Chapter 16 Dr. Li
[March 28]: A very strange thing happened this morning. The entire base was suddenly covered with inexplicable black smoke, but it quickly dissipated.
[March 29]: While having lunch, I heard some news about the strange black smoke from yesterday. It seemed that it was caused by the failed experiment of Li Chou in Area E.
[March 30]: I heard that Li Chou was fired due to the incident the day before yesterday. This is a good thing. The average appearance of the base has been raised a lot.
[March 31]: The team leader fell ill, so I finally didn’t have to go to work today and went to the city for a trip.
[April 1]: Maybe I was exposed to too much waves yesterday. I feel weak and have a slight fever.
[April 2]: My condition worsened, I was bedridden, and I even had hallucinations. When a colleague came to bring me food, I mistook his face for braised pork.
[April 3]: The food quality in the cafeteria has obviously declined and the food is getting worse and worse.
【April 4】: The food is terrible.
【April 5】: The food is terrible.
【April 6】: The food is terrible.
【April 7】: Mmm~ so delicious!
The diary ends here.
In the next few days, the man returned to his previous hydrological style.
The font of the last line is crooked.
“…”
Mosaicuo's hand was still turning the pages.
It stayed like this for a long time, then suddenly turned back to the previous page and started reading again.
"This... doesn't seem right."
"His surname is Li and he's ugly, isn't he that guy?"
"He's already been fired? Then why is he still in the base!?"
Looking at this date again, it is basically the same as the date when the zombie beast broke out.
And the three of them were led here by the quest line, could it be that...
The more he thought about it, the more terrifying it became.
"What are you looking at, grass?"
“Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”
The sudden sound behind him scared Mushroom so much that he almost lost his soul.
"You, you, you're not dead?!"
When it turned around, it saw the straw man standing there intact.
The funeral dog followed behind it.
"Run away, grass."
The straw man proudly raised the fire extinguisher in his hand.
Just now, it was releasing infinite dry ice while running, which blocked both the zombies' vision and their sense of smell.
Then he made a circle, ran out from the right fork and then ran back from the left fork.
"You're here just in time, let's go find Shi Li!"
"He might be in danger, mushroom!"
Mosaichu grabbed the straw man and ran towards Area E.
…
At this moment, test area E.
"Trouble, something went wrong."
On the other side, Dr. Li walked out of the computer room with an embarrassed look on his face.
"What's going on?"
Shi Li heard the sound and walked in.
I saw the progress bar on the screen, which was stuck at 99%.
If he remembered correctly, this was the progress about 5 minutes ago.
"I didn't expect that the last step of the calculation would get stuck."
"What should we do then?"
"I think there's something wrong with the line hardware at the terminal. It looks like we need to go check it out. It's in the equipment warehouse at the end of Area E."
Dr. Li signaled Shi Li to follow him and walk deeper into Area E.
“…”
Shi Li paused for 1 second while looking at the other person's back, but he still followed him.
"Brother Shi Li, I really envy you for being so handsome."
As they walked, Dr. Li suddenly brought up this topic.
“No, no.”
Shi Li was humble.
"He's handsome everywhere."
Dr. Li turned around and took a closer look at him, then retracted his gaze and said, "And your red-headed friend, I envy him too."
"?"
When he said this, Shi Li was stunned.
Red head, does it refer to button mushroom?
Didn’t Dr. Li say it was ugly before?
"I envy his confidence. He is so ugly, but he can live so confidently."
"...If it hears this, I guess only one of you will survive today."
"Of course, the most handsome one among you is the green one. I wish I could be even 1/10 of him."
"..., I suspect you were scolding me when you praised me for being handsome just now."
While talking, the two came to the end of the corridor.
This is also the deepest part of Zone E.
Blocking their way was a huge iron gate.
The two metal doors on the left and right are 10 meters high and 4 meters wide respectively. They look thick and heavy, and definitely not the kind that can be kicked open with one foot.
Puff, puff, puff…
Just then, there was a sound of electricity coming from the ceiling.
Bang!
Several ceiling lights suddenly went out.
As the light dimmed, the atmosphere seemed to change as well.
Dr. Li stopped and his body trembled slightly.
The hand was pressed on the head through the protective suit and glass mask, and it looked like he had a headache.
