Chapter 52 Chapter 52 Zombies
The feeling of having your consciousness trapped in your body is terrible.
He Junxia can see, hear and smell but cannot control his own body. He has to fight against his body's instinctive desire to avoid biting the neck of the mother of the wisher.
He listened quietly to Xie Liqing chattering in his ear, trying to get some response; watched her carefully feed him the easily digestible warm rice porridge; felt her gently wiping his body with alcohol wipes to remove the black dirt secreted by his skin.
Mother's love is the greatest, most magical and most counterintuitive thing in the world.
He Junxia could tell that Xie Liqing was ready to live and die with the child. If the child turned into a zombie, she would definitely not live alone.
But her son had died long ago.
The soul that remained was just a tasker from the Space-Time Administration, a stranger who could not return home.
But to be honest, He Junxia hasn't thought about his parents for a long time.
Two mission worlds, 12 years, 4,380 days, and 105,120 hours have passed since he was bound to the system.
Their faces in his memory became blurred, and even his twenty years of memories in his native world became unfamiliar, as if he was not a person who had experienced it firsthand, but a hurried spectator from a third-person perspective.
But seeing Xie Liqing busying herself for him without stopping for a moment, He Junxia finally saw her parents.
I still remember that when I was a child, I was in poor health and often had to be hospitalized due to illness. My parents took care of me patiently and carefully.
Are they doing well?
He Junxia got no answer, just as Xie Liqing could no longer speak a word to her son.
It's hard to say which of them is more unlucky or more fortunate.
…
Time passed by unknowingly, and He Junxia keenly noticed that a strange power suddenly appeared inside his body.
He Junxia tried to mobilize this force with a desperate attitude.
The scorching heat started from the eyeballs, then the facial muscles, then the fingers, arms, wrists...
He succeeded.
He completely regained control of his body and no longer craved only human flesh and blood. Even his skin and eyeballs returned to normal.
Anyone who sees this handsome young man would not associate him with zombies.
What's more, he is a rare fire-type mutant.
——The country’s latest “Resident Self-Help Guide” clearly states that people with special abilities will not be infected by the zombie virus.
However, that experience still brought irreversible effects to He Junxia's body. He became a living dead, a living dead who could walk briskly even if he didn't breathe for half an hour.
Breathing, heartbeat, red blood and other things used to maintain normal life activities in the human body have become as dispensable as hair.
The opposite of this is the ever-present feeling of hunger.
No matter how much food he ate or how much water he drank, he could not relieve the hunger in his stomach. It was as if he was eating a ball of air instead of food and water.
"Luckily you bought canned food, otherwise we would have nothing to eat now."
Xie Liqing walked out of the kitchen carrying a plate of luncheon meat and scrambled eggs. "By the way, Xiaoda, what made you buy so many cans?"
He Junxia said shyly, "Sometimes I get hungry at night."
Xie Liqing couldn't help feeling a little guilty. She didn't even know that her son would be hungry at night, and she asked Xiaoda to buy canned food from outside as a midnight snack.
"If you're hungry, tell me. I'll make you noodles, scrambled eggs, or fried rice. The food at home is cleaner than outside. I don't know how many additives are in those canned foods."
As she spoke, Xie Liqing sighed: "Look at me, why am I still talking about this? We are lucky enough to be alive."
"Come on, eat more if you like."
Xie Liqing picked up a large amount of luncheon meat and scrambled eggs with chopsticks and put it into He Junxia's bowl, but she hardly ate any vegetables herself, with an expression of worry that was hard to hide between her brows.
He Junxia knew what she was worried about.
There is no food at home.
Xie Liqing believes that unfresh meat and vegetables are unhealthy, so she goes to the vegetable market to buy vegetables after get off work every day. The amount of rice and stir-fries she cooks each time is just enough for two people, and she never leaves any leftovers.
In a peaceful and safe modern society, this behavior of buying and eating only as much as possible is naturally a healthy lifestyle worthy of praise and promotion.
But things are different now.
