[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-zombie-apocalypse-creation":3,"chapter-zombie-apocalypse-creation-zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-794":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},1887650,2510,"Chapter 794: Wen Zhang and Xianlin","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-794",794,"\u003Cp>As Tianci finished drawing out the blood from Xiaoyun’s arm, he finally decided to ask the question on his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What are all these vials for?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’ll be leaving soon. So I thought I’d need to stockpile some of it in case you don’t come back.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You serious?\" Xiaoyun questioned again, looking back at her in disbelief after hearing her answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mhm... What are you looking at me like that for?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There’s still like two and a half months before I leave. Isn’t this just way too early to stockpile something like this?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The answer made Tianci freeze for a second. But she quickly recovered as she took off her gloves and threw them into the bin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You got a point, but too late... Anyway, you can go now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the scientists began exiting the room with the cart full of blood vials, Xiaoyun remained seated as he stared back at her right in the eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You still haven’t told me what the blood is used for.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do you really want to learn about science?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I got nothing else better to do.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing him unwilling to give up, Tianci let out a small sigh before getting up and walking over to the bookshelf nearby.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Here, you will need to read this to understand what we’ll be doing next... And get ready to dress up.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the book, it was full of technical terms that Xiaoyun couldn’t understand. However, there was one thing that he could understand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Isn’t this the picture of... that man’s invisible wife?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It is. She’s the test subject we’ll be working on today. Go grab those clothes and put them on yourself.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Tianci pointed at the clothes on the wall, Xiaoyun quickly went over to grab them, turning himself into a ’scientist.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What are we doing now?\" Xiaoyun curiously asked as he watched Tianci just sitting there in complete silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The others are bringing the subject in.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After waiting for five whole minutes, the lab door opened, revealing a woman wearing hospital clothing with extremely pale skin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Directly behind her was a man whom Xiaoyun recognized. It was none other than Wen Zhang, the husband of the test subject.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mister gov—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Doctor Li, get ready for today’s injection.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tianci interrupted Wen Zhang’s attempt to speak with Xiaoyun as several other scientists began arranging the equipment in the room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, the whole place became an operating room. A hospital bed in the middle that had velcro straps next to the guardrails.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Miss Mei, do you mind lying down on this bed?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pale-skinned woman slowly climbed up the bed, sitting down as the nearby scientists brought more equipment to the bedside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Liang Mei, is everything ready?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, madam.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Test number 3, starting now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As three of the younger-looking scientists started strapping the pale woman onto the bed, Xiaoyun could feel her husband getting a little nervous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Doctor Li, you can do the injection today... And Liang Mei, are all the vitals correctly displaying the numbers?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, madam.\" Liang Mei answered as the heart rate chart and the display screen behind refreshed twice in a row.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Okay.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other male scientist began moving a syringe full of red liquid, slowly putting the needle up against the pale woman’s arm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After injecting all of it into the woman’s body, all of the scientists took a step back except for the one with blonde hair and a notebook in hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She only moved up even closer, standing right on the end of the bed, seemingly to be waiting for some sort of reaction to record.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How long has it been?\" Tianci quietly asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"One—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before one of the scientists could answer, the pale woman suddenly started shaking uncontrollably.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her face began turning a little green, with her eyes turning red as the shaking turned into something out of an exorcism film.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The heartbeat monitor was louder than ever as alerts started beeping nonstop, reaching all the way to 200 before it flat out zeroed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is this what’s supposed to happen?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoyun’s question went unanswered as the heartbeat chart somehow went from zero back up to 80 before stabilizing around 120.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tianci, bad news.\" The male scientist murmured as he started drawing a small bit of blood out of Wen Zhang’s wife.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I know, Doctor Li... Lee, what was the time duration?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Three minutes and twenty seconds.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within seconds, all of the scientists looked a little down. Even Wen Zhang himself looked a little disappointed hearing the number.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What happened?