Chapter 341 Viewing the Diary (Part Two)
On April 23rd, the 23rd day of the apocalypse, seven soldiers led us to safety...
On the way here, we noticed that the zombies seemed to have gotten stronger. This change started after this group arrived. I guess there will be mutated zombies later.
Liao Yuxuan and Lai Fei said they are superhumans. Is this what superhumans look like? If they really are superhumans, could they please save my boyfriend? I want to ask, but I feel like they have something very important to do.
They were suspicious, but Liao Yuxuan thought there was nothing wrong with them, so I had no choice but to trust them and my companions.
On April 24th, we followed two female soldiers as they sorted supplies on the island. Yun Zhao was a very kind person; she didn't look like a soldier at all, more like a girl next door.
But we were all a little afraid of her; it was a natural physiological reaction.
I don't understand. She's clearly a very nice person, so why are we afraid of her?
On the other hand, the female sniper nicknamed "Rabbit" always had a cold expression, but people still couldn't help but greet her...
I feel like I've forgotten something.
Seeing this, Yun Zhao stopped again and asked, puzzled, "Am I that scary?"
If I hadn't seen the diary.
She always thought those people preferred dealing with her.
But now that I think about it, the six college students rarely contacted her unless absolutely necessary; if they did need something, they probably contacted Qi Ling instead.
More often than not, she would take the initiative to talk to them in order to get clues.
Xie Tu was also thinking about this issue.
Why are mutants afraid of guides?
Yun Zhao complained, "And I even asked Duan Xi to help her find a boyfriend."
After venting her frustrations, she turned the page.
In the following days, she recorded almost all the trivial things that happened on the island. Everyone was very busy during those days, and Chen Xi's diary became shorter and shorter.
The following day, there were only a few words exchanged.
The last page of the diary ended last night, which was also the day Team Zero officially began the cleanup.
The soldiers left the safe base to search for supplies again. Actually, the island has enough supplies for a hundred of us to last a very long time. I don't understand why they're in such a hurry to leave, when the fortifications haven't even started construction yet.
However, Yun Zhao said he would help me find someone, which made me very happy and grateful.
The sound of gunfire from the opposite bank never stopped all day. It seems they haven't gone too far. And rightly so, the outside world is teeming with zombies. The search for them will probably have to wait a few more days.
Everyone didn't get back until evening. Jingyao and the others said that mutated zombies had appeared. Sure enough, post-apocalyptic novels are all documentaries, otherwise how could they be so similar to the descriptions in the novels...?
The diary ends here.
Reading through the entire diary, it feels very much like the rambling thoughts of a female college student, who records what she sees and thinks.
It looks like an ordinary diary.
Yun Zhao closed the diary and asked, "Did you figure anything out?"
Xie Tu stared intently at her. "And you?"
"I think Chen Xi is not a mutant from Zone 111, but someone who broke in later."
Yun Zhao said, "Her obsession is probably with her boyfriend."
Yun Zhao then stated his evidence: "Her classmates didn't seem to know her boyfriend's name, and Xiao Qingniao had been to the vicinity of the university town, and Youjun had also spent two days there, but they couldn't find her so-called boyfriend at all."
There is no possibility of turning into a zombie.
Because this is a contaminated area, not a real zombie apocalypse.
If zombies are classified into different forms of mutants, then Chen Xi, as one of their 'kin,' should not have shown such a strong obsession with a particular human being.
Unless this obsession stems from her memories and emotions before she became a mutant.
Considering all of these factors, there is only one explanation.
The actual location where she and her boyfriend got separated was not within the 111 contaminated zone at all.
What's written in the diary might be true.
She was born into a family that favored sons over daughters. She had a boyfriend who loved her very much, but the two had a fight and separated when the apocalypse broke out.
However, influenced by the gatekeeper, her memory became disordered.
"There are very few photos in her phone's album, and most of them are related to her boyfriend."
Yun Zhao thought of the red-crowned crane again.
To the gatekeeper, the red-crowned crane is indeed an outsider.
“I was wrong from the start. The sun pattern is just a message that the gatekeeper wants to convey. It is very unlikely that the gatekeeper is hiding among the five people who are the medium.”
Perhaps the problem isn't that profound.
Is it possible that the sun motif simply represents its literal meaning?
Six people, outsiders, they were the sixth batch.
The outsider represents the sun motif.
Someone brought light, but the gatekeeper didn't know which of the six it was, so he simply marked them all with a sun symbol as a hint for those who came later.
Yun Zhao believes that the six people with specific targets are likely all Dark Guides.
Although the Dark Guides are terrifyingly powerful and have unpredictable personalities, they are just like ordinary people, wanting to end the darkness and let the sun shine on the earth again.
Because nobody wants to live in darkness forever.
Xie Tu, unaware of her thoughts, reached out and picked up the diary from her hand, flipped through it, and said, "The mutant's self-awareness still exists. She finds our appearance suspicious and even feels psychologically afraid."
This fear comes from Yun Zhao.
This is probably because the guide's spiritual threads are naturally resistant to dark matter.
It instilled fear in everyone subconsciously.
Xie Tu: "There is one thing we deduced correctly: the gatekeeper should have constructed the zombie apocalypse based on these six people."
Children, students, retired soldiers, Dong Hui who looks like a cannon fodder villain, and the sixth person who has yet to appear.
Chen Xi's diary ends with: "Apocalyptic novels are all documentaries, right? Otherwise, how could they be so similar to the descriptions in the novels..."
This means she had read a novel of the same genre as this zombie apocalypse.
At least some clues have been provided.
Yun Zhao: "You mean, the gatekeeper could be a fictional character?"
"It's unlikely; it's just a prototype for a worldview."
Xie Tu: "But this is still a discovery, we can look for it later."
Yun Zhao pursed her lips and said nothing more.
Xie Tu stood up and pulled her up from the waterbed as well. "Let's go. Are you hungry? We can discuss this in the meeting after we eat."
Those college students could come up at any time, so let's return the diary first.
*
The hotel restaurant downstairs.
After finishing their meal, the members of Team Zero sat around the table, and none of them left.
Everyone's eyes kept glancing towards the stairwell.
"How much longer will the captain and Yun Zhao be busy?"
Duan Xi leaned casually against his chair, pointing to the food he had specially set aside, "The food's all cold."
The rabbit slapped him, "Can't you talk properly?!"
Duan Xi seemed to sense something, nimbly tilting his head to dodge, and said provocatively, "Hey, you missed."
The rabbit immediately wanted to stand up and punch him.
Song Liang was speechless. He glanced at the college students who were eating and lowered his voice to say, "The captain and Yun Zhao are going to do something important."
Duan Xi was baffled: "Of course I know."
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