Quick Wear: The Beautiful, Strong and Tragic Path of a Swordsman

"Dr. Xu, the director wants you to come over." A female researcher knocked on the door and came in and said.

The moment he heard the knock on the door, Xu Yan immediately suppressed all his emotions, withdrew his hand from the culture tank, and replied in a cold voice, "Got it."

Then, he stood there for a while, took a deep look at the person in the culture tank, and then walked out.

Everyone who met Xu Yan along the way respectfully called him Dr. Xu, and judging from their expressions, it didn't look like they were pretending.

Jiang Qingze frowned. Can we just say that birds of a feather flock together?

They are all demons who advocate human experimentation.

However, why did Xu Yan look so painful before?

Finally, after passing through numerous gates, Xu Yan came to a laboratory full of high-tech equipment. An old man with gray hair and a white coat was standing in front of the laboratory table with his back to him. His body was a little hunched, but his hands were still very skillful in doing research.

"Teacher." Xu Yan called out.

The old man who was busy operating the instrument did not turn around, and answered in a deep voice, "I have reported Xiao Chen's case to the higher authorities, and executed him as you requested, but I did not take his 'right to use' and distributed it to other research institutes."

Jiang Qingze felt a strong surge of anger and unwillingness in Xu Yan's heart, but his voice remained cold and calm, "Why?"

"You are a scientist, not a murderer." The old man's voice was steady and powerful. "You have a strong hatred for him. In your eyes, he is not an experimental subject, but an enemy. The nature of the situation is different."

Jiang Qingze was so angry that he laughed when he heard this statement. They have started to capture innocent ordinary people for experiments. They are already a group of murderers, but they still care about these trivial details?

Xu Yan's resentment subsided a lot, but the resentment mixed with sadness still weighed on his heart, making it difficult for him to breathe. "The experiments on those victims?"

"I leave it all to you." The old man finally stopped his research and turned around. His eyes were blood red, but they didn't look scary because they were full of wisdom and kindness.

"Believe in yourself, you can save them."

Xu Yan did not respond. Jiang Qingze was now experiencing Xu Yan's first-person perspective. He could feel everything about Xu Yan except his expression.

Confused, worried, helpless, guilty, Xu Yan was almost overwhelmed by these emotions. He could not bear the responsibility of so many innocent lives.

Probably because he saw that his student was not in a good state, the old man took off the lab gloves on his hands, washed his hands carefully, disinfected and dried them carefully, then walked in front of Xu Yan and held Xu Yan's arms with his dry and wrinkled hands.

"It's been two years since the virus broke out." The old man's hands gradually gained strength. "We don't have time. Xiao Chen is your senior brother. You know him well. We all know why he became like this."

"For the sake of all mankind, some necessary sacrifices are unavoidable. They have already accepted the first step of the experiment. Once they stop, the only outcome they will face is death."

"You are their only hope."

Having said that, the old man let go of Xu Yan and unbuttoned the shirt under his white coat, revealing his chest. Purple-black blood vessels spread out from his heart like terrifying thorns.

"Don't worry, I'm still here." He pointed to his heart and smiled.

At this moment, Jiang Qingze felt great grief and despair, and his vision became blurred.

Xu Yan was crying. He didn't make any sound, but his tears blurred his vision.

After that, almost all the staff in the institute were busy running around.

Only Xu Yan seemed to have been forgotten by them. He stayed quietly in his room alone, writing dazzling formulas on paper and scanning his calculations with a machine.

No one knows who caused this disaster. Not only did he use viruses to destroy the ecological environment, causing 70% of the people to transform into zombies, he also used network viruses to paralyze all networked electronic devices.

As a result, today's scientists can only calculate large and complex data by handwriting.

Fortunately, some experimental instruments do not have Internet access, otherwise no matter how smart the scientists' brains are, they will be unable to make a meal without rice.

Jiang Qingze just watched Xu Yan working hard on his calculations without eating, drinking or sleeping. His fingers holding the pen were bleeding from writing, but he continued to write with an indifferent expression, as if he felt no pain. Each stroke was steady and fast.

