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Chapter 31

Lu Ze arrived at the place he and Chen Xin agreed on a few minutes earlier, and after walking around the door a few times anxiously, a familiar figure appeared on the other side of the street amidst the rain.

"What's going on?" Lu Ze stepped forward.

Chen Xin wiped the rain on his mask: "I saw a familiar person in their patrolling guard team."

Lu Ze frowned: "Familiar? Can you see the face clearly?"

Chen Xin shook his head: "No, they are all wearing masks. They should be under the hands of that woman. I just think that person's walking posture and figure are a bit similar..."

"Like who?" Lu Ze keenly heard the hesitation in his words.

Chen Xin paused: "No one, I probably misread it." Then he changed the topic: "What's going on with those cars?"

Lu Ze breathed a sigh of relief: "Our previous speculation was correct. The forces in the old city have indeed begun to reshuffle. Two parties have already formed an alliance, and those cars and living corpses are the result of being jumped over the wall by the remaining party. According to In this situation, I estimate that Lindsay and that surnamed Wei will form an alliance. Although Jacques brought the living corpse, I didn't expect that Lindsay would have a backup."

Chen Xin was surprised: "Second player?"

Lu Ze nodded: "A close deputy beside Jacques is Lindsay's man, and he betrayed on the spot."

"No wonder..." Chen Xin murmured.

Lu Ze raised his head and glanced to the west: "Let's go, while they are in a mess tonight, no one should pay attention to the Institute of Biology. Let's go and have a look now."

According to the map they have in hand, the two of them are now located close to the border of the southwest area, while the former site of the Army Institute of Biology is in the west and is close to the direction of the exit of the city.In order to save time, Lu Ze decided to go directly across the entire western district.

It was already past midnight, and the rain that had been falling for several days finally showed a slight tendency to weaken. When Lu Ze and Chen Xin passed through the entire western district and could see the building of the Institute of Biology within sight, the heavy rain from before Has turned into sporadic raindrops.

The night is no longer like splashed ink, and the clouds are gradually dispersing, and even a few gleams of clear moonlight leak out, outlining the dark outline of the building in front.

As the biological research center with the most complete facilities and the most advanced scientific research methods on the eastern continent before the end of the world, this place is not only a scientific research institution, but also a heavily guarded fortress.

At the gate stood a tall black marble tablet with a white quartz base, and the words "Institute of Biology" were written on it.The identification device at the access control has long been knocked crooked, and the sentry box is full of broken glass.After crossing this line of defense and walking along the road, the first thing that comes into view is a rectangular parking lot, and the cypress trees on both sides of the road are still full of vitality.

On the west side of the parking lot is a group of buildings with red walls and black roofs. The exterior walls are painted with eye-catching biosafety level [-] signs, and a sign is hung on the front gate, which says "Waste Disposal Center."

On the east side of the parking lot is a snow-white building, which occupies the largest area of ​​the entire square and is the core of the research institute.

Lu Ze stopped at the sentry post of the gate.

The rain has completely stopped, the moonlight is quietly sprinkled on the asphalt road under my feet, and there is silence in the surrounding fields.

He pointed to the guard post in front of him and said to Chen Xin next to him, "Let's prepare for the cross-check here."

The so-called cross-check refers to the inspection of the body surface and the condition of protective clothing by two people before and after entering the high-risk area. The purpose is to ensure the safety of the experimenters and prevent virus leakage.

Lu Ze and the others don't have any "protection" at all now. The only thing that can start is the mask on the face. The protective coating on the camouflage uniform on his body has been worn out in these days of operations. It's just to re-wrap a layer of tape around the wrists and ankles to isolate the air, and to see if there is any damage to each other's clothes, so as to play a little psychological comfort.

The round spot of the bright flashlight landed on the wall of the sentry booth, Chen Xin turned around and changed to Lu Ze after checking.

"Captain, what are we... looking for this time?" His voice was hesitant.

Amidst the noise of "嗞啦", Lu Ze's tone was somewhat understated: "The above did not clearly say what they want us to find. I guess they don't have any hope. But after all, this is the place where the virus first broke out." , there should always be some clues left behind."

Chen Xin hesitated for a few seconds, and said tentatively, "When I was at the base, I heard a saying that the outbreak of the virus was not an accident. ..."

"It's okay to listen to things without evidence." Lu Ze interrupted him.

"Yes, but... is there anything more terrifying than a living corpse?"

Lu Ze patted him on the shoulder: "Okay, no problem. We can go in. As for what's inside, no one knows before going in. Even if there is, it didn't appear in the old city or in a large area. If it spreads, it proves that its activity trajectory is limited. Having limitations means that it has weaknesses, which is a good thing for us.”

Chen Xin nodded, without further words, the two left the sentry box one after the other.

There is a straight-line distance of about two kilometers from the gate entrance to the real core area. The parking lot is empty, and only a few cars are parked at the corners. They didn't walk very fast along the way, and they all paid attention to the movement around them. , but there was no sound except the wind rustling the leaves overhead.

