He has been reincarnated through countless worlds, adorned with billions of mythological terms!

Su Muzhe looked down at his arms, which were getting shorter, from his fingertips to his wrists, and from his wrists to his elbows.

He watched as his chest cavity was opened, and he could see his heart beating, his lungs contracting, and his ribs breaking one by one, like a dismantled chicken skeleton.

He saw his neck being cut open, trachea, esophagus, vocal cords, layer by layer, like peeling an onion.

He opened his mouth to say the last word, but his vocal cords had already broken.

His head fell off his neck and was cut into more than a dozen pieces by spider silk before it hit the ground.

The whole process took less than a second.

Yun Yi withdrew his finger, and the spider silk retracted from his fingertip silently.

There wasn't even a red mark on his palm.

In the entire B4 hall, all traces of Su Muzhe were left as a pile of gray powder, exactly like Pei Yuan's clone, which dissipated with a gust of wind.

There was nothing in the powder—no bones, no teeth, no residue.

Yun Yi looked down at the pile of powder for two seconds.

Then he turned around and walked up to Yun Nian.

The little girl closed her eyes, buried her face in the ugly rabbit, and started counting.

"...five, six, seven..."

"Nian Nian".

She opened her eyes.

"Brother, have you counted to three hundred yet?"

"no."

"Shall I continue counting?"

"No."

Yun Yi squatted down and patted her head.

"No."

Yunyi squatted down and patted her head. "It's over."

Yun Nian opened her eyes and looked around.

The hall was a mess; the walls were broken, half of the ceiling had collapsed, and the floor was covered with rubble and dust.

Su Muzhe was no longer there; all that remained was a pile of gray powder next to the control panel, most of which had been blown in by the wind through the broken window and scattered.

Where is that person?

"I'm gone."

"The same tall guy as last time?"

Yun Yi was stunned for a moment.

Then he nodded.

Yun Nian picked up the ugly rabbit from the ground, patted the dust off its ears, and hugged it back to her arms.

Yun Yi looked at her without saying anything.

He turned and walked to the control panel, picked up another syringe—it was transparent, and the liquid inside was as still as stagnant water.

He put it in his pocket.

Then I went to the equipment room, found the emergency communication device, and turned it on.

The device hummed for a while, then the green light came on.

He picked up the microphone, and a hissing static came from it.

"This is the B4 basement level of the Shenchuang Biotechnology R&D Center, the home of Yun Tianheng's son, Yun Yi."

"My dad said someone would answer this frequency."

The electrical hum lasted for about five seconds.

Then a man's voice rang out, hoarse, deep, and clearly weary:

"receive."

"I am Zhao Yuanshan."

"Your dad mentioned you to me."

"Wait where you are, we will arrive within three days."

He ended the conversation abruptly, without any unnecessary formalities.

Yunyi put down the microphone and returned to the hall.

Yun Nian was still sitting in the chair, swinging her legs back and forth, with the ugly rabbit on her knees, and combing its fur with her fingers.

"Brother, is someone coming to pick us up?"

"Um."

"Three days."

Yun Nian nodded, jumped off the chair, picked up the rabbit, walked to the door of the equipment room, and looked inside.

"Are there blankets inside?"

"have."

"Then I'll sleep inside; it's cold outside."

Yunyi spread a blanket on the floor of the equipment room, and then took out iodine and gauze from the first aid kit and placed them next to it.

Yun Nian lay down, hugging the rabbit, and pulled the blanket up to her chin, leaving only her head exposed.

She looked at Yun Yi for a while.

"Brother, aren't you going to sleep?"

"Not sleepy."

"That's a lie."

Yun Nian said, "Your eyes are all red."

Yun Yi didn't speak.

He sat down at the doorway of the equipment room, leaning against the doorframe, looking out at the hall.

A pile of rubble, broken glass, cracks in the wall, and a heap of ash on the ground.

He didn't say what the pile of ash was, and Yun Nian didn't ask either.

"elder brother."

"Um."

Will Mom come looking for us?

Yun Yi remained silent for a while.

"meeting."

"real?"

"real."

Yun Nian nodded and buried her face in the blanket.

After a while, her breathing became even, and she fell asleep.

For three days, Yun Yi did not close his eyes.

He sat at the door of the equipment room, listening to the sounds outside—the wind, the rolling of gravel, and the distant roars of zombies.

The roars grew louder on the first day, even louder on the second day, and on the third day they began to converge here, as if they were attracted by something.

On the evening of the third day, the ground began to shake.

It wasn't the kind of vibration that makes you feel like you're crushing a floorboard when you step on it; it was a rhythmic, continuous, heavy vibration—the sound of tracks rolling over gravel.

Yun Yi stood up, walked to the window, and looked outside.

To the south, three armored vehicles lined up and rolled over the ruins.

A machine gun was mounted on the roof of the vehicle, and military green numbers were painted on the side of the vehicle.

Five trucks followed behind, filled with soldiers, fully armed, with their guns pointed outwards.

A SUV was parked at the front of the convoy, with a loudspeaker mounted on its roof.

A man's voice came from inside, hoarse and deep, exactly the same as the one heard on the communication device three days ago:

"This is the Third Division of the Linhai War Zone."

"Everyone, lay down your weapons and stay where you are."

Zombies poured out of the ruins and rushed towards the convoy.

The machine gun on the top of the armored vehicle fired.

It wasn't a burst of fire, nor was it a sweeping volley; rather, countless bullets intertwined to form an impenetrable wall, which was then launched with a deafening roar.

The tailgates of the five trucks fell down at the same time, and the soldiers jumped out and advanced in skirmish lines.

They weren't holding ordinary machine guns, but rather rocket-propelled grenades, which they fired one after another.

As if they already knew these zombies had amazing regenerative abilities and extremely strong defenses—each rocket explosion sent up white flames that burned wildly.

In less than an hour, the group of small zombies in front of them was cleared away.

Yunyi stood by the window and looked out.

He didn't leave these zombies there intentionally—zombies without genes were useless to him, so he left them there.

The door of the SUV opened, and a man in military uniform stepped out.

He was in his fifties, with three stars on his shoulders, a square face, thick eyebrows, and wrinkles on his face that looked like they were carved by a knife.

He looked up at the roof of Shenchuang Biotechnology, then looked down and tapped twice on the tablet.

The armored vehicles continued to advance.

Zombies fell in rows, and the convoy stopped at the entrance of the research and development center.

The man in military uniform walked to the gate and looked up at the open blast door.

The soldiers behind him automatically dispersed and set up a cordon around the area.

"Yunyi".

The man's voice came through the loudspeaker again—this time it wasn't a recording, it was live.

He held the walkie-talkie to his mouth.

"I am Zhao Yuanshan."

"Your dad's friend."

"Come down."

Yunyi glanced back at the equipment room.

Yun Nian was already awake, sitting on the ground holding the rabbit, her eyes bright.

"I'm gone."

"Um."

He carried Yun Nian on his back and stepped into the elevator.

The elevator broke down three days ago; the doors were open, and the car was stuck between B2 and B3.

He turned and walked up the stairs.

From B4 to B1, four floors.

He walked slowly, each step firm and steady, as if measuring the length of the road.

Yun Nian lay on his back and buried her face in the crook of his neck.

The ugly rabbit's ears swayed on his shoulders.

She has clearly evolved and is perfectly capable of walking on her own, but she prefers to lie on her brother's back rather than walk.