Chapter 195: Zombie King
“The experimental subject’s heart rate is too high!”
“The experimental subject’s blood pressure is too high!”
“The experimental subject’s vital signs are starting to decline!”
……
A series of alarms caused Grub and the others’ complexions to change drastically.
“What in the world is going on?” Grub questioned sternly. “Why are the readings so unstable? What else did you give him?”
“After the hypnosis last night, I didn’t touch him,” Ling Zhongwen explained repeatedly.
“Not good, the experimental subject is showing signs of waking up,” two people said urgently.
Grub and Ling Zhongwen looked over simultaneously, meeting Ling Hanmu’s blood-red eyes, which were filled with a detached and intense killing intent. This made the two of them tremble and instinctively retreat.
As if only slaughter could quell the bloodthirsty killing intent in his eyes, Ling Hanmu let out a low roar, and the thick metal buckle on his hand snapped.
Two sharp fangs were revealed, and Ling Hanmu had already transformed into a beast devoid of humanity. He grabbed the iron bed fixed to the ground, tearing it up along with the floor, and hurled it fiercely at the crowd, accompanied by shrill screams.
At this moment, Xia Chenge also opened her eyes and sharply turned her head to look at Ling Hanmu.
Ling Hanmu’s expression was blank, his bloodshot eyes looking terrifying.
He lowered his head and looked at the ground.
The person hit by the iron bed, apart from their head, had their lower body reduced to a bloody mess, with blood spreading everywhere.
The entire laboratory was filled with a nauseatingly strong smell of blood.
Ling Hanmu frowned slightly.
However, he seemed to detest the flesh and blood, and casually threw what he could grab again, until both piles of flesh and blood were covered, his frown eased considerably.
In that instant, it felt as if something had been torn apart, and overwhelming fear engulfed Xia Chenge.
The Zombie King!
How could this be?
Why is Ling Hanmu the Zombie King?
Why is it Ling Hanmu?
Xia Chenge couldn’t control herself, trembling slightly.
She had never felt as if the sky was falling!
She had dealt with countless zombies in the Apocalypse, and no one understood the zombie virus better than she did.
The zombie virus on Ling Hanmu’s body right now was incredibly active!
“Capture him!” Grub commanded Ling Zhongwen and the others to advance while retreating.
“Where do you think you’re going?” Xia Chenge leaped up and blocked Grub’s path. “The experiment isn’t finished, and you’re already leaving?”
Grub was startled by Xia Chenge’s sudden appearance but quickly regained his composure.
He stared at Xia Chenge sinisterly. “You were pretending to be unconscious the whole time?”
Xia Chenge kept an eye on the situation with Ling Hanmu, a slight smile on her lips. “So what if I was? You went to so much trouble, shouldn’t I give you some reward?”
“You know everything?”
“You sent so many people to watch me, if I didn’t find out, I’d be letting you down for thinking so highly of me.”
“Very good!”
“Good for what? You’ve been annoying me to death. Don’t you know how tiring it is for me to pretend I haven’t discovered you? You don’t even pay me an appearance fee!”
“Unfortunately, you still lost your composure!” Grub grinned menacingly. “You think you’re so smart, but you’re just too naive!”
With that, he clapped his hands and shouted at Ling Hanmu, “King, come here!”
Ling Hanmu immediately froze in place as if he had been acupunctured.
Grub’s expression changed slightly. “Come here!”
Ling Hanmu remained motionless.
Xia Chenge burst into laughter. “You want to turn someone into a puppet? You need to see if you have the ability first. Do you really think you’re a puppeteer, making him do whatever you want?”
“Inject him!” Grub said to Ling Zhongwen.
Ling Zhongwen hesitated slightly.
“If you don’t act now, you’ll die here!” Grub said with a dark expression.
Ling Zhongwen gritted his teeth and rushed to the still intact experiment table, grabbing a test tube.
Xia Chenge casually grabbed something and threw it, hitting Ling Zhongwen’s wrist precisely. The test tube in his hand immediately fell to the ground and shattered.
Ling Zhongwen’s wrist was pierced, creating a bloody hole.
He belatedly clutched his wrist and screamed in pain.
This time, Grub’s expression was no longer calm.
“You…”
“How did you do that?”
Xia Chenge sneered. “You want to know? Too bad I don’t want to tell you!”
“Whether you tell me or not, I just want to tell you one thing: I must have you!” Grub’s eyes flashed with fanaticism. “What I want, I can indeed find the answer in you. You are not an ordinary person!”
“Hahaha…”
Xia Chenge looked at Grub’s madness with disgust.
“Dream on!” Xia Chenge scoffed, raising her hand and flinging a shattered piece of glass.
Grub, who was laughing maniacally, seemed to have eyes all over his body, as he dodged Xia Chenge’s attack.
“You can’t catch me. We’ll meet again!” Grub stared at Xia Chenge like she was prey and quickly retreated.
Xia Chenge leaped to pursue him.
Just as she was about to grab Grub, Ling Hanmu suddenly let out a pained roar.
Fear in her heart forced Xia Chenge to let Grub go, and she turned back. At the same time, she casually picked up a test tube, crushed it, and flung it, incapacitating the other people in the laboratory.
Ling Hanmu collapsed on the ground, blood flowing from his seven orifices, writhing on the floor.
“Xiao Mu…” Seeing this, Xia Chenge rushed over, hugged Ling Hanmu, and called out to him with a heartbroken cry.
“It hurts, it hurts so much!” Ling Hanmu cried out in pain, struggling in Xia Chenge’s arms.
The zombie virus in his body was even more active than before, but no matter how he struggled, he never harmed Xia Chenge.
Xia Chenge gritted her teeth, hardened her heart, and struck the back of his neck with a palm strike.
Ling Hanmu went limp in her arms and stopped struggling.
Xia Chenge immediately grabbed his hand and forcefully channeled her healing power to suppress the activity of the zombie virus, which finally stopped the blood flowing from his seven orifices.
Her hands trembling, she carefully wiped the blood from his face.
His exceptionally handsome face was ashen, devoid of any life.
Xia Chenge’s heart ached so much that even breathing felt painful.
Confirming that Ling Hanmu was not in immediate mortal danger, she gently put him down and walked over to Ling Zhongwen.
Ling Zhongwen lay on the ground, staring intently at Xia Chenge. “You’ve been lying to me all along!”
“So what if I have!” Xia Chenge said expressionlessly.
“You can’t save Ling Hanmu, no one can save Ling Hanmu!” Ling Zhongwen laughed. “But I am truly surprised, why did you suspect me? And how did you guess so many things?”
“Do you have the qualification to know?” Xia Chenge’s gaze was cold.
“If you clear up my doubts, I can show you a way to save Ling Hanmu,” Ling Zhongwen said condescendingly.
Upon hearing this, Xia Chenge unceremoniously delivered a fierce kick, using thirty percent of her strength, sending Ling Zhongwen staggering backward, crashing into all the experimental equipment behind him, and finally hitting the wall, leaving an imprint of his body shape. His ribs were all broken.
Xia Chenge followed closely, stepping on his chest. “You’ll never know the answer, even in death!”
“Do you want to watch him turn into a walking corpse?” Ling Zhongwen, unable to cry out in pain, still gritted his teeth and uttered this sentence.
