Chapter 614: Chapter 614: Test Subject

While the two were chasing after the truck in front of them, suddenly a figure leaped out from behind a low wall and jumped onto the truck ahead.

The people in the truck were startled half to death. What was it that jumped on top?

Roar!

A claw tore directly through the roof of the truck, and everyone watched helplessly as a companion who couldn’t dodge in time had their head crushed by the claw, splattering blood everywhere.

“Ah~~”

The people inside the truck began screaming and scrambling to escape.

The screams and the smell of blood excited the zombie on the truck even more; it was now vigorously trying to tear open the metal roof!

“Wind Element and Power Element?”

Lu Hao looked at the zombie. When it had suddenly appeared and flown up to the roof, it was clearly a Wind Element Zombie.

“This is a test subject from the Base in E City,”

Lian Jiyue confirmed.

It wasn’t that he had seen such zombies months before, but the clothes on the zombie were the ones from the observation section of the E City Base laboratory.

If he remembered correctly, the zombie’s eyes were also fitted with a surveillance device, and at this moment, perhaps the people in the Base laboratory were monitoring its every move.

“A surveillance device? You better not come down for now,”

Lu Hao said, otherwise it would be troublesome if Lian Jiyue were to be exposed here.

“Hmm, be careful, first destroy its eyes,”

Lian Jiyue reminded him, or else Lu Hao’s every action would also be captured.

The zombie continued to tear at the metal roof, ripping off piece after piece and relentlessly reaching its claws into the truck to extract the people inside. Old Liu, the driver, had already curled up under the seat, too scared to even think about driving.

“Save us, save us,”

The people in the truck yelled towards Lu Hao, begging for help. Although the metal bars at the back of the truck hadn’t been broken off yet, no one dared to jump out because of the zombie on top; they were likely to be the first ones eaten.

Lu Hao rolled down the window and said, “Bring the Crystal Cores first.”

Fu Li clenched her teeth; she turned and looked again at the zombie that had caught Xiao Zhao. With no choice left, she took out a box of Crystal Cores from her Space and threw it on the ground at the back of the truck.

She now even suspected that the zombie was lured over by these two, though she also knew this was not possible.

Lu Hao didn’t mind and opened the door to get out of the car.

Seeing someone appear outside, the zombie immediately flew down from the truck.

Boom!

The zombie actually blasted a ball of Special Ability Fire at Lu Hao!

Although its Special Ability Fire was only Level Five, it was still enough to surprise Lu Hao. A Three Series Zombie?!

Remembering what Lian Jiyue had said earlier, Lu Hao, while dodging the ball of fire and waiting for an opportunity to attack, also saw the zombie’s eyes; indeed, its right eye was different from the grey-white eyeballs of other zombies.

Lu Hao ran straight towards the zombie, a small flame burning at his fingertips. As the zombie reached out with force towards Lu Hao, he ducked and, in the moment after, aimed a quickly fired flame at the zombie’s eyeball.

The flame struck the zombie’s eyeball precisely. Although the flame did no harm to it, everyone on the scene saw that the zombie’s eye suddenly emitted sparks and smoke for an instant.

Seeing this, Lian Jiyue also got out of the car and joined Lu Hao in attacking the zombie.

Though it was a Three Series Zombie, in front of Lu Hao and Lian Jiyue, the zombie was unable to fully utilize its abilities and even became somewhat disoriented. Lu Hao seized the opportunity and, drawing his Tang Sword, chopped off its head.

While extracting the Crystal Core, Lu Hao noticed that there was indeed evidence of surgery on the top of the zombie’s head, and its hair was not entirely lost, which means that this zombie might have been a human previously, possibly experimented on while still human, resulting in its current state.

Lu Hao couldn’t help but frown, realizing that even though they had blown up the lab back then, and Lian Ze had also fled to S city, the experiments here had never ceased.

Lian Jiyue dismantled the railing at the rear of the vehicle, letting everyone get off first; the zombies were dead, but there were still two corpses inside the vehicle, posing a risk of turning into zombies.

At this moment, the shivering figure of the middle-aged woman caught Lu Hao’s attention.

“Were you caught?”

Lu Hao asked.

Nie Xingbang, who had just been supporting the woman, took several steps back upon hearing this, along with the others.

“No, no, I was in the corner the whole time, the zombie didn’t catch me,”

the middle-aged woman stammered, her head involuntarily bowing lower.

“Sister Zhou, your ear”

Song Qin pointed at the woman’s right ear. Unless one looked closely, nobody would have noticed the red blood mark there, surrounded by an emerging inky green hue!

“Sister Zhou is infected, everyone step back!”

Nie Xingbang immediately shouted.

“Nie Xingbang, you, all of you! It’s all your fault. If you had given out the Crystal Cores earlier, Zhang Chen and Xiao Zhao wouldn’t have died trying to save us, and me, what about me?!”

Sister Zhou sat on the ground, pointing at the people and crying out loud.

“Sister Zhou, you were also against giving out the Crystal Cores; you should not blame us entirely,”

Fu Li was unwilling to take the fall for this. Sister Zhou had been one of the most reluctant to give up the Crystal Cores.

Bang!

Lian Jiyue directly penetrated the back of Sister Zhou’s head with a metal spike, and Sister Zhou’s eyes widened as she fell stiffly backward.

Finally silent, Lian Jiyue conveyed to Lu Hao.

As for the rest, their looks towards Lian Jiyue and Lu Hao had changed a bit. They had now openly shown their true colors. That Metal Element man had no hesitation in finishing off Sister Zhou. Would they perhaps…

“The E city base is just ahead; you all should go,”

Lu Hao told the crowd.

Upon hearing this, the group hastily scrambled onto the truck.

“Thank you,”

Song Qin nonetheless came over to say this before catching up with the rest.

She really didn’t want to keep traveling with these people anymore; they were selfish and self-serving. If it weren’t for their selfishness, there wouldn’t have been any sacrifices just now.

Only… she had always been such a person before the Apocalypse; she never expressed her opinions in a crowd. To use her ex-husband’s words, she was just a person who went with the flow.

“Miss Song,”

Lu Hao called out to Song Qin. Seeing her turn around in surprise, he continued, “I wonder if Miss Song can drive?”

“A bit,”

Song Qin didn’t know why this man was asking her this.

“Would you mind doing us a small favor, then? We can settle later with Crystal Cores or supplies,”

Lu Hao said. There were still plenty of supplies left in the vehicle from Su Jin, which could be useful. He just didn’t know if this person would be willing to help.

However, Song Qin agreed without hesitation. Now in this world, she was all alone. Whatever she wanted to do, she could just do it!