Chapter 268 - 163 A5 (Part 2)
The three of them slowly entered the door, which led to a small platform. Rotating staircases on either side led both up and down, and they could also walk along the left and right gangways to various parts of the first floor.
In the center of the basement level was an even larger glass container, inside of which was a miniature version of a grey Blood Heart. What was more shocking was the sight of dozens of Frenzies wandering around the base. The Frenzies’ attire revealed the professions they held before death, including researchers in white lab coats, security personnel in bulletproof vests with tactical helmets, and engineers in blue work clothes.
Lin Wu crouched and looted corpses with his left hand, asking, "Why is A5 so dangerous?" It’s not even comparable to A6.
Maya said, "It seems that A6 was only researching the initial virus and was built before the outbreak of zombies. A5 was established during the zombie outbreak, with the purpose of studying Blood Hearts and zombies. There isn’t a single ordinary zombie here; they’re all Frenzies. If our guesses are correct, the Frenzy mutation virus must have leaked from A5."
Nightmare asked, "What do we do now?" Although the Fortress special agents have a relatively abundant supply of bullets, it’s not infinite, and it would take several hundred bullets to take down this group of Frenzies.
Lin Wu pulled a shorthand notebook from the body of a Fierce Corpse and handed it to Maya, who opened it and read, "It’s meeting notes, talking about how we can confirm that the Blood Heart is a cell, albeit a very large one. They speculate that human blood is the source of its life."
"No wonder all the zombies we’ve seen are desiccated." Lin Wu made the connection and asked, "Could the Blood Heart be like a dialysis machine? It absorbs the fresh blood of zombies, then injects the blood back into them, and they become Blood Zombies."
Maya didn’t answer but continued reading, "They’ve been using a variety of animals for experiments, hoping to find antibodies that could provide immunity against the virus." That was all the information the notebook had to offer.
Nightmare reminded, "This isn’t the time for storytelling."