A Fake Holy Mother in the Zombie Apocalypse

He was referring to the two that Bei Nuan had sniped.

"Okay," Bei Nuan agreed.

She should go take a look. When she sniped those two mutated zombies today, she wondered what the last zombie to die was digging out of its companion's head.

Bei Nuan was about to leave when Lu Xingchi bent down, scooped her up, and carried her horizontally.

"I'll carry you down," he said.

The young sentries beside them were laughing as they watched them.

Bei Nuan consoled herself: Not embarrassing, not embarrassing, they don't know me anyway.

Originally, she had been extremely angry standing on the city wall, but his actions completely diverted Bei Nuan's attention.

Lu Xingchi carried her down the city wall steps before putting her down.

The two of them found Shao Bai and Du Ruo and briefly explained that they were going out of the city.

Du Ruo immediately volunteered, "I'll go too."

So the three of them left Faman City, which they had finally managed to enter.

By starlight, they could see the tragic scene of the battlefield. The ground and trenches were littered with zombies lying in disarray, too many to count.

Du Ruo walked through the remains of his countless people, unusually silent, not knowing what he was thinking.

After passing through the chaotic area, Bei Nuan and the others returned to the place where the main force of the zombies had gathered during the day.

Now it was empty.

Under Bei Nuan, the Beast King of Beasts' command, all the zombies were absolutely obedient and retreated cleanly.

The corpses of the two mutated zombies still lay where they had fallen.

Lu Xingchi bent down to take a closer look and asked Bei Nuan for plastic gloves, a mask, tools, and a lamp.

Looking like a surgeon preparing for an operation, he asked Bei Nuan, "Want to be my assistant?"

After giving him the items, Bei Nuan retreated without hesitation, "Find Du Ruo, he's the professional."

Du Ruo was indeed a professional, and he was also very dissatisfied, feeling that he should be the one to perform the surgery.

He retorted to Lu Xingchi, "Have you ever been on an operating table? You dare to perform a craniotomy after taking a few anatomy classes?"

"What does it matter?" Lu Xingchi said unhurriedly, "It's already dead, it can't die again."

While they bickered, their hands didn't stop at all, and they dealt with the zombies on the spot.

Bei Nuan had already flashed as far away as possible, not even glancing in their direction.

"Don't hide too far, a zombie will eat you," Du Ruo said to Bei Nuan from afar, not knowing if it was a warning or a curse.

Bei Nuan snorted.

The Beast King of Beasts buff was still active. If a zombie really came, if Bei Nuan didn't find them unappetizing, it wasn't certain who would eat whom.

The sky was full of stars, looking no different from Bei Nuan's world. The forest was quiet, with a gentle breeze, as if the fierce battle of the day had never happened.

Bei Nuan walked forward and saw a dark shadow.

Bei Nuan took out her night vision goggles and put them on, finally seeing clearly, and was silent for a moment.

Du Ruo's big mouth had really attracted a zombie.

The problem was that all the zombies had retreated under Bei Nuan's command, so how could there be one stray?

Could it be that the command had expired?

Bei Nuan concentrated her mind and reissued the command, ordering all zombies to retreat and stay away from Faman City.

The zombie clearly heard the command she issued, paused, and clutched its head as if in extreme pain.

But then, it struggled, staggering, and continued to come in this direction.

It suddenly saw Bei Nuan.

Unlike other zombies, it didn't pounce immediately, but showed a hint of hesitation, as if it was wavering between attacking and running away.

But in the end, it chose to attack, bared its teeth, and pounced on Bei Nuan.

In that moment of hesitation, Bei Nuan suddenly realized what this zombie was—

This should also be a mutated zombie.

That's why it could try its best to resist Bei Nuan's command, and a "person" ran back here, not knowing what it wanted to do.

Bei Nuan took out her gun and shot it directly.

As soon as the gunshot rang out, Lu Xingchi and Du Ruo both came over.

Lu Xingchi glanced at the zombie that Bei Nuan had shot down, and at Bei Nuan, who was unharmed, and breathed a sigh of relief, "Bei Nuan, come and look at this."

Two small things lay in his gloved palm.

Very much like two pearls, with a pearl-like hardness, round and white, with a faint pearly luster on the surface, quite beautiful.

