Walking on the road that had just been covered by heavy snow should have been quite noticeable. However, after being trampled by zombies for seven or eight days and turned into a muddy mess, the road didn’t stand out much anymore.
Ever since Wei Xuan’s zombie underlings learned how to follow him without being tied with ropes, even though moving as a large group still attracted attention, as long as they walked slowly, they blended in with the aimlessly wandering zombies on the streets.
This time, because the road and destination weren’t ones Wei Xuan had traversed in the post-apocalyptic world, it took him two days of non-stop travel to reach his destination. Holding a telescope, he looked into the distance at the seemingly flat wilderness covered by snow. He carefully observed the familiar animals moving and wandering around in the snowy landscape.
Currently, Wei Xuan and his group of zombie underlings were hiding in the tallest building nearby. This building was essentially the last high-rise in the urban area. Beyond this point, heading south, there were mostly fields, highways, and faint outlines of mountains in the distance. However, the weather wasn’t great at the moment, gray skies made it seem like it might snow again.
From Wei Xuan’s current position, he couldn’t see the cluster of villas. If he were to walk in the direction of T city, it would take him half an hour to drive on the highway before reaching the villas he used to visit before the apocalypse. However, now, according to the two crazy guys, this entire road had been taken over by various kinds of mutated animals.
Wei Xuan looked through his telescope at the closest group of mutated chickens. They were quite large, each standing at over half a person’s height. Because they were too far away, Wei Xuan couldn’t judge their exact height using other objects, but they seemed to be at least as tall as his waist when standing upright.
Besides this group of chickens, there were also a few mutated dogs in another direction. They were remarkably large, each appearing to be the size of a small van. Additionally, there were various other animals of odd sizes and shapes scattered around.
Wei Xuan didn’t plan on targeting these two groups of animals, primarily because they were communal creatures, with at least five or six in each group. Another reason was that he had been eating all sorts of bird meat throughout the year, so he wasn’t interested in chicken meat at all. As for dog meat… as a dog lover, he couldn’t bring himself to eat it.
However, the most important reason was that, at a distance beyond these two groups of animals, he had spotted a mutated cow!
The size of that cow seemed to be even larger than the dogs, its black fur shining sleekly in the snow. The robust and taut muscles looked incredibly enticing.
Unfortunately, its horns and the sturdy, thick thighs gave off a creepy vibe.
Wei Xuan put down the telescope and observed the area with his naked eye. He had also seen other mutated animals moving in the distance, especially in the direction of the former farmlands, where it seemed like a massive mutated bird had made its nest.
However, Wei Xuan didn’t plan on venturing into dangerous territory. He only wanted to capture some edible, delicious animals from the outskirts. He had no intention of recklessly venturing deep into danger, taking his zombie underlings with him to hunt potentially more dangerous creatures.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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Braised beef, stewed beef belly, beef curry, beef hot pot, Hangzhou-style stir-fried beef, sautéed beef, sizzling beef, West Lake beef soup, tomato beef stew, beef buns, beef pies, beef jerky, tripe, beef omasum, beef tongue, beef kidneys… Farewell for now!
Biting his lip, Wei Xuan made a firm decision. He rose to his feet without looking back, leading Du Hang downstairs. He intended to change locations and fight elsewhere. He wanted to eat meat, but he didn’t want to die, and he definitely didn’t want his zombie underlings to take risks. Look at how much this big brother is sacrificing for their safety!!
Du Hang, along with the other zombie underlings, sensed the reluctance, sadness, sorrow… even a tinge of indignation in Wei Xuan’s heart. However, if they could fully understand why he felt this way, they wouldn’t be zombies or half-zombies anymore. They might even transcend humanity, after all, even humans might not immediately grasp Wei Xuan’s complex emotions tied to breaking up with delicious food.
The group of people and zombies wandered around the nearby streets for a while. Eventually, after about half an hour of heading east, they found a lonely two-story building. Wei Xuan stood on the roof, scanning the surroundings. Finally, he spotted his target for the day with great excitement—sheep!
Lamb meat was a precious delicacy. You could have it in hot pot, marinate it with cumin for skewers, stir-fry it in various dishes, stew lamb ribs, make lamb noodle soup, and the offal could be made into lamb offal soup. As long as one didn’t mind the gamey flavor and was accustomed to eating lamb, any preparation would result in deliciousness.
Wei Xuan hadn’t had lamb for two whole years… no, if you added the three years from his previous life, it had been five years since he last tasted lamb. Now, facing a group of sheep not far away, his eyes shone with a faint green light, like a hungry wolf encountering a flock of sheep.
Beef was something he loved, and so was lamb. Today, after missing the chance to catch a cow, he had come across a group of sheep that were a few sizes smaller than cows—it was simply fate!
