"Seven?" Eve held Qi's hand, her voice slightly hushed. "Don't move. Let me touch you."
But Qi ignored her and hugged Eve's shoulders and licked her wildly.
Eve: “…”
Does she have a dog?
She was slightly annoyed: "Let me go."
The head with soft hair paused, then slowly rose from her shoulder.
Qi looked very strange - he seemed to be still trying to make a sound, his lips opening and closing hard, but only a series of unclear whispers came out.
Eve misunderstood his meaning and pushed Qi's head away: "I'll give you blood to drink later, but now there is something more important..."
She suddenly realized something and paused.
Could it be that... Qi doesn't want to suck blood?
Eve lowered her head. There was only a scratch on her shoulder. After Qi licked it clean, the bleeding had stopped. Apart from some pain, there was almost no serious problem.
Eve stared at the wound thoughtfully. If Qi wanted to suck blood, he should tear the wound open - he was now more like a dog cleaning his companion's wound.
Eve couldn't help but glance at Qi and asked in a low voice: "...What do you want to do?"
Qi couldn't answer her question, so he could only blink and reach out his hand again, gently placing it on Eve's shoulder.
But it just stuck there, without any further action.
Eve stared at him for a moment, then waved his hand away.
——No matter what Qi's intention is, she now has something more important to confirm.
The wounds on her wrists and thighs were still aching dully. Eve stuffed two rock candies into her mouth and began to heal the wounds with magic. During the process, she glanced at Seven, who didn't move at all and didn't seem to want to drink blood.
Eve couldn't help but wonder, had her blood lost its attraction to Qi?
But she quickly dismissed the idea - Qi stared straight at the place where she was bleeding, his throat occasionally swallowing unconsciously, his eyes full of desire.
He still wants to drink blood, Eve thought to herself, is he just enduring it?
But as to why? Patience...
Eve: “.”
It’s so troublesome, I’m too lazy to think about it.
When the two wounds finally healed, she grabbed Qi's hand again and warned him, "Don't move."
Qi wanted to struggle, but he immediately stopped moving after hearing this.
Eve took his fingers in her hand and began to examine them carefully.
She had noticed it before - Qi's skin was naturally different from other zombies, more delicate and exquisite. His knuckles, wrists, and arms were wrapped in cold white skin, exuding a coolness like bone china, like some kind of classical handicraft.
But now, there is a clear warmth on the porcelain.
Eve suppressed her surprise, took out a knife, and cut a cut on the inside of Qi's arm.
She squeezed it gently with her fingers, and a bright red drop of blood oozed out.
Eve stared at the blood bead and her hands paused.
Her eyes flashed, and after a moment, she put down two fingers and applied pressure again. More blood came out of the wound and flowed down Qi's arm. The latter did not move, neither struggling nor resisting.
Eve let him go and put her hand on Seven's chest, next to the witch's heart.
She closed her eyes and felt it for a while. After pondering for a moment, she suddenly said to herself, "So that's how it is."
There is a powerful energy surging in Qi's body.
Eve remembered now—she had tried to infuse Qi with magic before leaving him.
Could it be... She looked at Qi inquiringly, perhaps it was her own magic that caused the changes in Qi's body?
Because he absorbed her magic, he evolved superpowers, his body gained body temperature, and he began to become... like a human.
A thought came to her mind: as her magic power grew stronger, would Qi one day transform from a zombie into a human?
She was lost in thought when she suddenly heard a crisp snapping sound. Eve was startled and subconsciously turned her head to face a leaky mouth.
Eve: “???”
She looked at Qi in disbelief: "Where are your front teeth?"
Qi opened his mouth and touched his teeth in confusion. The front tooth in the middle of the upper row of teeth had fallen out, revealing a black gap, which looked inexplicably funny.
Eve was about to step forward when she stepped on something hard. She subconsciously lowered her head and saw Qi's missing front tooth lying on the ground, winking at her from afar.
Eve: “…”
Speaking of which, zombies all suffer from osteoporosis, and things like their front teeth often break at the slightest touch.
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The previous thought was instantly thrown behind her mind. She picked up the front tooth from the ground, pressed it back into Qi's mouth roughly, and squeezed a few drops of blood from him. Qi blinked his eyes with an innocent look on his face.
Eve's expression was blank: "Say 'Ah--'"
"howl--"
Qi obediently opened her mouth wide, and with the help of her blood, the front tooth grew back, and her row of teeth were so neat and white that they could be used in a teeth beauty commercial.
Eve: “…”
She was completely lost in thought. What was she thinking? Becoming a human? How could a human lose their front teeth so easily?
"Go back." She said to Qi speechlessly. The latter nodded, bent down without Eve's instructions, and gently picked her up.
Eve tilted her head, half leaning against Qi, occasionally tapping his arm. After a moment, she suddenly felt happy and raised her chin: "Qi?"
