Chapter 537 - 9.7 Where Am I?
Half a year was simply not enough for Zhao Bolin to create an antidote. Not only did he have to take samples from the zombie itself, but he also had to do clinical trials to ensure that the antidote was ready to be injected into a human’s body. The whole process was full of risk and unknown triggers.
It took more than five months for the first formulation to be produced, just a few days short of the deadline given by the government. To test its effectiveness, they caught a few zombies and used them as the experiment objects and to their utter surprise, the antidote worked! The zombie’s features gradually disappeared and the person’s consciousness slowly surfaced!
The whole team — no, the whole world — cheered, except Zhao Bolin.
Nobody knew how complicated human’s genetics was more than him. What were the odds that their first experiment was a huge success? Even if one were to beat him to death, Zhao Bolin still would not believe it.
So when everyone finally let down their guards after months of arduous survival, only Zhao Bolin locked himself in his laboratory and performed the experiment all over again, guarding his files like a dragon hoarding treasures, daring everyone to take it away from him.
This was where the irony lay.
From the start, Zhao Bolin’s attitude toward them had been too antagonistic that people simply regarded him unwilling to hand over the results of the experiment. And hence, the government ordered the army to retrieve the antidote forcefully for the sake of humanity.
As luck would have it, the responsibility finally landed on Commander Yang’s head.
Commander Yang disliked Zhao Bolin’s snarky and holier-than-thou demeanor. Not only that, Zhao Bolin was also hot-tempered and often berated his lover in public for measly mistakes. In the commander’s eyes, Zhao Bolin was no different than a selfish bastard. He pulled his lover, Li Zhu, into the plan and entrusted him to be the insider spy who would report Zhao Bolin’s movements for the army.
At first, Li Zhu was actually reluctant to go through with the sneaky acts. Alas, this naïve researcher had been brainwashed by his lover and the entire army until his head turned muddled. Commander Yang reassured him again and again that what he did was for the sake of many, that Professor Zhao was the kind of man who had to be taught a lesson for his selfishness. The more Li Zhu heard about it, the more logical he thought it was.
Everyone’s fate lay in their hands, so what was wrong with handing over the formula? The effectiveness of the antidote had been proven and there were also successful cases already. It was Professor Zhao who was too stingy and narrow-minded!