I Have Infinite Skill Points-Chapter 580 Zombie Crisis

All squads involved in the mission to eradicate the Round Table Meeting received a certain number of points. Naturally, Wang Lan’s and Yulia’s teams were awarded the major share. This was because Xu Xiangwen had successfully discovered and rescued over a hundred girls being used for experiments, for which the examiners gave additional reward points.

Wang Lan didn’t know how many points the others had, but he figured his own squad wasn’t far from first place. A smile had just begun to form on his face when it suddenly froze. It was then that Wang Lan realized the system hadn’t indicated the task was complete—the case investigating the disappearance of the nine girls.

Wang Lan had always assumed the girls’ disappearance was the doing of the Round Table Meeting. But with the organization now destroyed, whether the nine girls are dead or alive, there should be some explanation, right? he thought.

The system indicated that the Round Table Meeting had been exterminated, so there was no possibility of unfinished business. This meant that the disappearance of the nine girls was unrelated to the Round Table Meeting.

Wang Lan requested the intelligence materials confiscated from the Round Table Meeting from headquarters. They were all converted into digital files and downloaded by Xiao Ai. After Xiao Ai’s analysis, Wang Lan ultimately concluded that there was another gang operating in the shadows of St. State, specializing in human and even infant trafficking.

Actually, the Round Table Meeting was somewhat aware of another clandestine group, but that group was well-hidden and very powerful. Additionally, they seemed reluctant to get involved in the Round Table Meeting’s business, so the Round Table Meeting hadn’t delved further.

But from the information of the Round Table Meeting, Wang Lan gathered several pieces of intelligence. First, the people targeted by this shadowy power were mostly very young, often kidnapped by the group when they were about four or five years old. These children were of no value to the Round Table Meeting.

They were too young to be sold, and their organs couldn’t be used because they weren’t fully developed. But the power behind the scenes seemed particularly keen on this age group, resulting in hundreds of children going missing every year in St. State. If those thirty-six disappearances from a year ago weren’t the work of the Round Table Meeting, then it must have been the work of that hidden power.

"Wang Lan, what are you looking at? Hasn’t the Round Table Meeting already been eradicated?" Jiang Xinyu asked, seeing Wang Lan seriously engrossed in the Round Table Meeting’s materials.

"The Round Table Meeting was just the criminal organization we stumbled upon by chance. The real mastermind we’re looking for is still hiding in the shadows," Wang Lan said gravely.

"There’s another organization like the Round Table Meeting hiding in the shadows?" Xie Sisi came over and sat beside Wang Lan, asking curiously.

"Not only that, but that organization is hidden even deeper than the Round Table Meeting; it’s also more powerful and terrifying. Look here: the Round Table Meeting was established twelve years ago. Over those twelve years, it grew to almost rule the entire dark world of St. State. However, that mysterious organization started abducting people thirty years ago, and they were all children aged three or four.

The Round Table Meeting considered investigating this dark organization but quickly gave up. It’s conceivable that the Round Table Meeting was warned off by that group, so they quickly abandoned the idea.

And last year’s thirty-six disappearances were likely the work of that organization. Moreover, the people kidnapped by the Round Table Meeting had destinations: some were sold as slaves, some as prostitutes, and others for organ trafficking. But this shadowy figure seems to only take people in, never releasing them. Or perhaps the people they take aren’t sold within St. State, which is why there’s no trace of them here..."

"Then, should we still investigate?"

"Of course we should. Maybe we can score a sizeable amount of points again. Let me look further, hoping to find some leads in the Round Table Meeting’s materials that we can follow up on."

DING-DONG.

Suddenly, an email notification popped up on the computer desktop. It was an email from James. Wang Lan wouldn’t give his real email to James, but he could let Xiao Ai create a virtual email address and forward it through Xiao Ai. Unless the opponent’s computing abilities were stronger than Xiao Ai’s, it was impossible for them to trace Wang Lan’s whereabouts through the email.

In the email was a video file, which Xiao Ai had already checked for Trojans and viruses.

Wang Lan opened the video, which showed an old lady shopping on the street. Suddenly, a gaunt young man with erratic movements charged at the old lady, knocked her to the ground, and started gnawing at her head.

Soon, the old lady’s face was a bloody mess, but the young man did not stop. The video became increasingly gory and disturbing. Xie Sisi, watching the footage, suddenly turned pale, covered her mouth, stood up, and rushed to the bathroom.

Wang Lan felt a chill run down his spine as he watched the youth in the video viciously bite the old lady to death. The video ended quickly, and Wang Lan’s eyes had turned ice cold.

Rising from his seat, Wang Lan soon appeared in James’s apartment. James’s German Shepherd immediately jumped up and barked furiously at Wang Lan again, and James instantly saw Wang Lan in his black cloak with red clouds.

"Dawn, you’re here."

"I’ve seen the email you sent me. What do you mean by this?"

"This happened this morning. The man’s name is Nick. He’s bitten three people to death already this morning, and now he’s been contained by the police station. We initially thought he must be infected with a prion disease, but the test results were shocking.

