A tall skyscraper stands in the center of this city, located in the northwest corner of the bustling downtown area.
If Wei Xuan wants to go to the city center from his home, he will inevitably pass by this nearly seventy-story building.
At this moment, as Wei Xuan cautiously surveyed the surroundings near this tall building, he confirmed that there were indeed no zombies blocking the street as there had been when he first came here. He couldn’t help but feel worried again.
In the past, he had encountered situations where two people had left and lured away some of the zombies surrounding the area. However, even if some of the zombies had followed the scent and left with the two individuals, there would still be some left behind. They would habitually howl at the building where the two people’s scent lingered, wanting to rush inside.
But now…
“…There’s not a trace of human presence here.” Wei Xuan took a deep breath and finally moved forward with Du Hang. When he had come here before, the street below had been blocked tightly by zombies, so he had to let Du Hang carry him directly over the zombies’ heads and jump through the broken window.
At this moment, Wei Xuan had a very bad premonition. He subconsciously reached for the backpack on his back, which contained the diary he had just obtained. He only hoped that if he couldn’t find any information about where they had gone in the place they had lived before, he could at least find out from the diary where they had gone. He didn’t want to find a room filled with blood when he stepped into their room.
With a mixture of anxiety and worry for his former friends, Wei Xuan allowed Du Hang to carry him up the stairs. Although he had become very fit and could easily climb more than fifty floors without getting tired, Du Hang had the habit of carrying him whenever they entered this building, not giving Wei Xuan a chance to walk on his own.
Wei Xuan didn’t pay much attention to this because his mind was occupied with other thoughts. They reached the fifty-eighth floor, and the hallway here was covered in a thick layer of dust, just like every other place in the city, giving off a sense of age and desolation.
Every step Du Hang took while carrying Wei Xuan left a deep footprint. When Wei Xuan saw that there were no other traces in the hallway except for those left by Du Hang, his heart sank once again. It seemed that no one had been active here for a long time. So, what had happened to those two guys?
Although Wei Xuan really wanted to take out the diary and check the last few pages for relevant information, he decided to assess the situation first after reaching the floor where those two guys had lived.
Standing at the hallway entrance, Wei Xuan followed his usual practice of letting Du Hang stop here and then shouted inside, “Is anyone there?”
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In reality, Wei Xuan was now a zombie. If there were still living people inside, he should have felt something or even “smelled” the scent of human flesh like other zombies…
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“…Is anyone there?” Wei Xuan’s heart tightened, and after a moment of hesitation, he shouted again.
There was a response from inside the room. What did this mean? It meant that there were either people or zombies inside!
If there were still living people inside, then unless they had other ways to go up and down the building, besides the way Wei Xuan and Du Hang were taking, there was no way they could leave absolutely no traces. But if it wasn’t…
His heartbeats, which had slowed down considerably, now seemed to quicken, and each beat felt heavy, as if it could jump out of his mouth at any moment.
Footsteps could be heard coming closer from around the corner in the hallway ahead. And then, a head peeked out from the corner.
Their eyes met, and both sides exclaimed, “Potato!” “You’re still alive?!”
Bai Guangnan’s face lit up as he rushed over joyfully after confirming that it was Wei Xuan and Du Hang. He looked Wei Xuan and Du Hang up and down and then let out a long sigh of relief.
“I thought you had turned into zombies too and couldn’t find your way here! Ah, why did it take you so long to come? I checked the diary, and there was no reply from you. You have no idea how annoyed I’ve been for such a long time! Those zombies have gone crazy, and Ruoxin at home doesn’t love me anymore!”
Wei Xuan’s smile twisted upon hearing the words of the other person. He quickly interrupted when Bai Guangnan finally paused to catch his breath.
“Something unexpected happened before… I got injured and couldn’t come out. I’ve only just recovered recently…”
Before his words could fully sink in, Bai Guangnan looked surprised and pained. “You got injured? Why didn’t you come to me? I could have treated you! Even though I’m a bit slower when treating others…”
Well, Wei Xuan hadn’t expected to come to Bai Guangnan for treatment after he got injured, especially since at that time, he had already given up and resigned himself to becoming a zombie. Plus, he hadn’t even thought about it at the time, so he didn’t let Du Hang bring him to Bai Guangnan.
“By the way, where’s Sister Ma?” Faced with the other person’s question, Wei Xuan couldn’t answer and didn’t dare to say that he had slept for nearly a year before today. So, he quickly changed the topic.
Unexpectedly, when Bai Guangnan heard Wei Xuan’s question, he immediately wore a distressed look, as if he could burst into tears at any moment.
