Chapter 179: Medicine (1/2)

Chapter 179 - Medicine

TL: xDh20, LifeisaJourney

ED: Oz

The Moments = This song gives me the feels when I read this chapter and next. Recommended to read chapter and listen to song on desktop/laptop, but that's up to you!

“Here, I'll give you a piece of biscuit.” Wang DeCheng shoved his hand through the bars.

The white-coat scientist carefully moved over. He quickly reached out to grab the biscuit and shoved it in his mouth. In two bites, he swallowed it. It appeared the scientist had been starving for awhile.

After eating the biscuit, the white-coat scientist ambled over to grab the bottle of water. Wang DeCheng placed the bottle by his mouth and poured some water into his mouth before pulling it back.

“If you speak, there will be more water and biscuit.” Wang DeCheng explained.

“Wait, what was your question?” The scientist asked with a blank look on his face.

“Elder Liu was asking about what medicine you are researching here!” Zhang ShengLi started getting angry as he banged the fire axe onto the cell.

“In the early stages, it was our sponsor. At that point, we don't know where he came from. He gave us some cell structure that we used on the body of our animals. This caused our animals to undergo a second stage of evolution.” The scientist explained.

“This particular set of cellular structure with nanobots injected into the cell could potentially create a mutation. This mutation restores normal function of the cell from a diseased and defective state. The cell will proliferate and make the organism stronger than it was before. There were some animals that displayed signs of intelligence. After a steady progress of positive results, the sponsor pressured us toward the next stage of development, which was human experimentation…”

“In the beginning of these human experiments, all results were failures. When the medicine was injected into the animals, it had positive results, but when it was used on humans, there were negative reactions. There were some suicidal humans who participated in the trial just to die.”

“For those participants, you believed that all of those who joined the trials were willing?” Zhang ShengLi interrupted.

“Yes, they were all willing participants. They were people that had incurable diseases or had no money to treat the disease. There was a contract signed between us. So aside from our contracted participants, we didn't use the medicine on innocent citizens. On the way down, you have probably seen those zombies in the prison cells. They are all the living corpses of the deceased participants with diseases.” The white-coat scientist explained to Zhang ShengLi.

“Okay, you can continue.” Zhang ShengLi said.

The white-coat scientist walked over to Wang DeCheng for his reward of another piece of biscuit and a swig of water, continuing shortly after.

“As we continued the research, all leads were dead ends. Until on a certain day. I can't remember how many days it’s been since, but on that day, we were pulling an all-nighter on researching something important. The security guard and our colleagues seemed to have been infected with a virus that made them sick all of a sudden.”

“A few of the corpses that survived became reanimated and started biting and clawing everyone else. The underground laboratory doesn't have any location that is particularly safe. My colleague and I hid down here. He locked me in here and then ran out in an attempt to save others. I was saved, but it seems like my colleague wasn't so lucky, since he never returned. What happened above here, I don't know too much about it.” The white-coat scientist concluded.

“You are lying!” Zhang ShengLi used the axe to hammer onto the bars of the prison cell, glaring profusely at him.