Lin Qiao, who had just leaped off Sky Fire Base's fence wall, paused and then flashed into her space. She showed up under Mo Yan's balcony and looked up at him, "Oh, your nucleus has recovered. Congratulations!"
Mo Yan leaped straight down from the balcony. Behind him, the pretty zombie girl airily landed by his side as well.
"Do you want to go out?" Lin Qiao looked at Mo Yan and asked him.
Mo Yan turned and looked at the other zombies, who stepped backward out of fear. Two of them flashed behind Lin Qiao's house, then stuck their heads out from behind the wall and carefully looked at Mo Yan.
Actually, they did not need to be afraid of Mo Yan because their boss was on the scene. However, the predatory look in his eyes was way too scary.
Lin Qiao knew what Mo Yan wanted. She thought for a moment, then nodded and said, "Alright. Since you have already healed, I have no way to help you regain your power within a short time here."
She knew that he needed to absorb a great amount of power to refill his nucleus.
Only after Lin Qiao brought Mo Yan and the zombie girl out of her space did the other zombies sigh with relief and the two behind the house slowly moved out.
Outside the space, Mo Yan raised his head and took a deep breath, then let it out. Lin Qiao rolled her eyes and said, "Zombies don't need to breathe. Why did you take a deep breath?"
Mo Yan gave her a bland glance. 'None of your business! I felt suffocated in your space!'
Lin Qiao shrugged as she tilted her head and said, "Alright, go and have fun."
Mo Yan was speechless. She sounded as if she was walking her dog.
He looked around, then at Sky Fire Base. After that, he turned back to Lin Qiao and looked at her questioningly. Lin Qiao looked at Sky Fire Base and said, "Oh, that's Sky Fire Base. It's chaotic in there these days. It's chaotic out here too."
Mo Yan turned and looked at the zombie crowd, then glanced at Lin Qiao knowingly. 'You created the chaos out here, didn't you?' he said to her using his eyes.
Lin Qiao looked at him and said, "I'm only trying to scare them. If they can't deal with the zombie crowd, I won't let the zombie break into the base. I'm not like you."
Mo Yan knitted his brows slightly as a cold light flashed across his eyes. He looked at Lin Qiao expressionlessly, then at Sky Fire Base. In his eyes, those human beings' lives had nothing to do with him. He didn't care about them unless he could benefit from them.
Lin Qiao looked at him, knowing that he was already disappointed with human beings. She didn't say much but told him, "There are still some people that I want to protect. Not every human being is bad."
On hearing her words, Mo Yan stayed silent for a few seconds. Unlike her, there was no one left for him to protect. He thought for a moment, then looked at Lin Qiao again. 'Have you killed the people you wanted to kill?'
Lin Qiao nodded as she narrowed her eyes and responded, "Yeah. The ones who should die have all died. But, there was an accident. There's another one to deal with."
Mo Yan knew her meaning; she had taken her revenge. While he was thinking, a frosty cold light flashed across his slender eyes. His revenge still seemed to be unfinished! He could feel that there was still one person who had that kind of connection with him.
That man had eaten his flesh, drunk his blood, and attained his energy…
Silently, Mo Yan glanced at the North where Huaxia Base was located.
Lin Qiao gave him a glance and said, "Save it. You're not strong enough yet." After saying that, she turned and walked away, leaving Mo Yan and the zombie girl behind.
Mo Yan watched her leave expressionlessly and peacefully. The zombie girl looked at him, then at Lin Qiao's back. After that, she slightly dropped her head while thinking.
Over last night, more and more zombies had gathered around the base. Weirdly, the zombies stayed outside the safe zone, which made the Sky Fire Base people so scared and confused.
The zombie crowd had threatened the safety of the entire base, so the conflicts in the base gradually eased down as both sides decided to focus on the zombie threat first. All the soldiers and angry residents had stopped confronting each other, but paid their attention to the outside.
"What are those zombies doing? They stopped outside the safe zone. Why aren't they attacking us?"
"I don't know! Is there a higher-leveled zombie controlling them?"
"What do you mean? Do you want them to attack us?"
"Shut the f*ck up! I'm only worried that they might be up to something more terrible! Don't you think that I'll let you as*holes get away from what you've done because there're zombies outside! You people used living people to do a zombie experiment! After the zombie attack, we'll make you animals pay for that!"
"Damn you! We didn't do the experiment! It has nothing to do with us. Go to Li Zhengye and make him pay for it if you can! He secretly sent his people to kidnap those victims! We didn't even know about that! Why are you yelling at us?"
"He killed those people, yes. But, it was the army who did the dirty work for him, wasn't it? Would you follow his word and do something like that if you had the slightest bit of humanity left in you? Are you guys soldiers or machines?"
"Because we are soldiers, we follow orders. Besides, we are only soldiers. We had no idea why the leaders had their men kidnap those people…"
They had stopped fighting each other but never stopped arguing.
Dongfang Yang and his people mingled in the group of residents, observing the situation.
"Director, why did those zombies stop outside the safe zone? Shouldn't they be crazily rushing straight to the fence wall?" Dongfang Yang's assistant asked him.
Dongfang Yang thought for a moment and said, "I think there're high-leveled zombies controlling them out there. Otherwise, they wouldn't stay in one spot for so long."
"Will they break in?" said the assistant worriedly.
"I don't know," Dongfang Yang shook his head.
At that moment, a short, bearded man came to Dongfang Yang's side. He looked outside the base and said to Dongfang Yang, "Did you give that woman my location?"
Seeing him, Dongfang Yang's subordinates silently moved away.
"Did she really come to you? Did she hurt you?" Hearing the man's words, Dongfang Yang looked at him with surprise and asked.
Shui Mingjun looked at him bewilderedly and said, "Wasn't it you who told her where I was?"
Dongfang Yang shook his head and said, "I didn't say anything! She asked me about Long Hair. I only told her that there's one person who knows about him. After that, she suddenly told that she already knew who the person is. Then she left…"
Underneath Shui Mingjun's hair, a dim light flashed across his eyes. "I guess she didn't lie," he said, "She really is able to read people's minds."
"What?" Dongfang Yang looked at him in shock, "She can read minds? Is that kind of power real?"
Shui Mingjun responded to him with a sullen face, "She found my basement, then asked me about Long Hair. I didn't tell her what she wanted to know, but she suddenly told me that she already got the answer. She left me a level-six nucleus and then walked away."