Chapter 157
Behind the door, Yun Mian's pupils dilated as she stared blankly at her mother, whose body was gradually covered in blood.
Yun Jinshu turned around and saw her daughter's stunned expression. Her hand holding the knife paused for a moment, but she quickly and laboriously carried the warm body back home.
The bright red, warm blood left a winding, messy trail on the cold white tiles.
After moving the body back home, Yun Jinshu did not sit idle. Instead, he went back to close the security door again, and then used a mop to clean up the blood and some internal organs in the corridor bit by bit.
If these things are left here, they might attract more zombies.
After doing all this, Yun Jinshu closed the door, stood in front of the gradually stiffening and cooling corpse, and thought about how to solve the problem.
She didn't have much mood or time to think about whether she would be scared or have nightmares after killing someone, nor did she think about how those people would look at her if they knew that she had killed someone.
When she looked up and saw the eyes of the woman upstairs, she knew she had to strike first, otherwise she and her daughter would be the ones to die.
That's why Yun Jinshu would say those words to the woman.
And now she was standing in front of the woman's corpse, watching her blood gurgling out like when a pig was slaughtered for the New Year in the countryside, soon dyeing the tiles in the hall into a bright pool of blood.
"Mianmian, are you scared?" The system was a little worried about the host's mental health.
Yunmian squatted beside the sofa, holding her face in her hands and shaking her head silently.
"Uncle System." Yun Mian looked at her mother, who was covered in blood, and then at the familiar-looking woman on the ground, and whispered, "Is this the mother of that monster sister just now?"
"Yes."
Yunmian: "Why didn't that monster sister eat her?"
This is what Yunmian can’t understand.
Is it possible to not hurt my mother even if I become a monster?
The system was silent for a moment, and then replied dryly: "I don't know either."
In fact, it knows.
This woman also had a role in last week’s plot.
Her control over her daughter reached a perverted level. She would even talk to the girl when she took a long time to go to the toilet. There were surveillance cameras everywhere in the room. She would always talk about how hard she had worked to kidnap her daughter... Later, even though her daughter turned into a zombie, her body's instinct would make her uncontrollably afraid when she saw a woman.
The woman was also afraid of her daughter turning into a zombie at first, but the zombie's hesitation gave her hope. She felt that she could "wake up" her daughter, so from yesterday to today, she has been training her daughter who has turned into a zombie to perform stereotyped behaviors.
She would cut the meat in the refrigerator into small portions and reward her daughter with a piece of meat when she completed a command.
When her daughter didn't finish the task, she would get angry and, as usual, lock her daughter in a specially decorated "little dark room".
The more she did this, the more fearful the zombie's instinct engraved in its body became, like a harmless pet that had been tamed long ago. Even though it couldn't understand what she was saying, under her deliberate guidance and training, it had learned many simple commands like a trained mouse in a cage.
In the first week's plot, Yun Jinshu was not well prepared, so when the zombies came, she ventured out to look for supplies. Yun Mian was also hidden by her in the highest closet, and the zombie returned empty-handed.
Later, in order to avoid being chased by zombies, the protagonist's team ran into a restaurant. Yun Jinshu met them by chance, and the protagonist felt sorry for them and opened the restaurant's roller shutter to let them in.
Yun Jinshu wanted to go home and leave with her daughter. The protagonist team followed her into the community. At this time, the zombie upstairs was already a level one zombie.
It is also one of the protagonist's golden fingers.
Because of the woman's pleading, the protagonist softened his heart and persuaded everyone to let go of the zombie that had already condensed a crystal core. Moved by the mother-daughter relationship, he secretly fed the zombie the spiritual spring water in the space to see if he could restore the zombie's sanity. Later, the zombie grew up and slaughtered all the survivors in a city.
Only the protagonist survived the catastrophe.
As a result, she became a bridge of communication between human survivors and zombies, and was appreciated and respected by everyone.
However, the system did not expect that on the second day of the second week, its host would kill the protagonist's growth-type golden finger.
There is no speed-type zombie lord now, only a shiny first-level crystal core that Yun Jinshu casually placed on the coffee table.
The mother that the zombie lord feared, the woman who would later propose the symbiotic method of "taming" zombies, was also killed by Yun Jinshu with a single knife, without even leaving a last word.
In this regard, the system only wants to say one thing: Well done!
I just don’t know how the protagonist will feel after knowing this.
Anyway, now the system just needs to make sure that its host will not develop any mental illness due to the continuous killings.
But with Yunmian's mama's boy brain, I guess whatever her mother does is right.
The system flew back to the flowerpot. Yun Mian held his cheek and stared at the woman on the ground in a daze, while Yun Jinshu went to change his blood-stained clothes.
When she came out, the kid who had been squatting in the corner like a mushroom was no longer there.
