Zombie Apocalypse: Creation-Chapter 735: Abandoned Lab Investigation

As Xiaoyun arrived in the intelligence office ten minutes later, Yueyue was already waiting at the main entrance.

"Took you long enough."

Following her inside, the two took a few turns before entering her office, where a man and a woman wearing suits were standing.

"Who are these two people?"

"This is Xi Liang. He has been the director of Changsha and Jiangxi. He’s the expert that I had assigned to manage intelligence towards our neighbor."

"Nice to meet you, Xi Liang."

"Nice to meet you, too, Governor."

After a short handshake with the young man, Xiaoyun turned his attention over to the woman standing in the room.

"This is Yongzhe. She’s the agent who was the first to notice the disappearance in Taishan and the current director of the Taishan investigation."

"Nice to meet you, Yongzhe."

"Nice to meet you, too, Governor."

Yueyue quickly signalled Xiaoyun to take a seat at her chair while she turned on the projector.

"Xiaoyun, do you want to learn about the intel we had gathered in Changsha first or the lab investigation?"

"The lab investigation first."

With a single look, Xi Liang exited the room and closed the door, waiting outside as Yueyue herself moved to be next to Xiaoyun.

"Yongzhe, you can start."

Yongzhe went over to the laptop next to the table before connecting it to the projector, allowing for a slide to appear on the board.

"From the second evaluation, we found an unspecified machine in the lab... Based on the leftover document we found, it seems to be for some experiment."

As the slides went from the Top Secret label to an actual picture of the machine, he was shocked by its sheer complexity and size.

There were tubes and wires everywhere, fully exposed, with a round glass cylinder containing nothing inside.

It was big enough to have a whole tank mutant inside the glass cylinder, with all the wires leading up to a control panel.

"Many of the components of the machine seem to have been taken out on purpose, compared to everything else in the lab that had mostly remained intact."

Seeing a more detailed picture of the labs, Xiaoyun was a little surprised by how fine everything looked.

From the floor to the other lab equipment in each of the different rooms, everything was neatly organized with lights still functioning.

If it weren’t for the massive machine that had been destroyed earlier, he would have assumed they intended to gift him the lab for free.

"After a thorough search, there was no living organism other than ants and flies. We had already transported all of the remaining documents to Luoping."

"Have you figured out what’s inside the documents?" Xiaoyun curiously asked.

"No, sir. There are hundreds of thousands of files just in the record room alone. It’s going to take a while to decipher and interpret everything.

But so far, everything seems to just be data records of different experiments... Interestingly, the majority had a red mark across the first page.

We’re currently assuming that the red mark implies failure or is unimportant. But our agents are still going through to look for more files inside the lab."

"Yueyue, you can tell Tianci to work with Yongzhe. She’s going to need that data and whatever machines from there."

"Okay."

As Yongzhe moved onto the next section of the slide, this time it didn’t show the lab. Rather, it showed a map.

"Outside of the lab investigation, we had been actively trying to find where they had fled to... So far, most of the leads seem to be overseas or on an island."

"Oversea?"

Xiaoyun was a little surprised inside, as he didn’t actually think they would fully leave the country.

"The only direction based on the zombie trace they had left behind had indicated towards this port in particular.

Seeing the red lines tracing from the nuclear facility all the way to the Guanghai bay, it began to make sense in his head.

"It just so happened that a cruise ship that had been spotted traveling nearby by the local fishermen."

"So they went on a cruise ship?" Xiaoyun questioned.

"We can’t confirm it. But that’s what the most likely possibility... Or they could have continued heading west over into Guangxi."

As Yongzhe gave him the uncertain answer, there wasn’t much more Xiaoyun could ask for.

"Any possible leads on where they could have ended up if they were to be on this alleged cruise ship?"

"Um, our guess is either Taipei or Hainan. But it could also be Japan or the Philippines. We don’t have any evidence to back it up, though."

Hearing more uncertainty in her voice, Xiaoyun quickly dismissed the idea of trying to track them any further at this point.

It had become clear that the secret society that had been a thorn in the back was now gone, at least for the foreseeable future.

"The third interesting thing we had discovered is that there’s a massive graveyard pit in the back of the facility..."

As Yongzhe looked over to Xiaoyun with hesitation, he nodded his head to signal her to continue.

"Many of the bodies we had dug up so far had... a lot of their body parts missing. Some only had a few bones that could be traced back."

The picture shook Xiaoyun as he could vividly see the endless number of corpses piled up in a large pit.

His stomach was almost forced to vomit. It was a level of attocity he had only seen in the textbook that he couldn’t put into words.

"What the fuck..."

"Yongzhe, you can move on." Yueyue quietly whispered, her face looking much calmer as if she had seen the images already.

"Yes, sir."

As Yongzhe pulled up the next section, Xiaoyun’s mind was instantly snapped out of contemplating the crime those men had committed.

His face was right on the slide. More specifically, a video’s preview that had him standing in the middle of some empty room with a paused sign right in the middle.

"The last thing we found is um... an unknown person fighting in the lab against a mutant."

Despite Yongzhe saying the word unknown person, everyone in the room could tell this person was no other than Xiaoyun.

"They really recorded this..."

The paused sign disappeared as the video began to play the footage. It was a frame-by-frame of him fighting the tank mutant.

"Enough. Pause the video... How many people had watched this so far?" Xiaoyun questioned.

Yongzhe didn’t speak up this time as she looked over to Yueyue, whose face looked a little nervous as her hands awkwardly brushed her hair.

"A-About ten people."

"What do you mean by ’about’? Don’t tell me you didn’t keep this a secret when you found this footage."

"Well, it was located in the records’ room, and we had a lot of different agents working on reading through all the documents that had been transported.

They couldn’t possibly know what was inside unless they were allowed to see it... But I can promise that no one outside of the investigation had watched it."

The whole room fell into silence as Yueyue’s response was nowhere near satisfactory for Xiaoyun’s liking.

"Delete this footage."

"I don’t think that’s necessary. Why don’t we just save it for safekeeping in case we need to use it one day?"

"I said, delete the footage."

As Xiaoyun doubled down on his order, Yueyue remained a little hesitant for some weird, unknown reason.

"Babe, I can promise this thing will never be leaked to the public. It’s already classified, and it’s securely put into the data room."

The soft talk attempt didn’t move him in the slightest. He was not giving her any room for negotiation as he stared her dead in the eyes.

"Yueyue, do you not understand my words? I don’t want anyone see this now, and I don’t want anyone see this in the future either."

"Fine. Such a shame... Yongzhe, delete this footage permanently after this meeting. I don’t want any copies of it in the department."

"Yes, sir."

"Yongzhe, that’s the last of the report you have for today, right?" Yueyue asked next as she took a few steps forward.

"That’s the end of the report indeed."

"Great. Tell Xi Liang to come in."

As Yongzhe exited the room with the laptop, Yueyue quickly turned off the projector before handing Xiaoyun a folder with papers in it.

"You can read this first... Inside, it should explain everything, and Xi Liang would be here to answer any questions."

Opening the folder, it was a brief three-page report, with the top secret label and the name of the author being Xi Liang.

"Governor, feel free to ask any question. I wrote it this morning after summarizing three different agents’ reports that had been in Changsha and Jiangxi."

Xiaoyun didn’t say anything back, but he nodded his head as he opened the cover and began reading the first page.