Living Dead's

Chapter 21 - Loving you

"Virus?!"

Xi Zihe looked up, looking at Shen Yuan's black eyes. He felt a chill creep into his spine.

Shen Yuan nodded, "As you had expected. The cure is this fucking zombie virus."

Xi Zihe started sweating coldly, then what happened?!

Shen Yuan glanced at him, and continued, "I don't understand one thing. In the past, my wife did not immediately mutate into a zombie. Yet now the speed of mutating seemed to increase."

Xi Zihe gulped, "What do you mean?"

Shen Yuan only said two words, "Virus mutation."

Xi Zihe urged Shen Yuan to tell him with his eyes, "A few days after, my wife's state somehow became weaker, becoming weaker, and, so Guo Bai and I moved him to an underground research facility run by him."

Just then, Shen Yuan frantically asked Guo Bai, what happened. Guo Bai still calmly persuaded him to use words, saying that it was only the effect of the body to adapt to the medicine. Eventually Shen Yuan could only hand over his wife to be treated at the research site.

However, in just a few hours, he got a call if anything happened at the research site.

He hurriedly left the hospital and headed straight to the research site.

"But what I've met is hell." Shen Yuan looked at the ceiling of the warehouse that was covered by spider webs.

Xi Zihe started to get nervous, he grabbed his cigarette with a slightly trembling finger, then lit it up. After a few suction, he finally calmed down a little.

He heard Shen Yuan say, "When I entered the building all I saw were mutilated bodies of medics and researchers, like being torn apart by claws or fangs."

Body fragments scattered everywhere, staining the floor that had been pure white to red. Blood splashes also filled every corner of the wall. The building, which had smelled of disinfectant, became a bloody smell.

Shen Yuan was very surprised, the next second he was worried about his wife's safety. He ran like crazy, opening every room.

To the last room, the laboratory.

He saw Jiang Qinian curled up in the corner of the room, clutching his head with both hands. Her hospital gown was stained with red blood, inflicting traces under her feet.

Shen Yuan immediately approached him, and hugged him. "Are you okay, Qinian? What the hell's going on? I saw a lot of people who died."

Jiang Qinian's body grew even shivering as he looked at Shen Yuan's figure. He was scared, very scared. He doesn't know what happened to him. By the time he regained consciousness, his body was already drenched in someone's blood. And he could feel the sweetness of the blood that was in his mouth. When he realized that he was the culprit who caused all this, he immediately vomited violently. He was crying, he could not be called a human anymore.

He pushed Shen Yuan away, and said in a very trembling voice, "A-Yuan, A-Yuan, get the hell out of here! Me, I'm not human anymore. Please..go, go!"

Shen Yuan was puzzled, "Qinian, what happened?"

"I killed! I killed them all!" Tears dripped one after another from Jiang Qinian's eyes.

Shen Yuan looked at him with wide-open eyes.

"I killed them, A-Yuan..." Jiang Qinian hugged himself, shivering and crying.

"How is it possible"

Jiang Qinian interrupted him, "Medicine! Something's wrong with the cure!"

Jiang Qinian realized the state of his body was starting to get strange after the medicine was injected into his veins. He was getting healthier, but he got hungry easily. Not hungry for food, but more bloodthirsty. He had already eaten more, yet it could not satisfy him to the point of weakening his body. He was so hungry that his stomach ached like it was about to break up, and by the time he regained consciousness, he was already a cannibal killer.

The drug?

Jiang Qinian's body in front of him started to tremble violently, even he was experiencing asphyxiation.

Shen Yuan approached him without thinking. However before he could move he heard Jiang Qinian yell, "Don't come any closer! Please, A-Yuan don't come any closer!"

Jiang Qinian quickly retreated a few steps.

Jiang Qinian forced his consciousness to stay awake, but his body trembled so much that he was unable to stand up. His blood vessels started turning black. Even his nails and lips turned dark, his eyes gradually becoming red.

"Stay there! I won't be able to maintain my consciousness anymore, I might hurt you."

The lights on the laboratory room flickered crazily, Shen Yuan heard Jiang Qinian say softly, "Kill me."

"What?" Shen Yuan could not believe his ears, looking at him with her eyes wide open.

Yet Jiang Qinian repeated it sternly, "Kill me. I've become a killer. I'm not human anymore, A-Yuan..."

"No!" Shen Yuan roared with all her strength, sounding sad and desperate, feeling very heartbreaking. "I will definitely cure you! You'll be fine soon! Wait a minute, I'm definitely- "

"Please! A-Yuan, I'd rather die than hurt you."

Jiang Qinian was crying bitterly with his red eyes. Slowly tears began to form also in Shen Yuan's eyes, slowly flowing following his cheek line, dripping quietly onto the floor.

Jiang Qinian wiped away his tears, forcing himself to smile, "Please take care of our daughter."

Shen Yuan tried to gulp, it was very painful, like swallowing a pebble.

Shen Yuan walked forward a step, and one more step until it grew even faster, she grabbed Jiang Qinian and hugged him. Jiang Qinian knew he should have pushed Shen Yuan away, but the gentleness given by this warm embrace felt so precious that he did not want to let go. At least in a minute...

Jiang Qinian cried so hard that his body trembled violently. Shen Yuan closed her eyes, hugging her tightly with her tears flowing down her cheeks.

Jiang Qinian cried and smiled, "Thank you, thank you A-Yuan, I'm so happy."

"En."

Jiang Qinian's body increasingly trembled, barely able to last any longer. He choked, "I love you."

Shen Yuan's embrace tightened, she softly whispered, "I love you too.

Jiang Qinian's wet eyes were filled with a feeling of relief, at least he could see and hear the voice of his loved ones for the last time.

Jiang Qinian closed his eyes, yet when those eyes opened again, they were already completely red in color. Only a bloodlust was visible in it, he already did not recognize that beloved person who was hugging him tightly.

Jiang Qinian's body started to wriggle, he let out a roar, trying hard to attack Shen Yuan. Yet Shen Yuan fiercely held him in his arms.

Shen Yuan grabbed a scalpel, which fell not far from his foot. He held back his violently shaking hand and gripped the knife tightly. With tears streaming down, Shen Yuan pointed the knife at the neck of his loved one.

Crashes

His knife came as fast as lightning, cutting up to Jiang Qinian's collarbone. The lifeless body fell into Shen Yuan's arms. Shen Yuan continued to hug him, not daring to look at the expression on that face.

Shen Yuan could feel the warmth of the blood flowing towards his shirt, seeping into the cloth and hitting his skin. Yet Shen Yuan shivered in the cold.

The last lamp in the lab was finally extinguished. In the darkness, Shen Yuan was crying, crying so much that he had difficulty breathing.

Inside this darkness, he felt the body of his beloved person slowly begin to cool down.