Chapter 922: 922: Bring Back the Corpse

Chapter 922: Chapter 922: Bring Back the Corpse

If Mao Qiqi were here, that would be great, Su Jin and Lin Xiuyuan thought immediately.

The faint sound of knocking was too bizarre. At this moment, everything around was quiet, only the sound of wind howling through the mountain valley.

“Don’t be afraid, there’s no way anyone could be in this place,”

Lu Hao said calmly.

“Brother-in-law is right, he’s right! Let’s go and check it out,”

Lin Xiuyuan said, but he still shrank behind Lu Hao.

Lu Hao led the two to follow the sound, the zombie virus detector continuously flashing orange-red light. Different colors of light indicate the level of contamination, and this orange-red light showed that the zombie virus here was nearing its peak.

The three finally found the source of the sound—it was a layer of ice, inside which was gathered a large number of zombies!

“There must be at least hundreds of them in there,”

Upon seeing the zombies, both Lin Xiuyuan and Su Jin breathed a sigh of relief. But why were there hundreds of zombies gathered inside?

“Possibly travelers taking refuge inside, but eventually they all turned into zombies,”

Lu Hao speculated, looking at their outfits.

“Lin Xiuyuan, remove the ice layer, let’s send them on their way,”

Su Jin and the others were ready.

Lin Xiuyuan nodded, using the special ability to remove the ice wall, causing hundreds of zombies to rush out in an instant.

“If any of you were a mutated zombie, you wouldn’t be trapped in here, unable to get out,”

Lin Xiuyuan effortlessly killed those zombies. None of these zombies turned out to be mutated zombies.

“They probably didn’t experience the red rain and have been hiding inside since the early stage,”

Su Jin analyzed.

Lu Hao also found it odd and walked towards the ice cave holding the zombies. Lin Xiuyuan, seeing this, quickly used his special ability to melt down all the ice edges inside the ice cave.

Inside the ice cave, there were some scattered clothing and backpacks, alongside some mountaineering equipment. However, on a higher stone platform, they found two human corpses preserved in ice.

They were deceased humans, not zombies.

“He was bitten,”

Lu Hao pointed at the male corpse on the left, noting the obvious zombie bite wounds, with a large chunk of flesh missing. Due to being frozen the whole time, the two bodies, despite being pale all over, were remarkably well-preserved.

“Could it be that if you freeze right after being bitten, you won’t turn into a zombie?”

Lin Xiuyuan murmured, but he knew such a thing was impossible.

The human corpse on the right was a woman, leaning against the man’s arm, her expression peaceful without a trace of pain.

“It’s very likely that he was bitten but didn’t turn into a zombie,”

Su Jin said.

Lu Hao nodded. Such incidents have occurred, but those bitten without turning into zombies barely survived due to shallow wounds. Cases where chunks of flesh are torn off without zombification are indeed rare.

“Let’s take them back,”

Lu Hao said. Regardless of its use, they shouldn’t leave those two humans here after finding them.

Su Jin nodded, knowing that even if she put the two into space, the ice wouldn’t melt. Still, she didn’t want to scare her family inside the space, so she had Lin Xiuyuan transform the ice blocks into opaque forms before storing them in a distant corner of the space.

“The peak of Mount M seems not far away,”

Su Jin said, standing outside the ice cave with the other two, looking at the majestic peak of Mount M.

“Yes, we’ll probably make it within this month,”

Lu Hao replied, using his special ability fire to burn the zombie corpses outside to ashes. Mount M, it should’ve been one of the purest, uncontaminated places…

“Let’s go quickly. Don’t you feel it’s getting colder? Is winter coming soon?”

Lin Xiuyuan rubbed his arms. As a special ability user, he wasn’t afraid of the cold, but a gust of wind gave him goosebumps, making him feel chilly.

“It’s normal, the higher we go, the colder it gets. Let’s continue,”

Su Jin took out three insulated jackets from the space. She didn’t feel cold but found that the icy winds sometimes pinched her skin painfully, making the thick jackets appropriate for the conditions.

…

Lian Ze hadn’t been idle while helping the Heart Talk Team with missions. He discovered that Lian Jiyue’s cellular division rate wasn’t as fast as before, but every time he returned from killing zombies, his body’s metabolism was still twice as rapid as his own.

Tang Xue and Chang Xuan were surprised upon learning about Lian Jiyue’s situation.

“So you think he still has zombie viruses in his body, and if you can eliminate those viruses, he’ll recover?”

Tang Xue finally understood why someone as proud as Lian Ze would come here, and she looked at him differently now.

Though emotionally unintelligent, he genuinely cared for his kin.

“It’s just my hypothesis, discovering the cause of the zombie virus to find the result. If it doesn’t work by then, I’ll have to accept it,”

Lian Ze sighed. His mother was scheming to kill Lian Jiyue, while he was desperately trying to cure him—it was truly ironic…

“Lian Ze, you can do it,”

Tang Xue said confidently. Lian Ze’s astonishing learning talent and inferential capabilities in the lab had impressed her. Indeed, a genius can excel in any field. She had a gut feeling that Lian Ze could accomplish what he set out to do.

At this moment, Moli entered from outside to inform everyone that Su Jin and the others had returned.

“Returned?”

Su Jin almost never came back so early; Tang Xue was a bit surprised. However, thinking that the three might have made some discovery, she pushed the door open to greet them.

She didn’t expect them to bring back two corpses preserved in ice.

Soon, the corpse that had been bitten by zombies yet retained a human form drew significant attention from the researchers.

“Be careful to protect yourselves; they were found in a zombie nest,”

Lu Hao reminded.

“Rest assured, I’ll have someone keep watch nearby. Thank you for your hard work,”

The laboratory, under Tang Xue’s arrangement, always had special ability users on standby. If any researcher became infected with the zombie virus, the special ability users would contain them immediately.

Upon returning to the Heart Talk Team’s residence, Su Jin and the others found a crowd of strangers gathered at their doorstep. These people didn’t seem to be from the S City base nor from the rest area they had met before.

“Who are you people?”

Lu Hao looked at a few men and women at the forefront. These people appeared to be seasoned fighters, and now the family home was locked up tightly, making these individuals appear as troublemakers.

“We came to seek help from the Heart Talk Team. Who are you?”

A man in a gray jacket looked Lu Hao and the two others up and down with narrowed eyes. Seeing there were only three of them, he didn’t regard them highly.

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