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoyun asked, looking more confused than ever as the scientists began unstrapping the pale woman from the chair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’ll tell you later. I need to go put the other trial on pause first.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he watched her leave the room with the other scientist, Xiaoyun looked over to Wen Zhang and the woman standing next to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is she feeling fine?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don’t know, governor... All I know is the longer the reaction, the better for her.\" Wen Zhand answered, his face filled with sadness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoyun didn’t try to stop them from leaving as they exited the room, leaving him and a young scientist who was putting everything away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Now, can you tell me what happened?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoyun and Tianci were now in a meeting room together, as he waited for a whole hour and a half for her to finish a meeting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The drug efficacy is starting to fail.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What drug? The liquid inside the syringe? That red liquid that you injected into Wen Zhang’s wife is the drug?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes. We had been testing it for the fifth time now. This had been the shortest response, and the blood test is worse.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How bad is it exactly?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How do I put this... Imagine this drug is supposed to make the human body react by creating antibodies against it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We went from the drug causing a total reaction for hours to now, only minutes. It had completely nullified all the progress we had made.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The answer made some sense in Xiaoyun’s head, but a ton of questions remained as he couldn’t wrap his head around wanting a reaction in the first place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If I’m getting this right, the reaction is a good thing? It’s like the drug you injected is trying to neutralize or destroy the virus inside her body?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, no, no, the drug’s purpose is not to destroy the virus. That’s practically impossible to do when every human on earth carries the airborne version.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tianci paused for a second, then continued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Doctor Li and I had been developing a theory... Zombie Mutants aren’t a real virus carrier, at least compared to a regular zombie.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I know that. Mutants can’t infect humans.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoyun instantly answered first, his mind remembered the amount of time he had seen soldiers scratched by it and came out fine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes. That’s the foundation we built the theory on. But the question remained, how does a zombie turn into a mutant then?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is it through randomness? Or based on what the zombie’s body had personally experienced before turning?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The room fell into silence as the question Tianci asked caused more and more confusion, one that made him realize how naive he had been.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don’t know,\" Xiaoyun quietly murmured.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s what we had been trying to figure out. This drug has zero effect on humans or zombies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it seems to trigger a do something in mutants. Specifically, the cells on their body seem to strongly react against it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Something? Like what happened earlier?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s part of it. But the mutant cell showed changes. It was seemingly being suppressed back down to normal.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Normal as in human?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tianci froze for a second, then shook her head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Normal as in... It’s not human. But it’s not a zombie either. It’s just less aggressive towards others.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Aggressive? Like white blood cells attacking foreign cells?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mhm. They aren’t as willing to seek more cells to... Mutate even further.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mutant even further?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Xiaoyun stared back at Tianci in silence, she slowly nodded her head before giving him the worst news possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There is no limit to how many times a mutant could mutate. They don’t even need to do anything, and their DNA would mutate on its own.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In a good way or in a bad way?\" Xiaoyun questioned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mostly bad way. They can become an even more dangerous, tougher skin resistant to bullets or even be immune to them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No zombie is immune to physical damage to their bodies. They just need a higher caliber against them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not if they can self-regenerate faster than you could hurt them. Imagine a zombie that could just keep regenerating its head after the bullet goes through.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m good.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Xiaoyun was about to get up and leave with the pessimistic news, his brain suddenly remembered something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wait, you said mostly bad. So there’s some good out of this?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What makes you think we’re conducting this experiment for? Of course, there’s something good out of this.\" Tianci answered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Like what?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If this drug works as intended, then we can slow down a mutant’s cell from mutating even further on its own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right now, Xianlin is already peaceful. We want her to stay that way rather than mutating into something more aggressive.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Those reactions earlier don’t exactly look peaceful to me...\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1549,"2026-06-10T06:59:54.885Z",1,"novelbin.me","c4f8f683e7e021ba7ef810d9513825408c92f4676ddf2d5bc5ac5d19ede1c6ba","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-795","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-793",829,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fzombie-apocalypse-creation-cover.jpg"]