Chapter 9: Biohazard Crisis (Complete)

  The monster had immense strength, and the modified bus was like a toy in its hands. The huge claws were deeply embedded in the car's skin, and the monster shook the bus up and down with great force.

  The children in the car were frightened and let out a shrill scream.

  The monster was probably scared by those miserable cries and casually threw away the big bus.

  The commotion on this side made Alice and a few others anxious, but they couldn't shake off those agile zombies and could only watch as the monster walked step by step to the overturned bus.

  A small figure emerged from the broken car door, swaying as he walked towards the monster, stretching out his hand and shouting "Mom."

  That small figure was actually Jerry!

  The monster's movement was as if it had pressed the pause button, its huge claws just a few centimeters away from Jerry's face, and with just a slight push forward, Jerry would be in danger of having his brains splattered.

  "No."

  Alice discovered the situation on this side and was shocked with wide eyes, shouting in a hoarse voice.

  That child was exchanged for Ruo Ke's own life, how could she just watch him die in front of her, how could she be worthy of Ruo Ke.

  Alice, regardless of the zombies surrounding her, desperately ran towards Jerry's direction, but everything was too late. Alice watched with her own eyes as a huge monster grabbed Jerry's small body in its hand.

  Despair surged in like a tidal wave, Alice collapsed and let out a loud wail, tears streaming down her face.

  Luoke, I failed to live up to your expectations.

  Jerry, caught in the monster's hand, didn't feel a bit scared. He gently rubbed against the monster's rough skin and softly called out: "Mama, baby, want."

  Jerry stuttered and said that at first glance, he recognized his own mother, although she had changed her appearance, but a mother is still a mother, even if she changes her appearance, she is still his mother.

  Alice stared in surprise as a hint of tenderness flowed from the monster's cold, brutal eyes, and it stretched out its claws to gently stroke Jerry's soft hair.

  That big and ugly thing, is it really a Roomba?

  How did she become like this? Thinking back to how Mark was also transformed into a revenge-seeker by the Umbrella Corporation, Alice understood that something similar must have happened to Jill.

  Protect Umbrella Corporation's inhumane experiments, Alice also knew some of them. Roco, how did she survive? Looking at Little Jerry being spoiled by Roco, Alice understood.

  There is nothing greater than a mother's love in this world. For her children, she can withstand any hardship.

  Jerry's "Mom" brought Roco back to his senses.

  Regaining his senses, Luo Ke flipped over the large bus and put Little Jerry inside, then turned around and charged into the swarm of zombies.

  Luò Kě was like chopping melons and cutting vegetables, and the zombies that were just arrogant and unstoppable were all knocked down. In less than a few minutes, those zombies were eliminated cleanly. Occasionally, one or two fish that were still struggling to escape were blown up by Alice with a single shot.

  After all the zombies were completely eliminated, Luo Ke turned around, looked at Alice, and opened his arms.

  Alice's mouth corners slightly hooked up and she plunged into Roco's arms without hesitation.

  "Luò kě, zhēn gāoxìng néng zài jiàn dào nǐ."

  Translation: "I'm really glad to see you again."

  Onlookers who don't know the truth, lj, Carlos, Claire...

  After everything was over, Alice introduced Roco to the rest of them, and they finally understood that this ferocious-looking monster was actually Little Jerry's mother, Roco.

  Many people soon accepted Luo Ke's existence, after all, in these days, Alice and they mentioned Luo Ke countless times, saying that she was a great mother, even if she became a strange creature like a licking food, she did not lose her sanity, but instead continued to protect her children, and finally used her own body to exchange with the Protective Umbrella Company for the sake of her children.

  "Hey, Luo Ke, aren't you a foodie? How did you end up like this? You don't look like a foodie at all..."

  Before he could finish speaking, Carlos covered his mouth and looked at Luo Ke with a slightly awkward expression, saying: "Sorry, I didn't mean to."

  Luoke is now in this state, there's only one possibility, she must have been remade by the Protective Umbrella Corporation again. LJ asking this kind of question might bring up some unpleasant memories.

  Luoke pulled down the little Jerry in her arms and put it into Alice's arms, then wrote on the ground.

  "It doesn't matter, everything is already over."

  Alice patted Roco's arm silently, and Roco must have suffered inhuman torture at the Protective Umbrella Corporation, or she wouldn't have become what she is now.

  About those experiments at the Umbrella Corporation, Luco didn't want to recall them. The bizarre effects of the drugs on her, her pain nerves had returned to normal, but were then tortured by subsequent experiments until she was thoroughly crushed, if it wasn't for that one cry of "Mom" from Little Jerry that awakened her...

  Shaking off the unpleasant memories in her mind, Luo Ke looked at Alice and asked about their plans afterwards. Upon learning that Alice intended to head to Alaska, Luo Ke expressed her objections.

  "There is a ready-made shelter for us to choose from."

  Roco led Alice to the laboratory where they were once detained. Under their joint efforts, all mercenaries left by the Umbrella Corporation were thoroughly killed, leaving only some harmless researchers.

  As for the black-clad man who used Luo Ke as an experiment, Luo Ke picked him up and threw him into a pile of zombies.

  Listening to the man's desperate and mournful cries, Luo Ke felt an unprecedented sense of comfort in body and mind.

  Alice and her companions did not expect that the shelter mentioned by Luo Ke was actually a research base of the Protective Umbrella Corporation.

  Luó kě biǎo shì yǒu zhè me yī gè xiàn chéng de bì nàn suǒ, nǎ lǐ hái yào qù nà ge bù zhī dào dǐ bù shì shén me qíng kuàng de ā lā sī jiā?

  "Alice, isn't this place good as a base?"

  The defense here is very strong, as long as the gate is closed, zombies can't get in.

