Little Ant was barely holding on.
In fact, she was not the only one. Many of the people around her were affected by the radiation and nearing their limits.
These people were Experimental Subjects who had undergone repeated experiments.
Some came from Longxia, some from Qi City, but most were Hujiang locals.
They had once been healthy, but experiment after experiment had changed them beyond recognition.
Little Ant was the most special of them all-at least to the boy named Lingchuan Yuan.
She had named herself Little Ant because she bitterly joked that her life was worth no more than an ant's, and she did not know who her parents were.
Lingchuan Yuan and Little Ant were both vagrants, struggling to survive in the age of apocalypse as they wandered streets filled with urban horrors and Strange Creatures.
They had been fairly lucky, always managing to stay alive.
But although they had escaped the monsters' hunts, they had not escaped humans.
Humans wearing lab coats and gas masks had captured them and imprisoned them in the Underground Laboratory.
At first, Little Ant had even thought this was not so bad. The nutrient pods restored her vitality and kept her from feeling weak. The people here also gave them clean clothes.
The only catch was being injected with all kinds of reagents. Early on, those reagents had even made her feel full of strength.
Her senses sharpened, and her movements grew swift. Gradually, they began to be transferred to the Special Ward.
This ward was more secure, and they could hardly break out.
Some people's bodies began to mutate, and Little Ant was frightened. Of course she knew the nutrient pods, clean clothes, and comfortable temperatures were no free lunch.
They all came at a price.
But what frightened her more