“Alright…” Qiu Lili responded without fully understanding Lin Qiao’s words . Clearly, she wasn’t interested in that topic .
“But now, he has solved some small problems for us,” Lin Qiao smiled as she dug another sweet potato out of the ground .
“That’s true!” Qiu Lili thought for a moment and understood .
“We’ve gotten enough rest . It’s time to deal with Hidden Cloud City,” Lin Qiao stood up, then turned to the Southwest as she narrowed her eyes .
“Eh? Are you ready to do it?” Qiu Lili looked at her .
Lin Qiao nodded and replied, “But first, I need to solve the zombie emperor problem . Oh, I haven’t asked you about his name yet . What is his name?”
“Mo Yan,” Qiu Lili said his name reluctantly .
“Oh… eh?” Lin Qiao nodded at first, and then seemed to think of something .
“What’s wrong?” Qiu Lili looked at her curiously .
“Mo Yan… That name sounds familiar . Let me think about it…” Lin Qiao frowned and thought for a moment . Soon, her eyes glowed as she continued, “It’s him! No wonder I found him having those strange emotions… He is repulsed by humans, and is also afraid of them . ”
“Do you know him?” Qiu Lili looked at Lin Qiao with both confusion and surprise .
“Not really . I had heard about him,” Lin Qiao shook her head .
“The second year after the apocalypse, a Northeast base caught a special superpowered man . They treated him like an experimental subject, like what people did to Lin Kui . But, I heard that he suffered a lot worse than Lin Kui did . Those people cut off his flesh while he was still alive . ” Lin Qiao said .
Qiu Lili was stunned a little . She slightly widened her eyes and murmured, “Cut… cut off his flesh? Superpowered man? He was a human back then, wasn’t he? Wasn’t that extremely painful? He was killed by the pain, wasn’t he?”
She could easily imagine how painful it would be when a healthy human being was caught and turned into an experimental subject, having his body cut into pieces while he was still alive . No ordinary person could stand that kind of pain .
“We heard about that later . At that time, we had just started to build our own base . Besides, we were in the South while they were in the Northeast . They were far away from us . Later on, I heard that he died in a zombie attack . I also heard that those people cured him while cutting off his flesh, just to keep him alive . If the zombie attack didn’t happen, he might have suffered for a much longer time,” Lin Qiao recalled that what happened to the man shocked many people back then .
“Why… Why did those people cut off his flesh? Did he have a special power?” Qiu Lili asked, while picturing that pretty man being chained and locked in a lab, and people cutting off his flesh from his arms and legs, slice by slice .
Imagining that scene, she had her hair standing on their ends . That much be so painful!
“I heard that his blood and flesh could help superpowered people upgrade . Back at that time, zombies were everywhere, and people were weak . Under those circumstances, everybody wanted to grow stronger as soon as possible,” said Lin Qiao .
Qiu Lili fell into silence .
Humans were horrible!
“At times, poor people can be utterly detestable, and vice versa . Under that kind of torment, anyone would wish for death . Also, there’s one thing that you probably didn’t notice . Earlier, Mo Yan didn’t attack our base, because he is actually having a fear toward human beings,” Lin Qiao said .
“Em… Are you saying that he’s actually afraid of getting close to humans? Is that why he stayed outside the base? I thought he was planning on something,” Qiu Lili said, “But, he eats people! He even eats people!”
“What’s wrong about that? He is a zombie now, and it’s reasonable for him to eat humans . After all, humans used to eat him! What’s the difference between those people who ate his flesh and those post-apocalyptic robbers out there?” said Lin Qiao carelessly .
The zombie emperor didn’t give out a strong hostility and the scent of blood . His vibe and anger were both pure and natural . No strong evilness could be detected from him .
That made Lin Qiao wonder .
The zombie emperor’s vibe was a little ambivalent; it was both good and evil .
Qiu Lili looked at Lin Qiao with confusion and said, “You sound like you’re speaking for him…”
“Am I?” Lin Qiao brought the basket back to the wooden cabin . Hearing Qiu Lili says that she seemed to be speaking for the zombie emperor, she turned, gave Qiu Lili a glance while replying, “I feel sympathy for him, for what he has been through . I’m not speaking for him . If he refuses to leave us alone and insists on causing us trouble, I won’t let him get away with it . ”
“He’s out there right now . He is quite a threat to our base, isn’t he? Why don’t you just fight him and make him leave?” Qiu Lili asked a question that she wanted to ask since long ago .
“Because… I want to see if we can work together with him,” Lin Qiao put the basket on the clearing before the cabin and carried on, “Besides, if we really started a serious fight, I might not be a match for him . ”
“Eh? But that day, you…” ‘You seemed every strong, ‘ Qiu Lili thought .
“And, didn’t you kill Lu Zhuofeng? He was at level-eight! Why can’t you defeat a zombie emperor?” Qiu Lili looked at her confusedly .
“That day, I was bluffing him . He didn’t know much about us after all . I am only at level-seven . There’s still a difference between level-eight zombies and me . Plus, he is a possessor of lightning power . When he bursts in fury, do you think he’ll flatten our base with a thunderstorm? I killed Lu Zhuofeng by entrapping him in my space . That might not work for the zombie emperor . Zombies are not like humans . I might be able to trap him, but he would perhaps make my space explode,” said Lin Qiao .
She could not tell exactly how powerful Mo Yan could be .
“Then… You can just trap him in your space,” said Qiu Lili .
Lin Qiao shook her head and said, “No, I don’t have time . ”
To suppress the zombie emperor in her space, she needed to focus her will power in her space all the time . Where could she find that much time?
However, it was time for her to do something to make him leave .
She decided to talk to the zombie emperor the next day . However, her plan was postponed because of something that happened that night .
Viney, who had slept for over a month, finally woke up .
‘Mama, Mama…’
Lin Qiao was sitting in Mrs . Lin’s room, reading some files while listening to the others talking . Hearing Viney’s voice, she paused briefly, then immediately lowered her head to look at her own belly .
She didn’t make any sounds, but talked to Viney in her heart, ‘Viney, you’re finally awake!’
‘Yeah, I’m awake . I feel that I’ve had a very long sleep…’ Viney sounded happy .
Lin Qiao laughed in her head, ‘Of course . You’ve slept for more than a month . ’
‘Oh, but I might sleep longer time in the future…’ Speaking of that, Viney became a little upset .