Yu An remained silent and did not echo his opinion.
Time passed little by little.
As the wall clock was about to strike seven, Yu An became restless.
He went to the balcony and looked out. There was still no sign of Xie Chiyuan downstairs in the community. There were only zombies that had wandered over there, blocked by the community gate, so they were lingering at the gate.
"Flame, has Xie Chiyuan also run into trouble?" Yu An looked around for a while, then ran back to talk to Flame.
Flame calmly replied, "Impossible. The man surnamed Xie has lived longer than me. Nothing will happen to him."
Just after 7:10, when Yu An was about to leave the house because she couldn't sit still any longer, Xie Chiyuan rushed back.
He came back alone, without the magician.
"Xie Chiyuan!"
Upon seeing Xie Chiyuan, Yu An, who had been worried about him all along, immediately rushed to his side.
Xie Chiyuan was a little dirty, but Yu An didn't mind. She reached out and hugged him, then quickly let go.
Why are you only getting back now?
Yu An looked up at him without even blinking: "It's already past seven o'clock."
Xie Chiyuan raised his hand and rubbed his head, then said briefly, "High-level zombies have appeared in the city, and the magician has been taken away. He managed to escape, but after we made contact, we decided to have him keep the zombies occupied."
"Without zombies interfering, it will be easier for us to deal with Xia Tianwu."
After listening to his explanation, Yu An nodded.
Xie Chiyuan didn't change his clothes. He took Yu An and Huoyan out and said, "I got a car. Let's go."
He used a heavy vehicle, which allows him to run over zombies directly.
"Get in the car."
The group got into the car and headed towards the location given by the flames.
Flame sat in the back, intently sensing his sister's presence.
"Due south."
"southwest."
Flame closed his eyes and gave the directions, while Xie Chiyuan was responsible for recklessly driving out the door.
Yu An gripped his military knife. If any zombie dared to try and hitch a ride on the car, he would deliver a swift and ruthless blow.
Xie Chiyuan frowned: "An'an, be careful not to get bitten by them!"
Yu An didn't even turn his head: "You can't bite it!"
The darkness obscured their vision, so they encountered fewer zombies than during the day.
After driving for almost an hour, Yu An looked at the building in front of him, climbed out of the nearly wrecked car, and realized they had arrived at their destination.
Yu An had no idea how Xia Tianwu managed to acquire territory right under the noses of the zombies.
However, it seems that Xia Tianwu has no connection with the zombies in the city, nor is he on good terms with them.
The car lights went out.
There weren't many zombies in front of the building, so Xie Chiyuan didn't rush inside after getting out of the car. He had done many missions and was quite familiar with many security measures.
"You all step back a little."
Xie Chiyuan picked up one of the zombies being dragged from the back of the car, and the next second, he threw it forward.
The area in front of me, which had been empty, was suddenly illuminated by a flash of red light.
The zombie, which still had a faint breath, was torn to pieces almost in the blink of an eye.
Yu An broke out in a cold sweat.
If Xie Chiyuan hadn't thrown the zombie over, and instead the rest of them had walked forward, they would most likely be the ones being crushed to pieces now.
"What's this?"
Yu An looked at the red lights and took two steps back.
Xie Chiyuan seemed to have anticipated this, and he reassured Yu An, "They're just some little gadgets, don't worry."
The lights at the entrance will automatically turn on when they sense someone entering.
But people in the building always have to come and go, and even if they don't plan to come and go at night, it's impossible to have such measures in every corner of the entire building.
Xie Chiyuan is determined to come into this building tonight.
They abandoned entering through the main entrance and instead went around the building to see if they could climb up directly.
After going around in circles, Yu An suddenly had an idea.
He took out a climbing rope and suddenly swung it onto the outer railing on the third floor. Sure enough, there was no red light in the air, meaning that the light was only there to stop the zombies.
"Xie Chiyuan, as long as we don't touch the red light, we can go in along the rope."
