Chapter 38 Rush

Around three o'clock, in the Alleb Corporation building, Pan Feng and Hua Xiong were leading Xiao Tan towards the top floor.

The elevator that ran directly from the first floor to the fifty-second floor was out of order, and the entrance to the fire escape on the first floor had been blown up. However, a few of the elevators leading to other floors were still working.

They transferred elevators several times, from the first floor to the seventh floor, then climbed up three floors via the stairs from the seventh floor, and transferred to another elevator on the tenth floor. After several twists and turns, they finally reached the forty-second floor.

Along the way, they encountered two more mini-boss level monsters, but in the face of Pan and Hua's combat prowess, the bosses could only parry and had no ability to fight back. They were chopped down in two or three minutes. Not to mention those ordinary Blood Wolf Zombies, they were dealt with like chopping vegetables.

Xiao Tan, following behind them, was truly amazed. He had no room to intervene in the battles, feeling like a gang boss being escorted by two golden-medal hitmen, only having the role of an onlooker throughout.

"Big Brothers..." Xiao Tan finally couldn't help but ask on the stairs between the forty-second and forty-third floors, "Are you planning to just kill your way from the bottom floor to the top floor, and then kill your way back down?"

"Not at all," Hua Xiong replied, "We're going to rescue that Dr. Ashford."

Xiao Tan was stunned when he heard this: "Uh... I don't know if it's too late to say this now, but when I was on the first floor, I glanced at the building's layout diagram. The research institute is built underground, not upstairs..."

Logically speaking, after killing their way to this floor, and then hearing him say something like this after the fact, the other party should reply with something like, "Why didn't you say so earlier?"

But unexpectedly, the two of them remained calm and composed. Hua Xiong just turned his head and smiled: "Haha, Little Brother, we know the research institute is underground, but the doctor may not necessarily be in the research institute, right?"

Xiao Tan thought to himself: If the doctor isn't in the research institute, where else would he be? Could he be hiding in the toilet? According to the conventional plot of science fiction movies, after a virus outbreak, researchers like him usually find a relatively safe isolation facility to protect themselves, and then try to find a way to control the virus, or call for rescue or something. But the top floor of this building is only marked as "office area" on the layout diagram. If Dr. Ashford was really there, he would probably have been eaten already.

Although he had doubts in his heart, Xiao Tan didn't say it out loud. Anyway, he didn't have to fight the monsters, just follow behind them. Even if it turned out to be a wasted trip, he could just follow these two uncles and continue killing monsters.

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A few minutes ago, Feng Bujue had also successfully entered the building. Through observing the wounds on the corpses and the footprints on the blood, he had basically deduced that... there were two people with Xiao Tan, one using a bladed heavy weapon, and the other seemed to be using a spear or something. Moreover, the two were very powerful in combat, basically killing small monsters with one strike.

Due to the powerful performance of the three people clearing the way ahead, Feng Bujue's advance was much easier, and he encountered very few monsters after entering the building. He glanced at the building's layout diagram and then headed towards the underground research institute. He didn't expect that the three guys were heading to the top floor, assuming that his teammates had gone underground.

So, Feng Bujue found an elevator leading to the lower level in a certain corridor and went up.

This elevator was very spacious. To be honest, it was a bit like the login space, but there was no mirror wall behind, and no touch screen next to it. There was some blood in the elevator, but no corpses or remains. Since it could only travel between the first floor and the underground research institute, there were only five or six buttons on the elevator's control panel. Feng Bujue pressed the button for the underground floor and then pressed the close button. Soon after, the elevator started.

Based on the "achievements" he had seen earlier, he felt that in a confined environment, it would be difficult for monsters like Blood Wolf Zombies to escape from the clutches of Pan and Hua. However, he was still holding a pipe wrench, guarding against any stragglers rushing in when the elevator door opened, although the possibility was extremely small...

Just as the elevator door was about to open, a burst of zombie howls suddenly sounded, catching Feng Bujue off guard. He saw an arm reaching in from outside the door, followed by another...

Before the door was fully opened, three or four zombies had already swarmed into the elevator. Looking further back, there were probably twenty or thirty monsters挤挤挤挤 in the corridor outside the door. Most of them were wearing white coats and security uniforms, drooling and groaning, and exuding a corpse-like stench.

Although Feng Bujue was caught by surprise, his subsequent response was still calm and correct. While biting open a clove of garlic he had already been holding in his mouth, he took out a kitchen knife and, in coordination with the pipe wrench in his other hand, went straight for the head of the monster closest to him.

After quickly knocking down a few monsters, he discovered something very shocking. The monsters that were currently pouncing on him were just ordinary zombies. Their faces were not obviously pale, they did not have sharp teeth, and they did not have werewolf fur on their bodies.

