The water trickled into Ling Ling's mouth. At first, it kept spilling out, but after Lin Qiao tried a few more times, her subconscious seemed to wake up and she slowly began to swallow the water.
As the child had finally drunk some water, Lin Qiao exhaled a breath of relief that she had been holding in all this time.
The child took a few more sips, after which Lin Qiao couldn't make her drink any more water. She threw away the grass leaf, picked up the child, and walked away. Finding a dry spot on the grass, she laid the girl down along with the blanket.
After setting the child down, she put her palm on her chest to feel her heartbeat. The child's heartbeat was still very weak, but stable nevertheless, and without the frightening irregularity that she had felt before.
Lin Qiao thought about what to do and decided that the best course of action was to send this child back to her father. She thought of it as making amends for the bad things done by the former owner of her body. It was dangerous and inconvenient for the child to be with her anyway.
As a zombie, she had an instinctive hunger deep down for living human beings, so she worried that she might lose control someday and eat this child.
As the child had been found, she now needed to find the group of people and send the child back secretly without alerting them.
It seemed to be quite simple, but the problem was that she was a zombie, and those people would attack her as soon as she approached them. Fortunately, she now looked nothing like that woman with heavy makeup. Otherwise, every single one of those people would try to kill her on sight, wouldn't they?
Just as Lin Qiao prepared to leave her space and try finding the child's father, the child, who had her eyes closed and had been asleep the whole time, twitched her eyelids slightly and then slowly opened them without any warning.
Lin Qiao was busy preparing to leave and didn't notice that the child had woken up.
"Ahhhhhh!" All of a sudden, a high-pitched scream gave Lin Qiao one hell of a scare, making her jump. All the fine hairs on her body stood straight up as she bared her teeth and leaped to her feet like a startled cat, looking at the source of this scream with her face alert and filled with fear.
She saw the child already sitting up while looking at her with a face that was a picture of fear, and bright eyes that were filled with panic.
Lin Qiao didn't know what to say.
On the other side, Wuyue Ling's had a confused look in her eyes when she saw Lin Qiao react that way.
However, in the next second, she suddenly realized that this creature standing in front of her was a zombie, a human-eating monster. Her dad had told her that these monsters liked to eat human beings, especially children!!!
Wu Yueling became horrified right away, fixing her wide-open eyes on Lin Qiao. She wanted to scream and cry, but she hadn't noticed that she couldn't utter a single sound anymore, and her body had become uncontrollably stiff.
'She'll eat me! She'll definitely eat me!' she screamed in her head.
Once Lin Qiao recovered from her own scare, she patted her chest with her claws to calm herself without realizing that, in fact, she no longer had a heart.
'She scared the life out of me! This little kid almost gave me a heart attack... My god!'
After patting her chest a few times, Lin Qiao suddenly thought of something.
'Damn it! Damn it! I'm a zombie! How could a child possibly scare the life out of me!'
She raised up her head and looked at the child. The girl was staring back at her with two big wide-open eyes. Her body was stiffened, and pupils were shrinking and dilating. Lin Qiao felt that the girl would pass out immediately if she got any closer. However, before this thought had even faded from her mind, the little girl trembled by the sight of her face which was covered with wounds, then fell on the ground with her eyes rolling back.
'See? My face has scared her senseless... Wait, is my face really so scary?' Lin Qiao wondered.
She walked over to check on the child and found that her whole face had taken on a bluish tint. Apparently, she had been scared quite badly.
Lin Qiao placed the child's body into a comfortable position, letting her sleep comfortably in the blanket.
Then, she stood up and turned around while saying one word silently.
'Out'.
A bright flash appeared before her eyes. When she could finally see again, she found herself out of the space as expected, standing in the same spot where she had entered the space from.
She looked at the scattered zombies around her and realized that they could somehow understand her orders. She had also been faintly sensing these zombies' thoughts, which were comprising of just one phrase—'So hungry!'
She too was incredibly hungry, more so than ever as she had been staying with the little girl the whole time. Smelling the girl's enticing aroma made her want to bite the little thing so badly.
Beyond that, she was a little confused when she thought about the rioting of zombies that happened earlier.
At the time, she was just thinking that if only those zombies would all rush at the three, she would have a chance to lose herself in the crowd. What she didn't expect was that the zombie mob really would charge at the three. She didn't know for sure if they heard and understood her order, and yet, the fact that more and more zombies were attracted to that area seemed to suggest that they did.
