Chapter 141 Crystal Core
An Ran looked at Yun Tao's departing back, then glanced at the baby in the stroller who had fallen asleep at some point, sighed resignedly, walked to the stroller, covered the baby tightly with the blanket, and then rolled up her sleeves to take the diamond out of the zombie's brain.
The brains of these zombies now are very different from those in the first few days of the apocalypse. When the apocalypse just came, as long as you poked a hole in the zombie's brain, the diamonds would flow out along with the brain matter like water. But it is different now. When the zombies die, the brains will not flow out by themselves.
The brain matter has become very sticky.
If An Ran wants diamonds, he has to dig them out of the zombies' heads one by one.
Fortunately, she also gained some experience. Diamonds only exist in a fixed place in the zombie's brain. No matter where she cuts the zombie's brain, as long as she goes to that fixed place in the zombie's brain and pries up, she can pry the diamond out of the zombie's brain.
This was a good way to hone her knife-handling skills, but Yun Tao killed so many zombies that it took An Ran half a night to take all the zombie diamonds.
She was so tired that her back and waist ached. Then, among the zombie corpses on the ground, she raised her head, looked at the big round moon above her head, looked at the baby carriage in the corridor, listened to the howling of zombies outside the gate, and smiled with a dirty face.
Fortunately, in this lonely world, there is a little guy who accompanies her to dig out the brains of zombies.
I don’t know how late it is now, but it is definitely not three in the morning, because the baby now sleeps a little longer at night. But around three o'clock every night, the baby will wake up once, either because of hunger or because of the hot water from his own urine.
An Ran put the saber back behind her waist, pounded her aching shoulders and waist, and pushed the baby's stroller back home. She had just returned home and washed herself with muddy water when the baby in the baby's room started crying. An Ran hurriedly ran back to the baby's room from the bathroom. When she passed the living room, she glanced at the clock hanging on the TV and found that it was indeed three o'clock in the evening.
She took the doll out of the stroller, walked over to sit on the sofa, and looked at the pile of diamonds on the coffee table. The sparkling feeling under the moonlight was as if there were some water clouds slowly moving inside.
An Ran suddenly felt a little curious. She held the baby in one hand and fed breast milk, and picked up a diamond from the coffee table with the other hand. She looked at it carefully in the moonlight and found that these diamonds were different from those she collected in the hospital.
Then, after the baby was full, Anran put her in the crib, gave her a pacifier, and changed her into a clean diaper.
Then An Ran found her backpack, took out the big bag of diamonds at the bottom, opened her pocket, and looked at it in the moonlight. An Ran could easily distinguish the diamonds in the hospital from those collected yesterday.
How to put it? Although both are about the same size, the same size as pomegranate seeds, the diamonds collected in the hospital really look like diamonds. They are white and shiny, and at first glance, they look like just a diamond, nothing special.
But these diamonds collected in the community sparkled in the moonlight, as if there was water flowing inside them. This reminded An Ran of the word Yun Tao said yesterday. Yes, crystal core. Isn’t this sparkling thing a crystal core?
(End of this chapter)