The robotic arm on the workbench was still working, and a pile of test tubes beside it flowed with blue liquid, most of which were glowing with crystalline light.

Chen Xin glanced at this not particularly large laboratory, and found no trace of zombies, so he turned around and closed the door.

"It's... It's different from what it says in the novel. ”

Chen Xin is a little bit of a wax, the protagonist in the novel "Wasteland Survival Manual", in this base, relying on a series of traps, defeated the tyrant-level super zombies who have been chasing them, and also harvested a lot of guns, ammunition, and medical supplies, but the most noticeable thing is that he also found a high-level concentrated version of the "Evolution Elixir" in the second room of District 3.

The "Evolution Elixir" is actually a by-product of gene editing technology, which can promote the genetic evolution of human beings as a gene editing potion, and even allow humans to obtain the same supernatural powers as super zombies.

In the second half of the novel, it is vaguely proposed that the generation of zombies is likely to be caused by the accidental leakage of bad products of gene editing technology, anyway, as long as people who have been injected with "evolution drugs", even if they are bitten by zombies a few times, they will not be infected with the virus again, but the novel does not clearly write whether it is related until the ending, and there is no proof of death, and Chen Xin does not care whether this is true or not.

He just cares, in the novel, a big war destroyed a lot of experimental equipment related to gene editing technology, but in the end, the protagonist actually found a sealed bottle of high-end concentrated version of the "evolution potion" in this pile of broken equipment.

This "evolution potion" is Chen Xinlai's biggest goal in this base, as long as he can inject the "evolution potion", he can run rampant in the "Wasteland Survival Manual", at least he will not be plotted one day, otherwise the food will be mixed with some zombie liquid, maybe he will become a zombie when he wakes up.

"Why are they all half-finished!?" After checking the test tubes on the table, there were no sealed test tubes, Chen Xin said with a look of disbelief.

"Wait, there is still a long time before that episode, so there are only two possibilities, either someone has been here and left a bottle of encapsulated 'evolution potion', or these experimental equipment have been programmed and automatically configured 'evolution potion', but the time has not yet come, and the potion has not been successfully configured."

Chen Xin has been immersed in biology for many years, and is extremely interested in various cutting-edge biological technologies, and gene editing technology, he has already dabbled in some in school, it is difficult for him to configure an "evolution potion" from scratch, not to mention the high-level concentrated version of the "evolution potion", even if it is a little difficult to look at the operation manual, but there is still enough technical support to check the equipment process on the workbench.

Chen Xin checked the operation log on the side, and after fiddling for a long time, he finally confirmed his guess, the evolution potion has not been configured yet!

"No wonder this bottle of potion was kept in the end, and it was discovered by the protagonist, it turned out to be only a semi-finished product, and it had not been registered, so when the researcher was transported away, this bottle of semi-finished product was not taken with it." Chen Xin touched his smooth chin and said.

"Then let me see, how long will it take." Chen Xin continued to flip through the previous operation log of the instrument.

Flipping, flipping, Chen Xin has made a big discovery! The high-level condensed version of the "Evolution Elixir" is actually produced by multiple configurations on the basis of the low-level "Evolution Elixir", as for the specific configuration, I'm sorry, Chen Xin hasn't understood it yet.

But he understood, if he followed the standard process of this experimental equipment and completed a high-level concentrated version of the "Evolution Elixir", it would take at least half a year! "Looking at the machine's log, the 'target gene' model has been established, and it is now the basic stage of automatic configuration of the 'evolution agent'. After some comparison and calculation, Chen Xin was a little helpless, and began to calculate, "Should I wait for half a year and directly inject the 'high-level concentrated version of the evolution potion', or directly harvest it for a week to produce a batch of the basic version of the 'evolution potion'?" ”

"It's so tangled, the 'Advanced Evolution Elixir' can directly evolve to an Intermediate Awakener! If you convert it to the basic version of the 'Evolution Elixir', it is estimated that you won't even be able to touch the threshold of the 5th order, and the gap is too big! No, you have to wake up first! Chen Xin gritted his teeth and said, "Let's start with the basic version of the 'Evolution Elixir' first, it's too risky for half a year!" Who knows if the plot will change, whether the research institute will be able to keep until the 'Evolution Elixir' is successfully made is still unknown, and it may be infected into a zombie at any time in half a year, which really puts Chen Xin under great pressure, the faster he evolves to the 'Awakened', the more secure his survival is! So, get your hands on it first! Chen Xin thought of many novels, how many bosses have cultivated a panacea for a long time, and finally the case of being taken away by the protagonist, he swore that he must not be so mentally retarded, it would be funny if he was copied by someone, only the benefits of actually getting hands on are the real benefits.

Thinking of being copied from the back road, Chen Xin remembered something again, his face turned pale, and he hurriedly picked up the assault rifle and left the laboratory, tiptoeing outside the base with the gun.

The outside of the base is full of blanks, and there is an unobstructed view, Chen Xin confirmed that there is no abnormality on the left and right, front and back, and up and down, and then secretly breathes a sigh of relief.

