Chapter 147 – Mutation

Ningnan University.

This famous institution that had once attracted students from all over the country, and even international students from many countries, was now already deathly still.

Probably because classes had already been suspended before doomsday, Ningnan University now looked much safer than the outside, at least with very few corpses in sight.

But this deserted feeling still made one’s heart tremble, and one could always feel as if something were staring from within those empty buildings.

Before there was a problem with his Precognitive Ability, Su Lifeng would most likely have thought this was an illusion brought about by the eerie environment. But now, he felt it was a sensation similar to perception. There was definitely something truly watching him there…

“If they don’t come provoke me, fine. But if they deliver themselves to my door, they can’t blame me for being ruthless…” Su Lifeng had just walked to the entrance when a figure suddenly flashed out from the greenbelt beside him.

“I didn’t expect radios could be used like this.” Jiang Yushi held a radio and said with a smiling expression. These wireless communication tools Stranger had provided back then were still very useful. When Su Lifeng went out today, Su Lian had handed one to each of them, saying they could be used throughout all of Ningnan. Su Lifeng had contacted Jiang Yushi through this. What he needed to do was very difficult for one person to complete under these circumstances.

Seeing that she had not frightened Su Lifeng, Jiang Yushi first revealed a trace of disappointment. Then her expression suddenly changed, and she walked forward to support Su Lifeng.

“What’s wrong? Your complexion looks very bad. Are you all right?” Jiang Yushi asked with concern.

“I’m fine. Maybe I’m a little exhausted.” Su Lifeng was somewhat moved. He had not expected that even though he was forcing himself to endure, she could see it at a glance.

Perhaps because she was too anxious, when Jiang Yushi supported him, she almost let his entire body lean against hers. Feeling Jiang Yushi’s body temperature, Su Lifeng suddenly had the impulse to reach out and wrap an arm around her. He still remembered the feeling of that light kiss, and whenever he thought back on it afterward, he savored it…

Only when he leaned his weight on her did he realize that her body, though it looked slender, unexpectedly had quite a lot to it.

“Um…” But just as Su Lifeng’s hand moved, another faint sound came from within the greenbelt.

He hurriedly stopped, looking somewhat surprised at Su Lian, who suddenly jumped out.

“Cough, cough…” Su Lian deliberately cast her gaze to the side while saying, “I already gave you two time. But it will be dark soon… Don’t worry, I didn’t see anything in the woods.”

Su Lifeng immediately became extremely embarrassed. He felt Jiang Yushi’s body sway once. Raising his head to look, he saw that from her neck to the roots of her ears, she had already turned pink.

“Brat, what nonsense are you saying? Why did you follow us?” Su Lifeng hurriedly straightened his body, but his feet swayed and he leaned back against Jiang Yushi again. This truly was not intentional. He really was dizzy.

Jiang Yushi could also feel that he was not doing it on purpose. So while her face was bright red, she instead increased the strength with which she supported him and said quietly, “It’s fine. You… you can lean on me.”

“Ah, the air is thick with a sour stink…” Su Lian coughed loudly twice more, then before Su Lifeng could scold her, raised the computer bag in her hand. “I came to borrow your school’s computers and see if I can connect to the Quarantine Cordon’s local network. The power at home is out… But Xiaomei-Jie has already gone to look for diesel, preparing to use the generator we found in the residential complex.”

“Will she be all right alone?” Su Lifeng was somewhat worried.

“Xiaomei-Jie was very insistent. Ge, you don’t need to always worry about us either. To be precise, we’re all Mutants now, no longer ordinary human girls. To say nothing else, at least we can stay alert at all times and run for our lives in time.” Su Lian shook the radio in her hand and said, “Besides, I’m keeping in contact with her the whole time. If you don’t believe me, listen.”

As she spoke, she pressed a button, and a voice immediately came from inside.

“Xiaolian, what size do you wear? Do you like lace? Eh… why aren’t you answering?”

Cheng Xiaomei’s voice came out from within.

The atmosphere froze for two seconds. Then Su Lian decisively turned and walked into the campus. “I’ve been here before. I can find it. I’ll go first, and we’ll meet up later. She is only helping me look for some things along the way!”

As soon as she finished speaking, Su Lian paused her step, then with one leap, her figure disappeared into the distance.

“Be careful…” Only then did Su Lifeng react. Seeing that Su Lian had already run far away, he sighed, then turned to look at Jiang Yushi. “Did I do something just now?”

Jiang Yushi looked at him and smiled faintly.

All right…

“Let’s go to the laboratory,” Su Lifeng said.

The laboratories at Ningnan University had basically already been emptied, but the basic equipment was still there.

Su Lifeng came here mainly because he had his eye on the backup power supply.

After he went to the power room and started the generator, by the time he returned to the laboratory, Jiang Yushi had already changed into a white lab coat.

Looking at her dressed like this, Su Lifeng suddenly felt somewhat nostalgic.

The days when they had once done experiments together like this seemed to have gone forever…

“Tell me, what are we doing?” Jiang Yushi prepared the equipment and asked.

Su Lifeng blurted out, “Do me…”

After an awkward silence, he pretended nothing had happened and corrected himself. “This time, I am the experimental material.”

Drawing blood, testing, and monitoring all his basic vital signs.

Su Lifeng lay on the laboratory table, watching Jiang Yushi proceed step by orderly step according to what he said.

Like him, once she entered the state, her expression became very focused. Occasionally, when she checked the instruments, a trace of anxiety would appear.

While waiting for the test results, Su Lifeng seriously sensed the changes in his body.

After the dizziness in his head slowly faded, Su Lifeng felt as if something extra had appeared in his brain.

It was like a string stretched taut there, but he did not know how to pluck it.

Su Lifeng felt that this was related to the large-scale damage to the Protective Layer, which was why he had been impatient to verify it.

Two hours later, the results finally came out.

Jiang Yushi held the test results with an expression of incomprehension, then handed the report to Su Lifeng after he jumped down from the laboratory table.

“Strange. Why does this look very much like a mutation produced after being affected by a radiation source?”

Su Lifeng stared at the results for a long while, then walked to the window and looked outside.

That’s right. How had he not thought of this…

With Spatial Gates opening, elements from another World had entered Earth’s environment. Even if he ignored this, just the problem with the Protective Layer alone was enough to bring about a quiet change in Earth’s environment.

Thinking this way, had the dense series of natural disasters from before not stopped appearing now?

That was because the change had already taken shape…