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Chapter 128 Infected Organisms

Dawn was breaking.

Looking at the densely packed infected creatures at the entrance, Wei Yan couldn't help but gasp, her face turning extremely pale. She turned to Zhang Ye and asked in a low voice, "If we go out now, we'll just be pushing and shoving them away. Will we really not be able to smell the scent of our own flesh and blood?"

A hint of doubt and suspicion flickered in his eyes. He found it hard to believe what he was seeing: these infected creatures couldn't smell their flesh and blood.

Zhang Ye stared intently at the infected creature at the door with a similarly grave expression, swallowed hard, and felt a dryness in his throat.

He frowned, racking his brains for a solution.

After a moment, he seemed to remember something and asked the system, "[I remember in the game's storyline, their rotting flesh could mask the smell of our flesh.]"

But why are so many infected creatures gathered at the entrance? There weren't this many yesterday!

His tone was full of incomprehension and confusion.

The system was silent for a moment, then replied: "[That's normal. With so many of you walking together, even without the smell of blood, there would definitely be some noise.]"

They were attracted by the noise you were making.

However, the system did not tell Zhang Ye that these infected creatures, unless they were early-stage mutants, could not be fooled by such a simple method.

If it were a more advanced infected organism, it probably wouldn't be so easily deceived.

At this moment, the system secretly regretted that they all had the blessing of luck, otherwise they would have been discovered and eliminated by the infected creatures long ago if they had been traveling in this way.

It was their good fortune that allowed them to reach this place peacefully.

Now, faced with so many infected creatures, they must come up with better ways to protect themselves.

Otherwise, the next step will be for it to absorb the luck.

Upon realizing this, the system's code became slightly warm with excitement.

There's a special infected creature here, and they'll definitely attract its attention before nightfall, barring any unforeseen circumstances.

After Zhang Ye relayed what the system had said, Wei Yan frowned and pondered to herself.

Wei Yan knew that time was of the essence and that she had to act quickly, or the consequences would be unimaginable.

So he decided without hesitation to go to the basement that very day.

Wei Yan understood that if the situation continued to drag on, more infected creatures would appear tomorrow, and the situation would become even more serious.

They will also face even greater difficulties.

However, at that moment, Caiyi came over and suggested a possibility.

She believes that there may be advanced zombies or advanced infected creatures in the vicinity, and points out that the plot clearly states that there will be mission takers with superpowers in this world.

Therefore, it is reasonable for these infected organisms to possess special abilities.

Upon hearing this viewpoint, Wei Yan fell silent, realizing that she had overlooked this point; her cleverness had backfired.

Living in this harmonious society for too long, people often tend to overlook supernatural phenomena and strange and supernatural occurrences.

Now, in this dangerous environment, Wei Yan realizes she needs to re-examine everything.

In the past two days, although we have encountered many infected creatures, they do not seem to have shown any obvious special abilities, but they are powerful and highly infectious.

But if what Cai Yi said is true, then the situation is probably more complicated than imagined.

At that moment, Wei Yan felt a surge of tension; he realized he had to quicken his pace.

The fact that no specific infectious organism has yet been identified makes him uneasy.

Perhaps these special infected creatures haven't discovered them yet, or perhaps they are secretly plotting some kind of conspiracy.

In either case, it would be difficult for them to cope with such a harsh environment.

Faced with an unknown threat, Wei Yan immediately ordered everyone to take action and try to get to the basement as soon as possible.

Li Yue's legs went weak, and she couldn't stand up at all, collapsing to the ground.

Even when threatened with financial gain, she couldn't stand up.

Wei Yan had no choice but to pull her up with force and carry her on his back.

To ensure Wei Yan's safety, Cai Yi used a special binding method to tie Li Yue up.

This way, if a dangerous situation arises, the rope can be easily untied by pulling on the end of the rope.

Let Li Yue get down and run by herself.

Don't say you can't run; those infected creatures are right in your face.

Cai Yi believed that Li Yue would run very fast, after all, when faced with life and death, human potential is limitless.

Looking at the zombies outside the door, Cai Yi couldn't help but feel a little fortunate, because Wei Yan had specifically chosen a room with two doors yesterday.

Without this option, it would be extremely difficult to squeeze through these two doors, which are crammed with infected creatures.

Caiyi carefully walked to another door and gently knocked on it, pausing after each knock to avoid making too much noise.

Because making too much noise might alert the infected creatures downstairs, causing them to be surrounded and trapped in a predicament of being attacked from both sides.

knock knock...

knock knock...

knock knock...

Suddenly, the glass door in front of Caiyi shattered into pieces with a loud crash, but she was already prepared and quickly dodged to the side.

At the same time, Wei Yan led the others to quickly open another door and escape from the scene.

He glanced at Caiyi, then took the lead and led the group, holding their breath, down two levels, past the still numerous infected creatures.

Caiyi watched the person disappear, holding his breath until his face turned red.

She carefully avoided them, but there were just too many infected creatures, and she practically had to squeeze through.

His golden hair was stained with foul-smelling, black blood, and his face was abnormally flushed.

Cai Yi really wanted to despise Cheng Xin's broken body.

Between suffocating to death and being eaten by infected creatures, suffocation should be more bearable.

Caiyi's vision went black and she felt dizzy; she didn't even know if she had run downstairs.

Caiyi blinked, but couldn't see anything.

She was still walking by instinct when she was suddenly pulled away by a strong force and fell to the ground.

Cai Yi held his breath.

"Breathe, you're safe!"

Wei Yan patted Cai Yi's face and called out in a low voice.

Caiyi's nose twitched slightly, and his breathing became rapid. It took him a while to recover.

She got up from the ground.

Wei Yan looked at her, her brows furrowing slightly: "You haven't been exercising for two months?"

He dared to let Caiyi attract her because he thought it was impossible for her to not exercise for two months and easily run up two flights of stairs while holding her breath.

Who knew it would be so weak?

Cai Yi rolled his eyes at Wei Yan, but considering that Wei Yan had just saved him, he decided not to hold it against him.

Cheng Xin's body is either damaged by miscarriage or overwork, so she can't do strenuous exercise at all and can only proceed gradually.

She would faint if she trained too hard, making a whole day's training pointless.