Upon hearing this, everyone turned their suspicious eyes to Xu Yingying.
Xu Yingying's expression was distorted when her dirty tricks were revealed to the public.
She yelled sharply: "She is lying! She is a zombie and must have deliberately provoked discord between us! Kill her quickly!"
However, before anyone could react, Shi Lingyao had already jumped easily between the branches and headed towards the zombie city - Mocheng.
Seeing Shi Lingyao's back disappearing into the night, Xu Yingying collapsed on the ground and murmured: "Let her run away... She will definitely take revenge on us in the future..."
Night falls.
Shi Lingyao walked on the street full of zombies. No zombie dared to approach her, so they all stayed away from her.
She wandered aimlessly, not knowing where to go.
It had been three years since the natural disaster struck, and she had become accustomed to living in the village of human survivors. She ran around for survival every day, searching for supplies that she might have missed in the surrounding towns filled with zombies.
Leng Buding didn't need to do anything, he was left alone, and he suddenly felt that he had plenty of time.
Strictly speaking, she is no longer a real person.
She turned into a strange zombie.
Humans are afraid of her, and so are zombies.
I couldn't help but think of the beginning of it all.
At first it was just a drought, which lasted for six full months. No crops were harvested. Unscrupulous merchants took the opportunity to raise food prices. The people were destitute and starved to death everywhere.
During that eerily long hot dry season, the plague began to spread.
It started out as just a village.
spread to a town.
In the blink of an eye, it swallowed up countless surrounding villages and towns. Before people could react, the plague had already spread to three cities.
The emperor was furious, but the treasury was empty, the food and supplies for disaster relief were really a drop in the bucket, and the imperial doctors and folk doctors were helpless.
After beheading countless doctors in anger, the emperor had to admit that people were completely powerless in the face of this natural disaster.
"The emperor's lack of virtue angered the heavens, so he brought this sudden disaster."
After a year-long hot dry season, when the first piece of snow fell, this rumor spread all over the country.
In the end, the general rebelled, proclaimed himself the emperor, and drastically reformed the old and established new rules, finally stabilizing the crumbling and fragmented Daxuan Kingdom.
Although it was difficult, some part of humanity finally survived.
In the entire Daxuan Kingdom, there are only four survival camps where humans are concentrated, and everyone calls them new cities.
The largest one, and the safest one, is naturally the Imperial Capital where the new emperor is located. It is also the earliest new city built for human survivors. It is said that it covers an area of almost half the Imperial Capital.
I heard it is still being expanded.
The falling snow brought not only the new emperor and system, but also the first batch of ability users.
Some people are like the gods in legends, possessing magical powers and abilities, being "Hercules" with infinite strength, running very fast, "racing in the sky", being clairvoyant, and having ears for the wind. These are not particularly powerful anymore. .
What attracts people's attention the most is people like Shi Lingyao, whose induction and use of natural elements are no different from those of gods.
It's just that there are still a small number of people with this type of special skills. They are usually guests in every new city or other large village where humans gather, and they are very admired and respected beings.
It seems that humans have new hope of survival.
However, as humans mutate, animals and plants are also constantly mutating.
By the time the first snow falls, the world has become strange and dangerous.
In addition to the threat of mutated animals and plants, people who had previously died due to the plague have also been resurrected.
In fact, it cannot be said that they were resurrected. They turned into zombies without thoughts and speech, and only blindly pursued living people to bite and devour.
People began to call this kind of thing "zombie". Different from the imaginary jumping and stiffness, these zombies move...
Those who are in poor physical condition may not be able to outrun the zombies...
The worst part is that humans who are bitten or scratched by zombies will also be infected and turn into identical zombies.
Doctors have been working intensively on a solution for three years, but have made no progress at all.
In the past three years, the first year was a hot dry season, followed by two long years of cold winter.
Shi Lingyao followed the survivors all the way. The village was destroyed and rebuilt. Many people died and many people came.
Finally, a place for humans to live has been opened up in this long, windy and snowy winter.
But now, she was plotted by her fellow humans and turned into a conscious zombie, abandoned by her fellow humans and feared by zombies.
Became a loner.
She refused to accept her fate, even if she had reached this point, she still wanted to live.
Zombies are afraid of her, so she has more favorable living conditions than other humans.
She can stay sane, so is there a way to keep other zombies sane too?
Her confused heart gradually found its direction. She thought about it and decided to go back home.
If nothing else, the parents who had been turned into zombies and were locked in the house before she left were still there.
There were no zombies on the road, so she walked quickly and soon arrived at her home in Qingcheng next door.
The center of the city was in a state of depression, and the bustling zombies had already fled away when she came to this street.
The front door of the house was locked and intact, and the weeds in the yard were waist-high. It looked like no one had been there at all.
She opened the big lock of the main room, and the choking dust rushed into her face, making her cough.
Shi Ling covered his mouth and nose and looked around. The most conspicuous thing was the two neatly dressed but gray withered corpses in the corner.
They are her parents.
After being deprived of living flesh and blood for a long time, zombies will turn into dry corpses and remain motionless. Once nourished by flesh and blood, they will come back to life.
Shi Lingyao put down the package and bit his finger, feeling no clear pain.
Bright red blood droplets dripped and soon sank into the withered lips of the two corpses.
The wound on the fingertips healed quickly.
She was waiting for the body to react, went to the well in the courtyard to fetch water, and wanted to simply clean up the dusty main house and have a place to rest first.
Two years of wind and snow have made the earth no longer dry, and there is no shortage of water. The temperature has become extremely cold again. Even if the ability users are not afraid of the cold, she still can't help but want to wrap herself up thickly.
The hemp rope on the windlass had already become brittle, and it broke into several pieces as soon as she pulled it.
She clutched the hemp rope for a moment, then her eyes moved when she saw the weeds all over the yard.
The weeds rustled and began to twist as if they had their own consciousness, shaking off the snow on their bodies, intertwining, lengthening, and finally turning into a long emerald green grass rope.
Shi Lingyao tugged hard, but it didn't move at all.
It's really unusual for weeds to be able to live lushly in such a cold winter.
She groaned as she fetched a bucket of water.
"Dang Cang——"
There was the sound of chairs being knocked over in the main room.
She made a move, dropped the bucket and ran back to the house.
Two skinny mummies were lying on the ground pulling at her package, burying their heads in it and eating something unknown.
Shi Lingyao was stunned. She didn't put any food in her bag. What were these two eating?
The smell of blood began to permeate the air.
She moved her nose and suddenly had an idea.
This taste...
Inside the package were those red branches she had collected!
Just as she was surprised, the appearance of the two zombies, her father and mother, was undergoing changes that could be seen with the naked eye.
The body that was originally as dry as firewood gradually became plump with visible bones, new skin and flesh grew rapidly, and the face that was so rotten that it could not be seen was also rapidly repaired and reorganized.
In just a blink of an eye, under Shi Lingyao's gaze, the two zombies changed from indistinguishable zombies to intact, no different from living people!
This was a strange situation that was completely inconsistent with the recovery level of ordinary zombies, and she no longer cared to think about it carefully.
Shi Lingyao looked at the two familiar people in front of her, and the tip of her nose felt a little sore. Thinking about it carefully, she hadn't seen them in more than two years.
"Father, mother, do you... still recognize me?"
