The first question Li Weilan asked was very simple, he asked the very thin boy: "What's your name?"
"..." The boy was silent for a while.
It's not because this question is difficult to answer, on the contrary, it's because it's too simple and too easy to answer, and he knows too much what the value of so much food is in this world, so he hesitates.
Li Weilan and Shen Cheng heard his response together: "My name is Li Yexing." He said his full name once, and then said sadly, "No one has called this name for a long time."
Li Weilan looked at the zombie whose hands were very stiff at this time, but found a faint resemblance to this child in its decomposing outline.
Although he didn't ask, the child seemed to be extremely sensitive to other people's scrutiny. When he looked at them, he said coldly, "Are you going to ask about my relationship with Dad?"
"Father?" Li Weilan thought, 'That's true', but before he had time to speak, Li Yexing said sharply: "Yes, it's my father, but it's not my own father. My own father has already burped. "
Li Weilan almost instantly extracted an ethical drama from his short explanations. In this chaotic wasteland of the end of the world, although the child looked less than ten years old, he was afraid that the life and death he had seen would be farewell. Much more than adults before the end of the world.
When the child talked about 'dad', his tone was fierce and cold, and he could not hear any emotion at all. It was obvious that the father and son were not affectionate.
It is normal for such a child to mature precociously. If they are not yet sensible, they will not live until this time.
Li Weilan nodded, and didn't take the child's sharp tone as an offense. To this child, perhaps this zombie father is more important than his biological father, and his scrutiny is indeed to some extent A kind of offense: "The one who is willing to treat you like this, and thinks so much about the food you can eat, is indeed worthy of your father."
Li Yexing's brows flashed with sadness: "Unfortunately, I didn't yell when he was alive, even if he yelled more now..." There was a soft cry in his voice.
Immediately, he looked at Li Weilan fiercely, put away his weakness immediately, and said in a vicious tone: "Don't get close to me, what does my relationship with my father have to do with you? You can ask whatever you want, and we will leave after that." .”
Li Weilan's first few questions are to establish a baseline for asking questions: the first question is about the child's name, and the second question is about the relationship between the child and zombies. Judging from the speed of the child's answers and the expression on his face , he really rarely deals with people, and he doesn't look like a liar.
Only then did he start to ask his first question: "What message did those birds fly over earlier?"
The child made gestures with the zombie twice, then turned his head and said to Li Weilan: "We have to gather, it is said that we are going to witness..." When he said this word, he paused for a while, and confirmed with the zombie. 'Translate' out of the noun, "King's challenge."
"???" Wang's challenge
Thinking that the current Zombie Emperor should be Fu Yanzhou, Shen Cheng and Li Weilan's hearts jumped at the same time: Sure enough, Fu Yanzhou's current situation is not good!
"What's the challenge?" Li Weilan asked.
The child chirped with the zombie again, then shook his head: "Father said he didn't know either. The bird said that much. But the challenged new king said that we won't be hungry."
When he said the word 'hungry' at the end, he sighed: "Dad has never eaten people, only mutated beasts. I can use tools to help Dad hunt. We don't really care whether we are hungry or not, but These days, the other zombies are not satisfied."
Since Fu Yanzhou came to power, the human casualty rate has plummeted. Of course it is a good thing for humans, but in the eyes of other zombies, it is equivalent to having no food. Can they be satisfied with this living environment
With a beep, [Main task 1: Find out the reason for the instability of the zombie group (completed) task reward: Zombie vaccine research progress 10%] on Shen Cheng's mobile phone page
Shen Cheng took a look at the research progress of the zombie vaccine: 70% of the research has been done so far.
Main task 2 then jumped out:
[Compulsory main task 2: Find out the truth about the nuclear bomb task reward: Zombie vaccine research progress 10%]
After this task is completed, the research progress of the vaccine has reached 80%. Shen Cheng excitedly told Li Weilan about the situation. He nodded, looked at the children and zombies in front of him, and said with warmth in his voice: "Don't go there This trip is muddy, let's go early."
The child sneered, "Go? Where can we go?"
The zombie holding him let out a low growl, perhaps stimulated by the word 'go', Li Yexing patted its rotting hand, finally calming him down. He said: "The combination of me and my father, as long as other people see it, they will either kill my father or steal my things. We have nowhere to go."
"..." Li Weilan and Shen Cheng fell silent.
Yeah, where can this child and zombie go
When humans see zombies, they will kill as long as they can beat them. If you can't beat it, try your best to kill it.
If this child insists on protecting the zombies, he will be treated as an enemy sooner or later. They cannot enter human gathering places, and of course it is impossible for them to return to human society.
Even... In a way, even if he returned to the human gathering place, the child who seemed to have no supernatural powers might not be as safe as living among the zombies.
Since this zombie has a way to cover up the child's smell, as long as it can satisfy his food and drink, everything else is not a big problem. At least zombies never attack their own kind, and they almost never kill each other.
From this point of view, the kid was right, he had nowhere to go.
Li Yexing looked at Li Weilan's silence, but didn't make any more mocking remarks.
He put away most of the food scattered on the ground. He seemed to be hesitating how to put it away, but Li Weilan walked up to the child and said in a low voice: "If you believe me, I will store it for you separately, and give it to the child every day. you a little."
Li Yexing looked at Li Weilan hesitantly. He looked at the ground for a while, weighed it carefully, and made sure that he really couldn't take all the things on the ground away, so he nodded slowly: "Then...then... I trust you just once."
With a wave of his hand, Li Weilan collected most of the ground into the space, and only handed a pack of milk candies to Li Yexing.
