Chapter 1515
After becoming a zombie who retained his sanity and realizing his own uniqueness, Xue Ling had pondered countless times why.
But this question is as unanswerable to her as why zombies broke out and why the end of the world is coming.
While lying in the weeds by the roadside and looking at the stars, Xue Ling wondered if it was because she was exposed to radiation at some unknown time that she became mutated?
While sitting under an abandoned melon shed on the roadside to avoid the rain, Xue Ling thought again, is it possible that like Spider-Man, she was bitten by a virus-carrying insect and became a zombie?
While walking on the long and deserted highway, Xue Ling wondered if he was actually a product of a laboratory, and his past experiences were artificially implanted, and everything was fake? !
While watching her peers wandering around in a daze under a tree in the park, Xue Ling's thoughts wandered to the novels she had read before. Did she actually awaken a superpower? The kind that allows one to retain sanity even after being infected by zombies!
So he thought all the way that he might be the key to ending the zombie virus, and that special antibodies that could destroy the zombie virus could be extracted from her.
One day, researchers in white coats will take her into the laboratory—isn’t this how things are portrayed in novels and movies?
As a result, Wen Jiuze now said so casually that he knew the reason.
...You know the reason? Why do you know the reason? I don't even know how you know it.
Xue Ling had the same doubt again: Are you a zombie or am I a zombie?
She looked at Wen Jiuze, and Wen Jiuze looked at her, and the two of them stared at each other in silence for a while.
Just when Xue Ling couldn't help but rush over and shake his shoulders, Wen Jiuze spoke up. He said, "It's because you ate Taisui."
What is "tai sui"? Xue Ling wrote the pinyin on the blackboard.
Not to mention, zombies writing these crooked letters are more strenuous and uglier than Chinese.
Wen Jiu wrote the two words "Taisui" under her pinyin.
Xue Ling looked at the two words and suspected that Wen Jiuze was playing a trick on her.
The last time she saw the word Taisui was in a fantasy movie.
It is said above that Tai Sui is one of the raw materials for Qin Shi Huang's elixir of immortality, which can bring the dead back to life - this is of course an artistic processing of a fantasy work, it is nonsense!
Xue Ling looked at Wen Jiuze with disdain, thinking that what he had made up was even more outrageous than what he had come up with in his own mind.
She drew a question mark on the blackboard to express her doubts and wanted to hear how he would continue.
Xue Ling guessed that Wen Jiuze would throw out a hook like he had done countless times before, and then not say what came next, deliberately making her anxious.
It's this dog's old habit to stop talking halfway.
But this time Wen Jiuze did not have a seizure. He looked at the two words on the blackboard and said calmly:
"Three years ago, the Wen family took something out of the ancestral tomb. After identification, Master Wen thought it was a Tai Sui, a very rare and special Tai Sui. I took some Tai Sui back with me, and you ate it by accident."
This story seemed a little bit true. Xue Ling drew a question mark on the blackboard, wondering when he had eaten this thing.
Before she wrote "what" and "when", Wen Jiuze guessed her question and said, "I put it in the refrigerator, wrapped it in gold paper, and you ate it. Do you remember?"
As soon as Wen Jiuze reminded him, Xue Ling remembered it.
That was shortly before they broke up, around the Chinese Valentine's Day.
It was a weekend holiday, and Xue Ling slept until almost noon. She had low blood sugar at the time, and felt dizzy when she got up, so she opened the refrigerator to find something to eat to fill her stomach.
There was only mineral water and raw green leafy vegetables in the refrigerator at that time. Xue Ling felt very uncomfortable, and suddenly she saw a ball wrapped in gold paper on the wall mount of the refrigerator.
The packaging looks like a certain brand of chocolate.
She didn't remember putting this thing in the refrigerator, it was Wen Jiuze who put it there. The two of them lived together for several months, and he often put some fruits, drinks and snacks in the refrigerator.
Could this chocolate be the Chinese Valentine's Day chocolate I bought for her? Just one?
Xue Ling was feeling uncomfortable, so she didn't think much about it. She peeled off the gold paper of the "chocolate" and saw something black and round inside, so she stuffed it into her mouth and ate it.
He didn't taste anything at first, but after chewing and swallowing, he began to feel an indescribable bitterness. Xue Ling, who felt like he was going to faint the previous moment, was immediately awakened by the bitterness.
She covered her chest and felt uncomfortable and nauseous, but she couldn't vomit. She drank two glasses of water to suppress the bitter taste that was about to overturn her head.
She finally realized that it was not chocolate. She pinched the gold paper wrapping and wondered if she had eaten the ointment for bruises and sprains that Wen Jiuze had put in the refrigerator.
Wen Jiuze happened to come back and when he saw the gold paper in her hand, he had a strange expression on his face.
"Did you eat the contents?"
Xue Ling looked at his expression and began to wonder, "What is this? Is it inedible?"
Wen Jiuze's expression was more serious than ever at that time. He frowned and even scared Xue Ling, who quickly asked him nervously what that was.
Wen Jiuze was silent for a moment before he spoke solemnly, "That was dog shit I picked up on the side of the road."
Xue Ling: “…”
You look like shit to me!
Wen Jiuze's solemn expression suddenly relaxed, revealing his provocative smile. He walked over, took the gold paper that was still stained with black, and put it away.
"Well, it actually contains a kind of wild mushroom, which a friend gave to me to trick snakes... Why did you eat it?"
