BC Chapter 71

Sure enough, variables appeared.

Yan Shaohang leaned forward, his face almost pressed against the glass. He was very curious about what kind of monsters would emerge from that corner.

Before long, a thin, dark figure emerged from the pulsating spot. Its build wasn’t as robust as a typical zombie, but it was more agile than ordinary zombies. If Yan Shaohang hadn’t been aware that he hadn’t encountered mutated humans yet, he would have thought this guy was a mutated human rather than a zombie.

Clearly, this newly appeared zombie was the variable that inevitably appeared when the number of zombies reached a certain threshold—a mutated zombie.

Yan Shaohang seemed very excited. If he hadn’t been completely sure that even after injecting the drug, their speed still couldn’t surpass the newly appeared mutated zombie on the playground, Yan Shaohang might have risked his life to go out and meet the guy.

The appearance of a new mutated virus carrier gave Yan Shaohang a new direction for research. Although directly approaching the mutated zombie seemed difficult to achieve, the very clever Yan Shaohang still came up with a way to attack the mutated zombie from a distance, trying to get the other party to leave blood or body cells within a certain range. Then, he would lure the zombie horde in another direction and retrieve the dropped research samples.

Fortunately, even though the zombie horde had undergone a mutation, their intelligence hadn’t changed much, so Yan Shaohang and the others’ plan could be said to have been very successful.

Within a period of time, Yan Shaohang once again managed to isolate the mutated virus as expected. This time, the extracted substance was different from the last time, completely two different structures, so it was still impossible to determine if injecting this into the human body would have any serious side effects.

Once again, an experiment whose success couldn’t be guaranteed. Just after the extraction was completed, the entire school welcomed the time node of power exhaustion. For them, it was clear that whether Yan Shaohang’s experiment was successful or not, they had to face the difficult problem of collectively evacuating the school.

But if this time could also be successful, the probability of survival during the evacuation process for them would be greatly improved.

“Let me do it this time.” The one who proposed using himself as a guinea pig was none other than Yan Song, who had watched his friend Wan Murong get bitten to death but was unable to save him. Since Wan Murong’s death, he had seemed to have lost his soul, living in a daze every day, and only remembered to eat a couple of bites when his classmates reminded him.

He, who used to always talk about brotherhood, always felt that it was his fault for not having the courage to run out of the teaching building to meet Wan Murong, which caused him to die so miserably, not even leaving behind a complete corpse. So, these days he had been living in non-stop self-blame, not understanding why he couldn’t have been braver at the time. Even if he couldn’t save Wan Murong, he could at least let him leave with dignity.

Therefore, after learning that Yan Shaohang needed someone who could accept being experimented on again, Yan Song volunteered to stand up.

Many times, living is not necessarily a good thing, especially when losing some relatives and friends who are of great significance to oneself. Psychologically fragile people may even regret why the one who left first wasn’t them, why they still have to live so long to experience this kind of pain.

Yan Song was this kind of person. So, he chose to be the first to accept the second experiment. Today, his thoughts had become very simple – if the experiment failed, he could save the others who were still alive, and it would be a valuable sacrifice for virus research. If the experiment succeeded, he would openly walk out of the teaching building, take up weapons to solve those zombies that harmed Wan Murong, and avenge him!

Yan Shaohang could more or less guess Yan Song’s thoughts, so he didn’t hypocritically stop him. In order for the experiment to continue, there always had to be people and things that could be sacrificed. Now that Yan Song had voluntarily stood up to take on this responsibility, he wouldn’t refute it. Anyway, even if Yan Song didn’t voluntarily stand up, he would still be the first to try it.

After everything was ready, Yan Shaohang led Yan Song to the top floor classroom of the teaching building and arranged for the others to stay on the first floor.

After the substance was successfully injected into Yan Song’s body, he was normal for a while, and then his body began to tremble violently uncontrollably.

Seeing this scene, Yan Shaohang, who was originally in the same room as Yan Song, immediately withdrew from the room, closed the door, and continued to observe the scene inside the door through the small window on the door. Once he saw something was wrong, he would immediately escape downstairs at the fastest speed and notify the people downstairs to evacuate the teaching building immediately.

However, facts proved that Yan Shaohang was overthinking it. That kind of unexplained trembling did last for a while, but in the end, Yan Song still regained consciousness, got up from the ground, touched his body, and after confirming that his body was fine, he gestured to Yan Shaohang outside the door, indicating that he was fine.