The electric current paralyzed the zombie dog, and Bai Ye kicked it away.
Bai Ye quickly got to his feet, the old magazine in his pistol dropped, and Bai Ye quickly inserted a new one. The moment the zombie dog got up...
Bang!
Bai Ye walked forward, raising his hand and firing at the zombie dog beside him, blowing its head off with a single shot.
"Ning Shuang!" Bai Ye immediately moved forward, hooked his finger, and said, "Imperial Sword!"
The suspended Ning Shuang sword turned into a silver light and shot forward, drawing a trace of blood before swiftly piercing the heads of two zombies.
Bai Ye now loved this sword. Both were rewards for first kills in different worlds. Thinking of the damned Sunflower Manual fragment, which only wanted him to castrate himself, and then looking at the Ning Shuang sword before him, it was truly powerful.
At the same time...
Bai Ye reloaded his magazine without any delay, raised his pistol, and fired rapidly, continuously headshotting the approaching zombies.
He pushed forward, passing through the office area, and Bai Ye quickly reached the door. He glanced back at the continuously gathering zombies and quickly opened a metal plate by the door, revealing a password lock for the area.
Bai Ye directly shot the password lock twice, making it smoke. Then, a mechanical whirring sound came from above, and a metal door slowly descended.
Watching the remaining zombies being shut out, Bai Ye couldn't help but sigh in relief, then turned and walked forward.
Past the office area was the virus storage zone.
A vast octagonal hall, with scattered papers on the ground, some instruments of unknown purpose around, and cables trailing from a corner, still sparking. On the edge of the octagonal hall were large glass panels, through which different viruses stored behind could be seen.
These viruses were synthesized by the Umbrella Corporation through analysis of the components of the original virus, or extracted and combined from its components.
Bai Ye walked slowly through the octagonal hall as if on a tour, looking at the viruses behind the surrounding glass walls. After making a circuit, he came to the glass wall at the very front.
This glass wall was different from the others. The vast space could hold hundreds of virus tubes, but behind this glass wall, there was only one tube of virus!
The virus tube contained a transparent, viscous liquid, with extremely small black particles in it, giving one a sense of trypophobia.
This was the Origin Virus!
Bai Ye approached the glass wall and looked at the instrument to the side. Just as he was about to act, at that very moment...
A breeze seemed to sweep through the surroundings.
The next instant, the papers on the ground suddenly flew up, rapidly sticking to Bai Ye's hands and then tightening.
Soon, Bai Ye felt a sharp pain as his five fingers were forcibly pressed together.
"I advise you, don't move!" a voice came from behind Bai Ye. "Those papers are enough to crush your finger bones with ease."
Bai Ye looked back. The vent grate on the side wall fell off, and a man with red hair emerged from the ventilation duct.
Bai Ye looked at him, then at the papers restraining his hands. "You can manipulate paper, are you from the world of Espers?"
"Correct. You can call me Lu Zuo, or you can call me Paper God," Lu Zuo said, wiggling a finger to the side. "Could you move aside?"
Bai Ye stood still, showing no intention of leaving. He looked at Lu Zuo. "There's only one Origin Virus. If I move, it's yours."
Lu Zuo fiddled with his bangs. "You don't seem to understand the situation. I'm in charge now."
The moment Lu Zuo spoke, the papers wrapped around Bai Ye's hands tightened again. Intense pain surged, and Bai Ye's face contorted in agony. At that instant, Bai Ye felt his fingers twist, and he could vaguely hear the creaking sound of bones.
But at that very moment...
The Ning Shuang sword, floating beside Bai Ye, suddenly turned into a silver sword light and shot towards Lu Zuo.
"Paper Wall!"
Lu Zuo grunted, and the scattered papers around him flew up madly, stacking together rapidly to block him.
With a tearing sound, the Ning Shuang sword pierced the paper wall, but it couldn't completely penetrate it.
Lu Zuo casually picked up a sheet of paper and tore it. "Paper is fragile, but if there's enough of it, and it's thick enough, it can be even more solid than a wall. So, your sword is useless against me..."
Lu Zuo paused mid-sentence, as if remembering something, and pointed to Bai Ye's waist.
"Your hands are bound, so you can't draw your gun or fire," Lu Zuo said with a smug smile. "What other tricks do you have? Oh, right, you can also generate electricity. Perhaps you're also from the world of Espers? Too bad..."
Lu Zuo raised his foot and swung it towards Bai Ye.
Thick layers of white paper wrapped from Lu Zuo's foot to his calf, looking like a pair of boots.
"A4 paper is not conductive," Lu Zuo said with a smile, looking at Bai Ye. "I made thorough preparations before appearing before you."
Bai Ye's expression was calm. He wasn't surprised by Lu Zuo's preparations; he had known someone had arrived at the experimental area before him.
The zombie dogs couldn't jump to the height of the ventilation ducts. If someone hadn't tampered with them, they wouldn't have been able to get into the ducts.
And the papers around them. Although there were many paper documents piled up in the office area behind the door, this was a virus storage room, and documents wouldn't be kept here. Even if some papers drifted in from the office area, the quantity shouldn't be this much. Clearly, Lu Zuo had scattered these papers here in advance to use his Esper ability.
A moment later, Bai Ye sighed and said softly, "Are you happy?"
"Of course!" Lu Zuo smiled.
"You're celebrating too early."
"How so?" Lu Zuo asked. "In this situation, do you have any moves left to turn the tables?"
Bai Ye said, "A4 paper is indeed not conductive, but what about wet A4 paper?"
Lu Zuo froze for a moment, then something occurred to him. His eyes widened like copper bells as he looked at the ground.
A large portion of the papers scattered around was soaked with liquid, and it was even clearly visible as the liquid spread, further soaking more papers.