What is it?

It turned out that the noise and smell of blood in the village had alerted a zombie that was wandering a few kilometers away.

Because of the distance, a clear hesitation appeared on the level-one zombie's blank face. Was it the smell of food? Yes? Should it go closer and smell it? But the weather was so cold, its body was almost numb from the cold. Should it not go? But it was food; it had been hungry for a long time.

Ye Zhi saw it within her mental domain and roughly guessed its thoughts based on the zombie's conflicted expression. This is purely Ye Zhi's wild guess, please do not take it seriously.

Ye Zhi pointed her little finger to the window, her face serious, and said clearly, word by word, "There is a zombie in the distance of the village."

[Intelligent zombies?]

Upon hearing this, Grandpa Song used his spiritual power to probe outwards from the village and discovered the zombie Ye Zhi had mentioned. It was a Level 1 zombie, not only a Level 1 zombie with delicate features, but also a Level 1 zombie with a clear expression of confusion on its handsome face.

Like Ye Zhi, Grandpa Song was quite surprised and decided not to watch the battle anymore. What was so interesting about watching humans fight and fight for supplies? Zombies were much more interesting.

Goodness, Song Moshang must have killed at least 5,000, if not 10,000, but he never saw a look of confusion on the face of any of the level 1 zombies, not even on the few level 2 zombies he encountered.

This level one zombie is probably smarter than those level two zombies.

Grandpa Song's excited voice came through, sounding just like a husband gently lying on his pregnant wife's belly, feeling the baby move, "Oh ho ho, it moved, it moved, Sweetie, did you see it?"

Ye Zhi certainly saw it; her mental energy had been observing the zombie. "It's lingering."

Ye Yubai and Lu Ke were incredibly curious about their conversation. Lu Ke even asked directly, "Isn't it normal for there to be zombies in the distance? We know zombies can move these days. What are you and Tiandou talking about? It's a shame I'm not a psychic."

Ye Yubai accurately grasped the key point: hesitating? If he remembered correctly, his elementary school Chinese teacher had taught him that hesitating meant being indecisive or unable to make up his mind.

A flash of inspiration struck Ye Yubai: the zombie was hesitating!

Intelligent zombies!

Holy crap, it's only been less than two months since the apocalypse started, and intelligent zombies have already appeared? This is completely different from the script he was given.

In his previous life, he encountered intelligent zombies a year after the extreme cold of the natural disaster had passed.

Hearing Ye Zhi's thoughts, Ye Jingyu and Song Yuanqing became even more curious, their curiosity churning with excitement. What kind of intelligent zombie was it? How intelligent was it? Was it smarter than Einstein? Was it dangerous? Could it talk?

They had many questions and asked aloud, "What zombies? Dad, Sweetie, tell me in detail."

The two were quite clever; they didn't directly ask what an intelligent zombie was.

Ye Zhi is still speaking in a way that involves uttering one or two words at a time, so it's impossible for her to explain things clearly. Even if she wanted to, she wouldn't be able to.

However, she answered their question in her mind: "A clear expression of struggle and hesitation appeared on the face of the level one zombie. It would take a few steps towards the village, then return to its hiding place."

As Ye Zhi thought to herself, she looked at Grandpa Song. She couldn't speak clearly, so she was relying entirely on her grandfather!

Grandpa Song handed Ye Zhi, who was in his arms, to Ye Jingyu.

Then he brought paper and pen to the coffee table to draw, while explaining, "Come and see, this is the village we are in now, this is the location of the zombie and the thatched hut it lives in."

The old man drew their village, the thatched hut where the zombies lived, and a dot representing the location of the zombies.

Then, Song Moshang used his kindergarten-level drawing skills to quickly draw a rough human shape: a round head, an oval body, two more slender ovals representing the zombie's legs, and stick figures representing the hands.

All five people crowded around to look at the drawing paper on the coffee table.

Raising an eyebrow, is this a zombie? A zombie that looks so strange, like an abstract art form.

My grandfather's painting skills were astonishing, enough to move even the gods to tears.

Grandpa Song automatically interpreted Ye Zhi's words as praise for him, and painted with even more confidence, "This level one zombie is about three kilometers away from us, and it came out of the thatched hut."

Black ink appeared and disappeared at the zombie's feet, echoing Old Master Song's words, "He walked here, paused for a few seconds, walked back to the thatched hut, paused again for a few seconds, and then walked to this spot."

The three people other than Ye Zhi and Ye Yubai raised their eyebrows again. This zombie is really interesting, it's like a human.

Grandpa Song drew a barely discernible expression of hesitation on the zombie's round face. He cleared his throat and said, "Now for the important part. Look at my drawing. Do you understand? This is hesitation. This zombie is hesitating!"

Ye Yubai was now even more certain of his guess and blurted out, "An intelligent zombie."

What is an intelligent zombie?

Ye Yubai succinctly summarized the characteristics of intelligent zombies: "Zombies that are extremely similar to humans, and whose intelligence later approaches or even surpasses that of humans."

In his previous life, he defeated a level-nine intelligent zombie with superpowers and devoured its crystal core, which is how he became the Zombie King, the super Zombie King who rules over all zombies.

Ye Zhi carefully reviewed the plot of the book and couldn't help but exclaim inwardly, "Wow, that was really exciting! The plot is so erratic!"

[Intelligent zombies appeared six years earlier than expected!]

According to the original novel "I Became a Queen in the Apocalypse by Relying on a System", intelligent zombies appeared three years after human survivors had survived the extreme cold disaster, which lasted for a full three years.

The apocalypse has come earlier than expected, the extreme cold disaster has come earlier than expected, and the emergence of intelligent zombies has also come earlier than expected. The pace of these events is accelerating. The plot is progressing so fast. Could it be that a new female or male lead is about to appear?

After the six people had discussed the characteristics of intelligent zombies, the zombie in Ye Zhi's mind was still lingering, hesitating, and struggling; it was torn between its own thoughts and its inner turmoil.

Ye Zhi affectionately called him Little Squid, a homonym for Little Hesitation.

Meanwhile, the battle for supplies outside the RV was almost over. Those who had grabbed supplies returned to their own base vehicles with their teammates, while those who hadn't managed to grab any were still fighting over them.

But there were only so many supplies, and they couldn't grab much at all. Besides, the victors had already left, and the battle for supplies ended completely five minutes later. Some people carried supplies, some people were injured, and everyone returned to their vehicles.

The smell of blood at the scene gradually dissipated, and after a long time, the little squid, who could no longer smell blood, returned to the thatched hut.

The next morning, the group left the village and continued on their journey, and among the horde of zombies following behind them was Little Squid.