XG 98 - Do you want to get a zombie to bite you?

"Mr Wong, there's a corpse controller around here." Chen Yibo wanted to get that controller, but he was not in a good state to fight against a strong enemy.

If he insisted on finding the controller, Wong Xue Guo might also want to follow him, which he wanted to avoid. When he picked up her fallen sword, he saw bloodstain from the handle, coming from her scrapped hands. It must be painful to hold onto anything with those peeled skin.

"Leave that to me," Charles Wong said.

"I will beat up that bastard!" Hong Yan cheered.

"You still want to fight with your current state?" Luo Si asked in shock and smacked Hong Yan's back. Today, his eyepatch was a striking red colour.

Hong Yan's back tensed up and then shouted at Luo Si. "Don't touch me with your dirty hand! You have touched so many dirty things! Dirty!"

"Shut up and move aside. Don't block people's way," Ta Kei scolded as he pulled a suitcase with him.

Half a head taller Luo Si easily wrapped his arm around Hong Yan's neck and pulled him aside so that Ta Kei could enter the staff room with his suitcase. Inside the suitcase was his usual laptop, as well as other gadgets that Wong Xue Guo could not identify with certainty.

"I found your glasses."

Kang Xunsu had trusted Hong Yan and Chen Yibo to keep the little princess safe, while he focused on the mission. But he never would, in his wildest imagination, that she would be actively targeted by those corpses. There was a moment of regret in letting Team B stay back after Changbin got bitten.

Wong Xue Guo accepted her spectacles and let her eyes embrace the beauty of clarity again. It was surprisingly intact after it was flung quite far away. "Thank you."

"You alright?"

Wong Xue Guo's expression turned gloomy. "Do I look alright? I'm being bullied and lucky for me, my father protected me in time and kicked those bullies' asses." Like an actress, she discarded her gloomy expression and replace it with a cheerful one. "Also thanks to them, I think we got some valuable information."

"What valuable information? It won't be more important than your life." Kang Xunsu was distracted and did not see Wong Xue Guo was fighting with the dead bodies that were afraid of biting her. Even if he knew, he would also disagree with her sentence.

The backup team consists of Charles Wong's nearly entire gang members. They were planning to deal with the dead bodies, but knowing there was still a dangerous enemy, the job of body cleaning was left to Team A and Team B. They only need to bring one body back to the laboratory.

Unfortunately, Kang Xunsu's promise to grab one alive was not fated to be fulfilled. It was too chaotic and they were all busy defending their lives to even think about anything else. Anyways, a dead body would also be useful for the research team.

"I can deal with the bodies," Vihaan said. Even if he was feeling exhausted, it was still energizing to know that another team was here to help them out.

"Don't trouble yourself. The boss got some special liquid, very useful in disposing of corpses." Grabbing a small hand-carry suitcase from the backup team, Kang Xunsu took out a small glass bottle and proceeded to demonstrate.

He dropped a few drops of liquid over the body and with a loud sizzling sound, the corpse started to erode until it only left a small puddle of liquid. The speed was as fast as Vihaan's ability, but it stinks so much that Wong Xue Guo's nose itched and her eyes subconsciously teared.

"Is that legal?" Wong Xue Guo asked in horror and the same expression was also spotted on Vihaan's face.

"Well... there's talk with the government to make this legalized, but well, Musihada Laboratory has the permission to create this!" Kang Xunsu assured, but did not mention they were only allowed to create a small batch. But with the apocalypse, there was no more government standing so the limitation was no longer in effect.

A new surgical mask covered the lower half of her face by a pair of warm hands. Freezing, she feels Chen Yibo's finger touching her slowly turning red ears. He even helped her to adjust her mask over her nose and chin.

"Don't worry, I have more clean masks. For now, use it to block the smell." Chen Yibo's meaning was that Wong Xue Guo's face had an injury and needed to be cleaned, but with the stinky smell, she had to wear a mask to save her nose from being tormented.

Half dazed, she watched Chen Yibo doing all that with his calm face, with only her that was affected by his actions. Her heart thumped loudly when his eyes suddenly collided with hers.

"There's something on your spectacles."

"... Must be those disgusting things," Wong Xue Guo successfully speaks naturally while ignoring the growing heat gathering on her face.

This f*cking bastard! Did he not know that his actions would make her misunderstand?!

