Quick Transmigration: Why did you provoke him? He's love-struck!

Chapter 689 The Apocalypse (11)

Lin Yu hesitated for a moment and said, "Yes, I can take you to the ship, but you have to promise me one thing."

Yan Zhen: "You go ahead."

"Once you get the ship, you can leave. You are not allowed to enter the research lab, and you are not allowed to take anything from the research lab except the ship."

Yan Zhen chuckled: "So cautious?"

Lin Yu's expression was firm: "This project concerns the future of this land, and we cannot let any word of it leak out before it is successfully developed."

Yan Zhen agreed: "Okay."

Lin Yu threw off the blanket and struggled to sit up, but he hadn't regained his strength and fell back down halfway up.

Yan Zhen reacted quickly, grabbing his waist and helping him up.

Lin Yu's hand climbed up her neck, and he was practically hanging on Yan Zhen.

Both of their actions of saving and being saved were reflexes, but as soon as they did, Yan Zhen immediately felt a sharp gaze coming from behind her, a gaze so intense it seemed to burn two holes in the back of her head.

She knew it was Jing Chen without even turning around.

Yan Zhen pretended not to notice. Seeing that Lin Yu's injuries were so severe that he was unable to walk independently, she called Xiao Long and two other team members to bring a makeshift stretcher. They carried Lin Yu and followed his directions to the other side of the island in the middle of the lake.

Jing Chen immediately followed.

After passing through the lush forest, a jagged pile of boulders appears on the other side of the island in the lake.

Lin Yu told the stretcher-bearer team to stop in front of a boulder more than four meters high. He took out a remote control about the size of a thumb from his collar and pressed a button.

With a "crack," the stone, just like in a science fiction movie, split open, revealing a long, narrow passage.

Xiao Long was stunned: "Wow, what kind of high-tech is this?"

The stretcher bearers were also shocked: "No wonder we couldn't find it even after turning the island upside down; it was hidden here."

"This was hidden way too well."

Yan Zhen took two steps forward, reached out and touched the stone. It felt cool to the touch, and in terms of color, material and texture, it was no different from any other stone that could be found in the mountain stream.

But this thing is indeed man-made.

The fact that such a secretive research institute was built during the apocalypse suggests that the research projects were of an exceptionally high level.

Lin Yu said, “Go in along this road and walk 120 meters. The boat is in the first gate on the right. It connects to the lake outside, and you can launch the boat directly into the water and drive away.”

He paused, pressed the remote control, and showed them the countdown screen: "Don't forget what you promised me. You can't touch anything inside except the ship. I'm only giving you ten minutes to take the ship away. After ten minutes, the research institute will activate the highest level of self-destruct mode, and an explosion will occur inside. If you can't get out in time, you'll die inside."

Before Yan Zhen could answer, the eager team members immediately agreed: "Okay."

"understood."

Xiao Long was the first to squeeze into the passage, urging Yan Zhen, "Boss, hurry up."

The group entered the passage one after another.

The passageway was made of a special material that Yan Zhen had never seen before. It was so smooth and white that it could almost reflect a person's shadow. Moreover, this material seemed to have the effect of regulating temperature. The long passageway was not stuffy at all, but rather cool and refreshing.

But after walking a while further in, a foul odor slowly began to waft into the air.

The further you go in, the stronger the stench becomes, gradually turning into a foul odor.

They stopped in their tracks when they rounded a corner and the sight before them made them pause.

There were more than a dozen corpses lying haphazardly in the corridor, most of them wearing military camouflage combat uniforms, and a few wearing black protective suits.

These people had been dead for some time, and their bodies had decomposed. Tiny flying insects and maggots crawled on the ground and walls, and black blood splattered everywhere.

Yan Zhen recalled Lin Yu's injuries and, combined with the gruesome state of the corpses that clearly showed they had fought a fierce battle before their deaths, could roughly guess what had happened here.

"Don't just stand there, go find a boat!"

Yan Zhenyi's voice reminded them, and the group snapped out of their daze, tiptoed over the corpses on the ground, and quickly crossed the passage.

Xiao Long was the first to find the boat dock. He pushed open a metal door, revealing an indoor dock connected to the lake, with three boats floating on the water.

The boat was an old-fashioned vessel powered by diesel fuel. More than ten barrels of diesel fuel were piled up on the side. Yan Zhen called on his team members to carry the diesel fuel onto the boat and leave as soon as possible.

But after moving half of the oil drums, Jingchen suddenly asked, "Where did Xiaolong go?"

Yan Zhen quickly turned around and glanced at the indoor dock. In the small space, only she, Jing Chen, and the two team members carrying the stretcher remained.

Xiao Long, who had followed them in, was nowhere to be seen.

Yan Zhen immediately realized that Xiao Long had gone into the research lab to find supplies.

"That brat..." Yan Zhen was a little annoyed, but immediately stopped complaining and asked Jing Chen, "How much time do we have left?"

Jing Chen said, "Five and a half minutes."

Yan Zhen made a quick decision and said to the two team members, "You two carry the oil drums onto the boat and take two boats out first. Jing Chen and I will go find Xiao Long."

"Yes."

After dividing up the tasks, Yan Zhen and Jing Chen immediately ran into the research institute.

Upon reaching the end of the passage, they found that the door to the research institute had already been smashed by previous intruders, and the two were able to enter the institute without incident.

But once Yan Zhen entered the research institute, he immediately felt a headache coming on.

This research institute was built by hollowing out the entire interior of the island in the lake. She and Jingchen were currently on the first floor, with at least three or four more floors above. Moreover, the interior was interconnected, and there were at least forty or fifty rooms that could be seen with the naked eye.

There's definitely not enough time to search them one by one.

Ignoring whether it would disturb or anger Lin Yu, Yan Zhen shouted into the research institute, "Xiao Long! Xiao Long?"

no respond.

Jing Chen frowned and said, "Let's split up and search. Whether we find it or not, we have to come back here in three minutes. We only have thirty seconds to leave."

"it is good."

The two each chose a path and started running.

Although Yan Zhen was anxious, she didn't search aimlessly. She carefully determined the location of the research institute and selected the most likely route to the logistics department.

Before the apocalypse, Xiaolong was an orphan without parents. She was bullied by children her age in the welfare home, so she chose to run away. In her teens, she struggled on her own, making a living by doing petty theft.

These experiences enabled her to find food and protect herself after the apocalypse broke out, but they also made her extremely insecure. Because of the hunger she had endured, she developed an almost obsessive possessiveness for food. Whenever she found supplies, she would try her best to get them back. She even stocked up a whole room full of supplies in her small home in the shelter.

Based on Yan Zhen's understanding of her, she must have ignored Lin Yu's death countdown warning to go find supplies.

You should be able to find her in the logistics department of the research lab.

Yan Zhen ran all the way and spent two minutes finding his way to the logistics department of the research lab. He kicked open a metal door and, sure enough, saw Xiao Long stuck in the room full of supplies.

Like a mouse that has fallen into a rice jar, she was carrying a backpack that was already bulging, and was still desperately stuffing canned food into the sack.