After hearing the screams coming from the bathroom, Zhang Zhe and Mo Xi quickly ran towards the bathroom on one side of the hall.
When the bathroom door was opened, Zhang Zhe and Mo Xi, who were standing outside the bathroom, saw that Lin Ying, whose back was turned to them, had been pierced from the chest to the back by a sickle-shaped forelimb.
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As the sickle-shaped forelimbs that pierced Lin Ying's body slowly pulled Lin Ying upwards, Lin Ying, who was dying, could not help but twitch her legs in mid-air.
The owner of the sickle-like forelimb was leaning on the top of the bathroom, dripping drops of sticky saliva onto the forest from his huge triangular face and his mouth with two scissor-like teeth.
Above Ying's head.
Zhang Zhe, who had no time to think too much, immediately drew his sword out of its sheath.
A flash of cold light cut off the huge triangular head of the mutated mantis lying on the top of the bathroom.
As the mutated mantis' head fell, the body of the mantis that pulled Lin Ying into the air and the dying Lin Ying also fell into the bathroom.
Just as Zhang Zhe looked at Lin Ying, who had fallen with the mutated mantis in front of him, with the sickle-shaped forelimbs of the mutated mantis inserted into his chest, he rolled his eyes upwards vigorously, and his legs were twitching, he was struggling with whether to help Lin Ying who was dying.
While he was dealing with her pain, his daughter appeared behind him and asked Moxi, who was standing beside him, in a tearful voice.
"Mom, is Aunt Xiaoying dead?"
"Auntie, can't she play with Yuxuan anymore?"
After hearing the question from the daughter beside him, Moxi knelt down and reached out to gently wipe away the tears rolling down her daughter's cheeks, and spoke to her in a soft tone.
"Yuxuan didn't cry, Aunt Xiaoying just went to heaven, to a more beautiful place."
"You go to wait for dad by the bonfire first. After mom sends Aunt Xiaoying off for the last time, you go to accompany Yuxuan."
After saying this, Mo Xi immediately turned to Zhang Zhe, who was standing in the bathroom, and spoke calmly.
"Hey, you come and put your daughter to sleep, and I'll see Xiaoying off for the last time!"
Zhang Zhe, who understood the meaning of Mo Xi's words, walked out of the bathroom and took the girl's hand back to the bonfire in the hall.
Maybe it was because Lin Ying was the first human being that her daughter Zhang Yuxuan had seen since she could remember. Lin Ying's sudden death was still unacceptable.
This little girl nestled in Zhang Zhe's arms, constantly asking Zhang Zhe whether there would be zombies in heaven, and whether there would be those scary big mantises that would continue to hurt her Aunt Xiaoying?
After hearing Zhang Zhe's very positive reply that there are no zombies in heaven, only countless stuffed toys, delicious candies, and small animals all over the mountains and plains, the little girl slept peacefully in Zhang Zhe's arms.
go.
Not long after her daughter fell asleep, Moxi walked out of the bathroom with a trace of blood on the corner of her mouth.
Zhang Zhe, who had just arrived at the bonfire in the hall with his sleeping daughter in his arms, raised his finger and pointed at the blood stain on the corner of Mo Xi's mouth, and said a gentle reminder.
"You didn't clean the corners of your mouth."
After Mo Xi hurriedly stretched out her hand to wipe away the remaining blood on the corner of her mouth, she sat next to Zhang Zhe and said softly.
"Can you pinch your head for me?"
“There is too much information and it’s a bit of a headache!”
Zhang Zhe knew that this was a physiological reaction after Mo Xi swallowed Lin Ying's big head.
Zhang Zhe once heard Mo Xi say that after half-corpse people like them devoured the brain of a living person who was not completely dead, they could not only obtain all the memory information in the living person's brain, but also master all the things that happened during the living person's life.
skill.
But at the same time, because a large amount of other people's memories are forcibly added to one's own brain, one's head will feel as painful as an explosion.
However, swallowing the brains of zombies will not cause headaches. Although there are some memory images in the brains of zombies, Moxi said that the brain memory of ordinary zombies can only last for three or two days at most.
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After being attacked by a mutated mantis yesterday, in order to recover his body, he, with the help of Moxi, lay down in the poplar forest and devoured the brain of a zombie.
The memory image in the zombie's brain only lasted for two days. Apart from wandering in the wilderness day and night and looking at the scenery, there was nothing else. The last scene was following the fall of the head and quietly looking up at the sky.
White clouds slowly drifted past my eyes.
After placing his sleeping daughter on the blanket beside him, Zhang Zhe asked Mo Xi, who was sitting next to him, to rest his head on his lap, and gently massaged Mo Xi's temples on both sides.
To relieve Moshi's headache.
Moxi, who was resting on Zhang Zhe's lap, had her eyes slightly closed, and her eyelashes were long and thick. Under the light of the campfire, Moxi's fair and tender cheeks were like ripe and attractive peaches.
Mo Xi, whose headache was slightly relieved, closed her eyes slightly while enjoying Zhang Zhe's temple massage, and spoke slowly.
"Xiaoying lied. Their team was not attacked when they released larvae in the forest."
