BC Chapter 66

Luckily, these mutated creatures didn’t have very good eyesight. They were attracted here by the gunshots, and then they followed the unfamiliar, fresh scent to the door of the lab. But when many of these cruelly tempered mutated creatures were crowded together and couldn’t find any living things to feast on, the conflicts between them were stirred up again.

Hunger was the greatest driving force for these mutated creatures. The law of the jungle that occurred in the fourth-floor lab space all stemmed from their insatiable appetites. Their damaged brains only remembered to eat everything in front of them. What could attract their attention, besides special noises, was the fresh scent different from this space. But when neither of the two existed, eating their own kind was another option to satisfy their hunger. After all, mutated creatures and infected individuals were acting on the most basic biological instincts. In their eyes, everything but themselves was food. There was no other cognition beyond that.

So, these extremely irritable mutated creatures, attracted by the four, only quieted down for a moment before starting a free-for-all.

The chaotic noises, roars, and screams were all made by the mutated creatures. The four hiding in the lab were all drawn to the unusually bloody and violent fight, and didn’t even notice a thin, dark figure swaying and standing up in the innermost corner of the lab. In the noisy darkness, it slowly approached the four people at the door…

The dark figure was getting closer and closer to the four, but none of the four who were armed bothered to look back and observe their surroundings. As for the reason… probably because they felt they had found a suitable hiding place and couldn’t help but relax, and also because the chaotic fight outside the window was too intense, their minds were firmly drawn to it, leaving them no time to worry about their safety.

It wasn’t until Wu Shengwei, standing on the far left, was suddenly pounced on by the dark figure from behind and bitten hard on the shoulder by a set of fangs, that he realized, with an involuntary cry of pain, that he had been attacked by a strange mutated creature!

The remaining three were still dumbfounded watching the fight outside the window just a second ago. The next second, they heard the miserable cry of their teammate Wu Shengwei behind them. They quickly turned around and aimed, only to discover that there was another mutated creature in the lab they had temporarily sneaked into.

It was a hound that was biting Wu Shengwei’s shoulder and wouldn’t let go!

“Wu Shengwei! Cover your head!!!” Feng Yi, almost instinctively, immediately squatted down, aiming at the thin hound on Wu Shengwei’s back, which was frantically shaking its head and tearing at him, while shouting hoarsely.

Although Wu Shengwei’s shoulder had been bitten and blood had soaked through his clothes, he still gritted his teeth and curled up as instructed, dropping the rifle in his hand and covering his head.

“Bang, bang.” With just two shots, Feng Yi accurately blew the head off the mummified hound.

“Thump.” The hound, no longer in control, slumped to the side and fell directly onto the ground.

Shao Mingyao and Deng Yao, who were standing to the side, quickly stepped forward to help the trembling Wu Shengwei up from the ground. The two turned off their night vision and turned on the helmet lamps to treat Wu Shengwei’s wound.

Feng Yi, who had been squatting, also stood up at this time, switching from night vision to the helmet lamp, and scanned the lab with his gun, looking around… Although the three uninjured men were silent and didn’t communicate with each other, they all knew that treating Wu Shengwei’s wound at this time was just out of final concern.

Wu Shengwei seemed to understand this as well. He trembled as he unbuckled his helmet, then took off the life-saving helmet, revealing hair soaked with sweat and a face full of sweat drops.

His lips trembled as he tried to say something, but before he could speak, tears fell first. They say men don’t easily shed tears, but that’s only because they haven’t reached the point of sadness.

“I, I, I haven’t even had a proper girlfriend yet… I don’t want to die… Damn it!!”

“After this job, I was planning to retire!”

“With this money, I can go home and marry a wife and provide for my parents!”

…

Wu Shengwei babbled on, crying as he spoke, tears streaming down his face that he couldn’t wipe away.

Listening to his words, the other three felt a tightness in their chests, not knowing what to say or what they could say. If they had a choice, who wouldn’t want to live a stable life and live well? However, can truly finding a steady job allow oneself and one’s family to live a better life?

No! Children from families like theirs, without power or money, even if they gloriously fulfilled the duties of young people and successfully retired, would still face a series of problems such as employment, life, and retirement, and the pressure might be even greater than ordinary people, because the time left for them to truly struggle was running out. Their parents were old, they were getting older, but they still didn’t have everything that ordinary people already possessed at this age…

So, they could only take risks and choose to do things that exchanged their lives for money, or continue to live a life of poverty like their fathers, after all, there were very few people who had the luck and ability to defy fate, and most were ordinary people who were powerless to turn the tide.

But were they really willing to accept this? Or like now, just living by taking money, keeping their mouths shut, doing things without asking right or wrong, without distinguishing justice from evil, were they really willing to do that?

No! They were unwilling! But what could they do? They still had to rely on money to live! Before right and wrong, the most important choice was actually between living in filth or dying cleanly…