Antidote and Nutrients

"What's up?"

Xing Feng and Gu Mingxuan walked in together. As the research and development of antidote and nutrients was in the final stage, Xing Feng had been focusing on it lately and hadn't appeared outside for a long time.

"Oh, Cheng and Yehan are also getting married at the same time as us, we're congratulating them."

Yun Che turned to look at them and said with a smile. Xing Feng raised his eyebrows and sat down beside him, "Oh? This is good news. What about you, do you feel anything unusual today?"

Xing Feng changed the topic and looked at Yun Che again. It had been two months since the incident. Yun Che had refused to do a B-scan a month back when they asked him to, and he had been making excuses and delaying the use of a pregnancy test kit. As such, Xing Feng would ask him this question every day in case he suddenly experienced any symptoms.

"What can be unusual?"

Yun Che shrugged, looking very calm. His sister and the others all said that one would experience various symptoms when pregnant, but he had none, so he was definitely not pregnant. He just had to be more careful when making love, and he would be able to stay away from getting pregnant

"Really? Somehow I just feel like you're pregnant."

Xing Feng said as he reached out to touch his stomach, and the annoyed Yun Che slapped his hand away, "That's your imagination."

"Maybe."

Xing Feng smiled and didn't argue with him. He knew very well if it was really his imagination, or he wouldn't be so careful when having sex recently.

"Che, you should go to the hospital to have a B-scan to be on the safe side."

Yun Yao had already said this umpteen times. She was also one of those who were especially looking forward to Yun Che getting pregnant. Before this, she had already accepted the fact that Yun Che and Xing Feng wouldn't have any children. However, she had high hopes again when he suddenly told her that he could give birth to children, and Heiyu even said that he could already be pregnant. Now that two months had passed and he still had no pregnancy symptoms at all, she slowly got disappointed even though she still held onto some hope.

"Sis, please spare me."

Yun Che leaned on Xing Feng helplessly. Because of their groundless anticipation, he had even quit smoking—a habit that he had acquired in his previous life. What else did they want? It had been more than two months, and he hadn't experienced any pregnancy symptoms, wasn't that enough to prove that he wasn't pregnant?

"No, Che, there are people who do not experience symptoms when pregnant. Yao is right, why don't you let me do a check for you."

Yun Yao didn't know what else to say, but Zhan Tianlong joined in to talk him round with his professional identity, even though he had already said this many times.

"…"

Yun Che was rendered speechless again, and his mouth twitched uncontrollably. Would they give up only when he really got pregnant?

"By the way, how's the development of the antidote and nutrients?"

Seeing the others staring at him and likely to try to persuade him as well, Yun Che quickly composed himself and changed the subject. He really didn't see the need to go to the hospital for an examination. Majority of the women in the community were now fujoshi converts, and he also heard that someone had written fan fiction based on them and distributed it internally. There was also an online group with a huge number of members, and the mere thought of it was enough to terrify him. Therefore, he didn't want to go anywhere that had too many women, especially hospitals where there were many young nurses.

"Look at you."

Not knowing what to do with him, Xing Feng put his arm around him and said, "I'm just about to talk to you about this. The animal research on the antidote has reached a 100% success rate, so we can move on to human research. I want to get a group of ordinary people from within Chaoyang to conduct the experiment. Are you able to provide a batch of spring water? In case the antidote fails, we can still use the spring water to save their lives."

They might cause a commotion if they looked for the test subjects externally, so they had to start the experiment from within, and they could announce it once they succeeded.

"Um…is there a possibility that superfunctions would be triggered after taking the antidote?"

Yun Che asked solemnly after touching his chin and thinking for a while. The antidote researched by the capital base in his previous life couldn't trigger superfunctions. Although they were also using crystal nuclei for research, he thought there could be such a possibility since their researchers were different. The living space of mankind would increase only if the number of superfunction possessors continued to increase .

"Yes, just a few, one in a hundred at most."

They had been experimenting with the poultry they reared, and only a very small number of them had mutated, so it should be the same for humans.

"Just one is also considered a breakthrough. The success rate will slowly increase if we continue tweaking it."

Yun Che was very optimistic about this one percent chance. Everything is difficult at the start, but with this one percent chance, he believed the probability would slowly increase and could even reach a hundred percent in the future. Humans were pretty strong in this area.

"Yes."

Xing Feng wasn't someone who believed in taking shortcuts; he understood that they had to do things step by step.

"Alright, I will provide the spring water. Lemme know when you guys are conducting the experiment. I wanna witness the historic moment too."

Yun Che readily agreed. Although he didn't have the compassion to save everyone in this world, he wouldn't watch mankind get destroyed either. Humans were after all social beings.

"The problem now is recruiting the test subjects. I want the test subjects themselves to take the initiative instead of being ordered by me. But I doubt anyone would volunteer to be a guinea pig?"

"Me."

