Chapter 73 The Terrifying Grave
After that hoarse sound, Lin Xi, who was holding the oil drum, and the villagers who were holding their tools both stopped what they were doing.
Everyone looked at the person with the eerie voice who resembled a zombie.
The night was so dark that Lin Xi couldn't help but take out her flashlight and shine it on the person.
Everyone could see her face clearly—
She was a middle-aged or elderly woman in the village, the mother of "Gou Sheng".
Her eyes were gray, and her expression was only somewhat stiff, not as ferocious as a zombie, but her twisted limbs and drooping tongue made it hard not to associate her with a zombie.
"Dog's Leftovers" breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing the woman, put down his axe, and stepped forward with concern, saying, "Mom, weren't you running a high fever? Why did you come out? Once I open the door and get the electricity, we'll..."
"Watch out!" a villager suddenly shouted, and used his hammer to push the old woman who was about to reunite with "Gousheng" away.
The old woman, whose limbs were already twisted, staggered and sat down on the ground after being jolted like that.
Her pale eyes were somewhat dazed. She managed to retract her tongue and say in a hoarse, unpleasant voice, "Mom... has come to take you... home..."
Lin Xi herself had become a zombie, and judging from that hoarse voice and twisted limbs, this person was already a zombie.
Lin Xi stared wide-eyed at the woman in disbelief—
Has the zombie virus evolved? This zombie can not only talk, but it also has a certain logic!
Although the zombie Lin Xi turned into had its own thoughts, it couldn't speak and could only roar in a hoarse voice. Moreover, it couldn't control itself from rushing up to bite people whenever it saw them.
But this person...
For a moment, the villagers forgot about attacking Lin Xi's house. They bent over, clutching their weapons, and retreated while keeping a close eye on the woman's movements.
The beam of Lin Xi's flashlight was still shining on the woman's face. The woman seemed to find it dazzling and looked up at the light source on the glass wall.
Lin Xi was fearless. The zombies were backlit from this direction, so they couldn't see her face.
The woman twisted her neck, making a "crack" sound, then let out a "howl" and sprang up from the ground, charging into the crowd.
"Ah! Zombies!!" The villagers recognized the creatures and scattered in all directions.
The boy, nicknamed "Dog Leftover," stared at the woman in disbelief. He tried to call her "Mom," but was so frightened by her gaping, blood-red mouth that he retreated several steps back.
Because Lin Xi's flashlight was always on, the zombie could see its prey and pounced out very quickly.
Most of the villagers were armed, and seeing that they were too close to escape, they took out axes and hammers and started swinging them wildly.
Zhuang Changdong was the only one without weapons. His original role was to gather everyone to break down the door, but now that zombies had suddenly appeared, he was left without the ability to protect himself.
Zhuang Changdong shouted, "Don't run! There are so many of us, and we have weapons, kill her now!!"
The villagers, clutching their weapons and fleeing, exchanged glances and nodded in agreement.
Only "Gou Sheng" clutched the hammer and cried anxiously, "You're not allowed to bully my mom!"
The zombie who had just pushed away the zombie and saved "Gousheng's" life was exasperated: "She's not your mother anymore, she's a zombie!"
Then the chainsaw started whirring, and the villagers retreated to advance, leading to a terrifying chainsaw incident late at night.
The zombie was torn to pieces.
As Lin Xi was lighting them up, she couldn't help but think:
See, people can defeat zombies as long as they unite.
The villagers were terrified by this sudden turn of events. Even after defeating the zombies, they dared not linger outside and fled back home with their weapons.
Lin Xi looked at the oil drum she was holding and thought to herself, "Not bad, I saved a drum of oil."
Looking down again, he sighed once more.
These inhuman scoundrels!
There were already a few graves near her house, and now there's a pile of body parts in front of her door!
She looked down at the oil drum she was holding and thought to herself that she still couldn't save the oil.
The zombie was so fresh that it was still spitting blood when its limbs were cut off, so there was a bloody mess in front of Lin Xi's house, and the smell was unbearable.
Lin Xi had no choice but to pour the oil down from the top and throw torches down to set the fire as originally planned.
The fire that was originally used to burn people is now being used to burn corpses.
She knew that the temperature wouldn't be enough to burn the body to ashes, but burning away some of the blood would be good.
Lin Xi had no interest in watching the fire start, so after setting it, she packed up the ladder and went home.
Feeling it was bad luck, she took another shower before going back to bed.
Lin Xi tossed and turned all night, unable to sleep.
She breathed a sigh of relief when she discovered that the zombie hadn't evolved into a talking type; the zombie was just mutating slowly, and in the process of slow mutation, it could still use human functions.
After the mutation was completed, she was no different from other zombies, only able to roar, pounce on people and bite them indiscriminately.
But the zombies in the vicinity had already been cleared out, so how could the woman suddenly turn into a zombie?
Lin Xi carefully recalled the woman's image. She was thin and old, and her clothes were very dirty, but Lin Xi was certain that she had no wounds, at least not on the surface.
That night, not only Lin Xi was puzzled, but half of the villagers who were still alive also lost sleep over the matter.
The next morning, the village was quiet, and no one dared to go out.
In the afternoon, after confirming that there were no zombies nearby, some people couldn't sit still anymore, and several families went to "Gou Sheng's" house together to inquire about the situation.
Even Lin Xi couldn't suppress her curiosity and sent a drone to "Gou Sheng's" house to find out what was going on.
According to "Gousheng," their family ran out of firewood half a month ago and has been relying on well water ever since.
His mother fell ill last week with the same symptoms as everyone else: diarrhea and high fever. By yesterday, her temperature had almost exceeded 41 degrees Celsius.
He then lost his composure and was persuaded by Zhuang Changdong to cause trouble at Lin Xi's house, thinking that having electricity might save his mother.
Surprisingly, his mother actually had the strength to run off the bed.
Lin Xi was startled and exclaimed in unison with a villager, "Could there be a virus in the water?!"
If you drink water that hasn't been sterilized at high temperatures, you might experience mild diarrhea, or if it gets really bad, you might end up turning into a zombie.
This is terrifying.
Lin Xi thought of her past life, when she was so sick that she was dehydrated and fell into a coma and almost didn't survive. Later, she managed to boil water and drink it, and took anti-inflammatory drugs before she slowly recovered.
However... before, some people in the village died of illness, but only "Gousheng's" mother turned into a zombie.
Since no zombies have been seen in the vicinity, the possibility of being bitten and infected into a zombie has been ruled out.
After the villagers accepted the idea, everyone panicked.
Some people go home and lock someone with a fever and diarrhea in a room, while others heartlessly leave the patient outside.
Whether you're ruthless or not, making this decision is heartbreaking.
But there's no other way; everyone's just trying to survive.
The village fell into a deathly silence.
In the quiet night, Lin Xi's surveillance alarm sounded again.
Lin Xi woke up with a start, but there were no bad guys at her doorstep in the surveillance footage.
She zoomed in on the warning section of the image, and a horrifying scene unfolded:
A figure twisted and crawled out from a grave near my home...
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