Chapter 1339: My name is Zheng

Chapter 1339: My name is Zheng

Blood… roaring… Five minutes later, calm returned once again. Yet among the several fresh, shattered corpses, only one figure struggled to slowly stand up.

He had already lost an arm, and a chunk of flesh was missing from his face. After glancing at the corpses beside him, his eyes, which had just been shedding tears, instantly turned blank…

“Very good.” That Zombie flew down again, saying with satisfaction, “What is your name?”

The figure thought in a daze, then opened his mouth and squeezed out a word from his throat: “Zheng… Zheng…”

“Zheng Zheng? Not bad, you’re the last superhuman to survive in this batch. Next, as long as you eat a real Zombie, you’ll mutate and become one of us.” The Zombie said.

“I am… the last one?” Zheng Zheng’s body swayed as he asked.

Actually, he didn’t need an answer… After asking this question, he suddenly lifted his eyelids to look at the Zombie, then pounced fiercely. In the instant he pounced, a strange light flashed in his eyes, and the Zombie, who should have flapped its fleshy wings to fly, seemed frozen, remaining in place. Then the wariness in its eyes disappeared, and it even raised its neck proactively, exposing its own throat.

Even as Zheng Zheng’s teeth tore open its throat, it still wore a smile, murmuring, “Eat, eat me, hahaha…”

…

“You mean… those people from the Central Region Camp were actually captured by Zombies?” Inside Miracle Base, Ling Mo asked with a grave expression after listening to Lin Luanqiu’s account.

Lin Luanqiu nodded solemnly. “Yes. Many people thought they died back then, but actually, during the chaos, I once saw a Survivor who had just been attacked. He wasn’t dead, just knocked out by a Zombie. That’s not typical Zombie behavior. When did they become so peaceful? But that’s not the most important thing. I observed that all those knocked out were superhumans. Although the Zombies went all out, their main targets were superhumans.”

“So you think they didn’t just bring these people back as food, but for a more important purpose?” Ling Mo frowned. The bat had told him this was to help the Zombies’ variation abilities evolve better, but judging from Lin Luanqiu’s expression, clearly there was more to it.

Neither of them would lie. So that meant…

“The Zombies need a small number of special superhumans. The rest are Blood Feast. So what’s the real difference between Blood Feast and these superhumans?” Suddenly, Ling Mo remembered the corpse in the Laboratory. He stood up at once and said, “I think I know what they’re trying to do. Come with me.”

Ye Lian and the others were also in the Laboratory… Ever since the squirrel had taken the initiative to invite them, these Female Zombies had become intensely curious about their research. However, the squirrel and Director Huang clearly couldn’t tell the difference between curiosity and interest. So, moved as they were, they almost completely satisfied most of the Female Zombies’ requests.

The reason it wasn’t all of them was because…

“That’s a variation Monkey.”

“Can we eat it?”

“This is an organ taken from a variation zombie. Look, it’s already completely different from a human organ.”

“Can we eat it?”

So when Ling Mo entered the Laboratory and saw a huge warning sign-‘Experimental Subjects Are Not Edible’-he wasn’t surprised at all. Lin Luanqiu, on the other hand, was stunned, covering her mouth as she said, “I heard that things specially warned about are things that have already happened.” ⱤἁΝＯ𝐛ËŚ

“Falcon’s fault.” Ling Mo pushed the blame to the previous group.

“Come look at this. This is a very perfect Zombie corpse…” Ling Mo spoke as he pushed open the door. But there was already a figure inside. Seeing this person, he was instantly stunned.

“Ye Lian?”

Ye Lian was standing motionless beside the ice coffin. When Ling Mo walked up to her, her big eyes were quietly fixed on the corpse in the ice coffin. Ling Mo’s expression changed again, because from Ye Lian’s emotional shifts, he didn’t sense any urge to Devour the corpse. What she was thinking at this moment wasn’t eating…

So, just observing? No, Zombies wouldn’t do that. For them to observe something, it must be related to evolution-like food, or the impulse to attack.

But what puzzled Ling Mo was, he couldn’t feel any of that.

“Ye Lian?” Ling Mo softly called her again by her ear.

Ye Lian’s ears twitched. She turned to glance at Ling Mo, then looked back at the corpse. “She failed.”

