Quick Transmigration: The Villain Always Ends Up with the Male Lead

Chapter 162 Human Leaders Are Blind to the Truth (15)

Seemingly seeing a glimmer of hope, Han Xingzhi agreed without hesitation after hearing this: "Okay, ask away."

Shi Qi asked the question he had already prepared in his mind: "Did you know Jiang Weilan before?"

"Jiang Weilan?" Han Xingzhi repeated the three words to himself, and judging from his expression, he seemed to have no impression of the name.

But he was a smart man after all, and with just a little association, he guessed the face that corresponded to the name Jiang Weilan: "Are you talking about the person I said looked familiar before?"

Shi Qi nodded upon hearing this.

So Han Xingzhi continued, "I wouldn't say I know him, but my memory is pretty good. I'm sure I've seen him here before, though maybe only once."

Shi Qi nodded again; his words did indeed match Jiang Weilan's own statement about "business trip."

"Then what was the 'plan' you mentioned to him before? And why did you suspect that Jiang Weilan was involved in that plan?" Shi Qi asked his second question.

Han Xingzhi was silent for a moment, as if he was considering whether or not to tell Shi Qi, but he quickly came to a conclusion: "Actually, this plan was originally a secret among all the researchers who participated, but the world is like this now, even if we signed an agreement, there's no point in continuing to hide it, especially for a researcher like me who has become a zombie." He even gave a self-deprecating laugh at the end, clearly disgusted with his zombie identity.

Shi Qi remained silent, not trying to say anything to comfort him, but simply waiting for Han Xingzhi to continue.

"About three years ago, countries around the world joined together to launch a project that was then believed to be able to 'evolve' all of humanity, which we called the 'Breaking the Cocoon Project'."

"This project uses death row inmates as experimental subjects to develop a 'breakthrough' virus and even genetically modify them in order to develop drugs or modification technologies that can 'evolve' humans."

As he spoke, Han Xingzhi's brows furrowed unconsciously: "This research can be described as utterly inhumane; the number of experimental subjects required for live human research is enormous, and the number of death row inmates is far from sufficient, so... the higher-ups have started ordering us to conduct experiments on some ordinary prisoners..."

"However, all of this is something I only learned later... After becoming a zombie..." Han Xingzhi lowered his eyes slightly, not knowing whether he was mourning for those who shouldn't have died, or feeling sorry for the many innocent lives that had been tainted on his hands.

"Live experiments have extremely demanding requirements for the subjects, and almost no one can persevere; and even if they do, they end up as monsters that are neither human nor ghost—that is, the outbreak of the zombie virus. Obviously, the experiment was a complete failure, and it was a huge mistake for humanity to try to explore some kind of 'evolution' and challenge the authority of nature..." When he finished speaking, Han Xingzhi's scarlet eyes had turned completely cold, and the slightly upturned corners of his lips seemed to be mocking the ignorance of those people.

According to Han Xingzhi, beings like the original owner who eventually became the zombie king must have suffered all the inhuman tortures during the experiments in this "Breaking the Cocoon Project".

Perhaps due to his emotions, Han Xingzhi paused for a moment before continuing to answer the second half of Shi Qi's question: "As for why I suspect he was involved in that project... during that period, because we cultivated a plant that could potentially be used as a vaccine material, researchers from all over the world who participated in the project came here to investigate and learn. It was during that time that I met this researcher named Jiang Weilan."

"He's a researcher from City C." Shi Qi suddenly added this out of the blue after he finished speaking.

Han Xingzhi was stunned for a moment, not immediately understanding what Shi Qi meant by saying that. After thinking for a while, he guessed that Shi Qi probably wanted to see if he could figure out the connection between Jiang Weilan and the zombie virus outbreak, since City C was the so-called source of the zombie virus outbreak.

"I don't know that, but there's one thing I want to tell you: City C can't really be considered the epicenter of the outbreak. Because many research institutes share their progress, strictly speaking, the zombie virus broke out worldwide, otherwise it wouldn't have spread so quickly. It's just that people heard that a zombie king appeared in City C, so they considered City C to be the source of the outbreak."

In fact, considering that Jiang Weilan had no reaction to his face at all, Shi Qi could tell that he was not a core researcher in City C's plan, and his level of involvement with the core was probably not even as high as that of Han Xingzhi in front of him.

However, Shi Qi couldn't be entirely certain how much he knew, after all, he was one of the main characters in this world.

Seeing that Shi Qi didn't intend to ask any more questions, Han Xingzhi couldn't help but urge, "Now that you've finished asking your questions, shouldn't you help me out?"

Shi Qi was not one to easily break his word. With a humanitarian spirit, before nodding, he still told him the possible outcomes: "Before waking her up, let me tell you the possible results—first, if you're lucky, she will wake up and successfully awaken her superpowers; second, if you're unlucky, she will also wake up, but she may become a zombie like you."

"Can you still accept that?"

After Shi Qi finished speaking, the atmosphere was silent for a moment. After a long while, Han Xingzhi said as if talking to himself, "She said back then that if she became a zombie, she would let me end her life with my own hands... If that really happens, I'll just die with her."

As he said this, Han Xingzhi still had a smile on his lips, but there was a hint of despair and madness in that smile.

For some reason, seeing that complicated smile, Shi Qi suddenly thought of Gu Yu from that world... causing him to unconsciously swallow back the heartless words he was about to say.

“Let’s begin…” Han Xingzhi made his decision quickly. What could be more terrifying than being “dead” yet still alive? he thought.

Shi Qi asked Han Xingzhi to find him a 1 ml syringe, and then, without blinking, he plunged it into the artery in his arm that wouldn't move.

I wasn't sure about the dosage myself, so 007 had to provide off-site guidance.

With 007's shout of "Stop!", Shi Qi stopped his upward-pulling hand. The 1 ml syringe was already about a third full of dark, almost black blood.

Then, Shi Qi pulled the needle out of his arm, and the needle hole healed instantly without any extra blood flowing out; then he pushed all the almost black blood in the syringe into the woman's carotid artery.

After doing all this, Han Xingzhi quickly pressed on his lover's wound. Then he held his breath and waited for the blood to create a miracle within her body.