There were two pieces of paper inside the drawer. They were obviously clues given by the system. Feng Bujue opened the first piece of paper, and there were three lines of hints written on it. The first line was JMMJAOD, the second line was 14F, and the third line was 34F.
Feng Bujue glanced at it and scoffed condescendingly. "Tsk …"
The content on the second piece of paper was richer. It was a printed document. The words were neat, and it contained a detailed description of the virus.
First, the code name of the virus was indeed 'Z'. Since the description of the BW Zombies at the start of the scenario mentioned this name, it looked like the monsters on the road and the people at the lab were infected with the same virus, but it was unclear why they would turn into different types of zombies.
Secondly, the player had less than three hours to cure the virus after infection. The document said, 'Within three hours of infection, symptoms similar to the flu will appear, such as a high fever, and in the later stage, severe dementia.' This explained why Feng Bujue was covered in cold sweat and felt weak in his limbs. Obviously, the system was unable to make the player show signs of 'severe dementia', so when the virus started to affect the brain, the player would be judged as dead and be exited the scenario.
What followed was a detailed description of the mutation of the infected, such as sporadic cell necrosis, increased oxygen storage capacity of the red blood cells, slowing blood flow, increasing muscle endurance and strength, weakening cognitive ability, and attempting to consume human flesh. Of course, there was one last thing — to completely suppress the infected, one would need to inflict severe trauma on the brain.
After reading this, Feng Bujue could not help but say, "Isn't this SCP008? But … there is an anti-virus serum in this scenario." When he said that, his eyes fell to the last part about the serum.
The paper said, "Experiments show that the anti-virus serum is not effective on everyone. Through 390 experiments of different genders, ages, blood types, and races, 154 people were either immune or cured of the virus after being injected with the serum. The effectiveness rate of the serum is less than forty percent, and currently, there is no clear pattern to the effectiveness of the serum. "
After Feng Bujue finished reading the document, a bad feeling crept into his heart. With his luck, the failure rate of the antidote was self-explanatory. Even if he found the antidote, there was only a forty percent chance that it could cure the disease. Or else … he would only have two hours left. It was impossible to clear the scenario in that amount of time. The biggest contribution he could make was to find the serum and hand it to his teammates.
Speaking of teammates … ten minutes ago, when he heard the news of Atobe-sama and Ming's death in the corridor, he understood that this scenario was not as simple as it appeared. The deaths of the two confused him. They did not look like the type to leave the gun shop on their own. Therefore, their deaths in such a short period of time were most likely due to encountering some kind of extremely powerful monster at the entrance of the gun shop.
But how could a monster like that be found in the city? Even if it was nighttime and the BW Zombies were strengthened, they wouldn't be able to kill two players with submachine guns in a few seconds.
Other than that, Pan Feng and Hwa Xiong, who were with Wang Tanzhi, gave Feng Bujue a strange feeling. From the looks of it, after the two of them led Xiao Tan into the building, they did not go to the underground lab but somewhere else. Why was that? There was a huge signboard in the lobby of the first floor, and the main mission was clearly written that he had to save a "doctor". The labels on the other floors were a mess of departments, or simply words like "office area". Why would anyone go upstairs to look for it?
There were too many strange situations, and temporarily, there was no proof. Feng Bujue did not dwell on it. He turned to walk toward the metal door and leaned over to look at the password on the door.
"Sure enough, it's a six-digit number …" He looked at the operation panel for entering the password with an "as expected" expression. He directly entered 312928. Unexpectedly, after he entered it, the word "Accept" really popped up.
Feng Bujue understood the meaning of this puzzle when he saw the piece of paper. The 'JMMJAOD' on the first line represented the first letters of January, March, May, July, August, October, and December. These months all had thirty-one days. The 'F' on the second and third lines represented February, and only February had the first letter of F. The '14' represented the twenty-nine days of February in a leap year, so naturally, the '34' represented the twenty-eight days. For him, this kind of puzzle was not hard. He was someone who often needed to come up with puzzles. If the clue was written down on paper, as long as the knowledge required to solve the puzzle was not beyond his capability, he would be able to solve it quickly.
After unlocking the door, Feng Bujue gripped the handle on the door and turned it several times before pushing the door open. It was a relatively small room. Three of the walls were filled with transparent cupboards. The cupboards were filled with test tubes filled with liquid, and each row was labeled with a number.
Picking up a test tube, the item description was revealed.
Item Name: Anti-Virus Serum
Item Type: Plot Item
Quality: Normal
Function: 39.48% chance to nullify and neutralize the effect of Virus Z.
Can be taken out of the scenario: No
Remark: Can be injected or consumed. It is not effective on monsters or fully zombified players.
Based on the serial number, Chen Ge could tell that these serums were made in batches, and the composition might be different. Feng Bujue could not help but think that perhaps this Virus Z was not created by Allerbmu. They were merely trying to find a way to neutralize it after they discovered it.
Feng Bujue did not have time to think about the company's position. He had no idea which batch of the serums was more effective, so he grabbed a random tube from the cupboard, used the syringe that he had found earlier, and injected himself with it.
When the syringe was injected, his Medic mastery was unlocked, and it rose to Level F. The system said, "Congratulations, you have unlocked all the masteries from the closed beta."
"Closed beta?" Feng Bujue asked. "Does this mean that there will be new masteries in the future?" He opened the game menu and saw that all the masteries had been unlocked. That was a good thing, but … the 'Disease' status next to his Life Points was still there.
"So it really failed …" he muttered in disappointment. "Should I try another needle? I wonder if there will be any side effects … "
Just as he was hesitating, the word 'Disease' disappeared from the menu, and the abnormal status next to his Life Points changed back to 'None'.
Thankfully, he did not close the menu immediately, or else he might have missed this change, and he might have gotten another shot. Feng Bujue laughed three times, and he felt like he had just come back from the dead.
He took out a test tube rack from the freezer, and it was filled with two rows of eight serums. He carefully placed them into his backpack, which was full. The ten slots were: Mario's Wrench, Eye of Hostility, Western Kitchen Knife, Baseball Bat, Flashlight, M1911A1 Pistol, Echo Armor, Winchester Shotgun, Antivirus Serum x8, and a bag of garlic.
The Jazz Shoes were attached to his feet, so unless they were swapped out, they would not return to his backpack. Of course, if there was a need, Feng Bujue only needed to equip the Eye of Hostility and grab a weapon to free up space in his backpack.
After the serum took effect, Feng Bujue did not need to continue exploring the lab. He had come down to look for his teammates, but he did not expect to be infected once the elevator door opened. When he was first infected, he did not know when the mutation would happen, so he could only try his best to search for the serum that might not even exist.
Now, since he would not die due to time, he felt like it was better for him to return to the surface to look for his teammates. Considering the fact that he had obtained the serum, he might trigger some kind of event. If he continued to explore, he might run into a mini boss. He was already immune to the virus, so it was not worth the risk.
Just as that thought crossed his mind, the system said, "Current mission completed. Main mission updated."
"What?" Feng Bujue was shocked. "Professor Ashford is really not underground? The three of them made the right choice by going upstairs, and they have successfully rescued the professor? "
He quickly opened the menu to see what the new mission was. The new mission was, "Defeat Professor Ashford's mutated body."
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