Chapter 2: Chapter 2 My Date with a Zombie
Lin Tian lay on the ground, completely stiff and unable to move, yet his consciousness was extremely clear. He could distinctly feel an internal cold wreaking havoc in his body. As for when this cold had entered his body, he couldn't recall at all.
Concerns about death had ceased to occupy Lin Tian's mind, as the "Green Robed Fairy" had already descended from the sky and was standing right beside him. He moved his eyeballs, sizing her up. Her perfect face was as delicate as jade, and under her long lashes, her black pupils were like deep pools. One glance at them nearly swept Lin Tian's consciousness away.
To maintain his lucidity, Lin Tian had to focus his attention on her. Through her thin, green gauze dress, he could see that she wore an ancient style dress that perfectly outlined her curves.
The "Green Robed Fairy" suddenly bent over and lay on top of Lin Tian, startling him so much that his heart skipped a beat. Surely he hadn't encountered a psycho? But a soft feeling transmitted from his body, and Lin Tian felt her weight on him, an unfamiliar and irresistible sensation causing his heart to miss a beat. After all, he was a virgin, and even after two years with Qi Jing, he hadn't even kissed her.
The "Fairy" sniffed around on Lin Tian's body, and when she saw a trace of blood at the corner of his mouth, a flash of excitement passed through her eyes.
Finished. He really had encountered a psycho. That look of excitement was unmistakable, and Lin Tian inwardly cried out in despair. The "Fairy" paid no heed to Lin Tian's thoughts and suddenly extended her tempting tongue. She carefully licked the blood from the corner of his mouth and didn't even let the blood inside go to waste.
Lin Tian's body stiffened further, and he had a strange reaction to her actions. The fairy seemed not to notice his oddness. She lifted her little face with a happy smile and then suddenly said, "Hehe, you really are a Taiyin Body. I smelled it from far away. But it seems like the Taiyin Xuan Qi inside you is about to dissipate."
Her voice was ethereal, but the content gave Lin Tian a fright. Taiyin Body? Taiyin Xuan Qi? What were these things? They were all so confusing. You're the one who's about to dissipate! Lin Tian glared at her.
"Hmm, I'll help you out," the fairy said thoughtfully, "After all, you are a Taiyin Body, destined to be a zombie."
As she spoke, she opened her mouth to reveal two sharp zombie teeth. Lin Tian's mind jolted like he had been electrocuted, remembering the bus driver's words—green robe, red hair, missing female corpse—the description matched perfectly with the person before him!
Damn, he had encountered a female zombie! Lin Tian roared in his mind, but it was too late. The female zombie's fangs had already touched the major artery in his neck, and a tingling sensation spread through him as he felt the zombie teeth pierce his arterial blood vessel.
Blood gushed forth and was absorbed by the female zombie. In just a few breaths, all the blood in Lin Tian's body had been drained, and his heartbeat and breathing ceased. However, Lin Tian did not die; instead, everything before him turned pitch black, and his eyes void of light.
After absorbing all of Lin Tian's blood, the female zombie's originally dark pupils turned blood red, and she trembled, unfolding a pair of huge golden wings behind her.
The red light in the female zombie's eyes flickered a few times, and she injected the absorbed blood back into Lin Tian's veins. As the blood increased, Lin Tian's heartbeat and breathing returned, and he regained his sight.
With the influx of blood, the internal cold was slowly absorbed. Lin Tian closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, his eyes had turned blue. He clenched his fists, pushed the female zombie away, and jumped up, reaching the height of a two-story building. With a "boom", Lin Tian landed heavily on the ground, causing the grass to fly in all directions.
"Damn, what's going on? Where did this strength come from, and how can I see so far, especially at night!" Lin Tian was completely baffled, exclaiming repeatedly. He turned around, and suddenly caught sight of the female zombie next to him, and was shocked once again.
"You, why do you have wings, you're not human!"
"Heehee, you're so funny, of course I'm not human, I'm a zombie, and now you're a zombie too. How about it, do they look good? I have to thank your Taiyin Xuan Qi for these golden wings," the female zombie said in the tone of a young girl. She then twirled in front of Lin Tian, showing off the golden wings on her back.
"You're lying, if I'm a zombie why do I have a heartbeat, and why am I breathing? Aren't zombies supposed to be stiff-limbed and walking corpses in the legends?" Lin Tian was completely unable to accept the fact that he had become a zombie.
"So dumb, you are now a Level 4 Blue-eyed Zombie, if we couldn't do these small things how would we zombies walk among humans. The zombies you're talking about are those worthless ones below Level 6, how could they compare to our noble high-level zombies! If you don't believe me, try holding your breath and stopping your heart to see," she said impatiently, dissatisfied with Lin Tian comparing herself to lower-level zombies, her little mouth prattling on.
