Capítulo 5: An Inexplicable Space
Editor: Hitesh_
Lin Qiao turned her head and found herself surrounded by refreshing greenery. The air was fresh, clean, and natural. It felt unpolluted by modern industry.
Even though it was just grass around her, seeing this sea of lush green brightened her mood considerably.
She struggled for a while with stiff movements, and finally stood back up before accidentally slipping and falling again.
She felt that her mouth was gaping open and that her sharp teeth seemed to have pierced through something. She was startled when she saw it clearly, and immediately pulled out her teeth to sit up.
'Oh my!' There was a person beside her, the infected man whom she had seen earlier. She fell onto his body and... seemed to have bitten him.
Why was this man here with her? Furthermore, what was this place? How did she get here?
She raised her head and looked at the white sky, but saw no sun.
She then turned her head to look around and found that along with the grassland was actually a small, glistening lake. She was delighted by the sight of the lake, as she immediately took one step and started moving toward the lake.
It had been midsummer the last time she had woken up. Even though she couldn't feel the heat anymore since becoming a zombie, she could not stand her broken and dirty body.
However, Lin Qiao didn't notice the strange change which had come over the face of the dying man who had the virus spreading all over his body. His pale skin had slowly returned to its normal color, and the blueness was fading from his lips. Obviously, this meant that the virus was leaving his body. Although at a very slow rate, it would gradually disappear over time.
In fact, at that moment, the virus was disappearing fastest from his chest that had been accidentally bitten by Lin Qiao just then.
Lin Qiao knew nothing about any of this as she excitedly walked toward the small lake. The lake looked quite nearby, but it still seemed to take forever for her to get there.
She lay face down by the lake and cupped her claws together to drink a few mouthfuls from it. Then, she took off her dress which had taken her some serious effort to put on. Looking at this devastated body, she could only imagine how cruelly Lu Tianyu had been attacked, and how much pain she had suffered before she died.
Lin Qiao took off her ragged clothes and pants, then stooped down and washed them in the lake. It took a long time to clean these clothes and pants. She was a bit of a neat-freak, so she felt extremely uncomfortable on seeing this body of hers.
As she stooped down further, her intestines fell out of her body.
After that, she sat in the lake and cleaned her intestines with her hands before tucking them back into her belly. Then, she cleaned her ragged clothes once more and wrapped her stomach with them.
As an OCD patient, she spent a long while to wrap herself and finally make herself look as clean and tidy as possible.
She felt absolutely nothing while doing all this, although she knew it must look extremely weird for anyone else.
After wrapping her belly, she began washing her arms and legs which were badly mutilated, covered in blood, and missing chunks of flesh in some parts.
While doing so, Lin Qiao didn't feel the energy that was slowly percolating into her blood through her wounds soaked by the lake water. This energy was causing her black, clotted blood to begin flowing again while her wounds had been healing themselves. No new flesh had grown back, but the wounds were scabbing over faster than before, and the virus had disappeared completely from her body by this point.
She was still in the form of a zombie though, with a pale face and sharp teeth jutting out of her mouth.
She didn't notice any of these changes, just as she didn't notice what had happened to the man. At this moment, she suddenly began to feel sleepy while bathing. Before she realized anything, she closed her eyes and fell asleep.
Subsequently, she slept for three whole days.
When she finally woke up, she found herself still soaking in the water. She moved slightly and turned around, crawling back to the bank.
At this point, she suddenly realized that her legs had become quite agile.
She stood by the lakeside, raised a foot, and put it back down. Then, she raised it again and put it down again… After that, she kicked out with a foot! Her legs were actually as flexible as those of healthy human beings!
She opened her pure black eyes wide and looked at her hands, then glanced at her legs. She shook all her limbs, then bent her waist in different directions.
She looked just the same as before, but felt much better.
With delight, she suddenly closed her hand and tried punching out, actually managing to do it! Her punch lacked some strength, but it was swift enough.
She wondered if her voice had recovered or not.
She pondered over this for a while and then opened her mouth to say 'Hello'.
"Roar, roar!"
A drop of sweat oozed out of her forehead when she heard her own roars. Her voice didn't seem to have recovered.
She sighed as she raised her head, then looked around and saw the man again. She didn't know for how long she had lain in the water, but the man hadn't woken up.
