The Sole Survivor of the Laboratory

"Save me!"

"Help!"

"Save me! There are still survivors inside," a hoarse voice kept calling from within.

Shen Jin and Yang Ao were startled by this. Someone was actually still alive in this laboratory!

Shen Jin gave Yang Ao a look, "If anything seems off, act first, report later."

"Understood."

Yang Ao showed no leniency, even though the staff here were his father's former team.

If the person inside made any move that wasn't cooperative, his magic sword would fall in an instant.

"Clang, clang, clang!"

The diamond pickaxe struck a few times, creating a hole that was immediately sealed by thick glass.

Shen Jin did not let his guard down just because the person inside was one of his own kind.

A strong beam from his flashlight shone in, revealing the scene inside.

A man in a white lab coat, appearing to be in his thirties, was squatting dejectedly in front of the transparent glass facing the first-floor lobby.

He shone the light around other areas; there were no abnormalities.

Shen Jin smashed the glass again and shone the powerful flashlight onto the man in the white coat's face, shouting, "The person inside, are you the only one on the second floor?"

The man in the white coat covered his eyes and said weakly, "Yes, they're all dead. I'm the only one left in the entire laboratory. Are you from the government?"

"We are not from the government, but we are people who can save you."

Shen Jin then broke open an alloy door, revealing a passageway wide enough for someone to walk through.

A foul smell of human excrement wafted out, causing both of them to wrinkle their noses.

Yang Ao entered with his sword, sweeping the flashlight around, "No one, it's safe!"

Shen Jin took a torch from his pack and lit it with a flint.

"Boom~"

A bright flame flared up, illuminating the entire second floor.

"Is there any food? I haven't eaten in almost a week."

Shen Jin looked at the half-empty bottle of yellow liquid at the man in the white coat's feet and kicked it aside.

He used his sword to lift the man's chin, carefully confirming he was human and not bitten.

"Answer my questions first, and you'll get food if you're honest."

The man in the white coat weakly grunted, "Mm."

"What kind of laboratory is this? What's your name? What's your role here?"

"This is... Future Human Pharmaceuticals Level 4 Biosafety Research Laboratory. We mainly research gene drugs. My name is Fu Wei, and I'm the chief engineer for this project."

Yang Ao nodded subtly. He had heard his father mention this person before.

"What about the other people in the lab? Did anyone escape?"

"No, they all died."

Shen Jin mused, a possible explanation dawning on him.

"One last question, what have you been eating to survive until now?"

Fu Wei gave a wry smile, "I ate food when there was food. When there wasn't, I ate my own feces. Last week, there wasn't even that."

Shen Jin had Yang Ao keep an eye on Fu Wei while he searched the second floor. He didn't find any human remains or bloodstains, finally believing the man in the white coat.

"You're a tough one. Here, eat. Once you're full, tell me exactly what happened here."

Shen Jin pulled out a bottle of mineral water and a pack of compressed biscuits, tossing them to Fu Wei.

Fu Wei picked them up, tore open the packaging roughly, and inhaled the aroma of the compressed biscuits.

He carefully took a small bite, chewed it in his mouth a few times, and swallowed it down with a mouthful of mineral water.

He repeated this process over a dozen times, eating half a biscuit. Although his stomach continued to send signals of hunger, Fu Wei stopped.

A look of relief and satisfaction appeared on Fu Wei's face.

"These are the most delicious biscuits I've ever eaten in my life."

Shen Jin nodded slightly. To be able to resist the urge to binge after starving for a week showed he had self-control.

With some strength restored, Fu Wei slowly began to recount the events in the laboratory after the apocalypse.

The laboratory was completely sealed. People outside wouldn't open the doors, and people inside couldn't get out. The entire laboratory only had a landline on the second floor that could contact people outside. Moreover, the entire laboratory had a strict sterilization system, and the indoor air pressure was much higher than the outdoor pressure. By all accounts, no virus should have entered.

However, the apocalypse descended just like that. That afternoon, sixty percent of the people in the laboratory suddenly started bleeding from their eyes and mouths, falling down and convulsing.

