Chapter 9: Experimenting on Living Subjects
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For the first time, Luke felt that the woman in front of him isn't right in the head. Maybe he can fix it by having her consume the Mind Drug as well...
Luke shook his head and no longer minded Mily.
After having contained the survivors, Luke killed the zombies and extracted their Organs and Cores.
He gave all the Organs to Lucy for her to eat while storing the cores for research.
Luke wanted to see what a non-synthesized Core would do to a living person.
He also wanted to see what a non-synthesized Organ would do to a living person but that's not a priority for now. He has plenty of time.
It would be better for him to focus his experiments on one thing first before moving onto the next.
As for the remains of the zombies, he didn't simply toss them all out. Instead, he put them all into special containers to preserve their bodies as he might have some use for them in the future.
While Luke extracted the parts from the zombies, the survivor group that he captured had started to wake up one by one.
The leader, Jack, was one of the first to wake up.
As he opened his eyes, he found himself staring at an unfamiliar ceiling.
It looked white and clean, unlike the shelter they were in.
"What...where am I...?"
Jack tried to sit up straight but found himself strapped into a bed.
His hands, feet, body, and neck were all held down by steel braces.
"W-what the f**k!? What is this!? Help! Somebody!"
"Ugh..."
Hearing other noises nearby, Jack turned his eyes to look and saw his people also strapped similarly with him in the room.
They were all starting to wake up as well.
"H-huh!? What is this!?"
"L-leader! What happened to us!?"
"Where are we!?"
"Help! Somebody!!!"
Jack gritted his teeth. It seems no one knows what happened to them based on their reactions.
He quickly took count of everyone and noticed one person missing.
"Dan...where's Dan!?"
Jack recalled Dan saying that he was going up the shelter to check on something.
Could it be...!?
Jack thought of the worst-case scenario.
It was now the zombie apocalypse. They are in some kind of...lab?
They were all strapped in place, unable to break free.
All these scenarios started to appear in Jack's head and his face started to go pale.
Hearing all the shouts of the others, he quickly shouted back.
"S-shut up! All of you shut the f**k up!"
"L-leader...but..."
"Shut up! Do you think anyone would save us in this situation we're in!? Think with your goddamn head!"
"..."
Everyone grew silent.
However, their panic didn't subside one bit. Instead, it started to grow even larger within their hearts.
Just what...is going to happen to us now!?
As they were thinking that, the door opened and revealed two figures.
One was a black-haired man wearing a black shirt and white lab coat. The other was a beautiful woman with amazing proportions wearing a black shirt as well and camouflage pants.
Her eyes looked dead without any light in them and she moved quite slow.
She was also pushing a metal cart with various equipment, drugs, and syringes on it.
The man was naturally Luke and the woman was Lucy who has eaten dozens of Zombie Organs by now and grew more and more intelligent.
Luke looked at the thirteen people before him with a cold expressionless gaze.
After a while, he focused on their leader, Jack.
"So you're the one who killed my experiment and took my gun."
"H-huh?"
Jack was confused.
However, he suddenly remembered about his trip outside a few months ago.
There was a strange zombie that was actually holding a gun. That time, he had taken it by surprise and took the gun after killing it.
And with that gun, he climbed from the bottom of their group, all the way to the top!
And this guy...said that zombie...is his experiment?
Luke shook his head and no longer bothered with it.
"No matter. In any case, I am grateful as you had given me all these living test subjects."
"T-then we're good right? How about...you let me go? I'll be your follower! I'll do anything you want!"
"L-leader!?"
"Jack you bastard!"
Jack ignored the others and kept pleading to Luke.
Luke gave him a sidelong glance but didn't say anything.
Instead, he picked up a syringe and lightly tapped on it to get rid of the bubbles inside.
"W-what are you doing...?
Jack saw this and his face paled.
He squirmed his body to try and break free but the ones bounding him were made of hard steel. It was impossible for him to simply break free!
Luke ignored his reactions and explained.
"Do you know. Zombies have unique parts in their brains and hearts that are responsible for their reanimation, so to speak."
He began to walk towards Jack with the syringe in his hand.
"The Organ in their brains seem to be able to retain their brain function while the Cores in their heart are a bit difficult to chew on so I melted it down for you."
"W-what? Stop! What are you doing! f**k! Get me out of here!!!"
"Stop struggling. You are just a test subject in my eyes."
Luke held the syringe in his hand and...stabbed it in Jack's chest where his heart is located.
"G-gh!? W-what are you...arrgh...!!!"
Jack gritted his teeth in pain as he felt something hot seemingly burning in his heart.
"Ahhh! St-stop it! Noooo!!! It hurts! It hurts so much!!!"
Luke ignored his pleas and simply looked at the monitor where he was recording Jack's vitals.
"I see. so it does indeed hurt if it isn't synthesized like what I took. Tell me, on a scale of 1 to 10, how much does it hurt?"
"f**k YOU!"
"10 it is then. When I took the synthesized version, it was more of a 1...no, it should be a 2. It was quite painful at first."
Luke muttered while taking notes.
Everyone else looked at him with horror in their eyes.
What was wrong with this mad man!?
Is he still human!?
After a few minutes of screaming, Jack finally stopped.
Bubbles started to form in his mouth and his eyes were rolled upwards.
His body started to tremble and spasm.
Luke looked at his watch and made note.
"Test Subject L01. Took in unsynthesized Zombie Core with a syringe to his heart. Felt pain for 3 minutes and 46 seconds. The subject now shows signs of turning."
As he noted, Jack started to go wild and roar like a wild beast. He had turned into a zombie.
"With the unsynthesized version, it is possible to turn into a zombie even if one isn't bitten or scratched by a zombie. But is it definite? Or is it a mere probability?"
Luke turned to the next person.
That person started to turn pale and tremble. The next moment, he peed his pants in fright!
Luke ignored it and thought for a moment.
He wanted to test if the next one will turn as well but for now, he wanted to see something else.
Luke turned back to the now zombie Jack.
After thinking for a moment, he walked towards the cart that Lucy held and picked up a sawblade.
"How exactly does the Organ form? I want to see..."
Luke decided to cut open Jack's head.
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