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1.99% Zombie Sister Strategy / Chapter 29: Moving in A Dream

Chapter 29: Moving in A Dream

Editor: Hitesh_

She sat there and fell asleep, getting lost in a dream. In her dream, she exited the space but none of the surrounding people discovered her, as if she was invisible. Then, she broke into a run, her movements smooth and her feet flexible.

She kept running toward the strawberry field. She didn't know for how long she ran before she saw the strawberry field.

In the next moment, she woke up with a start. Opening her eyes, she looked around and found herself still in the space. She thought that maybe she had such a dream because she wanted so much to leave this location. However, she also felt that it all seemed quite strange.

Did normal zombies dream?

She also found that she was still sitting on the ground with her legs crossed. It was so weird that she could even manage to fall asleep while sitting upright in a meditation posture.

She felt a little thirsty as she glanced at Wu Yueling, who was sitting beside her. The child had found some hay from an unknown source and paved the ground with a thick layer of it. She was now sitting on it, playing with the grass dragonfly that Lin Qiao had made for her.

Lin Qiao stretched her legs and felt that they were still quite stiff. And for an unknown reason, she also sensed a faint pain from them.

With a great effort, she finally stood up from the ground, then slowly walked to the lake. Recalling that this was the place where she took a bath earlier on, she walked around the lake to the other side.

She turned back and glanced at Wu Yueling, who was walking behind her, feeling that this kid was becoming a little dependent on her.

She walked very slowly. Her legs were a little heavy and sore, so she took each step with some difficulty.

She paid close attention to her steps and the lake water while pondering over the question of why a zombie might dream. What she didn't think about was why her legs were sore. Logically speaking, she was a zombie, and shouldn't have any sensations at all.

If she had discovered this, she might have realized that some unimaginable changes had happened to her body again, but she didn't.

After spending half an hour, she finally reached another side of the lake where she stopped and slowly squatted near the water. Then, she directly cupped her hands to drink from the lake. After taking quite a few gulps, she finally felt her energy begin to return.

Having finished drinking, she took a few steps backward, standing by the lake with her eyes closed as she wanted to see if there were still people out there.

But this time, the image which emerged in her mind didn't come from the same spot that she had entered her space from.

She hurriedly opened her eyes, which reflected her uncertainty, and then immediately closed them again. As she expected, she still couldn't see the urban area where she had entered the space from, and instead saw a strawberry field.

A mutant strawberry field!

Lin Qiao opened her eyes again, lost in her confusion. She couldn't understand why she was able to see the strawberry field.

Had she been wrong earlier? Was her vision not limited to the place that she entered the space from? Could she actually see whichever place she wanted to go to?

With this thought in mind, she closed her eyes once again to try and see the location of those soldiers whom she had observed before, but saw nothing. Inside her mind was still the same strawberry field that she had been to before.

How could this happen? Had she left her old location already?

Was this just her imagination? If she went out now, would she still reappear in that place which was guarded by Wu Chengyue and his people?

She thought that it was probable, but the image in her mind was rather clear. The moon was hanging in the sky, showing that it was the middle of the night right now.

Had she truly arrived in the strawberry field already?

This thought lingered in her mind, urging her to go out. She was afraid that she might be wrong, so she didn't dare to go out immediately, wanting to see if she was right at the same time.

Plop!

She suddenly heard a stone drop into the water. 

She opened her eyes to find Wu Yueling squatting by the lakeside, picking up small stones from the ground and mindlessly throwing them into the water. Judging by her expression, she seemed to also want to find out if any other creatures existed in the lake.

Lin Qiao clenched her teeth and decided to go out. She needed to clarify the situation, or she would only be driven to distraction by this question.

If she went out and found that she was still in the area where the army was stationed, at worst, she would come back immediately. She estimated that she could come back in less than a second. Could those few people realize what was happening within such a short time and attack her effectively? She greatly doubted that.

After making the decision, Lin Qiao took a deep breath and then silently said 'out' in her heart. After a light flashed across her eyes, she saw a real strawberry field instead of the vision in her mind!

Her eyes widened and a glow flashed across her pure black eyes as she was pleasantly surprised. She circled around and found that she was truly in the strawberry field instead of that urban area.

She still remembered her dream, in which, she had run for a very long time to get to the strawberry field. But in reality, the distance between Wu Chengyue, his people, and this strawberry field was only about ten kilometers. She didn't need to run for a long time, and could arrive here quickly under normal conditions. However, in her dream, she did spend a long time running.