Yun Jinshu looked around the room and found the child who was trying hard to sweep up the glass shards with a broom.
The broom was half a head taller than Yunmian. She didn't have the strength to hold it with one hand, so she had to hold it with both hands. She swept for a long time and was so tired that the glass on the ground was scattered everywhere.
The more you help, the more trouble you cause.
Yun Jinshu helplessly snatched the broom from her daughter's hand, picked her up from the ground, put her on the sofa, and then looked towards the house.
Broken glass, dead women, blood everywhere... the hall was a mess.
If this had happened before yesterday, Yun Jinshu would probably be in prison now.
Yun Jinshu swept up all the glass but did not throw it away. Instead, he carefully put it in a trash can and reminded Yun Mian to be careful not to knock it over when playing with it.
Then they began to deal with the woman's body.
The easiest way is to throw the body downstairs and let the zombies deal with it.
But Yun Jinshu had just seen a special zombie. She couldn't use her flesh and blood to lure all the zombies to the bottom of the building. She didn't know what was going on downstairs. If she fed another special zombie at that time, this behavior would be digging her own grave.
But it was okay for her to leave the body at home for a long time. Yunmian was only five years old, which was the stage when children had the weakest resistance to the outside world. What if the body carried some germs, especially after living with the zombie for such a long time, it was hard to say whether the body would turn into a zombie.
Yun Jinshu has never thought of any good solution to the problem.
Yunmian took a bite of the apple her mother had stuffed in her mouth. Seeing her mother staring at the aunt's body, she thought for a moment and asked in a low voice, "Mom, what are you thinking about? Are you afraid that the aunt will also turn into a monster and wake up?"
Or are we afraid that Auntie will turn into a monster and scare us in our dreams at night?
Yun Jinshu looked at her daughter's innocent eyes, thought for a moment, reached out and held the child in her arms, pinched her cheek, and relaxed her slightly anxious emotions. Then she answered the question in a gentle voice, "Mianmian, Mommy didn't want to hurt anyone, but she let the zombies hurt us first, and then she came down with a knife, so I had to hurt her first."
Yun Jinshu herself may have distorted values and may do whatever it takes to protect her daughter, but she hopes that her daughter is pure, like an eternally beautiful flower. So, like the system, she is worried that her actions will plant other seeds in her daughter's heart.
But she was unwilling to package her behavior with sentences like "I had to do it to protect you."
After hearing what her mother said, Yunmian reached out to hug her mother, put her cheek against her mother's arms and said obediently: "Mianmian knows, I saw it all, it was that little sister who broke into our house first, and it was that auntie who came to find mom with a knife first. If mom didn't take action, Mianmian and mom would also be lying on the ground like this."
Don't think that children are fragile, naive and ignorant of everything.
Yunmian’s observation skills were not weak. She was the first to discover the zombie, and she also saw the aunt holding a knife with a ferocious and hateful face through the crack in the door first.
She knew her mother was protecting her.
Besides, children don’t have any complete values, and she doesn’t even know many Chinese characters. It’s impossible to ask her to question and be afraid of her mother because of harm that hasn’t even happened yet!
Yunmian hugged her mother tightly, and said seriously and firmly with a stern face: "Mom, it was the bad guys who broke into our house first. We didn't do anything wrong. If they didn't come to hurt us, we wouldn't hurt them either!"
Yunmian doesn’t think her mother did anything wrong, nor does she think her mother is scary.
She just felt that her mother was extremely strong and powerful. Just like when there was thunder and heavy rain outside, she could lie in her mother's arms and sleep peacefully without being afraid at all.
The child's serious expression looked as if she was taking an oath. Yun Jinshu's originally heavy mood unconsciously eased a lot. She smiled and rubbed her daughter's frizzy hair, breathed a sigh of relief silently, and then talked about what she was thinking about just now without too much worry.
"We can't leave this body at home. It's dirty and will attract a lot of bugs. Zombies might even smell the odor and crawl over."
There is still a residential building upstairs and more than a dozen buildings downstairs. Yun Jinshu is not sure how many zombies are hiding in this building and how many living people are left.
She couldn't just throw the body straight down the stairwell, as that might harm the survivors on the first and second floors.
So Yunmian started thinking along with her mother.
You can't leave the body in your house, and you can't throw the body down to feed the monsters...
Yunmian's eyes lit up: "Mom! I know!!"
Yun Jinshu's thoughts were interrupted and he stared at his daughter in surprise.
Yunmian raised her hand and replied: "Let's send this aunt back to her home!"
Yun Jinshu: “…”
system:"……"
Where did it come from? Where should it be sent back?
I have to say, it seems to make some sense?
Yun Jinshu thought about it and frowned slightly: "But if we make too much noise in the fire escape, we might alert more zombies."
