For a moment, Lin Tantan was completely dazed, and it was a long time before his soul came back to him.
It hurts so much!
Lin Tantan's eyes were filled with tears. He tried hard to lift the bed that was pressing on him. He climbed up with a grimace, then looked at the bunk bed lying on the ground, feeling a little confused. Why was the antique bed so unstable?
She wanted to jump off the bed in excitement, but she didn't expect the bed to be so far from the ground. She subconsciously grabbed the edge of the bed, but she pulled too hard and the whole bed fell over.
Lin Tantan lifted up his trouser leg and looked at his left ankle with a sad look. The left ankle was visibly swollen and had a large layer of skin torn off and bleeding. Tears were about to fall from his eyes.
The pain is caused by my own stupidity.
Can she really help her idol? Don't be rejected as soon as you get close.
Lin Tantan subconsciously wanted to use his supernatural powers to heal himself, but... his body was empty, there was nothing in it.
Lin Tantan was startled. Her powers were gone?! She quickly looked inward, a process she had performed countless times before, more familiar than eating or drinking. Now, it was incredibly difficult. She barely managed to "see" clearly inside her head before she became dizzy.
The energy core disappeared, replaced by a misty thing with five colors intertwined, and it seemed that all five systems were present.
She breathed a sigh of relief. It was said that at the beginning of the apocalypse, the superpowers were too weak, and their energy cores - then called crystal cores - had not yet formed. They were just a misty mass of raw energy. Once the core was formed, it meant that the superpowers had entered a new stage.
She looked at her current body again. This body should have been in the stage of awakening its superpowers before, but unfortunately it didn't make it. In the apocalypse, awakening superpowers takes a long time, and the mortality rate is also very high...
Wait, superpowers awakened? The apocalypse has already begun?
She didn't care about the pain anymore and quickly turned on the phone she was still holding. The time showed 14:01. Lin Tantan remembered clearly that the apocalypse began at 13:45, which meant it had already started for 16 minutes!
"Bang! Bang!" There was a sudden banging sound outside the door, and the entire beige dormitory door was shaking.
"This is..." Lin Tan Tan swallowed his saliva. Who else could smash the door like this and have such strength in the early days of the apocalypse except zombies?
It was probably because the sound of the bed falling just now attracted the zombies outside. Fortunately, there should be only one zombie outside.
Lin Tantan limped over the bed to the door, lay down on it and took a look. Sure enough, there was only a pair of feet outside.
But I can’t deal with just one zombie!
Although Lin Tantan was also known as a powerful superpower in her previous life, she had never fought. Among the five superpowers, she had basically never used them except for the wood and gold powers. Moreover, she was a novice now and could not use the wood and gold powers.
Lin Tantan thought about it for a while, then turned around and struggled to lift the fallen bed, dragging it and blocking the door.
On both sides of the dormitory entrance were a wardrobe and a toilet, leaving only a one-meter-long aisle in the middle, which was just enough to fit the bunk beds. However, when Lin Tantan was pushing the door halfway from behind, the door was slammed open and hit the bed, leaving it half-open and half-closed, and the zombie outside wanted to come in from there.
When Lin Tantan saw real zombies for the first time, he realized that the guys in the movies with tilted heads, rotten faces, dragging intestines, and white eyes were all beautified.
Although the whole body of the person in front of me cannot be seen, just that face, with shriveled flesh hanging on it as if it is about to fall off, and eyes as pale as a dead fish, as if they will fall out at the next second, with a big mouth dripping with saliva, roaring and hoarse, and long black and gray nails scratching at the door, the visual effect and the stench of death that hits you in the face will definitely scare the timid people to tears.
Lin Tantan had seen many bloody wounds, but he was still frightened at this moment. He pushed the bed hard from behind, trying to block the door, but the zombie was also very strong. Lin Tantan struggled with it for a while and got angry. He looked around, picked up a black and curled stick (a tension bar) from the corner, climbed to the lower bunk of the bunk bed, and swung it hard at the zombie's head that kept stretching in.
The stick was quite heavy, but it was not very elastic. However, it still pushed the zombie back a few steps with one hit. Then it pounced on him more ferociously. Lin Tan Tan chose the right moment, and when it just stuck its head in, he raised his right foot, pressed the door shut, and hit the head with all his might.
Bang bang bang!
Lin Tantan didn't know how many times he had hit the target, but suddenly he missed. Upon closer inspection, he realized that he had actually knocked the entire head off the neck.
Lin Tan Tan: "..."
Lin Tan Tan quickly pushed his neck and body out, closed the door, and looked down at the head rolling on the ground with its mouth opening and closing, not knowing what to do.
But soon, a mass of gray-black sticky tissue like paste slid out from the head, and together with it slid out a hard object, and then as if it had lost energy, the stinky mouth finally stopped moving.
Lin Tantan suddenly felt excited. That thing was glowing green. Could it be the legendary zombie crystal core?