The most important point was... they were not afraid of garlic!

This sudden unexpected situation caused Feng Bujue to suffer a great loss. He thought there wouldn't be many monsters, but he didn't expect there to be so many, and they had trapped him in the confined environment of the elevator where there was no way to retreat. What was even more troublesome was that the garlic had lost its deterrent effect, and these ordinary zombies were much faster than those Blood Wolf Zombies on the ground. Their strength and speed were no different from normal humans.

Feng Bujue no longer had [Slow Quicksand]. In the previous script, he had used this prop on the ghost of Roderick Usher to resist the attack of a large number of telekinetic objects. Therefore, he was basically helpless at the moment.

If an ordinary person were blocked in the elevator by twenty or thirty zombies, then the best outcome for him would probably be... to commit suicide by swallowing a gun if conditions allowed.

But Feng Bujue didn't even have time to take out his gun at the moment. He was waving his weapons with both hands, relying on the passive effect of [Concussion] to barely hold the line. But the outstretched arms of the monsters and the limited space inside the elevator made it difficult for him to hit the head every time.

Sure enough, before long, he was bitten, and in more than one place. The pain was not very intense, but he knew that he might have been infected.

By the time he had cleared the zombies in front of him, Feng Bujue was already in the corridor, with more than twenty corpses piled up behind him, and blood flowing like a river. He looked at the wounds on his body... on his arms and legs, there were two wounds each, for a total of four.

Except for some sensitive parts and the clothing near them, players' clothing on other parts of the body can be damaged. As long as the total area of damage is less than 10% of the entire outfit, the system may not correct or delay the correction. So, at this moment, the sleeves of Feng Bujue's shirt and the pants on his lower legs had exposed wounds where he had been bitten by zombies.

The status next to his Survival Value was already displayed as [Disease], which directly proved that he had been infected.

Feng Bujue sighed, took out the Winchester from his knapsack, loaded the bullets, and continued to move forward. He didn't know why there were ordinary zombies in this research institute yet, but he knew that the mutation after infection would take time. Before he felt symptoms such as flu and high fever, he still had some time to use.

He wanted to try searching this research institute for something like a serum, and by the way, investigate whether Xiao Tan and the other two were here. If they weren't, it meant that those three guys had inexplicably gone to the upper levels of the building; if they were, then there must be some reason for the scene at the elevator door.

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At the same time, in front of the gun shop.

Atobe and Xiao Ming simply moved a large sofa to block the middle of the road, and the two of them sat on it, using the slowly approaching Blood Wolf Zombies as targets for target practice.

Of course, while playing around, they still maintained a sense of caution. After all, with their marksmanship, it was difficult to hit the head at long distances. So, every zombie that had its legs broken or was knocked to the ground, the two of them had to go over and check if it was completely dead after a while. If it wasn't completely dead, they would give it a headshot.

Most of the guns in the gun shop could be used with general proficiency, and the equipment requirements were lower than the M1911A1 that Feng Bujue had picked up at level 5. Obviously, in this kind of script above level 10, the restrictions on the use of firearms had been relaxed, and people who had not yet opened the shooting specialization had more opportunities to open this specialization.

"Hey, look at what's that?" Xiao Ming suddenly saw an abnormal figure appearing in the distance.

Atobe was guarding another direction, and turned his head when he heard the sound, glanced at it: "Could that be... a player?"

The figure's movements were obviously not those of a zombie, so it caught Xiao Ming's attention. As "she" approached, the two gradually saw some things clearly.

It was a beautiful young woman, with a graceful figure, long hair, a delicate and pure oval face, fair and delicate skin, eyes like autumn waves, and a pretty nose and small mouth. She was wearing a black tailcoat, the clothes were wrapped very tightly, making her slender and delicate figure fully visible, which formed a sharp contrast with the fullness and firmness in front of her chest.

"Anyway, this outfit of hers is definitely not the default outfit of the system," Xiao Ming said.

"Hmm... makes sense, and I don't think it's very likely that she would be named Peerless General Pan Feng or Thousand-Man Slayer Hua Xiong with this appearance," Atobe said, "That Feng Bujue told us that Wang Tan Zhi is his friend, and also a male player, so there shouldn't be any female players in this script..."

"I don't think she looks like a monster either, is she an NPC?" Xiao Ming continued.

"Then try to communicate with her." Atobe raised the TMP in his hand and aimed at the beauty, shouting, "Stop! Who are you?"

She didn't answer, just smiled. After a few seconds, the smile quickly turned into a grimace, and the sharp teeth in her mouth were also revealed...