Nick is dead. His brain has ceased functioning, his heart no longer beats, and all his organs have started to decay. But he’s still moving, still killing people—can you imagine how absurd I felt when I got the report?

Though I know the St. State police department has been corrupted to the core, they wouldn’t misdiagnose a living person as dead. Now, Nick is still in the police department’s forensic unit, thrashing around, still trying to bite people, with apparent livor mortis all over his body."

A zombie? Wang Lan’s expression changed instantly. James’s words clearly indicated that this Nick was a zombie. Good heavens, was a zombie apocalypse about to begin?

"Where’s the body? I need to take a look."

"At the police station. I’ll take you there. Even Director Qiao Sen is taking this very seriously. The police may be rotten with money, but they cherish their lives even more, and this zombie is threatening everyone’s safety."

Due to his identity as Dawn, Wang Lan couldn’t just openly walk into the police station, but infiltration posed no difficulty for him.

As James entered the forensic room, Wang Lan slowly emerged from the ground. The two coroners in the room jumped in fright when a person suddenly materialized from the floor. Having dealt with a moving corpse, their courage was already worn thin. The sight of Wang Lan scared them so much they almost threw their scalpels.

And at that moment, on the autopsy table, a skeletal figure was emitting a shriek, its mouth full of fresh red blood.

Wang Lan stepped forward and placed a palm on Nick’s back. After sensing, his face grew grave. "Indeed, there’s no life left in him. He really is a zombie."

"You... who are you?" one of the coroners asked nervously, looking at Wang Lan.

"Me? I am Dawn!" Wang Lan replied indifferently. "How did he end up like this?"

"I don’t know. What I can confirm is that he must have been infected by some kind of virus. Even after death, this virus can invade the host’s nerves and control the nervous system."

Wang Lan activated his Universal Decomposition ability and instantly disintegrated Nick’s palm. Seeing the results, his expression suddenly changed drastically. "Star Martial Toxins."

"Star Martial Toxins? Was he poisoned by a Poisonous Star Martial Skill?" James asked in shock.

"Maybe it was an attack from a poisonous Star Martial Warrior, or a Poisonous Exotic Beast, or possibly an encounter within a Different Dimensional Space containing Star Martial Toxins. By the way, was this Nick a Star Martial Warrior?"

"No, he was just a drug addict. Since you all took down the drug trafficking gangs recently, many addicts have gone mad searching for drugs. Maybe Nick mistook the Star Martial Toxins for narcotics."

"Where does he live?"

"Such a scumbag didn’t have a home anymore, but the police have just discovered a clue," the male coroner suddenly interjected. "It seems they’ve found the drug dealer who supplied Nick."

"Where?"

"I don’t know that, but our chief personally led the team out."

This coroner wasn’t inherently bad. Maybe he was complicit in the corruption at the police station, but certainly not willingly. His original intention in studying forensic science was to seek justice for victims, but that nascent aspiration was extinguished by harsh reality.

Using Xiao Ai to track, Wang Lan easily found the home of Jou’er, Nick’s supplier. The Black Brilliance Area police had already cordoned off Jou’er’s home, with many officers searching for clues everywhere.

Wang Lan and his three companions quietly entered the apartment. A man was sitting back on the couch, a gaunt figure with a large beard, staring up at the ceiling, his face covered in stubble. There was a bullet hole between his eyebrows, from which blood was gurgling.

"It seems the man has been silenced," Xu Xiangwen said in a cold voice. Whether Xu Xiangwen had been influenced by Wang Lan or his inner dramatism had been awakened, once he donned the black cloak with red clouds, he seemed transformed.

His tone was stiff and icy cold, every word unmistakably that of a formidable villain.

"Who’s there?" The police officers immediately jumped up, each of them pulling out their guns and aiming at Wang Lan and his companions.

"Put away your toys," Xu Xiangwen said with his dramatic indifference.

"I’m Director Qiao Sen, and you are... Dawn, right?"

"Correct!"

"Xuanwu, don’t waste time," Wang Lan said indifferently.

Since they were using the name Dawn, they decided to use their code names as well, saving the hassle of thinking up new ones. Xu Xiangwen possessed extremely strong investigation skills, so the code name chosen for him could only be the exceptional Xuanwu (Black Tortoise). If it weren’t so troublesome to make, Wang Lan would have even considered crafting rings.

Xu Xiangwen’s Heavenly Eye wasn’t limited by physical obstructions, so even from behind the mask, he could still use his ability. Every hidden corner in Jou’er’s room was exposed to Xu Xiangwen’s vision. 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

Suddenly, Xu Xiangwen spotted a hidden compartment behind the wall. He approached the wall and with a gentle punch, the wall emitted a dull thud as he caved in a large section. From the depression, Xu Xiangwen pulled out a bag of blue substance.

"Don’t move! This is important evidence! Hand it over to the police!" a voice commanded.

Wang Lan simply looked up at Director Qiao Sen, his eyes conveying a single message. Are you kidding me?

He took out a pill of the substance and activated Universal Decomposition.