Chapter 642: Queen
Lu Muqing didn't expect that none of the people in the cabin complained or attacked her. Instead, they all silently made their own choice -- resigned to their fate, or re-jumped into the city that had been flooded by the sea and continued to swim inland.
"I can't do it anymore...... I don't know how to swim! A man buried his head between his hands, sat down in a chair, and began to weep, "I knew we were doomed...... This is the end times, this is the end times! β
One after another, others followed Lu Muqing's prompts, removed the cushion, tied it to their bodies, and jumped into the water.
Outside the cabin, the water level was already very close to the hatch.
And in the distance of the ocean, huge waves are still hitting the shore. The survivors could even faintly see that new landmasses were forming in the ocean. The position of the plane is still slightly higher than other places, otherwise it would have been roofless.
The magnitude of the earthquake seems to be getting more and more violent.
Airplanes have begun to float a little like ships.
Mu Xiaofeng saw from the window of the cockpit that one after another survivors, like duckweed, were like duckweed, holding the cushions and swimming into the distance.
"Will they really survive? I'm afraid I'll just drown on the road, right? Mu Xiaofeng thought.
βββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββ
Stanley and the others waited for the tide to recede slightly, and walked downstairs with Zheng Zhilan and her mother.
"You're my queen!" Stanley said to Zheng's mother.
"But you can't even remember my Zhongzhou name." Mother Zheng replied.
"I don't need to remember that! All I know is that your name is Queen, and that's enough! Stanley smiled and said, "Come on?" Hurry up and get the 'evolution'! β
He picked up the needle, dragged Zheng's mother's arm, and inserted the needle into it.
"Don't!!" Zheng Zhilan shouted loudly, trying to stop the other party.
The mother just turned her head silently and glanced at her, and there was no trace of hesitation, sadness, resistance and other emotions in her expression.
"Did you come back this time and see your father?" She just asked Zheng Zhilan such a sentence. In Zheng Zhilan's impression, her mother didn't seem to have said anything more to herself.
Zheng Zhilan looked at her coldly, "I saw it, soaked in a jar, and now he has ...... Turned into a zombie. β
"Hmm. Oh, yes. This should be a fate that no one can escape. Mother said, looking down at the needle.
"Then why didn't you ask about Zheng Jieming's situation?" Zheng Zhilan looked at her mother, she was full of many doubts about her mother, she still didn't know why her mother was willing to accept Stanley's control - she should have a choice!!
She is sometimes sympathetic to her mother, sometimes full of resentment, and she does not know what role her mother plays in SJS.
"Dead, right? I don't think any mortal can escape such a fate. "It's a pity, Stanley, that you can't be more perfect." β
Then, on the top of the stairs, she began to convulse violently, and she curled up on the ground, her hands covering her heart, "I feel like I'm going to suffocate, my heart ...... Heart ......"
"yes, it's a wonderful feeling." Stanley looked at her.
After a short period of time, Zheng's mother got up from the ground again, and her eyes had turned red.
"It seems that my previous doubts about you are still correct." She felt the changes in her body, "no heartbeat, no breathing...... It seems ......," she pinched her arm, "and even the pain isn't so acute, but does it really mean anything?" β
"As long as it helps us survive, it makes sense." Stanley replied, "Well, whether you think the new 'evolution' is perfect or not, you are still one of us." β
Zheng Zhilan stared blankly at the conversation between her mother and Stanley, and she found that all her illusions about her mother had been shattered.
She once thought that her mother was just being coerced into joining SJS, but now she accepted the injection without any resistance, and calmly communicated with Stanley.
"Mom?" Zheng Zhilan interrupted the conversation between the two.
Mother Zheng turned her head to look at Zheng Zhilan, her red eyes made Zheng Zhilan feel strange and distant.
"So what the hell do you think?? What role do you play in the study of zombies and all the actions involved? Zheng Zhilan asked. She was worried that her mother would give her desperate answers.
"Effect?" Mother thought for a moment, "One of the core planners...... It's just that Stanley is not only the core planner, but also the executor of the whole operation. β
That's exactly the answer that makes me desperate. Zheng Zhilan thought bitterly.
