Chapter 026 Zombie Lover (09)
The moment he understood, Lu Wen's face twitched violently and his mood was indescribably complicated.
Is the difference in IQ reflected in the way our brains work?
Over there, Xie Chi was walking on the main road of the village, dealing with two naive low-level zombies beside him, while gesturing to Lu Wen to go out of the village and wait for him at the entrance.
Lu Wen understood and without hesitation, he held his breath, hid his body, and took a detour to run back to the village entrance.
Yan Jing, who was waiting anxiously at the entrance of the village, heard Lu Wen's familiar footsteps and stood up in surprise. Just as he was about to ask him how Xie Chi was doing, he heard the chaotic footsteps coming from the village and his face turned pale: "All the zombies followed us out! Brother Xie, he..."
Lu Wen rushed over and covered his mouth, and said in a deep voice: "It's okay, they are just following, not attacking Brother Xie."
Yan Jing was confused. The zombies didn’t attack Brother Xie?
Lu Wen thought for a moment and said, "Mirror, the situation may be a little chaotic later, and we won't be able to take care of you. You should go back the way you came. Brother Xie and I will catch up with you later."
"Okay." Although Yan Jing didn't understand the situation, he trusted Xie Chi very much. He waved to Lu Wen and went down the slope first.
Lu Wen stood under the crooked tree at the entrance of the village, watching with trepidation as Xie Chi calmly chatted with the two zombies.
There were thirty or forty zombies following Xie Chi from a distance. They seemed to be a little suspicious of this foreign zombie and wanted to keep a close eye on him.
The entrance to the village was just ahead. Xie Chi raised his eyebrows slightly and was about to breathe a sigh of relief when the zombie behind him suddenly started screaming and becoming extremely frantic.
Xie Chi translated:
"Strange￥...%He!#seems!%&%@popular%￥@..."
Xie Chi thought to himself, "Oh no!" and gave a wink to Lu Wen who was on standby outside.
"Brother!" Xie Chi thought.
Xie Xinglan came online, put the hands of the female zombie beside him behind his back, pulled her up and carried her on his shoulder, then sprinted out with his long legs. Lu Wen rushed in, imitated Xie Xinglan's actions, picked up another zombie and ran away.
The incident happened so quickly that the zombies behind him all froze in place. After a few seconds, they finally realized that they had been tricked. They screamed with rage and rushed forward, jumping and chasing after him relentlessly.
Even though Xie Xinglan was doing something so shameful, he remained calm and composed, with a hint of helplessness even on his lips.
Lu Wen was soon left behind by him. The zombie on his body was not completely restrained and struggled back and forth, making him look very embarrassed.
Xie Xinglan put a long distance between himself and the zombies, stopped and glanced back at Lu Wen, with a hint of teasing in his eyes: "You're not doing well."
“……” Lu Wen lowered his head in shame.
Xie Chi was a little puzzled as to when his brother started to enjoy attacking Lu Wen.
In less than ten minutes, the group of zombies was completely left behind by Xie Xinglan and Lu Wen.
【I was laughing the whole time. 】
[The train of thought is strange and the words are abducted and sold, hahaha. 】
[I thought he was going to fight. I was naive.]
[I feel sorry for the zombie's teeth. I trusted you so much, but you only wanted my teeth.]
[This operation looks familiar. Is he the one who deceived people with his newbie videos? My friend seems to have recommended him to me and I have a deep impression of him.]
[Are you a newcomer? ? ]
[Is this true? ? Why are you here? ]
【Followed. 】
…
After the three of them reunited, Xie Xinglan and Lu Wen knocked down the zombies together. Xie Xinglan brushed off the dust on his shoulders, took out a lighter, lit a cigarette, took a puff, and said to Lu Wen: "Go and grind your teeth."
Lu Wen suddenly looked up at him.
Xie Xinglan said expressionlessly: "Why are you looking at me? You have a sword, so of course you sharpen it. I don't have any tools."
Carrying zombies is embarrassing enough, so of course he can't let Xiao Chi do such a humiliating and tiring job.
Lu Wen felt distressed for two seconds, then thought carefully that it was not fair for him to score points for free, so he should just work honestly. So he resigned himself to his fate and took out his high-grade refined peach wood sword, squatted down and ground the two zombies' yellow and smelly teeth.
Amid the sound of teeth grinding, Yan Jing walked up to Xie Xinglan with a stifling smile and asked curiously, "Brother, Brother Lu just said that you have learned the zombie language?"
Learned zombie language in three hours?
Xie Chi cut back and said calmly: "Of course not, just learn a part and learn it thoroughly."
"Which part?"
Xie Chi smiled and answered him: "Hello, I am an outsider. My friend is still at the door. Can you come with me and bring him in to have a look..."