He peeled off the candy wrapper.
is sweet.
The sweetness of milk candy penetrated softly into his lips and tongue, as beautiful as his childhood dream.
He opened his eyes, and looked at him expressionlessly from the opposite side of Tiantian, with a grunting sound from his throat covered with corpse spots, but Li Yexing was still able to laugh: "Father, let's go. "
Both Li Weilan and Shen Cheng felt heavy in their hearts.
It would be better if you just treat it as a game, but you know that it is a real world, and the matter between Li Yexing and the zombie father is not just a sideline in the game, Shen Cheng also took a while to recover He changed his mood: "When the vaccine comes out, will these zombies regain their senses..."
"Yes." Li Weilan comforted her.
What he didn't say is that there are two possibilities for the vaccine. One is that the zombie virus completely disappears after a large-scale release. The result is that all the zombies will die out and humans will have immunity. The other way is what Shen Cheng thought, the zombies regained their sanity.
The greater possibility is actually the first one.
After all, even if the zombies regained their senses, recalling that they may have eaten other humans, even their loved ones, how many people can bear such a psychological blow
Faced with a life that has been fragmented, perhaps death is the best relief.
Shen Cheng didn't think much about it. Seeing Li Weilan walking forward behind the father and son, Shen Cheng couldn't help asking: "The mission of the second stage is 'nuclear bomb', should we go back?"
"No." Li Weilan shook his head, "This mission is obviously a series of missions. The first stage is the movement of the zombie group, and the second stage is the nuclear bomb. If there is a third stage, it is likely to prevent the launch of the nuclear bomb, Destroy the nuclear bomb or improve the landing point and effect of the nuclear bomb. The first phase of the task has let us get mixed up here. The next thing we can't miss is the challenge of the zombie king. I'm sure there will be big things in the challenge occur."
Shen Cheng thought about it seriously: "I'll listen to you, Lanlan."
After analyzing all this, Li Weilan couldn't hold back the anxiety in her heart.
What he is most worried about is what changes will happen in her world. The situation is advancing rapidly, and he and her are separated by thousands of miles, so rescue is impossible.
Even when he heard the child talking about him and 'Dad' just now, Li Weilan was worried about her, but this time, no matter how much he prayed, there was no 'Modern Day Tour' project.
He had a realization in his heart that maybe he could go to her world again this time, and he really had to wait until everything here was over.
"Chengcheng, I miss you so much..." He finally murmured in a low voice, with his eyes lowered, and when he said this, his expression was devout, as if he was sincerely praying to the gods and Buddhas in the sky.
He responded with a gentle hook.
Shen Cheng's fingers pressed against his hand, and then he heard her soft voice: "Lanlan, I seem to be fine now, take it step by step, don't worry."
Zombie monkeys were running around, but this time Beiguo's actions were astonishingly fast, even catching one and killing Huo Fen directly, which was still under everyone's sight.
Shen Cheng doesn't know if this can stop the development of the situation, but at present, it seems that at least temporarily cut off the source of infection. According to Li Weilan's experience in their world, the transmission between species will not happen as long as there is no blood infection.
She also misses her boyfriend very much.
But she would rather see her boyfriend save the world and save herself without distraction, instead of worrying about her safety while racking his brains to fight other zombies.
She carefully counted the preparations she made: "I piled up the food in the house, filled it with mineral water, sealed the anti-theft doors and anti-theft windows outside, bought a generator to prepare for power outages, and built a fence , I bought props for self-defense, and I still run and exercise every day, in short, don’t worry, even if the form is really bad, I can persist for a long time!"
"Of course I believe you." Li Weilan listened carefully to her little by little preparations, and a slight smile appeared in her eyes.
**
After the zombie group trekked for more than six hours, they finally arrived at the final assembly point.
It was a mountain depression, surrounded by mountains, and now the depression was densely packed with zombies. The zombies standing in the center seemed to have higher status and rank, more flexible body, and more human-like appearance.
But Li Weilan saw at a glance that the one in the middle of the confrontation was Fu Yanzhou.
His skin is a kind of cold white that is unique to zombies, and his eyes are straight, but his outline is vaguely old.
Shen Cheng had seen him look half-human and half-zombie back then. At that time, he had been injected with the zombie virus and drank the water from the spiritual spring. He seemed to be in a state of torment, but now he was full of energy. She tapped on the top of his head , only saw the long blood bar that couldn't see the bottom at a glance.
She swallowed.
Even Li Weilan could feel the oppressive aura spreading from Fu Yanzhou when he entered the periphery of the circle.
It was a kind of coercive feeling unique to a high-level ability that released its mental power, as if it was real.
Not only Li Weilan, but also the other zombies became much more honest under the coercion of being stuck in a muddy swamp and unable to move.
And the zombie with the child found a place to curl up with the child very low-key, and had no intention of taking Li Yexing to attract attention.
The moment Li Weilan saw Fu Yanzhou, Fu Yanzhou's eyes fell on his face casually.
He stayed on Li Weilan's face for a while, and then moved away after a while.
Shen Cheng asked nervously: "Did he recognize you?" The face was different, but the breath...
"Maybe." But no one knows what Fu Yanzhou wants to do now.
After all, he is the only zombie with a certain level of sanity in the world. His thoughts have no precedents and no latecomers can refer to them.
Shen Cheng looked at the time: Li Weilan didn't have much time left for his disguise.
After all, it was 24 hours, and she had already started to feel drowsy. She had just barely endured it before. At this time, Fu Yanzhou had ulterior motives, and her drowsiness disappeared immediately.