CH 67

Chapter 67: Death Approaches

Li Shengnan was indifferent as she retreated. “Why would there be an antiviral? This virus is a gift from God! You can shoot me dead if you want, I’ve done everything I wanted to do anyway!”

Suddenly, a giant bird swooped down from the sky, grabbed onto Li Shengnan’s shoulders, and took off into the night sky with her.

“Oh—I forgot to mention, Zhou Yu is very weak right now, I’m afraid he might not be able to bear with the mental control of an S rank organism! And when Zhou Yu’s genes change, his connection to that S rank organism will also be severed! Good luck, Wu Yun! Don’t get eaten by Zhou Yu!”

Wu Yun fired angrily and ran after Li Shengnan. The range of his pistol fell short and could not reach its target.

Li Shengnan had departed.

“Damn it—”

Wu Yun would rather that it was himself who had been alienized, so that he could grow wings and rip apart Li Shengnan!

He returned to Zhou Yu’s side and covered his forehead. Zhou Yu was scalding hot.

Even though he knew what would happen to Zhou Yu once he began to alienize, he still refused to give up on him.

He heaved Zhou Yu onto his back and walked on with haste. “We’re going back to the base right now! Song Zhi might be a bastard, but I don’t believe he’ll give up on you! He’ll amass all the resources we have to help you resist the virus! And Zhou Qing is there! Those professors and scholars must have a way to save you! Zhou Yu, hold on! You’ll survive! You definitely won’t alienize into some abomination!”

Wu Yun carried Zhou Yu and continued forward. Feeling Zhou Yu on his back growing hotter and hotter, Wu Yun was burning with anxiety!

Just at this moment, a vague figure of a person appeared in front of them.

Wu Yun’s heart skipped a beat. He stopped and stood his guard.

Was Dr. Turing back? What did he want to do this time?

It was a slender figure in camouflage, but they did not carry any weapons or equipment. They couldn’t have been from the base. Entering the primeval forest without bringing anything was tantamount to suicide, and Wu Yun had no impression of the man at all.

Who the hell was he?

Like a messenger of the god of night, he turned to them slowly.

He had an extremely beautiful face with perfect figure proportions, but he was not Dr. Turing.

Wu Yun coldly asked, “Who are you?”

He slowly walked towards them.

His entire body exuded a chilly aura. He looked down apathetically at Zhou Yu, who was lying on Wu Yun’s shoulder.

“When you get back, tell Song Zhi that I will follow Turing. In the next few days, he will look for the first ancestor Ymir. We can work together against Turing.”

That voice was like crushed ice, and the whole primeval forest was one giant wineglass. The broken shards of ice collided with each other and resounded in the cup.

When the man started to turn, Wu Yun shouted, “Hey! Wait, who are you?! You haven’t answered me yet!”

The man turned back slowly, his eyes flashing gold for an instant.

Wu Yun was shocked, “Are you an alienized human or an S rank organism?”

“Go back and ask Song Zhi.”

Within seconds, the mysterious man had disappeared.

Mo Ye, who has been lying on top of his bed, suddenly opened his eyes. He arched his back and instantly sat up.

He panted hard, as if he had just returned to reality from the land of the dead. His bangs were soaked and stuck on his forehead, and his fingertips slightly trembled.

His mind replayed the scene where Li Shengnan had stabbed a syringe into Zhou Yu’s body.

Whatever was in that syringe must have been fatal, otherwise his thoughts would not have disconnected from Zhou Yu.

For a long time, he could not calm down his breathing.

Song Zhi stood on the other side of the glass wall. He seemed to have waited for a long time.

“Looks like you went to Zhou Yu again, but he put up a fierce resistance.”

Remote sensing consumed a lot of Mo Ye’s energy. He slowly got up and walked to Song Zhi.

Currently, Mo Ye was no longer as calm and relaxed as before. On the contrary, he knitted his brows, his gaze piercing into Song Zhi. “Something happened to Zhou Yu, which is why I can’t interact with him. In general, this means that there are only two possibilities. The first possibility is that his body is too weak to bear with my remote mental sensing. The second possibility is that… he’s dead.”