Seven dropped his gaze.
Eve asked, "You just now—did you want to apologize to me?"
He was so upset about her shoulder before. Was he worried about accidentally hurting her?
Qi blinked and suddenly turned his head away.
Eve thought there was a zombie, so she looked in the direction Qi was looking, but she saw nothing.
Eve: “?”
"seven?"
Silenceing.
Eve looked at Qi suspiciously, but from her angle she could only see Qi's smooth chin. After trying for a while, she decided to give up. "Forget it," she kicked Qi's knee with her heel. "Let's go."
Qi gently closed his arms to allow Eve to lean more comfortably, then he started walking again. Gradually, their figures merged into the shadows of the mall.
***
In the next few days, Eve took Qi, who had new superpowers, by storm across the mall.
Seven: He is no longer that poor little zombie, he is now Niu Hulu Seven.
The reason why Eve kept asking him to challenge ordinary zombies was to test Qi's superpowers.
According to her observation, Qi's ability is somewhat similar to that of the black ghost - both are related to shadows, but the black ghost's ability is to travel through the shadow space, while Qi's ability is to materialize the shadow, which can be used for attack or defense, and is not limited to the single form of tentacles.
She also took the opportunity to test the upper limit of Qi's ability. Perhaps due to the limitation of her magic power, Qi can only release two tentacles at most, and the attack range is only about five meters.
But it was enough - at least now no low-level zombies could hurt him anymore.
"Eat it."
In the dark room, Eve let go of her hands and threw the cans full of food onto the ground. These were all the spoils that Qi had looted.
Ling Ning and Fan Ming sat among a pile of cans, their eyes wide open.
They never dreamed that one day they would have to open cans until their hands cramped.
Fan Ming was a little uneasy: "Eve...we really don't have to give you anything? Remuneration?"
Eve hummed, "Then teach me something new. That double-thorn welding thing you mentioned earlier..."
"Quadratic function." Fan Ming said hurriedly.
Eve nodded: "Yes."
"Okay," Fan Ming scratched his head in confusion, "but why are you learning this..."
Isn't this the most basic junior high school math? Even though Eve said she had never been to school, she couldn't have missed out on nine years of compulsory education, right?
Ling Ning opened a can of bacon: "So, today I'm going to teach you some new English words."
These days, they stayed in the small room and did nothing else but teach Eve. Ling Ning and Fan Ming reviewed almost all the knowledge they had learned from elementary school to high school.
Eve said briskly, "Okay."
She didn't realize it when she was in the base before, but after coming into contact with Ling Ning and the others, she realized that she knew too little about this world and was too easily exposed. She had to seize this rare opportunity and quickly acquire knowledge of this world from the two of them.
Eve thought about it for a while and was very satisfied with the current progress. She took a box of canned peaches from Fan Ming and started eating them piece by piece.
Fan Ming looked at her with resentment, but dared not speak.
"Eve," Ling Ning continued, "When are you planning to leave here?"
After spending the past few days at the mall, she and Fan Ming have become obsessed with Eve.
Eve pondered for a moment: "The day after tomorrow."
"So? Fast?!" Ling Ning was shocked.
Eve nodded and put a piece of peach into her mouth.
She has already roughly figured out Qi's special abilities and has learned most of the knowledge about this world. Tomorrow, she will let Qi clean up the remaining zombies, and there will be no need for him to stay here.
Ling Ning said, "Then...would you like to come and visit our camp?"
Hearing this, Eve paused digging peaches and gave Ling Ning a puzzled look.
Ling Ning looked a little embarrassed and whispered, "This is the first time I've met someone with such amazing abilities as you. I want everyone to see you."
"...and!" Afraid that Eve would refuse, she came up with another excuse, "If it weren't for you this time, I might have starved to death in the mall. Come to our camp, and I will definitely treat you well!"
Although it may not mean much to Eve, she wants to repay the other party as much as possible.
After Ling Ning finished speaking, he looked at Eve anxiously.
To her surprise, Eve said readily, "Okay."
Ling Ning: "Really?!"
"But you have to take these books with you," Eve said, pulling over a few thick Chinese dictionaries. "I still have one-third of what I'm learning, so please help me."
Ling Ning looked at the books, which were so thick that they could kill someone, and was speechless for a moment: "...Okay."
Fan Ming said, "Then I'll go with you." He had nowhere to go anyway.
Eve also threw a few books to him: "I want to learn these too, so you prepare them."
Fan Ming: “…”
It’s good to keep a desire to learn even in the last days.
***
Two days later, the three left the mall.
Eve got a small trailer from somewhere, loaded it with supplies, and gave it to Qi to pull.
The comic book boy suddenly turned into a rickshaw driver. Ling Ning couldn't bear it and said, "How about... we take turns pulling the rickshaw?"