She walked over to him and found that she could squat quite easily. His aroma had become so much stronger than earlier that it made her feel starving. She scratched his neck with her black nails, then raised her head to look at the sky with confusion.
What on earth was this place? How did they get here? How could she get out? 'Get out…'
A bright light flashed across her eyes once she began to think about how to leave. Next, she lost her balance and fell onto the ground.
"Roar!"
'Damn it! what the hell?' By the time Lin Qiao could react, she was surrounded by complete darkness.
'What... What happened?' She had been underneath a white sky moments ago, so how could she suddenly fall into darkness?
Fortunately, she still had sharp eyes and could see clearly even in the darkness. However, what she saw was like a black and white photo. She looked around, and just as she expected, the man was there as well.
'Wait! This place looks a little familiar.'
She raised her head again and looked around, then recognized where she was. Wasn't this the warehouse where she had broken the door, gone inside, and found this man? Why was she here again? Where were the grassland and the small lake? Where did they go?
She stood up and turned around to take a peek outside the door. The outside was empty, with no zombies or anything else.
She didn't understand her situation. She had been in a different place just then, so how could she suddenly be back here?
She replayed what had just happened, wondering which detail went wrong that had brought her back here.
Right! Earlier in that place, she had been thinking about how she had gotten there, and how she could leave. Then, she ended up back in here.
' 'Out'? Yes! Did this mean 'out'?'
Lin Qiao had a vague sensation, so she raised her hand and touched her forehead.
Could she go back in?
As soon as this thought flashed through her mind, another bright light dazzled her eyes. When she came back to her senses, she saw the green grassland and that same small lake before her once again.
This place really turned out to be some mysterious space! Did this mean that she was a superpowered one too? Did she have the space power?
Lin Qiao thought about this unsurely as she touched her forehead with her sharp nails again. This time, she definitely felt something there between her eyebrows, something that seemed to be connected with this space.
Was her superpower nucleus right inside her forehead? Lin Qiao tried to come up with another thought.
Capítulo 6: Lin Yu’s Awakening
Editor: Hitesh_
'Out! I want to get out of here...'
As a result, a white light flashed across Lin Qiao's eyes. Before she realized what was happening, she was already back in the dark warehouse.
It was truly a mysterious space! Realizing this, she started to get excited. She actually had a mysterious space! She could hardly believe it.
'I want to get in!'
She muttered the words silently to herself once again, and as expected, she reappeared in that space.
"Roarrrr!" She screamed with joy, although the sound that came out of her was certainly not pleasant to hear. She immediately shut her mouth and didn't dare to make another sound as she was shocked by her own voice.
She was starving now, but no food existed in this space, and all she could see were grasses and a lake in here. She couldn't feed on grasses, could she?
She walked toward the lake and gazed into the clear lake water. When she took a bath earlier in this lake, she had noticed that there were no living fishes in the lake.
She thought for a while, then again said 'out' silently. A moment later, she was back in the warehouse once again.
She was starving, but obviously couldn't eat the man. So, she had no choice but to find some other food source. She was worried that this man would be eaten by the other zombies if she left him here. 'Should I wake him up?'
However, this man was turning into a zombie, wasn't he? He would probably die soon, and then his body would stiffen. After that, he would turn into a zombie, stand back up, and lumber around like the others.
Lin Qiao looked at this man. He surely couldn't survive anyway, and would turn into a zombie soon. She struggled with her conscience for a while, but in the end, she just walked out.
'Forget it! I should just leave him here and take care of myself first.' She thought.
She was a zombie now, and didn't know what to do! She had learned from Lu Tianyu's memories that certain kinds of people were capable of hunting zombies in this post-apocalyptic world.
Those were the superpowered people.
In the past five years, human beings had survived a huge disaster, and had gotten used to this new lifestyle soon after. They slowly adapted, and eventually, a small number of superpowered people emerged.
The awakening of superpowers was so difficult that only one in ten thousand people could usually awaken a superpower. After five years, a great diversity of superpowers now existed in this new world.
Lu Tianyu's squad once had over a hundred people, but the number had gradually dwindled during the escape because of three superpowered people. Those three didn't protect everyone because they believed that they had no obligation to do so. Being superpowered, they very much enjoyed their feeling of superiority, as the ordinary ones depended on them and admired them.
In this apocalyptic world where people died every day, survival was the top priority! Therefore, the weak, ordinary people were simply ants to be trodden under the feet of these superpowered ones.