There are hordes of zombies outside the community, on the streets, and in the roads. Once an ordinary person is scratched or bitten by a zombie, he will turn into a zombie within ten minutes.
Sellers dare not open their doors, and buyers dare not go out to the streets. There is no way to go to the supermarket or vegetable market to buy food. Even the national government advises the majority of residents to stay at home and wait patiently for military rescue.
The problem is that no one knows when the army will arrive.
One, two, or three days would be fine, at least the family would be able to find some food to fill their stomachs, but if they waited for ten days, half a month, or even a month or two, sooner or later everyone would starve to death.
This is what Xie Liqing is worried about.
He Junxia lowered his eyes slightly, looking at the sumptuous dishes in his bowl that were almost piled up like a mountain, and he had no appetite. Suddenly, he looked up at Xie Liqing, wanting to say something but stopping himself.
He had no doubt about Xie Liqing's love for Xie Tengda, but after all, he was not the real Xie Tengda and could not 100% restore Xie Tengda's behavior and lifestyle.
Once Xie Liqing realized something was wrong, He Junxia was not sure what crazy thing she would do.
So he couldn't tell Xie Liqing about the abnormality in his body.
Now it seems that it is possible to reveal some less important things?
The words were on the tip of her tongue for a few turns. He Junxia picked up the dish of luncheon meat and eggs, poured most of the food into Xie Liqing's bowl, and said, "Mom, I'll go to the small supermarket downstairs later."
"no!"
Xie Liqing's voice was so loud that it even shook the windows.
He Juanxia didn't expect her reaction to be so big. She was a little at a loss. She looked at her nervously and whispered, "Mom, I'm a superpower now. I'm not afraid of zombies."
"I said no and that's it!"
Xie Liqing glared at him, "Don't think you're great just because you have superpowers. Even a swarm of ants can kill an elephant. Children, don't meddle in adult matters. If you have nothing to do, go and do some papers."
"Forget it, I'm almost done with my meal. You can just write in the living room."
He Junxia: ...
He Junxia hated himself for being too talkative. He had thought things were too simple.
Come to think of it, Xie Liqing now looks at him as if he were her eyeballs. She checks his eyes and skin color every once in a while to see if there are any changes. How could she let him leave her sight so easily?
He Junxia sighed inwardly.
He got up and went to the bedroom to take out a set of Chinese test papers. He seemed to be doing the questions seriously, but in fact he was thinking about what to do next.
Although there is no sign of the survivor base in City A yet, they cannot act rashly or leave their residential area easily, but they cannot do nothing either.
The house only had one carton of milk, half a bucket of water, half a small bag of rice (about 3kg), 40 cans of food, and 60 small bags of chocolate. Even if we ate sparingly, it was only enough for one person to eat for two months.
So regardless of whether the rescue team comes or not, they have to go out to find water and food - if they really wait two months to go, most of the things outside will have been divided up, and at most there will be some "leftovers".
And his hunger is also a big problem.
Ever since he regained control of his body yesterday, his abdomen has been urgently reminding his brain to eat, causing a pain like being burned by fire.
If it weren't for the military training in his previous life that had tempered He Junxia's will, he would have rolled on the ground in pain. Fortunately, he became a living dead and couldn't sweat, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to hide his physical abnormalities from Xie Liqing.
Still have to go out and take a look.
It has been five days since He Junxia came to the new world. He Junxia has only seen zombies while standing on the balcony and has not had any close contact with them.
Maybe the zombies have something that can relieve their hunger.
After all, zombies and superpowers have appeared, so the crystal core should also exist, right?
He Junxia's guess was soon confirmed.
At the press conference at 7:30 p.m., the spokesperson introduced more information about zombies and superpowers, including the news that people with superpowers can enhance their superpowers by absorbing the crystal cores in the brains of zombies.
He Junxia looked at Xie Liqing, who was unable to hide her anxiety and worry, and decided to wait until night to sneak out for a walk and at least get a few crystal cores to test the effect.
Maybe he will have to rely on fire abilities to complete the task.
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