The Absolute Favorite in the Apocalyptic Rebirth

With a soft click, a beam of light lit up as Lou Dian took out a solar-powered flashlight from his space and illuminated the surroundings.

The light revealed their surroundings, but their visibility was still limited. Lou Ling cautiously looked around at the pale walls, devoid of any decorations, and the overly quiet environment where only the sound of their footsteps could be heard.

The stairs wound downwards, and soon they reached the first floor of the underground laboratory. There was a heavy metal door there. It was unknown if the electronic system was damaged, but Lou Dian pushed it open with brute force.

After walking for a while, Lou Dian suddenly turned off the flashlight and pulled Lou Ling to his side. Their bodies were pressed against the cold wall. Lou Ling knew something was up, so she pursed her lips and breathed very softly. Even without hearing any footsteps, she could feel something passing by, bringing with it a faint fishy smell. It wasn't until the fishy smell drifted away that Lou Dian pulled her forward again, their pace noticeably faster.

They ran through the corridors of the first floor of the laboratory building's basement.

Soon, there was a faint light ahead, and then something emerged from the light. When they saw what it was, even Lou Ling, who used to be known as a fearless daredevil and could walk through haunted houses without changing her expression, now felt her heart racing and her palms sweating.

It was a two-meter-long lizard-like creature. Although its body was huge, it was not bulky. It moved extremely fast, sticking out its long tongue and shooting it forward. The tongue could pierce a hole in the wall made of special materials. In the dim light, Lou Ling also noticed that this section of the wall had many uneven marks. It was conceivable that this place should be the territory of this giant lizard.

This giant lizard gave people a very strange feeling. It had the aura of a mutated beast, but it was even more terrifying than a mutated beast. Its smooth scales looked like metal.

"This should be a biochemical animal that the research institute base developed using mutated beasts as the main body. Be careful!" Lou Dian said in her ear. His voice was extremely steady, and he didn't lose his composure because of the sudden appearance of the mutated lizard, which made her calm down.

When the mutated lizard spotted them, its bulky body slid over like a car at an incredibly fast speed. Its long tail slammed against the ground heavily, and cracks appeared on the hard floor made of special materials, making them afraid to underestimate it. Lou Dian's strength alone would not be able to cause such damage, so one could imagine how terrifying the strength of this mutated lizard was.

The two didn't dare to fight it at close range and chose to attack from a distance. Lou Dian sent a spatial blade strike towards it, hitting the soft abdomen of the mutated lizard and slashing a bloody gash on it. The mutated lizard cried out in pain, its huge body charging straight ahead in the long passageway. Many more marks appeared on the walls. Lou Dian took the opportunity to send a few more spatial blades over, and at the same time, the spatial blades scratched its eyes. While it was in a frenzy, Lou Ling flicked a mutated vine seed. It stuck to the mutated lizard and grew rapidly, temporarily tying it up. The two of them ran in the passageway again.

Arriving at an electronic door, Lou Dian took out an ID card from his space. With a beep, the door opened. The two of them quickly slipped in. Just before the lizard broke free from the mutated vine's restraints and charged over, the door closed again.

After the heavy metal door closed, it was as if the world was divided into two. Even the sound of the lizard angrily hitting the door could no longer be heard.

Lou Dian put away the ID card and continued forward, holding her hand.

This ID card was obtained through Lou Zhan's connections. In order to enter the second floor of the experimental building's basement and obtain that information, Lou Zhan even went so far as to cooperate with the people from the Capital's military. He hoped to get the information on the zombie virus antidote before the researchers at the institute got their hands on it.

Lou Dian looked back on the events of his previous life as he observed the surroundings on the first floor of the basement.

In his previous life, because he was too weak, they didn't arrive at the Capital base until three years after the apocalypse. After arriving at the Capital, they inquired about the Lou family and found out that Lou Zhan had died on this mission. At that time, his relationship with Feng Shao Huang was still considered good. Feng Shao Huang didn't hesitate to tell him about the failure and outcome of this mission.

In his previous life, not only did Lou Zhan die in this mission, but many researchers from the institute also died here. None of the researchers who reached the second floor of the experimental building's basement managed to get out, and the information on the zombie virus that Dr. Fang had researched was not obtained. According to the people who escaped, there were not only terrifyingly powerful mutated beasts in the basement of the laboratory, but also terrifying monsters. None of them were a match for it, so less than half of the people who went in were able to come back.

Later, the military directly dispatched extremely powerful weapons developed after the apocalypse and destroyed the entire research base. The information on the zombie virus was gone. It wasn't until seven years after the apocalypse that Dr. Feng of the Capital base mastered the information on the zombie virus antidote and then used it to make a deal with the military, mobilizing the military to arrest him to avenge his son.

With that thought, the corners of Lou Dian's dark eyes turned red. Since he was able to kill them even with such a low starting point in his previous life, he would naturally be able to do the same in this life. As for the information on the zombie virus, the institute wanted to monopolize it, so it depended on whether they had the ability.

In an instant, Lou Dian thought of many things, until the hand he was holding in his own squeezed back gently. It was as if all the noise in the world had faded away, and only the person beside him was real. She would always be with him and would never leave him again.

His chaotic heart calmed down, and he couldn't help but feel a surge of longing. He reached out and pulled her into his arms.