One was slightly larger, and the other was smaller, about eight or nine millimeters in diameter.

"Found in the pineal gland of the zombie," Du Ruo said.

Such things had actually emerged from the heads of mutated zombies.

Bei Nuan immediately thought of the mutated zombie that had specially come to deliver food.

"Then take a look at this one," Bei Nuan pointed to the zombie on the ground in front of her, "I guess it has one too."

Sure enough, the third pearl was also found, but this one was even smaller, only the size of a soybean.

Although everyone guessed that this thing was a specialty of mutated zombies, they still found a few ordinary zombies to try.

As expected, there were no such pearls in the brains of ordinary zombies.

Bei Nuan realized that the zombie that had desperately resisted Bei Nuan's command and tried to run back here might have come to retrieve its companion's pearl.

Lu Xingchi found a stream in the valley, threw away his gloves, and washed the pearls clean.

Du Ruo gazed at the sparkling pearls in the clear stream and pondered, "This thing should be edible, right?"

Bei Nuan: ?

Eat?

Bei Nuan originally thought that she was a foodie like Du Ruo, but now she realized that her level compared to him was only worthy of kneeling at the foot of the mountain and worshiping the peak, not even touching the edge.

"Don't you guys watch apocalypse movies?" Du Ruo said seriously, "There's a crystal core in the brains of zombies, and the crystal cores are colorful, divided into metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. Eating them can evolve abilities and stuff."

Bei Nuan studied the pearl, "This thing doesn't look like a 'crystal core' at all, does it?"

Lu Xingchi scooped the pearl out of the stream and handed it to Du Ruo like a candy, "Want to eat it? Here you go."

For a moment, Bei Nuan really thought that Du Ruo was tempted to eat it, but he finally refused.

"Let's put it away for now, no rush."

His tone was as if he had something delicious that he was reluctant to eat at noon and wanted to save for a snack at night.

Bei Nuan thought to herself that there didn't seem to be such a thing in the original book.

But the book also didn't mention abilities, mutated zombies, or even the route the team took when entering the blockade.

The team didn't encounter any zombie march at the time, but took the high wall entrance of Salun City, a little south of here, and entered the blockade smoothly.

Now everything was different, so they could only take it one step at a time.

The three of them returned to Faman City and showed the pearls they had obtained to Shao Bai and Yan Teng. Even Yan Teng, who had been fighting zombies since the outbreak of the virus, had never seen this thing.

Yan Teng solemnly studied it and asked, "Could this be a zombie crystal core?"

This guy had also watched a lot of zombie movies.

Sure enough, Yan Teng continued, "When the zombie outbreak first started, we specifically looked for crystal cores in the brains of the zombies we killed, but we didn't find anything. Maybe these small pearls are only found in the brains of mutated zombies."

His tone was quite regretful.

"Do you want to eat it?" Lu Xingchi was handing out candy everywhere.

Yan Teng also refused without hesitation, "I don't know what it is, so it's better not to eat it."

After all, it was something from a zombie, and there was a risk of infection. He was the commander here, and if he turned into a zombie after eating it, it would be a big problem.

Yan Teng cleared out a barracks for them to stay in for the night.

Bei Nuan lay on the bed, watching the constantly ticking countdown of "Beast King of Beasts," and repeatedly reissuing the command to retreat the zombie army in her mind, but she wasn't sure how far the effective range of the command was.

Before dawn, the countdown would end.

Bei Nuan thought to herself that hopefully, by then, the zombie horde would have gone far enough and would need some time to regroup.

Bei Nuan stared at the ticking numbers of the countdown and gradually began to doze off.

After dozing off for a while, she suddenly woke up and quickly reissued the command.

After a while, she dozed off again, and woke up again to reissue it.

In this way, she persisted intermittently until dawn, and finally saw the countdown clear to zero.

Bei Nuan had done everything she could do, and thought to herself that she could only leave the rest to fate, and then fell into a deep sleep.

She was so tired that Bei Nuan didn't know how long she slept, and when she woke up again, she was awakened by a burst of intensive gunfire outside.

It was already bright, and it seemed that the zombie army outside the city had returned.

Everyone else was gone, and only Lu Xingchi was sitting beside the bed.