"Then remember a few warnings they gave me about my problems, like 'This zombie seems to have a human presence', and that'll be pretty much it."
Low-level zombies have very low IQs, about the same as two or three-year-old children, and are very easy to deceive. Xie Chi had calculated this and spent 1 point to purchase a zombie language manual and zombie clothing and makeup.
In the APP mall, props-related products are more expensive, while information-related products are very cheap.
"Zombie Manual" is sold as part of the costumes and makeup in horror movies, so it is relatively expensive, just like the price increase for things at tourist attractions.
What Xie Chi is fighting for is time. This is the fastest and most labor-saving option. If he goes back earlier, he can not only get the reward for completing the task first, but also continue to explore the plot in the inn.
Yan Jing was also shocked, and after a while he said honestly: "I thought you wanted to fight."
Xie Chi straightened his clothes, looking quite well-dressed, and said casually: "Of course not, that is the behavior of barbarians, cultured people don't do this, who can talk but do it——"
Before Xie Chi finished speaking, Xie Xinglan in his mind suddenly asked, "Barbarian?"
His tone was lazy, and there was a hint of danger in his voice.
Xie Chi realized belatedly that he had pointed at his brother. He coughed lightly and continued to talk to Yan Jing calmly, "Of course, the above refers to the general situation. In the face of 'absolute' bravery, wisdom is actually useless."
The word "absolutely" was emphasized particularly.
Xie Xinglan smiled with satisfaction, obviously enjoying it very much.
Xie Chi was really not exaggerating. There were many things that he just couldn't handle with his brain, and all would be fine if his brother came out and beat him up.
…
The atmosphere here was harmonious, but on the other side, Yue Xiuming's face became frighteningly gloomy when he saw the deep ravine in front of him.
He and Zhou Tong stood on one side of the mountain, but the destination displayed on the phone was on the other side of the mountain, separated by a deep ravine about seven or eight meters wide.
Yue Xiuming took two steps forward and looked down. The bottom of the ravine was filled with fast-flowing water and numerous rocks.
He screamed and wanted to throw his phone. "We were fooled by the app!"
The map of Mianshan on the mobile phone is very simple. It basically only has the outline of the mountain, the scale and the coordinates of the destination. The deep ravines inside the mountain are not marked on the map at all. The map only gives the straight-line distance, but it is impossible to operate in practice. The ravines are so wide and deep that if you fall into them, you will die.
Unless you take a detour.
Yue Xiuming turned around and found that Zhou Tong's face was pale, his hand holding the phone was shaking like a sieve, and his whole body was sweaty.
"What's wrong with you?" Yue Xiuming asked impatiently, "Isn't it just 30 points? Even though it's a loss, there's no need to feel so bad about it, right?"
He felt that Zhou Tong was nervous all the way. He patiently talked to Zhou Tong several times, but Zhou Tong was absent-minded. It was only when he shouted at the top of his voice that Zhou Tong smiled at him awkwardly. When he asked him what he was thinking about, he just perfunctorily answered.
That alone would have been fine, but Zhou Tong also behaved strangely. About three hours ago, he suddenly started shaking all over. Yue Xiuming asked him what happened, and Zhou Tong said it was because of the cold wind. But it was summer in the horror movie, and Yue Xiuming himself felt hot.
Zhou Tong was not only shaking all over, he also kept biting his lips and rubbing his lower lip with his upper teeth. Yue Xiuming saw that he had rubbed his lower lip until it was broken. He asked him what was wrong. Zhou Tong said that he had a blister on his lower lip and it was uncomfortable. Yue Xiuming was speechless. This man was usually very reliable, but now he seemed to be not working well.
Also, about an hour ago, Zhou Tong started scratching himself, scratching his whole body, scratching with his left hand first and then his right hand. Yue Xiuming asked him what was wrong, Zhou Tong said there were many mosquitoes in the mountains, and he was bitten all over. Yue Xiuming wondered why there were no mosquitoes biting him, Zhou Tong rolled his eyes at him, saying that blood types were different, and his blood type was particularly attractive to mosquitoes.
Yue Xiuming felt something was not right, so he grabbed his hand and took a look. There were no mosquito bites on Zhou Tong's body at all. However, Zhou Tong said that it was probably some plant in the mountains that made him allergic.
Anyway, he never stopped scratching along the way, and the backs of Zhou Tong's hands were scratched red.
[It's really scary. Zhou Tong feels like the wolf trying to trick Little Red Riding Hood. Grandma, why is your mouth so big? Because I want to eat you in one bite!]
【Bad fun ahead. 】
【Yue Xiuming is impatient and arrogant. 】
[Zhou Tong bit his lips because his teeth were itchy and grew fangs, and scratched his hands because they were itchy and grew nails. Just thinking about staying with makes my scalp tingle.]
