Chapter 23
Xu Zhou: "Let's go pick up your mother."
Xu Zhou held Xunchun's left hand. She held flowers in her left hand and he held a bag in his right hand.
In the old days, Xunchun was unable to see his mother for the last time. After becoming a zombie, he lost consciousness and ran straight to other cities. Until now, he has never been back.
Xunchun pursed her lips: "Okay."
He felt a little fortunate that sometimes his regrets would always be made up for in another way, after meeting Deng Deng.
He squeezed her hand a little tighter.
Xu Zhou felt Xunchun's strength and tapped his hand with his thumb in response.
…
There was no sign of Xunyou in the yard, nor in the room, nor anywhere else. The two zombies walked all the way back home and found the gate wide open. Xunyou, who was alone at home, was gone, leaving only a note.
The two zombies had serious expressions.
Xu Zhou carefully recalled her behavior when she was looking for a tour before she went out.
"Did Xiaoyou tell me this on purpose?" Xu Zhou had an inexplicable premonition that Xunyou not only wanted to explain the misunderstanding, he also wanted to use this opportunity to leave.
If Xunyou proposed to leave alone, she and Xunchun would definitely not agree, so he'd better leave secretly, and finding a suitable excuse was the best way to leave.
This misunderstanding was a good excuse, because she would definitely go out to find Xunchun, and he would be the only one left at home.
Think back to the day I met Xunyou.
He stood on the reef and cried for help, but he didn't need anyone to save him. His real purpose of crying for help was probably to attract other people's attention.
So what is the purpose of attracting other people's attention?
"It's possible." Xunchun held the note and said, "He must have something important to let others know, but he doesn't want to involve us."
He recalled the first day, when he was hesitant to speak during his afternoon outing.
The note read: Sister-in-law, please don't blame my brother. You don't have to look for me, I'm safe.
Xu Zhou rapped his hands on the table, almost laughing out of anger: "Your brother is quite considerate."
Now she was really angry. One by one, they just took on the responsibility and didn't care about their own safety.
"He doesn't even know to bring some food with him." There was no less food on the table, he just left without even eating or taking anything else with him.
Xunchun spoke up for him: "He cares about us."
Xu Zhou was helpless: "It's because I know that he cares about us that I am even more angry."
Without giving it much thought, the two zombies discussed for a few moments before deciding to split up and search for Xunyou. Separately, they were more efficient. Since they were zombies, they had no worries, making them the perfect candidates for a search.
Before leaving, Xu Zhou reminded Xunchun to hide his identity when meeting people.
The system that had been watching the show said: "No, how can you be so sure that your guess is correct? What if it is wrong?"
After listening to their chatter, it suddenly decided to go out to look for someone. It always felt that it had missed some important plot, but it was always there and did not desert.
Is this correct?
Xu Zhou's eyes were busy, her feet even busier, and she was carrying some food for Xun You on her back. She pushed aside the branches blocking her way and said casually, "It's wrong, it's wrong. It's more important to find someone first."
Xunyou's reasons for doing all this were certainly important, but he wouldn't come back on his own if he just stayed at home. Instead of just imagining things at home, it would be better to find him and ask him directly.
Of course, the premise for doing this is that they are all zombies.
If it was a human, they would go look for it together.
The system understands.
Whatever they guessed, these were just excuses to find someone.
Time slipped by, the sun was about to set, and Xu Zhou still couldn't see anyone. She grabbed leaves with her left hand, tore them apart with her right, and threw them on the ground. She couldn't help but wonder, are people running so fast these days? Is it because she, a zombie, lacks exercise?
"You look so comfortable lying down every day," the system pointed at her. "You don't lack exercise, so who does?"
Xu Zhou interrupted manually: "Okay, no more talking."
She still didn't understand how Xunyou could run so fast at the critical moment when he hid in his room every day.
Xu Zhou relied on the navigation system, and there were no repeated routes. But as she walked along, the city was empty and she didn't even see any zombies.
"Has my physique made even zombies retreat?" Xu Zhou asked, "Or has Loujiang Town become a deserted city?"
The system checked the navigation and replied, "There are zombies, but they are all moving."
"Are they all moving?"
"Yes." On the map, the small dots representing zombies were all moving. Each trajectory had no pattern, but they were all within the scope of Loujiang Town. According to the route map, they were enough to circle Loujiang Town several times.
After hearing the system's explanation, Xu Zhou's expression gradually became strange.
The zombies moving en masse, and across Loujiang Town, was more than a little strange. Before Xunyou arrived, during the days she and Xunchun had been out and about, they had never seen all the zombies moving together at the same time.
Just now, when they were looking for You, all the zombies in the city started moving, as if they were searching the entire city.
Who to search?
Looking for travel?
Do zombies also look for people?
Suddenly, the system yelled, condemning harshly: "Damn it! You're touching my energy again! Aa ...
That was the money it had painstakingly saved for its journey through reward missions, so how could it have been used again?! Damn Xunchun, damn zombies, didn't it set a one-way energy limit? How could it still use energy to cause fluctuations?
The system muttered to itself and began to search for where the energy was escaping from.
