don’t know!!!”
Annie opened her mouth and denied it three times. Her voice sounded very flustered. She genuinely seemed to be confused.
“I just felt that this time when I saw Su Lin, he’s different from before…”
She had lost her composure and her words were colored with confusion.
“I just wanted him to be cured… but he wasn’t like this before… although he also often quarreled with me… but he wouldn’t be so cold to me… he… he wasn’t like this…”
——That’s right!
Ji Dong thought to himself.
——That’s because he’s not your son anymore!
Just then, Rose, the transformed monster, seemed to have reached where it wanted to go, tearing open another door with its claws.
Its size had almost blocked the elevator shaft. At present, it was a hundred times more difficult to go out than to come in.
Ji Dong, Ren Jianmo, and Annie heard a “creaking” ear-splitting sound.
Shard-like, large and small black stones, mixed with cement and sand, fell on their heads, smashing on them as if a small earthquake had occurred.
They had to press their bodies against the wall of the elevator shaft, shielding their heads to protect their vitals.
Three minutes later, the giant monster that Rose had transformed into finally squeezed through the exit and bursted out.
When Ji Dong and the others went after the duo, they found that the so-called “exit” had been smashed by the monster to make a large hole of at least four meters in diameter.
In front of the “exit” was an incomparably spacious hall. The ceiling was five stories high; it looked like a large gymnasium.
“Laboratory area A1.”
Ren Jianmo, who was the only one who still remembered the floor plan of the Research Institute, said.
But Ji Dong had no time to care where he was now.
He was left flabbergasted as he stared at Rose, the monster, that was angrily crouching in the middle of the hall.
The monster slowly stood up.
Every time it moved, various sized black stones would fall from its body, revealing enormous sections of white bones beneath the dried and knotted mixture of flesh and blood.
By the time it stood completely straight, Ji Dong was left speechless.
It was twelve or thirteen meters tall. From Ji Dong’s perspective, the top of the monster’s huge skull was almost touching the high ceiling.
The trio saw that the monster seemed to be holding a tiny boy in its huge bony claws—it was none other than Annie’s adopted son, Su Lin!
It slowly raised its hand, as if holding a delicate and fragile item, bringing the child to the front of its head.
In the middle of its two black eye sockets, there was a diamond-shaped hole in its bone plate, revealing the gray-white brain that was wriggling slightly below it.
Su Lin stretched out his hand, and climbed on the monster’s skull. Like a nimble swimming fish, he burrowed into the monster’s head through the diamond-shaped opening!
Afterward, the skeleton tilted its head high, opened its mouth, and roared silently.
The transparent film that wrapped the entire mountain forest—as if it had a life of its own—suddenly began to tremble violently, rippling out like waves of light.
Now the final boss is here!
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