Chapter 64: The Cure for the World

Damn!
Self-destruction!
Li Changsheng cursed inwardly.
If he hadn’t protected himself with magic, he would already be dead. Even so, he ended up covered in dust, his clothes blown to shreds.
What a cunning old bastard!
Cui Zhiyun, cradled in his arms, was still shaken. Li Changsheng quickly checked her over.
Fortunately, the magical shield kept her safe, nothing missing.
Cui Zhiyun slapped his hand away, shooting him an annoyed look.
Her heart finally settled.
The two leaned against the wall to rest.
Li Changsheng had used up a lot of magic, so he quietly took a leftover sunflower he’d picked from the yacht, swallowing it in one gulp.
“Are we safe now...?”
Cui Zhiyun asked in a low voice.
“Not necessarily.” Li Changsheng smiled and turned his gaze to the side. “Mr. Park, you’ve watched long enough. Aren’t you coming out?”
Cui Zhiyun blinked in surprise, then looked in the same direction. Footsteps echoed, and several figures appeared from around the corner, emerging on the far side of the skeleton that was once Laut.
It was Park Posheng and his group.
Park glanced at Laut’s remains, then suddenly clapped his hands, “I don’t know how you managed to kill Laut, but you paid a heavy price, didn’t you?”
He eyed the pair, seeing them slumped against the wall and visibly exhausted. He felt assured and ordered his men, “From now on, this place belongs to us. Take care of the man, and bring that bitch over to me.”
Cui Zhiyun’s expression chilled, “Park Posheng, do you even know the consequences of betraying us again?”
Park sneered, “I know. But if you’re all dead, who will know I betrayed you? Besides, with this reagent, any organization will want me!”
He waved the sample reagent in his hand.
Li Changsheng spoke up, “I don’t think anyone will want you.”
Park snorted, “Why not?”
Li Changsheng’s gaze was cold. “Because you’re already a dead man.”
With that, a floor tile flew from his right hand, spinning through the air and briefly blocking Park’s vision. Before they could react, Li Changsheng pulled the trigger without hesitation.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Park and his men were shot in the head, their eyes wide in disbelief as they collapsed in a heap.
They died without ever understanding how someone could move so fast.
To Li Changsheng now, ordinary people were no more than toys.

Li Changsheng stepped forward and fired a few more shots into their bodies, just in case they mutated or self-destructed.
He then picked up the sample reagent.
To him, this reagent was almost useless, but for Li Xiao G, it could be invaluable.
While he did all this, Cui Zhiyun simply watched. When Li Changsheng finished, her expression remained unchanged, as if it were routine.
Li Changsheng approached, waving the reagent before her eyes. “Do you know what this is?”
Cui Zhiyun shook her head. “I don’t have the specifics, but I suspect it’s related to Laut’s experiments.”
Suddenly, a clear female voice rang out.
“I know! This reagent is called Pioneer No. 1.”
The speaker stepped forward: a lively-looking woman in her twenties with short black hair and black-framed glasses.
Li Changsheng glanced at her.
She wore a blue shirt and a white coat—a textbook researcher. Her collar was a bit messy, revealing a snowy white cleavage. She smelled faintly of chemicals, clearly the type who spent twenty-five hours a day in the lab.
It was Zoe.
Zoe rushed to Cui Zhiyun’s side. “Captain, are you alright?”
“I’m fine, just a little hurt.” She shook her head.
“Thank goodness! Now we can finally get out of this hellhole.” Zoe said excitedly.
Cui Zhiyun nodded, then asked, “Are there any other survivors? What happened here?”
Zoe’s face darkened. “Laut went mad. He injected Pioneer No. 1, turning himself into a monster. Everyone else was absorbed by him. I survived only because, as chief researcher, I had access everywhere.”
“Pioneer reagent?”
Li Changsheng was surprised.
“That’s the red reagent in your hand,” Zoe explained.
Li Changsheng met her gaze; she quickly looked away, turning her head aside.
She tugged on Cui Zhiyun’s white stockings. “Captain, is the monster beside you another product of some biochemical experiment? He’s terrifying!”
Cui Zhiyun asked, “Did you see the fight just now?”
Zoe nodded, “Not just now—at the bridge earlier, too. I thought he was human, but I realize I was wrong. He must be your military’s latest bio-monster.”
“Hey, researcher. If you keep making wild guesses about me, you’ll pay for it,” Li Changsheng snapped at the absent-minded Zoe.
Still, her assessment was accurate...
G-organisms really are monsters...
No wonder she’s the chief researcher...

Zoe shrank behind Cui Zhiyun in fear.
Cui Zhiyun patted her shoulder. “Don’t worry, he’s a good man, not a monster.”
But she glanced at Li Changsheng strangely.
Perhaps he really is what Zoe said.
Should she study him?
Forget it—she couldn’t beat him anyway.
“What are you staring at?”
Being scrutinized by two women—not with admiration, but as if he were some freak—Li Changsheng felt utterly uncomfortable.
He snorted and flicked their foreheads, then grabbed them both by the arms. “Come on, bring your so-called monster to wherever you grow sunflowers.”
Zoe struggled desperately, fear and embarrassment written all over her face as she looked to Cui Zhiyun for help.
Cui Zhiyun only spread her hands—she was being carried too.
The institute’s power would last a while yet.
But Li Changsheng didn’t dare use the elevator.
They took the stairs down to the second basement level, arriving at a vast glass chamber.
Inside, twenty mysterious yellow flowers glowed softly.
Sunflowers.
Zoe pointed at a wilted one. “These are also called companion flowers. They always appear alongside a Boss.”
“Boss?” Li Changsheng was puzzled.
“Special infected, like Tanks or Witches.”
Li Changsheng sighed, feeling a surge of emotion.
There’s a saying: for every poison, an antidote lies within five steps...
Maybe these flowers are the cure for this chaotic world...
Zoe saw his sigh and thought she’d said something wrong, falling silent until Li Changsheng gestured for her to continue.
She went on, “Companion flowers have many uses: they supply energy for gene mutation, act as fusion agents for gene integration. Laut’s transformation was thanks to these flowers. But their most important function is to make vaccines...”
Vaccines!