"whee……"

Honglian sat down beside him and said with a grin, "Brother Hao, do you also want to fall in love? Honglian can go with you, even if it means drowning."

Zhang Hao rolled his eyes at her: "Is drowning a good thing? Don't keep talking about dying, it's bad luck to say that."

“Okay, I’ll listen to Brother Hao.” Honglian nodded obediently.

"But what you said reminded me..."

"Love may truly be an incredible power. Could the name that Ran Dai often murmurs be the one he loved in his previous life?"

"If we could find this person, would it help him recover his mental state?"

Zhang Hao looked somber.

If Ran Dai recovers his mental state.

Is he still a zombie? Or a human? Or a half-zombie?

Regardless of which one...

Zhang Hao decided to give it a try first.

Without hesitation, Zhang Hao went to the place where Ran Dai was being held, which was located in the temporary laboratory of the eccentric doctor.

He arrived at the laboratory very soon.

After going inside.

The place reeked of blood.

There were also various biological organs cut into pieces, which made Zhang Hao frown: "You can tolerate this kind of environment? It's so dirty and messy... I thought researchers were generally very clean."

The charlatan doctor chuckled, "I'm not a researcher; I used to be just a surgeon."

"I usually have an assistant to help me clean up, but cyborgs are clumsy... I'll have to clean up myself in a bit."

"What? You mean you want me to provide you with some assistance?"

"Need not."

He gave a faint, enigmatic smile: "Assistance is a pretense, surveillance is the real purpose, isn't it? I don't want you to know all my secrets."

“I know far more secrets than you do. How about this… Xiahou Ming can be your assistant when he’s free. You two get along very well, so don’t refuse,” Zhang Hao suggested.

"OK."

The quack doctor was unwilling.

But he had no right to refuse the domineering man in front of him.

"Where's Ran Dai? Where is it?" Zhang Hao asked.

"It's in the next room, guarded. I wouldn't dare go in without your permission... But I'm curious, where did you find such a mentally challenged, lamp-burning zombie? Can I study it?" the eccentric doctor asked curiously.

"Not at the moment."

Zhang Hao shook his head.

He turned and went to the next room.

There were two Level 4 members guarding the door. They respectfully said, "Greetings, Guild Master."

"Hmm, has anything unusual happened lately?"

"Nothing unusual, most of the time they're just acting crazy, or they'll mutter a name, but the voice is so low that we can't hear what the name is."

"Open it, let me take a look."

"yes."

With a creak.

The door lock was opened.

The room was dimly lit, with hardly any light.

Ran Dai curled up in the corner, sucking on his only remaining middle finger in a daze. When he saw Zhang Hao coming over, he excitedly hooked his middle finger with it.

"Come here, come here, I have a question for you."

Zhang Hao said with interest, "Oh? Tell me about it."

What is one plus one?

"Equals two."

Under what circumstances does one plus one equal three?

"...?"

Why does this sound so familiar?

Before Zhang Hao could answer, Ran said blankly, "One plus one equals three if you miscalculate it, because your feet are off the ground, the virus shuts down, and your cleverness takes over again."

Zhang Hao: "..."

Ran Dai, gesturing wildly, began role-playing: "Excuse me, if there's one monkey on the ground and seven monkeys riding in the trees, how many monkeys are there? Two monkeys! Wrong, eight monkeys, it's seven monkeys riding in the trees!"

"Seven this time? Can the tree handle it? Never mind whether the tree can handle it or not, even if it falls, it'll still be eight monkeys."

Ran Dai kept talking.

Zhang Hao said very seriously, "That's enough joking. Do you have someone you care about? Your girlfriend? Your brothers? Or your parents? Tell me the name you mentioned, and I can send someone to find them."

"..."

Ran Dai fell silent immediately.

She huddled in the corner, muttering to herself, but it was still impossible to make out what her name was. She looked completely lost and disoriented.

Don't you believe me?

Zhang Hao continued, "I have already occupied Linhai City, and soon there will be 30 million zombie laborers. You were also a local of Linhai City before, right? Then the people you cherish are probably also residents of the city."

"If someone you cherish has become a zombie, they might be in here. Since you don't trust me, you don't need to tell me their name. Just look at them one by one in seven days, and you'll find them. How about that?"

I'm speechless.

He nodded, agreeing to the suggestion.

"Okay, then you wait."

Zhang Hao left.

The door was locked again.

Seven days later, all 30 million zombies had been transported.

The zombies were all shackled, handcuffed, and gagged, and were escorted one by one to Tianlei Mountain Square, passing by in rows.

Ran Dai watched quietly.

It remained emotionless until the last zombie passed by, at which point a hint of disappointment appeared in its eyes.

Yes, these 30 million zombies.

None of the zombies were the person it was talking about.

Zhang Hao patiently said, "In that case, the person you cherish might still be human... You can tell me their name. Linhai City is currently under Wu Yanfeng's administration, and I can have him gather all the survivors as soon as possible."

"As long as you find someone with the same name, send them over immediately. You can trust me... and you can only trust me, because no one else would go to such lengths for a single zombie."

"..."

Ran Dai fell silent again.

After a good ten minutes, it uttered a few words.

Her name is—Ah Xiang.