Chapter 71 Chapter 71 Zombies
early morning
I don't know what time it is.
Warm sunlight streamed through the floor-to-ceiling windows, casting a shadow on the rectangular glass coffee table. A beam of bright sunlight, refracted by the television, fell directly on the boy's sleeping face.
He Junxia opened his eyes and yawned, then got up from the bed and walked into the bathroom.
When passing by the mirror in front of the sink, he leaned over and looked carefully at the figure in the mirror, reached out and touched a small patch of short stubble on the chin.
He actually grew a beard.
He Junxia was no stranger to beards. After all, he was already in his twenties when he died. If not every day, he had to deal with them at least every two days.
But this is the first time it appears on this body.
He Junxia decided to ignore it and let it grow freely like hair. He would trim it after a few days when it grew longer and give it a wild man's style. He guaranteed that even if he stood in front of Xie Liqing, Xie Liqing would not recognize him.
"Um, awake?"
He Junxia spat out the white foam in his mouth, rinsed his mouth, and moved aside to make room for the bathroom.
"Chaoyang, I'm going to the nearby live poultry wholesale market later. Do you want to come with me?"
He spoke as familiarly as if he was talking to a family member or friend he had known for many years, which effectively eased the unfamiliarity between the two of them.
"I'll go."
Xie Chaoyang lowered his head. For some reason, he suddenly didn't want to act like a good kid in front of his older brother.
He Junxia didn't mind the child's somewhat cold and silent attitude. She smiled and nodded, saying, "Go wash your face and brush your teeth. For breakfast, we'll make noodles with the leftover crab meat from yesterday. We'll set off after we finish eating."
——The shelf life of exotic beast meat is longer than that of normal meat, and now it is winter, the temperature is only a few degrees above zero, and cooked food will not spoil even if left overnight.
He Junxia boiled water in a pot, put down a handful of noodles, and while the water was boiling, he "ate" more than a dozen zero-level crystal cores. Only then did he stop feeling the burning hunger.
He Junxia touched his empty pocket. It seemed that he needed to get some more crystal cores today. Otherwise, if he didn't catch the exotic beast, he would go hungry at night.
An adult and a child sat opposite each other to eat. Both of them were not slow, they focused on eating without talking, and in a short while they finished all the food in the pot without leaving any.
When going out, Xie Chaoyang couldn't help burping, and his ears and cheeks turned red instantly, which was particularly conspicuous in the sunlight.
He Junxia raised the corners of his mouth slightly.
He found a car with its door open and the car keys still on it. It seemed that the driver had hurriedly gotten out of the car when he saw something was wrong during the zombie outbreak.
The car navigation system is out of battery.
He Junxia asked: "Can you read a map?"
Xie Chaoyang hesitated and said, "Yes."
He Junxia handed him the phone: "I'll drive, you give me directions, let's go to Hongbeiqiao Live Poultry Wholesale Market."
Xie Chaoyang took the phone and saw an enlarged offline map on the screen. The Hongbeiqiao Live Poultry Wholesale Market was not difficult to find, it was just on another street farther away.
He Junxia pulled out the car key, waited for a while, then inserted the key in again and turned it. After hearing a slight humming sound, he started the engine and the vehicle slowly moved forward under his control.
This area is not part of the city center, there are relatively few abandoned vehicles on the road, and cars can pass normally.
"Turn left, go straight ahead, and turn right after you reach Fulijia Supermarket."
"Go forward."
"Turn left, and then turn left again."
…
Half an hour later, a black sedan stopped in front of the Hongbeiqiao Live Poultry Wholesale Market, and two people, one adult and one child, opened the door and got out.
Xie Chaoyang raised his phone and handed it to He Junxia.
He Junxia took the phone and said with a smile: "Well done, little navigator."
The child's face turned visibly red again.
The bad guy who loved to tease children strode into the wholesale market, and several zombies suddenly jumped out from the corner and headed straight for the two of them.
To be more precise, he was heading straight for Xie Chaoyang who was behind him.
He Junxia raised his hand and was about to throw out a few small fireballs, but saw several zombie heads rolling to the ground, with neat cuts on the fallen headless corpses.
He Junxia raised an eyebrow.
Don't you want to act pathetic anymore?
He Junxia turned around and looked at the child behind him. The child was also looking at him nervously, his hands unconsciously tugging at the corners of his clothes.