"Do you know what my nickname is among my colleagues?"
"Li Chou, isn't that very appropriate? Hahaha."
He said this inexplicably with his back to Shi Li, and his tone was strange.
"You've definitely never experienced being pointed at by people all day long."
"But what is even more unbearable is the self-righteous look of pity from those people."
These two sentences brought a brief silence from Shi Li.
You know what, he has actually experienced it.
At this moment, Dr. Li's face gradually showed madness. He slowly turned around, revealing his dark eyes: "So I once secretly swore that I must make those good-looking people pay the price..."
Boom!
However, he was interrupted before he could finish his words, and he saw an iron rod hitting him on the head.
Bang!
The thick glass cover shattered into pieces.
“W-What are you doing?!”
Dr. Li fell to the ground, looking surprised and puzzled.
The darkness in his eyes faded somewhat, as if he had become more sober.
But soon , his expression showed signs of struggle, and the black color covered him again.
The strange thing is that even though some glass fragments pierced his face, there was no sign of blue blood oozing out.
"I've noticed something's wrong with you."
Shi Li walked up to the other party holding an iron rod.
Looking down from a high vantage point, one can see a little bit of the part below the collar of the protective suit.
It turned out that the part below Dr. Li's neck was completely skinless, revealing dense muscle fibers!
Obviously, this is beyond the normal state of a normal person.
The reason why Shi Li noticed it was because he had just found those sets of protective clothing and he played with them when he had nothing to do.
I found that this thing is very heavy, and it is not a weight that humans can easily handle.
Even though he had the bonus of LV1 player physique + [Iron Rod], he still found it difficult.
It is very strange that Dr. Li can actually walk around freely wearing it.
Add to that his completely black eyes, and it now seems that this guy is indeed not a human.
There is no doubt that he is a key figure in this quest line.
"Huh, I didn't expect you to be able to find it."
“Huhuhuhuhuhu…”
At this time, Dr. Li smiled evilly, and the blackness in his eyes became thicker and thicker like smoke.
"In that case..."
"Stop talking nonsense."
Boom!
"Can you...can you let me speak first..."
"cannot."
Boom!
"Damn it! Give me..."
"Shut up."
Boom!
"Ouch!"
Boom!
Shi Li originally held back, but the more he hit, the more he realized that this guy's head was harder than that of a strengthened zombie beast.
Even after being hit with so many sticks, his tone is still lively.
His hands were a little tired.
【Ahhh woof! 】
At this moment, he suddenly heard the barking of a hound behind him, less than 10 meters away.
"Huh? Why are you here?"
Shi Li knocked and turned his head to ask.
Just then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a mushroom popping out from the other end of the corridor, followed closely by a straw man.
"Shi Li, be careful! Mushroom!"
"There's something wrong with that guy. Be careful not to... knock him to death? Huh?"
Originally, it was intended to remind people to be careful about Dr. Li.
As a result, when he saw the other party being beaten by Shi Li's iron rod, he unconsciously changed his words when the words were on the tip of his tongue.
"Why are you here too?"
"That's enough!!! Aa ...
Taking advantage of Shi Li's distraction, Dr. Li let out a roar.
He just pulled down the disassembly valve of the protective suit and got out of it in an instant.
Sure enough, except for the part above the neck, his entire body had lost its skin, leaving only muscle fibers, no different from a reinforced zombie beast.
After struggling to stand up despite the severe dizziness, Dr. Li rushed to the door and pressed the door-opening button on it.
Boom boom boom…
The two metal doors slowly opened from the left and right, revealing the scene inside.
“…”
Only then did Shi Li realize that the place behind the door was not the equipment library that Dr. Li had mentioned.
The place was filled with zombie beasts that were as still as puppets, and they were all enhanced zombie beasts.
The number is at least over a hundred.
Their eyes are completely black, just like Dr. Li's.
"This is too much, mushroom!"
"Damn it, grass."
Mushroom and the straw man were also shocked.
But what was worse was that at this moment a roar came from behind.
【Ahhhhhhhhhhh!】xN
A bunch of ordinary and enhanced zombie beasts blocked their only retreat.
Just at this moment, the task panel popped up in front of them.
