Chapter 178: Prison (1/2)

Chapter 178 - Prison

TL: xDh20, LifeisaJourney

ED: Oz

It's that time of year again! Happy Lunar New Year! Gotta enjoy that 15 day celebration :)

There are so many wtfs in the upcoming chapters...

The scientists that were imprisoned behind in the cells were all zombies. As these zombies saw people enter, they all got up and charged toward the metal gates. Perhaps due to the thin density of oxygen, these zombies stood up and reacted very slowly.

Zhang ShengLi and Wang DeCheng didn't wait for the zombies to get up before killing them. These minute tasks didn’t require Liu Gan to personally make a move anymore.

They saw that at the end of the eleventh underground floor was another set of stairs from afar. The temperature also dropped, which seemed to come from the eerie feeling they could feel suffusing the area in front of the stairs. It became difficult to breathe, as the pungent smell mixed with the air. This caused many of them to feel uncomfortable as they walked beside the prison cells. The prison cells didn't have many zombies locked up, so most of the cells were empty.

The floor started to have residual puddles of water. This could've been from condensation building up, or it could've been from the nearby walls cracking and leaking water.

It was hard to locate the exact location responsible for the leakage. Every ten seconds or so, the sound of a droplet of water would echo in the halls. The underground world in this laboratory was very quiet, so every droplet that echoed in the hall as it hit the ground was spine-chilling.

Even though Zhang ShengLi and Wang DeCheng were level 5, under these conditions, they still felt a sense of dread. They inched closer to Liu Gan and Yin He’s side. In case some strange turn of events occur, they could at least receive support from Liu Gan and Yin He.

“Will there be a second Variant Zombie that can use the hallucinogenic ability? Will it conjure a white-clothed female ghost to scare us, perhaps? Especially you three so you can join their ranks of being ghosts,” Zhang ShengLi quipped as he shined the light around the distant corners.

The other three people only gave him a look of disapproval as they didn't find it amusing at all. The silence reigned as no one spoke up.

This prison-styled floor had a particularly long hallway, and they had to walk around two dozen meters before they reached the end of it. However, they didn't immediately proceed down the flight of stairs. Something caught their attention in one of the cells, closer to the end of the hallway. It was a scientist wearing a white long coat!

The important thing was that he wasn't a zombie!

From the looks of the cell on the outside, this cell was vastly different from the others. The surface area for this cell was larger compared to the other cells. It also had a standalone washroom and also had a large collection of canned goods, packaged goods, and containers for drinking water alongside the walls in stacks. But, it seems like it had all been emptied out.

When the white-coat scientist saw the approaching people arriving outside his cell, he was terrified because he wasn't sure if he was hallucinating.

“There is someone who actually survived!” Wang DeCheng exclaimed as he shined his light into the cell.

Liu Gan and Zhang ShengLi were both surprised, as this was out of their expectations. Seeing a locked up white-coat scientist heightened Zhang ShengLi’s senses, as it reminded him of the moment of how Zhang ShengNan and HuRong had died.

Being locked up, he was definitely not a good person.

“Who are you? And why are you locked up here?” Zhang ShengLi walked over to the prison cell and shined his light in as he shouted out loud.

“You tell me who you are first! Has the outside world returned to normal?” The white-coat scientist asked as he replied to Zhang ShengLi.