Zhou Tong ignored Yue Xiuming's contemptuous look, forced himself to stay calm, and considered the possibility of taking a detour and changing location.
A few seconds later, his face turned pale as paper, his eyes were filled with despair and fear, and he fell to the ground weakly, gasping for breath.
Taking a detour, at his fastest speed, it would take more than ten hours; if he went to another location, the one-star one would be impossible as it was too far away; the three-star one was possible before, but he had already walked here, and the location of the three-star one was just opposite to here, so it would take at least... eight or nine hours to run there.
It seemed like he still had time, but due to the loss of essence and blood, his body was too weak to resist the spread of the corpse poison. The speed of his transformation was alarmingly fast, and he definitely could not survive eight or nine hours.
In five or six hours at most, he will completely turn into... a zombie.
Zhou Tong closed his eyes in despair. He now finally understood what the APP was implying by giving the actors 24 hours to rescue Taoist Xuan Cheng. 24 hours was the time it would take Xuan Cheng to completely turn into a zombie.
Even a strong Taoist priest could only endure 24 hours of soaking in glutinous rice water with various herbs, let alone him who was weak and unable to get effective treatment... ?
He was out of time, his fangs were starting to grow a little.
This realization made Zhou Tong completely collapse.
Unlike a novice movie, a horror movie with more flaws than merits would only result in him being deducted 100 points for breaking the rules and being expelled from the movie. For a slightly higher-level horror movie, breaking the rules means... being directly eliminated. So now he doesn't even have the possibility of going back to grind the teeth of the mission zombies. The teeth of the mission zombies cannot be moved.
"What are you doing?" Yue Xiuming was already in a bad mood, and seeing Zhou Tong lying on the ground like a dead man, he got so angry that he kicked him.
Zhou Tong no longer had the energy to pay attention to him and just let him insult him.
"If I had known your character, I would have just gone with Xie Chi and the others!" Yue Xiuming spat, regretting his decision so much. Zhou Tong seemed to be getting along badly with Xie Chi, but he had no grudge against Xie Chi and Lu Wen. If he had known this earlier, he would have just joined Xie Chi and the others, and would not have to suffer this here. Xie Chi and Lu Wen were much more capable and reliable than Zhou Tong.
While he was cursing, Zhou Tong suddenly stood up, grabbed his shoulders, and his face glowed with a strange light, like a afterglow.
"What are you doing?!" Yue Xiuming felt offended and tried to push him away, but Zhou Tong's hand was so strong that it hurt his shoulder.
"What did you just say?!" Zhou Tong stared at him, his voice sounding like a demon from hell.
Yue Xiuming was frightened and said blankly: "I say... I might as well go with Xie Chi and the others..."
Zhou Tong suddenly let go of him, laughed crazily for a few times, and even laughed until tears came out. He held Yue Xiuming's hand and said repeatedly: "Thank you! Thank you!"
Yes, and Xie Chi! Xie Chi was so capable, he must have gotten the tooth powder. He would definitely have time to rush back to the inn now. And if he moved faster, he could just get back to the inn before Xie Chi.
He can still be saved! He can still ask Xie Chi for tooth powder!
Zhou Tong was ecstatic, but suddenly remembered that he had seriously offended Xie Chi. With Xie Chi's temper, he would definitely watch him die without helping.
Then the only way for him to go is to rob them. He can't beat Xie Chi, but he can win by... taking them by surprise, for example... letting Yue Xiuming become his helper and launch a sneak attack on them.
His target was not Xie Chi. As long as he captured either Yan Jing or Lu Wen as hostage, Xie Chi would give him tooth powder. After all, that thing was only worth a few dozen points.
Zhou Tong thought so and suddenly smiled at Yue Xiuming.
There was a venomous malice hidden in that smile that was chilling.
"Did you scold me just now?" Zhou Tong said slowly.
Yue Xiuming was stunned for a moment, then instantly ignited and became furious: "What? You want to fight?"
He was not afraid of Zhou Tong at all. How could Zhou Tong, who was so weak, dare to talk back to him?
Zhou Tong rushed over, completely ignoring Yue Xiuming's kicks and punches, and bit Yue Xiuming's neck.
The newly grown fangs pierced the delicate skin there.
Yue Xiuming felt the shape of the fangs, and his blood instantly solidified, and his whole body turned cold. Zhou Tong... was no longer completely human, he was... half human, half corpse.
Under the moonlight, Zhou Tong's fingernails had turned slightly black, with a creepy blue-green color.
He heard Zhou Tong say maliciously: "If you don't want to become a zombie, come back with me to grab the tooth powder."
The best way to make someone stand on the same boat with you and be loyal to you is, of course, to make him have the same interests and goals as you.
It's either life or death.
