18 Intelligent Zombie (2/2)

In passing, she could also try to find Wu Chengyue and his people, so that she could return the little one to them. After that, she wouldn't have to worry about the child at least!

She stood up right away, then turned around and began walking.

After leaving the strawberry field, she walked into the city. However, she stopped soon afterward with her ears twitching slightly before she continued on.

She walked a while longer, then suddenly leaped to the side as she reached a factory area. After swiftly rolling on the ground, she knelt on one knee and lowered her body, supporting herself with her arms. Fully alert, she stared at a monster which had suddenly and silently pounced on her from the top of a two-story factory.

Even though it was a monster, it looked humanoid. Judging by its appearance, it should have been a high-level zombie. Its face had lost the original, identifiable human features. Its eyes were black without any white sclera, similar to Lin Qiao's. Those pure black eyes also had a weird luster.

The original shape of its nose was still recognizable, but the mouth was cracked wide open, stretching from the left ear to the right. Once it opened that mouth, Lin Qiao could see its elongated teeth protruding from the rotten gums. A dark, dirty liquid was dripping from those teeth, emitting a rotten stench.

The zombie was standing on a pair of slightly bent legs. Its back was hunched, and its fists were held contortedly before its chest to form a claw. Its eyes sparkled with a vicious greed as it stared at Lin Qiao, facing her in a hunting posture while treating her as prey.

Lin Qiao could sense a strange vibe emanating from the zombie. It was like the vibes of humans, specifically those who were dominant and held positions of power.

Judging by its vibe, Lin Qiao guessed that it was a peak-level-three intelligent zombie.

Why would this kind of a zombie attack her? Lin Qiao had no answer to that question.

She searched through Lu Tianyu's memories and found that even though that woman had done all kinds of evil things at her base, she hadn't ever seen a high-level zombie herself.

Based on her memories, she only knew that high-level zombies would attack lower level zombies and then dig out their zombie nucleus to strengthen themselves.

Lin Qiao recalled that she had cut a zombie's head earlier on when saving the unconscious man. After that, a crystal piece had fallen out of the zombie's head and disappeared directly after being pinched by her.

Had she absorbed it? No wonder!

It seemed that this high-level zombie was seeing her as its prey. Was its intention to dig out the nucleus in her head?

Lin Qiao narrowed her eyes. She was on full alert, but her entire body had been locked on by this high-level zombie. She knew that the moment she moved, the zombie would burst up and fly at her.

She sneered silently. She was also an intelligent zombie, and even though her vibe was suppressed, she hadn't experienced a strong sense of danger. Besides, even if she was unable to defeat this high-level zombie, couldn't she just run? Even if she failed to run, she still had her space! Would this zombie be able to follow her into her space?

However, Lin Qiao didn't know that she was only a basic-stage level-three zombie, while the one in front of her was already at the peak of level-three, and was preparing to step up to level-four.

It had set its sight on Lin Qiao because it wanted to use her zombie nucleus for its own evolution. It could easily absorb level-three zombie nuclei, but there was one disadvantage—for a level-three zombie, the energy contained in one level-three zombie nucleus might not be great enough to help it cross the bottleneck to enter level-four. If this level-three zombie had found a level-four superpowered nucleus, it would definitely be able to level up. However, a level-three zombie without a superpower had no qualification of casting its greedy eyes on level-four zombies.

Furthermore, finding a level-four zombie nucleus by the roadside was absolutely impossible.

Therefore, this level-three zombie had decided to go for the second best option, which was finding as many level-three zombie nuclei as possible. It had decided to choose quantity over quality, as the accumulation of energy might also lead to a breakthrough.

Besides, it had sensed that Lin Qiao was just a newly upgraded level-three zombie, and that her power didn't seem to be stable yet.