Right after Xing Feng said this, they heard a young female voice. Everyone turned and saw that it was Shuiyu pushing a wheelchair in. Both Kong Jiawen and his mom were startled. Before they could react, the young girl stepped forward and looked at Xing Feng and Yun Che with firmness in her eyes, "Captain Xing, Che, let me test your antidote."

She wanted to possess superfunctions even though there was only a one percent chance. Besides that, the guys from Chaoyang and Peak had taken care of them after they moved here, so she wanted to repay their kindness.

"Yu…"

Kong Jiawen frowned and wanted to reach for her hand, but Shuiyu showed him a sweet smile, "Don't worry, there's Che around."

She believed in Captain Xing and Che, and even more so in herself. There were too many people she couldn't bear to part with, so she wouldn't allow herself to turn into a zombie.

Kong Jiawen was convinced. He could choose not to trust others, but he believed in Yun Che. However, Kong's mom grabbed Shuiyu's hand emotionally, "No, you can't do that, Yu. Let me do it."

Her being alive was a burden to others anyway, so it didn't matter if she died, but Yu was still very young and had a future of possibilities awaiting her. She couldn't let anything happen to her.

"Auntie…"

"That's enough, it's so decided."

Kong's mom made the decision on her own without giving her the chance to speak.

"Well, why don't you guys have a discussion. If you really want to test it, just let Mingxuan know within three days."

Xing Feng didn't expect his casual remarks to lead to their conflict, but he couldn't persuade them on this matter either and could only let them decide on their own.

"Che, I…"

Seeing this, Shuiyu looked at Yun Che a little anxiously, and the latter raised his hand to stop her from continuing, "I know what you want to say. You guys should discuss this, don't let Auntie and Jiawen worry about you. Uncle Kong is also one of the main researchers for the antidote. I'm sure you don't want him to know about this only when he sees your name in the test subject list?"

Yun Che was fully aware of the reason why Shuiyu had volunteered to be a test subject. Although this young girl looked weak, she was mentally very strong and had great desire for superfunctions. If she didn't have to take care of Kong's mom, she might really allow herself to be bitten by zombies in exchange for superfunctions.

"Alright, Yu, just listen to Che, we'll talk about this later."

Seeing that she still had things to say, Kong Jiawen leaned over and hugged her shoulders. Shuiyu looked up at him for a long while before nodding her head.

"Gu, let's start recruiting people tomorrow. We have to explain all possible consequences to them. We're not using them as guinea pigs, so we can't lie to them."

Yun Che was very firm about this. His experience before death in his previous life made him hate the research institute, but he also knew that some research projects, such as those on antidotes, nutrients, energy weapons, and even mutant forms of various creatures, etc. were necessary. These studies that were beneficial to mankind had to go on, so he was willing to overcome his aversion to the research institute and do his best to help whenever he could.

"Yes, I know what to do."

Others also stood firm on this. Most of the people within Chaoyang were on their side, and only a few had been recruited because of certain needs. They wouldn't cheat their own people.

"What about the nutrients? It should be in the testing phase soon?"

Zhou Zeyu finally had the chance to speak, and this was the only thing they cared about.The number of level-4 zombies was increasing, and it was obvious that they were levelling up faster than them. They often felt that their superfunctions weren't sufficient, so they desperately hoped that the nutrients would be ready soon. Although he had reached the eighth level of cultivating qi after more than a month of practice, it was still a bit difficult for it to form combat effectiveness, so it could only be used as the last resort.

"And also energy weapons, they're very important too."

Ye Xingchen voiced out his needs solemnly. Even though he already had two warbeasts, as well as the crossbow from Heiyu and the arrow from Jiang Shang, he still felt that they weren't sufficient.

"Yes, energy weapons, we need them."

Lu Haixuan and the rest also agreed. It was definitely better to have more things that could save their lives.

"The energy weapons are already in the production stage. We're gonna start testing the nutrients, and it can only be done on humans. I've already asked the research institute to deploy them in batches. Our two squads will use them first, and if everything goes well, I'll get the mechanical team to develop mass production equipment and promote them in large quantities."

Compared with the antidote, the testing of nutrients was definitely much simpler. It would just be useless at worst, and there were basically no side effects.

"Haha…I can finally stop being harassed by Ye soon."

Ever since they got back to the base, Tan Weiye had been private messaging them about the antidote and nutrients every now and then, and he had been harassing them everyday lately. He could even harass them while bantering with others and flirting with Mo Wenyang in their group chat. His typing speed was really amazing.

"I can't agree more. That fella is getting from bad to worse."

Xing Feng and Gu Mingxuan also had a helpless expression on their faces at the mention of Tan Weiye. They didn't know about this when they were enemies, but now they finally knew that he was just like a long-winded old man, and it was a torment talking to him.

"Speaking of Weiye, he said he wanted to come attend your wedding, and he's bringing Grandpa here, are you guys aware of that?"

"Oh?"

Yun Yao's words surprised Yun Che and the others. Why haven't they heard of that? Speaking of which, they hadn't seen Tan Weiye online the past few days, and they had thought that he had been occupied with the matters in the base. Was he really coming with Grandpa?