Chapter 536: 9.6 Genius And Freak
[666: A–Aye aye, Host!]
God knew how relieved he was when the familiar prompt appeared in front of his eyes. He had suffered enough already moving blindly in the previous simulation, dancing on the tip of death again and again and almost failing to save the villain. Lu Yizhou’s tense shoulders relaxed. As long as he had the original plot, then everything would be easier.
He directed another glare at the zombies nearby out of spite and sat down to digest the plot.
To no one’s surprise, this world was an apocalypse modern world.
Just like any other apocalypse stories, the problems originated from an error in the governnt’s secret project regarding genetic sequence. At first, they planned to study the animals’ and plants’ recovery rate. Despite not being the top of the food chain, animals and plants had their own special way to hasten their cell generation.
For example, axolotl, a species of aquatic salamander, had the "superpower" of regenerating its limbs, spinal cord, heart, and other organs. Flatworms and hydra, for instance, could regrow their entire bodies from only a tiny piece of their original selves. Even among vertebrates (animals that do have spines), the axolotl wasn’t the only animal capable of regeneration. Young frogs were known to regrow limbs, though they lost this ability when they changed from tadpoles to adult frogs. On the other hand, the axolotl retained it throughout its entire life, making it unique among vertebrates and a great model to study in regeneration field.
If this research succeeded, then not only would it beco a once-in-a-century breakthrough in the dical field, but humans could also reach immortality!
For this research, the governnt put together all the brilliant and renowned researchers in the country and dumped a huge sum of money to fuel the experint.
Alas, as the saying went, man proposed and God disposed.
Not only was the research an utter failure, but sothing happened midway to the experint object’s cells. They underwent mutation and their behaviour beca one akin to rabid dogs, greedy for flesh and blood and for so reason, they were very hard to kill because of their enhanced gene segnt.
Through a series of events, the experint object bit one of the researcher’s hand and the ’virus’ multiplied from thereon. The entire research facility was wiped out and the people who knew best about this experint were turned to zombies...
...except for the villain of this world, Zhao Bolin.
He dedicated all of his life to research about genetic recombination and at the sa ti, he was also the youngest professor of Biology Departnt in F University. One could say that Zhao Bolin was a genius but at the sa ti, he was also a bizarre freak who did not play by rules.
Even though he was only 28 years old, he was actually the best person to lead the governnt’s project. Alas, Zhao Bolin, this freak, was unmoved by the promise of immortality and the riches he would amass by this one project. He liked his peace and quiet, and he had also been accustod to be rhythm of university. Rather than being hailed as a God of Immortality, he preferred to stay out of the radar and tinkered with his miscellaneous experints. Nobody understood how this freak’s brain was wired and he did not intend for anybody to understand either.
His peace lasted until the disaster struck.
Now that the whole world was gradually occupied by zombies, the governnt — who had been pissing in their pants — belatedly realized that there was a genius hermit hidden in F University! After one thing and another, Zhao Bolin was respectfully ’invited’ to beco the leading researcher in the seek of antidote.
Invited, my ass, Lu Yizhou sneered. He must have been threatened.
Nonetheless, Zhao Bolin was not the kind of person who would take this lying down. Even when the governnt pressured him, Zhao Bolin always had a way to return the courtesy twofolds. He agreed to lead the experint. But he had two ironclad conditions;
First, the experint must be conducted in F University and the mbers must be personally chosen by him. Zhao Bolin disliked the atmosphere in the military basecamp and he disliked those hypocritical people in the governnt even more. If he had to work, then he’d rather do it in the environnt that set him at ease.
Second, everyone had to listen to his order. Not even the commander of the army or the president himself could tell him what to do.
Everyone was speechless when they heard of these arrogant conditions.
But... But Zhao Bolin was their only hope during the helplessness! No matter how enraged they were, they still had to grit his teeth and clutch onto him like a last straw. A few prominent mbers of the governnt convened a eting and reluctantly agreed with Zhao Bolin’s unreasonable demands.
But they also had to put in a condition as well so as to not let Zhao Bolin trample all over their faces. They wanted the antidote to be created within half a year.
Instead of intimidated, Zhao Bolin rely sneered, "When the ti cos, let’s all go to hell, eh?"
Those first-class researchers, who had beco zombies by now, could not even achieve a breakthrough after years of experinting and the governnt wanted him, a solo fighter, to create antidote in half a year? Dream on!
Just in a few short sentences, Lu Yizhou could already picture how his lover was in this world. Arrogant, willful yet charming and brazen. The corner of his lips curled and soft purr rumbled out of his throat. Alas, the person himself did not seem to realize his own reaction and continued reading.
Zhao Bolin’s research team was only filled with five people, including himself. They were his graduate students, the so-called researchers who were still wet behind the ears.
One of them was the protagonist of this world, aka the shou, Li Zhu.
Being chosen as the elite mber of Professor Zhao’s research team was akin to a dream co true to him. He admired the professor very much. His positive, youthful ntality made him one of the people whom Zhao Bolin trusted to work with.
And hence, the hope of the world comnded in the F University. The military gradually moved their basecamp there and created a strong barrier to provide a conducive environnt for Professor Zhao.
Just like that, ti flashed by and the research actually went quite smoothly under Professor Zhao’s guidance.
Zhao Bolin disliked to interact with people in the military and everyti he wanted to send a report, he would order Li Zhu, who had the most likable personality, to go. Who could have guessed that this prolonged interaction would lead to the blossoming romance between Li Zhu and the commander of the army, Yang Tengfei?
One was a pure-hearted and shy researcher while the other was a cool and domineering army commander. Truly... a love story worth of the protagonists.
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