TSIAGBICATMWI Chapter 160

Chapter 160 It’s Snowing

Testing all the indicators of more than a dozen experimental subjects is a major project, and many of the items are highly dangerous, such as extracting viruses, verifying attack power, physical strength, and speed. It not only requires professional researchers to analyze and collect data, but also requires the absolute force of ability users to assist in completing these high-risk projects. The research institute’s guards, in addition to protecting the safety of the research institute and the lives of the researchers, also do this.

This is not safer than going out to do other tasks, and even the losses of the guards are the most tragic. The reason why it is said to be losses rather than mortality is because the death of one person in the guard team is more serious to the entire research institute than the annihilation of an entire team going out.

Don’t look at the name “Guard Team” as ordinary as it is, sounding like security guards, but it is actually not ordinary at all.

North of Li City, backed by continuous mountains with steep terrain and numerous cliffs, is the least likely direction to suffer a large-scale attack. At the foot of the mountain, on the northernmost periphery of Li City, a Mist Mountain Base is built. In the center of the Mist Mountain Base, four research institutes are built corresponding to the four diagonal directions of east, west, north, and south.

All research projects and research resources in Li City are in these four research institutes. The Mist Mountain Base is not built as a refuge for Li City if it is ever breached, but to isolate the research institutes.

The zombies outside Li City are certainly a huge threat, but the experimental subjects in the research institutes within the Mist Mountain Base have even more unpredictable destructive power. At the same time, all experimental data, research results, experimental samples, etc. in the research institutes are extremely important and precise resources.

The existence of the Mist Mountain Base is for two purposes: first, to protect all research results even after Li City falls; second, to confine the experimental subjects within the base and solve them after they escape from the research institute out of control.

The saying that one person is more important than a team is not to belittle the lives of low-level ability users, but that the base needs more high-level ability users to complete those high-risk tasks. The further you go, the harder it is for ability users to upgrade, not only because high-level zombie crystal cores are rare, but also because it is not easy to exhaust energy and break through bottlenecks every time to improve.

Therefore, when Li City learned that the Crystal Soul could break the upgrade shackles and break through effortlessly, they sent countless teams to collect Crystal Soul news in various places. Once there was a target, they immediately transferred high-level ability users to seize it. But the effect was minimal. Until now, only Shen Ye from the Second Research Institute brought back a Water Spirit Crystal Soul.

…….

At the same time that all the experimental subjects in Li City were restless, hundreds of miles away, in Mu Xi City, Luo WuShang’s eyes were blood-red, his sharp fangs were exposed, and his fingernails were as sharp as iron claws. He had been stimulated to unleash all his zombie nature, and, it seemed, he had also triggered the release of some special energy.

At Luo WuShang’s feet was the corpse of a seventh-level zombie king, its crystal core extracted and its breath cut off by his claw.

The end of the world has basically taken shape. Not long ago, the mainland released a message on the grading of zombies and ability users.

Fourth to sixth-level zombies are defined as high-level zombies, seventh to ninth-level are defined as zombie kings, and tenth-level is called corpse emperor.

Correspondingly, fourth to sixth-level ability users are high-level ability users, seventh to ninth-level are elite ability users, and tenth-level are top ability users.

Currently, the highest level in the world, whether for ability users or zombies, is level seven. The last three levels are reasonably extended, and it is unknown whether they will actually appear with the development of the end of the world.

Luo WuShang was originally an existence beyond common sense. If he were to be given an evaluation, his strength would definitely be above level seven. The reason why he was forced into zombie form by this seventh-level corpse king was because he had already consumed a lot of energy and suffered some injuries before coming to Mu Xi City.

After arriving here, he slaughtered all the zombies in the city, only to be suddenly attacked by the last corpse king, causing him to fall to the bottom and had to break the balance in his body to release the zombie blood crystal power suppressed by the Wood Spirit Crystal Soul.

Li Shi, who was at the side, clicked his tongue secretly. He originally thought that Luo WuShang was already Luo Shuyou’s strongest form, but he didn’t expect there to be a berserk zombie form as well!?

Li Shi shrunk his neck, not daring to make the slightest noise, for fear that Luo WuShang, who was now full of bloodlust, would turn around and dig out his crystal core as well.

Fortunately, Luo WuShang gradually calmed down on his own in the end.

After Luo WuShang zombified, he instantly killed that zombie king. Before the energy of the blood crystal could completely erode his consciousness, he immediately took out several purification crystal cores that he had obtained earlier and absorbed them.

The huge purification power filled in at once, coupled with the restraint of the Wood Spirit Crystal Soul, fortunately, the energy of the blood crystal was suppressed this time.

A red light flashed, the blood mist faded, and Luo WuShang’s pupils recovered their clear, glazed red color. Although it was still red, it lacked the bloodshot, bloodthirsty, and violent ferocity. The fangs retracted into his lips, his nails shortened, and everything seemed to have returned to the original state.

Seeing that the danger was lifted, Li Shi rushed forward diligently and obsequiously, anxiously asking, “Boss, how are you? Boss, are you okay? Boss…”

“Shut up!” Before Li Shi could finish his mumbling, Luo WuShang stopped him with an angry rebuke.

He found a room nearby to sit quietly and adjust his breathing. When he opened his eyes again, the sky was gray and approaching dusk, and snowflakes were fluttering in the sky, gradually getting bigger and bigger.

Tomorrow is the agreed time, and Luo WuShang finally… waited in Mu Xi City as promised.

The sky grew darker and darker, but the ground was illuminated by the sparsely accumulated snow, making it even more hazy and brighter than before. Luo WuShang stood on the balcony for a long time, from the sporadic snowflakes to the catkin-like flurry, from melting as soon as they landed to leaving a few white marks. This empty city, which had just been slaughtered, ushered in the first snow of the year. The crisscrossed and mottled pieces of broken corpses, the heads and broken arms, and slightly more complete corpses… were gradually buried by the falling snow. The already cold blood plasma, without the warmth of fresh corpses, could not melt away… the equally cold, white snow.

Luo WuShang stretched out a hand to catch a snowflake for a moment, then quickly retracted it and brought it to his eyes to take a closer look. The snowflake’s shape was as before, with six petals and distinct edges. Luo WuShang’s eyes showed no joy, “I almost forgot, I… am equally cold!”

When I was young, I always wanted to catch a snowflake to admire it carefully, but every time it melted as soon as I touched it. I never thought that one day, I would be in the same state as the snowflake…

It can’t cool me, and I… can’t warm it either.

Luo WuShang suddenly chuckled self-deprecatingly. He should be content. At least… there was no rigor mortis.

“Luo Luo, you like it snowing the most, but you’re so afraid of the cold. Now that you’re not affected by temperature, do you… feel sad?”

“It’s time to go back, isn’t it?”

…… I hope you, with the company of your lover, don’t feel lonely!