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Translator: penny
Chapter: 82
Chapter Title: Infection Experiments
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"...Ugh... m-my body... feels strange."
"Oh, looks like one arm where I injected him is already zombifying.
It feels like it's turning pitch black and rotting away.
Dark red veins—wait, arteries...? No, these are veins?
Anyway, they're spreading along those thick blood vessels...
Spreading faster and faster. Way quicker than I expected?
Definitely not like zombie saliva or something.
Injecting zombie blood directly into the bloodstream must be why.
The infection rate is incredibly fast. Gotta remember this."
"...Kuhk. Kek..."
"Hmm, by now it must've reached the heart...,
veins are bursting in his eyes...,
his face is flushing red and swelling up...,
looks like the zombie virus has hit the brain too."
"Kuhk.... Kugh..."
"Jun-chang. Jun-chang? Can you hear me?
...Hmph, cognitive functions seem lost now too."
I recorded Jun-chang turning into a zombie on video and waited for the full transformation.
"Grraaagh..., graaaargh...."
I checked the time as I watched Jun-chang fully become a zombie.
"So 1ml of blood was too much after all?
Zombification in about 20 minutes flat.
Next experiment, I'll try 0.1ml or less.
Online estimates said blood infection spreads much faster than saliva or bodily fluids...,
and it checks out.
Just a bite wouldn't infect this quickly."
I'd heard that if you're lightly bitten by a zombie, you might last up to five days if you're lucky.
In other words, zombification could take up to 120 hours in some cases.
But that was for light bites where saliva enters the wound...
Direct injection of zombie blood into veins was way faster.
I left Jun-chang the zombie, chained up and groaning "Graaagh....", and headed to the next room.
There, Lee Ji-hoon was bound just like Jun-chang, limbs fully restrained with iron chains.
"...S-save me! ...W-why are you doing this?!"
"Shh.... Quiet down. Hmm, won't need your mouth anyway, so let's seal it."
"...Mmph! Mmmph...!"
I forced Lee Ji-hoon's mouth shut and prepared the next experiment.
Originally, I planned to inject less than 1ml of zombie blood with a syringe...,
but something else piqued my curiosity, so I switched experiments.
I smeared some zombie blood on a common kitchen knife from the mart and cut Lee Ji-hoon's arm.
I lightly slashed his arm with the knife and waited to observe.
This test was to confirm if zombie blood on tools like knives causes infection.
"Mmmph! Mmmph...!"
Soon enough, the telltale dark red veins of zombie infection started appearing around the wound.
"Well..., nothing more to see here.
Even a light scrape from a knife coated in zombie blood causes infection.
Definitely—tools contaminated with zombie fluids, and getting cut or scratched by them, leads to infection.
I need to be careful in Project Zombie World on the Tower's first floor too."
I set up a camcorder from the underground facility's fourth-floor lab, then went to the next room.
All the cells had CCTV anyway, so no real need, but in dramas and movies with experiments, they always do this.
So I followed suit. Figured there must be a reason.
I'd check the camcorder or CCTV footage later for exact zombification time.
No point wasting my time watching.
In the third cell was a guy named Kim Min-jun, chained up.
Just a face I vaguely recognized from reality; probably buddies with Jun-chang.
On him, I tested mucosal infection—outside direct blood injection.
I dripped zombie blood into his eyeball.
"...Ugh! Mmmph!"
"Min-jun, I'm not doing this out of personal grudge.
Think of it as contributing to humanity.
It's for saving another world.
I don't even know you well—what grudge would I have?"
Does infection work through eye mucosa?
Short answer: yes, it did.
I could see Kim Min-jun's eyeball turning zombie-like, the infection spreading from there.
Since it was on his face, he lost reason and composure faster than the others.
"Infection via eye mucosa works too."
'Come to think of it, eyes are the sensory organ closest to the brain, right?'
After finishing the experiments, I felt a bit unsatisfied.
So much more to test.
"Shame. So much left to try.
...Oh, right. Rescue team shows up after 30 days here, yeah?
Lock up any women for fucking...,
use the men as more zombie test subjects.
Heh heh heh.... Heh heh...."
I set up another camcorder from the lab and left.
Looking at the ampule of zombie blood and syringe beside it...,
I suddenly wanted to quote a line from that famous recent movie protagonist.
The guy who developed a super dangerous weapon said something like that.
Holding the syringe of zombie blood, I looked down at it and declared:
"I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
I spouted the grandiose line dramatically.
The guy who said it originally couldn't use that destructive weapon freely.
It wasn't his—it belonged to the state.
But I was different.
I could use this weapon whenever I felt like it.
After dramatically quoting the scientist,
I packed the zombie blood ampule and syringe into a sturdy research case.
Lab case—looked tough and secure.
Set a password, sealed it deep in the lab.
"Might come in handy someday."
Thought about Subspace Storage, but didn't want something this dangerous in there.
If needed, grab more from here or harvest fresh in Project Zombie World on the Tower's first floor.
Glanced at the clock: 50 minutes since I left the shower room.
Checked the fifth-floor control room CCTV to see if Park Si-eun and Jeong Su-bin woke up looking for me—
they were still passed out on the shower floor, sleeping soundly.
A bit chilly maybe; they were huddled together cutely, breathing softly.
Over 50 minutes post-sex,
my white cum was still oozing slowly from their pussies.
Watching on CCTV felt somehow thrilling.
My dick stiffened again; wanted to head to the villa's third floor and fuck the girls some more.
While I was gone, checked rewinded footage for anyone else in the third-floor bathroom...
'...Lee Ji-min came and went. Hmm.... She saw Park Si-eun and Jeong Su-bin passed out, pussies cum-soaked, looked shocked..., wait? What the hell is that bitch doing?'
On CCTV, Lee Ji-min saw the two lying there, cum leaking from their pussies, and her face twisted viciously.
She approached, slapped their breasts with her hand..., (especially Jeong Su-bin's big tits a lot.)
Then pressed down hard on Park Si-eun and Jeong Su-bin's lower bellies with her foot.
Dead-center where their wombs were.
Like grinding out a cigarette, she did it a few times to inflict pain...
When they groaned "Ugh...!" in pain, she lifted her foot and hurried off.
Didn't stomp hard enough for rupture or major damage,
but clearly intentional torture on my pussy slaves, passed out from sex with me.
'And she slipped back to the third floor like nothing happened.
Real sneaky bitch cat...
No, psycho...?
Hmm, maybe not?
Just blinded by jealousy?
...No, that's extreme jealousy...
Obviously pissed 'cause those two got my love and cum.'
I shook my head.
Pussy bitches, really...,
don't get why jealousy turns them like that.
Jeong Su-bin seemed close to Lee Ji-min in the real world, shared memories...,
yet instant enemies...
'Come to think of it, back in high school,
Lee Ji-min and Jeong Su-bin were super tight...,
then had a huge fight over something,
cut ties. Heard that somewhere...
Wonder if it was over a guy?
Or Jeong Su-bin spilling secrets about her naughty comics?'
Vague rumor, memory fuzzy.
Ask classmates next time I see them.
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