
Murong Xue arrived at the base and got off the car. The car following behind her flashed its high beams, so she could not see the people in the car clearly. But she knew Huangfu Yi was there.
Murong Xue had seen that Huangfu Yi's car drove into the base directly, so she walked to one side, leaving enough room for his car.
Two minutes passed, but the car was still. Murong Xue felt surprised. The guards at the gate also straightened their backs as they feared that the General caught them sneezing just now.
Long Yi felt helpless. He wanted to drive, but Huangfu Yi would not let him do that. He could only watch the guards tremble with fear.
Murong Xue hesitated for a while and then she came forward, knocking on the car window.
Long Yi's eyes lit up when he saw Murong Xue. He knew he was saved.
Long Yi rolled down the window and put on a serious face, "Miss Murong, what's up?" He knew she came for Huangfu Yi, so he was pleased to greet her.
"Long Yi, I want to ask you something. Do you have a minute?"
Long Yi never expected that Murong Xue would come for him and he could feel a chill in his back. He wondered what Murong Xue wanted from him and he felt helpless. With Huangfu Yi's threatening eyes, Long Yi asked nervously, "Miss Murong, are you asking the wrong person?" Long Yi gave her a hint that Huangfu Yi was in the back seat.
"No. I've been looking for you these days. Please tell me when you will be free?"
Long Yi panicked and had no idea what he should do now. He knew he was doomed.
Long Yi had told Huangfu Yi that Murong Xue joined the Loong Pavilion to look for someone a few days ago, and now Murong Xue announced that she had been looking for him recently. Thinking of these, Long Yi felt that he could not survive today and he even began to consider packing up his things later and running away.
Despite this thought, Long Yi still answered her, "Sure. Wait a minute. I'll be waiting for you in the meeting room."
"Drive. Now." Huangfu Yi asked coldly.
"Thank you." The moment Murong Xue answered, the car drove fast into the base.
Murong Xue felt that Huangfu Yi must hate her now as he avoided her eyes and urged Long Yi impatiently to drive.
She decided to confess to him the next time they met.
As usual, Murong Xue entered the medical research room after inspection.
"Xue, I remember you said to take a day off today." Number 005 Dragon Doctor asked in surprise.
"Isn't there any emergency situation? The General informed me to come back." Murong Xue was confused.
"The General?" Number 005 Dragon Doctor recalled what the General asked him today, so he thought that the General wanted him to train this freshman, "Well, come and help me then." He felt that it was time for Murong Xue to study the invention their enemies developed. He had wanted to show it to her later as it was too dangerous, but they had to find the cure as soon as possible as the potential threat was too horrifying. Talented Murong Xue could be of great help.
"Follow me." Number 005 Dragon Doctor said to Murong Xue who just changed into a sterilized uniform.
Murong Xue had thought that they would go to the research room as usual, but he led her to a new passage. The long passage had ten checkpoints, which meant that the place they were going to now was heavily guarded.
She became curious about the secluded place they were going to. She had thought that Dragon Doctors were only responsible for medical research, studying abnormal cells, and keeping the men in the organization healthy.
At last, Number 005 Dragon Doctor stopped by a wall, held out his palm, and spread his five fingers on the wall. The next moment, the lock popped out. Number 005 Dragon Doctor entered the password quickly, but Murong Xue still remembered it thanks to her photographic memory.
After he entered the password, Murong Xue was ready to go in. However, a scanner showed up and scanned Number 005 Dragon Doctor's eyes. After about three seconds, a word appeared on the screen, "Correct."
Then the smooth wall split up and moved to the sides, revealing what was inside.
Murong Xue had thought that the new room would just have different medical categories. However, totally different from what she had expected, the new room was divided into a dozen of smaller closed rooms.
There was a big controller in the middle and the security footage of each room was on the screen.
Walking into the room, Murong Xue could not believe what she saw, eyes wide open. Everyone was strange. Instead of "people", she would rather use the word "monster" to describe the living things in front of her.
"What happened?" Murong Xue felt angry and turned to look at Number 005 Dragon Doctor. She doubted if she had been wrong about the Loong Pavilion and if they were doing evil experiments on these people.
Number 005 Dragon Doctor sighed and spoke seriously, "They are our men. They were caught by another organization on a mission and were injected with some unknown virus. Now, they are kept here because we haven't developed any cure to heal them. Our task is to save them as soon as possible."
"What kind of organization would do such demonic things?" Murong Xue found it unforgivable as the people kept there were shouting and hitting the wall. What a desperate scene!
"At present, the Loong Pavilion is doing everything we can to find their base, but they are very cunning and cover themselves well. We don't have leading clues so far, so we Dragon Doctors can only stay behind and focus on developing the cure. This is our primary work."
Murong Xue nodded as she agreed that this was Dragon Doctors' original aspiration, for which they worked day and night.
She walked to the doors in which those infected people were kept and began to observe their symptoms, many of which were unknown to her. Then she suddenly saw someone special, obviously different from other patients.
The one she noticed was leaning against the wall in the corner. His skin became grey and black. His nails were sharp and long. His eyes seemed vast in his sunken sockets. He looked like a terrifying zombie.
Murong Xue remembered that the person she had met in the street before had the same but less serious symptom.
"May I ask what happened to this man?" Murong Xue pointed at him and asked Number 005 Dragon Doctor.
Number 005 Dragon Doctor walked over, "He is the worst one. He seems not to be alive, but he still acts like a human being, only without any emotional response. He just arrived not long ago and we did not find the cure yet."
"Is it also done by that organization?" Murong Xue frowned and said.
"Yes. They were sent to search for that organization and then they were all given the unknown shot."
"I saw someone similar to this man before, but that person's symptom was less serious. Only half of his skin had pathological changes and I even talked to him."
Hearing this, Number 005 Dragon Doctor changed his face, "How come? If it is real, we have to find that man immediately and keep him under control. This disease is contagious. I have to report it to my superior." While walking out, he said to Murong Xue, "You come with me to report your meeting with that man."
Then they went to see the captain of Dragon Doctors.
"Captain!"
"Why do you panic?" The captain of Dragon Doctors was about forty and he was reading papers seriously in the office.
"Captain, we got a huge problem. Someone Xue saw in the street had the same symptom as that of the last patient sent here."
The captain put down the papers and rubbed his forehead, "What happened? Tell me the details. It shouldn't even be possible as nobody in the Loong Pavilion is found to be missing."
After Number 005 Dragon Doctor told Murong Xue what would happen if things got out of control, she became very serious and cautious, "I had a car accident downtown yesterday and a man passed out. When we helped him get out, I was frightened by his face, half of which was grey and black. We called an ambulance, but he insisted on leaving when he woke up on the way to the hospital. Then he left…"
Pausing for a moment, Murong Xue continued, "I can be sure that he was thinking clearly and he did not lose control. I checked his pulse when he was unconscious and his heart was still beating in the course of nature despite the strange rhythm."
Hearing these, the captain decided, "We have to get him back. Disaster will loom if others outside get infected."
Number 005 Dragon Doctor and Murong Xue nodded seriously.


