Virus King - Chapter 29

Chapter 29: Zombie Virus Serum! Submission!

TL: YYang

The man was a burly fellow in his thirties.

His tall, muscular frame stood over 1.9 meters, his muscles bulging.

But at this moment, the man’s face seemed crisscrossed with blood vessels, bulging like little earthworms writhing just under his skin.

At the same time, his fever had reached a terrifying 40 degrees, pushing his consciousness to the brink of a coma!

Even his fingernails had begun to turn gray.

Chen Bai glanced at him and immediately knew that if nothing changed, this guy would have about ten minutes left.

In just ten minutes, he would completely die, and another ten minutes after that, he’d rise again as a mindless corpse—a new addition to the zombie horde Chen Bai had just slaughtered!

Such was the terrifying contagion of the zombie virus!

But Chen Bai showed not the slightest urgency. He looked at Shuang’er and said:

“Did you bring the zombie blood I asked for?”

“Yes!”

Shuang’er quickly ran out the door and returned with a large gasoline drum.

Even the other bodyguards kept their distance from that drum as if it were the plague itself.

The dark blood inside emitted a powerful stench.

This whole barrel of it—thankfully, they’d managed to gather it in such a short time.

Song Ziqiong once again cast an expectant look at Chen Bai.

This man before her had completely overwhelmed her in just one night; his terrifying strength, his seemingly limitless abilities made her instinctively submit.

And now, what was he about to do next?!

Chen Bai glanced at Song Ziqiong, her beautiful eyes shining, and with a flash of light in his hand, he produced a piece of parchment.

This particular item wasn’t restricted in use. Though Song Ziqiong wasn’t an Evolver yet, meaning she couldn’t use certain equipment, this item would still work for her!

Looking at the parchment being handed to her, Song Ziqiong hesitated for a moment.

Chen Bai then explained:

“Hold it, then just think about using it. Aim the parchment at that zombie blood.”

Was it really that simple?!

Excitement welled up in Song Ziqiong’s heart. A mysterious world seemed to be revealing a sliver of itself before her.

This woman, queen of Jiangcheng’s business world, who dabbled in all shades of black, white, and gray, took a deep breath like a young girl trying something for the first time. Following Chen Bai’s instructions, she pointed the parchment at the basin of dark red blood.

Then, under the shocked gazes of Shuang’er and all the other bodyguards, a light emanated from the parchment.

Slowly, a tiny object, no bigger than a fingernail, appeared in Song Ziqiong’s hand!

It looked like a concentrated pill.

Its black-red color, along with the visibly reduced amount of liquid in the gasoline drum, made everyone instinctively shudder.

Chen Bai nodded in satisfaction: “Give it to him to eat!”

Song Ziqiong passed it to Shuang’er, who supported the man, now barely conscious, and fed him the pill.

Time ticked by, second by second.

Yet, after just three minutes, the man’s muscles, which had been sporadically twitching, and his gray fingernails began to return to normal.

The fever receded at an unimaginable speed. And then, this man, who had been on the verge of death, about to become one of those reanimated monsters, opened his eyes under the astonished gazes of Shuang’er and the other black-clad bodyguards.

Though there were still bloodshot veins in his eyes, he looked nothing like those zombies—creatures driven purely by madness and bloodlust!

He was… healed?!

Even though Song Ziqiong had expected this outcome, at this moment, she still found herself widening her eyes in disbelief, mirroring the shock on Shuang’er’s and the bodyguards’ faces.

In fact, her reaction was even stronger than theirs.

After all, the Song family’s businesses also included a biomedical company.

In the past, the top experts had conducted tests and told her that, with the current level of human medical technology, there was absolutely no way to crack the zombie virus!

Unless one managed to take drastic measures before the virus circulated throughout the entire body via the bloodstream, cutting off an infected limb like a warrior sacrificing an arm.

Otherwise, there was no avoiding the transformation into a zombie, with no chance for reversal!

But now, this irreversible condition had been overturned right in her own hands!

She stared at the parchment scroll in shock.

The words written on the scroll were the same:

Zombie Virus Serum.

But wasn’t the process of creating a serum supposed to be incredibly complex!?

How was it possible that this parchment blueprint could just stack the raw materials together and produce it directly?

This went beyond the bounds of human understanding!

And now, this extraordinary item was in her possession!

Song Ziqiong was a bit dazed, while in front of her, the black-clad man, Ah Long, seemed to finally realize what had happened and dropped to his knees with a thud:

“Thank you, Madam, for saving my life!”

These bodyguards, who had been at Song Ziqiong’s side, had all experienced a shift in worldview over these recent days.

Zombies, viruses—the entire world seemed to have changed because of these things.

No one understood the terrifying nature of zombies better than they did.

But as the saying went, no one was a fool.

Now that they saw the zombie virus could be cured by their Madam, didn’t this mean that in the impending apocalypse, they would have a far greater chance of survival than those who couldn’t afford even a single scratch?

No one didn’t want to survive.

And those with a quick mind were already considering the future possibilities, the value this cure could bring, and the status and power of their Madam and that terrifying man beside her.

At that moment, not only Ah Long, who had knelt down, but also Shuang’er and the other trusted bodyguards of Song Ziqiong knelt as well.

In their eyes, Song Ziqiong saw true submission and reverence—not the kind of relationship tainted by interests that their previous employment implied.

With her deep understanding of leadership, Song Ziqiong naturally recognized the enormous difference this made!

With just one event, she had been able to completely subdue these people, making them willingly serve under her!

This was the power and impact of the virus serum.

However, Song Ziqiong understood even more clearly that all of this was a gift from the young man beside her, a youth not much older than her own daughter!

The thrill brought by this newfound power alone left Song Ziqiong feeling a bit overwhelmed.

When she looked at Chen Bai, her eyes seemed to mist over.