How could this be? What had happened?

Lin Qiao couldn't figure this out, feeling that she was out of her depth here!

If she were able to move the space by merely dreaming, then, could she simply dream and make it happen whenever she wanted to escape from inside the space in the future? However, what if she didn't dream? Or, what if she couldn't have such a dream on demand?

And dreaming… She couldn't control that now, could she?

Thinking about this, Lin Qiao wanted to cry a little but failed to shed any tears. She had such a great skill, but didn't know where the switch was. It was so awful!

She glanced around, once again confirming that she wasn't dreaming. After that, she bent over and picked two full handfuls of strawberries, which were only around six or seven in number, and then re-entered the space.

Once she was back inside, she saw the bewildered Wu Yueling looking around, seemingly at a loss. She didn't know what the child was looking for.

The moment Lin Qiao came in, Wu Yueling fixed her eyes on her. Her eyes turned red as she stared at Lin Qiao, her face filled with grievance and dissatisfaction.

Lin Qiao was confused. 'What does this child want?'

As she couldn't read the little one's mind at that moment, she had no choice but to reach out her hands, offering the strawberries to Wu Yueling.

Seeing the strawberries that Lin Qiao held out for her, Wu Yueling paused briefly first, then immediately covered her nose and turned her face while backing away, frowning with dislike.

'They stink!'

This time, Lin Qiao finally sensed her thought.

How could she coax this child to eat the strawberries? Lin Qiao wondered about this while thinking about the options. In any case, she decided to first wash the strawberries to see if the lake water could wash off the bad smell.

She turned around and walked to the lakeside, squatting there stiffly. She laid the extra large strawberries by the lakeside before putting them in the water one after another and carefully scrubbing them.


Chapter 30: Come Eat Strawberries

Editor: Hitesh_

While watching Lin Qiao's movements, Wu Yueling came closer with her nose covered, but she still kept herself one or two meters away from them.

Lin Qiao washed the strawberries, but then realized that she had nothing to hold them on, so she paused again.

As she recalled that the strawberry leaves were quite large, she thought she might as well go out to pick some of them and bring them here to hold these strawberries.

With this thought in mind, she gently put the few washed strawberries onto the ground, then once again disappeared from the space. She exited the space, picked a few large and intact leaves, and returned to wash them with the lake water. After that, she washed the strawberries again and wrapped them within these leaves. 

She sniffed the strawberries, and as she had anticipated, the bad smell was now gone.

Lin Qiao carried the strawberries in both hands, then took a few steps toward the edge of the grass. Putting the strawberries on the ground along with the leaves, she stood up straight while looking and waving at Wu Yueling.

Wu Yueling's eyes were filled with confusion when she saw the zombie waving. She tightly pinched her nose and stayed where she was, continuing to spectate instead of going to Lin Qiao.

When Wu Yueling refused to come to her, Lin Qiao's ears suddenly pricked up as she detected a slight noise. She turned her head and saw a small grey fluffy ball shoot out of the grass. It stood by the grass, looking at her and the strawberries by her feet.

Lin Qiao looked back at it. Surprisingly, she found that the rabbit's eyes were actually glowing while staring at the strawberries. It seemed that the rabbit wanted to come over but didn't dare to.

The rabbit's wary posture reminded her of Wu Yueling.

'Are these two of a kind?' Lin Qiao asked herself.

Sensing the yearning in the rabbit's eyes, Lin Qiao tried throwing the smallest strawberry over to it.

The rabbit was startled by the strawberry which was suddenly thrown at her. It reflexively turned around and darted back into the grass straightaway.

Lin Qiao stood still. As she had expected, the rabbit stuck its head out of the grass again a few seconds later. It looked around and found no danger, then leaped out and inched its way to the strawberry. After that, it reached forward with its forepaws, grabbed the strawberry, and then immediately turned around, slipping once more into the grass.

Earlier on, it wouldn't eat the strawberry even when Lin Qiao forced it to. But now, it was literally stealing those strawberries.

Lin Qiao watched the rabbit carry the strawberry away in confusion, then turned around and waved at Wu Yueling.

'Come over here.'

While looking at Wu Yueling's sparkling eyes, she spoke to the child in her heart. She didn't know if she could send out her thoughts, but the eye-contact worked indeed.

However, she saw Wu Yueling shaking her head at her in the next moment.

'This… Did she hear my thoughts?' Lin Qiao paused, uncertainty clouding her thoughts.

She picked up a strawberry, held it under her nose, and sniffed. Then, she looked at Wu Yueling and waved at her again while saying a few worlds silently.

