Lu Heng returned to Wuming City and visited Sun Qiang at the research center.
He wanted to take Sun Qiang out to kill zombies, and also have Sun Qiang help him gather them to collect high-level crystals.
"How is Sun Qiang's condition?"
Sun Qiang had been affected by the zombie with human consciousness last time and was not in a good state. Lu Heng brought him back to observe him further.
"He's fine. After being separated from Li Haotian by special metal, he returned to normal."
"Then let Sun Qiang out. I'll take him away. Do you still need him for research?"
"No, we've extracted a lot of substances from his body, and we still have enough."
Lu Heng nodded, waiting for the research center staff to release Sun Qiang.
"By the way, what about that living dead?"
"That one was much noisier than Sun Qiang, shouting all day. We only got some quiet after sealing his mouth."
Lu Heng raised an eyebrow, "If it's of no use, dispose of it. Don't keep it within the base."
Actually, Lu Heng brought Li Haotian back out of curiosity about how he became a zombie with full human consciousness.
He also wanted to see if the research center could use his bodily fluids in their research for a zombie virus antibody.
"In fact, it's of little use. It's enough to keep a portion of samples of these creatures' bodily fluids and tissues."
Chen Dong stood beside Lu Heng and told him about the substances needed for antibody research.
Generally, alien blood was the most useful, but the amount Lu Heng brought back last time was sufficient.
They had already manufactured a batch of antibody stock solutions through cell differentiation.
Along with the mutated rats and zombie infants Lu Heng had brought back earlier, they were actually no longer useful.
"Then dispose of them all. Let's not have these living things in the city."
The fact that the research center had living zombies had never been announced in Wuming City, to prevent panic among the city's residents and avoid unnecessary trouble.
As for Sun Qiang, Lu Heng felt that Sun Qiang could still be kept. However, since Sun Qiang no longer had research value, he might contract him and keep him in his spatial dimension later.
Seeing Sun Qiang being led downstairs, he was very quiet, cooperating with whatever the people taking him did without any extra movements.
As Lu Heng left Wuming City with Sun Qiang, Chen Dong said to the person beside him, "Let's go clean those up."
Since Lu Heng had already said so, there was no need to keep them.
The research center also had high-level ability users responsible for security. Chen Dong led a few people to clean up the living waste.
The mutated rats and zombie infants were cleaned up smoothly.
Chen Dong personally watched them being killed and their crystals extracted from their brains before leading his men to where Li Haotian was confined.
However, Li Haotian became very agitated when they entered. Although his mouth was sealed by the research center staff, he still shook the metal bars and let out low growls from his throat.
"Stop struggling. We're here to set you free."
Li Haotian was different from those mindless mutated rats, so Chen Dong habitually spoke to him.
Li Haotian understood Chen Dong's words. He stopped struggling inside the cage, and his grayish-white eyes suddenly bulged.
Just as he was about to struggle again, with a gesture from Chen Dong, the people who entered the room with him swung an ice spike, piercing Li Haotian's head.
This ended his painful life as a zombie.
Watching his body slowly slide down, Li Haotian finally became a true corpse, ending his sinful life.
After extracting the crystal, the bodies processed that day were all gathered and cremated.
...
Lu Heng and Sun Qiang sat on the back of the Shoebill. This time, Lu Heng did not bring Lin Xue out to control Sun Qiang.
To prevent Sun Qiang from accidentally injuring the Shoebill, he wrapped Sun Qiang's body in a metal casing.
It was a kind of flexible armor that allowed joints to move but prevented the body from penetrating the metal, like soft armor.
Sun Qiang was quite cooperative, sitting beside Lu Heng without any movement. However, due to his physical condition, he occasionally let out heavy breaths.
"You can understand my words now, but communication is still difficult. Do you want to increase your level to communicate with me normally?"
Sun Qiang shook his head and let out a simple syllable.
"No."
"Alright, I'll find a place later and let you down. You can continue as you did before."
Sun Qiang did not respond to Lu Heng. He turned his head forward and uttered again without any inflection, "Why, no, kill me."
"Aren't we keeping you to kill more zombies?"
"But, I, dangerous."
"Then do you want to continue living as a zombie?"
"Useless, don't want to."
It seemed he did not want to continue living as a zombie.
Lu Heng tapped the Shoebill's back, signaling it to land on a high place with fewer zombies.
Passing by a small town, the Shoebill found the highest building in the city and landed on its rooftop.
Lu Heng killed the few zombies wandering on the rooftop and sealed the door leading to the rooftop with metal.
Then he said to Sun Qiang beside him, "I know you've always not wanted to live as a zombie. Now you're indeed of no use for human research, but I think you still have a trace of human kindness in your heart, so perhaps you can live in another special state."
"Don't want to."
Lu Heng summoned Lin Xue from his spatial dimension and said to Sun Qiang, "Look, she's also a zombie, and she's living quite well. In fact, I have a place where you can live as a zombie."
As long as he could completely control Lin Xue and Sun Qiang, and keep them in his spatial dimension, Lu Heng was not worried that these two zombies could bring harm to humans again.
Moreover, zombie virus research had already found a direction, and the antibody was about to be successfully developed. In the future, the zombie virus would not cause harm to people who had received the antibody, and they would not be able to infect humans who had received the antibody.
"Don't want to."
Although Sun Qiang could sense Lin Xue's presence, he stubbornly only wanted to end his meaningless life as a zombie.
Lu Heng put Lin Xue back into his spatial dimension. Since Sun Qiang truly had no desire to 'live,' Lu Heng did not want to persuade him further.
With a wave of his hand, an ice spike pierced Sun Qiang's brain, ending his life.
Picking up the crystal from Sun Qiang's brain, Lu Heng raised his hand and released a fireball at Sun Qiang's corpse.
Instantly, the fireball exploded on Sun Qiang's body, and in a short while, his body was burned into black powder.
It seemed that to obtain high-level crystals, Lu Heng would have to get them himself.
Lu Heng looked at the black mark scattered by the wind on the ground and shook his head.