37 Zombie Queen has the Biggest Thigh of All 13 (2/2)

Because of the help of the two rank 3 cores that Qin Shuang had consumed, his abilities shot up by a notch, and he was finding it easier and easier to battle against the zombies.

In the end, they were able to consume one core per each of them, save for the zombie emperor, who couldn't absorb zombie cores.

There were four other zombies that Yin Mei beat into submission (an extra one had been in the north district, that Qin Shuang had initially been unable to sense), much to everyone else's shock. They really didn't know that you could actually forcefully take control of zombies like that...

Of those four, one of them was an important general of the zombie emperor's army, a zombie that had a lizard's tail and horns, looking like some kind of a dragon-mix. The other three, Yin Mei kept because they still looked human and she thought that they had some interesting abilities. One of them was an assassin-type class with high stealth. But, because Qin Shuang had set up threads and traps everywhere, he had immediately gotten caught. It was a bad match up.

The third zombie was a small child zombie with mental abilities. Initially, Yin Mei was worried because it would be a bad match up, as no one here had experience with mental abilities and so it would be easy for them to lose, but it was a good thing that this zombie easily submitted when he saw the zombie emperor. As for the fourth zombie, it was a female zombie with blue hair and snake like scales growing on various places of her body. She was an interesting looking variant zombie, but they didn't see her abilities as Yin Mei immediately beat her up with no remorse after she had tried to clumsily seduce the zombie emperor. What the f*ck, a zombie with the mind of a three year old, actually trying to seduce the zombie emperor? She was first shocked then outraged, and even Qin Shuang couldn't help but pull back a little when they saw that side of her as she ”disciplined” the female zombie.

In the end, the Ri twins were shocked and surprised, but Yin Mei was actually really able to subdue H City, this zombie infested place that no man except idiots and crazies would dare to enter. Not only that, but it had only taken them a short week to do so.

They even returned to the group outside the city, shocking them silly, as they had all already thought that those kids had died.

”Do you want to go in with us? Actually, Ning An here has a special ability that deters zombies, which is the reason why we can casually hunt inside H City,” Yin Mei decided to say. She didn't care about the others, but she still wanted that little girl. She was even beginning to be cruel enough to consider killing the girl's parents in order to obtain her, but she decided against it in the end. She had noticed in the end that that wouldn't be too good, and if the girl found out later, that was just erecting a big death flag for herself.

They went one by one to the places that everyone in the group wanted to go to. Some found notes, and others only found a messed up home that dashed their hopes to the ground.

The family of three were one of the ones who found a note from their son's dorm room, who said that he would be leaving for N City, which was a nearby city to the north.

Yin Mei sneakily glanced at the information before shaking her head. It was a pity, but that city would be overrun by a zombie horde in the next few years.

The other members of the group left, but it was only the family of three that Yin Mei extended an invitation for them to join her group. They initially denied, wanting to go to N City to find their son, but Yin Mei looked at them with an odd expression, before finally saying, ”The journey to any city is really dangerous. It's hard to say whether your son is even still alive, or if you three will survive the journey at all. I find it already quite amazing that you can survive with a child with you, but you'll just be making it harder on yourselves to try and go the distance to N City. I recommend that you reconsider. It's better to prioritize the lives of the living over that of someone whose life or death is unknown.”

Yin Mei's words were perfectly logical, but no parent would want to abandon their child that they didn't even know was alive or not. If they did, and he ended up alive in the end, how much regret would they feel then?

Yin Mei then asked if they really were insistent, they should leave their daughter with her, so that at least their daughter would stay safe.

Of course, at first, they wanted to say an absolute no to this. Leaving their daughter to strangers? Absolutely not. But, actually, it was true that leaving her to this group, who had someone that could deter zombies, would be much safer than bringing her along with them to N City.

But in the end, they refused. Although these kids looked like they had good intentions, you just couldn't trust anyone in the apocalypse. To top it off, if they left her here, they would have to journey back from N City to rejoin together with her.

Yin Mei was disappointed, but understood that trusting strangers was just too hard. In normal times it was hard enough, but this was the apocalypse. No one was kind without possessing an ulterior motive.

She could only regretfully see the family of three off, sighing in disappointment.

”Why were you so stubborn in trying to take on that kid? Everyone else refuses to group up with children since they're burdens, but you seem oh so eager to do so.” Ri En pointed out, as the three people faded into the distance.

”Do you think Qin Shuang's ability is strong?” Yin Mei suddenly asked, confusing Ri En.

”Of course,” he replied, wondering what this had to do with anything.

”Isn't it? And what would you think if all children under the age of ten have an ability just as powerful as his?” She said, turning around and walking back into the city.

Ri En followed along. Ri Yi,Qin Shuang, and the zombie emperor were not present, the former two holed up in their current base of operations practicing their abilities, and the zombie emperor there to keep any zombies at bay. Though Ri En felt that the zombie emperor was still untrustworthy, Yin Mei didn't have those doubts at all, seeming to blindly believe in the man.

”Wait, it couldn't be...” Ri En said, looking at her in shock.

Yin Mei continued, ”I'm not quite sure of the true reason, but children who experienced the apocalypse before the age of 10, as well as those born during the apocalypse, all possess extremely powerful abilities. It's a pity though, that because many kids were thought of as burdens, they were unable to survive. In addition, many children possess abilities that are difficult to discover, and thus they were further unable to survive. Because of this, it took several years before people were able to discover this crucial fact, and they could only lament, as the amount of children still left from that time were simply too low. Most of those that had survive did so due to luck and their own ability, and developed a distrust toward other humans.”

”Wait, you say that as if you know-” Ri En suddenly looked at her in shock. ”Wait, no way. No way. That's impossible. You can't be-”

”What? Why can't I?” Yin Mei asked, raising an eyebrow, vaguely knowing what Ri En was thinking. After all, she had said that much, if he still couldn't guess what she was implying, then she would doubt his supposed intelligence. ”This is the apocalypse. People have supernatural abilities, and zombies run rampant. What else could be new? Nothing should surprise you at this point, right?”

Ri En felt like she made a lot of sense... Eiii, no matter. Having someone that knew the future on their side was a good thing, right? There wasn't any point in thinking too much into it. ”Then wait, so the reason you know my brother...?”

”He's famous in the future as one of humanity's elite. Too bad you two died before he could return to C Country, though.” Yin Mei said.

”We died... no way! That horde??” Ri En said, as the first thing that popped into his head was his first meeting with Yin Mei. How she immediately approached him and how she seemed to know when the horde would appear.

Yin Mei nodded. ”Yep, you initially would have died from the horde. Ri Yi would have no one to support her, and soon after she would be raped and killed by some bad people.”

Ri En shivered. Thank god Yin Mei knew the future! Thank god their older brother was so amazing in the future! Thinking if that wasn't the case and that they would've already died a long time ago, Ri En once more thanked the gods several times.