"So, what did you do in the two institutes where you left me, the two institutes you stayed in!? What did you do to Dad?! Zheng Zhilan continued to ask.
"Research. We've been working on it ever since we discovered the original virus from the northern provincial border. But the government has asked us to suspend that research -- if it does...... Your father won't be able to come back, and more benefits for humanity won't be able to be brought into play. Mother Zheng replied calmly. It's a pity that Stanley can't be so perfect, and his understanding is different from mine after all. Is it the second best thing? β
"Are you brainwashed, or are you stupid?" Zheng Zhilan said fiercely to her mother.
"I've always been like this, daughter." She replied, "I just think farther than the average person thinks, you have to believe, even farther than Stanley." β
Zheng Zhilan was completely destroyed by this truth.
Her mother has always been secretive about her, almost never meeting her alone, and after she came to Eagle Country and joined SJS, even Stanley met with her more times than her mother met with her.
But she's been staying at SJS all along, isn't it just to get an answer?? Why did she leave quietly, why did she join SJS, and why did all this???
All you can get is one answer like this??
"What do you really want to say?" Zheng Zhilan asked coldly.
"Yes! Daughter. Mother replied.
"I don't recognize you as my mother." Zheng Zhilan replied, then turned to Stanley, "Give me the needle, I will inject it too." β
She turned to the two people who were restraining her and said, "Let me go, I'll inject myself." β
Stanley grinned and told his men to let go of Zheng Zhilan and handed her a syringe.
"If this thing is injected into the body of a dying or recently dying person, will it also work?" Zheng Zhilan whispered to herself.
She took the needle, rolled up her sleeve, and looked at Stanley and her mother, two people who had become alien to the concept of "human."
At this time, the five people were in the middle of the hallway, and a small window was not far from the bottom of the steps.
"If there's no water down there, then resign yourself to your fate." Zheng Zhilan thought about it, and looked at her mother again, but the other party's eyes were still so calm, and she couldn't see any mother-daughter love.
Suddenly, Zheng Zhilan quickly rushed towards the small window and jumped out.
"Catch Her !!" Stanley shouted, watching Zheng Zhilan leap out the window.
οΌοΌοΌοΌοΌοΌ
Zheng Zhilan fell quickly, and she saw that the street below was filled with seawater.
"I hope it's deep enough! But don't go too deep!! Hopefully he hasn't been washed away yet!! Zheng Zhilan thought as she fell.
She fell into the water, but her hand protected the tiny needle from damage.
"It's okay, it's deep enough...... Zheng Zhilan thought, "but where is he?" Will he still be able to hold on to his breath? Or has it been washed away by the sea?! β
She still remembered the arrangement of the buildings here, and swam straight towards the place where Zheng Jieming's hand was cut off before.
The distance became extremely dangerous for her.
Beside her, a huge sea fish swam by, and she saw that the fish still had a man's clothes hanging from its mouth.
What she didn't know was that it was the Golden Tiger's clothes.
"Is it a shark?? Or is it something else?! She thought confusedly, unable to tell whether this was land or sea. The ground is full of cracks! It looks like the Minato Ward of Tsuhama City is already sinking!? β
Right at the mouth of the alley ahead!! Zheng Zhilan finally found the right direction, she raised her head and took a breath, and continued to swim towards that side with her head down.
And when she finally swam to that alley, she couldn't find Zheng Jieming's "corpse" at all!
"Was it flooded and washed away?! Or was it taken away by a fish?! Despair hit Zheng Zhilan's heart again, she originally thought that her brother was dead, but when she saw her mother, oh no, Queen's injection reagent, she once again had hope of saving her "alive" brother.
Only now did she realize how innocent and naΓ―ve her little hope was.
She could only float to the surface, breathe hard, and climb onto the roof next to her.
"He's running out of blood!! Even if I find him and inject him, what can I do?! I'm just delusional!! She said with her head down and her face covered.
οΌοΌοΌοΌοΌοΌ
"Are you looking for him?" A tired voice sounded behind her.
She turned around and saw that it was the tall man she had seen in the Resistance League--his face covered in blood, sitting in a corner of the roof, leaning on a "corpse" in his arms.
It is Zheng Jieming's "corpse".