Apocalypse: After Being Reborn, I Stocked Up on All Supplies-Chapter 214 - Solo Adventure 03
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Chapter 214 -214: Solo Adventure 03
Jiang Yan had just approached the rose-colored Mercedes when, despite wearing a gas mask, she still detected a faint scent of formalin.
Flashes of those glass cases filled with corpses and viscera from the Anming Sky Hotel crossed her mind.
Jiang Yan furrowed her brows and instead of approaching the car, she carried her submachine gun and slowly circled the vehicle at a distance.
She quickly noticed something peculiar.
Except for the driver’s cabin, all the rear seats had been removed.
A semi-transparent, mesh material was used to create a partition in the middle.
In the trunk and rear seating area, there were several scattered boxes.
Those boxes, astonishingly, were identical to the ones she had seen at the Sky Hotel!
Jiang Yan’s breath hitched, and she communicated with Hua Bao through her thoughts.
Hua Bao jumped off her shoulder and “slithered” into the trunk.
The boxes were opened one by one by the Hua Bao Vine, empty inside.
The source of the formalin smell she had detected was coming from one of the boxes.
There were bits of broken glass in the corner of the box, and they still had some liquid emitting a pungent odor in them.
It seemed that a glass bottle had shattered.
Rats are highly averse to such sharp odors.
No wonder this car had been parked here for a long time, with no mutated rats daring to approach it.
Jiang Yan had Hua Bao do a thorough check of the boxes, finding only a label that read “Fragile, handle with care.”
Nothing else.
Jiang Yan stared at the golden symbols on the interior of the car door, thinking hard but unable to recognize what they meant.
“Cackling!” Mommy, there’s a pretty lady!
After searching the rear area, Hua Bao, with six vines flailing, began rummaging through the items in the driver’s cabin.
“Pretty lady?”
Jiang Yan looked around vigilantly and then saw Hua Bao presenting her with a navy-blue card the size of a business card, realizing only then what it meant.
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“Cackling!” Mommy, I found this under the passenger seat; it must be something the other person left behind.
Jiang Yan reached out and took it.
Even through her protective gloves, she could feel the card was exquisitely made.
The card didn’t have much content on it.
The first thing that caught her eye was a photo.
It was a beautiful woman with meticulous makeup.
To the naked eye, it was clear she had undergone noticeable, yet successful, cosmetic alterations.
With a sharp chin, high nose bridge, and Korean-style double eyelids.
Her skin was fair and taut, and her face was filled with hyaluronic acid.
She wore a white lab coat.
She looked to be about twenty-four or twenty-five years old.
Had it not been for the word “Laboratory” written on it, Jiang Yan would have thought she was looking at an image from a pre-apocalypse cosmetic surgery expert.
Looking at the name below the picture, her pupils shrank slightly, “Xue Qianmei?”
Was it Dr. Xue’s real name?
She knew some about Xue Miaomiao and Xue Dazheng.
However, she had never heard this name before.
But that was also normal.
The Xue Family had many members; the public was only familiar with the former two.
Her gaze dropped further to a line of laser-engraved code:
[X-SNP Laboratory-Xiang 1-0002]
The word “Laboratory” was embossed and three-dimensional, neatly arranged, with something resembling a chip underneath.
“SNP?” Jiang Yan’s eyes paused slightly.
The card seemed like some crucial access card.
Logically, it shouldn’t have been left behind in the car.
Unless, that person had departed in a great hurry.
The fact that the card was found on the passenger side meant that another person had been in the vehicle.
The day she saw this car outside the base, she was also on the passenger side.
But now, both individuals had vanished.
There was no trace of blood in the car.
It seemed that both had left unscathed.
Jiang Yan thought of Ye Qing and Su Dai, and suddenly a premonition arose:
They should still be alive.
“Squeak! Squeak!”
“…”
A chorus of rat cries suddenly erupted not far away.
Jiang Yan looked up, a chill running down her spine.
Hundreds of oversized mutated rats began to emerge from the cracked crevices and freshly dug holes.
They swarmed densely, a dark, writhing mass.
It appeared that a significant number of survivors had made it through the earthquake and artillery fire.
The ground surrounding Jiang Yan also started to bulge and crack, signaling that rats were about to emerge from her location.
“Could it be another earthquake?” Jiang Yan frowned and instantly flashed into her Space.
After quickly changing into her flight suit, Jiang Yan exited the Space.
Hua Bao stood guard outside, its six vines lashing out in all directions, sending a new wave of emerging mutated rats “slapping” and flying away.
“Let’s go!” Jiang Yan had already quickly activated her flight suit.
Once reaching an adequate flight altitude, Jiang Yan stretched out her hand, and the odd rose-colored Mercedes was pulled into her Space.
And Hua Bao leapt up onto her shoulder.
In a matter of seconds, the ground below had been overrun by a black sea of rats.
Nothing grows where rats have passed.
A few remaining corpses near the Coaster were quickly reduced to just bare, grinning skeletons.
Bloodied seatbacks and tires were consumed in a second, leaving only metal frames behind.
Jiang Yan glanced at the base entrance.
There had been some people lingering there, but now, they had been replaced by the swarms of dusky giant rats.
“Cackling!” Mommy, where are we going now?
“East,” Jiang Yan looked towards the direction of the mountains.
That was the route they had initially planned to take to leave.
She quickly changed her mind, however, as she saw those mutated giant rats frantically scurrying towards the water outside the base.
With a frown, Jiang Yan activated her flight suit and swiftly headed towards the base entrance.
Her flight suit could only fly for twenty minutes, but fortunately, it accelerated quickly.
She arrived at the base entrance quickly.
Bending down, she saw the water surface was covered with rats, swarming in their multitudes.
Both living and dead.
However, the dead rats quickly turned into mere skeletons.
She didn’t dare linger and continued in the direction that the rats had fled.
After several minutes,
The water below was finally clear of any rats.
No matter how large those mutated rats were or how good they were at swimming, they couldn’t keep up with her speed.
Just as Jiang Yan was about to take out a boat to put on the water for an early landing, a tremendous earth-shaking explosion came from the direction of Xiangcheng base.
A powerfully forceful wave of air charged towards Jiang Yan with staggering intensity.
Her ears rang, and she felt nauseous, as if every bone in her body was about to be torn apart.
Had it not been for Hua Bao stabilizing her, she thought she would have been flipped over by the shockwave in an instant.
“This!”
Suppressing the impulse to retreat into her Space, Jiang Yan turned around and was completely stunned by the sight.
From the direction of Xiangcheng, plumes of thick smoke rose into the air, forming a massive mushroom cloud.
The entire city was being devoured by raging flames, a veritable hell on earth.
“Cackling!” Mommy, look quickly!
Hua Bao pointed downward with a leafy vine.
Jiang Yan cast her eyes down, her pupils dilating sharply.
The water below seemed to boil over, churning wildly.
In no time, the water level visibly began to recede rapidly.
At that moment, Jiang Yan felt her nostrils dampen.
She was bleeding from her nose.