Lin Tian did as she suggested and stopped breathing. Thirty seconds passed, then a minute, and finally ten minutes. He didn't feel any suffocation. Next, he thought about stopping his heart beating. He touched his chest and found that it was true, there was no heartbeat or pulse in his neck.
This situation was very peculiar; Lin Tian wasn't breathing, had no heartbeat, yet felt no discomfort. He appeared no different from a normal person, and his mind wasn't filled with any grotesque thoughts, no different from before. Lin Tian felt uneasy, yet somewhere deep in his soul, he also felt a thrill.
"I really am a zombie." Lin Tian helplessly accepted reality.
"Don't be unhappy, wait until the day you see people who can also be incredibly strong, fly and escape through the earth, and even match up to zombies, then you'll think this isn't so strange. The world isn't as simple as you think," the girlish zombie sometimes spoke naively and sometimes said cryptic things, but Lin Tian was in no mood to decipher her words.
"By the way, I don't yet know your name, Ms. Zombie. Zombies should have names, right?" Lin Tian didn't think about anything else, what happened had happened, and mulling over it was useless. He thought about the zombies' super strength, and it didn't seem too bad.
The girlish zombie looked puzzled, as if trying to recall something, and only after a while did she say, "I can't remember, it seems like I have slept for a very, very long time, and when I woke up I had forgotten everything."
You've been asleep for five thousand years, no wonder it's been a long time, Lin Tian thought sardonically. Then an idea struck him and he said to her, "How about I give you a name? You're clad in green robes, like a Turquoise Pool fairy. How about Qingyao?"
"Qingyao?" She repeated the name Qingyao thoughtfully several times, her lips gradually curving into a joyful smile.
"Alright, from now on I'll be called Qingyao," the girl said happily, the red in her eyes receded, revealing captivating, extraordinary colors.
Chapter 3: Chapter 3 Narrow Road of Enemies
"Alright, I'm leaving now," Qingyao stretched her golden wings, ready to depart.
Lin Tian hastily stopped her, what a joke, biting someone and then wanting to leave, just like that was utterly irresponsible.
"Wait a second, as a seasoned zombie, don't you have anything to say to a newbie like me? For example, can I only suck blood from now on, am I afraid of the sun or not? It's too irresponsible for you to just leave like this!"
A zombie must have the resolve of a zombie. If Lin Tian didn't get everything straight, he might turn to ash when the sun rises tomorrow.
Reminded by Lin Tian, Qingyao suddenly realized her oversight, wondering how she could be such a scatterbrained zombie.
"If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have really forgotten. I advise you to avoid direct sunlight. Although Blue-eyed Zombies aren't afraid of the sun, you've just become a zombie and your powers aren't fully developed. Prolonged exposure to direct sunlight can cause damage unless you absorb enough living blood or moonlight to become a fully-formed Blue-eyed Zombie. Take this."
After finishing her words, Qingyao took out a scroll from her sleeve, and Lin Tian received it, puzzled, only to find it was a roll of tawny animal skin.
"I came across this by chance. Follow the instructions on it to accelerate the absorption of moonlight. That's all I have for you—I'm off." Before Lin Tian could react, her golden wings fluttered, and her figure had vanished.
"Wait..." Lin Tian reached out but caught nothing, staring at the animal skin scroll in his hand, he was stupefied—it was written in 5,000-year-old script, which he couldn't understand.
But when he unrolled it, he found no text at all. Instead, there were drawings of figures in various poses, twelve in total, representing twelve different actions.
So that's it. Lin Tian wasn't dumb. He understood immediately what it was about and knew he could just follow the movements depicted. After figuring it out, he pocketed the animal skin and looking at the disarrayed footprints around him and the dirty clothes on his body, he felt rather sentimental.
The trials of this night were far more intricate than anything he had experienced in his eighteen years of life. In just a few hours, Lin Tian went through his girlfriend's departure, his brother's betrayal, and most bizarrely, meeting the mysterious zombies and becoming one himself.
He turned around to survey the surroundings. With his night vision, he could see everything clearly. Fortunately, nobody had come to this place.
Lin Tian straightened his clothes, touched his teeth to make sure the zombie fangs had not appeared, and checked his eyes with his phone, which had returned to their normal color. Only then did he walk out of the grove with peace of mind.
The time on his phone showed it was already 10:30 pm. Eager to study his new zombie body, Lin Tian hailed a cab outside the park and headed home.
There was traffic on the way, and by the time Lin Tian got back to his neighborhood, it was already past eleven. He had heard that the area was not very safe recently, with frequent muggings at this time of the night.
