Chapter 66
While everyone was happy, Wen Jiu couldn't be happy because Xue Ling's condition worsened.
On the day the incident happened, the two of them went with a team to a farm to look for food.
For a team of more than two hundred to nearly three hundred people, the amount of food they need to consume every day is not a small amount.
They heard that the farm had a grain warehouse and that as long as the grains were well preserved, rice and wheat could be eaten for several years, so they drove there for a day.
They found the granary and discovered that there was indeed well-preserved grain. When everyone was happily loading the truck, Xue Ling suddenly fell down.
The last moment she was counting some dried goods that could be stored for a long time, and asked Wen Jiuze to go with her to look for them somewhere else. Her whole body was filled with the joy of a good harvest.
The next moment he fell forward.
Wen Jiu thought she had tripped accidentally, and lowered his head to scratch his head to make fun of her, but when he took two steps towards her, he found Xue Ling lying there motionless.
He immediately had a bad feeling, dropped the tablet, and went forward to pick her up.
Xue Ling closed his eyes, but his body could not move.
Wen Jiuze helped her sit aside, massaging her hands and legs, and blurted out "What's wrong?"
Xue Ling rolled her eyes in panic and heard him say in a hoarse voice: "Can't move?"
"Move your finger here."
Xue Ling was a little panicked when she suddenly found herself unable to move. She followed his instructions and tried to move her fingers.
She wanted to move her fingers, but her body didn't obey her and one of her arms moved.
It happened suddenly. It took a long time before Xue Ling gradually regained consciousness and stood up stiffly.
This was her first "failure".
This happened several times from that day on.
Wen Yi examined her and found the same problem. The Taisui special substance that broke the balance was fighting with the zombie virus. If this continued, she would probably be exhausted.
"That new drug you guys researched can't be used on her?" Wen Jiuze asked, "Isn't it said that the Re virus can restrain the zombie virus?"
If it weren't for Xue Ling, Wen Yi would have been too lazy to explain to him.
"It's not a simple question of who defeats whom. Xue Ling is a unique case. She is not an ordinary zombie. No one can be sure what the result will be if she is used."
“If it’s a bad outcome, can you accept it?”
Wen Jiu couldn't accept it, so he hugged Xue Ling and left.
Fortunately, one day later, Xue Ling was able to walk again and went to Wen Yi to check on her.
"It feels like I had a sudden stroke and became paralyzed. Only my eyes can move." Xue Ling was a little relieved when talking about the experience of losing control of the brain. "Fortunately, I didn't suffer from incontinence."
Wen Yi: "You have a pretty good attitude."
Xue Ling: "...My body is already in bad condition, and it will be even worse if my mentality gets worse."
Wen Yi: "Wen Jiuze's mentality is not as good as yours."
Xue Ling: "Not really. If I were alone I would definitely be panicking, but he was in pain, so I felt I shouldn't panic. Instead I was able to stay calm."
Wen Yi: "I see. Emotions are conserved. Only one of you can be in a bad mood."
Xue Ling rubbed his stiff face and used his hands to make an expression with the corners of his lips raised.
"What do you think of that medicine? Do you want to use it?" Wen Yi brought up the question that Wen Jiuze had avoided before.
"If there is no other way, we can only give it a try." Xue Ling replied, "We should treat the dead as living."
Without saying a word, she suddenly fell into the sofa again.
Wen Yi: “…”
He stood up and lifted her feet onto the sofa, letting her lie flat: "Wait for Wen Jiuze to come pick you up."
When Wen Jiuze came over to look for someone, Xue Ling was already able to sit up by herself.
Wen Jiuze tapped on his tablet and asked, "Why are you staying here for so long? What are you doing?"
Although he revealed his ability to speak in an emergency last time, he still communicates via a tablet on a normal basis.
Xue Ling did not mention this either, and used the art of language to answer, "I'm playing one, two, three wooden figures."
