The wasteland is reborn and the countryside is at hand

"What else do you need? Hey! Do you need this?" Si Chen said, taking out a strong white wooden box from the corner.

Li Yi was delighted when he saw the pattern on it.

"Gene extraction machine! Chenchen, how did you apply for a device worth more than 20 yuan?" Li Yi's face was filled with wonder.

Li Yi couldn't wait to open the wooden box, and a brand new white and gray box-shaped equipment appeared on the experimental bench.

Si Chen raised his chin slightly and said proudly: "Xiao Yi, our company is very rich! As long as it is a reasonable request, isn't it a piece of cake to apply for an extraction machine?"

"A side dish... just one dish?" Li Yi frowned. It was not like she had never applied for a "gene extraction device", but Zhang Hongwei rejected it every time for various reasons.

Therefore, she could only perform gene extraction manually each time, which was a cumbersome process and wasted a lot of experimental time.

She had strong data, but she never received support for her reasonable request.

"You're too young! You can't mess with someone but a villain? Why don't he make things difficult for you?" Si Chen pretended to be mature and meant something.

She also nuzzled towards the office in the northwest corner of the office area: "He is usually so arrogant, but this time he is honest."

Si Chen said and rolled his eyes in the direction of Zhang Hongwei's office.

Li Yi couldn't help laughing when he saw her expression, and the corners of his mouth raised an arc unconsciously.

The smile on her face looked particularly intrusive against the blood and roars flying outside, like a rose blooming in a thorn bush, or like a firework burning in the billowing smoke.

Si Chen glared at Li Yi and scolded: "You can still laugh!"

Li Yi raised his eyebrows in disbelief. She had died once.

God knows, when the zombies first appeared in the last life, she hid in the corner of the bathroom and shivered.

Standing in a small partition, she spent the most terrifying 72 hours in her life.

Even when she faced death later, Li Yi never felt so uneasy again. At that time, she did not dare to close her eyes for three days and nights.

The fear of the "unknown" is the most difficult to deal with, because you don't know what you are facing and what terrible things are about to happen.

If Li Yi hadn't returned from rebirth, she might have been even more panicked than the people outside.

But so what?

After all, she has lived through this life, and Li Yi understands the rules of survival better than anyone else.

All the equipment needed was ready, and Li Yi turned to face the door.

She looked at her colleagues in the office area who were isolated by a wall of glass, and gradually the smile on her face faded.

"Si Chen, do you think I'm cruel?" Li Yi suddenly spoke, his tone unusually calm.

Putting down the test kit in his hand, Si Chen looked at Li Yi with a puzzled expression.

"Cruel?" Si Chen leaned over and closed the distance between himself and her. "Why do you think so?"

In Si Chen's heart, Li Yi was undoubtedly kind and would never have anything to do with "cruelty".

She looked at Li Yi, trying to get an answer from her words or expression.

But Li Yi didn't say anything more, he just looked at a corner of the office area outside indifferently.

"It's been 40 minutes," Li Yi thought.

Si Chen followed her line of sight.

I saw the cleaning lady sitting against the wall. Her gray-brown trouser leg was soaked with blood, but she did not show any pain. She just buried her head very low, so that no one could see her expression. .

At this time, the cleaning lady was confused, and even the fear in her heart was slowly passing by as time went by.

She wanted to move, but she only felt that her limbs were numb and her body was not in control. In the hazy state, the sound of her heartbeat in her ears became clearer and clearer.

Thump...thump...thump...thump...thump...thump...thump...thump...

The heartbeat was getting slower and slower, and in the end, the cleaner could only hear the echo of his own heartbeat.

Her eyelids were so heavy, and the moment she closed her eyes, endless gray instantly filled her field of vision.

hum~

A buzz of electricity sounded in his mind, and the remaining consciousness of the cleaning lady was completely swallowed up.

So thirsty...so hungry...

In the midst of extreme longing, the seemingly dead cleaning lady suddenly opened her eyes, her gray-white pupils without any focus. She pursed her dry lips and climbed up from the ground tremblingly.

Behind the strange pupils, it saw more than a dozen bright red shadows in a gray world.

An infinite desire for that red color immediately surged in my mind.

It...is going to eat them.

Yes, eat them!

That was the only thought in its mind.

Seeing the cleaning lady who had turned into a zombie stand up from the ground, Li Yi's heart became colder and colder. She even felt that she was like a piece of ice now, and she was freezing from head to toe.

Being cruel...maybe you can survive the apocalypse better.

Li Yi clenched the scalpel in his hand and watched expressionlessly as the zombie rushed towards the crowd.

"Ah!" Si Chen screamed at the side.

Because Si Chen watched helplessly as the cleaning lady pounced on the old female researcher outside the crowd and bit off her ear.

The cleaning lady's mouth, which was covered in blood, was still opening and closing, chewing.

Si Chen finally understood why Li Yi didn't let the cleaning lady stay in the office area, and finally understood the "cruelty" Li Yi said.

It turns out that Xiao Yi had long known that the cleaning aunt would turn into a zombie. She tried to stop it, but after being ridiculed by everyone, she chose to let them die on their own.

No sound from outside could be heard in the laboratory, but everyone's panic could be seen.

For a moment, Si Chen also felt that Li Yi was cruel because she did not tell others about the consequences of leaving the cleaning aunt behind.

But that thought only stayed in Si Chen's mind for a few seconds.

She knew that Li Yi's kindness had no chance to be expressed.

Si Chen asked herself whether she could go out of her way to help others after they ridiculed her kind reminder.

The answer is not yes.

"Let's go!" Zhao Hanxu shouted to Kong Fan at the top of his lungs in the office area.

Yu Shanshan was stunned, staring at the wound on her colleague's ear with wide eyes in horror.

The cleaning lady, who had turned into a zombie, pounced on the injured colleague again, her sharp teeth penetrated her neck, and bright red blood spurted out instantly.

Yu Shanshan's legs were weak. If Kong Fan hadn't supported her, she would have been trampled under the feet of the panicked people.

Kong Fan pulled Yu Shanshan, pushed through the crowd and dragged her towards her own research room.

Zhao Hanxu followed closely behind them, looking behind him from time to time, for fear that the zombies would come after him.

"Xiao Zhao! Xiao Zhao! Pull... pull me!" Teacher Li was lying on the ground, struggling to get half of his body out from under everyone's feet.

Zhao Hanxu was Teacher Li's assistant. Teacher Li saw Zhao Hanxu fleeing from the crowd at a glance and shouted to him for help.