“What? How did she fail?” Ling Mo’s heart skipped a beat and he hurriedly asked. Ye Lian rarely spoke on her own now, but as time went by, her confusion had indeed lessened a lot compared to before.

“She should have become a true…” Ye Lian trailed off here, then shook her head. “I don’t know.”

But in that instant, Ling Mo suddenly caught the change in her emotions: “You want to be like her? No, you want to be like her after she succeeded?”

He said this directly in Ye Lian’s mind, and Ye Lian responded as well.

She stared at the corpse in the ice coffin for a long while, then said softly, “It’s very hard… I, I only have a chance…”

A chance?! Ling Mo felt his heartbeat almost skip for a moment. He suddenly understood many things… The reason Ye Lian’s situation was special was because she might become a perfect Zombie?!

But how did this happen? In an instant, countless details flashed through Ling Mo’s mind… Ye Lian’s diary, her behavior in all sorts of little things… No, no, these might not be the reasons. The only one who truly knew why was probably Ye Lian herself.

“What’s wrong?” Lin Luanqiu waited tactfully at the door for a moment, but seeing Ling Mo silent and dazed, she asked in confusion.

Only then did Ling Mo remember his original purpose for coming here. He glanced at Ye Lian and said in her mind, “With me here, it won’t be that hard. And we won’t end up like her-we’ll definitely succeed, understand? But right now, I need to figure out what this really is.”

“Okay.” Ye Lian nodded obediently, then reached out to gently touch Ling Mo’s cheek.

It was just a gesture of dependence and closeness, but the pure gaze and gentle movement of the Female Zombie made Lin Luanqiu freeze for a moment.

After Ye Lian walked out, Lin Luanqiu smiled at Ling Mo. “Your relationship is as good as ever, really enviable.”

But after saying that, she immediately walked over to the ice coffin and began to examine it closely.

“This…” After just a few glances, Lin Luanqiu’s expression grew solemn.

“This is a perfect Zombie.” Ling Mo took the initiative to finish her sentence.

Lin Luanqiu took a breath and said, “Yeah…”

“And even though she’s lying in the ice coffin, she really looks like she’s just asleep. That means her bodily functions have reached an extremely high state-even without the ice coffin, she wouldn’t start to rot in a short time.” Lin Luanqiu truly was a calm thinker. She quickly recovered from her shock and analyzed the situation rapidly.

But after finishing her analysis, she looked at Ling Mo with a hint of inquiry. Clearly, Ling Mo hadn’t brought her here just to show her this corpse.

What surprised her was that, seeing her reaction, Ling Mo actually showed a faint look of disappointment and pressed further: “Is this your first time seeing a Zombie like this?”

“Yes…” Lin Luanqiu couldn’t possibly lie about something like this, so she nodded, then asked in return, “Are you saying this Zombie is related to Central City?”

“Not exactly…” Ling Mo quickly adjusted his mood and said, “To be precise, it’s related to the Zombie Zone where the Lord of the City came from. Those Zombies are different from us-they’ve truly formed a society. What I heard before was that humans would be raised as ‘livestock,’ but based on what you said, that’s clearly just one side of things… Sorry, I’m a bit confused. Let me start with the two clues I know so far.”

“Clues?” Lin Luanqiu had thought what she said was the only clue… In fact, she only mentioned those things to get Ling Mo to consider the real motives of the Zombies, to be better prepared. She hadn’t expected Ling Mo to have other clues.

She suddenly felt she still didn’t know Ling Mo well enough. It seemed that what he’d encountered during this time might be even deeper than what she had.

“Yeah, one is about the Spider Queen. Have you heard of her?” Ling Mo mentioned Stella. He’d always felt the Spider Queen would come looking for him, but she hadn’t appeared yet, which surprised him. But now, with the entire Miracle Base as his backing, as long as he stayed here, he wasn’t worried she wouldn’t show up.

Lin Luanqiu gave him a slightly reproachful look… He really thought everyone was like him? Just hearing the name, it sounded terrifying-how could it be so easy to hear about someone like that?

Ling Mo was really just asking casually, because before Lin Luanqiu could answer, he continued, “That little girl Anan, the ‘cocoon’ on her belly, and the Spider Queen’s ‘seed’ are almost exactly the same in nature. Also, there’s another Zombie-she’s similar to this one who became a perfect Zombie and then died. Or rather, she’s probably a defective version of this kind.”

“Her name is Chuchu. I just saw her not long ago.”

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