According to Wen Yi's prediction, at this stage, Xue Ling would suddenly and without warning become temporarily "malfunctioning".
When it gets more serious, she will slowly lose consciousness.
Zombies can lose consciousness, just like Wen Yi’s boyfriend Zeng Yitong, that unlucky guy.
His situation is different from Xue Ling's. Because Wen Yi has conducted too many experiments on him, he will lose consciousness due to excessive consumption.
This time when they came to the northwest, because the mission was urgent, the staff was streamlined, and they did not bring Zeng Yitong, an outdated experimental subject who was not urgently needed.
Otherwise, you can use it to do an experiment first.
Although Xue Ling's mood and vital signs were "stable", her condition was getting worse.
Finally, she collapsed and completely lost consciousness.
Wen Jiuze pinched her face and hands, shook her, and pulled her eyelids, but got no response.
She lay there quietly, her skin was cold and blue, and she had already stopped breathing.
After guarding for a whole day and night, Wen Jiuze still didn't see her wake up.
Every moment he wondered if she was completely dead.
"Give her that medicine. No matter what the result is, I won't make trouble," Wen Jiuze said.
During this time, Wen Yi was also improving the new drug they had developed based on Xue Ling's condition.
Still, she wasn't sure.
It's a small dose of medicine, and the injection takes less than three seconds, but the waiting afterwards is enough tormenting.
It should be fine. Didn't he successfully become a zombie with sanity thanks to the Taisui potion extracted by Wen Yi?
Wen Jiuze half-lay beside Xue Ling, with one leg on her, and told himself.
Wen Yi has studied Zeng Yitong for so long, she has experience. Xue Ling will wake up soon and her condition will get better.
Xue Ling is not as unlucky as him. She has good luck. In the past, when she participated in a lottery in the supermarket, others would win tissues, but she won a small appliance.
About an hour after the injection of the drug, changes began to appear in Xue Ling.
Her nails fell off and new ones grew out, sharp and hard.
Wen Jiuze held her hand and observed, guessing that this was a good change.
Then, under her pale skin, there appeared very obvious dark red lines crisscrossing vertically and horizontally, as if the veins in her body were imprinted on her skin.
Wen Yi came over to check on me. She was silent for a moment, then told me the bad news like a cold-blooded doctor: "This is not a good change. You have to be prepared."
What preparations?
"The simple explanation is that the Re virus that entered her body did not fight against the original zombie virus, but instead strengthened the zombie virus and fought against Taisui together... This is something I had never thought of."
So what will become of her?
Wen Yi didn't say anything, but suggested that he tie up Xue Ling first.
I didn't listen to the nine.
He didn't check the time, but it felt like he had been waiting for a long time, and finally he saw Xue Ling move.
Wen Jiuze immediately stood up and moved above her head.
"Xue, Ling."
She opened her eyes, revealing a pair of red eyes. The previously dark red eyes turned into a slightly translucent color, and at first glance, they looked a bit like the ruby necklace around her neck.
She looked at him slowly, as if she couldn't figure out what was going on.
Seeing how docile she was, Wen Jiuze touched her face first, then took the tablet beside him and handed it to her.
Xue Ling didn't answer.
She suddenly turned her head towards the door, and as the door was pushed open, it let out a roar like a zombie attacking a person.
Wen Yi pushed the door open and stood at the door. She clearly saw the tall figure of Wen Jiuze being pushed away by Xue Ling.
He bumped into the wall next to him, and immediately came to his senses, chased after Xue Ling, pulled her back, and held her tightly in his arms.
Only Xue Ling and the other zombies were left in the room, roaring in the same way. She didn't recognize Wen Jiuze and only wanted to attack any human she saw.
"Failed, she's completely turned into a zombie." Wen Yi said as she let go of the door handle.
Wen Jiuze covered Xue Ling's mouth.
The old teeth in her mouth fell out at the slightest touch, and two new rows of shark-like fangs grew out.