She turned to a wandering zombie near her, fixed her eyes on it, and murmured silently, 'Look at me... Look at me... Look at me...'
As expected, the male zombie that Lin Qiao was staring at stopped shuffling forward, slowly turned his head back to look at her, then turned his entire body around as his gray, half rolled up eyes stared at her in confusion.
'Walk over...' Lin Qiao kept staring at him and said silently.
Next thing she knew, the zombie began swaying toward her.
When that happened, Lin Qiao was truly shocked because the male zombie was really able to sense her thoughts and follow her orders. Had she evolved into a high-level zombie already? Was that why she was able to control these unintelligent zombies?
As she was thinking about this, the male zombie had swayed to where she was, then stopped and looked at her with confusion.
Lin Qiao glanced at him, then waved him off.
'Go away.'
After receiving her command, the male zombie turned around and left, still confused.
Lin Qiao then performed the same test on another zombie and got the same result. She was now certain that she had been upgraded, although she didn't know how many levels she had risen, neither was she clear about the zombie ranking system.
After confirming that she was able to control other zombies, she turned around without further deliberations and searched through Lu Tianyu's memories for the location of the building in which she had raped the man.
After confirming the direction, she promptly headed that way.
She didn't know if the man would still be there, but she believed that he would be nearby. He must be searching for his daughter near that area for sure.
It was night time now, perfect for her activities.
She ran in that direction like a nimble shadow in the darkness of the night. She ran quite fast, but still didn't feel tired at all. Two hours later, she came to the front of that building, but didn't detect any human vibes or see any humans.
She stood in an obscure corner and called a zombie over, trying to communicate mentally with it.
'Are there human beings in this place?' she asked silently.
The zombie looked at her with confusion, failing to comprehend her meaning, and seeming to have completely no idea what she was talking about.
"Roar!"
'Human beings?' Lin Qiao asked which ended up emitting out in the form of a growl.
The zombie continued looking at her confusedly, giving absolutely no response.
"Roarrrr?"
'Have you seen any human being?' she asked again.
The zombie couldn't look any more confused at this point.
Lin Qiao was speechless, having no idea how to proceed forward from this point.
Lin Qiao continued to roar at the zombie for a while without receiving the slightest response or reaction from the latter. She felt like she was talking to a cow, which could understand rudimentary instructions but not answer any questions.
She had no way of communicating with this zombie at all.
Understanding this, she sighed and gave up on asking it for directions.
'Hungry…'
Suddenly, a thought popped up in Lin Qiao's mind, seeming to come from someone other than herself.
'Hungry... Hungry... Hungry...'
Her head ached slightly, as she felt similar to when she first woke up and found that she was processing a lot of information composed of thoughts belonging to someone other than herself. She remembered passing out from the pain due to such a huge amount of information flooding into her brain yesterday or the day before. But now, she merely received a small amount of information that wasn't as strong as what she had sensed earlier, and the headache was faint as well.
She lifted her head and looked around. 'Who is crying out that they're hungry?' She wondered.
'Hungry... Hungry...'
Just then, the thought emerged again.
Lin Qiao sensed it, and could hear it shouting 'hungry'. Suddenly she realized that this thought was from no one else but the zombie right in front of her.
"Roar", Lin Qiao couldn't help but roar at the zombie.
'Are you hungry?' she asked.
The zombie only looked at her in confusion, then roared back at her, "Roar."
'Hungry.' The zombie replied.
"Roar", Lin Qiao tried again to ask him, 'Is there any human in this place?'
This time, the zombie didn't reply, but simply continued to look at her blankly just like before.
She sighed and waved a hand at the zombie, signaling it to leave. At this moment, the zombie showed quick reflexes and left immediately.
Lin Qiao kept looking around, thinking that she should maybe explore this place to see if she could find those people. However, as she was preparing to go, a voice suddenly burst into loud cries inside her head, startling her.
'Damn! Where is this cry coming from?'
She fretfully looked left and right, then front and behind, but couldn't see anyone or sense any child crying in the vicinity.
Wahhhhh... Wooooo...
Another wave of the child's cries was heard, still ringing inside her mind. This time, Lin Qiao changed her expression slightly and immediately said 'in' silently in her head.
In the next moment, she disappeared from the obscure corner where she had been hiding.