“Decided, I’m having a lamb hot pot when I return this time!” Whether it was hot pot, boiled, or stew.
The roar of car engines reverberated, accompanied by the sound of gunfire and the bursts of supernatural abilities. The furious roars of the zombies echoed one after another.
This was the second joint operation of several bases around T city since the snowfall.
The first operation had been quite successful. The convoy had entered the outskirts of the city, lured the nearby zombies out, and then gradually retreated while decimating their numbers. By the time they were about six to seven hundred meters away from the city limits, most of the zombies lay on the ground.
Although the convoy also wanted to turn back and thoroughly eliminate the zombies, as well as collect the crystal nuclei (which was actually the main goal), they realized that they were running out of time to return based on the schedule of this operation. Moreover, there were still quite a few slower zombies from the city center heading towards them. So, the convoy made a quick decision to turn back and evacuate the city completely.
In this second operation, the convoy followed the same route as last time. However, upon entering the city, the soldiers who had participated in the previous operation noticed that something seemed off.
“Boss! Something’s not right! These zombies are much tougher this time!” After finally pushing a zombie that was clinging to the front window of the vehicle, one of the soldiers turned to the team leader inside the vehicle and voiced his concern.
The team leader furrowed his brow and glanced to the side. The machine gun muzzle sticking out from the side of the vehicle was tightly clutched by a zombie. In the previous entry, zombies occasionally obstructed the gun barrels, but it wasn’t like this time where the zombie’s body was pierced by the bullets and it still held onto the gun, continuously clawing at it.
“Requesting assistance from the command vehicle! The fourth vehicle’s wheels are stuck and can’t move, wheels stuck, can’t move!”
“Reporting to the command vehicle, a zombie has completely blocked the front window of our vehicle, preventing us from moving forward!”
“Reporting…”
Messages came through the intercom one after another, filled with static and extremely piercing, making it almost impossible to discern the voices within.
“Turn the convoy around immediately! Rear vehicles to the front! All vehicles should assist corresponding vehicles during the retreat, trying to clear the zombies clinging to the front windows as much as possible!” Sensing that something was wrong, the mission commander promptly issued orders to the entire convoy.
“Yes!”
“Yes!”
“Ah!! The doors, the doors!”
“…Claws, claws are coming in!!”
Cold sweat broke out on the people in the command vehicle. The convoy was gradually turning around, heading back the way they came. The firearms carried with them continued to fire in all directions at full force, fighting for their survival. However, the situation at the moment was quite perplexing and hard to comprehend.
Didn’t things go… Didn’t things go smoothly last time? They had only left this area for about a week, yet it seemed like everything had changed completely??
“…It’s like the zombies have become stronger?” The area outside the vehicle was chaotic with explosions, but inside the cabin, it was incredibly quiet. At this moment, someone whispered the doubts that were on everyone’s minds.
Yes, the number of zombies didn’t seem to have increased significantly compared to last time. However, the combat capabilities of these zombies were all obviously much stronger than last time!!
Their movements had become more agile, and their bodies more resilient! Most importantly, they seemed to know better where to obstruct and target the convoy!!
“Retreat! Retreat immediately! Don’t get caught up in the fight!!” Suddenly, the commander in charge of this mission shouted into the intercom, a sensation of numbness creeping over his scalp.
After shouting, he stared at the people around him with his eyes reddening slightly, “Did anyone pay attention? Are the bodies of the zombies we killed last time still there? Are they?”
The people exchanged uneasy glances, and an unsettling chill crawled up from the depths of their hearts. Subsequently, several soldiers who were usually responsible for reconnaissance work raised their hands, almost in unison, “Reporting, Captain, yes, there are! There are quite a few bodies along the way! All zombies!”
“Bodies? Many of them?”
That person immediately nodded. Another man paused in contemplation for a moment, then suddenly slapped his body, which wasn’t particularly noticeable since everyone’s attention had been on the man who spoke earlier.
Nonetheless, he shakily raised his hand, “Reporting… Reporting, Captain, I also paid attention outside when we came in. But now that I think about it… I don’t think I saw… I don’t think I saw any of the zombies’ heads!”
Zombies ate the zombie crystals…and now are leveled up… Convoy to same area now seems inane… Want the cow, take the cow! Zombies, wha? Want the sheep, take the sheep! Zombies, so hard to understand… Pfft! Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️🤣
Hmmmm, so zombies can figure out how to eat the crystal nuclei of dead zombies and it speeds up their evolution. If someone were to, say, bomb an entire city to try and destroy the zombie population then there would probably be a loooot of crystal nuclei around for the surviving zombies to plunder. And those zombies might even evolve enough to find nearby bases to feed off of…
Zombies are getting intelligent while humans IQ is decreasing..?🤔
There are already chickens that are waist height. They don’t need to mutate for that to happen.