The post-apocalyptic world has a space full of supplies.

Chapter 163 Beijing Research Institute (5)

Lu Yuan moved the sofa blocking the door and entered the outer office again. He lowered the light shining from his palm and carefully looked around the office. There were seven or eight desks, all of them were the kind of partitioned desks used by ordinary staff, each desk being their own private space.

The desks are arranged in two rows in the middle. This layout does not make the office look crowded, and the surrounding area is open and accessible, so no one will disturb each other whether they are sitting at work or walking around.

“Some units also have administrative offices on the same floor as the leaders’ offices, and this office’s layout is very similar.” Lu Yuan recalled the floor allocation of the South China Base Research Institute. He remembered that when he accompanied Wei Cheng and Li Minze to submit the application for the exoskeleton mecha project, the administrative office was on the top floor. Although it was not big, its layout was very similar to this office.

The zombies outside the gate were probably attracted by the moving camera earlier and hadn't wandered back to this area yet, so Lu Yuan's light source didn't cause any noise outside the gate.

Yang Xiao checked the doorway several times before finally relaxing a bit.

"So we're most likely in the administrative office of the Beijing Research Institute right now," Yang Xiao continued.

"Okay, I'll take these computers to the starship now and let the system handle it. Are you alright here by yourself?" Lu Yuan walked back to the inner office, picked up the computers on the table, and prepared to teleport.

"How could nothing be wrong? Wasn't it authorized? Can't I go up with you?" Yang Xiao remembered that Lu Yuan had mentioned something about an authorization password before, but he had clearly given level one authorization just now, and he didn't see that a password was required.

"Xiao Yang, you need a very close level 7 or higher authorization to enter my room~" It wasn't Lu Yuan who answered him, but that cheeky yet somewhat cute mechanical voice.

"Damn, besides his dad, who else is closer to me than Lu Xiaoyuan?" Yang Xiao still wanted to make a last-ditch effort. It wasn't that he was afraid of zombies. As long as the light wasn't too bright, the zombies wouldn't find him. Based on his two lifetimes of experience fighting zombies, most of those who died were the ones who brought it upon themselves. But he really found those three corpses disgusting.

"Then I'll deliver the stuff to the starship and come down right away, okay?" Although Yang Xiao was bold, Lu Yuan knew that he was actually very afraid of being abandoned. Otherwise, he wouldn't have followed them all the way from G City to the South China Base. Although Yang Xiao was the one who started this incident, he went back to rescue Lu Yuan so that he wouldn't be left alone.

"It's a promise, I'll be out right away." Without higher authorization, Yang Xiao had no choice but to nod.

As they were talking, Lu Yuan disappeared carrying the two computer cases. Because Yang Xiao was the location, he quickly reappeared next to Yang Xiao, and after two trips, he delivered both computer cases to the starship.

"Are we just going to wait now?" Yang Xiao asked as soon as Lu Yuan returned.

"The system says it will only take two or three minutes." Lu Yuan checked the time it took for the mecha to materialize on his wrist.

"High technology is indeed high technology, it's really fast," Yang Xiao exclaimed.

As they were tapping the floor and counting down the seconds, waiting for the results from the starship's system, Yang Xiao's keen hearing picked up some subtle sounds.

“Something’s coming.” Yang Xiao glanced at the outer office.

"Let's go take a look?" Just as Lu Yuan turned off the light source and was about to use the mecha's built-in night vision function to go over with Yang Xiao to take a look, the door to the outer office was opened.

"Damn, thank goodness I was alone and safe just now, and I closed this door again." Yang Xiao said to Lu Yuan beside him in a low voice.

"Shh..." Lu Yuan gestured to Yang Xiao. Luckily, he had also equipped Yang Xiao with night vision goggles beforehand, otherwise Yang Xiao would be practically blind right now.

They hid in the inner office. There was a glass partition between the two offices. They had seen it before; it allowed people inside to see out, but people outside couldn't see inside. More importantly, the three people who had come in earlier had already drawn the blinds, so they were even less worried about being seen by people outside.

"Why is there no sound?" Lu Yuan pressed his ear against the blinds and then slightly parted the blinds to look outside.

"It's not that there's no movement, it's just that the movement has moved far away," Yang Xiao said, still speaking in a breathy voice.

"They..." Lu Yuan was about to speak when another voice came from outside. Lu Yuan saw a figure dragging another person in, and then that person quickly closed the office door. From Lu Yuan's perspective, he couldn't tell whether the person being dragged was unconscious or already dead.

"That's Ji Lang!" Before Lu Yuan could even see clearly, Yang Xiao had already started moving the sofa they were using to block the door.

"Captain Ji? Isn't he on a mission at the South China base?" Lu Yuan quickly jumped off the sofa. He was kneeling on the sofa, but Yang Xiao's sudden movement almost made him fall to the ground.

"Who is it?" Lu Yuan and Yang Xiao had just rushed out of the office when Ji Lang approached them, pointing a gun directly at Lu Yuan's head.

"Ji Lang!" Yang Xiao shouted quickly. He was afraid that if he had called out any later, either Lu Yuan's mech would have been unable to stop the bullets and would have been blown in the head, or Lu Yuan's mech would have stopped the bullets and ricocheted off, blowing Ji Lang's head off.

"Yang? Yang Xiao?" Ji Lang was very familiar with Yang Xiao's voice. Upon hearing this voice, although he couldn't see anything clearly, he inexplicably lowered his guard and then fainted.

"That's not Captain Lin over there, is it?" Ji Lang collapsed onto Yang Xiao, and Lu Yuan walked toward the person lying on the ground.

Sure enough, the person on the ground was Lin Yun. There were marks on his body and face, but the night vision glasses couldn't tell if they were injuries. When Lu Yuan heard the sound of zombies scratching at the door again, he didn't dare to stop. He picked up Lin Yun and walked into the inner room.

When he reached the door, he saw Yang Xiao, who had been disgusted by the three corpses on the ground, actually putting on the gloves he had previously thrown aside and moving the three corpses one by one out of the room.

"Is that Captain Lin?" Yang Xiao asked Lu Yuan, who was walking over, while dragging the third corpse.

"Yes." The mecha suit Lu Yuan is wearing is really useful; at least now he can carry Lin Yun without any effort.

"You go in first." After saying that, Yang Xiao continued to drag the disgusting corpse. He thought that since he had dragged it out, he would throw it a little further away, intending to drag it to the door so that it could also be used as a barrier.

"Hurry, more zombies are coming." Lu Yuan put Lin Yun on the other side of the sofa and quickly went over to help Yang Xiao.

"Don't touch it, you don't have a new one to replace your mecha." Yang Xiao immediately refused. After hearing the scratching sound outside the door, he quickly threw away the last corpse, took off his outer gloves, and rushed into the small cubicle.