Chapter 320 - 263: The Apocalypse Arrives: Each Displays Their Prowess

Chapter 320: Chapter 263: The Apocalypse Arrives: Each Displays Their Prowess

Yang Ze looked at the notification on his phone.

"My comrade from the military district just sent a message... Commander Qiao says the zombie virus is about to break out and to get ready. Looks like it’s most likely for real this time."

Wang Dingbei nodded slightly, tightening his grip on his pistol.

As the clock struck seven... a large number of the tourists stranded below bowed their heads, blood trickling from their noses.

At that moment, Wang Dingbei roared, "It’s a viral attack! Everyone who’s still alive, get on the ship!!!"

"Don’t just stand there gawking! I’m talking to you!"

"Run!!!"

Instantly, the living people who had been temporarily quarantined began sprinting from all directions toward the gangway to the cruise ship.

The zombies gradually awoke and charged, hot on the people’s heels. Wang Dingbei’s gaze sharpened.

"Open fire! Aim for the head!"

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

Wang Dingbei and his men stood at the bottom of the gangway, shooting the zombies to provide cover for the others to board.

...

「Yanhai City Biomedical Research Institute.」

Ji Luo stood beside a large electrical storage cabinet, looking at the five large wind turbines in the distance.

"Lawyer Ji, the circuits for the five 2MW wind turbines have been retrofitted. They now directly supply power to our institute’s distribution box. Based on data from previous years, these five turbines can generate an average of 60,000 kWh per day. The only issue is that it’s not stable—sometimes more, sometimes less. Paired with our large electrical storage cabinet, we can store power when it’s windy and discharge it when it’s not. We also have two diesel generators for emergencies..."

Ji Luo listened to his electrical engineer’s report and nodded slightly.

"What about the monkey house?"

"The monkey house also has its own dedicated electrical storage cabinet for wind power, supplemented by a hundred solar panels. This ensures a high-quality power supply and maintains the proper temperature and humidity. Our monkeys are living in a very comfortable environment."

"Very good. Time’s about up. You can go leave your last words and then enter quarantine."

"Lawyer Ji, I hope to create the future with you after the apocalypse."

"You’ll need to be lucky, then."

The electrical engineer watched Lawyer Ji’s retreating back, his eyes filled with adoration.

Ji Luo went to the lab and saw Meng Dongqing in the culture room, fiddling with lab mice.

"Professor Meng, is there anything else you need me to prepare? We have one last hour."

"The detailed log of my experiments to follow."

"Let’s wait for him. The true Reincarnator... If he wins, he’ll find us. Anything else?"

"Test subjects... Although you’ve procured a lot of monkeys, which will allow us to conduct more comprehensive and safer animal trials, the final vaccine will still need to be tested on humans."

"A trivial matter. After the apocalypse, there will be plenty..."

Ji Luo smiled faintly, revealing a row of pristine white teeth.

After touring the research institute, Ji Luo went to check on the White Egret Resort Hotel, not far from the institute.

He made sure that the families of Yu Dong’s core team members, as well as the families of his own core team, were all obediently staying in quarantine inside the hotel.

Thinking of when Jiang Zhuoyu had entrusted everyone to him, Ji Luo couldn’t help but chuckle softly.

’This Jiang is pretty impressive. Yu Dong’s ability to judge character... is not bad.’

Jiang Zhuoyu had sent everyone from the core teams who were willing to believe in the apocalypse and could trick their families into coming over to him... and that amounted to several hundred people.

The fifty students alone accounted for a huge number of family members.

But Ji Luo turned no one away. He had just made one thing clear to Jiang Zhuoyu: "Anyone who comes to my sanctuary must follow my rules. If your parents survive, they’ll work for me too. Otherwise... they’ll have to face the consequences."

"As it should be. We’re going to support Yu Dong..."

After leaving his younger sister and parents behind, Jiang Zhuoyu took his people and left.

Time quietly ticked to seven o’clock. The change occurred at the research institute and the resort hotel, but... it didn’t even make a ripple.

Ji Luo had arranged everything. It was all going according to plan.

He took out his walkie-talkie. "Begin the cleanup."

...

「Olympic Sports Center.」

Across from it was the bustling Beiguo Mall, the two connected by a second-floor skywalk.

Normally, this skywalk was a gathering place for small stalls selling flowers and handicrafts. Today, it had been completely cleared, and a red sign was posted on the path:

[TODAY’S EVENT: NO VENDING STALLS!]

Passersby would discover that the skywalk was set up with numerous obstacles: long railings, short railings, tripwires, bollards... a whole pile of things that divided the skywalk into a maze. However, there was a conspicuous red path that allowed people to cross easily.

But if you didn’t pay attention to this red-marked path, you would just get stuck between the railings and the glass walls on either side of the skywalk, trapped as if in a maze.

Some children saw this and were immediately captivated, playing in it over and over. But without following the red line on the ground, they couldn’t get out and would just keep stumbling.

Soon, they were persuaded to leave by several university students wearing red armbands nearby.

After people coming from the second floor of the mall passed through this special red path, they arrived at the second-floor entrance of the Olympic Sports Center only to find an even more complex passageway!

The various obstacles forming the passageway were bolted into the ground and couldn’t be moved at all. The only way through was by walking, jumping, and ducking under them.

If you didn’t follow the red-marked path, you would quickly be forced to the edge, eventually running into the second-floor’s glass barrier.

This discovery piqued many people’s interest, and they started playing in the maze. Many seemingly correct paths ultimately didn’t lead to the Olympic Sports Center; instead, they led farther and farther away, until... they were pressed up against the glass barrier.

On the first floor of the Olympic Sports Center.

With the circular Olympic Sports Center at its heart, a vast number of obstacles radiated outward, extending in long lines like some kind of maze-themed pathfinding challenge.