The original document stated:
If the bio-engineered subject exhibits violent tendencies, it must be immediately destroyed. The laboratory will initiate its self-destruct sequence to prevent any contamination from spreading!
Now the entire laboratory has been abandoned, and it's impossible to initiate the self-destruct sequence.
However, Zhang Chen saw the contents on it.
He could only proceed according to his own judgment.
Since the instruction manual didn't specify how to handle it...
Then I'll have to improvise!
Since it's humanity's hope, it wouldn't be right to just kill it directly, would it!
If I did that, I would become humanity's despair!
However...
Fortunately, I still have a way!
Zhang Chen quickly took out a small pink vial of potion from his ring.
[Subduing Potion]!
In this situation, reasoning and appeals to emotion are useless. Let's subdue it directly first!
Er Pang, come here!
Zhang Chen shouted at Er Pang.
Er Pang, as if relieved of a great burden, suddenly bit the little girl.
Taking advantage of the little girl dodging backward, he immediately turned and ran out of the laboratory.
In an instant!
Zhang Chen immediately appeared at the laboratory door, blocking the little girl's path.
[Subduing Potion]!
Zhang Chen directly smashed the glass bottle of the potion.
The pink potion inside instantly turned into a mist, and as if it had a consciousness, it floated towards the little girl.
Whoosh!
The little girl paused slightly and then launched an attack at Zhang Chen again.
Zhang Chen parried the attacks with his left and right hands alternately, not retreating a single step.
Before the subduing potion took effect, he absolutely could not let the little girl leave the laboratory!
After 1 minute.
The pink mist was almost entirely inhaled by the little girl.
At this moment, she just stood there blankly, then collapsed onto the ground.
Zhang Chen gazed at the little girl, and prompts immediately appeared above her:
[Side effect of Subduing Potion, temporarily in a comatose state (5 hours, 37 minutes, 23 seconds). Due to the target's unique physique, the Subduing Potion can only temporarily suppress its violent tendencies and cannot completely subdue it...]
[Please prepare a larger dose of Subduing Potion and try again...]
Good heavens, the description of [Subduing Potion] states that it is absolutely effective against any survivor weaker than oneself.
But for the little girl, a larger dose is needed?
And the outcome is still uncertain?
It seems the little girl is indeed special and differs from normal humans!
Let's carry her away first.
Zhang Chen slung the little girl over his shoulder, holding Er Pang in his other hand.
He leaped forcefully from the elevator shaft and directly onto the first-floor elevator entrance.
Then he walked outside.
Passing by the emergency ward, Zhang Chen also casually grabbed a hospital bed.
Then he arrived outside the building.
The surrounding zombie horde had not diminished.
The attack power of the two automatic sentry turrets was still too limited.
Looking at the surging zombie horde around him...
Zhang Chen's eyes lit up.
This was simply free core essence, might as well take it!
Zhang Chen placed the little girl on the hospital bed and had Er Pang keep watch.
Then Zhang Chen, on the rooftop, lit a firework!
Puff!
Bang!
A projectile suddenly exploded in mid-air.
It was a pity that the colors of the firework could not be seen during the day.
However, seeing how long it lasted and how it continuously changed its blooming patterns, it must have been a very interesting firework!
Awooo~~
Gagagagaga~
As expected, the sound of this explosion was extremely loud.
Nearly half the city could hear the sound of its detonation.
Almost all the infected in the zombie horde were attracted by this sound and rushed madly towards the outpatient building.
Very good, this is exactly the effect I wanted!
Zhang Chen jumped down from the building and landed on the ground.
[Soul Burn]!
Whoosh!
A cluster of pale blue flames instantly enveloped his entire body, and at the same time, the total amount of energy cores in the lower right corner kept changing.
In this most basic state, it consumes 1 energy core per second!
Fortunately, the attack frequency of the sentry turrets was much faster than the consumption rate!
So, the total number of energy cores was still increasing!
This skill could adjust the consumption of energy cores at any time.
The basic level was 1 core per second, with additional consumption for releasing skills.
It would double based on this foundation.
Level 2 consumes 2 cores, doubling all consumption and doubling strength.
Level 3 consumes 4 cores, quadrupling all consumption and doubling strength.
Level 4 consumes 8 cores, multiplying all consumption by 8 and doubling strength by 3...
And so on.
The more cores consumed in the later stages, the less strength was gained, only doubling incrementally.
So, when going all out to the extreme, strength did increase significantly, but the state might disappear very quickly.
This skill was very effective for self-preservation in critical moments or for killing high-level monsters with low health!
Rumble... Rumble...
A large number of Brutes appeared all around, along with Crawlers howling madly, and Weepers!
All these monsters were attracted by the loud noise of the firework.
They emerged from all corners of the zombie horde and converged on the outpatient building.
They launched an attack on Zhang Chen.
Level 3!
Zhang Chen said silently.
Whoosh!
The blue flames on his body instantly surged higher.
Within the faint flames, there were crackling electric sparks.
These were sparks emitted when the [Energy Cores] were consumed by burning.
Here they come!
The Weepers wailed!
Immediately after, the eyes of all the zombies in the horde turned red.
Then came the Crawlers and Brutes.
Over thirty Brutes, hundreds of Crawlers, plus a dozen Weepers.
They directly charged past the line that ordinary zombies dared not cross.
They swarmed towards Zhang Chen!
[Core Resonance]!
Zhang Chen shook his arms!
Buzz!
Rumble!
Dozens of blue lightning bolts exploded from Zhang Chen's body, extending outwards.
This lightning seemed to possess the power to penetrate everything.
Any infected touched by the lightning, whether Level II or Level III...
Turned into mist in an instant!
The invisible shockwave instantly blew away the surrounding ordinary zombies into the air.
With Zhang Chen as the center, all ordinary zombies within a radius of three hundred meters were blown away.
Some, with bad luck, hit buildings with their heads and instantly vaporized.
Some zombies had their bones broken and could only crawl on the ground with difficulty.
[Core Resonance]!
[Core Resonance]!
Rumble!
Two more consecutive blasts!
This time, the entire ground began to crack.
Cracks spread outwards in a radial pattern.
The surrounding ordinary zombies were repeatedly bombarded by the shockwaves, killing more than half of them.
A few others lay on the ground, unable to even move.
The surrounding high-level zombies instantly turned to ash...
The remaining dozens of Crawlers also became steam under Zhang Chen's blade and Er Pang's mouth...