20 Son of a Goat! (1/2)

Long Yu sat on the ground, staring at the sky with his blurring vision, as he pondered about his actions.

Had he prepared enough for doomsday? Probably not. Why? He wasn't exactly sure either.

Was it because he thought he still had a week left? Or maybe he just wanted to delay his preparations as long as possible.

Long Yu had been suppressing the growing, suffocating pressure from the incoming disaster for the past weeks.

Somewhere inside, he thought maybe it was all just a dream. Maybe doomsday would not arrive and it was just a joke from the system.

[Host ca-]

”Shhh… system, can't you let a dying man think in peace?” Long Yu scolded the system in a weak voice.

'Xixi…' he thought back to the little girl in his car.

Did he regret risking his life to save her? Surprisingly not. Maybe it was because she bears the same name as his sister?

Long Yu's mind was growing hazy as many thoughts floated across his mind.

As if tired of him interrupting it, the system directly sent the information into his brain.

[Gene Suppressor Serum] (Consumable)

[Halts the corrosion in the user's infected genes and stabilises them for a certain amount of time. Provides a limited restorative effect to the genes and suppresses the side effects]

[Exchange Price: 1x stage 1 mutant gene core + 10 million yuan]

”Son of a goat! There's hope! System, you should have mentioned it earlier!” Long Yu sat up and said in an ecstatic, but slightly admonishing tone.

[…..]

”But where can I even get a stage 1 core?” his ecstatic face immediately turned into a frown. He knew the system wouldn't offer him an unachievable solution this time around.

[System has scanned the zombie corpse and discovered a growing mutant gene core located in its brain. Albeit smaller, it is considered usable]

The system instantly answered him, as if afraid it would be interrupted again.

”Then what are we waiting for? Let's hurry and dig that thing out!” he said excitedly.

Long Yu wanted to get his hands on the core as soon as possible, so that he could complete the exchange.

”Wait... System, is it possible to trade in every part of the zombie's body except its core?” An idea flashed through Long Yu's mind.

*Tink*

The entire body of the zombie vanished, and a tiny transparent sphere with a reddish hue dropped onto the gravel floor.

'I'm a genius,' Long Yu thought to himself, as he reached out to grab the coin-sized mutant gene core on the ground near him.

”Huh?” Long Yu's vision suddenly turned black as he crashed onto the ground, his outstretched hand, laid centimetres away from the core.

[Time left until infection reaches host's brain: 19.3 seconds]

....

While Long Yu was still wallowing in self pity outside, Xixi who was banging on the car window suddenly stopped.

Her tearful face was replaced with an emotionless expression, as if she had never cried in the beginning.

”Big brother needs us..” she muttered.