16 years

The institute was brightly lit, and Liu Ruosong stood in the hall looking up at the statue, with people passing by in a hurry.

After a while, there was a loud noise from upstairs, and then a young man came down the stairs and walked to Liu Ruosong's side in three steps.

"Consultant Liu, the upper door is open." The man said, "It seems to be a laboratory. Would you like to take a look?"

Fu Yan left Liu Ruosong with two siblings. After clearing out everything in the research institute, they finally decided to use violent means to break the remaining data doors.

"Is there no self-destruct device?" Liu Ruosong was a little surprised.

"Yes." The man said, "But it's motor linkage, and we cut off the regional power ahead of time."

Liu Ruosong nodded and gave him a "well done" appreciative look.

He took one last look at the weird statue, then turned his head and followed the people upstairs.

The several doors locked by electronic locks should be places like the core laboratory. Liu Ruosong went in and walked around, and roughly figured out Joe Eden's recent "work situation".

One of them is a laboratory dedicated to silver-threaded fish. The specific experimental drugs and data have been taken away, but there are still some silver-threaded fish left in the incubator, looking dying, with poor activity.

Liu Ruosong bent over and looked at it for a while, then beckoned someone to move the whole water tank down to the car.

But to Liu Ruosong's surprise, besides the silver fish, he actually found traces of B-92 in another laboratory - the original strain that Joe Eden got from no one knows where, and got The moss culture substrate of B-92 was used to make a small test field.

Liu Ruosong accidentally lifted the cover of the experimental field and looked in, only to see that the temperature, humidity and other cultivation environment data on the side panel were set exactly the same as Shao Xuefan's. After thinking about it, I found that it was like a miniature small experimental base.

Many questions popped up in his mind at once, crowded together one by one, unable to tell the front from the back.

B-92 is something that Shao Xuefan only researched after returning to China. It stands to reason that Joe Eden could not have the original strain; but if this thing appears here, does it prove that Joe Eden also thinks this thing is useful—it is for medicine , or is there any other use.

B-92 has the effect of delaying the spread of the zombie virus. Liu Ruosong knew it in his previous life, but the conditions for this thing to be used as medicine are too strict, and he still has lingering fears when he thinks about it.

Suddenly seeing this thing from Joe Eden, Liu Ruosong's whole body was refreshed, and his first reaction was whether Joe Eden had other ways to "use" this thing.

If... Liu Ruosong thought: Joe Eden is the initiator of the zombie virus. He has the most complete information and research data here. If he conducts in-depth research on B-92, maybe he can really find other ways to preserve the virus.

Liu Ruosong suddenly pushed aside the crowd, and began to search through boxes and boxes.

I don’t know if it’s because Joe Eden doesn’t pay much attention to Shao Xuefan’s research products. Compared with other rooms, there are more and more messy things kept here. Liu Ruosong even found a copy from the safe under the desk. Use files.

He quickly flipped through the pages, and found that Joe Eden was indeed using B-92 to study zombie virus suppression drugs—even, he had already achieved some results.

"...Combined with the 'Eve' sample, it can transform the virus." Liu Ruosong stared at the document in his hand, muttering to himself: "According to the data, it has the effect of inhibiting the zombie virus."

The man beside him didn't hear what he said clearly, so he leaned over and asked what?

"This room..." Liu Ruosong swallowed, trying to keep his voice sounding calm: "Take away everything in this room, including cultivation materials, equipment, and medicine boxes. Don't care if it's empty or not. Yes, the disinfected ones, as long as you can bring them, take them away!"

The man didn't know why he was so excited all of a sudden, he thought he had found something extraordinary, he didn't dare to neglect for a moment, he quickly called for someone to come over, and even scraped off a layer of the wall, it seemed that he wanted to wipe out the whole room Pry it off and take it away.

Liu Ruosong exited the room and couldn't help walking back and forth at the door.

If the petri dish can make B-92 undergo the same transformation as Fu Yan, then as long as the petri dish is brought back, Fu Yan will be safe.

At that time, even if there is a problem with Fu Yan's blood test, no one will insist on doing anything to Fu Yan with the petri dish in front of him.

And most importantly, Joe Eden didn't take the petri dish away—she was just around the corner, already in her pocket.

The big stone in Liu Ruosong's heart hit the ground with a bang, and he took a deep breath, thinking that this was the best news he had ever heard in his life.

He subconsciously reached out and pressed the headset, wanting to share the news with Fu Yan, but he applied for a call twice, but was finally picked up by Feng Lei.

"Consultant Liu." Feng Lei said on the other side of the call: "Captain Fu went up the mountain 5 minutes ago, what's the matter?"

"No." Liu Ruosong swallowed the words on his lips and said, "Our side is almost finished, and we will retreat in about an hour."