"While monitoring the mutated mantises, they entered a warehouse full of zombies, living corpses, and a large number of white insect eggs, and were attacked by a large number of mutated mantises."
"That should be the insect den of these mutated mantises. There seem to be more than twenty such insect dens in K City. My God..."
When he said this, Mo Xi, who was resting on Zhang Zhe's lap, immediately opened his eyes, looked at Zhang Zhe who was massaging his temples with a solemn expression and said.
"Hey, I learned from Xiaoying's memory that it's not just Luo Zitong's base that is releasing this mutant mantis into its area. It's the entire existing military bases in the country that are all releasing this mutant mantis into their area.
Mutated mantis."
"From the south to the north, from City L where Luo Zitong is located, to City H where the wolf clan is located, to City A where Yiran and her nursing home are located, mutant mantises are being released in all of them."
"Tell me, where else can the two of us take our daughter? The entire country Z is releasing this mutated mantis, where is the safest place for our daughter?"
After hearing Mo Xi's words, Zhang Zhe stopped massaging Mo Xi's temples, turned his head and looked at the bonfire that was constantly dancing with flames, frowned and said thoughtfully.
"I feel like the two of us are always carrying Yuxuan with us. To avoid contact with living people, hiding here and there is never an option."
"Now that there is a threat from the mutated mantis, I think we might as well join a gathering place for living people. First, gathering places for living people have high-walled fortresses as protection, which is relatively safer."
"Secondly, there should be children of the same age as Yuxuan in the gathering place of living people. This will also be conducive to the growth of our Yuxuan. What do you think?"
Before Mo Xi could express his position, Zhang Zhe turned to look at Mo Xi, who was resting on his lap, and continued with a smile.
"I think as long as the two of us cover up the scars bitten by zombies on our right arms, the living people won't find out our identities as half-zombie humans!"
Mo Xi, who was resting on Zhang Zhe's lap, did not immediately answer Zhang Zhe's words. Instead, after standing up, he stared at Zhang Zhe in front of him and said with a smile.
"Okay, you can tell me which living base we should join, and I will listen to you!"
"How about going to the military base where Luo Zitong is in City L? That's the military base managed by your good eldest sister in the last days, and she likes you. Maybe she will take good care of the three of us?"
"How about we go to the virus research center closest to us. Above the virus center is your good sister's food production base."
"With the help of Xuerou and Yanyan, you should meet your good eldest sister or Yiran and the others soon. Of course, if you think this is too troublesome, we can go directly back to the nursing home in City A tomorrow!
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After saying this, Mo Xi continued to look at Zhang Zhe in front of him with a smile.
"By the way, let me tell you another piece of good news."
"I learned from Xiaoying's memory that the White Wolf King of the wolf tribe she refers to is your ex-girlfriend Bai Xuan. It's okay if you want to take Yuxuan and me to City H to join her."
"The wolf tribe she manages joined Luo Zitong's military establishment four years ago. I guess the wolf tribe now doesn't eat human flesh, right?"
"Even if we eat, given the past relationship between you and Bai Xuan, she probably won't let us eat human flesh too!"
Zhang Zhe, who heard something in Mo Xi's words, looked at Mo Xi in front of him, smiled bitterly and explained.
"Moxi, I don't mean that we have to go to the living base where they are."
"We can definitely find one in other cities..."
Before Zhang Zhe could finish his words, Mo Xi, who looked at Zhang Zhe, immediately spoke with a smile on his face.
"I don't mean anything else. I just let you choose one of their bases and the one you like!"
"No matter which one you choose, I have no complaints. I will take our daughters and accompany you to the living base where they are located!"
When he mentioned the word "them", Mo Xi, who looked at Zhang Zhe, deliberately emphasized his tone.
The word "them" was deliberately emphasized, which sounded harsh to Zhang Zhe who was watching Mo Xi's expression.
But when Zhang Zhe wanted to ask Mo Xi in front of him what he was thinking in his heart, Mo Xi said this to Zhang Zhe calmly.
"You should also go to bed early. I want to hold my daughter to sleep first."
"Before you go to bed, think carefully about where we are going tomorrow? Which of their bases are we going to join?"
"Is it your ex-girlfriend's? Or your good eldest sister's? Or your wife Yiran's? Or is it Xuerou's virus research center?"
After saying that, Mo Xi immediately lay down on the blanket nearby, with his back to Zhang Zhe, and fell asleep with his sleeping daughter Zhang Yuxuan in his arms.
Looking at Mo Xi who was lying on the blanket with his back to him, Zhang Zhe smiled bitterly and said.
"Hey, you and I both know that we half-dead people don't need to rest at all. What we call rest is just a short period of self-sleep."
"Can't you tell me clearly what you are thinking in your heart? The way you speak with something in your words really makes me..."
Zhang Zhe had just finished speaking when Mo Xi, who had his back turned to her, held her sleeping daughter in her arms and said coldly.
"You know that the two of us are half-zombie people, and our daughter is the second generation of zombies."
"If you don't want to go into self-sleep, think about it carefully. As you, me and our daughter, where are we going to go after dawn? Where are we going to settle down?"