Chapter 255 - 237: Experiment Failed

Chapter 255: Chapter 237: Experiment Failed

She trusted Yu Dong. If Yu Dong said they were criminals... then they were criminals.

Besides, the test subjects were all condemned to die. Surviving would just be a stroke of luck.

"Prepare to inject the three of them with the vaccine."

The moment Meng Dongqing finished speaking, the research institute’s internal red alert suddenly blared.

She immediately walked to the window and looked outside.

The two soldiers guarding the inside took the initiative to open the institute’s main gate, letting in a squad of fully-armed soldiers from outside. Ji Luo went to speak with them but was shoved aside.

The two soldiers pointed at her laboratory, saying something to the newly arrived soldiers.

Then, the soldiers moved to apprehend the members of the two combat teams Yu Dong had left to protect her.

Meng Dongqing immediately realized... ’Something’s wrong.’

"Seal the inner gate!"

The research institute had a very secure control system. Once she sealed it from the inside, no one from the outside could get in. After all, the doors were made of blast-proof glass.

Her other assistants started to panic, unsure of what to do.

"Don’t panic! This improved vaccine... we must complete the experiment! No matter what those people outside want, as long as we can produce results... they won’t give us any trouble."

"Someone will cover for us. He... is a good leader."

"Get back to work! Prepare for injection!"

Meng Dongqing tried to force her research team to calm down, but they were just ordinary people. They didn’t have that level of composure. Seeing the alarm and the soldiers, they assumed the worst and scrambled to run outside.

They threw open the door and fled, seeking out the soldiers.

Meng Dongqing sighed, but she couldn’t blame them. They were all young people who had never faced any real crises. They didn’t understand that in this world, results are all that matter. The army’s attitude toward them would depend entirely on whether or not she developed the vaccine.

This version of the vaccine had a weakened toxic protein and was more refined than the last. It was her most satisfying creation yet.

’I have to complete this experiment!’

Otherwise, she might never get more test subjects.

She pressed a button, sealing the entire laboratory. She began to assemble the last three doses of the vaccine herself, placing them into specialized syringes.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

"Open the door! Open up right now!"

"Meng Dongqing! Cease your experiment at once!!!"

"We’re taking the subjects! You can’t harm them!"

Meng Dongqing glanced back. The soldiers were hammering on the blast-proof glass door, but it was also bulletproof. There was no way they could break it open.

She ignored them, placing the three syringes into the designated slots on the three hibernation pods. She connected the tubes, glanced at the data on the screen, and pressed the button.

’Beginning injection...’

BOOM!!!

A tremendous explosion erupted as the blast-proof glass door behind her shattered!

The massive shockwave, full of glass shards, sent Meng Dongqing flying. She slammed against a lab bench, and her vision went black. Her ears rang, and her head felt as if it had been hit by a speeding train, the pain unbearable.

But with her last ounce of consciousness, she saw... she had already pressed the button. The vaccine, aided by the machine, was slowly being injected into the three subjects’ bodies.

A soldier at the rear of the squad put away a grenade launcher, while the other eleven filed in, guns raised.

"Squad Leader, look! Are they being injected right now?"

"Quick, stop it! Stop the injection!"

They grabbed Meng Dongqing, but she couldn’t hear a thing. She was completely dazed; the grenade blast had given her a concussion.

Several soldiers stared at the array of laboratory screens and buttons, and at the liquid continuously advancing through the tubes, about to enter the subjects’ bodies...

"AH!!!"

"It’s too heavy! I can’t pry it open."

"Squad Leader, isn’t there an operation button somewhere?"

They couldn’t pry open the specially-made hibernation pods no matter how hard they tried. The pods were designed for human experimentation and had internal reinforcements. Their only option was to figure out the surrounding buttons and screens.

"Go get those three who were outside!"

"There’s no time! The liquid is about to go in!"

"Is this red button the stop button?"

The vaccine was seconds from entering the three subjects’ bodies. If they didn’t stop it, their mission would be a failure!

The squad leader quickly slammed the red button... but the injection didn’t stop.

"Shit! Press the others!"

Then he just started mashing every button and icon on the surrounding controls and screens!

He didn’t know which one he hit, but the injection actually stopped!

Then, the sound of mechanical gears turning came from inside the hibernation pods. The restraints on the test subjects released, and the pods slowly opened, revealing three people sleeping like infants.

Just as Meng Dongqing had said, there was no pain at all.

They would just be injected with the vaccine in their sleep... and then await the results.

They would have passed away peacefully.

The soldiers pulled the tubes from the three subjects’ bodies, removed the various monitoring devices, wrapped the three naked figures in blankets, and carried them out.

Just then... a sound suddenly came from the basement.

A hibernation pod in the basement opened, and a muscle-bound zombie, only 1.6 meters tall but incredibly stout, climbed out.

It was short but powerfully built. Red muscles, like writhing worms, covered its entire body. The musculature on its head squeezed one eye shut, while a grotesque, tumor-like ball of flesh grew where the other eye should have been.

It stood up, listened for a moment, then charged up the stairs!

It rushed toward the living people above. The moment its head cleared the top of the basement stairs, it launched itself into the air like Tarzan!

Its powerful leg muscles gave it unparalleled explosive strength and jumping power.

SPLAT!!!

The squad leader, who had just rescued the subjects, was sent flying into the wall by the immense force. A spray of blood and flesh exploded against the surface!