"Okay," Eve nodded, "Then those who want to pull the cart should line up themselves."
After saying that, she nodded at Qi Nunu, who gently picked up Eve and placed her on the trailer. Eve opened a bag of potato chips and pulled a cushion to lean against. "Come on, I'm reading."
Ling Ning and Fan Ming: "???"
"Wait," Ling Ning said in disbelief, "Aren't you going to help your brother...?"
Before she could finish her words, her neck suddenly felt tight, Qiyi lifted Ling Ning up and threw him onto the trailer, and then Fan Ming was thrown up as well. Just as the two of them managed to steady themselves, they noticed movement beneath them - Qiyi easily pulled the front end of the trailer and ran away quickly.
He dragged a trailer weighing 400 kilograms and walked briskly on the sand without even taking a breath.
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Eve flipped a page and said leisurely, "Have you decided who will pull the cart next?"
Ling Ning and Fan Ming looked at each other, seeing fear and humiliation in each other's eyes.
...That's enough, they shut up!
***
The three people didn't know that after they left, another group of people came to the mall.
"How is it?" A yellow-haired man turned around and asked the people around him, "Can you find them?"
The dark-skinned woman beside him said, "Give me a few minutes."
She was wearing a pair of huge goggles that almost covered most of her face, making her look like a bulging-eyed frog. When the woman took off the goggles, she revealed a pair of silver-gray eyes. Because the color of her eyes was too light, her vision seemed hazy and out of focus.
She raised her head and looked around.
While she was looking around, she saw a man with a tattoo on his arm, the only one left in the group, ask, "Did Lao Wang and the others really come here?"
Five days ago, the base suddenly lost contact with Lao Wang's team. Considering their mission this time, the base thought that they might have encountered an accident while capturing the third-level zombies, so they sent out a search team.
But the yellow-haired man didn't think so. He muttered, "No? Maybe he went somewhere else to hang out again."
Lao Wang's team includes Hei Gui and Li Kun. These two are considered to be the strongest in the base. There is no reason why they cannot deal with a third-level zombie.
"You're wrong," the gray-eyed woman who had been looking around suddenly said, "They have been here."
"Oh? Did you see it?" The yellow-haired man raised his eyebrows.
The woman's ability is quite special - she can see what happened in the past, so the base sent her here.
The gray-eyed woman nodded and said briefly, "Follow me."
Although her vision was fuzzy, she seemed to have a thorough understanding of the mall's layout. She led the other two people straight ahead in the dark space. After a few minutes, the woman stopped and said, "We found one."
In front of her lay a mass of flesh that was barely recognizable as a human. The stench it emitted made the three people, who were already accustomed to corpses, frown. The yellow-haired man walked forward, reached out his hand and poured it into the meat paste: "...Is it a black man?!"
"What did you say?!" Huabi was shocked.
"It was him," the gray-eyed woman said. "Li Kun died on the other side. Lao Wu and Lao Wang were nearby. One was bitten to death by a zombie, and the other was eaten."
The four-man team was completely wiped out.
Silence filled the air among the three of them. After a long moment, Huangmao said with a sullen face, "Show me the replay."
——In addition to being able to see the past, women can also share it with others.
"Okay," she nodded, "but the old rules apply. Only five minutes."
She bit her finger and drew a circle on the ground. Huangmao and Huabi came over and stared at her seriously.
A hazy fog began to condense in the blood circle. Gradually, a figure emerged from the fog. The figure of a black man appeared in the fog. He was lurking in the shadows, seemingly observing something.
Huangmao complained: "Can't you zoom out a little further?"
The woman said nothing, but the scene in the blood circle did shrink a bit, revealing the view in front of the black man.
A young girl suddenly appeared in the camera.
Huabi asked, "Who is she?"
"He's not from the base," Huangmao said, "I've never seen this face before..."
He suddenly stopped.
In the camera, the girl said something softly. Behind her, there was a dark mass of zombies, but they suddenly rushed forward and attacked the third-level zombie opposite!
"Wait!" Huang Mao asked in surprise, "Why don't the zombies attack her?!"
"There's more than that, look!" Flower Arm also shouted, "They're protecting her!"
The three of them could clearly see the girl make a gesture, and then several zombies came forward to block the attack of the third-level zombies for her.
The three of them stared at the blood circle for a long time before the gray-eyed woman broke the silence.
"She's controlling the zombies." She used the affirmative sentence.
Huabi swallowed and turned to the two people: "Have you...ever seen this kind of supernatural power?"
The other two shook their heads in confusion.
Huangmaomian turned serious: "We must report this matter to the organization."
Now the fate of Lao Wang and the other three is no longer important - this girl who can control zombies has higher value, and the organization must be notified immediately!
Speak of the devil, and he will appear. Just as the three of them were thinking of the organization, Huangmao's pocket suddenly trembled and a series of crisp bells rang.
