After conducting a thorough investigation in his residential complex, Wei Xuan finally determined the culprit behind the killing of the cat, it was indeed their own zombie residents.
The primary suspects were the group that only had heads remaining previously led by the zombie couple, along with some security guard zombies from the complex.
Having uncovered the truth, Wei Xuan had no intention of punishing the culprits, unless he went mad. Instead, he had Du Hang accompany him once again to the cat’s location, staring at the grotesque mound of flesh.
Having counted the number of zombies in their complex earlier, Wei Xuan realized that three were missing. He needed to figure out what happened to those three. Were they reduced to mere heads like last time? If so, he would have to retrieve them somehow.
As a responsible property manager, it was his duty to take care of the zombies in their complex. However, even after he and Du Hang searched around the dead cat, he couldn’t detect any brainwaves from the missing zombies.
Finally, facing the cat’s body that would surely decay and emit a foul smell in a couple of days, Wei Xuan had no choice but to use his trump card.
He directed almost all the zombies in the complex to move the flesh mound to a designated area in the ruins, preparing to burn it, lest it creates a stench and risks attracting pathogens, viruses, or scavenging mutant animals in the future.
To his surprise, while intending to burn the corpse, Wei Xuan discovered three unfortunate souls struggling to crawl out from under the cat, their limbs clearly broken and crushed. They began emitting brainwaves with a message of “going home” as they crawled towards their residential complex.
Helplessly, Wei Xuan observed the three zombies with broken limbs. It took several rounds of thinking before he understood what had happened, they were probably accidentally crushed under the cat’s body during the battle. Hidden beneath the massive cat, it was pitch black for these three small zombies, and the darkness was indistinguishable from nighttime.
Just imagine, even in winter with snow covering the ground, the zombies would mistake it for nightfall and sleep. So, in this pitch-black environment, it was no wonder that Wei Xuan didn’t hear their voices, they were simply sleeping!
He sent the unlucky trio back to the residential complex, providing them with new bags filled with snowflakes (the previous ones had broken and disappeared).
Afterward, he watched as the remaining zombies transported the massive cat’s corpse to the designated location. They even collected the limbs that had fallen off the zombies during the process to be burned.
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The cat hadn’t been dead for long, and the weather was still relatively cold. The meat itself hadn’t decayed yet. However, Wei Xuan had no intention of cutting off some meat from the carcass to take home for consumption.
He simply didn’t have the inclination to eat cat meat. Just like the big rat before, he had a negative impression of them even before the apocalypse, considering them unclean and unsuitable for consumption.
In his mind, cats were purely for companionship and aesthetic pleasure as pets, and he had no desire to eat them.
Besides, his freezer still had plenty of bird meat, so there was no need to resort to such options.
Of course, if it were pigs, cows, or sheep, he wouldn’t hesitate to take their meat. Unfortunately, being in the urban area, the domesticated animals from the pre-apocalyptic era seemed unwilling to enter the city even after undergoing mutations.
In contrast, these former pets seemed to have the desire to return to their previous homes, explore, or even settle down.
The roaring fire burned all day, producing a lingering gray smoke as night fell.
After ensuring that there were no unexpected events in the residential complex, Wei Xuan returned to his low-key and concealed lifestyle, minimizing his movements outside to avoid drawing attention to himself.
The next morning, as the cold breeze blew against his face and the faint smell of burnt flesh lingered in the air, Wei Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, using a high-powered telescope to confirm that no one had come near the vicinity. He muttered to himself, “Is it because I’ve been so tense these past few days? I didn’t even feel the cold in the morning and evening?”
Wei Xuan furrowed his brows in slight confusion. Although he wore fewer clothes these days compared to the harsh winter, he shouldn’t be as unaffected by the temperature as he was now.
Perhaps it was due to the recent busyness, constantly walking on streets filled with zombies and obstacles at night, that he didn’t notice the changes in temperature.
The blue ocean shimmered as waves crashed against the beach, cliffs, and precipices.
The seagulls, now significantly larger in size, soared through the sky, overlooking the seemingly unchanged marine creatures below. When small schools of fish roamed near the surface, the seagulls swooped down, possessing them and satisfying their hunger.
However, unlike the fish before the apocalypse, these small fish showed no signs of fear when they detected the attackers.
Instead, they transformed into gray shadows, swiftly darting away like lightning and encircling the large bodies of the diving birds, launching fierce counterattacks like sharp swords!
Some birds managed to catch a few fish and quickly flew out of the water to evade their retaliation. Others, unable to dodge in time, ended up with small bloody wounds, the scent of blood attracting even more terrifying and colossal creatures from the depths of the ocean.
As this common scene in nature, now strangely eerie in the post-apocalyptic world, played out on the surface of the sea, something massive and fast flew across the sky.
It expelled white smoke from its tail, splitting the azure sky in two and leaving a thick trail as it headed toward another continent.
With a terrifying explosion, a mushroom cloud bloomed in the sky. In an instant, this immensely powerful nuclear bomb obliterated the once bustling city, which was now just as overcrowded with “people” as it was before.