Bei Nuan sat up, "Why didn't you wake me?"

"You were tired, so I let you sleep a little longer," Lu Xingchi replied, reaching out to smooth her hair, "There are so many people in Faman City, we can't rely on you for everything."

He looked distressed.

Bei Nuan quickly took out a mirror and looked at herself. Sure enough, she had stayed up so late last night and couldn't sleep, and had obvious dark circles under her eyes like a panda.

Bei Nuan quickly got up and washed up. When she came out and climbed up the city wall, she saw that the zombies outside had indeed returned.

The zombies were still charging desperately in the hail of bullets, looking seemingly the same as yesterday.

There were also differences, in that there weren't as many zombies as yesterday.

It was estimated that many zombies had been dismissed by Bei Nuan's command, and it wasn't so easy to concentrate them again. Perhaps the remaining mutated zombies weren't so powerful, and the organized attack wasn't as fierce as yesterday.

The Alliance soldiers had cleared and burned the zombie piles under the city wall overnight. The zombies' previous efforts had been in vain, and they had to start all over again today.

Yan Teng was directing the battle on the city wall, and Shao Bai and Du Ruo were also there.

Seeing Bei Nuan and Lu Xingchi coming, Yan Teng greeted them, his brows furrowed, looking worried.

Bei Nuan knew why.

Yan Teng had said that after yesterday's fierce battle, the city's ammunition reserves were already insufficient, and if the zombies continued to charge endlessly like this, he didn't know how long they could hold out.

He received news that Salun City in the south was under great pressure, and the situation on Faman City's side was better, so there would still be no support today.

Shao Bai said to Yan Teng, "Since we killed the mutated zombies yesterday, proving that it's effective, why don't we do it again today?"

Bei Nuan pondered as she looked down at the city: But how to kill them? The mutated zombies would never be so stupid as to stay in a place that could be sniped from Faman City, and there were zombies everywhere below now. If they wanted to go out and find them, they couldn't even get out of the city gate.

Yan Teng supported himself on the city wall with both hands, silently watching the tide of corpses charging desperately below, his knuckles white with force.

It was as if he was making a very difficult decision.

He finally turned around and called someone, his voice calm, "Bring over all the remaining shielding agents."

More shielding agents?

The LBD, the knock-off shielding agent that would kill people?

Yan Teng's expression didn't change, but his eyes were gloomy, "Call the suicide squad over, I'll see them off."

Everyone was silent.

So Yan Teng was planning to have the suicide squad inject the shielding agent and go out of the city to find the mutated zombies.

There was really no other way.

Bei Nuan estimated that not to mention ordinary people, even Lu Xingchi wouldn't be able to open a path in the tide of corpses and enter and exit the city safely, facing so many zombies under the city.

Injecting the shielding agent seemed to be the only way.

A dozen soldiers came, all having taken off their military uniforms and wearing tattered and dirty civilian clothes similar to those of zombies.

Yan Teng didn't say anything, but solemnly gave them a military salute.

The military doctor also came, bringing two small boxes containing rows of small glass bottles, which should be the shielding agent.

The military doctor tore open the packaging of the needle and prepared to inject it. All the suicide squad members calmly rolled up their sleeves.

Among them was the big boy who had greeted Bei Nuan on the city wall last night. He stared at the needle in the military doctor's hand without blinking, but pursed his lips tightly, as if he was about to cry.

Next to him was a veteran who glanced at him and suddenly said, "What are you afraid of? You all volunteered. If you don't want to go, let someone else go."

"Who's afraid?" The big boy tried to argue, and said in a low voice, "I just suddenly thought of my family."

The veteran snorted, "If you're not afraid, why are you crying? Such a small heart."

Bei Nuan thought to herself that he wasn't coward. Courage wasn't not being afraid, but daring to do it even when you were scared to death.

Shao Bai rolled up his sleeves, "Yan Teng, replace him. I'll take the suicide squad out to find the mutated zombies. No one is more experienced than me."

Shao Bai had been dealing with mutated zombies in the infected area, and indeed no one was more experienced than Shao Bai.

Yan Teng stared at his comrade of many years, his Adam's apple bobbing.

"Stop being so long-winded." Shao Bai rolled up his sleeves, took the syringe from the military doctor, and prepared to inject himself.

