One could only say that parents who love their children plan deeply for their future.
Perhaps Xu An would never know that the so-called antibody vaccine in her hand was actually useless.
The true antibody was in the arms of Yueyue.
But no one knew this secret, not even Yueyue herself.
In fact, there were already signs from the very beginning.
When Xu Yan was escaping with her friend, Yueyue was in her grandmother's arms. At that time, the zombies didn't even glance at Yueyue and them.
They would even deliberately go around Yueyue's grandmother holding Yueyue to grab Xu Yan's arm.
However, Xu Yan was fleeing in a panic and didn't notice this.
It was only later that Xu Yan realized that her friend carrying Yueyue was too strenuous.
So she took Yueyue from her friend's arms.
This caused Xu Yan to miss the fleeting struggle in Yueyue's grandmother's eyes.
Others didn't know, but Yueyue's grandmother and father did.
The laboratory at that time needed a test subject. If successful, they might be permanently immune to the damage of zombies.
It could even save all of humanity.
But if it failed, the subject would turn into a monster, neither human nor zombie.
At that time, everyone in the laboratory couldn't avoid it.
No one wanted to walk alone in the fog of an unclear future, a path shrouded in darkness.
Regardless of whether the vaccine was successfully developed.
But if one truly became a monster, neither human nor ghost, then they would lose all human value.
Neither the human faction nor the zombies, devoid of consciousness and intelligence, would accept such a monster.
But Yueyue's father stepped forward alone.
Many people advised him.
They told him he had elders above and children below; what if something happened? He couldn't be so foolish.
But the man resolutely went to the control room.
There, the man had only one request: to save his daughter Yueyue. And if the experiment was successful, his daughter Yueyue would be the first human to receive the vaccine.
The researchers were initially confused. Upon inquiry, they learned that Yueyue suffered from a rare blood disease.
It not only caused intellectual regression but also led to muscle atrophy, weakened immunity, and turned her into a fragile item that couldn't withstand any impact.
Even the slightest injury could cost her daughter her life.
But the man knew that the new medical pod their laboratory had developed could purify human blood, promote the regeneration and circulation of new blood.
When the man heard this news, he was overjoyed.
He never imagined that his research would one day truly save his daughter's life.
However, this happiness didn't even last a day before reality brutally struck him down.
When the administrator told the man that the cost of one treatment with the medical pod was an astronomical figure.
Another nightmare descended.
While he was raising money, Yueyue's condition began to worsen.
And he was informed that the medical pod was already fully booked. Even if he could gather the money now.
He would have to wait fifteen years for a slot.
The man was devastated.
He had never felt so powerless.
He even contemplated dying with his daughter if she were to leave him.
But he thought of his hardworking mother, and of his wife, who died in the mouth of a zombie years ago while protecting him and his daughter.
He cried tears of sorrow.
He suddenly became filled with hatred, hating the greedy laboratory and himself.
Why, after creating something with his own hands.
He couldn't use the medical pod he developed to save his daughter because he lacked money.
This realization almost broke the man.
He wailed in a deserted corner, completely breaking down into despair.
Just then, the only foreign doctor researcher in the laboratory found him.
He casually handed the man a tissue and told him in broken Chinese.
"Do you want to save your daughter?"
Hearing the voice, the man looked up sharply. Upon seeing the man, a spark of hope ignited in his eyes.
The foreign doctor in front of him was one of the main designers of this medical pod.
The man thought that perhaps the other person had a way to help him. For the first time, he abandoned his dignity as a man and as the head of the family, solely for the sake of saving his child.
He knelt before the man and kowtowed desperately.
"Doctor, please, you must have a way. Please, save my daughter."
The doctor merely waited for the man coldly, "In this world, only you can save your daughter. Don't think about relying on others."
The man was stunned, "Myself?" he seemed to wonder, "How can I save her? I'm useless. I can't save my own daughter. Doctor, please help me. I'll do anything."
The doctor ignored the man and calmly stated, "I told you, in this world, only you can save your daughter's life."
The man looked at the doctor, deep in thought.
He slowly stood up and finally said to the man, "Participate in the laboratory's latest antibody plan, and then state your desire to save your daughter."
"But..." the man looked up, "But aren't they saying that the experiment isn't mature yet, and those who go in now are sent to their deaths?"
The doctor remained silent, without even a flicker of emotion in his eyes, as cold as a dead person.
"I will say it again, your daughter's life is in your own hands. To save your daughter, only you can save her. The choice is yours, whether to use it or not is your own matter."
The man's eyes gradually dimmed, the hope within them fading.
But in the next second, it seemed to reignite with a different kind of firm brilliance.
The man looked at the doctor before him, then at his own hands. It was these hands that had developed the medical pod capable of treating his daughter's illness, but due to his own misfortune, he was unable to provide his daughter with better treatment.
But now, there was an opportunity to save his daughter's life, but the price was his own life.
The man slowly nodded, looking at the emotionless doctor before him, like a dead person.
"I am willing."