Fu Wei went to the second floor to make a distress call. Before he could even dial, screams erupted from below.

Those former colleagues had gone mad and started attacking everyone who hadn't turned into a zombie.

The weak lab personnel were pounced on one by one, turning the entire first floor into a living hell.

Fu Wei quickly locked the password-protected door to the second floor. This was where all the important data and achievements of the entire laboratory were stored, and its security measures were extremely robust.

The glass was explosion-proof, and the door was made of high-density alloy. He saw colleagues running to the second floor from the second floor, but he didn't dare to open the door.

The zombies were right behind him, and he was scared.

In just one afternoon, he was the only living person left in the fully enclosed laboratory.

His other colleagues were devoured by those who had first turned into zombies. Those who weren't devoured also stood up shakily and joined the feeding frenzy.

There were a total of 59 people in the entire laboratory, leaving only 40 zombies and him, the sole survivor.

The zombies wandered around constantly. Fu Wei kept making calls from upstairs, but no one answered.

During the first month, the zombies destroyed everything below, devouring everything edible. Various chemical agents were consumed by the starving zombies.

They underwent their first mutation, developing pustules on their heads and bodies. Some emitted white gas, and some zombies' heads even glowed.

Fu Wei survived precariously upstairs, relying on the laboratory's daily provisions.

In the second month, with no energy source, the zombies began to fall one after another. The other zombies initially ignored this, ceasing their wandering and simply standing still.

Until the first zombie appeared that ate the corpses of other zombies!

It replenished its energy and its body mutated, becoming incredibly strong. The other zombies also began to eat the fallen zombies.

Without exception, their physical functions evolved. Some zombies even evolved more sensitive sensory systems, discovering him on the second floor and began smashing the door day and night.

Fu Wei started rationing his meager food supply.

This time, only 15 zombies remained.

In the third month, the mutated zombies' activity decreased, but due to their strong vitality, no zombies had fallen yet.

Until one zombie suddenly erupted, tearing open the head of a dying zombie with its claws and feasted.

Fu Wei personally watched as hard keratin appeared on its body. It was evolving again!

After the first one ate, there was a second, then a third. This super zombie, which ate other zombies, eventually devoured all the remaining 14 zombies.

That day, the zombies' roars shook the heavens. A single punch could create a large pit in steel equipment, and they could leap 6 meters high. Their saliva and pus could corrode ordinary metal.

Furthermore, their senses were abnormally sharp, and they immediately discovered Fu Wei behind the second-floor glass.

It leaped from the ground to smash the explosion-proof glass on the second floor and smashed the alloy door from the hallway.

Fortunately, the materials used in this laboratory were all top-tier. Even after evolving three times, the zombies still could not shake the power of technology.

Fu Wei's food was running out. He began to save his feces and urine.

After listening, Shen Jin was secretly astonished.

To survive for three months in darkness, to live by eating feces and drinking urine – such astonishing survival instincts and tenacious will were worthy of the laboratory's chief engineer.

If such a person were to do good, they would be the top scholar or engineer.

If they went down the wrong path, they would be the ultimate assassin!

In this short time, Shen Jin had been surprised by Fu Wei twice.

Yang Ao felt the same. He had heard about this person from his father and knew he was a capable subordinate and a rare biological genius in the world.

He hadn't expected him to be so strong not only in knowledge but also in his psychological fortitude!

Any ordinary person would have been scared to death or driven mad by now.

"Even such a secure laboratory couldn't escape the attack of the zombie virus. Where did the virus originate?"

"If such super-evolved zombies were out in the third month of the apocalypse, who knows how many human gathering places would be destroyed!"

"Super-sensitive perception, super high jumps, super speed, super strength, super tough bodies, and corrosive attacks."

Even Lu Qiang, who had unlocked his Gene Lock, would only be sent to his death!

The humans outside...

Without thermal weapons, what could they possibly use to fight the zombies?

Shen Jin increasingly felt that the rescue the government spoke of might be very difficult to arrive.