The lights in the underground research institute are always on, and only a 24-hour clock can be used to distinguish day from night.

It's already 22:30.

Yao Rong turned off the lights and lay on the bed.

The body that has been running for a long time is close to its limit, and the moment it touches the bed, it suddenly slacks down.

"System, help me collect more information about this world."

Dropping this sentence, Yao Rong closed his eyes and leaned on the pillow to plan for a good night's sleep.

No matter how anxious she is, she must first adjust her mental state to the best.

I don't know how long I slept, but suddenly, a rapid alarm sound pierced through the heavy reinforced concrete and echoed in the third basement floor.

In this kind of place, even when sleeping, Yao Rong maintained due vigilance, and almost as soon as the alarm sounded, Yao Rong opened his eyes.

The fundus of the eyes is clear, and there is no sleepiness.

She quickly got up and put on her shoes and opened the door.

The doors of the next room also opened one after another.

"Dr. Yao."

Although they hadn't seen her, many people had guessed her identity, and greeted Yao Rong while rushing in the direction of the nutrition cabin.

Yao Rong asked casually, "What is the situation now?" ”

But before those subordinates could answer, the tragic situation in their eyes had already answered Yao Rong's confusion.

The alarm is coming from the third nutrition pod on the left.

In this nutrition cabin, there is No. 87.

Yao Rong still remembers the number 87 she saw this afternoon.

Eighty-seven has long soft black hair and is a well-behaved girl.

Her upper body still retains her human appearance, but her legs completely transform into octopus shapes.

Her tentacles are longer, thicker, and more powerful than those of a normal octopus.

It's just that at this moment, her face is almost distorted in pain.

The mutation started at her waist and crept up little by little.

Her mouth was open, as if she was wailing, as if she was asking for help, but all voices were muffled by the nutrition pod, and she could only sweep her eyes over one researcher after another.

"Genetic instability has reached 86."

"It seems that I haven't survived the evolution liquid injected yesterday."

"The values of the eighty-seven are still good, but it's a pity."

"We'll have to send in more test subjects, our test subjects are dying too quickly."

These researchers stood in front of the nutrition pod, and even the change in her values before her death became a piece of data for their research.

Eighty-Seven's eyes died down little by little, she finally couldn't bear the pain anymore, and while human reason was still there, she wrapped her tentacles around her neck and gave an attack command with her brain.

……

【Host ......】

"By the time I arrived, her genetic sequence had collapsed."

She couldn't save Eighty-Seven.

Death is the best relief for Eighty-Seven.

The researchers were still arguing fiercely, until someone noticed that Eighty-Seven's number had disappeared, and it was discovered that she had broken her neck on her own, ending the pain.

"Get her out there and take her to be dealt with."

Yao Rong's voice came from behind everyone.

Of course, these dirty jobs do not need to be done by scientific researchers.

On the periphery of the nutrition pod, there stood more than two dozen tall men armed with guns, three of whom also wore game bracelets on their wrists.

These are the guards on the third basement floor.

Yao Rong's gaze slowly turned from them, assessing the combat effectiveness of both sides.

These guards have a special temperament, and there are no less than ten human lives in their hands, and with her current physical fitness, even the weakest one among them may not be able to win.

Suppressing these thoughts for a moment, Yao Rong walked over to the corpse of Number Eighty-Seven.

Eighty-seven's eyes were wide open, bloodshot and bloodshot, as if he was staring straight at someone.

Yao Rong reached out and closed her eyes for her.

There is a unique butterfly-shaped hairpin in her hair, which is expensive at first glance, Yao Rong took the hairpin from the No. 87 hairpin and held it in the palm of her hand.

Dr. Chen, a middle-aged researcher, hurried over.

Seeing Yao Rong, he looked helpless: "I didn't expect that such a thing happened when you just came to the research institute." ”

Yao Rong nodded, looking preoccupied.

"Dr. Yao, what's wrong?"

"It's okay, I just think it's a pity that this test subject died."

Dr. Chan expressed his sadness: "She is dedicated to science, and all these sacrifices will be worth it. ”

Yao Rong asked, "What will the institute do with her body?" ”

Dr. Chen's eyes flashed: "Of course, it is a good burial." ”

In front of Dr. Chen, Yao Rong directly put the hairpin into his pocket: "Hasn't there been a gene stabilizer in the base?" As long as there was a gene stabilizer just now, this subject might not have died. ”

"Unfortunately, we did a lot of research, but we didn't make any substantial breakthroughs."

Yao Rong directly asked: "Can you show me all these research materials?" You know, I've been working on genetic defects. Genetic defects are accompanied by the collapse of the gene sequence, so I have specialized in the proposition of genetic stability. ”

Hearing that Yao Rong wanted to study gene stabilizers, Dr. Chen was overjoyed: "Of course there is no problem. I'll have someone deliver it early tomorrow morning. ”

To be honest, Dr. Chen has been thinking for a long time about how to place Yao Rong.

