Mental Contract

Hearing this, Su Ze gently pushed up the glasses on his nose, hiding the sharpness in his eyes. Then he looked up at Liu Qun with a smiling expression and asked in an easygoing tone, "Liu Boss, what kind of contract are you talking about? Could you explain it in detail?"

Anyone with half a brain could tell that this so-called contract was probably nothing good.

"Haha, of course, it's a contract that makes you obedient."

Liu Qun was not afraid of them finding out at all. After all, he had the strength to back it up. But considering that these people were all talents, he kindly reassured them, "You don't need to worry too much. As long as you behave yourselves, nothing will happen. Besides, given the current situation, you don't have a choice."

Shen Mo had not said a word from beginning to end. He searched through the world's plot but could not find any information about this Liu Qun.

He then thought about the introduction to the person who could develop the Zombie Virus Antidote. Hmm, it had only been briefly mentioned in a few lines of dialogue:

"After the experiment failed yet again, Professor Xue looked at his wife with defeat written all over his face and said dejectedly, 'If only Little Xue were here. With her talent and her ability to focus on things, she would definitely be able to crack this virus.'

Professor Xue's wife replied with equal exhaustion, 'Isn't that true? Unfortunately, the rescue team that went looking for them reported that she and her brother had both died in a survivor group. It seemed someone in that group had turned into a Zombie. Their defenses had been built so securely, yet they became an obstacle that kept them from escaping. More than a dozen people, and not a single one got out.'

In truth, after the signal had been restored, the rescue team followed the phone's location and found a young girl's corpse inside a metal cage, along with a skeleton tightly clutching her hand.

They detected a large amount of Wind Ability and psychic ability at the site. Based on their deductions, that skeleton should have been the girl's brother.

Another pair of pitiful people buried in the apocalypse!

The rescue team's recorder took a photograph of them. After recording the relevant data, they had a Fire Ability user turn the siblings' bodies into ashes and brought them back to leave the pitiful professor something to remember them by."

[It seems this man named Xue Dong is Xue Xue's biological older brother. He deliberately led us here, probably to save his sister.]

Shen Mo swept his gaze over the people around him and identified Liu Boss as the most likely person to turn into a Zombie.

[If I'm right, then Liu Boss is the culprit in the plot who turned into a Zombie and caused everyone here to die.]

That was because Shen Mo had sensed a dense demonic aura around Liu Boss. If he had guessed correctly, it should have been caused by swallowing Crystal Cores.

[*No wonder he was able to raise his ability to the second rank at the very beginning of the apocalypse. So he swallowed the Crystal Core of an ability beast.

He truly feared nothing because he knew nothing. Did he not know that directly swallowing an unpurified Crystal Core could turn him into a Zombie?*]

The protagonist group was thoroughly confused. What were Crystal Cores?

It was still the beginning of the apocalypse. Zombies had not yet evolved, and Zombies and Mutant Beasts capable of producing Crystal Cores were extremely rare, so they had not encountered any.

The only few they had encountered had all been snatched up by Shen Mo.

Although they did not understand that, they had learned one very useful piece of information: Liu Boss was about to turn into a Zombie.

In a corner where no one noticed, Xue Dong, who had been hiding among the crowd with barely any presence, suddenly raised his head. His gaze moved back and forth over the people in the cage, and his heart was filled with shock.

Someone had actually discovered his purpose. Who had that voice belonged to just now? Was it one of the people who had just been captured?

Why did that person know his sister? What was his purpose?

So Liu Qun had advanced to the second rank by swallowing the stone inside that monster's body. From what that voice had said, he might turn into a Zombie and cause everyone here, including himself, to die.

Should he try it too? As long as he could save his sister, he would not care even if he turned into a Zombie.

Xue Dong lowered his head to conceal the look in his eyes, but his ears quietly pricked up.