Chapter 3 (2/2)
Ye Lian’s petite hands didn’t look too different from before, but her nails were much harder than those of ordinary people, and her hands were also strong enough to stab through human bodies. She was obviously different from a regular zombie.
Normal zombies wouldn’t attack the zombie puppet as they were of the same kind. Remembering the many zombie corpses on the bus, Ling Mo glanced at Ye Lian and suddenly understood something.
After all the humans on the bus had been eaten, the remaining zombies were driven by severe starvation to kill each other and Ye Lian was the last survivor. She seemed to have another odd mutation other than the basic characteristics of a zombie…
While Ling Mo was distracted by his thoughts, fresh blood spewed out from the zombie puppet’s intestines and splattered all over Ye Lian’s body.
Stimulated by the smell of fresh blood, her eyes seemed to turn even redder and she became stronger than before. She grabbed the zombie puppet’s arm and swung him aside.
As soon as the zombie landed on the ground, Ye Lian threw herself at him and choked his neck with both her hands.
She was much more agile than ordinary zombies and Ling Mo was restrained by her before he could even react.
The feeling of suffocation evoked the zombie puppet’s fighting instincts and Ling Mo’s mind felt blank. This feeling meant that the zombie puppet was about to break away from his control.
Ling Mo finally recovered from his shocking reunion with Ye Lian. To a certain degree, it was his fault that she had turned into a zombie like this…
As he tried to take back control of the zombie puppet, a bold idea came to his mind.
Zombies were only people infected by the virus, and the virus had mutated in Ye Lian’s body. Perhaps he could find a way to cure her…
Although the chances were slim, Ling Mo wanted to try if it was possible.
As soon as the idea came to him, Ling Mo immediately controlled the puppet to stare at Ye Lian’s eyes. As Ling Mo quickly focused his consciousness, Ye Lian’s brain soon became a ball of light in his eyes.
But the color of the ball of light was different from ordinary zombies’. Because of the virus, zombies lost their consciousness and their actions were all driven by instinct. Hence, the ball of light which represented their conscious world was still and fuzzy. However, Ye Lian’s ball of consciousness was much brighter and faintly glowed red.
Why was it like this?
Ling Mo didn’t have much time to think about it right now. He attempted to focus on Ye Lian’s ball of consciousness and tried to dive deeper into it.
She was indeed different from other zombies. Ling Mo hadn’t felt any obstructions in controlling other zombies yet he felt faint resistance with Ye Lian. Although it was weak, it made Ling Mo’s heart skip a beat.
Could it be that she had regained some sort of thought? But it didn’t look like she had…
By the time Ling Mo finally took control of Ye Lian, he was drenched in cold sweat from head to toe. During this process, Ye Lian had suffocated the zombie puppet to death.
But when Ling Mo carefully made Ye Lian stand up, he felt a sudden sense of desire. The desire came from her conscious world and the target was some sort of object at the back of the zombie puppet’s head…
When he manipulated his zombie puppet, he never felt any fluctuation of emotions from him. Besides basic instinct, the zombie puppet had no wants of his own.
Ling Mo was confused and surprised when he felt this from Ye Lian. If she could feel desire after her mutation, perhaps she would be able to regain her intellect if she continued to mutate!
As he thought of this, he made Ye Lian stab into the back of the puppet’s head. Guided by her desire, Ye Lian quickly took out a small, gel-like object that looked infected.
It was like a part of the brain that was infected. It was slightly red and felt elastic like rubber in his hands.
Ling Mo studied it closely and then shoved it in Ye Lian’s mouth with disgust.
A rush of warm energy rose from her stomach and swiftly circulated throughout her whole body. Ye Lian’s exhausted body soon recharged with energy.
Ling Mo didn’t expect the disgusting gel-like thing to have this kind of effect. Perhaps Ye Lian mutated because she had ingested this type of gel…
He controlled Ye Lian and made her jump out of the bus. Once she walked back to his hiding place, Ling Mo finally met her in person.
Ling Mo was overwhelmed as he looked at her bloodstained body, pale face, and eerie eyes that were so red that they looked like they were shining. Ye Lian emitted an extremely cold aura and dangerous look, yet her familiar face dazzled Ling Mo.
Ling Mo couldn’t help but reach out for her face and wipe off the bloodstains on it. “Don’t worry, I will find a way to help you recover no matter what.”