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Chapter 22 - Crept in the Dark

"We have to get out of here right away. The floor is about to collapse because of that damn glowing flower!" Frankie urged Alex to run away immediately.

"But, Zayn!?" Alex felt very complicated and sad. He seemed to want to plunge into the dark abyss to find Zayn.

"Don't be stupid, Alex! Zayn sacrificed himself for you. He left his last request for us to bring these medical items and materials to the good scientists, right? We must honor his sacrifice!" Frankie gritted his teeth and hit Alex once.

"..." Alex looked into the dark abyss once more, then gritted his teeth. He then took his ax, and the suitcase hurried off before the entire floor collapsed.

"..." Frankie also glanced back once and then hurried off while carrying Zayn's big bag.

Their close friend fell here. They hoped to find Zayn in basements four or five, but they could only find their way up.

After some deliberations, Alex and Frankie decided to leave that dangerous Lab X ASAP at Zayn's last request. Distresses were everywhere, and they couldn't risk their belongings getting damaged.

"We have data, samples, medical items and materials that might make the cure. The zombies need to be stopped immediately. We'll be back here with the reinforcements to find Zayn." Frankie spoke in a whisper-like voice as they approached the hidden exit among the ruins.

"Yeah, Zayn is a strong and smart guy. He probably survived his fall because God protected him. We'll be right back for you, Zayn." Alex muttered to himself and looked back at the dark alley once more before heading out.

"Grr..." The giant estuarine crocodile growled when it found two humans crossing its territory, but it was too lazy to move.

"!?" Alex and Frankie were surprised that the small hill was the previous giant estuarine crocodile.

That monster had become so bloating fat and seemed to be getting bigger. So, the estuarine crocodile won the previous battle, and the other two monsters were devoured by it.

"Let's move faster and go back to being a bush again. Zayn predicts that some super zombies are heading to Lab X because we shut down the reactor." Frankie whispered and camouflaged himself with the bush once more.

"..." Alex nodded silently and put the bushy plants around.

The two of them then hurriedly left the vicinity.

Meanwhile, a man in full army uniform lay limp among the rubble at the bottom of the abyss of darkness. Several lizards and giant rodents sniffed here and there. Still, luckily, Zayn had covered his body with mud before coming here.

So, he currently smelled like mud and was among the rubble. The zombified giant beasts failed to notice his presence.

*Crunch!* *Crunch!*

A gigantic jaw suddenly emerged from the ground. It devoured a nearby giant rodent, swallowing it in one go without giving the giant rodent a chance to scream in surprise. The bone crackling noises could be heard clearly in the silence of the darkness, frightening the monsters around.

Zayn's fingers twitched slightly, and his eyelashes fluttered. He opened his hazy eyes, but only darkness was present in his sight.

His entire body ached from the fall, and his head felt sore and dizzy, but he wasn't bleeding.

'So, I survived the fall, huh...' Zayn mumbled in my mind. Yet, the bone-crackling noises immediately alarmed him. His survival instincts told him to get out of there as soon as possible.

'I have to get out of here right away. Alex and Frankie had probably gone to safety by now. Hopefully, they don't encounter the eminent danger that I felt earlier' Zayn made a decision. However, his entire body still ached. Because of that, he could only creep slowly while trying to get away in the direction he thought was right.

The wounds he suffered from yesterday's high-rank zombie attack had not recovered and were now made worse by broken bones from falling from a height and being hit by debris.

At that moment, he could see a faint glimmer of light from the giant glowing flower. He widened his eyes in surprise when he noticed a massive mouth under the flower, chewing something, and the noises were clearly audible.

Several giant monsters took a safe distance because they were intimidated by the massive mouth below the flower. Still, Zayn's current position was quite close to the glowing danger.

"..." Zayn stared at the giant glowing flower, but the latter either didn't notice him or just didn't care because that monster was too busy chewing on its big prey.

Because of that, Zayn crept back away from the vicinity without knowing the exact direction of his destination. He simply followed the path his heart was pointing at him.

At that moment, a fiend-like creature had just arrived in the reactor room. That creature looks confused and annoyed that something has broken into there and damaged the reactor.

The electricity on this floor was dead, so the generator room below must also have been damaged.

*Creak*

A medium-sized zombified rodent happened to pass by, causing a slight noise.

*Swoosh*

The fiend-like creature swung its large clawed hand, creating a gale wind that shredded the poor zombified rodent into minced meat.

After staring at the dead reactor one more time, the fiend-like creature rushed away.

No one knew how far Zayn had crept, and Zayn himself didn't even know where he was either. He found a hole among the ruins and went in there.

That hole led him to the next room. He had arrived in a laboratory room that was so dark. He could no longer use his inner eye to check his surroundings because he had used too much spiritual power.

He had also endured so much pain throughout his body, and the burden was severe. His consciousness was also slowly leaving him. However, he felt relatively calm and peaceful because he had managed to find a relatively safe place.

"Ugh." Zayn crept into a gap under the table in the corner of the room and took his hiding place before he fell unconscious.