"Do you think those people with their gene awaken like Vihaan could infect people if they bite someone?" Wong Xue Guo shot out a question in a rush. "Not that we will ask Vihaan to find someone to bite to experiment..."

Chen Yibo smiled. "No, they won't be able to activate other people's genes that way. People with activated genes does not mean they are carriers."

Smiling was good, but smiling during this time was not good! Wong Xue Guo stares at his smiling face gloomily, wondering why his reaction now was completely different than that time after knowing a perverted guy tried to kill her with his fork and knife?

Does he not care about her anymore?!

"Use the generator, save all the files and then destroy everything," Charles Wong told Ta Kei.

Charles Wong was not worried if the sudden electricity return in the hospital would attract people's attention. They had presumed that there would not be anyone alive in the hospital, thanks to the Frankenstein big guy. It was also still daytime so the lights would not be overly noticeable from the outside.

Then he turned to look at Wong Xue Guo. "Don't go anywhere."

"Yes." Wong Xue Guo knew he would be leaving to hunt the controller and personally really wanted to see her kick-ass father in action. Alas, in her current pathetic state that could fall in just one push, she must stay here and not be a hindrance.

After Charles Wong left with his team, Team B barricaded every entrance to their temporary hideout.

Ta Kei had made a place for himself in the staff room, his laptop was set up and running. "Xunsu, I will leave the generator to you. Tsk, why is this hospital so stingy? It would be good if there's solar panels. Okay, I will turn off all lights except for this floor..."

Ta Kei might be good at hacking and bypassing all restrictions, but it was impossible to save every file in the database. That would take a bloody long time. Jackson and Choi Yerim helped in picking which files to save and which to ignore. Bringing the hardware with them was too risky, who knows if there was spyware in it?

The best was after saving it all, they will destroy the database!

Chen Yibo took Wong Xue Guo to the washroom, which was fortunately clean enough to deal with her injuries. From the mirror, she looked absolutely a wreck. Her plait hairdo was a mess, her body filled with bruises from the violence and her scratched left cheek looked as if it was going to be swollen in the next few days. It was lucky she was not missing any teeth or spotting a panda eye.

"I think some of my bones are broken. I should also have internal injuries," Wong Xue Guo murmured, but not daring to poke herself to check her bones, even if it does feel like it. Luckily, she had protected her head well or she might have suffered a concussion.

Unlike the free rein zombies, the controlled corpse seems to have limited strength, just like a puppeteer could not use the puppet's full strength to hit someone. But it still bloody hurts to be attacked by them.

"When we get back, you will get a full X-Ray scan."

"Do they have that... maybe they do." Wong Xue Guo sighed and let her body lean onto the wall tiredly. It was only because her mind told her that the bathroom has the most bacteria did she not sit down on the tempting floor.

The water was still working, so Chen Yibo helped her to clean her hands, carefully restraining her trembling hands from the pain. "Just a bit more."

Biting her lips under the safety of her mask, she raised her eyes away from her hands, thinking that not looking will be less painful, only to have her eyes stop on the mirror. Chen Yibo looked rather attentive as he did his best to clean her wound.

This sort of care... was truly dangerous.

"I have noticed something."

Wong Xue Guo flinched and quickly looked away. "What?"

"I'm grateful you are not bitten, but it's completely suspicious as to why they do not bite you."

The argument that those corpses did not bite was invalid since one of them had succeeded in biting Changbin.

"You are not the only one." Wong Xue Guo shared her suspicion. "Do you think they are afraid that I will be bitten, awaken my gene and gain an ability that they would fear?"

Chen Yibo's silence was acquiescence. "My elder brother told me they could not contact Fortune Teller Sheng after the outbreak. We guessed that those people being listed are likely to have the gene and with potential ability that could threaten their group. Their movement was no longer complete elimination of their targets, but selection. Whatever their method is, they conclude that your ability would be more dangerous than Miu's and Vihaan's."

It might also be stronger than his elder brother's time manipulation ability, whose name was also on the list unless the mastermind were afraid to launch an attack at Musihada Laboratory.

After a moment of silence with only Chen Yibo's hands moving, he dropped a question. "... Do you want to get a zombie to bite you?"

Wong Xue Guo's dead glare was an impactful answer.

It was a just guess with no solid evidence, and even if it held a very persuasive assumption, she was not so desperate as to let a zombie bite her just to awaken her ability. She trusts the researchers to come up with a way to awaken the gene as her parents had seen in the future.