Chapter 56

The heavy rain continued to pour, the long-awaited rain thoroughly connecting heaven and earth. It seemed as if the entire Australia was drenched in rain, the surging rainwater as if trying to wash away the evil and bloodshed on this land. The rain fell incessantly, but no matter how much it raged.

The evil and bloodshed left on the earth had long been impossible to cleanse.

Li Mu's face was expressionless, with a trace of blood still in his eyes. He ran quickly on the road drenched by the heavy rain. The torrential rain roared and swept by, but it could not touch Li Mu's body.

Li Mu ran like the wind, swift and fierce, with a terrifying momentum. Despite being alone, he ran with the momentum of a thousand troops, his overwhelming aura making even the mighty rain from the heavens bow in submission.

Li Mu's speed was too fast, creating a storm on the ground. Unfortunately, no one could see this as Li Mu had broken free from all restraints.

The red mutant parrot opened its beak, wanting to say something, but the storm created by Li Mu's rapid running prevented it from speaking. It could only carry a hint of worry and shock, struggling to hold onto Li Mu's shoulder, using all its strength to avoid being thrown off.

It could sense the madness in Li Mu's heart at this moment and clearly felt that Li Mu's evolution was not yet complete. The immense pain suppressed within him was enough to destroy the rationality that Li Mu had gradually stabilized. No one knew what Li Mu would do or was about to do.

Suddenly, Li Mu stopped. The red mutant parrot lifted its head and realized that under Li Mu's full-speed sprint, they had already left the territory of Canberra. Li Mu was now standing at the entrance of a small town.

The red mutant parrot tried to identify the sign at the entrance of the town, "Master, it seems we've taken the wrong path. This place is even further from Sydney."

Li Mu's face remained expressionless, paying no attention to the red mutant parrot's words. He stepped forward, his figure moving like lightning, entering the town. Cold and ruthless, the black bone spurs on his back suddenly lashed out, directly piercing through the door of a house.

With a "pu" sound!

Li Mu's bone spurs lashed out, and the entire door suddenly shattered. A zombie was clearly impaled on Li Mu's black bone spurs, instantly withering, its flesh and blood devoured by Li Mu.

This scene made the red mutant parrot shudder involuntarily. It saw Li Mu walk into the house as if strolling in a courtyard, the black bone spurs on his back moving swiftly in the air, creating a loud whistling sound.

In just a minute, all the zombies in the house were impaled and devoured by Li Mu.

The red mutant parrot instinctively shrank its head, suddenly understanding what Li Mu was doing.

Li Mu's evolution had not yet been completed when it was forcibly interrupted, waking him from the evolutionary hibernation. Now, Li Mu's body was still maintaining the progress of evolution, the pain of the gene chain being torn and then forcibly recombined was troubling him, making him extremely violent and murderous.

Only by doing so could the pain caused by the evolution be alleviated, and by continuously devouring other zombies, he could maintain the energy required for evolution.

Understanding this, the red mutant parrot clung even more carefully to Li Mu's shoulder, afraid of accidentally angering Li Mu and being devoured by him in his berserk state.

"Accompanying a master is like accompanying a tiger."

The red mutant parrot sighed inwardly, its head trembling as it watched Li Mu's swift figure moving through the town, leaving no grass unscathed wherever he went. Every zombie he encountered died in his hands, devoured by him.

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"I have given you everything I promised."

Luo Shui frowned, her clear face showing a hint of anger.

"Invalid."

Dr. Manhattan coldly interrupted, not giving Luo Shui a chance to speak, and quickly said, "If you really want his ashes, you have to listen to me. There is no room for negotiation."

"Or, perhaps you don't love him as much as I thought."

Dr. Manhattan saw Luo Shui frown and remain silent, and coldly mocked, "It seems I was right. Even though I am not Chinese, I know that true love in China is eternal, and if Li Mu is dead, you should have died with him. Since you are still alive, it seems you don't love him as much as I thought."

Luo Shui looked at Dr. Manhattan coldly, speaking each word clearly, "Dying with him is just a lack of courage to persist, a lack of determination to continue loving someone in the years to come."

"You don't need to use reverse psychology. Tell me what you want, and I will do it!"

Dr. Manhattan nodded, then changed the subject, "Very well. I am about to conduct a live experiment with the evolutionary serum. Do not leave; I need your experience."

Luo Shui's eyebrows lightly furrowed, deep in thought, "The zombie evolution wave is still a few days away. Your urgency suggests that the situation on your side has completely deteriorated. Has a fourth-level zombie appeared, or has a king emerged?"

"That is none of your concern. Just do what you are supposed to do."

Dr. Manhattan refused to answer the question. The threat faced by the forward base was far more complicated than Luo Shui imagined, a true tyrant among zombies, a terrifying triple-evolved existence.

After a cold and decisive denial, Dr. Manhattan pressed a button beside him, and the laboratory immediately transformed. Flashing doors opened one after another, and with the help of conveyor belts, the operating tables inside the doors gathered in the center of the laboratory. Dr. Manhattan's assistants began to work busily.

The operating tables were bound with alloy steel cables, each holding a zombie that was constantly roaring, with blood-red eyes, extremely terrifying and hideous.

Not long after, Colonel Hoover, wrapped in bandages and looking somewhat pale, was slowly wheeled into the laboratory by several assistants.

"Doctor, are you finally ready?"

Colonel Hoover spoke calmly, his voice somewhat hoarse.

Dr. Manhattan looked deeply at Colonel Hoover, "Colonel, are you ready?"

Colonel Hoover coldly snorted, forcefully pushing away the assistant beside him, and with great effort, stood up from the wheelchair. He looked at the zombie bound on the operating table with disgust, and with difficulty, walked to the most important operating table, lying down silently, closing his eyes, and taking a deep breath.

After a moment, Colonel Hoover seemed to have calmed down in the coldness of the operating table, and spoke slowly, "I have always been ready. Start. As long as I can kill him, I don't care what I become."

Dr. Manhattan nodded, and immediately, assistants came forward to make the final adjustments for Colonel Hoover before the experiment. Dr. Manhattan then turned his cold gaze to Luo Shui, who was watching the proceedings on the computer.

"I am ready. Next, I will extract the spinal fluid from the zombie and begin to prepare the first batch of the evolutionary serum... If you have any suggestions, please tell me in time."

Dr. Manhattan coldly said this, stepped forward, and began the experiment, starting with the extraction of spinal fluid from the zombie, then adjusting the concentration of the evolutionary serum.

Luo Shui watched the entire process, and even through the screen, she could feel the desperate and疯狂的气势 of the forward base. She was even more convinced that the situation in Australia had completely deteriorated.

Otherwise, no one would blindly begin live experiments before the evolutionary serum was fully understood. The sacrifice of human lives was secondary; the main concern was that no one knew what kind of monsters would be created by blind evolution.

Now, Dr. Manhattan and his team clearly had no choice but to proceed, even if it meant creating uncontrollable and terrifying monsters. The threat they faced was unimaginable.

Thinking of this, Luo Shui couldn't help but frown. If the situation in Australia really spiraled out of control, she might not be able to obtain Li Mu's ashes.

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