As everyone knows, corridors have echoes. It was already difficult for her to move the body by herself, and if she made any noise, it might be dangerous.
"No~" Yun Mian said, and the silk thread from her fingertips shot out and quickly wrapped up the woman.
Yun Jinshu watched helplessly as such a huge corpse disappeared bit by bit in front of his eyes.
She looked at her daughter in surprise.
Yun Mian dragged the heavy body to the balcony.
Then he dragged it upwards little by little with a silk thread. After it passed over the not-so-high wall, the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground suddenly came from the balcony above his head.
Yunmian put down her hand, turned around and looked at her mother with bright eyes: "I have sent Auntie back to her own home~"
Yun Jinshu: “…”
I feel a little complicated.
But she still rubbed the child's head encouragingly, and then walked up the fire escape with light steps.
We can't just leave the body on the balcony. In the summer, corpses will rot quickly and bacteria will spread just as quickly, so it has to be handled properly.
After Yun Jinshu left, the system flew to Yun Mian's shoulder again, muttering to itself that it hoped the host would maintain mental health. It then began to show her various cartoons about truth, kindness and beauty that help children.
Yun Mian held the worried light ball in her hands, thought for a moment, tilted her head and said to it, "Uncle System, don't worry. I will definitely not kill people randomly, even if they are bad guys."
This is a very sincere promise made by Yun Mianmian.
The system was stunned by her "well-behaved" cognition. It was stunned for a long while before asking her why.
Yunmian answered without hesitation: "Because it's very troublesome. It only took my mom a moment to kill the bad aunt, but it was so difficult to clean up the aunt's body..."
In Yunmian's mind, this kind of thing is completely unprofitable and a loss.
She won't do it.
Unless the bad guy comes to hurt her and her mother like he did today.
The system was silent for a while after hearing this.
It didn't expect that the host chose truth, goodness and beauty not because of some pure and kind spiritual baptism, but because... it is easy to kill but difficult to collect the body.
It's very strange and doesn't conform to the values of adults, but when you put it on Yunmian, it seems to be true?
system:"……"
I began to wonder when did the host's values become so distorted that they can't be corrected?
When we were first bound, we were still a little fool who couldn't climb up the persimmon tree even after holding on to it for a long time.
But before the system could figure out what went wrong, Yunmian seemed to sense something and quickly ran back to her mother's bedroom, then stood on a stool and put her face against the window to look down.
The system also flew over.
On the street downstairs in the community, several young boys and girls were fleeing in a panic, followed by a group of zombies that were chasing them and roaring excitedly.
System: Oh, the protagonist team is here.
Yunmian didn’t know that it was the protagonist and a temporary team formed by the protagonists. She just watched them shouting and running, and her little faces wrinkled little by little.
"Mianmian, what's wrong?" The system flew up in confusion, not understanding why the host's face was wrinkled like a bun.
Yun Mian, who had a chubby face, hesitated for two seconds before asking in a low voice: "Uncle System, did they do this on purpose?"
"…What do you mean?"
Yun Mian pointed at the group of people running on the street and said with a puffy face, "Are they shouting so loudly on purpose?"
As the voice fell, a girl's desperate cry could be heard from the street below: "What should I do? I can't get rid of these monsters! I really can't run anymore!!"
Yunmian: “…”
system:"……"
They watched helplessly as the zombies that were roaming the neighborhood were alarmed and all followed the sound and ran in the direction of the group.
The system remained silent for even longer this time.
It didn't know how to answer its host's question.
The plot that seemed reasonable in the first round suddenly became a bit stupid after being pointed out by the host.
If this group of people didn't shout, given the current mobility of the zombies, they wouldn't be able to chase for so long and would lose their target.
But there was a large group following behind them, and they gradually attracted all the people nearby.
Yun Mian lay behind the gap in the curtains, looking at the only group of people who dared to run on the street and the dense zombies behind them. She shrank her neck and got off the stool.
Yunmian decided to go find her mother quickly and ask her to seal the doors and windows tighter when she came back.
Monsters can’t come in, and neither can these running brothers and sisters.
Yun Mian looked down at the long, thin silk thread on her fingertips, pursed her lips, and looked at the crystal core on the table.
I kind of want to eat it. I feel like if I eat it, I'll have an extra line on my hand, so I can better protect myself and my mother.
"Uncle, can this be given to mom?" Yun Mian moved the crystal core on the coffee table with her fingers.
She thinks this is edible, but she doesn’t know if her mother can eat it. What if her dirty mother gets sick after eating the stuff in the monster’s head?
"...Is it okay? If your mother can hold on." The system was a little hesitant and explained to Yun Mian: "This thing is a crystal core condensed in the body of a zombie. This is a crystal core produced by a speed-type zombie. It should be most effective for those with the same awakened speed-type ability. But other people can eat it, and ordinary people... can also try it."
