Pei An’s veins bulged all over his body, several terrifying blue veins on his face, his eyeballs were a strange silver-gray, and his skin was as pale as a corpse dead for several days.
“Xiao Pei, it’s me.”
He heard Chu Nanxing’s call, and his head twisted unnaturally. It took a long time for him to regain some consciousness and recognize who it was.
“Sister, you must leave quickly, don’t mind me. I’ll turn into a monster later.”
Pei An locked himself in the glass partition of the laboratory, refusing to leave with Chu Nanxing.
Chu Nanxing controlled Pei An through their eye contact using illusion, making Pei An open the door. After she entered the partition, she extended her hand in front of Pei An.
“Xiao Pei, if you feel unbearable, bite me. No matter what, I will never abandon you. You are not a monster, you are the most important person in my life.”
“If I die, I want to die with you.”
“Ahhhhh, don’t come near me, go, get out of here.”
Pei An felt his entire body was about to be torn apart and reassembled. A voice in his mind kept telling him that the person was very important to him, and he should stay away from her.
He suppressed the craving for blood and human flesh within him. He hugged his head and cowered in the corner of the partition, trembling with pain. The torment lasted for a whole night. The next day, he woke up as if nothing had happened.
There were no supplies here. After Pei An recovered, the two left the laboratory. The siblings had been wandering outside. Pei An had shown no abnormalities since that incident.
At this time, some national information was restored, stating that a base had been established in City A, and survivors could go there to jointly rebuild their destroyed homeland.
There were safe residences and abundant supplies there. By completing assigned tasks, one could receive the required supplies.
The siblings had encountered hordes of zombies along the way, but supplies were scarce. So, they found a functional car, got fuel from a gas station, and headed towards the survivor base in City A.
The reason Pei An did not turn into a zombie was that this biochemical virus was researched by his mentor, Zhao Shangqing.
Zhao Shangqing could be considered a national treasure-level biologist, and he always had a dream of eternal life. Therefore, he had been conducting human gene research privately, and Pei An was also one of his research subjects.
Because Pei An was too outstanding at such a young age, he felt that it was more interesting to research intelligent people. Pei An, as a student, was not guarded against him.
Because Teacher Zhao imparted all his knowledge to him, there was no issue of a mentor oppressing a student or stealing a student's achievements. Therefore, Zhao Shangqing easily extracted his samples.
Those missing persons who caused widespread panic were all his experimental subjects. Those people he killed came back to life, and he thought his art of eternal life had succeeded.
He became too proud and complacent, never expecting that the person who came back to life would directly break through the glass casing and run out. Zhao Shangqing knew he had caused a huge mess. He hurriedly cryogenically froze all other experimental apparatus.
Upon dissecting those experimental subjects, he realized that this was not revival; they had no souls and were merely corpses. Two months later, just as he was about to develop an antidote and vaccine, he found that he could no longer control himself.
Zhao Shangqing was a complete lunatic. He also used his own body for experiments and had injected himself with many serums. In the last moments before his zombification, he injected the semi-finished vaccine into Pei An.
Before Pei An could react to what his mentor had injected him with, Zhao Shangqing zombified. The zombified him was unrecognizable and attacked indiscriminately. Pei An spent some effort to subdue him, but his arm was inevitably bitten.
The intense pain in his body alerted him that something had happened. He did not want to become like his mentor, a madman who bit anyone he saw, so he confined himself in the laboratory and refused to come out.
That escaped experimental subject had already spread the virus he carried. In an instant, the entire Country H fell into immense panic. A reporter broadcasting on the street was suddenly attacked by zombies, who directly bit off her head.
Upon seeing this news, Pei An realized the abnormality of his own body. Therefore, he rushed to the City A base, also wanting to quickly research a vaccine to solve the virus.
On the way, Pei An and Chu Nanxing encountered a 20-man army. Their captain was the male protagonist, Feng Dan. They were garrison troops from City T who were rushing to City A after receiving the news. The original hundred-man team was now only 20 strong.
The male protagonist knew Pei An and knew he was a famous Doctor of Biology. He thought Pei An might be useful for the virus, so he invited Pei An and the others to travel together.
Trusting the national soldiers, the siblings agreed. More people meant they could look out for each other. Chu Nanxing warned Pei An not to let anyone know that he had been bitten.
Pei An was equivalent to the carrier of the virus's mother body, possessing a fatal attraction to zombies infected by the virus. He was like a walking Tang Monk’s flesh, with zombies following him wherever he went.
Feng Dan also noticed the abnormality. Since these two had joined them, the number of zombies had increased significantly. However, his inherent sense of righteousness did not allow him to abandon two living people and leave alone.
That day, when they were in City C, a mandatory stop on their way to City A, they were surrounded by a zombie tide. The boundless sea of heads made one’s scalp tingle.
Everyone had resigned themselves to their fate, but Chu Nanxing did not accept it. She wanted Pei An to live. A surge of extreme emotion caused her eyes to evolve once more.
All the zombies within Chu Nanxing’s field of vision were engulfed in black flames. In an instant, bright red blood flowed from her left eye.
The zombies not affected by the flames all surged towards them. A red giant suddenly appeared behind Chu Nanxing. She held off the zombie tide and told Feng Dan to take Pei An away first.
The virus in Pei An’s body mutated at this moment. Under the immense impact, he directly fainted. Feng Dan and the others carried him back to the car and left the perilous place.
Sitting in the car, Feng Dan was still full of lingering fear. He became immensely curious about the power Chu Nanxing had unleashed. He thought that if more people possessed such power, the apocalypse could surely be ended.
He then heard the two claim to be siblings, and thought Pei An must also have something special. So, while Pei An was unconscious, he checked him for any abnormalities.
Thus, he discovered the marks of Pei An being bitten by a zombie. However, Pei An was a normal person in daily life, so he kept this matter to himself.
He believed that Pei An was not a selfish person. If he could develop a vaccine to solve the zombie virus, he would definitely be willing to contribute, especially since the siblings were heading towards City A from the beginning.
This time, Pei An remained unconscious for a longer period. When he woke up, Chu Nanxing had already caught up. He discovered that he could sense zombies within a hundred meters of him and could control them directly through brainwaves, which was known as the Zombie King. Therefore, their journey to the base was relatively safe.