Chapter 144: Zombies Arrived Earlier Than the Cold

After this happened last time, she had asked Heitao A, and the latter provided three possibilities: first, the system was performing a self-check at the time and could not respond to the host's request.

Second, something had blocked the connection between it and the host, though this situation was almost impossible.

The third possibility was that the place where the host was located had an ultra-strong and resonant Energy Field, sufficient to force equipment relying on energy to operate to shut down; the higher the energy consumption of the target, the more it was targeted.

After pondering for a while, Liu Mu could only choose the third possibility.

Not only were the mechanical devices here shut down, but there were not even any lights for illumination.

In the darkness, only the temporary emergency indicator lights spaced out at intervals emitted a faint red glow. Liu Mu remembered that the temporary emergency lighting system on the ship would only turn on automatically after the main power grid and the emergency lighting system had problems, and it could only last for about an hour.

Judging from the brightness of the red light, it should have just turned on not long ago.

That is to say, the enemies on the ship already knew she had come up, and it was only after she came up that they activated a certain Energy Field that made Heitao A ineffective, wanting to weaken or restrict her movements.

Someone knew of Heitao A's existence!

Reaching this conclusion undoubtedly made Liu Mu feel as if she were standing defenselessly under the enemy's gun; if they had a way to shut down the Heitao A in her brain, did that mean they could also easily kill her?

A sense of fatal crisis pressed down on her; the deeper she guessed, the more she wanted to shrink back.

Until the familiar dual blades appeared in her hands, she leaned against the cabin and smiled, "What is this, I guessed wrong."

The Recovery Space was still there!

It meant the system was still there; perhaps some functions were restricted, but as long as it could still be used, she could act.

Tianweishe really did have a way to deal with Mutants, but clearly, this method was far from enough to completely restrict Liu Mu.

Liu Mu felt a sense of pride for having analyzed so much on her own without relying on Heitao A and having reached a very reliable conclusion.

Look at this set of mine, I am truly a high-IQ talent!

After her mindset shifted, the fear was suppressed, and Liu Mu was back in action.

This time the target was no longer the ship's bridge, but the Laboratory that Hong had used alone previously. If the ship could not be taken back, then the things inside the Laboratory had to be cleared out; the worst case was just to really blow up the ship once.

Her things, even if destroyed, would not be given to others!

As this series of thoughts flashed by, she simply didn't realize that this ship might not have been hers to begin with.

There was not a single person on the lower levels, and Liu Mu reached the Laboratory in the shortest possible time, then cursed with a foul word.

"Who touched my Laboratory?"

Someone had emptied the things inside a step ahead of her; the huge cabin had nothing left but a few torn paper Fragments on the floor.

Even those Experimental Subjects, along with their glass tanks and bases, had been moved away.

"Everything is gone? You didn't leave anything, doesn't your conscience hurt?"

Feeling that she had lost half of her net worth and thus having her anger level maxed out, Liu Mu went crazy and rushed out holding her blades.

The Laboratory occupied two levels above the deck, and rushing out led to a spacious corridor.

Transparent glass windows blocked the rain outside, but the situation outside the window made Liu Mu stop in her tracks instantly.

Mist filled the deck, but the floodlights still pierced through most of the white fog, revealing figures moving stiffly one by one.

Looking outside from the glass washed by raindrops, it was a pitch-black mass, moving slowly, as if lost in the mist, yet tirelessly searching for something; people occasionally passed through a place with strong light, revealing their pale faces and eyes occupied by gray.

Liu Mu swallowed hard and pinched her own leg; the pain was transmitted to her brain in a very short time, forcing her to admit that this was reality.

"……Zombies?"

Or rather, Zombies, a group formed by the Mutation of humans in the apocalypse after being infected with the Zombie Virus, feeding on the fresh blood of living creatures.

The fatal area was the Crystal Core formed at the junction of the spine and the brain; only by digging out or shattering the Crystal Core would they rot in an instant and rapidly decompose into a milky white liquid.

Research proved that the milky white liquid itself was non-toxic, but it required at least ten years to decompose before it could become organic matter that could be absorbed by plants again.

And the Zombie Virus could not be completely eradicated; until Liu Mu was killed in her previous life, wandering Zombie groups could still be seen in the wilderness.

However, they absolutely should not have appeared here at this time!

A necessary condition for the formation of the Zombie Virus was months of continuous high temperature and drought, breeding and evolving on the bodies of dead Awakened, eventually infecting living humans.

So, these Zombies were... man-made.

Someone was artificially developing the Zombie Virus.

Hong only said that Tianweishe was researching biological Mutation and didn't mention the Zombie Virus at all; did he lie to her, or did he not know either?

Liu Mu's brain calmed down, and she checked the activity space above the deck at a very fast speed, still not finding a single living person.

She also gradually understood that after Heaven Viper Society moved away the things they needed, they used the Zombies or Zombie Virus they brought to infect the people on the ship... they never wanted this ship at all.

This ship was indeed a trap prepared for her; if she had absolutely no concept of Zombies and rashly went to contact these already infected people, she would definitely be infected as well.

As for what would happen after becoming a Zombie, that was not important to Heaven Viper Society. They would even be happy to see the people who turned into Zombies leave this ship; once they went ashore, the entire Haicheng Barrier would fall into a center for Zombie activity.

But, the miscalculation was that Liu Mu knew.

There were a few familiar faces in the Zombie group, but Li Gang and the others were not found, which gave Liu Mu a glimmer of confidence regarding the latter.

The ship was on the sea, and it was impossible for the Zombies to have the ability to go ashore in a short time, so Liu Mu decided to leave them be for now.

She was going to collect a debt!