36 Zombie Queen has the Biggest Thigh of All 12 (2/2)

”Can you sense the high rank zombies in the city?” Yin Mei asked, glancing at both Ning An and Qin Shuang as she said this. Of course, Qin Shuang could look with his ability, but the zombie emperor as well would be able to sense other zombies within a certain radius - research in the previous timeline showed that this was an innate skill that even lower level zombies had.

”Big sis, this city has seven really strong zombies, all in different places.” Qin Shuang said, as he extended his threads out as far as possible. ”But, the place is too big, so I can't sense the rest of the north side.”

Yin Mei nodded. This was already good enough. Seven rank 3 zombies! It was more than she could imagine. This was probably already more than half the number of rank 3 zombies that there were in all of C Country?

She looked at the zombie emperor, who shrugged, not saying anything.

Well, there was no problem if he didn't help out. Though with just Qin Shuang and her, it would be a little difficult to defeat the rank 3 zombie. There was also the Ri twins, but one was a sickly boy and the other was a young girl with no fighting experience.

”Oh, that's right! I almost forgot to ask, what are your abilities?” Yin Mei said. Since she thought this might take a while, she first had them find a spot to rest at before asking the question again.

Ri En and Ri Yi looked at each other before each shaking their heads. ”We don't have one,” Ri En said in a slightly disappointed tone of voice.

”Eh? One year already and you haven't awakened one yet?” By now, Yin Mei knew that about less than half of humanity should have already awakened their abilities, though because there were many rare and unique abilities that were difficult to activate, it probably appeared less than that, at maybe thirty percent.

Ri En and Ri Yi looked embarrassed, though at the same time thought that they couldn't be blamed for this! They just didn't have an ability okay, it's not like they chose such a thing, right?

”Hmm, well, how about we test it out first?” Yin Mei said. If they still showed no progress, then she would probably just have to throw them into a horde of zombies and then they would definitely awaken an ability then.

The Ri twins shivered, as if able to sense Yin Mei's thoughts. But they still nodded reluctantly. It wasn't like they hadn't tried something like this before, just that it didn't have any results.

”Ri En, you go first.” Yin Mei looked around before scooping up a handful of dirt. ”Try moving it. Just stare and think about moving it.” She said, and Ri En stared for several seconds before sighing.

”Is there any point in this? It's not moving at all.” He said, embarrassed.

”Just keep going. For at least half a minute,” she said. Half a minute passed and nothing happened. She nodded. ”Okay, let's try this next,” she said as she kicked the grass dirt ground in front of her, gouging out a piece of it and creating a small hole. She raised her hand, an orb of water appearing above it which she casually tossed into the hole she created, making a small puddle. ”Try doing the same to that puddle now,” she said, pointing at it. For newly awakened powers, asking for them to summon water from the air was a bit too difficult of a task, so she could only prepare the water in advance.

Again, nothing happened. Yin Mei continued her test, like telling them to try lighting a small twig on fire, or blow away the flower in her hand, or make the grass on the ground grow, and etc. She cycled through all the most common powers.

Ri En had no success, but Ri Yi was a surprise. She had a nature ability and was able to make a flower grow and bloom with her thought. This was a pretty good ability, and it was strong for someone who had never consumed a single energy core. Ri En was a little embarrassed that his sister had surpassed him and gained a power before him, and began to try even harder. But, even then, it seemed to have no effect.

He was beginning to feel extremely disappointed and about to give up, when Yin Mei spoke up. ”Don't worry about it. Actually, even if you fail this test, you could still have an awakened ability. It would just be rare and hard to discover how to activate. Because of that, a lot of people who appear like they don't have an ability actually have very strong abilities.”

To top it off, you two are the siblings of the Fire Emperor. There's no way that you wouldn't have a strong ability. Those were the words she left unsaid.

Though at first glance, abilities were unaffected by genes, it was later discovered that this was only partially true. The type of ability you had was unaffected by genes, and to this day, there was no solid theory over the reason for why people had a certain type of ability versus another, but that was besides the point. The type of ability was unaffected, but the strength of the ability and speed of evolution was partially based on one's genes. In other words, if a member of one's family possessed a strong ability, it was highly likely that the rest of their family would also have a fairly strong ability.

Of course, this wasn't always true, and in the apocalypse, many people had lost their family members so such an idea couldn't be properly confirmed, but it was normally acknowledged as fact, as there were many examples that seemed to prove this idea.

But the issue was that many of the strongest members of humanity were all people who no longer had any family. Many people thought that this was a part of the reason they were so strong, aside from their ability, of course, but it was also because each and every one of them had used the despair of losing their family to further strengthen themselves.

Though, this was something that couldn't really be confirmed.

”Well, if anything out of the ordinary happens, tell me. It could be a hint to activating your ability.” She looked him in the eye. ”There is no one without an ability. It's just a difference of awakening time and how difficult it is to activate it.”

Because Yin Mei spoke with such conviction and confidence, Ri En couldn't help but believe her words.

In the end, Yin Mei decided to spend the rest of the day picking off weak zombies for Ri En and Ri Yi to enhance their bodies and abilities with, acting like a drill instructor from hell as she forced them to battle agains the zombies.

Qin Shuang was tasked with something else, and the zombie emperor sat and watched them afar, looking like a king in this desolate wasteland. Well, that just sounded cool, but in actuality, it was an abandoned and ruined city and not an actual desolate wasteland.

Looking at Yin Mei as she said something to the Ri twins, the zombie emperor wondered why he found this girl so familiar. Racking his brain for answers, he didn't come up with anything. She talked like she knew him, but there was no memories of this girl in the memories of his body.

She seemed to turn to look at him for a moment, her eyes showing a complicated emotion. There, that sadness was back. And something else that he didn't know how to describe.

She reminded him of something... that's right. She looked like... a little rabbit. A shadow of something seemed to flicker in the back of his mind, but before he could grasp onto it, it disappeared. In the end, he could only sit there in frustration, unable to recall anything.