"Good boy, you are worthy of being my brother."
He Junxia casually threw out a few fireballs, burning the head on the ground into ashes, leaving only a few shiny little round beads.
Xie Chaoyang looked at the smile on his face and the relaxed expression of gratitude, and his eyes couldn't help but reveal surprise and envy.
After staying in the laboratory for a long time and often listening to those people chatting, he also knew a lot of data related to psychics. For example, a first-level fire psychic could not use his psychic power to burn the strongest head of a zombie into ashes.
"Are you stunned?"
He Junxia waved her hand in front of the child and encouraged him, "You'll be as good as me in the future."
Really?
Seeing the doubt and desire in the child's eyes, He Junxia raised his eyebrows, and a rare boldness appeared on his handsome and gentle face: "Believe me."
Xie Chaoyang nodded heavily.
He Junxia was secretly pleased by the child's sincere look without any trace of acting, and couldn't help but touch his head, which was prickly and hairy.
There is no flesh on my face, I am too thin, I need to take good care of myself for a while.
“Oh---” “Oh oh——”
Two rooster crows, one short and one long, came from far away and instantly brought He Junxia back to reality.
"Follow me."
He immediately ran towards the direction where the sound came from, and Xie Chaoyang hurriedly picked up the crystal core on the ground and followed behind.
As He Junxia moved quickly, the crowing of the two roosters became clearer and clearer, along with the sound of their wings flapping as they fought.
Shh!
He Junxia stopped in front of a building, turned around, and lightly touched her lips with her right index finger, signaling Xie Chaoyang not to speak for the time being.
Xie Chaoyang covered his mouth and nodded.
He Junxia pulled him in front of her, and they both squatted down and carefully stuck their heads out, and saw two big roosters, one black and one yellow and white, fighting fiercely, and a group of yellow and white, yellow-brown, and black and yellow hens watching the show.
Two mutant roosters fighting for mate?
He Junxia stared at the black rooster that had a slight advantage. Its long tail feathers stood up and spread out, its black feathers shimmering and colorful, rendered in bright colors by the sunlight, and the red comb on its head was as bright and eye-catching as blood.
"Click," "Click," "Click"
The smaller yellow and white rooster was knocked away but did not give up. It got up and spread its wings to try to fight back.
The black rooster flapped its wings and flew into the air, easily avoiding the attack of its competitor. It raised its head proudly, opened its mouth and spit out several ice blades that hit the comb of the yellow and white rooster.
The bright red comb was pierced by the ice blade. The yellow-white rooster screamed miserably and tried to escape in shame.
Now is the time!
He Junxia glanced at Xie Chaoyang and whispered, "Don't let that black rooster fly."
Before he finished speaking, he threw out two fireballs as big as fists, one accurately hit the yellow and white rooster, and the other rushed towards the black rooster.
The black rooster reacts much faster than the yellow and white rooster.
Feeling the heat wave sweeping over it, it immediately flapped its wings and tried to fly to avoid the attack, but found that it could not fly at all, as if an invisible force was restraining its movements.
“Oh oh oh”
The black rooster screamed in panic, and the lively hens nearby were frightened by the sudden noise and fled in all directions.
Faced with the blazing fireball, it finally calmed down, opened its mouth and cast an ice wall in front of it.
Water naturally restrains fire, and ice, as another form of water, is no exception.
However, before the ice wall could do anything, the blazing fire turned it into steaming water vapor and merged into the sky.
The black rooster stared at the scene blankly, its feathers fluffed up several times, its tail feathers drooped low, and it almost lost the ability to resist.
However, the fireball did not attack the black rooster. Instead, when it was about to approach, it stretched out its body, connected its head and tail, and turned into a circle of fire that trapped it and made it unable to move.
He Junxia walked forward and picked up the trembling black rooster's wings, weighed it up and down, and estimated that it was about forty or fifty kilograms. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
What a pity, I can’t eat it for the time being.
He planned to raise the chicken and mate it with a few laying hens - a study by the Alien Beast Research Institute at the Yunjiang Base proved that there was a 40% chance that children born from avian alien beasts and ordinary members of the same species would mutate.
By then, chickens will lay eggs, and eggs will hatch chickens, so there will be no shortage of fresh meat to eat.
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