Is this what a zombie is?

17. It still happened.

Ai grabbed the medical tape next to her and sealed the gaps in the doors and windows layer by layer, and also blocked the ventilation ducts tightly to ensure that not even a fly could get in.

After doing all this, he carefully broke off a small piece from the incense stick.

It's not big, only the size of a fingernail.

He found a metal medicine dish to use as an incense burner, put the fragments in it, and lit it with a lighter.

There was no open flame, and no explosion.

After the small fragment was ignited, it emitted a rich and strange medicinal fragrance, followed by a wisp of blue smoke that quickly filled the entire ward.

Ai Yi and Cat Master retreated to the rest room outside the ward and stared at the activity inside through the glass window.

The smoke condensed and did not dissipate, filling the entire room for more than ten minutes before gradually dissipating.

As the last bit of smoke completely dissipated, Qiu Ziting's vital signs began to rise in a way that defied medical norms.

Although Ai Yi is not a medical student, she has spent a lot of time with Jiang Chen and has been influenced by what she sees and hears, so she can understand some basic data.

Heart rate, blood pressure... these have all returned to normal levels.

The danger period was skipped entirely.

Even though he knew beforehand that it would be amazing, Ai Yi was still shocked. He went into the ward and lifted the thin blanket off Qiu Ziting.

The wound on Qiu Ziting's side, left after the rough removal of her kidney and the subsequent emergency stitching, had disappeared.

It has completely disappeared.

The skin there was smooth and flawless, without even the slightest scar.

It was as if that fatal injury had never happened; the planned scar removal and repair surgery was no longer necessary.

Ai Yi muttered to herself, "This isn't some kind of medicine that can bring the dead back to life or heal flesh and bones... It's more like... more like time has been fast-forwarded, or even rewound."

Cat, who was squatting on the instrument, gave Ai a deep look, a hint of surprise flashing in his emerald eyes.

This kid's comprehension of destiny is ridiculously high. He was able to guess the essence of the Soul-Returning Incense's power after only seeing it once. Although it wasn't the whole story, it's still commendable.

However, Ai Yi did not continue to think about it; he only had one thought at the moment.

Qiu Ziting is now completely out of danger, so the Rejuvenating Incense can return to its owner.

Without a moment's hesitation, he grabbed the broken pendant from the table, and without even saying goodbye, he slipped out of the ICU like a thief, rushed towards the elevator like a madman, and ran wildly towards the underground cold storage.

The door to the cold storage was pushed open, and a cold, bluish light poured out.

Jiang Chen lay quietly on the cold stainless steel bed like a burned human sculpture, exuding an aura of death and despair.

Ai shuddered as she hung the still-warm pendant back on Jiang Chen's charred neck.

After putting the Soul-Returning Incense on Jiang Chen, Ai Yi felt much more at ease and was in the mood for jokes, so she said to Jiang Chen.

"Here's some incense to revive you; I hope it helps you get through this winter."

However, time passed by, second by second.

One minute, five minutes, ten minutes...

Jiang Chen on the iron bed showed no reaction. He hadn't even come back to life, let alone shed a piece of charred dead skin.

Ai Yi panicked a little. "What happened? Is it because a piece was broken off, and the medicine isn't as effective anymore? Is he... is he not going to make it?"

Cat yawned; he was a little sleepy because he had no wine to drink.

"It's normal that the effect is slow to take effect since a piece of it was just broken off. Just wait patiently."

Then, it looked at Ai Yi and demanded payment with a sense of entitlement.

"Stop with the nonsense, Cat Master, I want to drink. Jiang Chen promised to give me three bottles of Moutai as payment, so you can deliver on that promise for him."

Ai Yi simply shrugged, "Go ask whoever promised you. He's not even breathing right now, how am I supposed to know if you're just trying to freeload?"

"You little brat..."

The man and the cat stared at each other in the gloomy, cold morgue, neither willing to yield.

After working non-stop for a day and a night, Ai Yi, whose mental and physical strength were exhausted to the limit, finally couldn't hold on any longer.

He leaned against the cold corner of the wall, his eyelids growing heavier and heavier until he finally slid down to the ground and fell into a deep sleep.

Cat stopped talking. It jumped off the refrigeration unit and landed silently next to Jiang Chen's "corpse," standing quietly like a black guardian sculpture.

Meanwhile, the city police department offices were brightly lit.

As the head of the criminal investigation team, Chen Gang, looked at the autopsy report from the dock, which the forensic doctor had rushed out overnight, his weathered face was filled with a look of utter disbelief.

The report clearly states that all the deceased died from the instantaneous ultra-high voltage current, with severe carbonization of their body surface and their internal organs completely shattered by the powerful current shock wave.

"Bang!" Chen Gang slammed his hand on the table, making the teacup vibrate loudly.

"Is this something a human could do? Go check it out. Get all the surveillance footage from the dock. I want to see what kind of monster that blue lightning bolt in the footage is."

……

At dawn, the first ray of sunlight pierced through the narrow ventilation window high up in the cold storage, like a golden sword, precisely illuminating the Soul-Returning Incense pendant on Jiang Chen's chest.

The damaged body emitted a barely perceptible halo the moment it came into contact with the sunlight, as if greedily absorbing energy and beginning an extremely slow self-repair process.

In the deathly silent cold storage, a dull, loud bang suddenly rang out without warning.

Boom!

That wasn't an external sound, but rather the sound originating from inside the charred "corpse"—the sound of a heart beating.

This heavy and powerful jump acted like a switch, instantly drawing out the remaining electrical energy within Jiang Chen's body.

Electrical energy circulates throughout the body with the contraction and compression of the heart, and a dark blue current, like a spider web, instantly illuminates the charred skin.

This tiny electrical charge became an excellent source of energy to stimulate the regeneration of necrotic nerves.

Thump! Thump! The heartbeat grew stronger and stronger.

Click!

A very faint cracking sound rang out, and a large area of ​​charred skin on Jiang Chen's chest began to crack.

A pale, slender hand, yet brimming with explosive power, suddenly emerged from beneath the shattered charcoal shell and grabbed the edge of the stainless steel refrigerated bed beneath it.

He had even managed to leave five clear and deep finger marks on the hard metal edge of the bed.

Jiang Chen slowly sat up, and the layer of charred dead skin on his body fell off like shattered armor, revealing the skin underneath that looked like newborn skin.

However, his right neck was covered with striking, deep blue patterns that resembled natural tattoos.

Those were "electrocution marks" left by an electric current passing through the body, radiating a chilling aura under the cold, blue light.

Cat Lord, who had been standing still, suddenly straightened up, his emerald green pupils instantly shrinking into slits, and he whispered something.

"...It did happen after all!"