281 The Number of Zombies

Liu Jun quickly braided Qiu Lili's hair and curled them slightly, then tied them up into twin-tails, hanging behind her body.

The dark circles under Qiu Lili's eyes had disappeared. Her eyes were still black, and her pupils were fiery-red. The skin of her face and body had become white and smooth. Wearing the white dress, she still looked very adorable.

Qiu Lili flipped her super long twin-tail and felt not so bad. So, she became happy again.

Liu Jun asked Lin Qiao, "Eh? Did Viney use up all the energy contained in the nuclei that Lili brought back this time? Didn't you ask Viney to give you another treatment, to see if your hair could grow back out?"

Lin Qiao shook her head and said, "Viney said that the energy has been consumed up. Lili is at a high level, so she required a great amount of energy to fix her body. Fortunately, she brought back enough nuclei. If there was even one less, she might not have been able to upgrade."

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More days passed by. These days, Lin Qiao had been training the seven zombies—five zombie leaders and two level-four superpowered zombies. In order to call them more conveniently, Lin Qiao and Qiu Lili numbered them. Now, they called them directly by the numbers.

Zombie number one wasn't the strongest one, but was the one who was the most obedient to Lin Qiao, and number two was the second most obedient one.

So, reasonably, the two level-four zombies, who were the weakest ones among them all, became number one and two. The male zombie was number one, while the female zombie was number two. The male zombie had a lower IQ than the female, but he was tractable. The female zombie was smart indeed, but Lin Qiao felt that she liked to play petty tricks and considered herself to be very clever. Moreover, she was very violent…

When Lin Qiao taught her how to dress herself, she tore half of the shirt off; when Lin Qiao asked her to pick up things, she picked up a pile of good and bad things. The funniest thing was that Lin Qiao could tell that she understood the order, but still decided to bring the bad things back, as she guessed that a big quantity might bring her compliments.

Sometimes, Lin Qiao found this female zombie to be both funny and annoying.

The middle-aged male zombie who was beaten up by Lin Qiao was zombie number three. After being beaten and having a cup of water that Lin Qiao provided, he became very obedient to her. He didn't remember what happened before, as if the debts between him and Lin Qiao had been canceled completely.

The boy zombie was zombie number four, the female zombie leader was zombie number five, the male zombie leader was zombie number six, and the elderly zombie was number seven.

The elderly zombie had kept some habits that he had before death. Lin Qiao felt that he used to be someone with a very strong self-awareness. She guessed that he was a government official, or the leader of a large family… or the godfather of the underworld.

Zombie number seven had an old habit, that when drinking water, he had to find a chair to sit down. If there wasn't a chair around him when Lin Qiao gave him the water, he would hold the glass and look around. Only after finding a chair of a couch would he sit down and drink the water sip by sip.

Lin Qiao wondered if he thought the water was booze or tea.

As a part of the training content, Lin Qiao made them memorize the human beings who were staying in this area. Of course, in their eyes, those humans were all preys and food.

Therefore, Lin Qiao brainwashed them every day… Yes, she brainwashed them!

She not only made them memorize the scent of every human being who lived in the hotel building, but also demanded them to memorize their names. The zombies had no idea what names were, so Lin Qiao explained to them that people called each other by different names… She felt like she was teaching a group of elementary school students.

Thankfully, all zombie leaders were quite smart. They didn't understand at first, but as Lin Qiao explained two or three times, they had mostly gotten her meaning.

At last, Lin Qiao strongly demanded these zombies to not hurt people. Apart from that, she also required them to protect the people who lived in the hotel building.

But of course, while ordering these zombies to not hurt people, she also told them to stay away from strangers. Otherwise, it would be bad if they refused to hurt people because of what she said, but ended up being killed after accidentally exposing themselves to strangers.

At last, Lin Qiao gave them a final direction--they weren't allowed to hurt anyone, unless someone hurt them! And of course, if anyone attacked them, they should fight back with the same level of attack.

Then, those zombies were confused by the term 'same level of attack'. To explain, Lin Qiao gave some examples.

In addition to the above, Lin Qiao also asked them to think of this area as their territory. No outsiders were allowed in their territory. Lin Qiao forbade them from directly making a move when an unexpected situation occurred; instead, they always needed to report to her first.

Lin Qiao had let the group of zombies know that any zombie who didn't follow the rules would be executed… not by Qiu Lili, but by herself.

Mengmeng was a special one. She kept a part of her humanity, but had lost all her memories. Also, she seemed to be a little mentally subnormal. She was half-good and half-evil.

When happy, she was a good kid; but when upset, she was evil. And of course, when she lost her temper, she would turn into a monster!

Lin Qiao hadn't seen her going mad. No blood scent was detected from her body, judging by which, she didn't seem to have killed any human.

If that weren't the case, Lin Qiao wouldn't have let Qiu Lili show mercy to her.

Furthermore, Lin Qiao found that Mengmeng was especially interested in children. Earlier on, she acted like she had attained some kind of treasure after seeing Wu Yueling. She was happy on seeing Tong Tong as well. At last, she started playing with Lin Xiaolu.

She didn't approach Lin Xiaolu. Instead, the latter came to her.

Lin Xiaolu found that she was able to communicate with Mengmeng after getting close to her for the first time. At that time, she had to sneakily approach Mengmeng to talk to her, because Lin Qiao had told Lin Feng and the others to keep an eye on Mengmeng and stay away from her, as she was powerful and a bit unruly.

Therefore, people were shocked that day upon finding that Lin Xiaolu had gotten close to Mengmeng when the adults weren't noticing. Fortunately, the two of them got along well, and nothing bad happened.

Another thing was that Lin Qiao had upgraded the appearances of each zombie. As for the boy zombie's scary-looking wounded mouth, Lin Qiao had asked her to cover it with bandages. She only allowed him to take off the bandages while drinking his daily water. For the rest of the time, the boy zombie looked like a severely wounded child.

Currently, those zombies would only take in the lake water that Lin Qiao provided, but not any food. The lake water was able to ease their hunger and repair their bodies from the inside, very slowly though.

On this day, Lin Qiao was teaching the boy zombie how to write. The boy zombie overreacted each time he saw notebooks and pens, maybe because he was violently forced to study by her parents back in the old world. As he didn't know how to hold a pen, it was difficult for him to even draw, let alone write.

Therefore, Lin Qiao would teach him how to read and write when she had time.