Shadow In Your Mind [ARC 1- 5]

Chapter 104 - Masan Street survivors

XG 104 - Masan Street survivors

The researchers were still designing a method on how to gauge the amount of genes needed to succeed in the 'Awakening'. The best choice was to make a machine, with the purpose of measuring how much a person would need to completely activate their dormant gene. Until the machine was successfully designed, they would be needing Miu's help to act as a scaling tool.

Grandpa Song's good luck was hard to use so he mostly just needed to pick between choices as if he was doing MCQ questions, his action served as confirmation for the researcher's choice. It did help lighten a tiny bit of Miu's workload. Other than that, he was also helpful in fixing mechanics so the scouting groups could always go out to hunt with decent cars with barely enough petrol.

"Beom Seok, where is the nearest electronic store?" Kang Xunsu asked after their car passed the electric gate and headed to the town. L.L. was once again their designated driver.

"There is one beside a clothing store, but I don't think it has VR equipment. I had only fixed my cellphone there twice and its device was pretty outdated." Beom Seok was one of the few English-speaking in the patrolling team. Seeing that he could work well with Kang Xunsu's team, he would always request to join their group whenever he wanted to go out and grab some supplies.

"We will check there first. What other shops do you know?"

"I only went to the largest store inside the shopping mall if I ever want to purchase electronics," Beom Seok said regretfully.

"No problem. We can ask others later."

"Once we reach the shop, I will help find it!" Ash volunteered happily. It was one of the rare moments where he could be useful. He had a VR device before, a gift from his mother from her previous business trip that forced her to miss his birthday.

The researchers had already started planning what to do if the beta testing succeeded and the volunteers awakened an ability. With the help of several brainstorming sessions that included the Wong couple's suggestions, they finally decided to use a VR device to see what the volunteer's abilities were.

This method was used in the other future timeline, but Suzie Yap said that they had only discovered how to activate the gene and learned how to figure out a person's ability way too late. It was more than seven years into the apocalypse and many VR devices were either destroyed or no longer working.

The VR device will project a stimulation of a fake environment to see if it could trigger their ability. Before the stimulation test begins, they would be placed inside a secure room that can withstand heavy damage, such as bombing. That room was already there before the zombie apocalypse happened and Wong Xue Guo does wonder what kind of experiment they were doing that needed this kind of room.

As for the safety of the ability's owner? Sorry, their lives would be in their own hands.

No one paid more attention than necessary to Kang Xunsu's car as they knew who it belonged to. But when they stopped in front of an electronic store, there would still be people eying them, wondering what they wanted to do. They were looking at them with cautiousness coated over their forced display of hospitality to Kang Xunsu's group, for even if they disliked it, it was a disputable fact that they were one of the few that actively cleaned the street they were living in.

They have the right to grab what they want because they were strong.

But their body was honest and their hands clutched tightly on whatever they were holding. Their gesture implied they were wary that the group might be here to rob their goods and they would be powerless against it.