Only then did Su Yu realize that Xu Tutu was wearing a long black leather apron with some dried blood on it, but overall it was still clean.
"I waited until now to show you how to feed Chou Chou." Xu Tutu lifted the iron bucket to the small door and handed another long apron on the table to Su Yu.
It's actually pink, without any blood stains, and it looks brand new at first glance. Su Yu took it with a smile: "Newly bought? Thank you."
"Yes, very clean." Xu Tutu nodded carelessly and glanced at the apron in Su Yu's hand: "My mother said that girls are different from boys and like pink."
Su Yu looked at Xu Tutu's serious look and suppressed his smile.
But what Xu Tutu paid most attention to was the zombie Chou Chou. Although his plain expression showed no urgency at all, the movements of his hands were not negligent.
"Put it on quickly, Chou Chou is about to starve to death." He urged.
Su Yu quickly put on an apron and pink rubber gloves.
"What are you feeding?" Su Yu looked down at the contents of the tin bucket.
"It's chicken." Xu Tutu lowered his head and took out a piece of meat to show her, "Chou Chou has a different recipe every day, usually chicken and pork, and sometimes some beef and mutton."
After he finished speaking, he pointed to a piece of paper taped to the wall.
Su Yu saw the words "Chou Chou Recipe" written on it, and in the Sunday column, it actually said "Little Tomatoes".
"Chou Chou is a vegetarian?" She thought of the vegetarian zombie who was as hungry as a mummy.
"Yeah, but it only eats small tomatoes and feeds it once a week. I'm still exploring more vegetables and fruits it can accept."
Su Yu was a little worried: "Do you know about Teacher Hu's vegetarian feeding group?"
"I know," Xu Tutu answered naturally: "But Chou Chou is different, and I won't just feed it a vegetarian diet. That research is very unrealistic."
"You shouldn't be afraid, right?" Seeing that Su Yu had finished dressing, he unlocked the small door, thought about it, and then said:
"You can't hit it."
"Okay, okay, I'm not that violent." Su Yu replied.
As soon as the door opened, a slight rancid smell wafted out. Chou Chou, who had been looking calmly here, began to unconsciously open his jaw after smelling the scent of the two of them, with saliva constantly spraying from his mouth. It suddenly stretched out its arms and moved a few steps this way. This action made Su Yu instantly clenched his fists.
But Chou Chou's movement suddenly stopped after a few steps, as if something was restricting it. Su Yu looked carefully and found that an iron chain was tied to one of its feet, limiting its movement within a semicircle.
"Chou Chou, it's time to eat." Xu Tutu seemed to be talking to a child.
Su Yu thought he would pour a whole bucket of chicken to Chou Chou, but instead he bent over and took a clean iron basin, placed the chicken neatly in it, and then slowly pushed it in front of Chou Chou: " Eat."
Chou Chou hurriedly buried his head in the iron basin and made a purring sound like a cat while eating.
"It eats two meals a day, one at 6 a.m. and one at 8 p.m. The ingredients are collected from the warehouse behind the base at 5:30 a.m." Xu Tutu looked at Chou Chou and continued: "It eats when it is full. It won’t attack me, so after feeding it at 8 o’clock every night, I will clean its room and bed. That’s about it.”
"Then what is our research topic?" Su Yu asked.
Xu Tutu turned to look at Su Yu: "I haven't thought about it yet."
"Then we keep Chou Chou like a pet?"
"No," Xu Tutu interrupted: "It's like feeding people."
"What do you mean?" Su Yu was confused.
"I think... zombies have thoughts and feelings in their subconscious."
Xu Tutu said sternly.
"Look at Chou Chou, it smells the smell and attacks humans out of instinct, but this is not its own instinct, but the feeding instinct of the mutant ergot. When its appetite is satisfied, it seems to become more rational and won't By attacking me, it's probably its human subconscious breaking free."
As Su Yu listened to Xu Tutu's words, his mind was filled with the zombie brain wrapped in green mutated ergot bacteria. Those filaments growing out of the corpus callosum weave into a dense cage, trapping a living person inside.
Su Yu suddenly remembered something that seemed very long ago.
One day in her zombie career, after feasting on a fat squirrel, she wanted to go to the rooftop and watch the sunset.
This consciousness that should not have been preserved in the chaos suddenly appeared in her mind.
If zombies have human consciousness and emotions, what does that mean?
Chou Chou's satisfied whine interrupted Su Yu's thoughts. Xu Tutu began to clean the room with a water pipe and mop, and folded the quilt on the bed.
As expected, Chou Chou was no longer very aggressive as he said. Even when Xu Tutu wiped the dirt on its arm, it just scratched a few times out of instinct.
After getting everything done, Xu Tutu and Su Yu exited the glass room and took off their outfits in the observation room.
"One more thing, you have to write an observation diary every day. Remember to write it when I'm not around." Xu Tutu pointed to the computer on the table, "It mainly records what Chou Chou ate today. Quickly play back the monitoring and see. Look what he did, he slept for a few hours.”
"Do zombies need to lie down to sleep?" Su Yu was suddenly curious. She had no memory of this and most of the zombies she saw were standing.
"Zombies don't need it, Chou Chou does."
Xu Tutu flipped through the observation diary on the computer and picked out a page to show to Su Yu: "After seven months of intensive feeding, Chou Chou began to sleep. At about the same time, he fell asleep after eating enough. Stop attacking me."
Su Yu felt incredible.
It seems that Xu Tutu's research is indeed more meaningful than other domestication groups. Hu Yue's idea of making all zombies eat vegetarian food seems a bit ridiculous now.
Moreover, she also learned that, except for Xu Tutu, most of the domestication research teams were fed by employees of the domestication base. Even a group like Hu Yue, who has strict requirements on food, lists the food list and leaves it to the base.
All the zombies in the domestication base only have one meal in the morning every day. As for things like washing and cleaning, each research team is still responsible for it. There are few people like Xu Tutu who clean every day, wipe off the dirt and put on clean clothes for Chou Chou.
Even before Su Yu left, Xu Tutu was soaking the dirty clothes Chou Chou had changed into a basin and washing them carefully.
He explained to Su Yu: "I change my clothes every Monday, but you don't have to do these things. Chou Chou is a boy."
After saying goodbye to Xu Tutu, Su Yu walked out of the fourth factory area alone.
The entire training base was quiet, with a hunting team patrolling back and forth between several factory areas. Su Yu took a careful look and saw that Chu Wei was not there. It was probably not the first unit of the Demon Hunters on duty tonight.
Under the light of the moon above her head, Su Yu was walking back to her dormitory. The campus bus would reduce its frequency after 10 p.m., and it would take a long time to wait for each bus, so she decided to walk back by herself.
With a "ding" sound, a call me message was received on the screen. Su Yu looked down and found that it was from Hao Tian:
[Comrades, I have accomplished a great thing! ]