Mo Ye raised a hand and smoothed his sweat-soaked hair to the back of his head, revealing his bright and clean forehead. He seemed to be trapped in a bind.

“I see. I’ll send for him right now. We just saw the flares they fired. I hope it won’t be too late.”

Mo Ye slowly turned around, weary to the extreme. He went back to his bed and sat down, then tilted his chin up and stretched out his neck in a curve that was bursting with tension.

“Song Zhi, Turing is more difficult to deal with than you can imagine. If you don’t want to become his prey, then I advise you to let me out. Let me be with Zhou Yu, I can help you deal with him. But if I’m in here, then my ability will be greatly reduced because of the distance. I can’t help you at all.”

Song Zhi looked at Mo Ye and said unenthusiastically, “Do you know what your expression looks like right now?”

Mo Ye closed his eyes and asked, “Like what?”

“It’s like you’re afraid of something.”

Mo Ye lowered his head and pulled up a hint of a smile, “Of course I’m afraid. Did you think fear only belongs to you human beings? And you also know what I’m afraid of.”

“I can’t let you and Zhou Yu leave. Once you leave, you won’t return.”

Mo Ye smiled helplessly. “So you don’t want to know his whereabouts?”

“What do you mean by ‘him’?” Song Zhi’s emotions were stirred up, and he subconsciously took a step forward.

“Song Lin… Although he’s my senior, born into this world a few years earlier than me, his luck was clearly not as good as mine. He chose you, and I chose Zhou Yu. You’re always devising up a foolproof plan, when in reality, there is no such thing as a foolproof plan in the human world, or here. You are always thinking, but Zhou Yu will act.” Mo Ye’s voice was laced with mockery.

Song Zhi’s pupils trembled. “So… even if you know where Song Lin is, you won’t tell me.”

Mo Ye said, “Fine… When Wu Yun comes back, he will tell you his whereabouts. Then you can come tell me whether you’ll decide to let me out.”

Song Zhi’s shoulders were tense, but soon he covered up his emotions and left.

Wu Yun sprinted with Zhou Yu on his back. Even when he started gasping for breath, he didn’t intend to stop.

Suddenly, he tripped over a rock and fell down, cutting a sorry figure.

“Damn it! Damn it! Why is it so far away!”

On his back, he felt Zhou Yu’s deep breaths becoming shallow and sluggish. Wu Yun grew more and more worried. He felt Zhou Yu’s forehead and found it scorching hot.

“Hold on, Zhou Yu! Don’t give up like this!”

If you give up, then how can I go on?

At this time, a helicopter’s light beam came aiming down at his head and shone on Wu Yun’s face. When Wu Yun averted his gaze, a gust of wind came sweeping at him, and a rope ladder dropped down from high above.

Wu Yun let out a sigh of relief. “Song Zhi finally sent someone here! He saw the flare!”

He jostled Zhou Yu on his back, but there was no response. Wu Yun climbed up with Zhou Yu on his back. As soon as he stepped into the helicopter’s passenger hold, several field workers raised their guns and aimed them at Wu Yun.

“What are you doing?” Wu Yun glared at them and stood before the cabin door.

One of the field workers asked, “Is Zhou Yu infected?”

“Cut the crap!”

Li Shengnan was like that, and so were the people sent by Song Zhi! If he wasn’t protecting Zhou Yu, then Wu Yun would have given those guys a good thrashing!

“We have to be careful. You don’t want us to have an accident before we get back to the base either, do you?”

He took out a syringe, the tip scattering a cold gleam of light.

“What’s that?” Wu Yun grabbed his hand and asked with vigilance.

“This is an anesthetic. Lizard monsters react very slowly to the anesthetic gas, so it needs to be absorbed directly into his body via intramuscular injection.” Han Li’s voice reached them as she crawled out from the co-pilot’s seat. “I may be willing to hurt anyone else, but Zhou Yu is absolutely not included.”

Han Li was their old friend who had been serving as captain of the fieldwork medical team.

“But now I find that no one can be trusted too easily.”

