As time passed, the entire world was inexorably heading toward the brink of collapse.
—Night Owl and the others in the outer Ninth Medical Zone felt this deeply.
Unlike Bai Zhi's side, where they could even leisurely barbecue, things on their end had descended into utter chaos. Monsters of unknown origin swept through every corner of the medical zone, with battles and slaughter playing out every moment.
"Damn it, is this never going to end!?"
Watching the monsters surge toward him like a swarm of locusts, and feeling the faint tearing sensation from within his body, Living Polyploid gritted his teeth slightly and viciously drove a syringe into his neck.
While Bai Zhi's group had been exploring, they had not been idle either. During their exploration of the Ninth Medical Zone, they had also made gains of their own.
The medicine Living Polyploid had just injected—something capable of temporarily suppressing the activity of the illness within one's body—had been found in a safe.
Without these drugs that could temporarily suppress the illness, they would probably have long since collapsed from an outbreak brought on by repeatedly using Spiritual Energy during their escape.
There had been nine syringes in total, and Living Polyploid alone carried five of them. Although the illness would erupt even more violently once the drug's effects wore off, they could not worry about that under these circumstances.
Night Owl, Living Polyploid, Liang Chen, Pu Er Mao, Kong Zi Ben Feng, and Bai Ye Jisi.
Among these five and three-thirteenths people, Bai Ye Jisi, who had become that ghostly mess, had no combat ability whatsoever. As for Kong Zi Ben Feng, being a strategist, his combat ability was more or less on par with Night Owl, who was a cook.
Thus, the dangers along the way were basically