  Moreover, the food reserves here are also very sufficient. Although those nutrient solutions don't taste good, in this world where even lives can't be guaranteed, being able to fill one's stomach is already not bad, who would care about flavors?

  Alice and a few others discussed it for a while, and finally decided with a slap on the table that this place would be their base.

  The base was named Hope by Alice, who believed that humanity would ultimately survive this disaster.

  Zombies will not rebirth, eliminating one, the world will have one less, sooner or later, humans will return to the top of the earth.

  They have always believed so.

  Jerry Spin-Off

  In 2025, the disaster that lasted for twenty years finally came to an end. All zombies were completely eliminated and humans once again became the masters of the earth.

  The tightly closed gates of the base opened and people walked out of the base to rebuild their homes.

  Many years later, the desolate earth was once again restored to prosperity. Humans were busy in the prosperous cities as if the previous disaster that almost destroyed all of humanity had never occurred.

  My name is Jerry, I used to be the leader of the human resistance army, now I'm just an ordinary person who's going to die.

  When I am about to die, looking back on this long life of mine, many things have become blurred, leaving only the memories of my childhood unusually clear.

  I was born without a father, and my mother is an ordinary human being. After the zombie outbreak, my mother became a scavenger.

  People often say that babies have no memory, but I clearly remember memories from when I was still in diapers.

  I remember that time, the zombies had just broken out, my mother carried me and escaped from the city. At first, she would protect me, but later in order to survive, the woman who gave birth to me, without hesitation, threw me into the piles of zombies behind her, she was crying, with a desperate and sad face, but her hands did not shake at all.

  As I flew through the air, I saw her turn around and fall into the arms of a fellow refugee, crying.

  She couldn't bear to see me being bitten by zombies, but she could bear to throw me out in exchange for her own chance at survival.

  I don't blame her, she's also trying to survive, it's just that she never thought about it, I want to live too.

  The ugly, deformed faces of the zombies were right next to me, their bony claws about to touch my body. In another second, I would have been torn apart and swallowed into their bellies. Just as I thought all was lost, a scavenger suddenly appeared out of nowhere and rescued me from the pile of zombies.

  That eater was ugly, uglier than the undead and a hundred times uglier than my mother who gave birth to me, but she was very good to me.

  When she just caught me in her hand, I thought I was done for. Her mouth was bigger than my body, and with just a light bite, my life would be gone.

  I thought she would devour me, just like I thought my mother wouldn't abandon me, but instead she didn't devour me and took great care of me.

  At that time, I was very scared. Sometimes waiting for death is more terrifying than death itself. I kept crying and the sharp cries attracted many, many zombies. Some of them were afraid of her and didn't dare to surround her, while others were not afraid and would attack her.

  She's fierce, one swipe of her paw would take out a whole bunch of zombies, those that forced my mom to abandon me looked weak in front of her.

  But even if she's strong, she can't withstand the endless zombies. I know that as long as she gets rid of me, she won't face a predicament like this.

  Just throw me away.

  I thought she would be like my mother, throwing me into a pile of zombies to save her own life, but she didn't. She protected me with her body, even when she was covered in wounds, and never let me go.

  From that time on, my feelings towards her changed. Looking at her muscular physique again, it didn't seem so scary anymore.

  I vividly remember one time when we encountered a tongue-eater that was even more powerful than her.

  That time she was badly hurt, and the battle with that devourer almost took half her life away. More than half of her body was destroyed by that devourer, but the hand she protected me with never let go.

  She was covered in blood and on her last breath, but I remained unscathed under her protection.

  At that moment, I truly regarded her as my mother. Although she was an extremely ugly sloven, in my heart, she was more beautiful than anyone else in the world.

  Originally in this world, there really was someone who would consider my life more important than her own.

  Later on, I and Aunt Alice were caught by the Umbrella Corporation people. She knew what would happen if she was caught by the Umbrella Corporation people, but she still came. She exchanged her own safety for mine.

  After that, I didn't see her for a very long time. When we met again, she had become an even more terrifying monster than the Licker, but I recognized her at first glance.

  I ran to her, I was not afraid, even if she changed her appearance, she is still my mother.

  Later, the base she and Aunt Alice established took in many survivors. Among them, I saw a familiar face. Her clothes were tattered, her expression numb, but she hadn't died.

  It's been a long time, she may have thought I had died at the hands of zombies, so she didn't recognize me, and I didn't go to recognize her either.

  To me, from that moment she threw me away, she had already abandoned her identity as my mother, and I have nothing to do with her anymore.

  The base grew stronger day by day, and the zombies dwindled away day by day. Slowly but surely, people stopped being grateful to her; they forgot that it was she who had run out to scavenge for supplies during the most difficult times, allowing them to survive within the base.

  They shouted, calling her a monster, they held all sorts of weapons, they wanted to eliminate her.

  At that time, I had become one of the leaders of the base. I stood in front of her, just like she used to stand in front of me when we were kids.

  "I say: 'If you want her dead, step over my corpse first.'"

  Those people finally retreated, but the look in her eyes still made one's heart tremble with hatred and disgust. How could they be like this? If it weren't for her, they might have been dead long ago.

  I never thought it would end like that, she left and never came back.

  I spent the rest of my life traveling all over the world, searching every nook and cranny, but I couldn't find any trace of her.

  Until I reached the end of my life, I never saw her figure again.

  I know she did it for my own good, she couldn't bear me being stuck in the middle and finding it hard to do things, so she chose to leave.

  But mom, have you ever asked me if I'm willing to let you leave?

  Mom, no matter how many people there are in this world, none of them can compare to you. If I didn't have you, what would be the meaning of my existence in this world?

  Why are you leaving me? Mom, don't you love Jerry anymore...