"Sister... save me..."
The younger sister's legs turned to jelly from fear, and tears streamed down her face.
"This guy..."
The elder sister gritted her teeth and squeezed out those four words.
"Hurry up, I don't have much patience!"
Lin Qingsong said, pressing the small knife harder against his sister's throat.
The blade sliced through the skin, and blood immediately seeped out.
"Okay, okay, don't do anything rash..."
The elder sister slowly took off her clothes, leaving only her socks and shoes. She stood naked before Lin Qingsong, her eyes filled with hatred and humiliation.
"Very good. Now turn around, kneel, and place your hands flat on the ground!"
"If you show any sign of resistance, I can take your sister's life at any moment!"
As Lin Qingsong spoke, he fiercely thrust the small knife inward, severing the younger sister's throat. She collapsed into a pool of blood before she could even let out a scream.
Next, Lin Qingsong approached with an evil smile.
Since you wouldn't like to read the subsequent events, I will not write them.
Ten minutes later, Lin Qingsong collected the two corpses and looted the supplies from their rings.
"Heh, a bottle of water for so much food, that's quite a bargain!"
Lin Qingsong said with a smile.
Then, his gaze shifted, and he suddenly noticed a red glint in a corner surveillance camera of the supermarket.
The supermarket was underground, powered by emergency generators. It only illuminated the escape routes and emergency exits on the ground, with extremely dim light, just enough to vaguely make out the surroundings.
In this dimness, the red glint of the surveillance camera stood out remarkably!
"The supermarket has no power... but the surveillance camera does?"
Lin Qingsong's heart tightened. He stopped looking at the camera and deliberately walked out of its field of vision.
As he walked, he pretended to search for supplies on the shelves.
But in reality, he was subtly adjusting his body angle to observe the direction of the camera.
As expected!
It was just as Lin Qingsong had predicted!
The camera was originally facing the area where he had been. After he moved away, it slowly turned and continued to monitor him.
Even if the backup power could supply the surveillance camera, it wouldn't move on its own without reason.
There must be human control behind this city!
Perhaps... the entire zombie apocalypse is fake, a twisted hobby of some wealthy individual.
He had to find a way to leave this place!
Lin Qingsong secretly made up his mind.
He found a spot under the surveillance camera and fell into a deep sleep.
After all, no matter where he went, they would be watching him closely. Instead of trying to evade the camera and draw attention, it was better to sleep and lower their guard.
Ten in the evening.
Lin Qingsong suddenly woke up and quickly returned to the safety passage.
There were no surveillance cameras here; it was a blind spot.
He followed the same path back to the rooftop platform of the mall and looked around.
The entire city was shrouded in darkness, except for a tall tower in the distance, which emitted a faint light.
"Ha, I finally found you. I'll give you a surprise!"
Lin Qingsong smiled slightly and slipped back into the safety door.
The experiment entered its eighteenth day.
Tang Houde, after a week of busy work, finally completed the fusion experiment for the Vanguard Mecha.
All that was needed now was to select excellent pilots for actual operation, and it could be deployed in combat.
With such a powerful machine, it was believed that even giant creatures would find it difficult to pose a threat to the walled city.
However, recent council matters had been giving him a headache.
Mo Pai had recently developed Energy Beasts, a genetically modified post-apocalyptic creature. They possessed innate loyalty to humans and also had considerable combat power.
Coupled with the rings that allowed humans to directly absorb energy and become stronger.
It seemed that the future direction of human civilization was already set: to enter a new era of evolution and reclaim their place at the top of the post-apocalyptic food chain.
This was precisely what Tang Houde was worried about.
Once individual power became too great, it could easily lead to a situation where the tail wagged the dog. While it was said that everyone would enter the evolutionary era, the reality was different.
This was the apocalypse, a time of extreme scarcity in resources and medicine. Even with conversion, it wouldn't be possible for everyone to convert simultaneously. It would be done in batches.
And the initial experimental targets would undoubtedly be the soldiers fighting on the front lines against the monsters.
However... the military obeyed the council's arrangements precisely because they lacked technological power.
All weapons and equipment needed to be supplied by Raven Laboratories, including combat data.
Once any soldier in the army possessed the ability to fight monsters, would the military still heed the council?
Having tasted the power that came with authority, would the military be content to let ordinary people also transform into powerful beings and challenge them?
In that case, it would likely be the final doomsday for humanity.
How could these foolish councilors not understand such a simple principle?!
If Mo Pai was allowed to continue his rampage, human civilization would be completely erased from the annals of history!
He absolutely could not let this happen!
He had to make the council and all the citizens see how wicked survivors became once they possessed power, after donning the rings!
Therefore, he needed to obtain Tang Zhilan's compiled human nature report immediately and then slightly modify the final results.
He would change the inherent evil of humans from parallel worlds to the concept that people who possessed power would become evil.
Combined with the experimental data and surveillance videos, the citizens and councilors would have no choice but to believe.
Admittedly, Tang Houde knew that his experiment had many flaws from a scientific rigor standpoint.
But he didn't care. The Director of Media was his staunch supporter. As long as the propaganda was effective, no one would listen to Mo Pai's clumsy analysis and explanations.
Even if someone believed Mo Pai, Tang Houde could simply claim that Mo Pai was deliberately discrediting him for political gain.
While planning his next move, Tang Houde arrived at the experiment control center of the spire through a teleportation portal.
The moment he entered, he was met with a shocking sight!
The remaining seven researchers in the laboratory had all vanished, leaving only pools of blood and damaged equipment.
Tang Zhilan was held by Lin Qingsong with a knife at her throat, and he menacingly said:
"No matter who you are, let me go now, or this woman is dead!"
"You trash, you scum, you don't deserve to be called human!" Tang Houde roared.
"Heh, I'm not human? Then you brought us here and watched us die one by one, does that make you deserving of being called human?"
"I won't waste my breath with you. I'll give you ten seconds to consider. When the time is up, this woman will be dead!"
Lin Qingsong threatened.