Zombie Apocalypse: Creation

"Dinner is almost ready!" Leyan yelled from the kitchen

"Okay!"

As everyone remained seated to watch the ending of the TV show, Tianci's phone suddenly started ringing.

"Hello?"

Everyone turned their attention to Tianci for a second, but the TV quickly grabbed their attention back as someone fell into the water.

"Mhm... Okay. I'll be there... No need to lock down yet."

"What's wrong?" Xiaoyun curiously asked, noticing the grim look on Tianci's face as she got up from the sofa.

"The test subject you brought is trying to break through the cage."

Tianci's answer instantly made all of his wives concerned. But Xiaoyun didn't seem to be surprised at all as the two of them headed over to the shoe rack.

"Let me drive you there... You all can stay home. Don't worry about us. We should be back in time for dinner."

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After a few minute's drive down the street, the two of them arrived in front of what appeared to be a pawn shop.

As the two of them entered inside, they could see a security guard with his gun fully raised, aiming it right at the door.

Next to the guards were three different people, all wearing a white lab coat.

Their face all looked a little surprised when they saw Tianci walking in with Xiaoyun. Upon a closer look, they were clearly focused on Tianci's everyday clothes.

"Where's the mutant right now? Is it inside the cage?" Tianci asked the moment they stepped inside the store.

"Miss Tianci! The mutant inside the lab." One of the women in the lab coat answered.

Both Tianci and Xiaoyun let out a small sigh of relief. But their face didn't look at ease as they turned over to the security guard.

"Where's the camera inside?" Tianci asked.

"I-It broke, Miss Tianci... I don't know how, but the signal suddenly got cut off as soon as the mutant started trying to break out of the cage."

Looking over to the laptop near the front desk, they could both see white static on a computer as if it was facing some sort of interference.

"Did the mutant break out of the cage?" Tianci asked again.

All three of the scientist shook their head, with the senior-looking one stepping up to talk.

"We don't know. The mutant tried to break free... And the light suddenly started flickering, which made us decide to leave first."

"You three can head back home early today. I'll handle the rest."

"Thank you!"

With all three of the scientists running out of the pawn shop, it only left Xiaoyun, Tianci, and the security guard.

"Miss Tianci, what are we going to do? Should we call for backup?"

The security guard asked, his face looking a little nervous as if he was worried about Tianci sending him inside alone.

"No need. You can stand outside the pawn shop... If we don't come out, you can shoot anything that comes out of this lab on-site."

Within seconds, the security guard nodded and bolted out of the pawn shop, standing right around the corner of the entrance.

"Tianci, what are you going to do with the rogue test subject?" Xiaoyun curiously asked, wanting to see how she planned to deal with it.

"Restraint it first. Then, if that doesn't work, use lethal forces." Tianci murmured as she took out a pair of keys.

"I see... But are you really going in like this?"

Xiaoyun's face looked a little surprised as Tianci seemingly went inside empty-handed with no way of delivering any lethal force.

"Don't need it."

As the door opened, Tianci's iris shifted from her usual brown all the way to full red. Her hair became silver white that reflected off any light coming in contact with it.

"Okay then. I'm just going to watch from here. Tell me if you need any help."

Tianci didn't answer back as she took another step forward. Then another until she was all the way inside the lab's hallway.

Everywhere was completely pitch black.

Not a single light on the ceiling was working, with no outside window to speak of that could bring some moonlight.

Yet, Tianci kept walking along the hallways with no problem at all. It was clear she could see in the dark relatively well, just like or even better than him.

"Huh, where is the cage for the mutant?" Xiaoyun curiously asked.

"Not in the main lab... He should be in one of the confined rooms." The alternate Tianci's voice appeared as they headed into another hallway.

A sudden sharp sound of metal instantly made Xiaoyun freeze for a second. Its high pitch almost made their ears bleed as it echoed down the hall.

"He's still in the cage," Tianci murmured as her foot started moving faster and faster until it turned into full running.

After a brief run through several empty rooms that look more like prison cells, the two finally arrive at a dead end.

On their right was the mutant, the same one that Xiaoyun had 'supposedly' killed back in Changsha.

It was using its extremely sharp fingernail, trying to cut through the window's security bar, which already had hundreds of cut marks.

"Can you understand me?"

Tianci's question was met with a roar as the mutant started scratching even faster at the steel bars to the point that one of the security bars fell onto the floor.

"Stop what you're doing, or else I'll be forced to put you down. Do you understand me?" Tianci yelled out loud, her voice with a hint of anger.

With the mutant continuously scratching the second steel bar with no care to her question, Tianci's frustration finally reached a boiling point.

"Final warning!"

Before Xiaoyun could say anything, she turned the handle and swung the door wide open, revealing the mutant's body filled with pus and corrupt flesh.

"Rawr!"

"Shut up! Ruining my weekend for no reason."

With a blink of an eye, the mutant was instantly knocked back onto the floor of its cell. Its long nail snapped apart as she stepped right onto its open palm.

"Stupid, worthless zombie——"

Just as Tianci was about to crush the mutant's skull the same way with the end of her shoe, her foot suddenly froze in the middle of the air.

That split second was enough time for the mutant to react as it used every remaining strength it had to bite into her shoe.

"Shit——"

A loud crunching sound echoed throughout the cell as a bunch of brain matter scattered everywhere.

"Tianci! Are you okay?" Xiaoyun worryingly asked, rushing over to her after watching her kill the mutant before his eyes.

"I'm fine. Stupid mutant ruined my clothes and boots..." The alternate Tianci murmured as she moved her boot away from its head.

Looking up, Xiaoyun could see her pants and shirt were also completely messed up, with a bunch of barely visible stains in the dark.

"Just throw them away in the trash later. I can make a new one later for you."

"I know."

As Tianci took out her phone, a flashlight came out of her camera, exposing the various brain parts that had gotten onto her clothes.

More importantly, her eye color had shifted back to normal. The redness slowly faded away as she squatted down to examine the mutant's corpse.

"Weird... The containment thing disappeared." Tianci murmured after checking all the nearby areas of the cell.

"What containment thing?"

"It's a signal jammer... We noticed how the mutant could jam electronic when Kate brought it in, so we created a makeshift one to reduce it."

"Electronic? Like actual phones and light?" Xiaoyun questioned, his face looking a little stunned by her explanation.

"Yeah, Eletronic. Notice how all the lights in the lab are off——"

As soon as Tianci finishes talking, all of the lights in the hallway instantly turn on, leaving only the cell they stood in darkness.

"So you're telling me this mutant can jam anything with electricity if I'm understanding this correctly?"

Seeing her head nodding, a grim look appeared on Xiaoyun's face as he looked over to the dead mutant.

"Shit. That's going to be so annoying to deal with."

"It shouldn't be that bad... The reach the mutant had was only restricted to like a singular room."

Tianci's answer comforted Xiaoyun a little as they stepped out of the cell, but his mood still looked grim.

"You sure? The entire lab was dark when the mutant went out of control here, didn't it?" Xiaoyun questioned.

"Yes, that is true. But that's because the wiring in this lab is not really designed against this kind of attack.

We were just about to renovate it as a precaution next week if this mutant didn't suddenly go insane out of nowhere like this."

The answer finally relieved Xiaoyun's worries, but questions continued to pop up in his head as the two of them stood in the hallway.

"Tianci, how does this even work? How could a living thing interrupt electric signals? I have never even heard of that before."