She used the stick in her hand to scrape the thing out, then opened the door and quickly pushed the head out. She picked up the broom beside her and swept the mess on the ground out. She threw the broom outside and closed the door again.
The door lock was broken, so she simply used the bed to prop the door up. Then she found a pair of chopsticks, picked up the thing, crawled into the bathroom between the bunk beds, and rinsed it in the sink.
When the water rushed in, the thing revealed its true appearance. It was indeed a crystal core, light green in color, not very pure, which meant that it was a first-level wood crystal core with impurities and poor quality.
But Lin Tantan was still overjoyed.
It is said that the superpowers in the apocalypse mainly relied on the crystal cores in the brains of zombies to practice, unlike three hundred years later, when there were already very advanced instruments that captured energy from the air, soil, and ocean, classified and evolved it, and made artificial energy stones.
There are even some places where natural energy minerals have formed after three hundred years of accumulation.
There is no such thing in the end times. Although there is very powerful energy in the air, the types are too complicated and the energy is too violent. Without a proper training method, people with special abilities can hardly make use of it and can only rely on zombie crystal cores. This shows the importance of this thing.
What made Lin Tantan even more excited was that this was a wood-type crystal core, which was exactly the supernatural power she wanted to cultivate first! She could certainly absorb the wood-type energy directly from the air, but if she relied on the crystal core, the time required for cultivation would be greatly shortened!
She smiled and looked up, and saw a face very similar to her own in the mirror, and was suddenly stunned.
She could vaguely remember some memories of this body. Her name was Lin Tantan and she was also twenty years old this year. It seemed that being reborn in this body was not a complete coincidence, right?
Lin Tantan heard from her parents that they originally named her Tan Tan, hoping that although her life would be as short as the Epiphyllum, it would also be as brilliant as the Epiphyllum. But later they felt that it was unlucky, so they changed her name to her current one.
She touched her face and whispered, "Dad, Mom, Teacher, little brother, I'm reborn. I came back to life on the first day of the apocalypse. I will be fine from now on, and you all need to be fine in that world, too."
"Lin Tantan, I used your body. Although it wasn't something we agreed on, I'm still very grateful to you. I owe you my life. If you have any wishes, I will fulfill them for you."
She waited for a while, and some emotions emerged faintly in her chest, as if she was attached to her relatives, but it was very vague. Lin Tantan also did not get Lin Tantan's memory of his family, so she had to suppress it for the time being.
She touched her legs, which still had feeling, jumped twice, and then screamed in pain at her left ankle. When she looked down, she saw that her entire ankle was swollen like a bun.
But she was still very happy. She was alive again. Not only did she have healthy legs, but she also came to this era where there were people she admired and loved!
Both of my dying wishes came true!
Lin Tan Tan excitedly washed off the zombie dirt on his hands, came out again with the crystal core, sat cross-legged on the open ground, placed the crystal core in his palms, and began to absorb the energy with his hands, one palm facing the other.
She was sitting on the ground with her back straight and legs crossed, her eyes slightly closed, as if she was asleep. Her breathing became long and steady, and her chest was barely rising or falling.
Gradually, the light green crystal core in her palm emitted something like a long green smoke, which was absorbed by the two opposite palms. If there was an instrument that could capture the trajectory of supernatural powers in the body, it would be discovered that after the green mist entered Lin Tantan's body, it slowly moved along a certain path, merged into the brain, and then emitted from the brain, continuing to travel throughout the body, eventually forming a perfect cycle.
In Lin Tantan's mind, the still mist-like energy ball, with a hint of green in it, slowly began to rotate, getting faster and faster, and the color became darker and darker, but the other four colors of mist were not affected.
The green mist continued to rotate, the supernatural power circulation in the body continued, the energy in the crystal core was continuously absorbed, and the color became lighter little by little.
An hour later, the crystal core was drained of energy and shattered. Lin Tan opened his eyes and felt refreshed. Even his left ankle didn't hurt much. His left foot, which had been swollen like a steamed bun, had shrunk a lot, but it was still swollen.
The energy of the first-level crystal core is limited, and Lin Tantan was reluctant to use it on himself. He moved his ankle and made sure that apart from a little pain that did not hinder his walking, he ignored it.
When she looked at the time, it was already 3:17 PM and the sun was about to set. She jumped up and said, "Go, go, go! We have to go now!"
She remembered that Ye Xiao's first comrade was scratched and infected by a zombie around the afternoon of January 2nd. When he was about to turn into a zombie, he was killed by Ye Xiao himself.
That was the first time he killed a companion with his own hands, and it was also the first time he cried in the entire seven years of the apocalypse. The second and last time was when Deputy Captain Bai died (don’t ask Lin Tan Tan how he knew this, that’s how it was played in the movies and written in the novels).
This was her first tearful moment while watching the movie. After that, she would cry every time one of Ye Xiao's companions died. She basically cried throughout the entire movie.
How can a good fan make his idol cry? To help him, he must start from the beginning!
By the way, she knew where to find someone, but where was this place?
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