Then, Chen Xin slowly walked to the ground next to the researcher's zombie and lay down, holding a gun to the corridor outside the door, not daring to come out, and not daring to leave the scope, staring directly at the corridor where he came up.

I don't know how long it was, but when Chen Xin felt that the sweat on his hands began to make the gun slippery, a head suddenly appeared in the field of vision of the scope, and there were really zombies coming up!

The scope has a magnifying function, Chen Xin can see very clearly, this head does not have any hair, but the eyes are very large, accounting for almost half of the entire face, there is no nose bridge, no expression, just two small nostrils are moving slightly.

The head seemed to know that Chen Xin was looking at him, and suddenly turned to Chen Xin's direction, grinning at the big mouth that was originally just a slit.

Even if it was still dozens of meters away, Chen Xin could still see the sharp teeth in his big mouth through the scope, and he knew that this zombie had found him, maybe he smelled it.

Without hesitation, Chen Xin pulled the trigger.

"Bang bang bang" more than a dozen gunshots in a row, Chen Xin didn't seem to have any intention of saving ammunition, and did not switch to single shots.

The zombie's neck was torn apart in an instant, and the neck above it was like a ball, and it was knocked away by the remaining bullets, hit the concrete wall, and rolled to the corner of the wall with a grunt.

Chen Xin waited for a while, and after not seeing any movement, he approached to observe.

The body of the zombie is still on the stairs, still arched, and the nails on the fingers are more than ten centimeters long, unlike the thin and fragile human beings, these nails are a little thick, and the crescent-like sides show a heavy texture of metal under the reflection of fluorescence. And the place on the nail head, I don't know if it was Chen Xin's illusion, reminded him a little of the freehand slicer in the biological laboratory.

The assault rifle was put on the side, and he squatted down and observed for a while, "It seems that the road is really being targeted, this zombie looks a little impatient." ”

Chen Xin had thought about it when he was climbing the stairs before, maybe he was targeted by one or two evolved zombies on the road, after all, in order to get here as quickly as possible, Chen Xin's movements were not particularly small, ordinary zombies couldn't keep up, and low-level power-type evolutionary zombies couldn't keep up, only speed-type evolutionary zombies could follow.

Originally, Chen Xin planned to inject the "high-level condensed version of the evolution potion" here, and torture the evolved zombies that came with him in this stairwell. According to what is written in the book, as long as you inject a "high-level condensed version of the evolution potion", at most 1 minute, you can at least evolve into a 5th-order "awakened", and you can also produce an immunity effect on the virus.

It's just that I didn't expect that the "high-level concentrated version of the evolution potion" is still in the process of being made, and even the "basic evolution potion" as an intermediate work-in-progress will not be harvested for a week, so Chen Xin's previous plans will all have to be reformulated, as a doctor of biology, he is actually "heartbroken" about this laboratory that was originally smashed, and he definitely hopes that it will not be broken if it can be preserved.

Of course, for now, the first thing in the list is to dispose of the "tail" that followed, and it must be solved without injury, because he does not have immunity to the virus yet.

The evolutionary zombie who didn't bite Chen Xin to death on the road in the first time wouldn't be a particularly powerful mid-level evolutionary zombie. And the high-level evolved zombies, Chen Xin remembered that the description in the book was that the scenes were particularly "exaggerated", the surrounding 100 meters of clearance was certain, and it was common to bring BGM, otherwise it would be the kind where the ground shook and the ground was shaken, and the ground felt the earthquake every few hundred meters, but fortunately, such a scene was easy to avoid.

After disposing of this "tail" by means of the terrain, Chen Xin hid back in the base, and after groping around, he found that there was a hydraulic switch inside the door, and then he "checked" the entire base.

Probably because the rules and regulations of this kind of base are relatively strict, and the food is not found at all. However, half a box of unopened water was found in one of the guard rooms, and water could still flow out of the water pipe, but the water that had not been filtered by biofilm at this stage could not be drunk by ordinary people in the "Wasteland Survival Manual", and ordinary people who drank it had a high probability of being infected, and even people who had taken the basic version of the "Evolution Elixir" would continue to have symptoms of fever and pain after a large number of long-term references.

Therefore, the discovery of half a box of water that can be drunk directly is a relief for Chen Xin, even if there is no updated water source, it can survive until half a month later, that is, when the "Evolution Elixir" is completed.

The water is settled, and I have to find some food.

Chen Xin planned to wait for dawn to try his luck in the direction of the port, remembering that it was recorded in the novel that there was a particularly large settlement on Jiangxin Island, and if there was a settlement, there must be food.

Although he was a little hungry now, it was already dark, and the risk outside was at least twice as great as during the day, not to mention that when he shot the high-level zombies just now, the sound of gunfire must have attracted a lot of zombies around this building.

"Let's wait until dawn before we go out! You must also be more careful, and never be spotted here. Chen Xin was lying on the bed in the guard room, talking to himself, his eyes began to be a little sluggish, and the high nervous tension for more than ten hours made him exhausted, and it was not until now that there was a thick alloy door to help him isolate himself from the outside world, he was able to relax, and the sound of snoring came out in a few seconds.

However, at this moment, just as Chen Xin began to fall asleep, at the end of the corridor outside the alloy door, the body of the zombie with his broken head began to squirm.