[Mission Changes]
【Explore H International Group's Experimental Base－0/1】
↓
[Defeat Dr. Li - 0/1]
Mushroom: "How can this kind of task be completed? Mushroom!"
Strawman: "It's over, grass."
Shi Li: “1, 2, 3, 4, 5…”
Mushroom : "Are you counting the number of enemies?"
Shi Li: "No, I'm counting how many times I can draw cards when I go out later."
Mushroom, Straw Man: "..." x2
What a joke! They might not be able to defeat four or five enhanced zombies at the same time.
Now there are more than a hundred of them in total. How can we play?
However, there is always a way out. At this moment, the surrounding space and time suddenly froze.
Whoosh...Buzz!
Blue beams of light descended from the sky and began to spread out the card table.
[The Mourning Beast Dog has been temporarily added to your deck and can be called upon]
The Zombie Dog turned into a card and floated in front of them.
"There's hope for salvation, mushroom!"
Mushroom raised his hands and cheered.
The huge blue light card table took shape, and their side was no different from before, still 9+3.
But the enemy's grooves have increased, from 1 row to 2 rows.
"I'll use this card, and the rest will follow the previous ones."
Shi Li took over the [Mourning Dog].
He used his unused [Iron Rod] to fuse it, and just used [Mourning Dog] to replace it.
Whoosh! x6
The zombie beasts at the back turned into rays of light and landed on the card table.
【Ahhhhhhhhhhh!】x6
Six projections of zombie beasts just stood up from their cards.
In addition to the [Ordinary Zombie] that we have already seen, there is also a new card.
[Strengthen the Beast]
Fury, Attack 15, 30/30
[Eat Meat - Passive]: Strengthens the zombies to attack humanoid cards and increases damage by 5 points
"These [Enhanced Zombies] are not easy to deal with. Their stats are much stronger than [Ordinary Zombies] ."
"And it's a special attack card, specifically targeting humanoid cards."
Mosaichou expressed his concerns.
There are 4 human-shaped cards in their deck: [Kung Fu Sheep Girl] [Come on Mushroom] [Gangster Mushroom] [Rogue Mushroom]
"It's okay. The main tactics remain unchanged. We just need to adjust our positions slightly."
At this time, Li said there was no need to worry.
Soon, under his command, everyone laid out their cards.
【Burning tire】【Burning table】【Burning garbage】
【Mourning Dog】【Mushroom】【Vacant Seat】
【Rogue Mushroom】【Bad Mushroom】【Fat Cat】
【Sheep Lady】【Oil Mushroom】【Burning Door】
If the opponent's [Enhanced Zombie] wants to attack the humanoid card, it must clear at least two rows of their cards.
When that time really comes, they will probably be cleared out themselves.
【Ahhhh!】xN
【Robbery, mushroom! 】
[You are so beautiful~ Mushroom! ]
【Mee-zha~! 】
【Come on! Come on! 】
The action was confirmed, and the projections on both sides engaged in a chaotic fight.
Shi Li and his team had sufficient firepower and cleared out 6 zombie cards in one round.
However, new zombies soon arrived from behind them, but none of the zombies on Dr. Li's side moved.
After just a few rounds, the group of zombie beasts behind him were completely eliminated.
Under Shi Li's command, they only lost one [Burning Garbage].
"After we clear these guys, it should be their turn."
Mosaichu looked at those black-eyed enhanced zombie beasts, these things were the big ones.
At this time, Dr. Li was frozen in space, standing among nearly a hundred zombie beasts.
Buzz!
But the next second after it finished speaking, it unexpectedly thawed.
And not only Dr. Li was thawed, but... everyone was thawed!
"What's going on? Is the game over?"
This made it stunned.
"No, not yet."
Shi Li discovered that the blue light of the card table was still there.
"Could it be that this time they're going to have a group of enhanced zombie beasts?"
Mosaichou recalled the scene of the last PVE game.
At that time, the last group of zombies rushed forward and combined into a card.
But these are all enhanced zombie beasts. What will happen if they merge into [a group of enhanced zombie beasts]?
"If that's the case, it's good news."
"One card is much easier to deal with than multiple cards."
Shi Li said this.
But for some reason, he always had a bad feeling.
At this time, Dr. Li's eyes were completely black and he looked like a madman.
"Move, everyone move!"
He shouted out instructions.