With Yao Rong's ability, it would be a waste of talent to only let her do some simple research.

But Yao Rong had just joined the Ninth Research Institute, and she couldn't be allowed to get in touch with those core secrets right away.

Now Yao Rong has taken the initiative to study gene stabilizers, which is exactly what Dr. Chen wants.

Gene stabilizers do not involve core secrets and are extremely important for genetic experiments.

It is very appropriate to leave it to Yao Rong to do it.

Early the next morning, Dr. Chen personally delivered the materials.

Yao Rong took the information: "Dr. Chen, can I freely enter and exit the fourth and fifth basement floors?" Compared to the three basement floors, the other two layers have worse genetic stability, and a lot of sample data is collected, which can be helpful for my research. ”

Dr. Chen hesitated, but nodded in response, "No problem." You are the person in charge of the third basement floor, and you have access to the fourth basement floor and the fifth basement floor. ”

"That's great."

Yao Rong put forward several more requirements, such as checking the data of the experimental subjects and checking the changes in the data of the nutrition cabin......

These requests did not involve core secrets, and Dr. Chen readily agreed.

Subsequently, Dr. Chen took Yao Rong to meet the researcher on the third basement floor.

There are a total of twelve researchers on the third floor of the basement, plus Yao Rong, and Yao Rong has basically seen them all last night, but he hasn't been able to match the name with the person.

After introducing themselves, the researchers applauded and welcomed Yao Rong's arrival.

"My main focus will be on the development of genetic stabilizers, and you will be in charge of the test subjects for the time being, just like when I didn't come." After the applause stopped, Yao Rong announced his decision.

The researchers looked at each other.

They are all researchers in the field of life genes, and they are familiar with Yao Rong's name.

After knowing that Dr. Yao was going to be their leader, the researchers were secretly happy.

Their experimental progress has been stagnant for some time, and with Dr. Yao on board, they may soon be able to make a breakthrough.

But Dr. Yao had just joined, and he was going to work on something else......

"Rest assured. At most, for a month, whether or not I can develop a gene stabilizer, I will come back and join you in your experiments. ”

[Ding, the world's basic data collection has been completed, please confirm whether the host has checked it]

As soon as Yao Rong stepped into his room, he heard the sound of the system.

Her expression remained unchanged, she walked to the desk, pulled out a chair and sat down, and took out a document casually as if flipping through it: "Check it directly." ”

The data collected by the system is very complete.

From these materials, Yao Rong has a deeper understanding of the world.

Among them, Yao Rong is most concerned about the information about the game bracelet.

Based on what is known so far, there should be only ten abilities granted by the game band.

Gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, mutated wind, mutated thunder, and mutated ice.

There are also healing and spatial abilities that are specifically used as supports.

There are 100 levels of abilities.

Just like in a game, as long as you get enough XP, the ability can level up.

The way to gain experience points is also very simple, which is to kill zombies.

The higher the level, the more powerful the ability.

There is also a special note at the bottom of the information: [Once the game bracelet is bound, it is indestructible]

Yao Rong read this sentence three times and smiled slightly: What does she think, the meaning of this sentence is like saying that once the game invitation code is activated, it cannot be used again.

"System, help me block out the surveillance."

Now Yao Rong does not have any electronic equipment in his hands, so he can only use the system as an electronic device.

[It's been blocked.] 】

Now, if someone goes to check Yao Rong's surveillance, they can only see that she has been sitting in a chair and looking through the information.

"Thank you."

Yao Rong raised her right wrist, and with her silent chanting "Unshield", a bracelet glowing with milky white instantly appeared on her right wrist.

On the third day of the apocalypse, Yao Rong was lucky enough to obtain this game bracelet and obtained a very rare healing ability.

It's just that a scientific researcher of Yao Rong's level is a huge loss to lose one, and the leader of the Jiang Provincial Base can't let her go to the wild to kill zombies, so her ability is still level 1.

No matter how you look at it, game bracelets are useless at this time.

However, Yao Rong still played with great interest for a long time.

If it weren't for the fact that the gaming bracelet couldn't be removed, she would love to remove it all and see its inner workings.

"System, can you help me confirm a conjecture?"

[What conjecture?] 】

"You try to see if you can hack this game bracelet."

[Huh? 】

The system made what could be called a blank sound.

"You try it first." Yao Rong didn't explain right away.

As if the monitoring of the base had just been hacked, the system repeated the same steps in an attempt to hack the bracelet on Yao Rong's wrist.

Originally, it thought it was invulnerable, but as its network extended to the bracelet, it felt an eerie resistance.

There's a proper noun for that resistance, it's called—

Firewall.