Shao Bai's hand was held down.

Du Ruo carefully took the syringe from his hand and returned it to the military doctor.

"None of you need to inject this crap. I'll go out and find the mutated zombies," Du Ruo smiled at everyone, "I have a special physique. Zombies never attack me."

Bei Nuan stared at him in a daze. She had known Du Ruo for so long, but had never seen him kill a single zombie. He probably didn't even know how to use a gun very well, right?

Du Ruo patted Bei Nuan reassuringly, "Equip me with some weapons."

He looked determined and stretched out his hand to Bei Nuan.

Bei Nuan looked at Lu Xingchi for help.

Lu Xingchi had been looking into Du Ruo's eyes, and then said to Bei Nuan, "Give it to him."

Bei Nuan had no choice but to pick out two of the sharpest daggers from her space and hand them to Du Ruo. After thinking about it, she took out her rifle and bullets, "But he doesn't know how to use them very well."

Bei Nuan was about to cry.

Yan Teng unfastened the pistol he was carrying and handed it to Du Ruo along with the magazine, "Use mine."

Yan Teng taught Du Ruo how to hold the gun and how to shoot.

"I know, I've watched them use it countless times." Du Ruo put away the gun and daggers, and said to Bei Nuan, "I also want my Minghong Saber."

Bei Nuan: "…"

But she still handed him the mysterious treasure saber that no one could figure out.

Du Ruo thought for a while, "I also want yesterday's pearls."

Was he planning to eat them now?

Bei Nuan took out the three pearls she had obtained and handed them to him. He actually threw them into his mouth like candy.

"There's a faint metallic taste. Hard and cool."

As if regretting that Bei Nuan couldn't eat them, Du Ruo thoughtfully commented on the taste and texture for her.

He said, "I don't know what it's for, but I'll eat it first."

Others didn't dare to eat things from zombies because they were afraid of infection, but he wasn't too worried about eating this, since he was already infected with the zombie virus.

After Du Ruo ate the pearls, a hint of doubt suddenly appeared on his face.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Fei couldn't help but ask.

"I hear strange sounds."

Du Ruo tilted his head and thought for a moment, then laughed.

"It seems to be commanding me, wanting me to charge? Could this be the order that the mutated zombies gave to the horde?"

He couldn't receive the mutated zombies' orders before, but now that he had eaten the pearls, he could receive them.

This very likely meant that by swallowing those pearls, he had become more zombified.

Feeling that it wasn't a good thing, Bei Nuan was worried.

There were zombies everywhere below, so they definitely couldn't open the city gate. They had originally prepared ropes for the suicide squad members so they could go down the city wall, and now they could just use them for Du Ruo.

Du Ruo secured the rope and looked up at Bei Nuan.

He smiled, "Why do you look like you're about to cry? You and Lu Xingchi have been to so many dangerous places, haven't you ever cried?"

Bei Nuan thought to herself, how could that be the same.

Bei Nuan was confident in herself, and even more confident in Lu Xingchi, but she had no confidence in Du Ruo at all.

"Oh, right, Bei Nuan," Du Ruo suddenly remembered, "Also give me a set of hammers and chisels. After I kill the mutated zombies, I still have to dig out the pearls."

Bei Nuan was silent for a moment, handed him the tools, and watched him hang them on his waist, thinking to herself that she didn't know if he was going to kill mutated zombies or dig oysters.

Yan Teng notified everyone to stop the artillery fire and also suspend shooting in the direction of the city wall, so that Du Ruo could go down the city wall.

Watching Du Ruo being lowered down the city wall little by little, Shao Bai couldn't help but ask Bei Nuan, "Can he really do it?"

"Zombies really don't bite him," Bei Nuan replied.

Everyone on the city wall was looking down, watching this person who hadn't injected the shielding agent being slowly sent into the zombie horde.

Du Ruo finally reached the ground under the city wall.

The soldiers on the city wall were surprised to see that the zombies passed by Du Ruo without any special reaction, as if he were originally one of them.

Du Ruo untied the rope and straightened his clothes.

He raised his head, flashed a bright smile, and waved goodbye to the people on the city wall.

Then he turned around, carried his extremely exaggerated and chuuni saber, and disappeared into the surging sea of corpses below.

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