Chapter 1475: Chapter 614: Stealth Zombie Lord

After clearing out the zombies in the research institute, Wang Tao led a group of people to search for research data.

Forget about finding data on the Ancestral Virus, even other data were extremely scarce. There wasn’t much paper material left, and the computers were all broken… A suicide note gave Wang Tao a rough idea of the situation here.

At the outbreak of the apocalypse, people at this research institute had very bad luck. Someone inside was infected, and the entire institute was almost wiped out. Although a few survivors made it, they didn’t survive past three days and eventually died. This suicide note was left by one of those survivors… so they had no time to research the Zombie Virus.

“Sigh…”

Wang Tao sighed.

He felt sorry for the researchers and was disappointed for not being able to find the data he needed.

But it wasn’t a big issue. Even though he didn’t find the Ancestral Virus data, he gained a lot along the way, which he counted as a worthwhile trip.

“Let’s head to the next place while it’s still light out.”

“Alright!”

The group rode the Golden Eagle to the next location.

Previously, Qu Shilin had given Wang Tao a map, which marked the precise locations of some well-known labs, research institutes, and major hospitals across the country, and she had thoughtfully planned the route as well. Wang Tao just needed to search them one by one from the nearest to the farthest.

With so many places, surely some data on the Ancestral Virus could be found? After all, they had found some at the first laboratory they visited, plus the data initially obtained from Shuize County Hospital, that made two sets. This signified that certainly someone had researched the Ancestral Virus; it was just a matter of whether any data had been preserved.

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“There are more and more zombies…”

From the sky above, observing the Zombie Herd below, Han Rui frowned.

They had taken this road on their way here, but there weren’t this many zombies before. In less than half a day, a herd numbering in the thousands had appeared.

“Damn it! Where were all these zombies hiding before? In the snow and ice, zombies were almost nowhere to be seen, rare like protected animals. Hunting zombies used to be quite a chore… But now, with the ice and snow melting and the weather warming up, these zombies are popping up everywhere like bamboo shoots after a rain…”

Xiang Hongbin’s words immediately won everyone’s agreement.

“Yeah, it feels like there are more zombies now than before the big snow…”

“This reminds me of the initial times of the apocalypse… But now these zombies are much more powerful than those in the early days of the apocalypse!”

“Maybe zombies have other ways to increase their kind besides biting people? Like giving birth or something?”

“That should be impossible… right?”

“… It’s hard to say, in the apocalypse we’ve seen all kinds of strange things. It might be possible that zombies really can reproduce… Remember, Wang Tao said that those Giant Zombies and Night Demon Zombies could create offspring through other Ordinary Zombies… so it wouldn’t be surprising if some zombies had the ability to give birth…”

Wang Tao didn’t join the discussion. He carefully observed the Zombie Herd, and after confirming there were no zombies above Sixth-Rank Lord, he did not order the Golden Eagle to stay.

Only zombies above Sixth-Rank Lord were worth his intervention; otherwise, it would be a waste of time as he still needed to search for the Ancestral Virus data.

By the time Wang Tao and his party arrived at the third target location, it was already night. It wasn’t that they arrived slow but because they encountered two Zombie Herds along the way, each containing a Sixth-Rank Lord Zombie. Dealing with them had delayed them some time.

“Sss–so many zombies!”

The third location was a hospital, a very famous one within the country that Wang Tao often saw in the news.

Now, this hospital had essentially become a den for zombies. From a distance, one could see a large number of Level Five and Six zombies around the outside of the hospital, in the yard, and on the roof. Moreover, these zombies were mostly Elite Zombies, with very few Ordinary Zombies!

This reminded Wang Tao of the situation in the hospital in Shuize County. Zombies in places like hospitals tended to be stronger than zombies in other places…

The zombies in front were not in a disordered and chaotic state; it was obvious that they were moving according to certain rules.

“There’s at least one Sixth-Rank Lord here, definitely no Disaster-class zombie…”

Wang Tao didn’t like having a large number of zombies at the mission location. He himself wasn’t afraid, but he feared that the survivors here might have died long ago, leaving no useful information…

However, now that he was here, the hospital still needed to be thoroughly searched.

“Get ready, everyone! I’ll leave these zombies to you. You attack first, and I’ll wait for the Zombie Lord to come out.”

“Okay!”

The Golden Eagle flew right to the hospital’s main entrance, dropping off Ding Yuqin and the others, then carried only Wang Tao up into the sky.

“Roar–”

The appearance of the Golden Eagle immediately caught the attention of a large number of zombies. Even though the Golden Eagle had flown up into the sky, the zombies still roared and charged towards the main entrance.

Even though the Golden Eagle left, it had left behind a scent of delicious food, which the zombies could distinctly sense. Eating this delicious food, they knew, would lead to evolution! Naturally, they would not let it go, and charged toward Ding Yuqin and the others, like cats smelling fishy scent.

Seeing the Zombie Herd charging head-on, nobody backed down.

Lin Meng gave everyone a blessing boost, everyone gripped their weapons firmly, then charged towards the Zombie Herd.