"Brother?" Lou Ling's voice seemed to be muffled as if she was afraid of waking up the monsters around them if she wasn't careful.

Lou Dian kissed her sweaty face and found that her clothes were all wet from the previous battle and running. In order to maintain air circulation, cold air was used on the first floor of the experimental building's basement. This alternating hot and cold could easily make people sick.

His mental energy spread out densely. There was still a long corridor in front of them, with doors appearing occasionally along the corridor. As his mental energy extended all the way, Lou Dian quickly took in the situation of those rooms and chose a clean room. He pushed the door open with brute force.

This was clearly the lounge of a researcher. There were simple furnishings such as beds and cabinets. However, it was obvious that someone had rummaged through it. The cabinets were overturned, the blankets on the bed were gone, and the closet was also empty.

Lou Dian took out clean clothes from his space and had her change into them. He checked the room for a while, then opened an iron cabinet against the wall. A notebook was pressed under the cabinet.

Lou Ling, who had changed her clothes, came over and saw that it was a diary, and the owner of the diary was Dr. Fang. Lou Dian opened it and read it for a while, then couldn't help but laugh. This diary had answered many of their questions.

On the other hand, Lou Ling couldn't accept it. She felt that this diary simply refreshed her understanding of the world and her three views. She immediately had the thought that so-called scientists were "simply crazy lunatics." Previously, when she had only heard people talk about it, she hadn't felt so strongly about it. Now that she saw such a diary, she finally believed that some people would either erupt in silence or become perverted in silence. Compared to them, Lou Dian, who often erupted, didn't seem so perverted in her eyes.

This diary was started by Dr. Fang after the apocalypse arrived. It described in detail the research projects in the underground laboratory of the research institute's experimental building. After the apocalypse, the whole world had changed, especially the research institute. Many researchers with weak constitutions had turned into zombies. For them, the whole world was filled with the smell of death and crime.

They wanted to develop powerful biological weapons to deal with zombies and mutated beasts, extracting animal and other biological genes and mixing them into the human body. They even tried injecting the zombie virus into human or animal bodies, studying how they mutated. Because of this, Dr. Fang managed to find the key to cracking the zombie virus.

Lou Dian flipped to the last page of the diary where the text was cut off. Dr. Fang only wrote a few lines before stopping. Before stopping, Dr. Fang wrote that someone had come to call for him and told him that experimental subject number four in the laboratory had mutated. He had to go and see what kind of surprise it would bring him. As for what happened after he went to take a look, he probably didn't come back, otherwise, this diary should have continued.

Lou Dian narrowed his eyes and looked at the person who was leaning over to look at the date. He raised his hand and rubbed her head, then suddenly asked softly, "Xiao Ling, are you afraid?"

Lou Ling looked up at him and said, "How could I not be afraid?" Otherwise, she wouldn't have been sweating so much earlier. It wasn't just sweat from the high-speed movement, but also cold sweat from fear. "But since we're already here, we can't back down. You can't leave me alone."

Everyone was afraid of death, but sometimes, if they felt that they were doing something meaningful, even if they died, they would not be afraid. On the contrary, they would be full of heroic spirit and face it calmly. Lou Ling was currently in such a state of excitement, so she wasn't as afraid as she was before.

Lou Dian chuckled and put the diary back into his space. There were detailed experimental records and data recorded by Dr. Fang in it, which Lou Zhan would probably be interested in. He pinched her face, his eyes so gentle that they could drip water, and sighed with a smile, "How could I leave you behind? Even if you die, you can only die in front of me, not somewhere I can't see."

"…"

These words were really terrifying. Lou Ling wisely didn't say anything.

Looking at the time, it was already noon. With the high-intensity exercise, the two of them were already hungry. They sat down directly, and Lou Dian took out rice balls and other things from his space. The two of them ate something. During which, Lou Ling was forced by him to eat two boiled eggs. In his words, it was to replenish her nutrition.

Even in the apocalypse, there were countless people who lived well. He was very proud of himself for raising his sister to be fair and plump in the apocalypse.

After eating, Lou Ling leaned against him and rested for a while. Lou Dian used his mental energy to observe the researchers on the first floor of the experimental building. After being injured by him, the mutated psychic zombie seemed to be quite angry and took out all its anger on those researchers, still trapping them on the first floor. However, with these people's abilities, given a little more time, they would definitely be able to break through the mental barrier set up by the mutated zombie.

However, this was enough. This was also his purpose for not killing the psychic zombie back then, to let it help stall these researchers so that he wouldn't have to worry about guarding against his own kind then.

Suddenly, Lou Dian was a little puzzled. He didn't see Lin Bao Bao. It was as if she had disappeared from the experimental building.

After thinking for a while, Lou Dian withdrew his mental energy. His mental energy continued to spread through the underground laboratory, searching for the passage from the first floor of the basement to the second floor of the basement. Compared to the first floor of the basement, the entrance to the second floor of the basement was very difficult to find. Those who didn't know would think that this experimental building only had a first floor, but they didn't know that the laboratory on the second floor of the basement was the key.

After a while, Lou Dian opened his eyes and pulled Lou Ling up, opening the door and going out.

Author's Notes: Today's goal:

Lou Ling's goal: Conquer the second floor of the laboratory basement!

Lou Dian's goal: (Smile) Same as my sister!

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