After a long search, it was finally discovered that the initial energy fluctuation appeared on the electronic screen of the reward task.
System gas.
The beta version is just unreliable, I must write a 3,000-word bad review!
After being forced to listen to a long and beautiful system speech, Xu Zhou decided to climb to the top of the mountain to see the grand scene of zombies collectively looking for people.
She already knew that all of this was Xunchun's doing. In order to find Xunyou quickly, he contacted the zombies in Loujiang Town to help find him.
Xunchun has been upgraded after receiving many rewards from her. If zombies were divided into specific levels, he should be quite famous now.
This was what Xunchun told her. During one of his outings to find food, he had once tried to order the zombies to pick fruit from a tree. The zombies had listened and acted, but in the end they failed to complete his order because they couldn't climb trees.
However, he still experimented and found that he could command zombies.
However, Loujiang Town is a city with so many zombies that he certainly cannot command them all by himself. No wonder he used the system's energy.
Listening to the system cursing, Xu Zhou roughly estimated that in the next few days, she would be able to hear the system condemning Xunchun all the time.
The system can be concerned about its energy.
Xu Zhou picked up a wooden stick from the roadside and climbed up the mountain with it, not forgetting to echo the system's words accusing Xunchun which began with "Look at your Xunchun".
While climbing the mountain, an inappropriate thought flashed through her mind. Wouldn't Xunchun be scared by Xunchun making such a high-profile move to have all the zombies in the city look for Xunyou?
Put yourself in her shoes. If she were a human and found zombies everywhere she went, she would probably hide there until the zombies left.
Before the sun went down, Xu Zhou hurried to the top of the mountain and looked down at Loujiang Town. The mountain she climbed was not high, so she could only see part of the city, but that was enough. She saw many small black dots moving around the city. They were not moving fast, but they were numerous.
She was really feasting her eyes on the zombie sea tactics.
Xu Zhou sat down on the spot and knocked the ground with a wooden stick without any rhythm.
The system took the time to pay attention to Xu Zhou: "Why don't you continue looking for someone?"
"I'm tired from climbing the mountain." Xu Zhou replied.
"Oh." The system started to search for spring again.
Xu Zhou automatically blocked out these words, treating them all as background music. She frowned, feeling helpless. How could it be that Xunchun was being scolded, yet she was the one suffering?
I wish the pain could be transferred with one click.
The level of the Xunchun zombies gradually increased, but the level of the Xuzhou zombies remained the same.
She asked the system why this reward task could not be given to herself, so that she could not level up?
The system explained that the original purpose of the reward task was to give money to others, that is, to reward the anchor through live broadcast, and the tasker would receive a corresponding share. The task it accepted for the neighboring galaxy was similar to this.
However, the world of Earth has changed and no longer matches the original mission settings. Therefore, as a temporary mission, the reward mission has undergone a series of rule modifications.
When the tasker rewards the zombie, the zombie's level will be upgraded, and a certain amount of energy will be returned to the tasker. This returned energy falls into the hands of the system, while in the hands of Xu Zhou it becomes the "recovery right". As the name suggests, she can reclaim the reward given to the zombie.
Anytime and anywhere, you can transform a zombie from a Zombie King back to its original appearance in just one second. Just click "Reward and Recycle" on the electronic screen.
These are newly added after the reward level is upgraded.
A few days ago, the system reminded Xu Zhou that her reward level had been upgraded. Xu Zhou didn't pay much attention, just letting the system inform her of the changes.
After learning about the changes, Xu Zhou felt that it was boring. She might as well let her learn the zombie language. Apart from clicking and rewarding every day, she had no experience at all.
The system suggested: "You can try rewarding for recycling."
Xu Zhou didn't even consider it: "Why would I recycle it? Let him turn into an unconscious zombie again, and then start rewarding him all over again? What do I want?"
“The joy of experiencing.”
Xu Zhou kindly reminded him, "System, have you forgotten that after your rewards are recycled, the energy you earned through missions will also be recycled. We'll then have no choice but to restart, and your journey to the next galaxy will be delayed. Aren't you worried about the system summary meeting or the honor of being an outstanding system?"
"Wow, so you were thinking about me..." The system's eyes were filled with tears, moved by its allies' concern for it.
Actually I just don’t want to restart and find it troublesome to continue the day:…
What if the system misunderstood her too deeply? Then she could only accept its gratitude with joy.
…
'A bit cold'
"I love picking leaves. I am a hard-working leaf picker."
'Not here, not there, not anywhere'
"What kind of hole is this? Step on it, ah——"
'Why are there so many zombies?'
——
The messages sent back by the zombies were disorganized and useless. Xunchun received messages from all directions. There were so many messages that his head began to ache.
At first, he didn't think of asking the zombies to look for You, until he met the zombies on the trampoline, then he tried to order them to look for You.
The process of giving this command was very difficult, because he described Xunyou's appearance to the zombies out of thin air. They couldn't imagine it at all. They only knew that Xunyou had a face. They couldn't associate the specific appearance with the words, and they couldn't remember so much content. So at the beginning, every time he said something, they would refute it with "No".
Every zombie has to refute it.
In the end, it was he who ordered them to search for humans, which led to their success.
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