A cute, timid mushroom mistakenly takes the zombie king for her boyfriend and sticks close to him.

Even though he was all alone, Academician Rong still seemed confident, with a kind smile on his face. He asked knowingly, "Why did you come back? Was life not good outside? Or are you too eager to kill and want this old man to die?"

"It's a pity that humanity needs me, the world needs me."

He sat calmly in the chair, his hands clasped together. "So, you'll stay here with me. It will fulfill your grandfather's long-cherished wish."

Pei Sinian had no memory and was not interested in his past life. He raised his hand, and endless ice blades condensed in the air, densely surrounding the old man.

A hint of surprise flashed in Academician Rong's eyes: "Can the superpower still be used?"

He looked thoughtfully at the purple transparent "membrane" surrounding Pei Sinian and the other person. According to the information, Pei Sinian had only awakened ice-type abilities, so this defensive "membrane" must be the little girl beside him.

Academician Rong became interested and stared intently at Meng Xiaoyou, saying, "Child, why don't you stay and keep me company?"

His gaze was fiery, like that of a disgusting rat, making one feel uneasy.

Meng Xiaoyou shrank back and hid behind Pei Sinian, poking him and saying, "Pei Sinian, look at him! He must have been secretly cricketing at me. Help me beat him up."

This little mushroom is useless at everything, but it's a master at whining and tattling.

Basically, as soon as she finished speaking, Pei Sinian pressed down with his finger, and countless ice needles shot out, instantly turning her into a sieve.

The old man shuddered, his smile still lingering on his face, his eyes fixed on the two people at the door, his pupils hollow and dark, sending chills down one's spine.

"His...his blood?"

Meng Xiaoyou quickly grabbed Pei Sinian's clothes, extremely nervous.

Pei Sinian frowned.

Green liquid oozed from the old man's numerous wounds, and green mist erupted around him, drifting in the air and instantly filling the entire room, or more precisely, the entire three-story building, even corroding Meng Xiaoyou's bubble.

The giant bubbles surrounding Meng Xiaoyou were like ripples spreading across a calm lake when a stone was thrown in, making a hissing sound.

The phenomenon was bizarre, and Meng Xiaoyou was extremely uneasy. She quickly reinforced several layers of her supernatural power, and the old man who should have been dead sitting in the chair suddenly moved.

Academician Rong looked up with a sinister smile, revealing a strange grin: "Children, you can't kill me. From the apocalypse until now, what do you think I've been developing? A vaccine to combat the zombie virus?"

"Blood" trickled down his body, but it was green, like poison, and when it dripped onto the floor, it would sizzle and bubble, corroding small pits into the floor of the Dali Temple.

“I have the ability to make myself better, so why not? This era is more suitable for me than the peaceful era.” Academician Rong stood up, and the wound where the ice needles were inserted quickly congealed and healed. Apart from his “blood” clothes, there was no way to tell that he had been injured. “Zombies are not afraid of pain, nor are they afraid of birth, aging, sickness and death. However, they have no thoughts in the early stages and will become walking corpses.”

“This is not what I want.” The wrinkles on his face became more pronounced. “I want to break free from the human body, but not become a mindless beast.”

Becoming a zombie and then evolving requires a long process, which his body cannot wait for, nor can it afford to gamble.

Moreover, zombies are not recognized by humans. By sitting in this position, he has given himself the identity of a savior of humanity and is unwilling to step down from his seat.

He wanted immortality, the admiration of thousands, and to break through the limits of science, developing achievements that everyone would look up to.

At this moment, he took out his results and showed them to Pei Sinian, his junior: "Look, I am now immortal and indestructible. You can't kill me. Why don't you offer me your crystal core and body so that I can research a species that is more precious and perfect than humans and zombies?"

He was a little unsteady on his feet, and the mushroom was a little scared, but also a little curious: "A new species?"

Pei Sinian's face was solemn, and he didn't forget to pat the mushroom-headed man when he had a chance, "Stop your damn curiosity, or he'll catch you and stew you."

Upon hearing this, Meng Xiaoyou immediately lost her curiosity and hid behind him with a pitiful expression, scratching his back with her paws. "Kill me quickly! I don't want to be stewed. Even if I am stewed, it has to be you who stews me."

Pei Sinian's breath hitched. He deliberately ignored the jumbled thoughts and reminded her to add more layers of defense. He then switched to mental power, focusing on Academician Rong's mind. He searched through his mind but unfortunately found nothing about crystal cores, which he couldn't destroy.

Academician Rong seemed to sense something, his eyes darting around. "Don't waste your energy."

He raised his hand and pressed the red button on the command platform. With a series of popping sounds, the container on the wall opened, and giant monsters crawled out, baring their fangs and claws.

They were strangely shaped, without skin, with blood vessels and veins exposed, more ferocious than a skinned bullfrog. They crawled like geckos, with human heads, frog eyes, lizard mouths, and snake tongues sticking out of their mouths. Various creatures were pieced together and mixed together. With scarlet eyes and monkey nostrils flaring up, they accurately locked onto Pei Sinian and Meng Xiaoyou.

Meng Xiaoyou was so shocked that she almost jumped up to the ceiling, but Pei Sinian pressed her down and covered her trembling eyes with his cold hand. "It's okay, don't look."

He hadn't expected to find something even more disgusting and ugly than the test subjects in a human laboratory. Not to mention the cowardly mushroom, even he felt nauseous.

My obsessive-compulsive disorder about cleanliness seems to have flared up. It feels like countless ants are crawling all over me, making me so itchy that my whole body is uncomfortable and even my bones feel numb.

The old man who raised the monsters looked at the dozen or so monsters with loving eyes, as if he were looking at his own children.

"Go, capture them alive."

Academician Rong's body was not perfect, and he urgently needed Pei Sinian's living body.

As a first-generation zombie with human consciousness, Pei Sinian possesses too many unique characteristics. He doesn't even need to make much effort to achieve the state that Academician Rong dreams of. He desperately needs to extract samples from Pei Sinian. Just a little bit is enough for him to break through his current limitations.

He stopped acting and stared greedily at Pei Sinian.

Surprisingly, the monsters obeyed without hesitation, opening their serrated lizard mouths and lunging at Pei Sinian.

Meng Xiaoyou's eyes were covered, but she could sense that the first layer of defensive bubbles was being torn apart. She panicked and frantically bubbled up, layer upon layer of bubbles surrounding her and Pei Sinian. Pei Sinian stood inside the transparent bubble, looking through the purple layer of supernatural power at the old man standing in front of the control panel.

His eyes revealed undisguised disgust. "If they won't die, then kill them to death."

Click-click——

Ice spikes exploded outwards from him, piercing through the monster's skin, internal organs, and skull.

The monster felt no pain and roared and howled at him ferociously. Its bodily functions were the same as Academician Rong's, with green liquid flowing out. After about a minute, it was visibly healing.