Chapter 46 (1/2)

Ling Mo wasn’t familiar with medicine or biology. The method he used to examine the body was simple and rough: dissection!

Ling Mo didn’t want to make his shelter dirty and decided to make Ye Lian drag the zombie into a private room inside the teahouse. Xia Na then made the move and slitted a deep, large opening.

Although Xia Na wasn’t under Ling Mo’s control, she was still one of Ling Mo’s “zombie puppets” and she could listen to simple instructions. Not to mention that she was still sane to some degree, she could understand his words more or less and thus, she could easily cut open the zombie’s body for Ling Mo.

Xia Na demonstrated her zombie-like personality in a situation like this. Her expressions were cold and calm without any fluctuations of emotions as if she wasn’t cutting open a human body.

When the heavy smell of blood spread in the air, her eyes even flashed red.

Luckily, her eating habits were the same as mutated zombies. She wasn’t interested in blood and internal organs but merely because her instincts were aroused.

After Xia Na finished cutting the body, she looked at Ling Mo blankly, obviously confused about what he wanted to do. Even if she had questions, she was unable to form proper sentences with her confused thoughts, let alone speak. She stood on the side quietly and studied Ling Mo’s actions closely.

Ling Mo didn’t want Ye Lian to do the dirty work as he took out his dagger and made the wound even larger. He even took out a torch in order to see clearly. Usually, he would avoid using lighting equipment that could attract zombies, but all the zombies around here were dead and thick curtains covered the windows. There were likely not going to be any problems if he used it for a short while.

Under the torch’s light, Ling Mo could see under the wound clearly. Although he was disgusted, Ling Mo was more surprised.

Ling Mo didn’t study medicine and had never dissected a living body, but he had seen too many bodies in the apocalypse. Most of them had their chest and stomach slit open with organs scattered everywhere.

Other than blood gushing out of the cut, he could faintly see one or two organs. Red arteries and veins covered the surface of the organs just like how the gel parts solidified fresh blood. In addition, the “web” could be seen on some of the thicker veins as well. Although it didn’t cover them all, Ling Mo could see the web forming as he studied.

No wonder… Perhaps the overbearing power of mutated zombies came from these… This virus was changing the physical body of the zombies. Perhaps normal zombies also had these inside their bodies, but they were not obvious due to insufficient amounts of virus. This zombie just swallowed so many gel parts and the absorbed virus was spreading rapidly in his body.

Although zombies wouldn’t feel pain, his instincts remained and woke up. Ye Lian and Xia Na lifted up their legs at the same time and stepped on one hand each, pinning him down. Now that he was wriggling his body and blood was gushing out of the cut, Ling Mo couldn’t see anything anymore.

“Hehe, don’t worry. You’ll be freed soon.”

Ling Mo smiled at the crazy zombie and slit his throat with the dagger lightly…

His trachea was cut and his calm and long breathing turned into hoarse sounds of a windpipe. He breathed for the last time as his face ashened.

As the zombie died, Ling Mo flipped his body over. He knew that he was unable to cut open the zombie’s skull and he had to ask Xia Na to do it.