Zombie Apocalypse: Creation-Chapter 500: Returning from Foshan

After twenty vials were filled with blood, the middle-aged man finally signaled the scientist to stop.

"Thank you for your cooperation."

"Can you hand me the cure now?" Xiaoyun asked as his pierced skin automatically healed.

"What cure?" The middle-aged man questioned back as he let out a little chuckle.

Xiaoyun's brain immediately felt a little embarrassed, realizing he had overthinked it. Kate was just unconscious, not poisoned.

But just as he walked closer toward her, he was met with a thin layer of glass blocking him from getting any closer to them.

"What's this for?"

"Just an extra precaution again... Please follow Doctor Amy out towards the entrance. Kate will be right there with you."

After a short consideration, Xiaoyun accepted the demand, following the doctor out of the room before returning to the entrance.

As he waited, he was starting to get a little impatient. Kate still hadn't shown up.

"What's taking them so long?"

"Please be patient. The other room has a lot of security doors that professors have to go through."

"Professor? A professor that young?" Xiaoyun murmured as he thought back to the middle-aged man earlier.

His face looked barely older than Lingang, who had just started his mid-twenties.

Just as Xiaoyun was about to ask more about the professor, Kate finally showed up.

She was still unconscious, sitting in a wheelchair pushed by the professor. But what shocked Xiaoyun was the thing behind them.

The mutant followed right behind him, almost as if it were acting as his bodyguard.

He quickly wiped his eyes, thinking it was just an imagination. But as he blinked again, nothing changed.

"Here's your Kate... You looked a little surprised, " the professor commented as the wheelchair rolled to the other side.

"That mutant... Doesn't attack humans?"

"Of course. It only attacks things that I direct towards... Is there anything else you need help with?"

Seeing the professor smiling back at him, Xiaoyun immediately felt a chill going down his spine. He could feel his sense of danger triggering, more than even when he was fighting the tank mutant earlier.

At the same time, he quickly suppressed his worries, putting up a calm face as he lifted Kate out of the wheelchair.

"One last thing, what happened to Kate's parent and brother?" Xiaoyun asked as he was about to get ready to leave.

"Her parents? They turned into zombies a long time ago... And her brother?"

The professor fell into silence as he looked back to the tank mutant behind him, who had been idling at the ceiling.

"He's right here."

Xiaoyun's mind was a little blown away, but he didn't show it on his face as he nodded slightly in acknowledgment.

"Thanks for the information... I hope you put my blood to good use."

"Of course... Doctor Amy, can you bring him outside?"

As Amy walked towards the exit, Xiaoyun quickly followed.

In his arms, Kate was still peacefully resting the whole time, seemingly with no signs of waking up.

"Doctor Amy... Can I ask why Kate is still unconscious?"

"She's just in sedative gas for a bit. She'll most likely wake up in an hour or so."

"Thanks..."

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As the two of them continued to walk down the hallway, they soon arrived at the lab's exit.

With the main door opened, he was back outside. Looking up to the sky, the sun indicated it was only noon.

"Hey, Doctor Amy, when is our salary going to be paid?"

A blond man suddenly appeared from the side, along with several men with guns.

"Tomorrow... Can you guys bring him outside?"

All of them nodded as Doctor Amy walked back inside the lab, leaving Xiaoyun outside with Kate still in his arms.

"Follow me."

As they started walking down a fenced-in courtyard, Xiaoyun remained silent as he could feel a hint of a tense atmosphere.

It was clear there were some grudges within the group of men in front of him, especially towards the older blond men leading in the front.

After one of them pulled the fenced door open, Xiaoyun's car was still sitting where they had stopped.

"Here's your key."

After accepting the key, the group of men went back behind the fence, locking it as Xiaoyun took one last look.

He could see the lab he had entered earlier, right next to a massive facility next door.

Based on all of the vehicles on the lab's side, it was clear to him that the nuclear facility itself had been shut off.

All of the attention was focused on the lab itself, which had guard towers and hidden surveillance in nearby trees and bushes.

With a click on the car key, Xiaoyun opened the passenger door and gently put Kate down on the seat.

After putting on her seatbelt, he quickly went back to the other side, getting into the driver's seat before inserting his key.

As the car engine started up, Xiaoyun suddenly felt a sense of nostalgia as he started adjusting the car mirrors.

"Man... It really has been a long time since I drove, hasn't it?" Xiaoyun murmured to himself as he put on his seatbelt.

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"Ah! Where am I?"

As Kate screamed out in panic, her body was quickly pulled back by the seatbelt.

"You're in a car. Relax. Everything is over now." Xiaoyun answered as he slowly released the gas pedal.

After sitting in silence for a whole minute, Kate finally calmed herself back down as she tried to think back to what had happened.

"Xiaoyun! What happened?"

"Our plan failed. The professor caught your idea of sneaking in, and you ended up being tied to a chair."

"Shit..."

As memories of what happened before she fell unconscious started flooding in, a frown started to appear on her face.

"What happened after I was unconscious?"

"I surrendered to the professor and gave in to his demand to save you."

Xiaoyun replied as he swirled the car to the right to dodge a wrecked car on the road.

"Surrender... What was the demand?"

"I just gave him my blood——"

"Your blood! What the hell are you thinking? That's like handing a nuclear weapon over to the enemy!"

"Well, do you want me to give you up then?"

Kate fell into silence, unable to answer. Her rational mind wanted Xiaoyun to say yes, but her heart was happy that he chose her.

"I... I'm sorry."

"Sorry for what?" Xiaoyun questioned as he sped up the car again.

"I should have just... just..."

Kate fell into silence once again, her voice cracking a little as she couldn't express her thoughts.

Her face was almost on the verge of tears. She realized that all she had done was bring trouble to Xiaoyun when he was not responsible for it.

"Oh, I almost forgot to tell you... Um, your parents..."

"Are they dead?" Katherine asked directly, wiping her eyes as she sucked up the urge to cry.

"Yeah... That professor told me your parent turned into a zombie a long time ago——"

"Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! I should have realized they were fucking scamming me. No fucking wonder why they never let me meet them in person."

As Kate smashed the glovebox in anger, her mind only grew more and more regretful.

Her rational mind only now realized how stupid her plan was from beginning to end.

"Do you want me to stop the car for a bit?" Xiaoyun asked as he released the gas pedal again.

"No, I'm fine... Wait, how about my brother then?"

The question made Xiaoyun fall into silence. He had been thinking about it the whole way since he had started driving.

On one side, he wanted just to tell her the truth.

On the other hand, he's worried that Kate might do something irrational if she learned her brother had turned into a mutant.

"Your brother is dead as well," Xiaoyun answered.

Seeing Kate's reaction barely changing surprised him a little as he expected her to react much more severely.

"Kate, you can cry if you want——"

"I don't need to!——Mph!——Xiaoyun, am I all alone in this world now?" Kate asked as she sucked up the urge to cry.

"I'm always here for you."

As Xiaoyun stopped the car in the middle of the road, he unbuckled his seatbelt and looked at her face.

He could see the visible tear marks, her hands trying to wipe it away as she tried her best to hide her sobbing sound.

"Kate, please don't think you're alone in this world, okay? Think about Anna and all the girls waiting for you at home."

As Xiaoyun got up and gave her a warm hug, she finally couldn't resist the urge to cry out loud.

"Xiaoyun! My family is dead now!"

Xiaoyun didn't say anything back this time. But he gently patted her on the back as tears began rapidly falling onto his clothes.

Slowly, the sobbing stopped as her body collapsed into his arms. The weight of her body fully rested on his arms.

"Thank you, babe..."

"No problem, my beloved wife."