The blood from the wound solidified into a blood scab that stuck to the pen. When the pen ran out of ink, he carelessly tore off the thin blood scab, revealing a piece of tender flesh oozing with blood, and then he used a brand new pen to continue writing.

Occasionally, he would suddenly fall down and lose consciousness, and then quickly struggle to wake up. Jiang Qingze was afraid that he would suddenly die, and he wanted to appear beside him immediately and knock him out so that he could get enough rest.

Finally, on the fifth day, he stopped writing.

Then he began to quickly flip through the piles of densely written papers one by one, and the speed at which he reversed the calculations purely with his brain was as fast as a scanner.

This was also the first time that Jiang Qingze felt Xu Yan's genius so intuitively.

In the past, he always heard the instructors bragging about how perverted Xu Yan from the neighboring college was, and he always thought that it was an exaggeration by the instructors to motivate them to work hard.

Now that I have seen it with my own eyes, I realize that the mentors were not exaggerating at all. Those words that are the utmost praise to ordinary people actually sound like derogatory words when used to describe him.

Jiang Qingze also roughly understood the current situation.

The 'Xiao Chen' who was sentenced to death was the old director's student, and also Xu Yan's senior.

Now that there were not enough death row prisoners for experimental subjects, he finally couldn't hold back and attacked the seriously injured people who were rescued from the snowstorm.

He and several of his assistants stole out the unconscious wounded who had no relatives or friends to take care of them, put them in culture tanks, and injected them with three different types of vaccines, A, β, and γ, which were still under experimental development, in order to observe the effects and side effects of these three vaccines after they actually entered the human body.

However, the strain of the beta vaccine mutated in the human body, which directly caused three of the five people who were injected with the vaccine to be transformed into mutant zombies.

The appearance of three mutant zombies directly killed Xiao Chen's two assistants who were conducting observations at the time, and then rushed out of the laboratory and carried out a massacre in the institute.

There were heavy casualties among those on duty in the institute at the time.

It can be said that everything was exposed the next second when Xiao Chen took them away and injected them with the vaccine.

Jiang Qingze himself was injected with the gamma vaccine.

After the zombie virus enters the human body, the first thing it attacks is the human brain.

The gamma vaccine perfectly inherited this feature. Among the five people who were injected with this vaccine, one was brain dead on the spot. Although the remaining four survived, it was completely unknown to what extent their brains had been damaged until they woke up.

As for vaccine A, it was the cleanest and most efficient. All five people who were injected died the next day.

These three vaccines have been extensively tested on plants and animals before, but the human body is too complex, especially that miraculous organ - the brain.

So even if these three vaccines are effective on animals and plants, it is still too early to use them on humans.

Hence the tragic consequences we have today.

This is only the first phase of the vaccine. According to the procedure, three consecutive injections are required.

Now, their bodies have been inoculated with strains of the gamma vaccine, and it has been determined that the strains that were supposed to have died have mutated and revived after entering their bodies.

That’s why the old director said that if the experiment was stopped, death would be the only thing waiting for them.

As for why the act of saving them is called an experiment rather than a treatment, it is because it really requires experimenting on them little by little with newly developed and untested drugs.

They can die at any time, it just depends on who is lucky enough to survive.

Bang bang bang.

There were several intermittent knocks on the door. Xu Yan, who was leaning back in a chair with his eyes closed, responded weakly, his voice full of fatigue and hoarseness, "Come in."

The person who came was an acquaintance. Jiang Qingze had seen this girl many times, and every time she came to bring water and food to Xu Yan.

"Dr. Xu, everything is ready. We are just waiting for you."

Xu Yan, who was sitting in a chair with his back to the door, leaned back in the chair, his head tilted back, and covered his tightly closed eyes with the back of his right hand. He did not answer immediately.

The female researcher waited patiently without saying anything.

"You go first, I'll take a shower and change my clothes, they all stink."

The girl answered simply, "Okay."

After the sound of the door closing and someone leaving was heard, Xu Yan slowly stood up, holding onto the table.