At the end of the road is a small circular square with a flower bed in the middle, the left side leads to the waste disposal center, the right side leads to the white building complex, and directly in front is a silver-gray building with a height of 5 or 6 floors. .

"It's strange...it doesn't seem to be affected by the missile bombing at all..." Chen Xin looked around and murmured.

Lu Ze narrowed his eyes.

Chen Xin is right, all the buildings here are well preserved, even the traces of broken glass are not visible, it just looks like an abandoned place.If we only look at the physical protection of these buildings themselves, they are too strong.

Unless, this area was deliberately avoided during the bombing.

As for the reason for avoiding it, they are not sure whether they are worried about the leakage of the virus samples kept in the biological laboratory of the institute, or for other reasons.

"We don't have a detailed internal map here, so we can only search piece by piece." Lu Ze's eyes fell on the white buildings on the right: "Let's start there first."

Just as Chen Xin was about to speak, there was a faint sound of footsteps coming from the left side of the two, and it sounded like there was more than one person.

The two looked at each other, and quickly flashed behind the pillars of the first-floor foyer of the building on the right.

A few seconds later, about 300 meters away, a figure came out from the corner on the other side of the red brick building. He walked all the way to the small square where Lu Ze and the others were just now.

Under the moonlight, a tattoo of a beast preying on his shoulder was particularly vivid.

"...If you insist on hearing someone talking, how could someone else come to this ghostly place..." He muttered a few words, looked around, and then dragged around in the direction he came from. go back.

"Infected body...? Why did it appear here at this time?" Chen Xin's voice was full of doubts.

Lu Ze said in a deep voice: "It seems that this place does not look like an 'abandoned' place. If it is not necessary, ignore them for the time being and search this building first."

Chen Xin nodded.

Behind them is the main entrance of the building. Only half of the tempered glass door is wide open, and the empty hall inside can be vaguely seen.

Lu Ze pointed to himself, then pointed to the inside of the gate, picked up the micro punch in his hand, and walked in first.Chen Xin followed closely behind him.

After entering the door, there is a row of identification check-in machines. The hall is empty. At first glance, there is a round reception desk with a height of half a person in the middle. There are corridors on the left and right sides leading to the depths.

The inside of the reception desk was in a mess. Two computer screens were turned down on the table, and the wires were messed up. The keyboard was cracked by something, and several letter keys were missing.The pen holder was overturned to one side, and a binder was spread out beside it, with what looked like blood stains on the pages.

Lu Ze reached out and took out the binder and flipped through it. This should be a spare visitor registration book. On the first page, the name, ID number, time, visiting department and matters were registered in flamboyant handwriting.

“詹姆斯……2032年11月7日，病理学部……11月9日，病理学部……”他嘴角微微勾起：“看来我们找对了地方。”

As he spoke, he put down the binder, looked around, and frowned: "There is no corpse."

Chen Xin also discovered this question: "Could it be that they escaped during the riots?"

Lu Ze shook his head: "It's too early to draw any conclusions before seeing it, so be vigilant."

He turned toward the corridor on the left.

The rooms on this side are almost all ordinary laboratories, without any isolation measures on the wooden door panels, and through the glass windows, you can see all kinds of experimental equipment inside: microscopes, test tube racks, freezers, computers, etc.

"Captain—" Chen Xin called him in a low voice.

He looked in the direction Chen Xin pointed, and saw a humanoid body lying face down on the floor of a laboratory on their right.

Chen Xin walked over step by step with a gun in hand, with a little force on his toes, he kicked the thing over: it was indeed a person, or it used to be a person.

Judging from the clothes on his body, he should have been a researcher here before he was alive, and his name tag was pinned to his chest. However, his exposed skin has been completely rotted, shriveled and blackened, especially his head, which is almost unrecognizable. facial features.

Lu Ze also walked into the laboratory, and out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a faint green light flashing past the inside half blocked by the test tube rack.

He raised his chin slightly towards Chen Xin, and the two of them walked in that direction, one left and one right.

It's a light on the bottom of a computer screen.

He exchanged a somewhat surprised look with Chen Xin. After pondering for a few seconds, he raised his hand and clicked on the mouse. The computer screen slowly lit up, casting a faint blue light in the room.

He just wanted to connect the USB flash drive Tang Qing gave him——

"Captain Lu, it seems that you really ignored my warning." A cold and polite voice came from the direction of the door.

Chen Xin raised his gun like lightning and turned around.

Ghost stood quietly at the door, seemingly unaware of his hostility, while Xiaobai stood at his feet, tilting his head slightly as if looking at them.

Lu Ze put away the USB flash drive in his hand calmly, turned around slowly, looked at him for a while, and said leisurely, "We meet again, Ghost. Oh no, maybe I should call you Professor Ling Qian? "