[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-zombie-apocalypse-creation":3,"chapter-zombie-apocalypse-creation-zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-776":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Zombie Apocalypse: Creation",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1887609,2510,"Chapter 776: Experiment gone wrong, again?","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-776",776,"\u003Cp>As Xiaoyun parked his car right in front of the ’pawn shop’, ten different people in lab coats were standing right outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Governor!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One of the senior scientists immediately recognized him the moment he stepped out of the car, causing all of them to turn around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Where’s Tianci?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She’s inside the lab right now. Governor, you can’t enter the lab. She had ordered all of us to leave.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing all of the scientists agreeing with her statement, Xiaoyun stopped as he looked back at the senior scientist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why did she order you all to come outside? What’s happening in the lab that she doesn’t want me to see?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of the scientists looked to each other before standing there in silence, not giving a single response to his question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"As the governor of Guangdong, I order you to tell me what’s going on in the lab. Or else I’m going inside and check it myself.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a short standoff, one of the senior scientists let out a small sigh before confessing the truth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We don’t know what’s happening in the lab.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don’t know? How could you all not know what she had done in the lab? You all just listened to her order and left?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Staring into their faces, they all continued to look down like a bunch of headless chickens, not daring to say a single word back at Xiaoyun’s angry face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Whatever. Just open the door for me. I’m going in there and checking it myself.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I-I can’t do that.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why not?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The chief scientist specifically stated to keep you from going inside... She told us to tell you to wait until tomorrow morning.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoyun froze for a second before looking back over to the closed door in the distance. It was just right there in front of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I said, open the door. Do you all not hear me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Despite his repeated requests, none of them moved. They all just stood there in silence once again, actively avoiding giving him an answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Goddammit. If you don’t open the door right now, I’ll call the SWAT team and have them open the door for me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Governor, we really can’t open the door for you—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Xiaoyun drew a pistol out of nowhere, all of the scientists’ faces were filled with fear as they looked towards him in disbelief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you don’t open the door right now, I’m going to sentence you to Treason... Don’t force me to use it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, the group of scientists finally fractured as the younger ones in the back immediately switched sides.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Liang Mei, just open the door. The governor is only doing this for Miss Tianci’s sake.\" The first scientist pointed out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The governor’s order is above all. We really shouldn’t stop him from caring about Miss Tianci.\" The second scientist chimed in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Liang Mei, no point in stalling it out.\" One of the more senior scientists murmured as it finally tipped the scale.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fine. I’ll open the door. But I’m not disobeying the chief scientist’s order. The governor is the one who requested it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Liang Mei gave in and started walking into the pawn shop, none of the guards standing inside with rifles dared to stop her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Governor, please be careful.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I know.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment Liang Mei opened the lab’s front door, Xiaoyun immediately felt a hint of heaviness lingering in the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Walking to the metal airlock door, the heaviness had only gotten stronger. With zero hesitation, he scanned his ID card.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The metal door in front of him began to slowly open as the other door behind him closed, leaving him all alone in complete darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What is this weird feeling?\" Xiaoyun wondered as the heaviness felt awfully familiar for some reason.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Going past the airlock door, fluorescent lights hummed overhead, casting a pale, clinical glow as he set foot onto sterile tiles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tianci, where are you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoyun’s voice drifted down the hall, swallowed by the vast, sterile walls. The sound lingered for a moment—then dissolved into nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each door stood ajar, each space eerily still. Chairs sat neatly tucked in. Screens were dark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The air felt weirdly disturbed, despite everything looking the same as it had the last time he came here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At each window he peered into, there was no one. The meeting rooms were empty, and the testing area offered no sign of Tianci.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cold equipment stood dormant behind glass panels, their metal surfaces reflecting his lone figure right back at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Where could she be?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With nothing coming up in Xiaoyun’s head, he made his way back down the main hall. This time, he headed toward the test subject wing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tianci, you don’t have to hide yourself. I’m here to check up on you... Can you please just answer me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through the test subject rooms, he once again returned empty-handed—no signs of anyone inside or any trace of the facility being used.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tianci? Are you there?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A quiet unease began to coil in his chest. He had searched through almost the entirety of the lab, and there was still no trace of Tianci.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only one area remained that he hadn’t looked at. The storage units held all kinds of medical machinery and items.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Are you invisible right now, Tianci? Please, I just want to make sure you’re fine... I’ll go back home if you just talk to me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Leave me alone, please.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The voice coming from one of the rooms ahead immediately made Xiaoyun run for it. But a heavy sensation suddenly rushed over his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every step forward was getting heavier and heavier until he reached the room where Tianci’s voice came from.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Red vapor?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within seconds, his brain realized what had happened. Looking at the room number, it matched exactly where Tianci stored the red liquid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Are you inside this room? Are you okay?\" Xiaoyun questioned as he tried to turn the doorknob, only to find it locked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m fine. Please leave me alone.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you’re really fine, come out of the room and let me see you... Or else I’m going to open the door the hard way.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Tianci refusing to respond, Xiaoyun took a few steps back before kicking his foot right at the steel door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fuck.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He quickly shook the leg pain away as the steel door didn’t even suffer a scratch. It was way too hard for him to break through it physically.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Stop. You don’t want to see me right now... Please, just wait until tomorrow. I’m going to come out then.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why tomorrow?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoyun questioned, standing right outside the window once again as he tried his best to see through the red fog.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I accidently opened the red liquid... But I already got it under control inside a quartz container.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The room doesn’t feel under control. It’s completely red... Unless you show yourself, I’m not leaving.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, Xiaoyun’s demand was met with silence from the other side. Given no choice, his mind began thinking of ways to breach the door open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tianci, if you don’t open the door right now, I’m going to blow it up with an RPG. Do you really want me to use explosives in the lab?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Please don’t do that.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then open the door for me... If you’re worried that the red fog can affect me, let me remind you that I was the one who brought it back to Luoping.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a long silence, the red fog immediately started expanding into the hallway as the door opened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within seconds, Xiaoyun felt a pair of hands grab his arm, dragging him inside before the door was closed up once again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The heaviness that came along with the red fog immediately rushed all over his body, but it vanished as fast as it appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ironically, the air outside was somehow heavier than the air inside, almost as if the more concentrated fog allowed his body to adapt to it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tianci, where are you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoyun questioned, as he couldn’t see Tianci anywhere in the room, despite his eyes being able to see through the red fog perfectly fine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I-I’m invisible right now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tianci answered as her voice came directly in front of him, with her warm hand on his arm, giving him a sense of reassurance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why are you invisible?\" Xiaoyun curiously asked, both of his hands trying to grab onto the invisible figure in front of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Y-You don’t want to see me right now.\" Tianci nervously whispered as her voice grew weaker and weaker.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The answer confused him for a second, but his brain quickly connected the dots as he remembered what happened to him in the past.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tianci, I have been in this fog before. I know your body is probably really red right now... I quite frankly don’t mind it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoyun’s attempt was met with deaf ears by Tianci. Still, he was reassured somewhat by the feeling of her fleshy arms in his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don’t want you to see me like this.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s fine. I understand... But why’s this room still so foggy? You said you had contained the red liquid, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1515,"2026-06-10T06:59:54.885Z",1,"novelbin.me","1b1001c42138ad8fa18143e5254fde323634f77e029a67038864b74fbaf5085f","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-528","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-527",829,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fzombie-apocalypse-creation-cover.jpg"]