As soon as Lin Qiao entered the space, the crying in her head instantly turned into actual crying sounds.
"Whooo… Wahhhh… Wooooo!" The child sitting on the blanket was crying on finding herself all alone in a strange place after waking up, due to which she was terrified. After she cried for a short while, a horrible-looking zombie suddenly appeared right before her eyes, which frightened her and made her shut up at once.
The moment she saw Lin Qiao, she opened her eyes wide, staring at the latter in terror. Her body stiffened so badly that she even began to tremble.
She wanted to cry, but couldn't open her mouth or make any sound emerge from her throat. Gripped by pure terror, she watched this zombie whom she had seen once before walking toward her.
'She's coming over to eat me! She's gonna eat me! I'm going to be eaten!' The little girl was scared to death, but at least she didn't pass out again.
Lin Qiao was lured by Wu Yueling's aroma and couldn't help drooling, but at the same time, she was also reading the latter's mind. She saw that Wu Yueling was staring at her in horror with her lips pressed together and body stiff, not daring to move at all.
Lin Qiao tried moving her foot, but saw a tremor run through Wu Yueling's body the moment she did. Wu Yueling then quickly curled herself up, wrapped her arms around her knees, and hung her head.
'Daddy! I'm gonna be eaten! Daddy! Please come to save me! Daddy...'
Lin Qiao had to take a small step backward when she heard the little girl screaming in her own head. She thought for a while, then turned around and left the space.
Quite a while later, Wu Yueling realized that she seemed to be fine. Why hadn't the zombie bitten her yet? She slowly raised her head with surprise but saw nothing in the spot where the zombie had been standing.
Wu Yueling had been given quite a fright. She hurriedly looked around, but still couldn't find the zombie.
'Where is the zombie? Where did it go? It was standing right there, preparing to eat me.'
She looked to her left and then to her right, but found no zombie. After that, she sighed slightly in relief. And before long, she pouted, her mouth curved downward as she struggled not to cry again.
'There is no one here! It's so scary! Where is my daddy? Why didn't he come to find me? I want my daddy! Daddy...'
After leaving her space, Lin Qiao stood quietly while looking at the sky. She didn't know what the time was because she didn't have a watch, but judging from the starlight, it should be around three or four o'clock in the morning.
She looked around, suddenly noticing a very tall building. Her black eyes shone as she turned around and quietly ran toward the building's gate under the cover of darkness. She moved as quietly as a cat which had stood up on its rear tires. Only her clothes made some slight noise while fluttering in the air.
This building had thirty to forty floors. As there was no elevator, her only choice was to climb the stairs.
The surrounding zombies all stepped away from her or turned around to avoid looking at her once she approached them.
Ordinary zombies couldn't climb stairs because their knee joints were too stiff. Only zombies which had evolved to level-one or above were able to walk and run nimbly, capable of going up and down the stairs like Lin Qiao was doing now.
The evolutionary process of zombies was slow. The unintelligent zombies could only find food by relying on their instinctive hunger, and only a small number of evolved zombies fared slightly better than that. Due to this, Lin Qiao hadn't seen any of the higher-level zombies in Lu Tianyu's memories until this moment.
At level one and two, the zombies were still unintelligent. They were merely a group of nimble and swift monsters whose only awareness was their desire to eat human beings.
Only at levels three or above would zombies with intelligence emerge.
To evolve to level one or two, ordinary zombies needed to consume a great amount of blood and flesh of ordinary human beings, or some blood and flesh of superpowered human beings. After that, the evolvement from level two to three was even more difficult.
Not even one in a hundred level-two zombies could evolve to level three.
However, as soon as Lin Qiao opened her eyes, she had directly evolved to level-three from an ordinary zombie. She even had almost reached level-four, in fact!
She had memories and a soul, and of course, she had her intelligence.
However, she still didn't like climbing floors, even though she had become a zombie. She felt dizzy while climbing the stairs floor by floor, despite the fact that she couldn't feel tired or be out of breath, or that her heart was going to explode like a living human being's would by now.
She felt dizzy! Dizzy!
After climbing a dozen floors, she even felt tight in the chest.
'Damn it! Am I not a zombie? How can I possibly feel dizzy and chest tightness? Can't I even live happily as a zombie?'
She stopped on the twentieth floor, walking to the window around the side while complaining to herself.
This was already the twentieth floor, and this height should allow her to see the things present in the area.
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