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Under the night sky, the sound of footsteps echoed all around. Xiao Qiang finally reunited with Wen Kai and the others, but Li Hang was still nowhere to be seen. Battling through the rain, they reached a consensus at this moment to fight together against their enemies.
Raindrops streamed down their foreheads and into their eyes, making their vision blurry. Waves of flaming Living Dead fell one after another, while more and more grotesque Living Dead surged toward them.
Fueled by rage, Xiao Qiang and his companions fought fiercely, keeping the Living Dead at bay, five hundred meters away from the cabin. Inside the cabin, Lin Yu and Amy were anxiously pacing back and forth.
Hearing a knock at the door, Lin Yu's heart raced. "Who is it?"
"It's me..." came Li Hang's voice.
Amy spun around, her wheeled limbs moving as she waved her claw-like arm. "Don't open the door! It's dangerous! I'm scared."
Lin Yu ignored Amy's warning and walked over to the door. "Li Hang?"
"It's me..." He sounded shaky.
Activating the mode—the door opened, but behind him, Amy had gone silent. What was going on? Turning around, he saw that she had actually turned off her rotating arc light; she was in sleep mode.
Li Hang stood at the doorway with a sorrowful expression, drenched and dripping rainwater from his pant legs. He looked like a wooden puppet stuck in place...
"What's wrong? Come in quickly..." Lin Yu reached out and pulled him inside.
"I... I was wrong..."
"What about them? How are they?" Lin Yu noticed that Li Hang's arm was empty of weapons. "Where's your weapon?"
Li Hang lowered his head, wishing he could find a crack in the ground to hide in. Regret gnawed at him as he muttered, "Just now, while running, I threw it away. I thought it was a burden..."
Lin Yu's fist came down hard, striking Li Hang's face. "You bastard, are you trying to get yourself killed? You're going to drag everyone down with you."
Li Hang fell to his knees with a thud. "I was wrong, okay? Is that not enough?"
Tears welled up in Lin Yu's eyes as he choked out, "If they all die, who are you going to apologize to? Hurry up, gear up and support them."
"Understood." Li Hang quickly got to his feet, tears brimming in his eyes. Out of a sense of manly dignity, he held back every drop.
Li Hang rushed out.
Lin Yu patted Amy's head. "Amy, Amy, this is Amy calling. I need your help."
A flash of curved light appeared, and Amy awakened.
"Tell me, are the Living Dead behind this?"
Amy turned her round head as if refusing to answer.
"Amy, they're in danger right now. You need to tell me what happened here!"
Instead of speaking, Amy slowly moved her wheels and headed inside. Was she going to the Monitor? Lin Yu guessed correctly.
The information in Amy's storage required the Monitor to complete the projection, sending out a line of arc-like electric current in ray form. "Link Completed. Storage Information Input."
Lin Yu anxiously looked at the Monitor as images began to appear… several scientists in white lab coats came into view. It was clear they were a group of top-tier scientists, including a Foreign Scientist among them.
…On their side, a whole row of experimental samples… A scientist was adjusting an anaerobic culture chamber, while behind him, a younger scientist held a white insect with tweezers. The insect, lively and vigorous, jumped around in the grip of the tweezers…
A dropper released a drop of dark green liquid into the culture chamber. Adjusting the air pressure… Bang! A loud explosion followed by a powerful shockwave filled the laboratory with smoke. Some were coughing, others were panicking and shouting, while some were running.
At this point, Lin Yu seemed to understand something…
Amy also appeared restless, rolling her wheels back and forth, her metallic arms waving frantically.
The scene continued; each scientist underwent blood tests and laser CT scans. Although Lin Yu didn’t understand what they were checking for, he sensed that their tense examinations were likely related to the explosion of the culture chamber.
Sure enough, a leader’s face appeared on the screen. He was one of the scientists informing others of unfortunate news. Everyone involved in the biological bacterial research had been infected, meaning that within them, mutated microorganisms were growing and invading their bodies…
Lin Yu felt a chill run through him, instinctively hugging his arms, unable to continue watching…
Just then, a thunderous noise shook the Monitor. It was disrupted, displaying a flurry of static and unclear images. No matter how Regardless adjusted it, she couldn’t make out the scene.
Reluctantly stepping back, he hoped Amy would find a solution.
Amy was still there beside him; if it weren’t for the flickering arc light, Lin Yu would have thought it had automatically shut off again and entered sleep mode.
After a few seconds, the image reappeared, but only one person was visible. He sat wearily in a chair facing the window…
“Where… where did he take those people?” Lin Yu repeatedly replayed the earlier blurry footage to no avail. His fingers felt sore from pressing buttons before he finally gave up. Tears welled up in his eyes as he looked at Amy for help.
“I know him; he’s that skeleton. But what about the others?” It was clear that the previous blurry footage had been deliberately erased. Perhaps Amy had entered sleep mode and erased it…
For Lin Yu's troubles, Amy was unable to help. With her mechanical arms buzzing, she withdrew from the Heart Chamber.
Outside, the rain continued to fall. Lin Yu took one last look at the image frozen on the Monitor and shook his head helplessly. He was worried about Xiao Qiang and the others, so he didn't press Amy further; after all, she was just a robot controlled by humans. The data in her storage could be inputted or erased by people at will, including the information she herself had stored.
Xiao Qiang and his team had repelled the Living Dead for the twenty-eighth time, though it hardly felt like a victory. Those soulless monsters didn’t know how to retreat. Even when injured, with flames licking at their bodies or losing a leg or an arm to fire, they charged forward as if fueled by some unyielding spirit.
This couldn’t go on; Xiao Qiang knew that well. The barrel of his anti-riot Laser Gun was heating up, clearly in desperate need of power. They couldn’t keep this up; otherwise, they would all exhaust themselves and become a midnight snack for the Living Dead.
The heavy downpour turned into a light drizzle, and the number of Living Dead coming at them gradually decreased. Seizing a brief moment of respite, he wiped his wet face; his chin felt as if it had just been splashed by water from a roof gutter, and rainwater had thoroughly soaked his neck.
Wen Kai patted Xiao Qiang’s shoulder in a friendly manner for the first time, speaking sincerely, “Good brother, you did great. I truly admire you.”
“Thank you. Without you guys, we wouldn’t have been able to hold out.”
“Yeah, let’s help each other out from now on.”
“Come on, brothers, let’s rise up!” Wu Yi called over Li Hang, and the four boys embraced each other tightly, reluctant to part ways.
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