"However, if ordinary people rashly swallow zombie crystal cores, the consequences are unpredictable. Some people may be lucky enough to awaken superpowers, but they may not necessarily awaken superpowers of the same type. In addition, there is a greater possibility that their bodies will be blown up by the energy and die, or they will be affected by the crystal core and assimilated into zombies."
After the system finished speaking, it couldn't help but persuade her: "You can eat this crystal core, but it will be very dangerous to give it to your mother. If she turns into a zombie, she can't be saved."
In the later stages of this mission world, there are indeed zombies that can think and communicate normally, but most of those zombies have a connection with the heroine. Either they drank enough spiritual spring water and ate enough spiritual plants from the heroine when they were alive, or like the speed zombie, their spiritual intelligence was awakened by the spiritual spring water shortly after they became zombies.
In short, the heroine is a mobile poisonous and life-saving blood bag. She simply does not understand how powerful the life-level space container is, but this thing somehow ends up in her hands.
I can only say that he is worthy of being the protagonist. When he is in college, he can buy a life-level space container for just fifteen yuan by simply visiting the night market stalls.
Zhao Xiaoli in the first mission world is not as good as the protagonist of this world.
Yun Mian listened to the system uncle's mumbling for a long time, and thought silently in her heart: The system uncle seems to be a little envious of the protagonist.
The sour tone is just like the little fox in the cartoon.
If you can't eat the grapes, they are sour.
After Yunmian called her mother back, the downstairs had returned to silence.
Because the group of people had already hidden in a restaurant, Yun Mian could even hear the piercing sound of the rolling door being pulled down from upstairs.
There are a lot of zombies surrounding the hotel.
Yun Jinshu looked at the scene downstairs and his brows slowly furrowed.
She knew that things were a little bad.
"They should be students from the nearby university town." She had just seen the scene of these people fleeing from upstairs, and now she said in a deep voice: "To be able to run all the way here, they must have attracted more zombies along the way."
The most important thing is that this is a wealthy area. There are not too many zombies here. Most of them are at work, school, or taking a nap at home. In such hot weather, when the doomsday comes, there will not be many zombies downstairs.
As a result, this group of people attracted enough zombies to fill the entire street.
They are now hiding in the hotel, and the zombies will start wandering around again if they can't find them.
But the place with the most living people here is inside this community.
So if nothing unexpected happens, these zombies that are lured here will soon roam around the community and hunt for prey, and the already harsh survival pressure on community residents will suddenly increase.
Yun Jinshu looked at the crowded group of zombies downstairs, and his eyes gradually became gloomy.
Tonight will probably be another sleepless night for many people.
The dull sound of falling to the ground may become more and more frequent due to the arrival of this group of zombies.
She didn't have time to vent her anger on the students who attracted these zombies, so she took action immediately.
She had to improve the defense of her home and also be on guard against the reappearance of the special zombies that were as agile and able to climb silently as the one that appeared upstairs at noon.
If possible, she hopes to receive rescue from the country in the near future, but the whole country is in chaos now, and she understands that hope for the future can only be in her own hands.
Even though it was already four o'clock in the afternoon, the hot air and extremely high temperature still made people feel restless. Yunmian wiped the sweat from her forehead, sat down on the floor cleaned by her mother, and then tilted her head back to watch her mother busying around the house.
In fact, there was not much that needed to be improved. Yun Jinshu reinforced the door of the fire escape several times. After confirming that it was difficult for an ordinary adult to open it, he reinforced the doors and windows of the house one by one, and even sealed them with thick wooden strips.
After doing all this, she was about to turn on the TV to watch today's news.
But there was no news, only new bad news.
There's a power outage.
Entire cities will lose power.
Yun Jinshu pressed the light switch, and after making sure there was no movement, he stood quietly against the wall for a long time.
There's a power outage.
The next step will soon be water outage.
For people living in cities, power outages and water shortages mean that their living space is squeezed. If they stay in the room and don't go out, it will be difficult for them to survive.
The most terrifying and despairing thing is that in this huge and prosperous city, there will never be a chance for even a single light to be turned on at night.
This means that humans have truly lost basic control over the city.
So even if there were no zombies brought by those college students, there would be many more people jumping down from high places in the community tonight.
Yun Jinshu took a deep breath, moved away from the wall, then picked up the child who was sweating even though he did nothing. He dipped a handkerchief in a little water and wiped the sweat off Yun Mian's body.
Yunmian couldn’t understand what the power outage meant to her mother and other survivors. She just felt that her mother seemed a little sad, with red eyes and tears in her eyes, as if she was about to cry.
Obviously, when facing the monster and that bad aunt before, my mother was not so sad and scared.
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