Apocalypse: I'm the Landlady of the Refuge

The System fell silent again, and even Ji Wanwan could sense its confusion.

Just as Ji Wanwan was about to speak to break the awkwardness, the System spoke up, "Let’s lure the snake out of the hole and kill him."

When the System said this, Ji Wanwan became interested, "Oh, it seems like the System has already thought of a method, let’s hear it?"

System, "If it were me, I would..."

After the System finished speaking, Ji Wanwan thoughtfully nodded, "That’s not a bad idea..."

Her tone slightly cheerful, she smiled with her eyes curved, "It seems the System is also growing, becoming more and more powerful!"

System, "..."

Zhou Kai, who had been quietly observing Ji Wanwan, saw the slight upturn of her lips and her pleased expression, and couldn’t help but hesitantly furrow his brows.

What is Boss Ji thinking?

The three had inspected the scene, but had not gathered any useful information, since room 26 had been completely destroyed by the mutated zombie family.

Ji Wanwan stored the family portrait she had seen earlier into the System Space, then turned and led Zhou Kai and Wang Youde back to the central building, straight to the laboratory.

In the laboratory, the family of four from room 26 were all isolated in a special lab, where Xu Siming was donning professional protective gear to prepare for researching the infected.

Ji Xing walked out of the changing room in the lab, "Sister, you’re here."

He glanced sideways at Xu Siming, "Brother Siming is quite interested in experiments, so he swapped with me. I’m going to investigate the information on this family, and Xiao Jing is in charge of guarding the group of survivors brought back to the central building this morning."

Ji Wanwan gave a slight nod, "Okay, as long as you have it arranged."

Standing outside the glass wall, Ji Wanwan carefully observed the four infected inside the laboratory.

Based on their still-intact facial features and their height characteristics, Ji Wanwan had already roughly identified their identities.

A very ordinary family of four, father, mother, grandmother, son.

The father’s skin condition was the most intact, he must have been the first one infected.

Xu Siming also approached the room holding the father first and, with the enhancement of his superpower, extracted some of the father’s blood and flesh.

The test results came back quickly, and the virus level in the father’s body was high, typical for an infected person.

Ji Wanwan turned her head towards Wang Youde, "Youde, the complete mutation of room 26, what do you think of this matter?"

Wang Youde hadn’t expected Ji Wanwan to ask him, initially stunned, then confusedly raised his hand to scratch his head, "Uh, perhaps a zombie sneaked into the base?"

Ji Wanwan innocently twisted her mouth, "But Brother Wu and Ah Li are on guard and carrying out searches every day, and haven’t found any trace of zombies in the base."

"Uh..." Wang Youde’s mind raced, "Could it be that the zombie can hide itself?"

Ji Wanwan looked puzzled, tilting her head, "Hide? Is that even possible?"

Wang Youde chuckled dryly, "What if? Think about it, Lord, high-level zombies possess intelligence and can evolve corresponding abilities. Perhaps with further evolution, they can disguise themselves just like humans?"

Ji Wanwan nodded seriously, "That’s not unreasonable, but I don’t quite understand..."

Encouraged by the agreement, Wang Youde’s eyes gleamed a bit brighter as he considered the matter even more earnestly, "What don’t you understand, Lord?"

Ji Wanwan laughed softly, "High-level zombies might be able to disguise their appearance, but what about blood tests? The base has conducted so many blood tests in succession, how did those high-level zombies conceal that? Could they actually make it so that the blood samples drawn don’t contain the virus?"

Upon being asked, Wang Youde was dumbstruck.

Meanwhile, Zhou Kai slowly began to speak, "For an entity to be infectious, it must contain a high number of virus carriers in its body.

Whether it’s a fully mutated zombie or a not fully mutated half-infected, as long as it is infectious, the amount of virus in its body must be considerably high.

Tell me, can a regular human body withstand such a massive invasion of the virus?"

Wang Youde shook his head subconsciously.

Zhou Kai slightly nodded, "Good, then let’s continue... 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

According to our experiments, this zombie virus causes the human body to lose activity, and an inanimate body’s blood will gradually coagulate and settle, resulting in livor mortis, making the body appear grayish-white. This transformation is irreversible. Are you clear on this?"

Wang Youde shook his head subconsciously, but after just a moment, he quickly came to his senses and began nodding eagerly, "Clear!"

Zhou Kai subtly curled his lips, "OK, given all that, do you still think zombies could disguise themselves as ordinary people and infiltrate the base?"

Wang Youde was hit hard, his face quickly turning red.

After being startled for a long time, he muttered reluctantly, "What if, what if someone is exceptionally gifted, able to withstand the virus, and maintain a normal human state while still being infectious?"

Zhou Kai pursed his lips, "Perhaps as you say, such people indeed exist. Then, how do you think They could evade a blood test?

If Xia Li’s blood test could detect the virus, how powerful must a high-level zombie be to perfectly deceive even a blood test?"

Wang Youde fell silent.

Not giving him a moment to breathe, Zhou Kai pressed on, "Assume, there truly is a high-level zombie that could fool even a blood test. Then why, being so powerful, would They resort to such shady methods to disrupt the base?"

This time, Wang Youde’s face turned from red to white.

He looked up, annoyed and angry, "Just because you haven’t seen it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist! As for why They would do this, there are plenty of high-ranking superpower users within the base. Disintegrating it from the inside out, then defeating them one by one, would increase their odds of winning. Isn’t this easy to understand?"

Zhou Kai raised an eyebrow, his smile not fading, "Naturally, it’s not hard to understand. Such a straightforward motive can easily be seen through by ordinary people. Why would They still do it?"

Wang Youde snorted, "Simple but effective, isn’t it? At least all the survivors in the base have been thrown into panic because of the recent events.

If such events occur a few more times, people will soon start doubting the leader’s capabilities, thus being exploited by schemers to create infighting within the base."

Zhou Kai’s smile deepened, turning his gaze towards Ji Wanwan, "So, Boss Ji, do you have any strategy in mind?"

Ji Wanwan also couldn’t help but curve her lips, "Haven’t Youde just said it?"

Wang Youde: "?"

In that instant, Wang Youde despised those who loved speaking in riddles.

His face darkened from white to black, "What did I say?"

Ji Wanwan raised an eyebrow, "Cause a few more disappearances or zombie cases, blow the matter up, and see who can’t sit still and jumps out first～"

Wang Youde opened his mouth, shocked for a while before he could close it.

He silently gave a thumbs-up, "Fine, I’m just a pawn in your two-play!"

All this time he had been blushing and puffing, only to realize the pair had already devised a plan and were simply teasing him!

The joke was on him!