The classroom wasn’t large . Over thirty double tables were placed in it, so Lin Qiao guessed that a class like this had about sixty students .
Every double table had a dead body on it . The bodies near the teacher’s desk were the oldest . The closer one got to the back door, the favorite area of bad students, the newer the bodies were .
The bodies near the teacher’s desk had already dried or turned into bones . The blood and flesh were long gone . The bodies in the middle of the classroom still had rotten flesh on them . Groups of bluebottles were buzzing around them .
Lin Qiao looked at those bodies . The ones near the teacher’s desk were already unrecognizable, but their ages and genders could still be told from the shapes of those skeletons . The ones in the middle of the classroom still had some clothes on, and those clothes partially revealed their owners’ identities .
The few bodies near the back door had decayed to varying degrees .
The floor was covered in dirtiness and blood stains .
Lin Qiao didn’t walk in . Standing by the window, she was able to see the few relatively new dead bodies clearly . Also, the odor from the classroom already made her dizzy .
The stink of the old rotten bodies had mixed together with the blood scent from the relatively new ones . Even Lin Qiao’s nose couldn’t tell which was which .
Therefore, she had no choice but to differentiate those bodies with her eyes .
The heads and chests of the few newer bodies were all ripped open . Each of those bodies had two bloody holes on it .
The time of death of those bodies did not exceed seven days . And, these people had died separately .
The level-five zombie in that classroom was lying on a man’s dead body, biting his skull . It bit his skull off bit by bit, then spat the pieces to the ground .
The zombie used to be a student at grade five or six, about twelve years old . Its mouth was covered in blood, and so were its claws which were holding the dead man’s head . Those claws were even died dark-red by the blood . The clothes on the zombie’s chest were also soaked in blood .
The man whom the zombie was eating looked in his late twenties . He died less than two hours ago .
His heart had already been ripped out .
The zombie created a large hole on the man’s head with its teeth, then reached its claw into his head . After that, it scooped out a chunk of tofu-like, pink matter, and then opened its mouth weirdly wide and put the tofu-like thing into its mouth .
The zombie chewed the pink brain matter quickly, then closed its mouth and swallowed it .
Lin Qiao watched the zombie enjoying its food with a frown while a stream of dark mist had already been released from her palm . The mist drifted down along her legs, then into the classroom along the floor .
The level-five zombie in the classroom didn’t seem to feel the dark mist from Lin Qiao as it was still eating . The zombie even put its claws which still had some brain matter on it into its mouth and sucked them .
When Lin Qiao’s black mist nearly reached the zombie’s feet from under the table, it suddenly paused . After that, he looked around with confusion .
The mist was around its feet, covered by those tables . Therefore, the zombie failed to see anything when it looked around for the first time . So after that, it started eating again .
But soon, the dark mist drifted to the zombie’s feet and quietly gathered into a thin, black string that coiled on its feet .
“Roar!” Feeing that its feet were suddenly wrapped by something, the zombie gave a roar with fright and then attempted to hop away .
However, the dark string dragged the zombie straight to the ground . Next, Lin Qiao waved her hand, and following her move, a huge cloud of dark mist appeared abruptly, gushing into the classroom through the door and the windows .
Seeing the thick dark mist, the zombie wore fear on its face .
“Roar!”
The zombie struggled up from the ground and tried to run . However, it fell back to the ground, as if a part of its legs were missing . In a panic, it lowered its head to check its feet and found that one of its feet was already gone .
Lin Qiao’s dark mist had devoured that foot .
When it fell back to the floor, the dark mist quickly devoured it .
“Roar!” This level-five zombie struggled up again . The mist devoured its skin and made it look like a skinned and burned person .
As a level-five zombie, it wasn’t devoured immediately by Lin Qiao’s dark mist .
The zombie stood up again, then slightly bent its knees and jumped out of a window abruptly .
Crack! The window glass was broken .
In just a few seconds, the dark mist behind the zombie was stirred a little, and a figure darted out of it .
Puff! A claw sank into the zombie’s back head and then swung violently .
Thud! The primary student zombie was thrown downstairs like a dead body .
Lin Qiao landed on the ground, holding a level-five zombie nucleus in his hand . Meanwhile, she raised her other hand toward the classroom upstairs .
Before long, the dark mist drifted out of that classroom and gathered toward her palm . At that time, the classroom had already been emptied by the mist . All those bodies, tables, and chairs were gone .
Lin Qiao waved a hand and sent a stream of dark mist toward the zombie’s body . The mist covered the body for three seconds, and then the body disappeared .
Afterward, she took the mist back and brought a cup of water out of her space to wash the zombie nucleus clean before putting it into her space . Then, she walked out of the school .
She had no idea about her current body condition . She had absorbed eighty percent of the energy contained in that level-seven man’s nucleus, but still sensed no changes of her body at all .
Even the energy in her brain didn’t grow stronger .
During her journey, every time she collected a higher-level zombie nucleus or mutated plant nucleus, she would make some time to take rest and let Viney absorb the energy .
She found that there were lots of mutated plants, but the ones which had grown consciousnesses and nucleus were rare .
From Hangzhou to Hui City, she traveled a thousand and two-hundred miles, but only met two mutated plants like that . However, she killed quite some higher-level zombies, including two zombie kings .
She killed them because they refused to follow her orders .
She didn’t want to spend the time and energy to communicate with those zombies, so she just killed them and took their nucleus .
She absorbed eighty percent of the energy contained in two level-six zombie nuclei, two mutated plant nuclei, and tens of level four to five zombie nuclei, and left the rest of the energy to Viney .
Nevertheless, not even such a giant amount of energy made her feel any improvement .