“Seeing that they won’t even let people in over there, just curious, treat it as a kid being ignorant, asking for fun.”
Zhou Zongming slapped the desk in front of him: “You brat, don’t you dare take my warning as wind past your ears. If you sneak in and get caught, they’ll shoot to kill on the spot, and you won’t even have a place to complain.”
“Is that building that important?” Lu Bai smiled: “Isn’t it just researching a vaccine?”
Hearing this, Zhou Zongming’s expression turned grave. He drew his pistol and aimed it at Lu Bai, saying in a deep voice: “Where did you hear that from?”
Lu Bai made a bear-spreading-hands gesture and said unhurriedly: “Such a big reaction? If I said someone plans to steal the vaccine tonight, wouldn’t you be scared into jumping up?”
Zhou Zongming ignored the teasing in Lu Bai’s words and said word by word: “Do you know what you’re saying, you brat? This is no joke.”
Lu Bai wore a smile on his face, but his words no longer contained any hint of amusement.
“But do you dare to bet?”
……
Lu Bai tilted his head up to look at the white ceiling.
Rough but meticulous, with a strong sense of responsibility.
Zhou Zongming had that very standard soldier personality.
Although they hadn’t spent much time together, Lu Bai could easily infer Zhou Zongming’s reaction upon receiving this news.
Since the source of the intelligence was himself, with no guarantee of its reliability, this company commander wouldn’t rashly report it upward, much less mobilize troops on a large scale.
The most likely choice Zhou Zongming would make was to stand guard alone in the laboratory to ensure the vaccine’s safety.
“They’ve probably already met, right?” Lu Bai lowered his head to look at the lab personnel tied up like a dumpling: “Where is Professor Jiang’s laboratory?”
……
At this moment, Professor Jiang’s laboratory.
A Gu, dressed in lab attire, frowned tightly. He really couldn’t understand why Zhou Zongming had suddenly appeared at the research center.
It must be known that after the initial chaos of the zombie outbreak at this military base, the remaining troops numbered only a few hundred.
After reorganization, there were fully five companies’ establishment at most, and Zhou Zongming’s status in this temporary shelter went without saying.
After a brief moment of surprise, A Gu returned to his gentle and refined appearance, taking the initiative to ask: “Company Commander Zhou? Why are you here?”
Zhou Zongming just put his right hand in his pocket, not showing excessive vigilance, and said nonchalantly: “It’s so late, so why has Inspector Gu come here? I remember your job is to analyze virus components, right?”
“No choice, Professor Jiang notified me this evening to send a vial of virus solution to his laboratory. I was busy and forgot, and only just remembered now.”
A Gu smiled, intentionally or unintentionally closing the distance between them as he spoke.
Zhou Zongming’s gaze never left A Gu: “Is that so? Then you shouldn’t mind if I call Professor Jiang right now to confirm?”
“Uh… Company Commander Zhou, has something happened?”
“I received intelligence that someone plans to sneak into the research center tonight.”
The laboratory ceiling was spotless, white and dazzling. The gaps between the floor tiles had been cleaned of any mud.
In the center of the laboratory was an isolation room about five or six square meters in area, with palm-sized double-sided bulletproof glass on the door frosted with ice, clearly much colder inside than outside.
Through the reflection on the double-sided glass, one could see the formulaic smile on A Gu’s face gradually stiffening as he deliberately showed displeasure.
“Company Commander Zhou, are you suspecting me?”
Zhou Zongming shook his head: “I don’t mean that, but for caution’s sake, I hope you’ll stop in place immediately. Once I call Professor Jiang, I’ll clear your name. If there’s no issue, I’ll personally come to apologize…”
Before he finished speaking, A Gu had already moved.
With an action utterly unlike that of a frail lab personnel, he quickly closed in on Zhou Zongming, raised his hand to pin Zhou Zongming’s right hand to prevent him from drawing his gun.
Almost simultaneously, his other hand locked the throat, his knee struck Zhou Zongming’s abdomen, then the throttling hand bent into an elbow, heavily striking Zhou Zongming’s temple.
Even though Zhou Zongming remained vigilant, he had no expectation that a lab personnel could have such good skill.
Taking the first combo hit, Zhou Zongming felt the world spinning, breathing difficult, and even standing became extremely hard.
Thanks to being a well-trained soldier, under the threat of death, as his body went limp and fell, he reflexively did a mud cow roll to try pulling away distance and draw his gun.
However, A Gu seemed to foresee it, and just as Zhou Zongming drew his pistol from his pocket, a powerful whiplash kick came.
The automatic pistol was kicked flying into the wall, bounced back, and fell to the ground.
The pistol’s drop position was less than five meters from Zhou Zongming, but in the current situation, those five meters were like an insurmountable chasm.
At that moment.
Click~
The laboratory gate was opened again.
“Looks like I came at a bad time.”
Lu Bai walked in, glanced at the laboratory interior, then turned, casually closed the gate, and locked it.
After doing all that, he slowly turned back and added: “Came in and saw Chang Wei beating Lai Fu.”
A Gu: “?”
Zhou Zongming: “?”
The laboratory instantly became deathly silent.
A few seconds later, Zhou Zongming couldn’t hold back a hiss of pain, breaking the quiet atmosphere in the laboratory.
A Gu walked over to pick up the pistol and asked puzzled: “How did you get up here?”
Lu Bai was about to explain when a series of footsteps sounded outside the door.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The laboratory gate was kicked with banging sounds.
“Open the door!”
“Open the door quick! I know you’re in there!”
“You’re surrounded, open the door and surrender immediately.”
Lu Bai felt the movement outside the door and spread his hands helplessly: “That’s how I came up.”
“I thought you’d already been shot to kill on the spot.”
A Gu sighed slightly regretfully.
He raised the automatic pistol in his hand, aimed at Lu Bai: “Tell me, theoretically speaking, between a bullet through the heart and a headshot, which dies faster?”
The pistol’s effective shooting range was actually shorter than most people imagined, but it was more than enough to cover this laboratory.
However, Lu Bai showed no awareness of being aimed at by the muzzle and answered with a grin: “Your question, two national-level experts did a control group experiment on it. From what I recall, the one shot in the heart was even rushed for rescue, so you’d better aim right here.”
He pointed to his forehead.