The feasibility of this operation was somewhat difficult, but Yu An was very confident. He gripped one end of the rope and said to Xie Chiyuan, "I learned this on the island. I can do it."
If Yu An can do it, Xie Chiyuan can certainly do it too.
They drove the car all the way here, and on the last stretch of the road, they deliberately lured the zombies over.
That way, even if they make a commotion, they can be suppressed by a larger zombie horde.
The building was quiet inside.
The last place the flame sensed was where her sister was.
The windows on the third floor were sealed. They climbed several floors before Yu An finally saw a window that wasn't fully closed on the sixth floor. Next to the window, he also saw a few mycelium.
It's a mark left by Xiao Jiu.
Yu An's spirits lifted, he pushed open the window and climbed inside, with Xie Chiyuan following closely behind.
The building was pitch black, without any light.
Xie Chiyuan glanced at the surroundings; searching layer by layer would be very troublesome.
Before we know how many cards Summer Wu has up his sleeve, it's safer to be patient.
"Let's start looking from the 6th floor and see what's in this building."
"good."
Perhaps Xia Tian lacked sufficient confidence, believing that no one could possibly survive the zombie siege of this dead city. Or perhaps he believed that no mutant would betray him, which is why he hadn't yet shown himself.
Yu An turned on the flashlight and turned the light down to its dimmest setting.
Using the dim light, they began to scan the building floor by floor.
The building underwent renovations; all the original office door locks were replaced with laboratory-standard doors.
laboratory.
Yu An's breathing became slightly rapid; he could feel that the hope of finding Qiu Qiu was greater.
"This kind of door lock is not easy to fix."
Seeing that Xie Chiyuan couldn't open the lock, Yu An leaned closer. He lowered his head and touched the door: "Let me try."
Xie Chiyuan was about to say that the lock-picking techniques taught on the island couldn't open this kind of lock.
A few minutes later, the lock clicked open.
Yu An wiped his forehead and said, "It's not easy to drive."
But he seems to know how to drive.
Xie Chiyuan choked, watching as Yu An pushed the door open and then pulled him inside: "Come in and take a look."
They went inside and then closed the door.
The lights were turned on, and the scene inside came into view.
Rows of incubators were arranged inside, filled with a transparent, unidentified liquid. Within the liquid, tiny, twisted creatures, no bigger than a thumb, floated.
"It is the earliest form of the aberration."
Yu An recognized them at a glance. His face was pressed against the glass incubator as he observed the little creatures: "They are not conscious yet."
The power supply to the incubator is on, and these power sources are constantly supplying power to the incubator.
Yu An thought for a moment, then reached out and turned off the power.
The first lab, the second lab, the third lab…
Looking at the shockingly large number of mutants, Yu An wondered, "With so many, it's impossible to afford to raise them all in the summer. Is he going to supply them all to the East District?"
In other words, Zhai Man from the East District has only recently taken office, but the arrangements made here clearly began before he took office.
"No matter how many variants there are, they must not be allowed to be born."
Xie Chiyuan's gaze darkened. He and Yu An shut off the power to all the mutants that were being cultivated. But the further they went, the more different the laboratories they saw.
There are already born mutant offspring.
Among the mutant offspring, some were newly born and hadn't yet participated in the next stage of breeding. Others were covered in wounds, their past experiences unknown.
The arrival of Yu An and Xie Chiyuan caused the cubs, who were lying on the sealed containers, to open their eyes.
"Eeya".
The strange-looking little cub stared at Yu An with its round eyes and opened its mouth to greet him.
Yu An looked at the cubs and hesitated for a moment.
These cubs have never gone out; they have always stayed here and have never done anything bad.
Should we kill them?
In the past, Xie Chiyuan would have chosen to kill them without hesitation.
But now that Xie Chiyuan has adopted so many, can he still be as determined as before to eliminate these innocent and bewildered mutant cubs?
Before Yu An and Xie Chiyuan could even exchange glances, the flames swiftly stopped supplying them with nutrients.
"They shouldn't have come into this world."