Li Shengnan had taught Wu Yun a bloody lesson.

“Don’t worry, if he doesn’t die… Then this amount of anesthesia will have no effect on him.”

The implication was that if Zhou Yu was doomed to die anyway, then the anesthesia could at least ensure the safety of others.

Wu Yun pushed down his impulsive urges. Although he was worried about Zhou Yu, he wasn’t totally irrational yet. “Okay.”

Han Li injected the drug into Zhou Yu’s arm and monitored Zhou Yu’s vital signs.

His body was extremely hot. Han Li lowered her head and put her ear against Zhou Yu’s chest. Zhou Yu’s heart was pounding laboriously, but its speed was very slow. It took almost five or six seconds to hear one beat.

The situation was not looking optimistic.

More than a dozen minutes later, they successfully arrived back at the base, and Zhou Yu was sent into the emergency room. This time, the rescue effort could be said to be armed to the teeth. Not only was the emergency room equipped with an anesthetic nozzle, but also a machine gun. If Zhou Yu turned into a lizard monster, then he may very well lose his life right then and there.

Wu Yun is standing outside the emergency room, both hands clutching his face. If he had discovered Li Shengnan’s abnormality, then this would not have happened to Zhou Yu. He was drowning in self-blame.

When Song Zhi came in, he suddenly punched him in the face, knocking off his glasses.

“Didn’t you say it was just a test?! Did you know who Li Shengnan was? If you hadn’t picked Li Shengnan as the pilot, then nothing would have happened to Zhou Yu! This was all Dr. Turing’s trap, do you understand?! If anything happens to Zhou Yu, I won’t forgive you!”

Song Zhi bent down and picked up his glasses from the ground.

They were already shattered.

Song Zhi flicked the broken glass to the ground with his fingers, took out his handkerchief, wrapped his glasses in it, and put them into his pocket. “Everything happened for a reason. Just like how I didn’t detect the issue with Li Shengnan’s background, you were also blinded by her piloting skills, causing you to put your complete trust in her.”

Wu Yun opened his mouth, but his words were stuck in his throat.

“Tell me, besides Dr. Turing, who else did you meet?”

Wu Yun was stunned. After pondering for more than a dozen seconds, he replied, “I met a young man with black hair in camouflage, but I’ve never seen him in the base before. He had golden eyes, just like Mo Ye. Dr. Turing also had those eyes when he was using his abilities. He looked like he was in his early 20s and was very handsome. I suspect that he was an S rank organism.”

Wu Yun stared at Song Zhi coldly and observed his expression. He remembered the rumors about Song Zhi and an S rank organism.

“What did he say?”

“He said he was going to work with you against Turing, and he would wait for you at the first ancestor Ymir.”

“And did he tell you when?”

Wu Yun shook his head and said, “No.”

He turned to the emergency room. Han Li was frowning as she administered an electric shock to Zhou Yu. Zhou Yu’s body jerked up and down with the current, but the signal on his electrocardiogram was falling lower and lower.

Wu Yun stepped forward nervously and put his hands against the glass.

Han Li shouted, “Heat rate slowing down, blood pressure dropping! Quick, give him a shot of adrenaline!”

“His temperature has reached 48 ℃!”

“The brain will fry at such a high temperature, he’s pretty much done for.” Song Zhi tilted his head and said, “And this is exactly the same as when that field worker mutated last time.”

Wu Yun clenched his jaw and stared unwaveringly at Zhou Yu, “He won’t mutate. He definitely won’t. There were so many dangerous incidents in the past that we thought he couldn’t survive, but he crashed his way through all of them. This time will be the same! I believe in him!”

At this time, Zhou Yu’s pulse had already flattened into a straight line, and he had stopped respiration completely.

Han Li didn’t give up. “The adrenaline shot! Inject it into his chest!”

But Zhou Yu still did not respond.

Han Li gritted her teeth. “A scalpel! Prepare to open the chest cavity for direct CPR!”

“Dr. Han! It’s no use! If we drag this on and he mutates, we’ll all die!”

Han Li’s assistant pulled her away when she still refused to give up.

