After completing what she wanted to do, Yun Xiaoxiao didn't continue any further.
She returned to the helicopter with Little Cutie and Big Beauty.
"Big Beauty, you're a bit too fat, you should go back to the space."
Looking at Big Beauty who was trying hard to squeeze into the cabin but couldn't fit in, Yun Xiaoxiao's tone was somewhat disapproving.
Big Beauty: O-O......
The helicopter took off again, heading north.
Finally, by noon the next day, she arrived at the research institute that Zhong Mingsheng had mentioned.
This research institute was located in the suburbs of Jing City.
Though called suburbs, it was actually still a prosperous area.
At first glance, the entire research institute was filled with zombies.
There were also many zombies wandering on the surrounding streets.
Dense and horrifying.
Yun Xiaoxiao looked at the institute's layout map in her hand and landed the helicopter on top of one of the buildings.
This was the building Zhong Mingsheng had mentioned.
He needed things from the third to sixth floors of this building.
After parking the helicopter, Yun Xiaoxiao surveyed her surroundings.
When her gaze fell on a nearby pipe, she pressed her lips together.
She extended her right hand, and a vine quickly wrapped around the sturdy pipe.
Then, she flipped over onto the building's edge.
Holding the vine with one hand and bracing her feet against the wall, she gradually moved downward.
With her small frame, she moved quickly along the wall like a gecko.
She made her way down to the sixth floor, arriving at a large glass window.
Inside appeared to be a laboratory, filled with various unfamiliar bottles, containers, and equipment.
There were also two zombies inside, swaying their heads as if frozen in place.
She pushed hard against the wall with both feet, swinging herself high.
Then, aiming carefully, she kicked forcefully at the glass window.
"Crash~"
The glass shattered into pieces, scattering on the floor.
The two zombies were startled by the loud noise.
They turned their heads 90 degrees simultaneously, opening their bloody mouths wide, and charged toward Yun Xiaoxiao.
Moving swiftly, Yun Xiaoxiao retracted her vine and shot it directly at the zombies' heads.
Two howls were abruptly cut short.
Yun Xiaoxiao flicked her hands, withdrawing the green vines.
In the process, one of the zombie cores was rolled to her feet.
After dealing with the zombies, she began handling the bottles, containers, and equipment in the room.
Sensing that the containers were quite fragile, Yun Xiaoxiao was unusually 'gentle,' not simply tossing these items into her space.
Instead, she moved carefully, placing them in slowly.
Within a few minutes, she had cleared out the entire room.
She even confiscated all the unused containers and equipment hidden in the cabinets.
Then, she slowly opened the door.
As soon as she opened it, a female zombie in a white lab coat, with the left side of her face grotesquely mangled, howled and charged at Yun Xiaoxiao from behind.
Little Cutie quickly grew larger, leaping from Yun Xiaoxiao's shoulder, and thrust its sharp tail spikes at the zombie.
Yun Xiaoxiao also summoned Big Beauty.
The trio began their massacre.
During this time, she saw researchers who had starved to death in their labs.
She also saw zombies with bullet holes in their heads.
This meant that someone had been here before.
However, there were no signs that the research equipment had been touched.
Yun Xiaoxiao and her companions slaughtered their way from the sixth floor down to the third floor.
Just as she was about to finish clearing the third floor, several armored vehicles drove into the research institute from outside.
They violently crashed through the institute's entrance gates and drove all the way to the building where Yun Xiaoxiao was.
As soon as the vehicles stopped, about twenty fully armed people emerged.
They held guns and continuously fired at the zombies charging toward them.
A fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl and several men quickly entered the building.
They moved with clear purpose, heading straight upstairs.
As they walked, they swiftly cleared out any zombies that lunged at them.
Their movements were quick and showed signs of battle experience.
Yun Xiaoxiao heard the continuous gunfire from downstairs.
She frowned, and just as she was about to see what was happening, she heard intense gunfire and footsteps from the stairwell nearby.
Were they... coming up?
After collecting the last few items, she slipped into her space.
Regardless of their purpose for being here, Yun Xiaoxiao felt it was better to avoid trouble.
However, she didn't teleport away immediately, wanting to see who these people were and what they were doing here.
The group quickly reached the third floor.
Seeing the zombie corpses at the stairwell entrance, Bai Ruo, who was leading the group, frowned.
"Miss, it seems someone has already been here," one of the men said gravely, looking at the fallen zombies in the corridor.
A mysterious expression flashed across Bai Ruo's beautiful face.
She quickly entered one room, and seeing the empty workbenches, her expression darkened.
Without a word, she went to check several adjacent rooms.
Without exception, each room was just like the previous one.
They were cleaned out so thoroughly that not even a shelf remained!
If it weren't for the fact that concrete couldn't be moved, she believed whoever had looted this place would have taken that too!
Damn it, who had beaten them to taking everything from this place?!
The base's people had actually come once before, when her parents had sent them to rescue people.
So all the surviving researchers had been rescued.
But at that time, they had focused only on saving people, and there were too many zombies, so they hadn't thought about taking the research equipment.
After bringing the people back, they discovered they couldn't conduct any research.
So she had volunteered to lead a team back here to retrieve the equipment.
But someone had already taken everything.
How could she face everyone back at base now!
This was her first time leading a mission alone, was it destined to end in failure?
The more she thought about it, the darker Bai Ruo's expression became.
She wanted nothing more than to kill whoever had ruined her plans!
"Let's check upstairs."
So the group quickly headed up.
However, upon seeing that every floor had been completely cleaned out, Bai Ruo's face turned almost black with rage.
"Miss, what should we do now?" one of her subordinates asked.
"How should I know?!"
Bai Ruo shouted angrily.
She stormed downstairs with a dark expression.
The vehicles that had arrived in such a hurry left just as hastily.
After they had all left, Yun Xiaoxiao emerged.
She felt relieved.
Fortunately, she had arrived earlier, otherwise, these items would have been taken by others.
In high spirits, she returned upstairs and took off in the helicopter.
Earlier when she had come, she had spotted a large farm.
It was located in a remote area with few houses, but there were many cattle and sheep on the mountains.
As Bai Ruo's group was driving down the street, they saw the helicopter flying overhead.
Bai Ruo stuck her head out the window and looked up at the sky.
She frowned slightly, that helicopter seemed to be coming from...
The research institute!