"You put it in the refrigerator on purpose just to trick me, didn't you?" Xue Ling questioned.
Wen Jiuze just smiled as if nothing had happened and did not explain.
Later, he took her to the hospital for a particularly detailed examination. At that time, Xue Ling thought he was making a fuss.
And because of his overly serious attitude, Xue Ling once again doubted whether the thing she had eaten was poisonous. Just as she was getting nervous, Wen Jiuze said that the reason for such a detailed examination was to see if she had developed breast cancer due to her frequent anger.
The final examination results showed that everything was normal and there was no problem, so the matter was forgotten.
It was not until now that Xue Ling understood why Wen Jiuze had that reaction.
…She had been a zombie for three years. She even suspected that the meteorite she saw at the astronomical museum when she was a child had radiation, but she never doubted Wen Jiuze.
Xue Ling held the chalk in her hand, feeling speechless.
Wen Jiuze said: "It was only after I went back this time that I realized that there was something wrong with the Tai Sui you had eaten. This is basically the reason."
His expression looked calm, but he kept playing with a piece of chalk in his hand, rubbing his fingers until they were snow-white.
If Xue Ling was not mistaken, he might be feeling anxious?
Does he think she will blame him?
Of course Xue Ling must have felt pain to have become like this.
But she knew that if she had not become this strange being and had been an ordinary zombie, she might now be wandering in her familiar environment, eating her relatives, friends, or other people she knew without even knowing it.
By comparison, it is better like this now.
Logically speaking, she should also thank Wen Jiuze.
But! She doesn't need to reason with Wen Jiuze!
So Xue Ling, in full force, hammered Wen Jiuze several times, leaving his arm red.
After being angry, she wrote "xie xie" on the small blackboard. The Chinese word for thank you is too complicated and she didn't want to write it.
After receiving a thank you, Wen Jiuze had a complicated expression. He finally let go of the chalk and smiled as if he didn't want to smile at all, so it looked a bit ugly.
"You actually said thank you to me."
Because Xue Ling always felt that it was better to live than to die. Although her body was dead now, her soul was still alive, which was better than being completely dead.
To be honest, Xue Ling now feels particularly relaxed.
It's the feeling of satisfaction that comes from finally getting the answer to a reasoning puzzle that I've been thinking about for a long time, and finally not having to think about it anymore and not having to worry about it all the time.
I feel a little disappointed - it's not a supernatural awakening nor an alien experiment!
She mutated because she accidentally ate the legendary Taisui taken out of a tomb. This is too localized, so now she doesn't want to call herself a zombie anymore, she wants to call herself a mortal.
Xue Ling suddenly had an idea and wrote on the blackboard: "Is there anyone else like me?"
Wen Jiuze must have seen it, otherwise how could he be so sure?
"Who is it?" While Xue Ling was still writing the complicated word "who", Wen Jiuze folded his arms and turned his head.
He didn't want to say it, and didn't want to mention the name "Wen Xuan" in front of Xue Ling.
Seeing her asking so urgently, I didn't want to say anything anymore.
Could it be that she thought that Wen Xuan was in a similar situation to her and they were in the same group?
Wen Jiu sneered.
Xue Ling saw him lazily folding his arms and not saying anything, so she raised her hand and pushed him. Wen Jiu wiped the small blackboard in front of her clean.
Xue Ling: “?”
She carefully observed the expression on Wen Jiuze's face and suddenly realized.
Whenever she mentioned Wen Xuan before, he would get upset and put on an unhappy face, because he hated Wen Xuan and didn't like others to mention this person, so could this be such a coincidence?
Xue Ling tried to write the word "Xuan" on the blackboard.
Before I finished writing, Wen Jiuze wiped it out. He smiled faintly: "Writing only the word 'Xuan', doesn't it look too intimate?"
Xue Ling was speechless. It was so difficult for a zombie to write. Wouldn't it be enough for him to just know who he was referring to? Why did he insist on asking her to write the whole thing?
She threw the chalk at Wen Jiuze, and he dodged it with his head tilted, saying, "Yes, it was him, but he's dead. There's no need to go and see him."
Xue Ling didn’t want to go and see. She just wanted to confirm that there were other people like her. Would there be more people like her?
Xue Ling's mood improved because of the news, but Wen Jiuze's mood was not so good.
They drove away from here. On the way, Wen Jiuze often looked ahead with a thoughtful look. Xue Ling sat in the passenger seat, and the two seat belts on his body became one.
The window was open and the hot wind from outside blew in. Xue Ling saw familiar scenery and unfamiliar scenery, but she could tell that they were on their way out of Anxi City.
In her arms, she was holding a plastic children's magnetic writing board that Wen Jiuze had found somewhere. It was lighter and cleaner than a small blackboard.
She took out the pen stuck in the groove beside her, wrote the two words "Where to go", and raised it up.
Wen Jiuze glanced at him and asked instead of answering, "Why are you silent now?"
It used to make zombie roars from time to time, but it stopped roaring after its filling was exposed.
Xue Ling: “…”
You ask even though you already know the answer. Doesn't she have any dignity to lose? We all know she still has some sense left. She would still be embarrassed if you continue to call her that unpleasantly!
Wen Jiuze: "Don't be burdened, just shout if you want to. Your voice is deep and powerful now, like a tiger descending from the mountain."
A black modified car driving on the national highway in Anxi City suddenly turned crookedly in an S shape on the road.
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