The whole body maintains one posture for a long time, and the joints and bones in various places ache with every movement.

Especially the fingers that hold the pen, which are connected to the heart, feel burning pain when they lose their concentration. In addition, the lack of sleep and high workload cause the brain to feel dizzy.

As these debuffs stacked up, the moment Xu Yan stood up, everything went black in front of his eyes and he completely lost control of his body.

By the time his vision gradually returned to him, he had already collapsed backwards, leaning on the side of the chair. His lumbar spine hit the edge of the chair hard, causing his brain to buzz with pain.

Jiang Qingze experienced all these feelings. If he was next to this person, he would definitely catch him in his arms before he fell and not let him get hurt at all.

He felt so heartbroken that he wished he could take her place.

But... these are things that have already happened.

He didn't want to explore why he was watching Xu Yan's memories of his previous life from a first-person perspective. He just wanted to have a body immediately and give this person a hug.

He was too tired. The mountain-like burden of "saving human civilization" almost broke his spine that he had straightened with all his strength.

When Xu Yan packed up everything and appeared in the laboratory with a thick file that he had scanned and printed out, everyone stood there silently waiting for him.

And in the center of the laboratory, on the laboratory table, illuminated by incandescent light, there was no shadow at all.

His beloved teacher was lying on it with his upper body naked, looking at him with his head tilted and smiling kindly.

Jiang Qingze only felt a buzzing in his brain, as if something had broken directly and collapsed into ruins.

This is not Xu Yan's emotion, it is his own.

On the contrary, Xu Yan was a little too calm.

He distributed the verified data in his hand to the assistants who had already changed into isolation dissection suits, then turned to the next room and changed into the same clothes.

He walked to the experimental table and looked calmly at the old director through the protective mask.

The cart filled with dissection equipment was pushed over by the familiar female researcher herself.

She lowered her head and eyes, her expression was as calm as everyone else's, as if she was accepting everything well.

If only blood wasn't seeping from between her clenched fingers.

Xu Yan took the scalpel handed over by his assistant. No matter how calm he appeared and tried to be on the inside, his slightly twitching and tense fingers still betrayed him.

The old man on the experimental table suddenly looked serious, and rebuked in a tone of teaching his grandson, "What are you doing? Are you showing me Parkinson's? I am the only mature individual at the moment, and your eldest brother will need more than half a month. Even if you can wait, can the people you like and the victims wait?!"

At this point, the old man's already bloodshot eyes turned red as if they were about to bleed, but his voice was calm and indifferent, "I am no longer your teacher. I am just a zombie with your teacher's memories and thoughts. Your teacher has been dead for a long time. Haven't you realized this fact yet?"

Someone's sobbing was heard. He tried his best to suppress it, but in this laboratory where everyone was silent, it was too obvious.

"Crying for a zombie? You're really out of your depth." The old man's voice became colder and colder. He glared in the direction where the crying sound came from, then turned his head and looked at Xu Yan, who remained silent. "Hurry up and do it. It's just digging out a heart. Why are you wasting time?"

Xu Yan knew that the old man said this not just to alleviate his guilt, because he was telling the truth.

The moment the old man was injected with the 'modified zombie virus' and became brain dead, he was no longer the same person.

He is just a zombie who inherited his teacher's memories and ideals. He actually does not have any emotions that a human being should have.

His kindness, his smile, and his love were all performed based on his memory.

He just acted so well.

So good it seems real.

The powerful mutated zombie with human intelligence just smiled and lay on the experimental table without any resistance.

The 'modified zombie virus' will only cause brain death and zombification, but will not physically damage the brain structure. This is why the old man can retain all his memories and even his personality.

Therefore, he is the zombie's weak link - the crystal core.

Not in the head, but in the heart.

He resisted the zombie instincts, exposed his weaknesses, and watched with his own eyes as his student, a human who could be easily crushed to death by him, peeled off his heart containing the crystal core bit by bit, and felt his consciousness gradually dissipate.

At the last moment, Xu Yan finally spoke, "You are also my beloved teacher."

The zombie finally showed a real smile.