24: Chapter 24 Mutated Zombies [Shadow Barbie]

He cautiously walked through the front doors of the Main Hospital Building.

Shattered glass doors, black tainted blood everywhere on the ground, and chaotic footprints left by the horde that had just surged out—Chu Hong looked at the now-deserted outpatient hall.

The smile on his face simply could not be suppressed.

"Heh-heh, clearing the map~"

The noisy zombie roars from the direction of the helipad, accompanied by the roars of that BOSS, could still be heard over here from time to time; however, Chu Hong was already moving with swift steps, beginning his search according to the task marker locations on the map.

Time was tight, and the task was heavy.

[Emergency Rescue Area] [Registration and Payment Hall] [Convenience Pharmacy]... The clear indicator signs caused Chu Hong to head toward the Convenience Pharmacy at the very first moment.

The mission required taking away three special collectables.

Among them, on the top-down perspective map, the task icon representing the [Portable Pharmaceutical Workbench] was strikingly similar to the general structural location where this [Convenience Pharmacy] was situated.

"Bang, bang..."

The slight, continuous collision sounds made Chu Hong's footsteps pause slightly; while rapidly concealing his figure, he also discovered the target making the commotion at the very first moment.

Those were two zombies wearing doctors' white lab coats, continuously colliding with the door inside the pharmacy, trying to get out.

Taking a deep breath.

Chu Hong silently arrived in front of the pharmacy door, looking at the door that clearly pushed inward, without any hesitation.

"Bang!"

The two zombies were suddenly and fiercely knocked down by the door pushed by Chu Hong.

Before they could even emit a roar.

A scarlet arc of Source Energy from the source blade swept across, and two ferocious zombie heads rolled onto the ground.

Looking at the relatively neat pharmacy, Chu Hong's eyes instantly lit up.

Wherever his hands swept across, almost every row of medicine cabinets was a searchable container.

Searching [Pharmacy Shelf]: Common Cold Medicine (Green), Iodophor (White), Gauze (White), Basic Hemostatic Medicine (Green)...

Although there were hardly any high-tier collectables.

But every search could almost fill up the item slots of the black search frame, still causing a flash of pleasant surprise in Chu Hong's eyes.

"This Main Hospital Building, although the number of zombies is terrifyingly absurd, the amount of supplies truly matches this level of crisis..."

He muttered, yet did not continue searching further, instead immediately starting to look for his mission target inside the pharmacy.

Finally.

Beneath a half-open counter, a square-shaped medical instrument appeared before Chu Hong.

[Item Name]: Portable Pharmaceutical Workbench

[Item Tier]: Gold

[Type]: Medical Supplies

[Weight]: 25kg

[Backpack Slot Capacity Occupied]: 3 × 4

[Item Description]: The latest research achievement of the special medical department of the Cliffside Epidemic Hospital, capable of generating corresponding special emergency medicines using raw materials at the first moment after receiving patient data; it may not cure completely, but it can at least save the target's life.

"Holy shit, a three-by-four gold item, a big gold piece..." Looking at the weight of a full fifty catties, Chu Hong's teeth felt a bit achey all over; it wasn't that he couldn't carry this thing.

It was truly that he was worried whether his backpack slots would still be enough to hold the remaining two mission collectables.

The thirty-slot military load-bearing backpack was instantly taken up by twelve slots by this big fellow.

"Next, all that's left are the 'Pharmaceutical Raw Materials' and the 'External Pharmaceutical Freezing Equipment'..." Chu Hong muttered to himself, looking at the location of the icon on the map, following the department structure diagram of the Main Hospital Building in the lobby before him.

Pondering over it.

The first floor basically could not have these two things, while the second floor was the ordinary inpatient floor along with some department offices, and the third floor was the intensive care inpatient floor.

Matching the indicator signs, Chu Hong glanced at his map.

Directly stepping toward the stairs and heading toward the third floor.

"The name 'External Pharmaceutical Freezing Equipment' sounds like high-end medical equipment just by hearing it, the probability on the third floor should be higher..." Chu Hong's pace under his feet was not slow, yet almost no footsteps appeared.

Cleanly and neatly resolving a few sporadic unlucky zombies blocking the way—either with broken legs or arms snapped by being trampled—Chu Hong quickly passed the second-floor stairwell and walked up to the third floor.

The glass walls leading to the isolation wards were shattered all over the floor, leaving glass shards everywhere on the third-floor ground at this moment.

However, the lighting was considered pretty decent, allowing Chu Hong to easily perceive where there were zombies that hadn't been lured out yet.

"Boom!"