“Dr. Han! He’s gone! He’s already gone!”

“His heart had stopped beating half an hour ago!”

Tears plopped down from Han Li, who had looked calm the entire time.

She turned to Song Zhi and said, “Zhou Yu is dead…”

Wu Yun’s jaw was hanging half-open. It was as if his heart had suffered a heavy blow. He looked on at everything before him in disbelief.

“Impossible… Zhou Yu, wake up!”

Wu Yun pounded the glass with his fist.

In order to prevent Zhou Yu from mutating, all the rescue and field workers were evacuated, leaving Zhou Yu lying on the bed alone. His eyes were closed and his firm brow bone gave off the feeling that he was still fighting.

“Let me in. Even if all of you are going to give up, let me go in and stay with him.”

Song Zhi gave Wu Yun a hard punch to the face and said sternly, “Wu Yun! Are you awake? Do you want to go inside and become nutrition for his alienization? If Zhou Yu is still conscious, he absolutely wouldn’t want anything to happen to you! Especially because of him! If you want to do something for Zhou Yu, then you should go prepare. When we go to the first ancestor Ymir and meet Turing, you’ll have plenty of chances to avenge Zhou Yu!”

Wu Yun raised his hands to cover his face. “No… You don’t understand! Every time, it’s him who sacrifices everything for us, but we can only do so little for him.”

“But from now on, there will be a lot you can do for him.”

At this time, Mo Ye was searching for Zhou Yu with his eyes closed. He came up empty-handed.

He looked up at the camera and said slowly, “Li Qian, I know you’re looking at me.”

Li Qian, who was staring at the monitoring screen, was stunned. Mo Ye’s glass-like eyes were like a black hole, making it hard for him to pull back his attention.

“Open this door for me. I’m going out.”

Mo Ye’s voice seemed to spread outwards from the depths of his mind. Li Qian immediately turned off the surveillance camera’s sound, but Mo Ye still existed.

“I’m not controlling you. Except for Zhou Yu, I can’t control any other human being. In your heart, you know that if you do nothing for Zhou Yu, then you will regret it for a lifetime. Now, please do only what you can do for Zhou Yu—let me out.”

Li Qian tried to make himself ignore what Mo Ye said, but the more he ignored it, the more he thought of the many moments where he had been with Zhou Yu and Mo Ye. His heart suddenly softened.

Clenching his fists, Li Qian spoke, “I’m sorry, Mo Ye, it’s impossible… I can’t!”

He forced his eyes closed.

“Listen, Li Qian, Zhou Yu is about to die. I want to go see him! I have to see him!”

Li Qian clenched his teeth and typed out the code on the keyboard. When the first set of doors opened, Li Qian was startled. He hadn’t been expecting himself to do such a thing.

“I don’t want to look at you! I don’t want to listen! I can’t be controlled by you anymore!”

Even though Li Qian said this to himself over and over, his head still couldn’t help but lift up to look at the screen and Mo Ye. By supernatural influence, he entered the second code, and the second set of doors were opened, allowing Mo Ye to leave.

Once Mo Ye left the room, the surveillance alarm sounded immediately. Countless field workers rushed out with their guns raised aloft. The clicks from loading were loud and clear.

Mo Ye smiled indifferently. His eyes had the charisma to devour one’s soul.

“Didn’t Song Zhi tell you that he wanted me alive?”

Just as they hesitated, Mo Ye quickly rushed over, his hair tangling as if it was being buffeted by the wind. His speed was too fast to be human.

When the first shot sounded, Mo Ye took advantage of his speed to leap up to the ceiling and jump off, suddenly coming above the field worker. The instant the two of them made eye contact, he reached out to unload his bullets. Then he gave him a hard push, sending the field agent flying. 

Next, Mo Ye bent down to kicked over another field worker, then turned to chop down on the neck of the next agent. All of this transpired in less than a second, making it impossible to distinguish on sight!

The corridor was a mess. Mo Ye had what seemed like divine assistance and his actions were quick and decisive. The team could not hold its own.