“Sister Ma doesn’t care about me anymore.”
“Huh?”
“Sister Ma has turned into a zombie.”
“What?!!”
Bai Guangnan immediately turned and led Wei Xuan and Du Hang inside. While walking, he continued to complain, “Sister Ma doesn’t care about me, and even Ruoxin at home doesn’t love me anymore.”
“…What on earth happened? How did Sister Ma become a zombie?”
Could it be that she had also suffered some injuries, and Bai Guangnan hadn’t been able to treat her in time, leading to her becoming a zombie? As for his zombie girlfriend… Wei Xuan didn’t comment on that and even felt that it might be better if she didn’t pay attention to him—then she wouldn’t be constantly covered in blood.
“I don’t know either!” Bai Guangnan had a look of grievance on his face.
“She was fine at first, standing by the window, looking at the view. But then she suddenly turned around and rushed at me, and together with my Ruoxin, they bit me awake!”
Wei Xuan’s facial expression twitched uncontrollably again. He had woken up from a nap after being bitten by someone… and this “bite” was not some metaphorical bite but an actual bite that could tear flesh and blood.
“After that, not long later, they completely ignored me! No matter how close I got to them, even if I cut some flesh from my body and tried to feed it to them, they wouldn’t eat!” Bai Guangnan spoke with a deflated look, tears glistening in his eyes, as if he were a wronged daughter-in-law, and his sense of grievance couldn’t be described in words.
Wei Xuan’s facial expression was twitching so much that it felt like it wasn’t his own anymore. He had no words for Bai Guangnan’s behavior of voluntarily feeding his own flesh to others in order to deepen their affection. Perhaps that was the peculiarity of healing ability users? In any case, Wei Xuan had long understood that their thought processes were on a completely different level.
Following Bai Guangnan, Wei Xuan entered the room he had been to several times before. The room was much the same as it had been on his previous visits, with a large sofa, a desk, withered green plants that hadn’t seen water for a long time, and a pile of miscellaneous garbage in the corner, as well as the huge floor-to-ceiling window that took up an entire wall.
There were three figures moving around in the room, their gazes unfocused, not much different from the zombies wandering aimlessly on the street outside. However, among these three figures, one of them should have been the person who used to greet him with excitement every time he came, waving and calling out “Potato.”
Looking at the silhouette of the woman, her hair disheveled, her eyes vacant, and her hand still holding onto her son’s hand.
“See, they’ve all changed, changed!” Bai Guangnan pointed accusingly at the three figures swaying in the room, as if he were a wronged character from a soap opera. It was just that in this case, there were a few too many wronged characters…
Wei Xuan’s eyes showed an indescribable expression as he looked at the three figures that were no longer bound and forcibly made to sit on the sofa. Suddenly, he received a signal, a very familiar one, similar to the brainwaves that the zombies in the street and his own zombie underlings would occasionally emit.
“Potato, Potato, Potato, Potato…”
Wei Xuan was utterly dumbfounded. He looked at the woman among the three figures, the expression on Cheng Ma’s face remained unchanged, but upon seeing Wei Xuan and the others enter, she began to sway toward the door while still holding her son’s hand.
“…Sister Ma, do you, do you still remember me?!” Wei Xuan’s voice trembled slightly.
He had never expected that Cheng Ma would turn into a zombie, let alone that Bai Guangnan would experience a situation similar to his own. And after seeing Cheng Ma actually become a zombie, he certainly didn’t expect that she would still recognize him as a zombie!
Never thought i would get emotional over the word potato lmao… Wei xuan, you blew your cover so fast
Honestly, knowing healing torso, there’s a good chance he didn’t catch that slip-up. He’s probably going to be too focused on the fact that fire mommy is showing interest in someone that’s not him to process what Wei Xuan is saying.
Thank you for the update~
I’m so glad Cheng Ma still recognizes Potato. 😭
Do you think that healing man became a “smart zombie” that is able to talk and that’s why they aren’t interested in him?
😭😭😭 omg she still remember him
Potato…so sweet! Can’t wait for next chapter! Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️
Is the healing guy still human? Wei Xuan can’t smell human inside. Does it mean the guy turned into an intelligent zombie that xan speak? The fire lady still remember Wei Xuan even though she can’t speak anymore. Are they slowly getting their intelligence back like Du Hang?
Thanks for the chapter! He seems to be doing ok, though he seems to have become a half zombie too.
i teared up :((
what in the world, is healing torso no longer human? 🤨