Chapter 257 - 238: Dongzi, Wait for Me

Chapter 257: Chapter 238: Dongzi, Wait for Me

"What’s going on at the institute? Why is everyone running away?!"

When Zhao Youcai and his men arrived, they found everyone from the research institute in a mass exodus. People were fleeing in cars, on bikes, or just on their own two feet—anything to get away from the institute.

Zhao Youcai spotted a female researcher and grabbed her by the arm.

"What happened at the institute? What are you running from?"

The researcher’s face was a mask of terror. "The mutated zombie... it was released. The soldiers are all dead... Professor Meng is dead too... We’re going back to the cruise ship! We’re never doing experiments again, WAHHH!"

"Stop crying! How did it get out? Who? Was it Cai Hong or that big muscle-bound one?"

"They were both released! One of them is dead, but not Cai Hong! He ate someone and then ran off!"

"Ran off... If it ran off, what the fuck are you panicking for?! Get back there with me!"

Zhao Youcai dragged the researcher back toward the institute, where they ran into Ji Luo. Ji Luo said immediately, "Brother Youcai, don’t go in. It’s too disgusting... We had explosives planted, planning to blow it up along with the institute, but the zombie was too cunning. It heard us setting the charges and bolted. It ducked into the woods, and now we can’t find it... It’s not safe here anymore. We have to move to the cruise ship base... The military has to take responsibility for this!!!"

Hearing this, Zhao Youcai’s mind went blank.

’It’s over!’

’Cai Hong escaped...’

The combat team members were all stunned.

Huang Zhiqiang: "Cai Hong is still alive? Wasn’t he already dead? When did he become a mutant?"

Because Yu Dong had wanted to seal away this "Flawed Vaccine," its effects were kept secret. Only a few of them knew about it, and Zhao Youcai was one.

"Let’s go! We’re heading to the institute!"

’If Cai Hong survived, the first person he’d go after for revenge... would be Yu Dong!’

’He’ll definitely do everything in his power to kill Dongzi!’

Zhao Youcai’s earlier resolve hardened even further.

He forcibly dragged a researcher back to the laboratory. The inside was littered with severed limbs and chunks of flesh, a living hell.

Meng Dongqing’s body had been half-eaten, identifiable only by a few tattered scraps of clothing.

"BLECH!!!"

The female researcher threw up on the spot. The members of the combat team covered their noses, feeling queasy themselves. ’This is too horrific...’

Zhao Youcai dragged the researcher over.

"Are you done puking? Tell me... where is the vaccine that Cai Hong was injected with? Is there any more?"

"BLECH... In... in the cold storage room... There are three vials left. Professor Meng was preparing to use them to create super-zombie soldiers for the cruise ship... but they weren’t used. What do you... want with them?"

Zhao Youcai breathed a sigh of relief when he heard there were more.

"Good... That’s good... We still have a chance. We have one last chance to turn this all around!"

"As long as I inject this vaccine and become a super-zombie soldier, I’ll have the power and the leverage to fight the military, rescue Dongzi, and then hunt down Cai Hong among the other zombies! I’ll fucking kill him!"

"Everything can still be saved... Bring me the vaccine!"

"If I can’t beat the military or the mutated zombies as a human, then I’ll stop being human!"

This was the best solution Zhao Youcai could think of. He was going to transform himself to save Yu Dong!

With that power and a new body, combined with his intelligence, he could forcibly break Yu Dong out as long as he had someone on the cruise ship to back him up!

Even if it meant becoming a zombie, he would save his brother!

And then he’d hunt down that son of a bitch Cai Hong and kill him!

Everyone was stunned to see Zhao Youcai like this!

’What kind of friendship could drive someone to this point, to give up their very humanity just to save someone?’

Huang Zhiqiang’s eyes went wide. "Holy shit! Are you insane, Youcai? The researcher just said it’s not guaranteed to work! Last time, only one out of three people succeeded... What if you die? I’m still a damn virgin! Can’t we think of another way?"

Zhao Youcai looked at Huang with contempt. "Huang, you’re a fucking idiot, you know that?"

"Dongzi fucking promoted you to team leader, so how have you not grown up at all? A virgin this, a virgin that... Can’t you fucking go find a prostitute? Can’t you go hook up? Can’t you use the power you have to coerce or entice women? You want to be in a relationship? You want to be some girl’s white knight?"

"You’re fucking useless! Injecting you would be a waste. You’d probably just end up trying to date a zombie! Get lost! Go back and take the logistics team with you to surrender. I don’t need you!"

Zhao Youcai looked at Huang Zhiqiang, furious at his wasted potential.

They were brothers, but in his eyes, Huang Zhiqiang was a hopeless case.

’If Xufeng were still alive, he’d be worth a hundred of Huang Zhiqiang!’

"Huang! Tell Dongzi for me... If there’s a next life, tell him to find a way to save Xufeng. Even a zombified Xufeng would be more useful than you!"

"Hey, fuck you! Zhao Youcai, you’re trying to provoke me! I’ll fucking inject it too! Who says I don’t have the balls? I may be a coward, but I don’t run from my duties! Give me a shot!!!"

Huang Zhiqiang roared!