Later on, some powerful superpowered people and military people who were already strong as ordinary human beings built a few bases. As more and more superpowered people emerged in the bases and grew stronger and stronger, the bases expanded in scale, and the residents started to carry out zombie-hunting missions. At the bases, people traded for food, which was the scarcest supply in this post-apocalyptic world, with zombie heads. Human beings developed, but zombies didn't. Five years had passed, and these bases run by human beings grew larger and larger. Although the zombies were never eradicated, they were still witless, soul-less, and lacking mobility.
If the situation continued, a great number of these zombies would probably be killed in a couple of decades.
Not long after Lin Qiao left the warehouse, the man lying on the ground moved his eyelids and opened his eyes.
Lin Yu sat up in confusion and found that he was surrounded by darkness, and could see nothing clearly except blurry shades of the evening outside the door.
He sat there for a while in a daze, then slowly stood up and walked outside.
What had happened to him? He remembered that he had locked himself in a warehouse. He felt his muscles becoming stiffer and stiffer, his skin stretching tight, and he knew then that he was turning into a zombie.
Later on, his entire body stiffened, his limbs were too heavy to be lifted, and his eyelids were so heavy that he was unable to keep them open. At last, he couldn't help but fall asleep. Back then, he realized that he might never be able to wake back up.
When people next saw him, they would see nobody but a conscienceless zombie. Someone could shoot him in the forehead at any time, and then, he would not even exist as a zombie.
'But... But... What is happening? Have I died and become a ghost? Like a real ghost?'
Lin Yu put his hand into his mouth and bit it.
"Ouch! This hurts!" He had bitten too hard, howled in pain as a result. He couldn't help but cover this hand with the other and leap around in pain.
'What happened? Didn't I die?' After calming down, Lin Yu looked at his body, stunned at what he saw. He realized that his body wasn't stiff anymore. He could feel his muscles relax as he walked outside.
He thought of something suddenly and reached a hand down to his waist, then pulled out a military dagger, popped the blade, and cut the back of his hand with it.
"Hmm?"
The blade left a bleeding slash on his skin. He couldn't see it in the dark night, so he put the wound near his mouth and licked it.
Metallic, salty, and a little sweet... It was the taste of blood!
He was a little confused. He had indeed been infected by the zombie virus, which he remembered clearly. He also remembered that his body had already begun to stiffen before he passed out. So, how come all those feelings were gone now?
He was just like a healthy human being now, and even his blood was fresh.
...
While Lin Yu was examining the shocking changes in his body, Lin Qiao was already far away.
She was starving!
She raised her head and gazed at the starry sky. The stars were still there, but the moon was missing. It seemed that it was either the beginning or the end of the month on the Lunar calendar right now.
Under the starlight, her vision became clearer.
She needed to find some food!
However, she didn't know what she could eat. She was a zombie now, and what did zombies eat except human beings? It seemed that human food was no longer edible to her already!
It was late, but Lin Qiao was still able to see everything clearly. She gave this some thought, then realized that she had no other choice but to walk around and see what she could find.
Besides, she needed to find her family. She didn't know if they were still alive, living in some corner of this world.
She looked around for direction. She had learned where she currently was from Lu Tianyu's memories, and knew that her hometown was located in the South, which had turned into the South Cloud Island Base. Lu Tianyu and her squad were heading to the Huaxia City Great Base, which was in the opposite direction. Therefore, to head South, she would need to turn around and to walk in the opposite way.
'Where should I go?'
South Island was located in a seaside city in the South, and was more than a thousand kilometers away from Sea City in Eastern China. She didn't have a map or a car, but If she wanted to go to South Cloud Island, she would need both of these things.
However, she was a zombie now, so where could she find these two things? She thought about this for a moment, then decided to head to Huaxia City first, as it was the nearest city from here. She would have a chance to meet human beings around a human base, and once she met humans, she would be able to figure out a way to get a car and a map.
Night time was filled with zombies strolling slowly through its depths and looking quite scary. Even though Lin Qiao was now a zombie herself, she was still apprehensive at the sight of these zombies swaying back and forth in the night.
'Just keep looking at them and you'll get used to them! Just keep looking at them and you'll get used to them! Just keep looking and you'll get used to them!'
Hypnotizing herself with these thoughts, she began heading North.
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