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Chapter 233 Escape from the Research Institute

Zhong Qiang, lying on the ground, seemed to have noticed the problem as well. His unfocused gaze swept over every familiar face around him, and then he tried to control his left hand to move it to the places corroded by his blood.

Suddenly, Zhong Qiang shoved his left hand into the largest hole, blocking the vines that were about to crawl in. The other holes were not large, and although the vines crawled in, they could not attack them for the time being.

“Let’s go…” Zhong Qiang forced himself to raise the corners of his mouth. He felt that he was the most handsome at this moment, but he didn’t know how weird his smile looked to others.

The vehicle shook violently with a loud bang, and Ji Lang's voice came from the driver's seat, "This wood-type zombie has woven a net ahead, hurry up and burn it, then get past it and switch vehicles!"

Lu Yuan wasn't looking at Zhong Qiang. His camaraderie with Zhong Qiang was rather shallow now. He quickly opened the roof window of the armored vehicle and jumped in. After all, he was no longer the weakling Lu Yuan. Lin Yun and Gu Nanfeng didn't stop him, and there really wasn't anyone more suitable than him now.

Lu Yuan jumped onto the roof of the vehicle and fired a cannon shot at the vines chasing after him, then fired several more shots at the vine net in front of him. The vines now had even more putrid sap than before, probably due to the water-type zombie. Through the mecha's magnified view, Lu Yuan could see that the walls the vines were attached to were gradually decaying.

He increased the firepower of his mech cannon again, but the vines still couldn't be ignited. If the vines couldn't be ignited, they couldn't burn or cause any damage, and their vehicle couldn't break through.

"How is it?" Gu Nanfeng looked ahead from inside the car. Lu Yuan's artillery barrage had failed to ignite the vine wall, while their armored vehicle was getting closer and closer to it.

"Damn it, how could I be as stupid as you guys!" Lu Yuan suddenly stopped the artillery fire, bent down and shouted into the vehicle, "Charge!"

There was no other way but to charge forward, so Ji Lang could only step on the gas and crash into the vine wall that was oozing black sap.

When the car crashed into the vine wall, no one felt any resistance from the impact; instead, they felt themselves being pulled forward.

By the time they realized what was happening, they were already on another armored vehicle, and they had even moved up one level. Lu Yuan didn't give them time to react; in another blur, they were on yet another level.

"Holy crap, this is practically a warp drive." A slightly dizzy Lu Yuan was no longer on the roof of the armored vehicle; he had teleported himself inside.

Ji Lang's position was slightly off from the driver's seat, but he quickly realized it, jumped into the driver's seat, and stepped on the gas, heading towards the underground highway in Beijing that Zhao Qi had taken them on last time.

Unlike before, Zhong Qiang wasn't in their car this time. The atmosphere inside was tense, and Yang Xiao sat in the corner, sobbing uncontrollably. In his previous life, his savior and comrades who had fought alongside him were dead. In this life, Zhong Qiang, who had been with him since school, was also dead.

Although Zhong Qiang was sometimes carefree, he was very loyal. After he and Lu Yuan left the base, the only person who insisted on finding them and following them regardless of the consequences was Zhong Qiang, and that person is now dead.

"Don't be sad." Lu Yuan walked to his side, took off the protective gloves that were corroded and turned completely black, and gave him a new pair.

After Yang Xiao put his gloves back on and threw the glove stained with the putrid liquid out of the car window, Lu Yuan handed him a palm-sized transparent crystal.

"Take it; consider it a keepsake."

"This..." Yang Xiao looked at the crystal in Lu Yuan's hand. He couldn't imagine how Lu Yuan could still remember to take the crystal at that time, and even wipe it so clean.

"You think I cleaned it?" Lu Yuan saw his doubt. "It was like this when I took it out. It wasn't tainted by his black blood at all. It's a special crystal."

Lu Yuan and Yang Xiao were chatting idly when their armored vehicle suddenly jolted up. Gu Nanfeng immediately looked out the window. The vines they had just shaken off were chasing them again. There were two "people" standing on the vines. One of them was the water-type zombie on the roof of the car in the parking lot, so the other should be the wood-type zombie that was controlling the vines.

After being caught up, their car was constantly being pounded and struck by the vines from all sides. The vines tried to spin another web, but because the road was too wide, even the fastest vines needed time. Just as it was about to form a full web, Ji Lang stepped on the gas and sped past.

This enraged the wood-type zombie, whose roars were incessant and echoed through the air, its voice significantly louder than that of the water-type zombie. While roaring, it also muttered something about "staying."

"They're already zombies, why are they still guarding this box?" Pei Sihao couldn't understand. According to Jiang Xing, the box contained the last batch of medicine before the virus outbreak. These medicines that enhance human physique were not used in any batch in China, but other countries should have used them. If they were used, it means that this medicine is likely one of the sources of the zombie virus. Those guys have already become zombies, why are they still guarding this thing?

"According to President Jiang, this box contains the last batch of human enhancement drugs. Could it be..." Lin Yun pondered what Jiang Xing had said earlier.

"I guess Commander Jiang means that this batch of medicine contains antibodies against the zombie virus, but this box probably can't hold many medicines." Gu Nanfeng recalled the size of the box. If it was packed in the smallest dose bottles, this box could only hold two or three thousand medicine bottles at most.

"Boom!" While the group was still discussing, the armored vehicle had already rushed out of the underground tunnel and onto the snow-covered road.

"There should be cars coming and going here often. Could it be Jin Nan and his group?" When Ji Lang drove the armored vehicle out of the road, although some of the snow blocked it, it was still obvious that cars frequently came and went. Otherwise, the exit would have been blocked by the snow long ago.

"The people from that base who saved you last time?" Pei Sihao asked.

“Yes, their base is located underground in the Great Hall of the People.” Lin Yun nodded.

"There's only one road coming from the Great Hall of the People. They seem to come here often. Do they also know about this box?" Yang Xiao, who had finally recovered from Zhong Qiang's death, heard their conversation and joined in.

“This is the last version of the human enhancement agent…” Lu Yuan’s voice came from the last row. “I remember that the first enhancement drug we took after entering interstellar space was developed based on this agent.”

Upon hearing Lu Yuan's words, everyone in the car fell silent.

The silence inside the vehicle was broken by a thick vine that appeared from the sky. Since leaving the underground tunnel, the vine chased them even more aggressively, and was even thicker than it had been inside. Ji Lang had been driving the armored vehicle, dodging the vine's attacks. If everyone hadn't been distracted by discussing the potion, the entire occupants would probably have been vomiting.