12 Communication Between Zombies (1/2)

Lin Qiao continued to roar at the zombie for a while without receiving the slightest response or reaction from the latter. She felt like she was talking to a cow, which could understand rudimentary instructions but not answer any questions.

She had no way of communicating with this zombie at all.

Understanding this, she sighed and gave up on asking it for directions.

'Hungry…'

Suddenly, a thought popped up in Lin Qiao's mind, seeming to come from someone other than herself.

'Hungry... Hungry... Hungry...'

Her head ached slightly, as she felt similar to when she first woke up and found that she was processing a lot of information composed of thoughts belonging to someone other than herself. She remembered passing out from the pain due to such a huge amount of information flooding into her brain yesterday or the day before. But now, she merely received a small amount of information that wasn't as strong as what she had sensed earlier, and the headache was faint as well.

She lifted her head and looked around. 'Who is crying out that they're hungry?' She wondered.

'Hungry... Hungry...'

Just then, the thought emerged again.

Lin Qiao sensed it, and could hear it shouting 'hungry'. Suddenly she realized that this thought was from no one else but the zombie right in front of her.

”Roar”, Lin Qiao couldn't help but roar at the zombie.

'Are you hungry?' she asked.

The zombie only looked at her in confusion, then roared back at her, ”Roar.”

'Hungry.' The zombie replied.

”Roar”, Lin Qiao tried again to ask him, 'Is there any human in this place?'

This time, the zombie didn't reply, but simply continued to look at her blankly just like before.

She sighed and waved a hand at the zombie, signaling it to leave. At this moment, the zombie showed quick reflexes and left immediately.

Lin Qiao kept looking around, thinking that she should maybe explore this place to see if she could find those people. However, as she was preparing to go, a voice suddenly burst into loud cries inside her head, startling her.

'Damn! Where is this cry coming from?'

She fretfully looked left and right, then front and behind, but couldn't see anyone or sense any child crying in the vicinity.

Wahhhhh... Wooooo...

Another wave of the child's cries was heard, still ringing inside her mind. This time, Lin Qiao changed her expression slightly and immediately said 'in' silently in her head.

In the next moment, she disappeared from the obscure corner where she had been hiding.

As soon as Lin Qiao entered the space, the crying in her head instantly turned into actual crying sounds.

”Whooo… Wahhhh… Wooooo!” The child sitting on the blanket was crying on finding herself all alone in a strange place after waking up, due to which she was terrified. After she cried for a short while, a horrible-looking zombie suddenly appeared right before her eyes, which frightened her and made her shut up at once.

The moment she saw Lin Qiao, she opened her eyes wide, staring at the latter in terror. Her body stiffened so badly that she even began to tremble.

She wanted to cry, but couldn't open her mouth or make any sound emerge from her throat. Gripped by pure terror, she watched this zombie whom she had seen once before walking toward her.