The place where Lin Tian lived was in a back alley, and it was very dilapidated. Before entering the alley, he could somehow hear voices from afar. The abilities of a zombie were indeed impressive, to hear from such a distance.
"Big bro, we've been squatting here for so long and haven't seen a soul. Let's pack it in, this area is just full of poor ghosts. Even if we rob them, how much could we possibly get?"
"Shut your mouth! If we don't rob here, should we go out on the big streets? There are cameras everywhere out there, do you want to die? You nincompoop, can't you have a little professional quality? It's really embarrassing for me to be associated with you,"
Stumbling upon a robbery, Lin Tian shook his head, somewhat speechless. The street lights in the alley had been broken for who knows how many years, leaving everything pitch black. But no matter how dark, it posed no problem for Lin Tian; he could clearly see several sneaky figures from a distance.
As he approached, the figures suddenly jumped out, turning on flashlights to shine in Lin Tian's eyes and blocking his path.
"It's you guys!"
"You?"
Several people were now facing Lin Tian, and he recognized them as the five who had beaten him up. Evidently, they also recognized Lin Tian.
"Haha, kid, we must be fated to meet again so soon. How about lending some money for us to spend?" The leader said in a pleasant tone, but actually, he was intent on robbing him.
"If you don't lend it, we'll beat you up again!" A buzz-cut underling added fiercely.
"Go eat shit!" Lin Tian remembered the humiliation and was instantly filled with rage. He accelerated forward, leaving a shadow behind, and in the blink of an eye, he appeared in front of the buzz-cut underling, then landed an uppercut on his jaw.
The buzz-cut underling screamed miserably as he was sent flying, soaring over the others before crashing to the ground, spitting out broken teeth and then passing out.
Holy shit! Even with mental preparation, Lin Tian was still startled by his own speed and strength. How could a person over a hundred pounds be sent flying by a punch? This was not human strength.
Immediately Lin Tian remembered he had turned into a zombie, and he couldn't help but laugh at himself sarcastically. The stunned leader, seeing his smile, took a step back in fright, but still mustered the courage to pull out a dagger.
Lin Tian didn't know whether a dagger could harm a zombie, so he moved again. The leader didn't even see a shadow before Lin Tian had grabbed his arm with the dagger. Lin Tian squeezed hard, and the bones in the leader's arm shattered on cue.
"Ah~"
The pig-like scream pierced through the night, causing the other underlings to break out in a cold sweat, too afraid to move. Lin Tian grabbed the leader by his clothing and pressed him against the wall, saying darkly, "You were with Sun Decai, weren't you? Tell me, where did he go?"
"He, he had something to do last minute and left, giving us a sum of money," the leader gasped for a few breaths before continuing, "We went gambling with the money and lost it all, so we thought of coming here to rob some to spend. Brother, we didn't recognize Taishan - please let us go."
"Hmph, let you go?" Lin Tian snorted coldly, grabbed him, and flung him against another wall.
"Bang~"
The leader hit the wall and passed out. Seeing their chance, the remaining three underlings attempted to run, but Lin Tian caught up and with one kick each, they were all knocked to the ground.
"Did I say you could go?" In their horrified gazes, Lin Tian smiled cruelly and stood on the three thugs' feet; they screamed and then passed out.
When Lin Tian's anger subsided, a hint of blood smell entered his nostrils. He had previously been indifferent to the smell of blood, but now the scent provoked an insatiable craving in his heart, a desire to drink blood.
He was terrified as he tried to suppress this feeling, but the more he suppressed it, the stronger his desire to feast on blood became. Suddenly, Lin Tian opened his mouth and two zombie fangs uncontrollably emerged.
What the hell, what's going on? Lin Tian's thoughts were in chaos, his eyes fixed on the pulsing veins of the small-time thugs' necks, feeling as if biting down would quell the thirst in his heart.
As Lin Tian struggled internally, the clouds above happened to drift away, letting the bright moonlight spill down and bathe the alley. Lin Tian suddenly felt a cool sensation and found the moonlight incredibly comforting. He looked closely at the moonlight and noticed numerous light spots drifting around him.
Zombie eyes are this powerful? He could even see the moon essences in the moonlight. Lin Tian felt somewhat pleased—it's always good to be powerful.
The moon essences drifted all around, and upon touching Lin Tian's body, they were absorbed. With each absorption of moon essence, his bloodthirsty craving diminished.
Lin Tian felt slightly relieved; biting another man was something he still couldn't accept in his heart.
"You're in luck today; I'll let you off," Lin Tian made sure no one was around, not wanting any more incidents, and with a move of his feet, he vanished from the spot.
Gifts
-- Gift
received Weekly Power Status
200+ Power
Ranking 
4 Power
stone 
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