This was an experiment, a desperate attempt made by all nations and their formidable military forces in the face of the apocalypse. They tried to consolidate their power and make a final effort to conduct various counterattacks and experiments, aiming to completely eradicate these dreadful creatures and reclaim a peaceful home for humanity.
However, after extensive discussions, research, and negotiations among the nations, they all received a devastating answer that left almost everyone in despair, all humans were actually infected with the zombie virus from the beginning of the apocalypse. Although some humans did not lose their sanity, once these individuals died, they would join the terrifying horde of flesh-eating zombies. No one could escape this fate.
This was not the answer humanity was willing to face because no one could guarantee they would never die… Perhaps turning into a zombie was another form of eternal life, but most people would rather not have such immortality.
After this fact was fully confirmed, some smaller human bases, due to their inadequate security measures and secrecy, leaked this information, spreading it among the entire population.
Upon learning this hopeless news, without a doubt, all these bases self-destructed within a short period of time.
Some individuals secretly breached the city walls, releasing a large number of zombies into the bases. Others went on mad killing sprees, exterminating all humans before succumbing to their own madness.
Since everyone was going to die, and everyone was infected with the zombie virus, what was the point of struggling?
Overwhelmed by despair, it was evident that people would engage in horrific acts. After learning about this news, all other bases remained silent, with the information suppressed tightly by the high-ranking officials, as they were already cautious about revealing it to the outside world.
Now, although some bases launched attacks on nearby cities and used conventional weapons to raze them, almost inevitably, within a month, those cities that had participated in these actions completely vanished from the world.
Consequently, the remaining bases with advanced and terrifying weapons decided to try using nuclear weapons to eliminate the zombies.
Of course, due to safety concerns, they didn’t dare to conduct these experiments in cities near their own bases. Not only could the zombies survive, but there was also the risk of nuclear contamination, an issue they did not want to face after struggling to eliminate the zombies.
Hence, a nuclear bomb was dropped on the capital of a once prosperous but internationally insignificant country.
At the moment the mushroom cloud rose, all satellites and spy satellites closely monitored the city, anxiously awaiting the next shoe to drop, perhaps from that moment on, the city would descend into complete destruction and death. Or maybe… they would face an even more despairing future.
Unscientists: Nukes can save us!!
libraryrocker squints I think… they probably will make things worse.
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Why nuke it? That basically renders any place practically uninhabitable! And supernatural + nuclear radiation mutation, as if that is going to help anything. Idiots.
Also, nuclear fallout and radiation being spread through the wind are very likely to happen. What a lose-lose situation.
That and most 🧟♂️ currently stay within cities but mutated plants and animals mostly travel outside city and have taken down multiple bases. They can also be food. You are focused on the wrong enemy idiots. Also let alone fallout after razing the city to the ground what are you going to build with? What return safety and prosperity for humanity? You haven’t even figured out food yet. The world can never go back just accept it and stop wasting resources.
+1 I also once read a story where derailing trains and crashing planes were a problem. Not to mention a nuclear reactor suddenly exploding due to zombie personnel or an earthquake… The humans in this story really aren’t thinking ahead, ah.
Definitely making things worse… Thanks for the update 🤣❤️
How nuke winter can save you??? There is no good end if nuke is included
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Polluting the environment with radiation is far worse than zombies lying around. I don’t understand their despair about turning into a zombie after dying. Like, everyone is going to die one day, what happens after that doesn’t really matter, if they’re so afraid of turning into a zombie that they leave someone on guard when they die to shoot them in the head after they transform.
Most of them from the start would likely turn into zombies, as in an apocalypse exploring and fighting is necessary, it is inevitable that most will turn after being bitten or scratched. Even knowing that they already have the virus, in the end, the result does not change.
I mean, if these elite leaders don’t want their dead base members to add on the number of zombie population, they can just cremate the body of the decrease before they turn to zombie?? Why they acting so devastated like there’s no hope left??
Poor cat, prolly it’s just looking for a place to settle. Unfortunately mutated it is and to hackin massive it was. Also probably that cat and the zombies both had territorial problem both want to be the ‘tiger’ of the mountain and currently can’t compromise each other. Hopefully in the future there will be a pet 🤷
I feel sad for the cat 😭 maybe it just want to go back to its previous home 😔
And that description of the ocean gave me goosebumps. scaryyy~ I’m afraid of deep bodies of water 🥲
What’s the point of “testing” nuclear weapons on other places when they know full well they can’t drop it in the place they live?? Idiots, humans are their own worst enemy.
Giant mutant rat meat is entirely edible… but cat’s are not food. Incidentally, open-air cremation is very dirty, and would undoubtedly create massive amounts of greasy black smoke, especially with a body that big and (since it said it was fat) fatty. Good way to draw attention from everything and everyone within several dozen miles.
Side thought – since everything is infected, will turn into a zombie at death, and animals can also become zombies, why didn’t the rat or the cat turn into zombies? It only takes a few minutes for humans, so presumably it should be the same for animals. Both were left laying there overnight, plenty of time. Neither had their brain destroyed, from the description.