Feng Ge felt his heart bleeding, yet he had to force a cheerful smile, patting Luo Tianyu, who was closest to him, on the shoulder: "It counts! Of course it counts! I said I'd supply you all, and I won't go back on my word!"
His gaze swept over the four faces before him, filled with longing, excitement, and even a hint of madness, as he screamed inwardly:
I've lost a fortune! I've lost my shirt! Rou Shouling's effect is so profound that charging them two hundred seven-line zombie crystals each wouldn't be excessive! Twenty crystals? Twenty crystals aren't even a fraction of the cost! Rou Shouling isn't an experimental subject; she's clearly a walking Nine-Bar Zombie! He felt like he had been begging with a golden rice bowl before!
However, even if his face was swollen from the slap, he had to keep up appearances!
Feng Ge's voice was already tinged with pain, but he still forced a smile and said:
"Please, everyone, don't be impatient. Previously, I charged Rou Shouling twenty seven-line zombie crystals as a cost price. I wonder about all of you…"
Feng Ge deliberately emphasized the words "cost price."
Mao Wudi instantly stepped forward, grandly handing Feng Ge a metal box.
"Don't worry, Left Leader Zuo, we certainly won't let you suffer a loss. Here are fifty seven-line zombie crystals. We hope Left Leader Zuo can complete our transformation as soon as possible!"
With Mao Wudi leading the way, Tie Zhenshan, Luo Tianyu, and Lu Zhuoyan quickly followed, each handing over their metal boxes, all filled with fifty seven-line zombie crystals.
Feng Ge looked at the four heavy metal boxes before him, his heart a mix of emotions.
He clearly felt he had lost his shirt, but he still had to swallow this mouthful of blood.
It was his own fault for agreeing. Now that they had all paid fifty seven-line zombie crystals, Feng Ge couldn't say anything more and could only swallow his bitterness.
The strained smile on Feng Ge's face almost froze, and the knuckles of his hands, holding the four heavy boxes, turned slightly white from the excessive force.
Fifty crystals! Fifty crystals each! A full two hundred seven-line zombie crystals!
This should have been a windfall, but at this moment, they felt like burning brands—Rou Moyu's astonishing energy peak, one hundred and three times that of a Seven-Bar Zombie, was like a giant hammer, shattering his previous "twenty cost price" valuation!
"Good! Since you are all so straightforward, then discuss the detailed transformation process with Professor Yan. Once it's settled, we'll arrange it immediately! I, Feng Ge, always keep my word!"
He practically gritted his back teeth to squeeze out this sentence, the word "straightforward" in his voice carrying an almost imperceptible tremor.
"Professor Yan!" Feng Ge raised his voice, drawing everyone's attention to the scientist who was still in a state of fervor.
Professor Yan then awoke as if from a dream, suddenly pulling himself away from the shock brought by Rou Moyu's inhuman strength. His bloodshot eyes rekindled with a nearly crazed desire for research.
"Ah! Yes! Yes! The process! I'll arrange it!"
Professor Yan rubbed his hands, his voice sharp with excitement. He darted to the control panel, his fingers rapidly sliding across the light screen, retrieving the massive data stream that had just been recorded.
"Quick! Quick! Leader Mao, Leader Tie, Leader Luo, Leader Lu, please follow me! We need to immediately assess your basic physical data and match the fusion rate of the life crystal! And also select the attributes you wish to be reborn with…"
His speech was as rapid as a machine gun, and he was in a state of pathological excitement, as if the four powerful leaders standing before him were not high-ranking figures, but four peerless raw materials for him to sculpt, leading to the realm of gods.
Mao Wudi and the other three paid no attention to Feng Ge's subtle expression. They immediately clustered around Professor Yan and walked towards the adjacent data analysis room, chattering with their demands and questions. The air was thick with a nearly tangible ambition and desire—a Nine-Bar Zombie!
That was the theoretical peak of power!
No one spared another glance at Rou Moyu, who had just completed her transformation on the experimental platform, as if that hundredfold miracle was a thing of the past, and they were about to become new legends.
Feng Ge watched their eager backs, feeling his heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys all twitching.
He silently handed the four metal boxes to Xiao Mi Tao; their heavy weight almost suffocated him.
Two hundred crystals!
Yet, what he got in return were four soon-to-be-born monsters, potentially comparable to Rou Moyu!
This deal made his vision go black from the loss.
"Feng Ge! So many! Five life crystals for 220 seven-line zombie crystals, what a profit."
Xiao Mi Tao hugged Feng Ge's arm, putting the loss crystals into the kongling crystal. Her face was radiant with an innocent smile, and her sparkling eyes were full of admiration and joy.
In her understanding, life crystals were just items that Ying Xingxing and Ying Yueyue produced every month. To be sold at such a high price, she felt it was a great profit, and her Feng Ge was simply amazing.
His gaze involuntarily returned to the experimental platform.
Rou Moyu had elegantly stood up and was quietly watching the four leaders, clustered around Professor Yan, enter the isolation chamber. Her beautiful face was devoid of expression, and her deep eyes seemed to hold the flow of countless stars, yet also the precipitation of ancient silence.
She simply stood there, and the terrifying aura around her, mostly restrained but still faintly present, made the air in the entire Laboratory thick and heavy, silently announcing the dawn of a new era.
Feng Ge's heart ached even more, and the corner of his mouth twitched violently.
Xiao Mi Tao's remark about it being a great profit was like a small knife precisely stabbing him in the heart.
Yes, a great profit, a great profit… Rou Moyu only used twenty crystals and became a walking Nine-Bar Zombie.
And these four, with fifty crystals each, a total of two hundred crystals thrown in, would become four more walking Nine-Bar Zombies.
He felt that those four boxes were truly heavy. What they contained were not core crystals, but clearly his shattered abacus beads, his "cost price" illusion crushed by reality!
"Mm… Yes, a great profit."
He practically gritted his back teeth, forcing out an extremely strained smile in response to Xiao Mi Tao.
His gaze swept over the four figures engulfed in fervor, his heart already a chaotic battlefield, leaving only silent wails and a deep, lingering heartache…
However, at least one piece of good news was that once the four newly promoted powerhouses became Super Individuals, and their subordinates ignited their seventh lotus seed, coupled with A-level metal weapons, even if a new symbiotic zombie virus erupted, they would be able to carve out a place for themselves in this crisis.
Moreover, he would have more life crystals in the future.
Having more people for experiments would be better, and the experimental data would be more complete. Once it was confirmed that there were no side effects, he could begin to promote himself and the girls to Super Individuals.
Thinking of this, Feng Ge took a deep breath, trying to suppress the feeling of his heart bleeding—all for the continuation of human civilization!
He could only comfort himself this way.
But neither Professor Yan, Feng Ge, nor Rou Moyu, nor the four leaders about to complete their evolution, noticed that in another isolation chamber, the Six-Slash Zombie left for experimentation was quietly staring at the thick metal wall, in the direction of the isolation chamber where Rou Moyu had just undergone her experiment.
Its crimson eyes flickered with an unusual light, and invisible biological signals were constantly being sent out.
