Qin Dynasty: They've all turned into zombies, what's there to fear about a rebellion?

The door to the alchemy room suffered another blow that it should not have had to bear at its age.

"Su Ming! You wicked Taoist priest who has brought ruin to the country! Get out here!"

With a roar filled with righteous indignation and rage, a young man dressed in a scholar's robe and with a long sword at his waist strode in. He had a handsome face, but his brows were furrowed with deep sorrow and anger. He was none other than Fusu, the eldest son of the Great Qin Dynasty.

Su Ming was holding a syringe when the shout made his hand tremble, and he almost pricked his own thigh.

"Oh my goodness, young master, what are you up to?"

Su Ming reluctantly put down the syringe and looked at the aggressive Fu Su. "Your Majesty, I am conducting a top-secret experiment that concerns the fate of the Great Qin Dynasty. What if you suddenly barge in and frighten my experimental subject?"

"Experimental subject?"

Fu Su looked at the trembling little white rabbit tied to the table in front of Su Ming, his anger intensifying. "Your so-called top-secret experiment is just the torture and killing of living beings?"

"You have turned my father into... turned him into that inhuman, ghostly figure! Now, none of the officials dare to speak out, but I, Fusu, dare!"

With a clang, Fusu drew his longsword, the tip pointing directly at Su Ming. "Today, I will act on behalf of Heaven, slay you, this treacherous scoundrel who spreads heresy, and restore peace and order to the Great Qin!"

Facing the gleaming sword tip, Su Ming didn't even blink.

He calmly turned around, picked up the tube of pale green medicine from the shelf, and gently tapped the tube.

"Young master, you've become a classic case of someone who's gone stupid from studying too much."

While adjusting the potion, Su Ming casually said, "His Majesty's transformation was a 'physical ascension,' an evolution! How can you call him neither human nor ghost? Besides, you keep talking about benevolence and morality, do you think it's filial piety to just watch His Majesty die of illness?"

"You—you're just spouting nonsense!" Fusu was furious, his face flushed red. "Life and death are preordained, it's the way of Heaven! You're defying Heaven, you'll surely be punished!"

"Divine retribution? Ha!"

Su Ming sneered, his eyes instantly turning sharp. "In the face of science, even the laws of nature have to give way to me."

After saying that, he ignored Fusu and turned around to insert the needle into the little white rabbit's hind leg vein.

"Watch, young master. This is the sorcery you speak of, and this is what I call... the future."

As the medicine was slowly injected, the originally docile and cute little white rabbit suddenly twitched violently.

Immediately afterwards, a sickeningly loud cracking sound of bones popping echoed in the alchemy room.

"Crack! Crack!"

Fusu originally wanted to rush up to save the rabbit, but the next second, his feet were frozen in place, his pupils contracted violently, as if he had seen the most unbelievable and terrifying scene in the world.

The rabbit, about the size of a palm, was inflating like a balloon, its size expanding rapidly at a visible rate.

The snow-white fur instantly fell off, revealing the crimson muscle fibers underneath. Those muscles seemed to come alive, writhing, twisting, and bulging wildly, turning into hard, iron-like lumps of flesh in the blink of an eye.

In just three breaths.

That adorable little white rabbit has transformed into a "muscular beast" that walks upright, is nearly two meters tall, and has bulging muscles all over its body!

Its once ruby-like eyes had now turned into two burning flames of blood, and its two incisors had grown into sharp fangs, gleaming with a bloodthirsty cold light.

"roar--!!!"

The monster rabbit roared to the sky, the sound shaking the dust off the roof beams.

Fusu was completely dumbfounded.

The sword in his hand trembled slightly. What kind of monster was this? Was this the same rabbit from before? This was simply a ferocious beast in rabbit skin!

"Hmm, muscle density increased by 800%, bone hardness increased by 500%, and adrenaline secretion skyrocketed."

Su Ming, however, acted as if nothing had happened. He held a small notebook in his hand, circled the monster rabbit, and observed and recorded it while muttering to himself.

"Although its appearance might lower your sanity a bit, its combat power is absolutely top-notch. If this technology were applied to warhorses... tsk tsk, the Qin cavalry would instantly become monster cavalry."

Just as Su Ming was immersed in the joy of recording data, the monster rabbit seemed to have finally adapted to the changes in its body.

It suddenly lowered its head, its bloodshot eyes, filled with a savage aura, locked onto the nearest living person—Fusu.

"roar!"

The monster rabbit stomped its hind legs against the ground, instantly shattering the hard bluestone bricks. Its massive body moved with lightning speed, bringing a stench with it as it pounced directly towards Fusu!

"Young master, be careful!"

The guards outside the door cried out in alarm, but it was too late.

Fusu, being the son of a military family (though he was more scholarly, he was still trained in horsemanship and archery), instinctively raised his sword to parry.

"clang!"

A crisp sound.

The monster rabbit's claws slammed into the sword, the immense force causing Fusu's tiger's mouth to crack and the longsword to fly out of his hand.

Fusu staggered backward, his face deathly pale. He watched helplessly as the gaping maw drew ever closer to his throat, the pungent, stench almost suffocating him.

Is this... what death feels like?

His mind went blank; all the classical texts he had read since childhood were utterly useless at this moment.

"You beast, how dare you!"

Just as the monster's fangs were about to touch Fusu's skin, a lazy yet absolutely confident voice rang out.

"Smack."

Su Ming stood not far away and gently snapped his fingers.

The once ferocious and arrogant monster rabbit suddenly froze, as if it had been paused.

Immediately afterwards, its massive body began to tremble violently, and the blood vessels under its skin emitted an eerie red light, as if a bomb about to explode was planted inside its body.

"Sorry, this is an experimental model, and its stability is a bit lacking, so I added a 'riot control self-destruct program'."

Su Ming shrugged and casually grabbed a bronze shield from the side to hold in front of him.

"3, 2, 1..."

"boom!!!"

A dull thud.

The two-meter-tall muscular beast exploded into a dazzling cloud of blood mist in Fusu's horrified gaze!

Minced meat and bone fragments, mixed with the still-undigested green medicinal liquid, rained down all around like a storm.

Because Fusu was too close, although he wasn't injured by the explosion, he was splattered with red and green splatters all over his body, looking like he had been pulled out of a dye vat, extremely disheveled.

The alchemy room fell silent instantly.

Only the mess on the ground and the lingering smell of burning in the air proved that what had just happened was not an illusion.

Su Ming peeked out from behind the bronze shield, looked at the dumbfounded and bruised Fu Su, and a cynical smirk appeared on his lips.

He casually tossed aside his shield, stepped forward, and gently wiped the blood from Su's face with his sleeve, his movements as delicate as if he were polishing a fine piece of porcelain.

"Young master, how are you feeling?"

Su Ming leaned close to Fu Su's ear, his voice carrying a devilish allure:

"This is power, this is science."

"Is it exciting?"