“Director, it has already reached the critical limit.”
Everyone stared at the woman inside the laboratory—she was their last hope.
Since the apocalypse began, they had endured natural disasters and human catastrophes. In this devastated world, they needed a savior.
If heaven would not send a redeemer, then they would create one.
They had been researching for five years in this apocalypse. Originally, there were five thousand people, but now only one woman remained alive.
Just one final step remained. If this step succeeded, humanity would have hope.
Her entire body had been enhanced. Wounds healed quickly. One punch could break through a wall. Medicine made her rapidly immune.
They had tried everything to keep her confined. If the last step succeeded, they would take measures to make her an obedient savior.
More importantly, if successful, they could develop a vaccine so that zombies would no longer be a threat to humanity’s survival.
The director of the research institute looked at the woman with burning eyes and tried to steady his voice: “Increase the dosage.”
“But Director, it’s already very dangerous. If we increase the dosage, she will explode. She is our last experimental subject. If she dies, our project will…” —failed.
The director said sternly, “If something happens to her, I’ll bear it myself. We don’t have much time. They only gave us three days.”
With no other choice, everyone had to increase the dosage.
Li Yao looked at them. She had been tortured for five years.
For five years, she didn’t know how she endured it. Her body had undergone brutal training and drug modification. When her body became humanity’s strongest, they began injecting her with another drug.
Her body underwent another transformation—her body was filled with energy. They called it “superpower.”
The previous modifications were like creating a perfect vessel. Every time they injected a modifying drug, she felt her soul was shattered and reassembled.
They called this the tempering of the soul.
Today they kept injecting drugs into her. The tearing of her soul and the pain in her body made her realize she wouldn’t survive today.
After the injections were complete, everyone watched Li Yao. This woman brought them huge surprises.
Ten minutes later, the superpower energy inside Li Yao steadily increased—and most importantly, she was still alive.
“Success! We succeeded!” everyone cheered happily.
Li Yao moved her fingers, and her strength was greater than ever before.
She looked at the happy crowd outside with unrelenting hatred.
Bang!
The explosion-proof glass of the lab shattered. The happy crowd outside froze, staring in horror at the glass.
Their glass wouldn’t even show a scratch from bullets.
“When did her energy exceed the safety limit? Quickly, lock her up!”
A group of researchers looked pale. They understood better than anyone that inside was not an angel, but a demon.
Over five years of experiments, they knew the woman inside hated them and wanted them dead every moment.
So after the god creation succeeded, they planned to perform a minor brain surgery on her to make her an obedient savior.
Li Yao came out, and the director shouted, “Everyone out!”
Their lab was made of alloy. As they left, they shut down the lab and turned on anesthesia—enough to sedate even ten elephants.
Everyone left in an orderly manner.
Li Yao looked at the closed door. The anesthetic gas spraying inside didn’t affect her.
Warm blood flowed from her nose. Calmly wiping the nosebleed, she knew her body was being destroyed by the immense energy. She wouldn’t survive.
So she decided everyone here would die with her. The apocalypse had come. She survived extreme weather, zombie attacks, but in the end, she would die at the hands of her own kind.
Damn the god creation plan. Damn humanity’s need for a savior. It was these filthy people who needed a powerful humanoid weapon.
Originally, five thousand people were captured for modification—just one batch. Thousands died, and in the end, only she survived.
She wanted to destroy this place! It was an obsession she had to fulfill even in death.
The director looked at the surveillance in the lab excitedly. He said, “Look, the anesthetic doesn’t work on her. Then the zombie virus won’t either.” His fanaticism made it seem he wanted to experiment right now.
Other researchers shrank in a corner, watching the steel door twisting.
They screamed in despair, “Director, now is not the time to be excited! She’s about to get out. None of us will survive!”
The director sighed and said to them, “Then use electric shock.” After thinking, “Just leave her a bit of breath.”
At this moment, Li Yao had already come out. The diamond steel door was like paper in her hands.
“It’s over!!!” The researchers fled everywhere. If they didn’t run, they would die—their bones weren’t as strong as the steel door.
Li Yao reached out. The researcher who doubted the dosage was uncontrollably pulled back by an invisible force.
The institute director stared at Li Yao fanatically.
“Ah!” The captured institute member turned into a cloud of blood mist.
“Director, stop watching, run!” Someone grabbed the director and rushed outside.
“Shh, ha ha ha.” Li Yao looked at the blood in her hands and chuckled twice, then burst into laughter.
In the closed room, the researchers and director hid in a corner, holding their breath, watching the door.
They prayed to heaven, hoping that experimental subject wouldn’t come looking for them.
Unfortunately, heaven did not answer their prayers. Li Yao opened the door, the heavy stench of blood terrified them.
“Now only two of you are left in the institute. I know you’ve called for help, but you won’t get reinforcements. My body has been strengthened countless times by you, and my sense of smell is far keener than you think. So today, none of you will survive.”
The energy inside her continued to grow. Her body was only bones and skin, her organs and flesh dissolved into a pool of blood, now barely sustained by willpower.
The two hiding were pulled out by a burst of energy and lifted into the air.
“You…” the institute director shouted in horror.
Li Yao said, “None of you will live.”
Then the person beside the director’s neck snapped with a crack. Li Yao left him some breath to slowly feel death.
She said, “I won’t kill you quickly. I will let you experience death little by little.”
At this moment, blood continuously flowed from Li Yao’s mouth. She used her superpower to trap the director, immobilizing him, sealing the room.
With a snap of her fingers, flames burst around the room. “Director, look, your research succeeded.”
“Cough cough.” Pale arms covered her mouth, wiping blood from the corner. She showed it to the director, “But you failed. No one can withstand this energy.”
She tidied her hair and sat down against the corner.
She heard knocking outside; flames flared up around the room.
Li Yao released the director’s mouth and watched the flames crawl over him.
She closed her eyes amid his miserable screams. She once said, as long as she lived, one day no one in the institute would survive.