At that moment, Yan Yikai took a few steps forward.

"There are three vials, right? Give one to me... I’ll go first!"

Yan Yikai took another step forward and held out his arm.

Even when it came to injecting a vaccine like this, he still had to be number one.

Zhao Wenjie took a deep breath. "Huang, let me do it! Your logistics team... isn’t in any real danger. The military needs logistics too. If we fail, you can stay behind to look after and support Brother Dong. When you get back, tell Fu Yuanyuan for me... I can’t be with her in this life. I was lucky to have met her."

"Count me in for saving the boss! I’ll do it!"

"Let me fucking do it! I’m the strongest, I’ll definitely succeed!"

"What the fuck are you all fighting about? My girlfriend just cheated on me, so I don’t want to live anymore anyway. I’ll do it!"

"Stop with the chatter. Nurse, inject me, quick!"

At that moment, every member of the combat team thrust out their arms, flexing their muscles. The researcher, holding the three vials of vaccine, stared at them in disbelief.

’Aren’t they... afraid of dying?’

"ENOUGH!!!"

Zhao Youcai’s roar drowned out all the other voices.

"Stop fighting over it, I’ll decide... I’ll be the first to inject. You all wait for me. If I succeed, then no one else will need to. You’ll all go back to the cruise ship and support me from there while I find a chance to rescue Dongzi."

"If... I fail, Yan Yikai, you’re up. Be smart... find a way to get Dongzi out, then go capture Cai Hong. Don’t let him live."

Yan Yikai: "Let me go first! I’m lucky! My luck has been incredible since the apocalypse started!"

"That’s because Dongzi has always been looking out for you! No more arguments. The third will be Zhao Wenjie. Dongzi fucking cares about you the most. To save you, he first made you see that bitch for what she was, and he’s treated you well ever since. You wanted to rush to Xiangti Bay to save that bitch, and he didn’t even say a word to you... You owe Dongzi."

"Yes, it should be me."

Zhao Wenjie nodded. He was ready.

"What’s that supposed to mean, Zhao Youcai? Are you looking down on me? I’ll be first! Fuck off! Who are you to call me useless! I’m not useless!!! I’m the one who fucking owes Dongzi the most, so it has to be me first! Not even you! Who the fuck do you think you are?! You can’t arrange shit, I’ll do the arranging!"

Huang Zhiqiang said, his eyes bloodshot.

Zhao Youcai gave a look to the men behind him.

"AHHHH~~~ I... I... I... I... FU-FU-FU-FUCK... YOU-YOU-YOU... YOU... MO...THER..."

A taser directly incapacitated Huang Zhiqiang. He passed out while cursing Zhao Youcai.

A complex look filled Zhao Youcai’s eyes. "Zhang Wei, take your boss to the car. Go back and tell him... to live well on the cruise ship with our brothers. The logistics team has no combat experience. Don’t take unnecessary risks. This is our job."

"Yes! Boss Zhao!" Zhang Wei wiped away a tear and carried Huang Zhiqiang to the car with the others.

Only the 50 members of the combat team remained.

Everyone looked at Zhao Youcai. Zhao Youcai looked at the somewhat attractive researcher and gave her butt a squeeze.

"Little researcher... quite perky. How long does this vaccine take to work?"

The female researcher blushed, but looking at Zhao Youcai’s face... she couldn’t bring herself to feel disgusted. She even found something grand in him.

"We’ll know if it’s a success within an hour. If it’s not, you’ll turn into a regular zombie. If it is... your body will undergo a massive transformation, gradually changing into a muscle zombie, and your consciousness will reawaken. Of course, this is just based on our previous experimental data. Better or worse outcomes are possible. Have you made up your mind?"

"Okay, inject me," Zhao Youcai said, holding out his arm. His eyes were now calm.

She applied the iodine and found a vein.

Zhao Youcai closed his eyes. Everything that had happened, from the seven days before the apocalypse until now, replayed before his eyes.

’Yu Dong gave me the chance to take revenge on my family. He gave me women, he gave me weapons, and he gave me the one thing I loved most: power!’

’I held great authority.’

’These last four months have been more exciting than the previous 21 years of my life.’

’I went from being a college student who was all talk to the person I truly wanted to be. Now... I’m a man in power. I have my own followers.’

’Besides Xia Yao, I’ve slept with many other women. Those women were captivated by me.’

’I recently had a taste of what it’s like to be second only to one man and above thousands of others. It felt amazing!’

’The look on Wang Dingbei’s face when I captured him... I could get high off that for a lifetime.’

’And it was Yu Dong who brought me all of this.’

’I know with absolute clarity that without Yu Dong, I’m just a nobody.’

’I have to save Yu Dong, just like he chose to save me in every life. There’s no room for hesitation.’

The needle pierced his vein, and the Flawed Vaccine was slowly pushed in...

Zhao Youcai closed his eyes, humming softly:

"♬ Friends walk together for a lifetime, those days are gone forever~ ♬"

"♬ One word, one lifetime, a life of brotherhood, a cup of wine~ ♬"

’You treated me as your most trusted subject, so I shall repay you with my life...’

’Dongzi, wait for me.’