'Come over here. The strawberries have been washed. They no longer stink.'

After finishing this sentence in her heart, Lin Qiao stared at Wu Yueling and waited for her response. She wasn't sure if the little one shook her head because she had heard her thoughts or if she was just smart enough to guess her meaning from her movements and expression. Either way, it seemed that they now had a way of communicating with each other.

Wu Yueling didn't say a word, she never had. She wouldn't even say a word to Wu Chengyue, and had always expressed her thoughts only through movements. Therefore, she might have been able to guess Lin Qiao's meaning from her movements.

As expected, Wu Yueling made some movements of her own after Lin Qiao implied that the strawberries were washed and no longer stank. She slowly loosened her hands which had been pinching her nose, then raised her nose and sniffed toward the strawberries. After confirming that she truly didn't sense the bad smell, she put down her hands. However, she still didn't walk over to Lin Qiao.

'Really not stinking? Is she lying to me? Those strawberries are poisonous, aren't they? Will I die if I eat them? But, that rabbit ate some last time and it didn't die.' As these thoughts ran through her head, Wu Yueling look at Lin Qiao and struggled.

Lin Qiao sensed her thoughts. Instead of standing there, she slightly turned her body and sat on the ground by the strawberries. Then, she picked up a strawberry and smelled its sweet aroma. No wonder that rabbit ran over so fast. Clearly, its sense of smell was quite sharp as well.

However, this sweet aroma held little attraction for Lin Qiao, and didn't awaken her appetite. Instead, it was the smell of Wu Yueling that had been making her drool this whole time.

She glanced at Wu Yueling meaningfully and waved at her again. Seeing that Wu Yueling was finally coming over, she pointed at the strawberry in her hand, then put it into her own mouth and took a bite.

The strawberry had a soft and smooth texture, but Lin Qiao still couldn't taste its flavor.

Unlike its skin, the flesh of the strawberries was pink.

Lin Qiao finished the strawberry with a few bites, then spread her open hands toward Wu Yueling.

Wu Yueling had already started to believe her a little by now. She slowly walked over, and while walking, she sniffed the air for a trace of that bad odor which she had sensed earlier.

However, even as she came close to Lin Qiao, she couldn't smell that awful odor again.

Lin Qiao picked up a beautiful and plump strawberry, then handed it to her. The strawberry still had drops of water on it, making it look tempting in its own way.

'Eat, not poisonous.' Lin Qiao said to Wu Yueling with her eyes.

She was worried that Wu Yueling wouldn't understand her meaning, so she pointed at the strawberry, then waved her hand and swept it across her own neck. After doing that, she closed her eyes, tilted her head, and rolled out her tongue to imitate death for Wu Yueling.

However, the kid was only confused by all that.

Moments ago, Wu Yueling had already understood her meaning. However, seeing her make such a scary look, the child immediately felt weird and didn't know how to react.

Lin Qiao opened her eyes and looked at Wu Yueling's blank face. She didn't sense the latter's thoughts, but the kid looked at her in a way that one might look at a psychopath, making her fall silent.

She was despised by this little kid, wasn't she?

After staring at the weirdly acting Lin Qiao for a few moments, Wu Yueling silently reached out a hand and took the strawberry which Lin Qiao had held out for her, carefully putting it under her nose and sniffing it. She smelled a nice, sweet aroma instead of the bad odor, then squeezed it and found that it was a little soft.

Lin Qiao raised a finger and then pointed it at her mouth. She meant to encourage Wu Yueling to take a bite and taste the strawberry. However, the latter looked at her with hesitation, doubting for quite a while.

She didn't dare eat it, as she was afraid that it might be poisonous. However, the strawberry now smelled quite delicious. It smelled so good, so sweet! Would it taste quite sweet as well?

Seeing her struggling look, Lin Qiao knew what she was thinking without even sensing her thoughts. She then pointed in the direction where the rabbit had disappeared while speaking to her silently with her eyes, 'It's alright. The rabbit didn't die.'

Finally, Wu Yueling could no longer resist the temptation of the strawberry's aroma and opened her mouth, making a gentle, small bite. She had chosen to believe Lin Qiao.

A sweet and slightly sour flavor spread from the tip of her tongue, immediately making her eyes shine. She then took a larger bite, after which, she began eating with an enjoyable face, no longer caring whether the strawberry was poisonous or not.

She munched on the strawberry readily. After all, her stomach had been empty as she had been starving for quite long.


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