[Hey, can you really invade!? 】

"Looks like I'm not wrong in my guess."

What's going on? 】

Yao Rong picked up the cup and took a few big sips of water: "Since this is the real world derived from the game, do you think this bracelet is not like a login and invitation code." ”

"If you have a login and an invitation code, you can become a gamer, and you can have all kinds of attributes that belong to the player."

For example, experience bars and abilities.

"As long as this speculation is true, then, no matter what kind of world is derived, its world origin is still a string of source code, with fixed operating rules and language logic."

"As long as I figure out these operating rules and language logic, I can even directly invade the world like a hacker."

System:???

Although it's just a small new system that has just experienced three worlds, it usually brushes the system forum and can always brush the anti-addiction mechanism to trigger.

It had never been heard of that there were taskers capable of invading the world.

As if guessing what the system was thinking, Yao Rong chuckled: "Of course, I just said it was an exaggeration. ”

"This is already a complete big world, if you want to invade it, let alone me and you, even if the main god system comes, you may not be able to do it."

"But I want to...... As long as you have enough data to hack and deconstruct on a small scale, there should be a chance to do it. ”

The system doesn't know what to say anymore.

This kind of genius and crazy idea is also thanks to the host to come up with it.

Yao Rong smiled slightly, and his tone softened, as if he was bewitching: "So, are you willing to help me?" I can't do it without you. ”

The careful liver of the system trembled: Oh my God, this tone, a proper unscrupulous boss flickered the new system!

But......

But it's bound to the host for so long, and this is the first time the host needs its help!

Holding his heart and hesitating for a moment, the system couldn't help but ask: [What do you need me to help you do? 】

"Crack it, read its data thoroughly." Yao Rong pointed to the game bracelet.

The system was a little relieved.

It's just to break the game bracelet, not to call it a direct attack on the game world.

This......

That shouldn't be a big deal, right?

【Good!】 】

The system gritted its teeth and took a bite.

[It's not very difficult to break the game bracelet, but it may take a long time to read its data thoroughly]

"How long will it take?"

[I can't say for sure, if it's fast, it may take a week, and if it's slow, it may take ten days and half a month.] 】

"You try, I'll do it."

Yao Rong will not bet all the treasures on the system, in such a dangerous place, at least make plan B and plan C to be a little more at ease.

With the permission of Yao Rong, the owner, it took several hours for the system to break through the game bracelet.

It seems that the source code of this game world is much more complicated than she imagined.

Yao Rong turned the pen in his hand and began to look through the information about gene stabilizers.

I have to say that the Ninth Research Institute has gathered a large number of genius scientists, although they have not successfully developed gene stabilizers, but the various data and conclusions they have drawn have greatly inspired Yao Rong.

After reading for a whole night, Yao Rong finally finished reading all the information, and the notebook on the side was also full of dense data and experimental conjectures.

Without taking a break, Yao Rong went directly to the laboratory located on the fourth basement floor, one after another to confirm his conjecture, and reversed the reason in the failure again and again.

In the worst case, there was a small explosion in the laboratory, and almost half of the wall was blown through.

Dr. Chen hurried over, and when he saw that Yao Rong was fine, he breathed a sigh of relief: "Dr. Yao, you are ...... How can your research on gene stabilizers cause an explosion? ”

Unheard.

It's unheard of!

In the face of Dr. Chen's faint accusation, Yao Rong was very excited.

"Dr. Chen, I read the data last night and found that all the researchers kept the ingredients in the stabilizer in balance when configuring the stabilizer. So I wanted to try what happens to the stabilizer when the ingredients in it are conflicting. ”

"The result! Do you know what I found!? ”

"What did you find?" Dr. Chan was drawn to Yao Rong's words.

I've only heard of maintaining the balance of ingredients, and the first time I've heard of someone mixing stabilizers, they deliberately let the ingredients hedge.

"Destruction may also mean reinvention."

Yao Rong handed her notebook to Dr. Chen.

"You see, the first few reagents I blended, in the case of the collision of ingredients, their stability has improved."

After reading the above data, Dr. Chen raised his eyebrows in surprise: "It's really feasible." ”

"In short, the conventional experimental method has been tried countless times, and it is not impossible to try the sword to the edge."

"But isn't this explosion too risky?" Dr. Chan frowned.

"Don't worry, I promise there will be no more accidents in the future."

Dr. Chan pondered for a moment, and finally agreed, "Then let's try it." ”

As Dr. Chan left the lab, others left the lab one after another.

Yao Rong walked to the place where the explosion had occurred just now and reached out to touch it carefully.

Yao Rong was not completely fooling Dr. Chen with what he said just now.

In her experiments, she did find that the composition clash is maintained to a certain extent, which can improve stability.

But this explosion was intentional by her.

- She's testing the power of the explosion.