It lasted for about a quarter of an hour, and the zombie's stomach suddenly burst open with a "stab".

A zombie with almost the same appearance as the zombie with a severed head came out, but the size was very small, and the body was also covered with the broken internal organs of the big zombie, and kept sliding down from the head and body, some dripping on the ground, and some falling on the big zombie.

The little zombie looked at the zombie head in the corner of the wall in the distance, and then turned his head to look at the female zombie by the door at the end of the corridor, as if swallowing saliva.

But after glancing at the alloy door farther away, the little zombie crawled out of the body of the big zombie lightly, walked to the side of the alloy door, leaned down, maintained a posture that could pounce at any time, and stared at the alloy door motionlessly.

A night passed quickly, Chen Xin may still be controlled by the biological clock, looking at the clock in the base, he woke up at 7 o'clock.

"I'm a little hungry!"

"Let's wait and go out, let's go to the lab first." After Chen Xin got up, he rubbed his eyes and walked to the laboratory, he has always been obsessed with all kinds of biological knowledge, and he has long been "salivating" for all kinds of biological cultivation instruments in the laboratory.

There are many large bottles and small vials in the laboratory, when Chen Xin first entered, the centrifuge was still working, and many test tubes were not connected to each other, but most of the liquid in them were blue, but some were sky blue, some were dark blue, and the blue in individual test tubes seemed to emit a terrifying flash.

On the edge of the workbench, four robotic arms were still operating, Chen Xin carefully avoided them, checking test tubes, petri dishes and some slides, some equipment and instruments would have markings, and more had nothing.

After looking at it for a while, Chen Xin couldn't help but sigh, this laboratory was not transported away with the people of the institute, many instruments he had never seen, some of the instruments he had seen, in his past 10 years of laboratory career, were constantly applying for queue use, many machines are worth more than 10 million US dollars, many are still priceless, and they can't buy if they want to!

In addition to lamenting the fact that the institute was rich and unexpected, Chen Xin thought that in the future, such a batch of machines would appear in the novel for less than a dozen words, and they would become part of the trap, and then they would become a pile of medical waste, which made him really a little depressed.

After watching it for so long, Chen Xin's hands were already very itchy, as if a martial arts master who was good at using a sword suddenly encountered a peerless sword without an owner, and he could endure it for half an hour without playing, which was definitely amazing willpower.

Chen Xin rubbed his hands, and finally couldn't help but start tinkering with the pile of instruments, although Chen Xin didn't understand the configuration principle of the "evolution potion", but according to the standard program in the computer, Chen Xin suddenly made an astonishing discovery, the biological agents and gene editing tools in the petri dish should be enough to configure more than a dozen "basic version of the evolution potion". In other words, the original research institute has set a tolerance for error, and a few copies of the "basic version of the evolution potion" are missing, which does not mean that the "high-level version of the evolution potion" is not enough!

Chen Xin's breathing began to become heavy, and those who had not read the "Wasteland Survival Manual" would not know how valuable the "Evolution Elixir" was, even if the novel was developed in the later stages, the "Evolution Elixir" was also an important strategic material.

In the future, all parts of the world will be constantly destroyed, even if the production technology has been improving, but because the production facilities are constantly being destroyed, the production capacity of the "Evolution Elixir" can only be maintained at a very low level.

The "Evolutionary Elixir" is the most useful means of surviving in this crisis-ridden world.

A "Evolution Elixir" with a clear path can allow sellers to enjoy a whole year in peace and comfort in any settlement! Even if the source is not clean, or the effect is uncertain, and the injector needs to risk death, the home-made "evolution potion" can be exchanged for a cart of food or a gun and a base ammunition, which means that you can have your own wealth, power, and women.

But even so, the standard version of the "Evolution Elixir" is still priceless, let alone the high-level "Evolution Potion", because no one doesn't want to have a greater probability of survival, and no one doesn't want to become Superman.

Chen Xin is the same, becoming a superman is also the reason why he can persist in this world all the time, who grew up in the era of peace, who doesn't have a dream of becoming a superman in his heart?

Although the world in the "Wasteland Survival Manual" is very dangerous and bleak, compared to the dull life of the earth laboratory and the dormitory, Chen Xin has a little expectation in his heart.

If you have 1 "Advanced Evolution Elixir" out of 10 "Basic Evolution Elixirs", you can successfully awaken 100% of yourself to Rank 5 or higher, but there is a problem that it takes time to make.

But Chen Xin was still very excited, and he was intoxicated with the research on the configuration of the "Evolution Elixir", and even put his hunger aside.

The time spent immersed in the study passed quickly, and the clock at the base was already showing noon.

Outside the alloy door, the little zombie finally moved, no longer in a posture ready to pounce at any time, its hairless head turned to the windowless window, and the sunlight shone directly on its silently upright body, a little purple.

And just like when he walked to the door last night, he walked backwards and lightly to the corridor, and went down the stairs, without making a sound at all, but when his vision was covered by the stairs, the little zombie's face was half a face-sized pair of eyes, and he stared deeply at the alloy door, as if he was remembering something.