Apocalypse: I Can See the HP Bar, Killing Monsters Drops Loot Chapter 1789 - 762: The Clever Qu Shilin

"Do you have mories of a past life?"

Upon hearing Qu Shilin say the words "ti travel," Wang Tao looked at her in astonishnt.

Wang Tao’s surprised expression made Qu Shilin even more shocked, and she pinched herself hard.

"I, I’m not dreaming, really? Have you really traveled back in ti?"

"It’s not a dream, it’s real. What else do you rember?"

Wang Tao smiled and instinctively embraced Qu Shilin’s slender waist, but she quickly pulled away as if she’d been electrocuted.

"What, what are you trying to do!"

"Hmm?" Seeing Qu Shilin’s slightly reddened face and vigilant expression, Wang Tao frowned. Her deanor seed like she didn’t recognize him. "Am I not in your mories?"

Wang Tao didn’t move forward again and kept a distance from Qu Shilin.

"...Wait a minute!"

Qu Shilin watched Wang Tao warily while carefully examining the recipe. As she flipped through the pages, her eyes widened more and more.

Wang Tao seed to understand sothing but didn’t interrupt, waiting patiently until Qu Shilin reached the last page.

When she realized there was no more content, Qu Shilin slowly closed the recipe. Her expression was filled with shock, excitent, shyness, disbelief... it was like watching a changing of masks.

"I’m really not dreaming? Are you really my future husband?"

Qu Shilin stared intently at Wang Tao.

"Of course! Otherwise, how could I have co all this way to find you, and to be able to find you so precisely, unless you were the one who told where you’d be."

Wang Tao chuckled and then walked over to Qu Shilin, gently stroking her cheek.

Qu Shilin was still a bit unaccustod to Wang Tao’s affectionate gestures, but she didn’t shy away this ti. She just stared at him as if trying to discern sothing from his face.

"Did you see sothing in the recipe?"

Wang Tao pulled Qu Shilin to the sofa to sit and asked with a smile.

He initially thought Qu Shilin also had mories of a past life, but her subsequent behavior didn’t match, and given how frantically she flipped through the Zombie Virus Serum Recipe, he suspected she might have left so secret in it during the previous life.

As expected, Qu Shilin nodded subconsciously, her gaze still fixed on Wang Tao’s face.

Wang Tao didn’t ask more and just t her gaze.

Seeing Wang Tao’s gentle and affectionate eyes, Qu Shilin beca a bit flustered, her ears turning red. She quickly looked away, her expression growing increasingly excited.

"...My goodness, could it really be ti travel? It’s truly not a dream..."

Witnessing Qu Shilin’s excitent, Wang Tao held her small hand and asked with a smile:

"Tell , what exactly did you find out?"

Qu Shilin flipped through the recipe again, speaking as she did:

"...It says here that you’re my future husband, but you have several other wives — how can you be so fickle? But that’s not the point; the point is to seize the opportunity early — no, no, that’s not it; the point is you traveled back to the past! The future instructed the present to be a good partner, and anwhile, create the Zombie Virus Serum... You can help humanity solve the apocalypse crisis..."

Upon hearing Qu Shilin’s words, Wang Tao raised an eyebrow.

Although many details were omitted, this indeed matched the scenario from the past life. The fact that Qu Shilin could hide so much information in the recipe and even believe in it herself... that’s impressive!

It seed Qu Shilin noticed Wang Tao’s thoughts, as she imdiately spoke excitedly:

"Do you know why I can see and willingly believe this content?"

"Why?"

Wang Tao cooperatively asked.

"Because the recipe contains many hidden codes! And this code was sothing I devised only three days ago! No one but can understand it! I haven’t even started using this code to record things myself, yet the code appears in the recipe..."

Listening to Qu Shilin’s excited explanation, Wang Tao finally understood what was going on.

When the apocalypse broke out, Qu Shilin wasn’t at the research institute; she experienced so very dangerous situations and only then escaped to the research institute. However, the danger she faced ca not from zombies but from the gradually evil inner nature of humans!

So she started taking precautions against survivors. If she died at the hands of zombies, it would be due to bad luck. But if it was at the hands of her own kind, she wouldn’t be able to rest in peace.

While at the research institute, she conducted nurous experints and achieved many research results. Things like the Inhibitor contained at least one-fifth of her contributions.

But she was never sure when she might die, or if these achievents could be preserved. Therefore, she planned to record these achievents and, in case of her death, ensure they wouldn’t be lost.

Yet, she didn’t fully trust other survivors; what if soone used her research for nefarious purposes?

So she ca up with a thod — embedding so secret codes within crucial research findings, ensuring that only soone with the thod to decode these secrets could completely understand the material. As for the decoding thod, she planned to pass it on to the organization, allowing only those who passed the organization’s tests to learn the secret codes. This plan received approval from higher-ups, and she was tasked with leading a team to develop it.

Although it still couldn’t completely prevent malicious theft of her research, it at least significantly increased the security.