"Okay, okay." Feng Lei sounded very happy, and said repeatedly: "The team from Fu's side also said that the petri dish was blocked, and our people sent back the news that they found Joe. Aiden's evacuation trace has been followed along the road—it went well tonight."

Liu Ruosong was obviously also very happy, his brows and eyes relaxed, he glanced out of the window with a smile on his face, stared at the reflection of light on the glass window, hummed, and said yes.

"Now I hope that the captain's side is also going well."

In the abandoned landscape park, Fu Yan and Shao Qiu were searching for something in the grass.

When Fu Yan partitioned the area before, he deliberately left the more dangerous surroundings of the laboratory to himself, and now he is looking for traces of the petri dish along the direction indicated by the patrol squad.

There is a lot of vegetation on the mountain, and there is dew at night, and a person as big as a petri dish can be swaggered through the market without leaving any traces.

Fu Yan and Shao Qiu advanced in a V shape, carefully looking for any clues she might leave behind.

"Captain." Shao Qiu said suddenly, "Come here and watch."

Fu Yan, who was a few meters away, straightened up from the grass at half a person's height, bent over and touched cautiously, and found that Shao Qiu was standing beside a gentle slope.

The flashlight illuminated a small area in front of him, and Fu Yan glanced at it, and found that there was a piece of overwhelmed weeds, and the marks of broken grass roots were still fresh.

"She should pass here." Shao Qiu said.

Fu Yan hummed, looking at the shape of the grass nest, the Petri dish was not just "passed by", it probably fell and got up again, leaving two inconspicuous paw prints on the ground.

It seems that the patrol squad is right, this petri dish does have a sense of autonomy, Fu Yan thought.

This is not good news for Fu Yan, because it means that the thing will not only hide, but may also have a sense of resistance.

He swung the flashlight around, and saw another trace not far away.

The petri dish should have gone up along the gentle slope, and her feet were not stable, so there would be traces of slippery feet on the slope.

Fu Yan and Shao Qiu looked at each other, the latter nodded slightly, quickly replaced the rubber bullet in the gun with a signal, and fired a shot into the sky.

Immediately afterwards, Shao Qiu casually broke a one-meter-long branch and stood it on the ground, leaving traces of direction on the trunk, and then rushed up the mountain following Fu Yan's footsteps.

Fortunately, although the petri dish knows how to hide from people, it is not smart enough to counter-reconnaissance. The night is darker and the dew is heavy, and it will leave a little trace from time to time.

Fu Yan followed her footsteps around half of the mountain, and finally stopped near the halfway up the back mountain.

The development of the landscape park only stays in the front, and the back mountain has not even built a fitness trail. It is simply a good place for looting in the barren mountains.

The footsteps of the petri dish stopped nearby, and before the patrol squad could catch up, Fu Yan made a gesture to Shao Qiu to split up, signaling him to separate from him to search.

Shao Qiu nodded at him and made a cautious gesture.

Perhaps because they knew that the petri dish was nearby, they gave up verbal communication tacitly, and after exchanging information concisely, they each chose a direction and walked in opposite directions.

Both of them are special troops, and their stealth quality is very strong. For a while, the night was quiet, and only the rustling of cloth rubbing against the grass could be heard.

Fu Yan and Shao Qiu were separated by about 200 meters when they suddenly heard a faint cry from the night.

He almost subconsciously held his breath and listened attentively. It took him two or three seconds to realize that it was not the sound of the wind or an illusion—and it was not crying, but an inhalation sound between asthma and breathing. .

The voice sounded intermittent, whimpering, and in the terrifying atmosphere in the middle of the night, Fu Yan frowned, turned sideways and scanned in the direction of the source of the sound with the flashlight.

Under the cover of vegetation, Fu Yan found a near-natural hole on the mountain wall.

He sent a message to Shao Qiu, then bent over cautiously and moved towards the cave. When he got closer, he realized that this place seemed to be a candidate for scenic spot development. The cave was two meters high, with a mountain wall The steel pipes for construction are also nailed on the side.

For the sake of caution, he turned off the flashlight, and slowly touched the edge of the hole to look in.

He was born in the Air Force and has excellent eyesight. Even in the dark, he can see the outline of things clearly.He only got acquainted with the light for two or three seconds in the dark, and then saw... a figure seemed to be squatting in the depths of the cave.

The figure was naked and huddled, with its back facing the entrance of the cave, panting with difficulty, its back trembling, and making a strange sound that seemed to be crying but not crying.

Fu Yan didn't dare to act rashly, he sent out the signal of "find the target" on the public channel, and prepared to wait for the backup to arrive before capturing the target safely.

He took a step back slowly, but the petri dish was surprisingly sharp, and he turned his head suddenly as if he had eyes in the back of his head, and his foggy eyes fixed on Fu Yan for a moment.