Chapter 334 - 267: Change of Heart

Chapter 334: Chapter 267: Change of Heart

Yu Dong’s last call of the day was to Zhou Jian Country.

"Zhou, this is Yu Dong, the real Reincarnator."

"Oh, you’re the one who brought in Xufeng and Jiang Zhuoyu, right? Hello, hello. I’ve heard so much about you."

"...Yes. How are things on your end, Zhou? Are you in any danger?"

"My lab is fine. We’re in an isolated area, but we can’t get out. There are zombies everywhere outside, student zombies from the university are running all over the place..."

"What about your supplies? Do you have enough to eat and drink?"

"Enough. Three of us from the research institute survived. I calculated we have enough food and water for the three of us for two and a half years. Plus, our institute has photovoltaic panels on the roof, so we have enough power."

"What about weapons? The institute’s defenses? The zombies will evolve!"

"We don’t have much of that... I wasn’t planning on going out anyway. I just want to find out what caused the apocalypse that you’ve experienced over and over..."

"So? Any discoveries? Those four-dimensional particles you mentioned."

"Our observation stations around the world haven’t detected any special elements... It’s strange. Logically, something should have appeared. Besides a four-dimensional object, what else could place a virus that instantly infects the entire globe inside our bodies?"

"’Place inside our bodies?’ What do you mean?"

"Before the apocalypse, everyone was fine. Then, at 7 o’clock, everyone was infected simultaneously, and it escalated and broke out rapidly. Doesn’t that sound like a virus that was placed inside us? There’s no other way it could have happened."

"Alright... so there’s still no progress, right?"

Although Yu Dong had always wanted to support Zhou’s research, he also knew that this kind of thing... it wasn’t something you could get results from just by wanting to. The world was full of unresolved scientific mysteries.

Even Zhou himself wasn’t confident he could persuade the higher-ups to help him continue his research on ’four-dimensional particles’ during the apocalypse.

This was different from a vaccine. Humanity had been working with vaccines for many years. Moreover, Professor Meng had extracted a special strain from the body of a large, muscular zombie. It had low toxicity and its destructive effect on the human brain was greatly reduced. That was why the [Flawed Vaccine] allowed a person to turn into a zombie while still retaining their complete memory. If the other toxic properties could be suppressed, there was a chance to create a perfect inactivated vaccine.

If the inactivated vaccine was successful, it would prove this path was viable. Then, creating an mRNA vaccine, which doesn’t require the original virus, would just be a matter of investing enough time and talent.

Compared to Zhou’s vague and confusing four-dimensional particles... this was much more down-to-earth.

Besides, in his past life, Yu Dong had never heard any national broadcasts about the origin of the apocalyptic virus. He had, however, heard official announcements about vaccine development.

"It’s so strange... It shouldn’t be like this... Something must have gone wrong somewhere."

Zhou muttered to himself, feeling as if he had gone down the wrong path somewhere.

Yu Dong sighed. "Zhou, what’s done is done. Just keep up with your research. If your location is no longer safe, tell me, and I’ll find a way to come rescue you."

"Forget it, forget it! Coming to Kyoto is too dangerous... I’ll just stay here for a couple of years and see. I’ll contact you if I make any breakthroughs."

After hanging up, Yu Dong felt a bit wistful.

In this life, not having Zhou around felt strange.

Zhou had thrown himself into his experiment, which hadn’t yielded any results for over two years. The high hopes of observing four-dimensional particles at the moment of the apocalypse’s outbreak had also ended in failure...

’Oh well. I’ll leave such a profound problem for the scientists to think about. I just need to do my part... In any case, if the vaccine is successful, we can immunize people against the virus in advance.’

Zhou wanted to study the cause, while Yu Dong focused on the solution.

Neither approach was superior; they simply excelled in different areas.

Exhausted from the long day, Yu Dong felt a bit weary. He glanced at the dormitory area, where the large number of corpses had already been moved out under Lin Mo’s direction.

By now, Lin Mo had already assigned everyone their dorm rooms.

The dormitory building had seven floors and four elevators. The first floor was a recreational area with activity rooms, while the second floor and above were all individual dorm rooms.

Although it was called a factory dormitory, Yin Shuangyang had actually renovated it to be extremely luxurious. Each room was outfitted with a full set of high-end furniture and appliances, and even the toilets were smart toilets, making it comparable to a high-end apartment.

Yin Shuangyang had been extremely good to his subordinates.

So, Yu Dong killed them all.

"You’re here. I just finished assigning the dorms and tallied up the numbers." Lin Mo, holding a red-covered notebook, began to report to Yu Dong naturally.

"There are 51 students from Ocean University in total: 32 men and 19 women."

"There are 58 construction workers, all men."

"There are 9 electrical engineers, all men."

"There are 22 secretaries, all women."

"Then there’s the rest of us, the personnel activated by you and Jiang Zhuoyu. There are 23 of us in total: 17 men and 6 women."

"Right now, the total population of our base is 163 people, with 116 men and 47 women."

"Excluding the first and seventh floors, the dormitory building has a total of 600 rooms. At a standard of two people per room, we can perfectly accommodate 1,200 people. If we squeeze a bit, fitting 3 to 4 people per room is also possible, which would double our capacity."

"To maintain room efficiency and prevent waste, I’ve temporarily assigned them to double rooms. The men are on the second floor, and the women are on the fifth."

Hearing that Lin Mo had already arranged everything so methodically, Yu Dong felt a great sense of satisfaction.

"Lin Mo, it’s so good to have you..."

In his past life, she had been just like this, managing the home front perfectly. She was never the one to cause trouble; she was always the one solving problems.