If you accidentally hook Wen Jiuze's hand, it will leave scratches on it.
Because of her crazy attacking attitude, she looked much stranger, completely unlike the harmless skinny zombie before.
"You get out." Wen Jiuze said.
After Wen Yi left, Xue Ling was no longer so crazy, but still restless, feeling the human breath around him.
There were so many people around her and she was very excited.
Wen Jiu held her tightly, observing her expression and movements, and asked, "Are you trying to scare me on purpose again?"
Xue Ling didn't give him any response.
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"I heard that your Xue Ling lost his mind and turned into a complete zombie?" Yang Luo walked to Wen Yi with a plate in his hand and sighed hypocritically, "I never thought that the new drug you specially applied for would have such an effect."
"I'm not saying that. Although she has helped us a lot, she is now a dangerous zombie. We should get rid of her as soon as possible. Otherwise, if she is left here, she will become a threat to us."
"It's time to deal with all the dangerous zombies. She did the same thing before and killed zombies so easily. Shouldn't she set an example now..."
Yang Luo was expressing his brilliant ideas when he was hit hard from behind, and he and his plate fell out.
He sat up and found that the person who bumped into him was a soldier.
"I bumped into you by accident," the soldier said without any apology, but his eyes were full of contempt and disgust, and it was obvious that he did it on purpose.
Yang Luo wanted to curse, but he found that the expressions of several nearby soldiers were the same, and some of them were glaring at him fiercely.
The entire cafeteria was very quiet. Almost everyone was looking over here. Amidst so many dissatisfied gazes, Yang Luo finally realized that he seemed to have offended everyone and swallowed back his angry words.
At this moment, he felt a pain in his palm that was supporting the ground. It was Wen Yi who stepped on his hand.
She held the plate without even looking away and stepped on him without even apologizing.
In the end, Yang Luo had to leave the cafeteria in shame.
"Is there any way to save us?" Wen Jiuze went to find Wen Yi alone.
"Taisui, maybe you can give it a try." Wen Yi said.
"Take it from me."
Wen Yi: "If you want to commit suicide for love, just say so."
"Zeng Yitong." Wen Jiuze only said this name.
Wen Yi knew what he meant: "Zeng Yitong was at Beizheng Base, but Xue Ling's current condition, the longer you delay, the less likely she will recover. Maybe if you rush back, you will find that she cannot be saved."
Wen Jiuze stared at her.
Wen Yi took out a piece of paper and wrote something. After a while, she folded the letter and handed it to him: "Give the letter to my junior sister Xu Zhihua. She knows how to retrieve it. You can take Xue Ling back."
Hearing that Wen Jiuze was going to take Xue Ling back to Beizheng Base immediately, many soldiers in the team volunteered to escort them back.
Wen Jiuzhe rejected all of them.
He wrapped Xue Ling tightly and didn't let anyone in the team see her current appearance. She definitely wouldn't like others to see her like this.
She would be horrified to learn that if the people she helped were afraid of her.
Wen Jiuze took her away alone that day.
After leaving the crowded place, Xue Ling was no longer so agitated. She began to become quiet, even quieter than when she was rational.
He won't turn his head to look at the scenery outside the window, won't poke and click with his tablet, won't touch here and there because he's bored, and won't often pay attention to Wen Jiuze on the driver's seat.
She was now easily restrained by a seatbelt.
Wen Jiuze turned his head to look at her, as if he had returned to the beginning, when he had just reunited with Xue Ling.
At that time, he didn't know that she had reason, so he took her with him and drove on the road.
In a flash, Wen Jiuze suddenly wondered, is all this real?
After more than a year of reuniting with Xue Ling, the rational zombie Xue Ling might just be his imagination.
Is it possible that, from beginning to end, he was just walking around with real zombies?
Wen Jiuze took out the Polaroid photo of him and Xue Ling, as well as the photo of her holding up a "Not Angry" sign, and pasted them on the car window.
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