952 In Another Half A Month

Under the leadership of Wu Chengyue and Lin Qiao, the team stayed around the hole for another half a month, but those creatures never showed up again. Therefore, they started searching around for other possible entrances to the cave, especially in the area between the first entrance to the cave and All Beings Base.

The level-five zombie had been caught and tied up by Yun Meng. Yun Meng tied his hands together with a rope and held the other end of the rope in her hand.

"Roar…" The level-five zombie didn't try to free himself after having his hands tied up. He didn't even try to bite the rope with his teeth. After all, it was merely an ordinary rope, and not a chain.

Even though his hands had been tied up, he had still been trying to approach Xiao Licheng. He leaned his head toward the latter and ceaselessly tried to bite him.

Bang! Wu Chengyue conveniently killed a level-six mutated plant that was able to swing its branches from side to side. Its branches swooshed in the air like messy hair. As Wu Chengyue and his people showed up, it turned toward them and attempted to wrap them up with its branches.

But in the end, Wu Chengyue broke its trunk with his lightning.

He dug out the nucleus and held it, then looked around and asked the others, "Where are you?"

When he talked to the air, the others all knew that he was talking to Lin Qiao. Yun Meng pointed at a tree nearby and said, "On that tree."

Wu Chengyue walked to the tree, then raised his head and looked at the tree smilingly as he said, "Here!"

Lin Qiao didn't climb high, and was just standing on the lowest branch. As Wu Chengyue handed her the nucleus, she gently leaped off the tree and walked to his side with a hand on her belly, then pressed the other hand on his shoulder.

'You don't need to give it to me every time.'

He harvested that nucleus, not her. He didn't need to give it to her.

"Not for you. For her," Wu Chengyue gave a mild smile and said with a soft voice.

Lin Qiao knew that he was talking about Viney. Her belly had become much larger than half a month ago, and she could even feel the heavy weight on her waist.

Currently, Viney would only absorb a small amount of energy that she absorbed. Her main energy recourse was Wu Chengyue now. Every night, Lin Qiao could sense an invisible stream of energy coming into her body from Wu Chengyue.

During the past half a month, Wu Chengyue gave Lin Qiao every nucleus that he harvested. She didn't accept those nuclei at first. She had a bunch of zombies under her command, so she could have as many nuclei as she needed. She didn't need to take things from Wu Chengyue.

However, he insisted to give them to her. He put the nucleus in her hand every single time, and used the baby as an excuse. If she refused to take it, he would give it to Yun Meng or another zombie.

Later on, Lin Qiao started to accept those nuclei, but she would impatiently tell him every time not to do it again.

During the past half a month, the distance between him and her had grown much larger than before. Currently, they could move over two-hundred meters away from each other. And in that span of time, Wu Chengyue had been weakening obviously.

Lin Qiao glanced at the nucleus in his hand which was sparkling with a beautiful luster under the sunlight.

'I have plenty. I think you need to absorb some energy more than I do,' Lin Qiao said to him.

Wu Chengyue wore a faint smile and curved his eyes into a pair of crescents. Under his thick eyelashes, his eyes shone with a charming light.

"I don't need it," he said.

In a recent couple of days, he had started to feel the decrease in his energy. He had also been feeling strangely tired and heavy-bodied every night.

However, he was not unhappy about what was happening to him at all. He felt the zombie lady's belly, that was growing larger and larger, with his hands. Occasionally, he sensed a little foot kicking his palm from inside her belly. The baby might not have a heartbeat or body temperature, yet he felt that she was thriving.

There was a reason that he told Lin Qiao he didn't need to nucleus. His body wasn't able to store new energy anymore. He had absorbed some nuclei lately, but the energy from those nuclei circled in his body, then melted into his blood and vanished without gathering in his brain.

He guessed that it had something to do with the baby.

Since his body couldn't store new energy, he didn't plan to waste time absorbing any. Thankfully, his body originally contained a rich amount of energy.

'Just save it for yourself,' Lin Qiao frowned slightly and said.

After saying that, she took her hand away from him and turned to the level-five zombie, who got tied on a tree and ended up strangling himself with the rope. Sensing her taking her hand away, Wu Chengyue was slightly disappointed. The smile in his eyes faded, and the corners of his mouth dropped slightly.

But in the next second, he put the nucleus in his pocket as if nothing happened. He knew that she would be displeased if he tried again to give her the nucleus.

Lin Qiao walked up to the level-five zombie and sensed his thoughts, which never changed.

He really liked Xiao Licheng. Wu Chengyue was also a living human being, yet the zombie had no interest in him at all. He had his eyes on Xiao Licheng solely. Xiao Licheng was over twenty meters away from him at the moment, but he was still staring at the man with greedy eyes.

He gazed at Xiao Licheng like how a man might look at a pretty lady… or a delicious roast duck, roast suckling pig, or roast whole lamb.

She couldn't tell how the zombie tied his entire body on the tree. Yun Meng had only tied the rope on the tree trunk.

Lin Qiao stood before him, then raised a hand holding a glass of water.

As the glass of water appeared, the zombie immediately turned around and stared at it. The energy in the water made him feel hungrier.

He could not eat the man who was far away from him, but the energy-water before his eyes seemed to be able to ease his hunger. It was like a human being could live on meat or nutrient solution; the former could satisfy the desire and the latter was only able to quench the physical hunger.

The zombie quieted down at the sight of the glass of the water. He fixed his eyes on the glass, without looking at Xiao Licheng again.

"Ah… ah…" He opened his mouth slightly and reached his head toward the glass while uttering strange sounds from his throat. Lin Qiao didn't make him wait for long but poured the water straight into his mouth.

While Lin Qiao, Wu Chengyue, and the others kept looking for traces of those underground gorillas, some people in All Beings Base were carefully and secretly observing the farm through telescopes from over a thousand meters away.

"Have you seen clearly? Are you sure no heat source was detected from those people?" A man whispered to the other man who was holding a telescope, sounding uncertain.

"There is really no heat source! See for yourself!" Hearing that question, the other man quickly handed him the telescope.