117: Chapter 117 Liu Kun's Backup Plan

Wang Lin frowned: "What are you afraid of? I'm not going to eat you."

Su Wan swallowed hard, not saying a word, her whole body trembling.

At this moment, Shen Yuan spoke up: "Young Master Wang, take a look at your face."

Wang Lin froze for a moment, raised his finger, and touched his face.

"My face? Did I become even more handsome?"

"It's possible. I've heard that the Vampire bloodline can make people more beautiful."

Wang Lin raised his hand and activated his Ice Ability, causing the water vapor in the air to condense in his palm, forming a smooth sheet of ice that served as a mirror.

He held the ice up in front of him and looked down at his reflection in the ice.

Wang Lin's pupils contracted instantly.

The face in the ice wasn't handsome; it was hideous.

His skin was no longer fair but a grayish-white.

His eyes were no longer deep and piercing, but murky and white, as if covered by something.

His lips were no longer red, but black and cracked.

Those two fangs were no longer like works of art, but ugly and ferocious, like those of a beast.

His face was slowly turning into the face of a zombie.

Wang Lin looked down at his hands, which were changing from their normal color to a grayish-white.

His fingernails were long and sharp, like five withered bones reaching out from a grave.

"W-what is going on…"

"Where is my handsome face? … Where did it go? …"

Wang Lin looked up at the glass bottle that Liu Kun had thrown before he died.

He squatted down, picked up a piece of broken glass, and sniffed it.

A pungent odor pierced his nostrils—like rotting flesh, like chemical reagents, like death.

"T-this is… the progenitor virus…"

Wang Lin recalled the smile and the look in Liu Kun's eyes before he died.

At the time, he thought Liu Kun was making a final struggle, a last-ditch effort to delay him for a moment.

But now he understood that Liu Kun wasn't trying to stop him; he was trying to drag him down to death together.

The glass bottle contained the progenitor virus.

Once infected, one would turn into a zombie, lose their sanity, and become a walking corpse.

Wang Lin looked at his graying skin and his lengthening fingernails:

"Damn it… A-am I going to turn into a zombie?"

"B-but why do I still have my sanity? Why haven't I lost consciousness?"

Could it be his Superpower? [Infinite Evolution]?

Had he evolved into a zombie?

"So that's it… My Superpower can even evolve viruses…"

Wang Lin closed his eyes and sensed the changes within his body.

The progenitor virus was like black snakes slithering through his blood vessels.

Wherever they went, his skin turned gray, his fingernails grew longer, his teeth sharpened, and his eyes turned white.

They were remolding Wang Lin's body, transforming him from a human into a zombie.

But at the same time, another force was surging within him—his Superpower, [Infinite Evolution].

It was like an invisible net, capturing those black snakes, entangling them, binding them, and devouring them.

But there was too much of the progenitor virus; it was too strong, too fierce.

His Superpower was only at LV4; it wasn't powerful enough, and the Speed of consumption couldn't keep up with the Speed of the virus's spread.

Wang Lin activated Infinite Evolution within his body.

He concentrated all his Mental Energy within his body, like a high-Speed machine.

The Speed of consumption increased, and the Speed of the virus's spread slowed down.

One fast, one slow; one increasing, one decreasing—it was like two armies at war.

Slowly, the Speed of consumption caught up to the Speed of the virus's spread.

Wang Lin felt the changes within his body slow down; his skin stopped turning gray, and his fingernails stopped growing: "It's working."

He pushed Infinite Evolution to devour even faster.

Wang Lin opened his eyes, looked at himself in the ice, and smiled.

Inside the mirror was his young, pale face, tinged with a hint of coldness.

"Great… My handsome self is back…"

Wang Lin's smile didn't last long.

Because he discovered that the progenitor virus in his body hadn't been completely devoured; it had only been suppressed.

They were like hibernating snakes, curled up deep within his body, lying quietly in wait.

Once his Superpower weakened, they would wake up, erupt, and devour his body once again.

Wang Lin looked at his reflection in the ice again.

His face had changed back into that of a zombie.

At that moment, Wang Lin suddenly remembered that he still had two bottles of serum, the ones he had snatched from the laboratory.

Wang Lin reached into his space ring and took out the serum.

As long as he injected it, the progenitor virus in his body would be suppressed, and his body would return to normal.

Wang Lin thought about it for a moment, then gave up the idea.

His Superpower was Infinite Evolution, evolving toward becoming stronger.

The virus was also a form of energy, a form of evolutionary material.

If he could rely on his own power to devour the virus, absorb the virus,

and evolve into an existence that surpassed the virus, then his Infinite Evolution would become even stronger.

"Perhaps this situation is actually a good thing."

"When I go out later and meet real zombies, maybe we can shake hands and make friends."

"I'll give myself a nickname then: Zombie King. That title sounds pretty good."

Wang Lin's body suddenly shuddered, and he turned to look at Su Wan and Shen Yuan.

He extended his claws, opened his mouth to reveal those two sharp fangs, let out a low roar, and lunged at Su Wan and Shen Yuan.

Su Wan and Shen Yuan were so scared that their legs were trembling.

Both of them wanted to run, but their legs wouldn't obey.

The previous battle had already drained their stamina and exhausted their energy.

They could only watch as Wang Lin lunged toward them, closing their eyes.

It's over… Are they going to turn into zombies too?

Just as they thought they were going to be eaten,

they waited for a long time, realized nothing happened, and opened their eyes…

Before them, Wang Lin was standing right in front of them, looking down at them.

Wang Lin suddenly laughed: "Get up, I was just scaring you."

But to Su Wan and Shen Yuan, the smile of the zombified Wang Lin looked so terrifying and hideous.

Shen Yuan's voice squeezed out from his throat: "Young Master Wang… you… are you alright?"

Wang Lin shoved his hands into his pockets and looked at Shen Yuan's pale face: "If I weren't alright, would I still be standing here talking to you?"

Su Wan asked, somewhat confused: "But… your body… it clearly turned into a zombie… how are you…"

Wang Lin reached into his space ring and took out the two bottles of serum.

"See this? This is the serum."

"I injected the serum earlier, but since I injected so little, the effect is a bit slow."

"It'll be fine in a while."

Su Wan and Shen Yuan looked at the two bottles of serum emitting blue light and breathed a sigh of relief.

"So Young Master Wang had already injected the serum… No wonder…"

"As expected of Young Master Wang, he truly thought of everything…"