Some of them had their wrists dislocated by Mo Ye, while others were directly knocked out from a rap to the neck. Within only a few seconds, there were field workers laying sprawled out all over the corridor floor, unable to rise.

Looking through the surveillance camera, Li Qian was completely shocked, “My God! That’s inhuman!”

Wait… It seemed like Mo Ye was never human in the first place…

It went without saying that due to Zhou Yu’s spinal cord fluid, 70% of Mo Ye’s ability was locked away. He was currently only utilizing his own physical strength and rapid mobility. But his every movement was neat and precise, just like a fast forward version of Zhou Yu.

“That’s more badass than an action movie!” Li Qian couldn’t help but clap in front of the surveillance screen.

Mo Ye looked up at the security camera and said, “Thank you, Li Qian.”

He nudged a gun with his toe and kicked it up to grab onto it firmly, then walked out with confidence and ease.

Song Zhi, who is in the emergency room, received the news that Mo Ye had left. He immediately notified the guards and said to Wu Yun, “Draw your gun, Mo Ye is coming!”

Wu Yun’s eyes lit up with hope. “Isn’t it a good thing that Mo Ye is coming? He saved Zhou Yu many times before, maybe he can save him this time!”

Song Zhi stared at him. “Are you daft? Don’t forget that Mo Ye is an S rank organism! We can’t predict what his reaction will be after seeing Zhou Yu in an accident!”

The security personnel protecting Song Zhi quickly intervened and raised their guns to guard around Song Zhi as if they were facing a great enemy.

The sound of footsteps came from down the corridor, each step grinding on Song Zhi’s nerves.

The door opened and a young man in a white T-shirt came in with a gun in his hand. His black bangs swayed gently with his steps. He was tall and did not seem strong, but every line of muscle on his body was hiding restrained strength.

His expression was extremely cold, and the oppressive feeling in the eyes made all the guards holding guns tremble inexplicably.

The two men at the very front were trembling at even the muzzle of their guns.

“Song Zhi! I don’t have time to play games with you. Open the door. I want to see Zhou Yu.”

Song Zhi’s eyes were indifferent. “Are you threatening me?”

Just at this time, Wu Yun, who was standing beside Song Zhi, suddenly raised his gun and aimed it at Song Zhi’s temple. In a flash, all the muzzles turned to point to Wu Yun.

But Wu Yun was not intimidated. The muzzle of his gun was more stable than anyone else’s. “Do as he says and open the door! Let him see Zhou Yu!”

Song Zhi’s expression instantly turned even darker. “Wu Yun, are you sure you want to do this?”

Wu Yun chuckled indifferently, “Now, let Mo Ye see Zhou Yu!”

As long there was still a glimmer of hope for Zhou Yu to wake up, he would not give up.

“Do you think Zhou Yu would want Mo Ye to see him alienized?”

Wu Yun couldn’t help smiling, “He no longer has his consciousness, would he still care about that?”

Song Zhi had no choice but to raise his finger and shake it lightly. “Okay, Wu Yun. I thought you understood that Mo Ye is very important to Zhou Yu. In front of someone important to them, everyone would want to be perfect. But… there’s no point in being perfect. Li Qian, weren’t you the one who released Mo Ye? In that case, you should play the good guy to the end and help him open the door of the emergency room!”

Li Qian gulped. He knew what kind of consequences he had to face, but he also had something he needed to do. Li Qian quickly input the command, and the door of the emergency room opened. Mo Ye walked in and Wu Yun stood outside, guarding the door.

Mo Ye approached him, step by step. He saw Zhou Yu lying on the bed, his breaths already stopped. His chest did not move up and down in the slightest. Mo Ye opened his eyes wide, his gaze tracing over Zhou Yu’s facial features. He slowly lowered his head and lifted Zhou Yu into his embrace as if he had been his breath and his whole life. Without any signs of life, Zhou Yu’s brain was so calm that Mo Ye couldn’t read a single thing.

Mo Ye did not show any sadness; his expression was blank, as if he was still trying to process what had happened.

Then Mo Ye’s eyes turned golden, as if he had fallen into a state of unawareness.