Chapter 128: Zerg Invasion 22
The elevator doors closed, and even though she was almost at the laboratory, her hand remained on the small cart. She watched the elevator buttons light up quickly, floor by floor, when suddenly she heard a heavy thud beside her.
Someone is destroying the sonar!
Chu Yian immediately looked up and saw a slightly overweight student wearing glasses holding an iron instrument, forcefully smashing the sonar they had painstakingly delivered.
People reacted and rushed to stop him.
However, at that moment, a teacher standing in the corner of the elevator reached out and pressed the lights for all floors above: 16, 17, 18, 19, 20!
Holy crap, two Parasitized!
If Chu Yian didn’t react to this, she would have been useless.
Originally, there were only six people in the elevator, including her. Now, with two Parasitized, who had increased strength and felt no pain, the situation suddenly became difficult to control.
Fat, worm-like parasites spewed from the slightly overweight student’s mouth, scaring the three boys who were restraining him, causing them to back away.
The elevator took a long time to reach the top floor, and everyone was terrified.
As Chu Yian watched the Parasitized raise the iron object to continue smashing the sonar, she steeled herself, pulled out her treasure box, and slammed it hard into the slightly overweight student’s head. The teacher next to him also didn’t escape.
The elevator was covered in blood, and on the floor, besides two corpses, there were wriggling worms.
A fishy stench instantly filled every corner of the elevator; even a slight whiff was enough to make one nauseous.
With a ‘ding,’ the elevator stopped on the eighteenth floor.
Chu Yian quickly brought the sonar and the remaining people out. At this moment, the teachers and students who hadn’t left this floor were standing in the corridor, looking at them expressionlessly.
The three students behind were still retching from the situation in the elevator, and now a new crisis appeared before them.
“Are they normal people?”
Someone still held onto such a naive thought.
“How could that be?”
Chu Yian stood in front, wiping the sweat from her hands on her pants leg due to nervousness. “How much longer until the other elevator comes up?”
The student behind looked at the increasing numbers on the elevator. “They’ve already gone up.”
The three students had never seen such a situation; they were now trembling all over from nervousness.
“If they’ve gone up, they’ve gone up, why are you shaking?”
Chu Yian enlarged her treasure box and took out a microscope, a utility knife, and an iron rod from it. “One weapon for each of you; the sonar must be protected.”
The items they held were the weapons she had collected.
Certainly, the iron rod was the best. The boy who got the utility knife looked like he was about to cry. And in the corridor, the increasing number of students and teachers gathering, that was the source of their oppression.
“Ding—”
An elevator is coming down!
Chu Yian turned and saw Lu Qingyuan inside. Without thinking, she dragged the cart and ran in, while the Parasitized, who had been slowly gathering behind them, chased after them.
The person in front had already caught up and lunged at the outermost boy.
Just then, a small silver knife directly pierced his crown.
The corpse fell outside the elevator door, and that student slumped to the ground, drenched in a cold sweat.
Finally, they reached the 21st floor.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they saw Lu Qingyuan bring them up. The group said nothing outside the laboratory until they entered, then they gathered around him.
“What happened?”
“Where are Teacher Wang and Zhang Gang?”
… The three surviving students sprawled on the ground, unable to speak for a long time.
Chu Yian was calmer than them and quickly recounted what had just happened. “Teacher Wang and Zhang Gang were Parasitized at some unknown time. They deliberately damaged the sonar in the elevator and trapped us on the eighteenth floor. I don’t know if the sonar is broken.”
She looked at Lu Qingyuan. “The two Parasitized people hit it with great force just now.”
Everyone immediately tensed up at her words and gathered around the sonar.
They inspected it, then installed the components and debugged it.
“There’s a small problem, but it can be fixed.”
The five core professors said, “Give us two hours, and we should be able to fix it.”
After speaking, they immersed themselves back into the repair process.
Chu Yian stood to the side, watching them repair the sonar without blinking. Her muscles were tense, clearly not yet relaxed from the stress.
Lu Qingyuan walked to her side and asked in a low voice, “What else did you want to tell me just now?”
“I think there are still Parasitized among us.”
Chu Yian’s brows were tightly furrowed.
When they brought these people back, everyone had been checked with sonar, and it was confirmed that no one was Parasitized. But now that two people were Parasitized, it meant there might be more than two.
They were originally 16 people.
Two had already died.
Now, besides Lu Qingyuan, she dared not trust anyone else.
“Teacher Lu, you’re not Parasitized, are you?” Chu Yian suddenly had this thought and turned to look at him in horror.
As she spoke, she reached out and pinched him on the back of his hand.
Lu Qingyuan’s hand was long, fair, and clearly jointed. When she pinched the back of his hand hard, that patch of skin instantly turned a rosy red.
Lu Qingyuan frowned slightly, lowered his eyes, and looked at her. “What are you doing?”
“Parasitized don’t feel anything, do they? I’m just testing.”
She had been observing Lu Qingyuan’s expression just now, and it was clear that he had passed her test.
After all, she didn’t really suspect him much.
Just then, Lu Qingyuan suddenly reached out. Chu Yian felt her arm being pinched, and she hissed in pain.
It hurts!
Lu Qingyuan calmly withdrew his hand. “Very good, you’ve passed too.”
Chu Yian was stunned. She wanted to reprimand Lu Qingyuan but felt that what he did was very reasonable.
“What do we do now? Should we use this method to test the others?”
She asked in a low voice.
Lu Qingyuan shook his head. “Using this method would cause too much commotion and easily alert the Parasitized. Moreover, they can disguise themselves.”
Right.
If the Parasitized pretended to be in pain, they wouldn’t be able to tell the difference either.
They still had to wait for the sonar.
Neither of them dared to blink as they watched them repair the sonar. Two hours later, they finally heard them announce that the sonar was fixed.
Next was the test run.
After the sonar was turned on, a sound at a specific frequency began, causing intense discomfort, but the human ear could not detect the subtle differences in this sound.
“I’ll go catch a Parasitized and bring it in.”
Lu Qingyuan said.
“Let me go!”
Although Chu Yian really didn’t want to go, she still volunteered. After all, there might still be Parasitized hiding among the people here, and the instruments and professors were precious, so the most capable person among them had to watch over them.
In so many rounds of games, Chu Yian’s greatest confidence was—she could always trust Teacher Lu’s combat prowess!
