All-out: Starting with the Awakening Special Operations Unit, search, attack, and withdrawal.

"1,2,3.....27"

Chu Hong tilted his head, using the corner stair railing for cover, and carefully counted the number of zombies moving around in the stairwell.

Twenty-seven!

In an ordinary place, given his current equipment and strength...

He could easily handle twenty-seven zombies.

But this is the "Clifftop Plague Hospital," and any commotion here will inevitably alert the monster BOSS that I absolutely cannot afford to provoke.

"We can only attract them carefully for now..."

He quickly went downstairs and took out several blood plasma bags from his backpack.

They turned back and arrived at the stairwell on the third floor.

"Snapped!"

The blood plasma bag fell to the ground.

The stench of blood immediately filled the stairwell, but Chu Hong had already dodged to the second floor the instant he threw out the blood pack.

really.

Just as he retreated to the second floor, he heard a series of low growls and the sound of hurried, chaotic footsteps coming from the third-floor corridor above him.

"roar....."

The ferocious licking and low growls sent chills down one's spine.

Chu Hong's eyes held a hint of joy. After waiting for a while, he suddenly threw a blood plasma bag at the entrance of the second-floor stairwell.

"Snapped!"

"roar!"

"..."

After he repeated this several times, he easily separated the twenty-seven zombies that were originally gathered in the third-floor corridor.

Taking out the composite bow, Chu Hong's figure appeared instantly.

"Swish swish..."

Looking at the zombie corpse lying at the entrance of the first-floor corridor, with an arrow piercing its forehead, Chu Hong couldn't help but give himself a mental thumbs up for his caution and resourcefulness.

Fortunately, we just cleared out all the zombies around the [employee dormitory].

Otherwise... we might actually alert that monster.

Keep moving upwards.

Soon, Chu Hong shot down all the zombies that were still moving around in the corridor.

The task assigned by the operations department to clear out the [employee dormitories] has not been completed, meaning that some of the closed dormitory rooms still contain zombies.

However, Chu Hong was not in a hurry.

They quickly arrived at the door of room 322, which was required by the mission.

I pushed the door open.

It wasn't pushed away.

"Bang!"

Chu Hong kicked the door lock hard, and the solid wood door was kicked open instantly.

"Roar~"

Suddenly, the roars of zombies began to echo from beneath their feet and in the hallway, but the sound couldn't escape the staff dormitory from inside the room.

Enter room 322.

This is a relatively tidy and clean room.

The layout is one bedroom, one living room, and one bathroom.

However, what was placed in the middle of the living room was not a coffee table or dining table, but a huge silver metal machine, like a hibernation pod from a science fiction movie.

Through the glass, there was a decaying skeleton lying quietly inside.

Clearly, without an energy supply, this hibernation chamber is no different from a coffin.

but.

Suddenly, Chu Hong's pupils contracted sharply.

His gaze was fixed on the skull of the corpse inside the hibernation pod, which was inserted into a row of grooves on something that looked like a test tube.

Almost all of the test tubes in the row were empty.

But there's still one left.

It contained a clearly unusual red-orange potion, which was also emitting a faint fluorescent glow.

Chu Hong immediately pulled the switch on the mechanical hatch from outside the hibernation pod.

"Snap!"

A gas, definitely containing some kind of putrid toxicity, emanated from the hibernation chamber, but it did not affect Chu Hong, who was wearing a gas mask.

He reached out and pulled out the vial.

Immediately, a red item interface appeared before his eyes, causing Chu Hong's breathing to quicken.

[Item Name]: Beast Serum (Code Name: Swan Song)

[Item Level]: Red

[Type]: Energy Source Material

【Weight】: 0.15kg

[Occupies backpack slot capacity]: 1×2

[Item Description]: This is the final product updated and improved based on the Beast Serum IX. The relevant data was destroyed in the disaster, so this is the last masterpiece. After injection, it will permanently enhance the user's physique and senses without any side effects.

"It's actually a red-level enhanced source energy substance!?"

Chu Hong had not forgotten.

The reason he was able to master the source energy ahead of his classmates who had not yet graduated was that he effectively became a pioneer of the first stage of the Origin.

It was because I found a bottle of purple-quality [Mythical Beast Elixir] in the parking lot's "small freebies".

"Permanently enhances the user's physique and senses without side effects..."

There aren't even any restrictions on the energy level!

"If this thing were to circulate outside, it would be worth at least five million, no, maybe even ten million energy points..."

Chu Hong had no intention of getting rich, because taking this thing out would cost him his life.

"Two compartments aren't enough to fit into the [Source Energy Space], so we'll have to..."

Chu Hong rolled up his sleeves and, without hesitation, injected the medicine directly into his body.

The cool medicine flowed through Chu Hong's veins and quickly spread throughout his body.

A scorching, sauna-like sensation caused Chu Hong's face to flush red, his body temperature to rise, and at the same time, invisible energy emanating from his body began to increase rapidly at a clearly perceptible pace.

"boom!"

Chu Hong's face turned pale, as if he had been punched hard in the abdomen.

However, a look of joy immediately appeared on his face.

"Origin Level Two!"

That's not all.

As the tidal heat gradually intensified, Chu Hong could clearly feel his muscles and bones changing at a visible speed.

The clothes I was wearing were starting to feel a little tight.

The second brother felt a sense of suffocation and discomfort...

Time flew by, and half an hour passed.

Chu Hong's source energy had already broken through to the fourth stage of Origin.

He wiped the sweat from his face.

His face was full of excitement and exhilaration.

"Hahaha, if others knew that I went from an ordinary person to the fourth stage of the Origin Realm in just one day, wouldn't they think I'm crazy?"

He was already quite confident about his upcoming graduation exams.

At this moment, I'm starting to look forward to the assessment a month from now.

Just as he was getting excited, a line of scarlet numbers suddenly appeared in front of him.

[Ding! 00:05:00 remaining until final evacuation]

Failure to evacuate within the allotted time will result in the loss of all resources except for the energy storage space.

Holy crap!

Only five minutes left?!

Chu Hong dared not waste any more time and hurriedly began searching for the [Confidential Meeting Minutes] needed for the mission in Room 322.

Soon, the quest item was finally found in a desk drawer.

Then, they disregarded the fact that there were still many containers in room 322 that had not been searched.

Chu Hong hurriedly rushed to the other side of the third-floor corridor.

In that direction, a large, gold insurance icon is prominently displayed on the map.