Outside, in the parking lot, yet another time bomb prepared in advance by Chu Hong reached its explosion time.

The huge sound made the beast roars and howls over at the parking lot increasingly irritable and chaotic, but likewise, it made Chu Hong, who was in the Main Hospital Building, act much more easily and without reservations.

With a "squish" sound.

The source blade directly pierced through the composite wood door panel, stabbing through the head of a doctor zombie continuously colliding behind the door on the spot.

"Attending Physician Duty Room..." Chu Hong walked in and searched around.

A cardboard box with brand-new packaging was placed against the wall right by the entrance, bearing medical equipment descriptions that Chu Hong couldn't understand.

[Item Name]: External Pharmaceutical Freezing Equipment

[Item Tier]: Gold

[Type]: Medical Supplies

[Weight]: 25kg

[Backpack Slot Capacity Occupied]: 3 × 4

[Item Description]: An external device specially researched by the special medical department of the Cliffside Epidemic Hospital to accelerate the production of certain anti-viral special medicines; linked with the portable pharmaceutical workbench, it will initiate the matching pharmaceutical program.

Joy flashed in Chu Hong's eyes, and he immediately put the item into his backpack.

Suddenly having an extra hundred catties of weight on his body made him, even with the strength of the Fourth Stage of Qiyuan, noticeably feel some hindrance in his movements at this moment.

Looking at the very last remaining mission icon on the map.

Excluding the patient inpatient area corresponding to the third and second floors, as well as the emergency outpatient clinic on the first floor, Chu Hong took a deep breath—this final mission item, "Pharmaceutical Raw Materials", could only be in the Warehouse on the first underground floor!

Following the hallway guide all the way and eliminating a few annoying zombies, Chu Hong looked at the pitch-black stairs leading to the first underground floor before him, turning on the night vision goggles he brought on his head.

In the gloomy green perspective of the night vision goggles, the already chilly first underground floor appeared even more bizarre and dead silent.

Holding the source blade, Chu Hong advanced according to the location of the map mission icon while raising his vigilance to the absolute maximum.

If there were any zombies that might not have been lured out by the explosion outside.

That would inevitably only be this pitch-black basement.

[Laboratory] [Blood Bank] [Underground Parking Area F1] [Staff Passage] [Power Distribution Room]...

In the dead silent air, Chu Hong could even hear his own heartbeat.

Suddenly his footsteps paused, and the sign on a big door before his eyes made his heart involuntarily leap with joy.

[Warehouse]

He glanced left and right; the big door was half-open, and through the gap, he could clearly see that box after box of either medicines, medical equipment, or medical supplies were placed inside.

And Chu Hong also saw his long-awaited mission collectable at the very first moment.

"Hahaha, now they're all here!"

Looking around left and right, after discovering no abnormalities whatsoever through the night vision goggles, he hurriedly and quickly walked inside.

[Item Name]: Pharmaceutical Raw Materials

[Item Tier]: Purple

[Type]: Medical Supplies

[Weight]: 10kg

[Backpack Slot Capacity Occupied]: 2 × 2

[Item Description]: Pharmaceutical raw materials used to compound the vast majority of special medicines; loaded into the portable pharmaceutical workbench, specific required medicines or tablets can be generated through the program.

Seeing that it only occupied four slots, Chu Hong instantly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart and put the item away.

Suddenly, upon seeing a wooden box placed beneath where the Pharmaceutical Raw Materials had just been, the entire person froze.

"What the hell, a minor guaranteed drop?"

A high-value supply point was right before his eyes; there was no reason to just turn around and leave like this.

Searching [Imported Equipment Box (High-Value Supplies)]: ...

The two 1 × 2 supply slots had just begun retrieval when Chu Hong's expression suddenly changed drastically.

Almost instinctively rolling on the spot.

"Screech!"

Two clear slash marks instantly appeared on the metal medical equipment, with a depth of fully two to three centimeters.

Chu Hong's pupils shrank violently.

However.

When he raised his head, there was no figure whatsoever before his eyes.

Yet within his body, the Source Energy's instinctive perception of crisis made him clearly perceive that right before his eyes where he couldn't see, there was a figure fiercely assaulting him once again.

"Stealth?"

Cold sweat broke out on Chu Hong's forehead, and he dodged once again.

However.

This time, however, a tear was savagely ripped open on his shoulder.

Fresh blood burst forth.

However, it was also at this fleeting moment that under the close-range gloomy green night vision goggles, a slender figure resembling a female ghost flashed past and vanished.

Yet Chu Hong immediately saw the information regarding the opponent.

Mutated Zombie [Shadow Barbie]!