Chapter 146: Chapter 146: Superpower Users and Zombies

“Isn’t it all because of that Super Zombie King! It’s the most perfect zombie we’ve discovered so far!”

A person’s voice sounded a bit excited.

“This time, we can certainly uncover the secrets of zombie evolution.”

“Tsk tsk, that child is so perfect, they’re sure to push our research further.”

The voices of the two people gradually faded away.

In the space, Bai Xiqin was slightly startled.

“Super Zombie King? Child?” Bai Xiqin looked at Leng Yebai, “Is it the child you’re looking for?”

This is so unbelievable!

Are Zombie Kings as common as cabbages now?

Leng Yebai’s face showed a bit of discomfort as he spoke uncertainly, “Maybe, possibly, probably!”

Ha, he didn’t say the child he was looking for was a zombie.

It was all Xiao Niu’s guess.

Hopefully, Zhang Yiming won’t nitpick by then. As long as he doesn’t reveal Zhang Yiming is the Zombie King, it should be fine!

“Then why is Zhang Yiming looking for the Zombie King?” Bai Xiqin frowned deeply, “Could it be that he’s also a Zombie King!”

Recently too many things have happened, it took Bai Xiqin a long time to come to terms with the fact that Xiao Luo was a Zombie King, and now it feels like there’s a Zombie King everywhere.

“Xiao Niu, you’re overthinking.” Leng Yebai’s mouth twitched wildly, using thick black foundation to cover up, began to deny, “At most, he’s a ’jackass’, not a Zombie King!”

Bai Xiqin rubbed her temples, feeling she’s too paranoid, always jumping at shadows.

There can’t be that many Zombie Kings in the world!

The likelihood of this happening is too low, and Bai Xiqin didn’t dwell on it too much, just thinking maybe Zhang Yiming himself didn’t realize that the child was the Zombie King.

Just like she initially didn’t know Xiao Luo was a zombie.

“Who is the captain they were talking about?” Bai Xiqin touched her chin, “There are ten captains in the safe base, who could it be?”

“We’ll find out sooner or later.”

Leng Yebai’s voice carried a slight heaviness.

He always felt this place and the ability research institute were not the same place, felt different.

This place was too rudimentary.

If Fan Tangtang is the Zombie King, such a discovery would definitely be researched in their best location.

If she was only placed here, it shows that the so-called captain didn’t have a better place to house Fan Tangtang.

But if this is not the research institute, then where is the research institute?

“Let’s get out!”

Leng Yebai’s shoulder was patted by Bai Xiqin, with a flash, the two were out of the space again.

“Bang bang bang!”

The moment Bai Xiqin and Leng Yebai appeared, the zombie locked in the room started to frantically hit the iron windows again.

Bai Xiqin took a close look at its eyes.

Those vacant eyes stared fixedly at the two of them, as if they were its prey.

These eyes were more agile than ordinary zombies, even carrying a little… vicious emotion.

A frost-covered steel needle pierced straight into the zombie’s temple, the zombie plunged to the ground, motionless.

The room instantly quieted down.

The two started searching the room, looking for any other clues.

Besides the place where the zombie was kept, there was only a writing desk and a chair.

Inside the writing desk was a stack of documents, detailing the daily life of this zombie.

The first page was a personal file.

A middle-aged man with a Gold Ability, around forty years old, along with his detailed medical examination report.

The second page recorded in detail that the middle-aged man was injected with a vial of black zombie blood.

The transition from a normal human to a zombie.

Further back, it recorded what they fed the zombie.

At first, it was some raw meat.

Later, it was humans.

They turned living people into zombies and observed the formation of zombies.

Bai Xiqin focused her gaze on the last page.

The last page had seven big words written on it — Estimated to be a Third Rank Crystal Core.

Bai Xiqin’s fingers felt slightly cold, their objectives were already very clear.

They captured some superpower users, turning them into zombies just to obtain the crystal cores in their brains.

Bai Xiqin slowly closed her eyes, humans couldn’t defeat those high-level zombies, yet they turned to the few surviving superpower users for the crystal cores.

The possibility of a common zombie evolving into a high-rank zombie was extremely slim, perhaps only one in a thousand zombies would be First Rank.

Raising ordinary zombies to become high-rank zombies was basically impossible.

It took too much time and effort.

The people here discovered a shortcut.

Yes, the stronger the superpower user, the more likely they are to become high-rank zombies.

Besides this, there’s another chilling aspect.

The people here dared to turn superpower users into zombies and dig out their crystal cores, they must have also discovered that there are crystal cores in the brains of superpower users.

The crystal cores in superpower users’ brains are purer; absorbing these cores would be more efficient.

Yet they chose to let them turn into zombies and captive them, only to dig out the crystal cores after they become high-rank zombies.

What’s this all for?

This is to cleanse the crystal cores.

Similar to laundering money.

This indicates that the manager here doesn’t lack crystal cores for absorption, he simply wants to obtain more high-rank zombie cores.

Crystal cores are the most circulated currency in the apocalypse.

Human superpower users’ crystal cores and zombie cores are different.

Owning high-rank crystal cores from zombie brains allows for legitimate exchanges for various goods.

Bai Xiqin rubbed her brow.

The significance of this place’s existence is to captive zombies, collect crystal cores, the research those two people mentioned, is about zombies’ evolution.

The higher rank the zombie, the more precious the crystal core in their brain.

Their goal is to acquire a large number of high-rank crystal cores.

Whereas the purpose of the research institute she’s trapped in is even more profound and cruel.

If Bai Xiqin guessed correctly, her old life’s research institute studies the link between humans and superpower users.

They want to turn ordinary people into superpower users.

Bai Xiqin put the documents into the space, then left the house with Leng Yebai.

The corridor was long, a “hui” shaped corridor, with patrolling people passing by from time to time, under the cover of the space, Bai Xiqin and Leng Yebai managed to evade them well.

Bai Xiqin and Leng Yebai entered room by room, each small room housed a hideous zombie.

These zombies were at least First Rank zombies.

Before this, they were superpower users; after coming here, they were all injected with zombie blood, turning into hideous zombies.

And all this was purely to get the high-rank crystal cores from their brains.

High-rank crystal cores are very precious, a First Rank core can be exchanged for a hundred or even more ordinary crystal cores.

And the supplies one ordinary crystal core can exchange for can allow an ordinary person to live well for ten days to half a month.

The more Bai Xiqin saw, the more shocked she became, all the zombies trapped here were once superpower users.

They were First Rank and Second Rank superpower users.

Such powerful superpower users were rare even in the safe base.

The Bai Family were all abnormal, it seemed easy for them to become First Rank and Second Rank superpower users.

Under normal circumstances, reaching First Rank superpower user within a few months of the apocalypse was already impressive.

Given time, they would definitely become high-rank superpower users.

These superpower users were the hope of humanity.

They are the main force against zombies.

Yet here, room after room, all housed superpower users.

Humanity was already at a disadvantage, and the managers here treated superpower users as converters for crystal cores…

In every room, Bai Xiqin and Leng Yebai entered, and all the documents were collected into space.

In total, over a hundred rooms, housing over a hundred high-rank superpower users.

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