Huangmao took out his communicator and turned on the screen. His expression suddenly froze. He gestured to the other two to keep quiet before answering the call. "Mr. Chang, what's going on?"
A cold voice came from the other side: "How's your investigation going? Have you found Lao Wang?"
"About this..." Huang Mao looked embarrassed, "He failed in his mission."
"Failure?" The man called Mr. Chang was slightly surprised. "Where are his teammates?"
Huangmao quickly explained: "They were wiped out, and Chenmu has found all the bodies." Chenmu is the gray-eyed woman.
Mr. Chang didn't seem to care about the fate of Brother Wang and the others, and quickly skipped the topic: "Where are the third-level zombies?"
"This..." The yellow-haired man hesitated for a long time and whispered, "He was killed by a red-haired woman. She is not a member of our Queen Bee."
The other party fell silent, throwing out two short words: "Explain."
His voice was chilling. Huangmao took a deep breath to steady his trembling voice, then summarized it as concisely as possible: "Three homeless people seemed to have run into Lao Wang and his group. After Lao Wang failed his mission, they faced off against a Level 3 zombie. Among them was a powerful woman. She was the one who killed the Level 3 zombie."
"sharp?"
Mr. Chang's tone was icy, and Huang Mao hurriedly explained: "It's true! She can control zombies!"
After he finished speaking, the other side fell silent again. Huang Mao felt a little flustered and said tremblingly, "Mr. Chang... Mr. Chang?"
"Give the phone to Chenmu."
Huang Mao didn't know whether he should breathe a sigh of relief or continue to worry, but he quickly threw the communicator to Chen Mu, as if it was a red-hot iron: "Mr. Chang is looking for you."
Chenmu's expression was also a little nervous. He carefully put his ear to the communicator and said, "Mr. Chang?"
"Is what Huang Mao said true?" Mr. Chang asked, "Can that woman control zombies?"
Chenmu said cautiously, "What I saw was this: Although the woman didn't give any clear instructions, the zombies around her didn't attack her and even helped her block the third-level zombies."
Mr. Chang pondered for a moment and said, "I understand."
"This woman's ability is very special. I will report this matter," he said briefly. "Chenmu, I need to trouble you with one more thing."
Chenmu hurriedly said, "You go ahead."
"Do you still remember that woman's face?" Mr. Chang asked, "Draw her face and I'll give it to Mr. Wen."
***
After finishing the call with Mr. Chang, all three of them breathed a sigh of relief, as if they had just finished a marathon.
Huabi suddenly thought of something and asked in confusion, "Speaking of which, where did all the zombies here go?"
They haven't encountered a single zombie since they entered the mall.
Huangmao also reacted and said in surprise, "Really?" But then he rolled his eyes and laughed again, "Isn't this a good opportunity? Let's go and plunder some supplies!"
The gray-eyed woman immediately said, "There's a large supermarket on the basement floor."
The three of them discussed it and felt that this was a rare opportunity. They were about to leave, but suddenly they turned around and headed downstairs again.
They were worried about running into zombies, so they were very vigilant at first. However, after going down two floors, there was no movement at all. When they reached the underground supermarket, they really didn't see a single zombie.
Chenmu frowned: "How? Is this happening?"
The other two didn't think much of it and were quite excited: "Let's get more supplies, and then we can resell them to others later."
Huabi rubbed his hands together and said, "My ability has just been upgraded. Now I can carry 100 kilograms of things!"
He has spatial abilities, and just a few days ago, he was upgraded from D-level to C-level, and his spatial capacity doubled.
Huangmao said, "Okay, let's pack it up quickly!" It would be best if we could pack up the entire supermarket!
The three of them ran excitedly to the canned food area. Huangmao took out a flashlight. He was afraid that there were zombies lurking in the supermarket, so he turned the light to the lowest level so that it could only illuminate the shelves in front.
The flashlight swept across a shelf, which was empty.
The three were not discouraged - there must be other people who had come and taken away some of the resources.
They continued walking forward, but after scanning three shelves in a row, they found nothing.
Flowery Arm lost his patience and kicked the shelf. He said to Yellow Hair, "Turn up the lights to maximum. I don't think there are any zombies here."
Huangmao hesitated for a moment, but his desire for canned food overwhelmed everything: "...Okay!"
He just turned up the light to the maximum setting.
“Swish!”
Suddenly, a beam of light was like a pillar, instantly illuminating the shelves in front of the three people. Huabi cheered and was about to rush forward, but suddenly stopped.
"This...this...?!" He was stunned and stammered, "How? Could it be like this...?!"
The other two also looked incredulous.
There were several shelves in front of them, which should have been filled with canned goods - but now they were empty, not a single can left!
"How could this happen...?!" muttered the yellow-haired man.
Who on earth… actually emptied the entire supermarket? !
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