I Opened a Clinic in the Apocalypse

Heyaa~

I’m Moonlit, the new translator for this project.

This time, it was a complete face-off with the Blood Corpse.

The Blood Corpse launched a zombie tide against the Ling City Base but were intercepted by Wen Qingling on the way, who was labeled as “close to humans” by them. Wen Qingling didn’t care about this at first, but eventually, some zombies wanted to teach him the rules of the zombie world and made him learn by experience.

Either be human or be a zombie, you cannot have both. You can only choose one.

Wen Qingling: “???”

Wen Qingling: Choose your father!

When Wen Qingling got angry, even he was afraid of himself. 

You dared to teach him the rules but he overturned the rules and set his own rules.

Ling City is very large. Both Wen Qingling and the Blood Corpse can only move in one direction and never set foot in the central area. No one knows how many evolved entities are there.

When Wen Qingling came back, he separated the soldier zombies from the zombie tide and brought them back to South City. The weapons in the hands of the zombies were brought back by the Blood Corpse by controlling the group of zombies. And now, more than half of these weapons fell into Wen Qingling’s hands. This is also another reason that intensified the conflict between him and the Blood Corpse. 

The day after the zombie tide was stopped, Wen Qingling felt that the zombies in South City were decreasing. He thought they were being poached and used his spiritual power to investigate, but found that they were being diverted to the East and West cities — they were attracting the zombies to leave!

If it was the East City, he wouldn’t be surprised if the Blood Corpse did it, but what about the West City? Has a “leader” appeared there too? He hadn’t heard of it before.

In order to prevent the soldier zombies that were finally recovered from being handed over to either side, Wen Qingling built an outer city outside the original wooden city wall, with four vases on each side. The two cities were nested, with two layers of vases inside and outside the outer city wall, which was 10 meters high, and the inner city wall was extended to 15 meters. The civilized zombies lived in the inner city and the recovered zombie soldiers lived in the outer city.

The soldier zombies seem to have a natural preference for the weapons, they keep holding them. Wen Qingling can control them as tools even without restoring their consciousness, just like normal zombies. However, Wen Qingling doesn’t want to use them as puppets. He wants people.

Wen Qingling uses his spiritual power every day to clear their minds. He wants the soldier zombies to voluntarily become civilized zombies, but he doesn’t want to force them. After all, eating blood anemones would make them influenced by his blood, which is no different from being controlled. If they are willing, he will help them restore their consciousness and body. If not, he can only let them continue to wander. The Blood Corpse is rapidly getting stronger and Wen Qingling can’t afford to be complacent. The Blood Corpse evolves by eating humans, while Wen Qingling evolves by absorbing crystal nuclei. He thinks he is much more advanced than the Blood Corpse. He can absorb thousands of crystal nuclei at once. Can Blood Corpse eat so many people at once? It can’t!

It’s a bit embarrassing to say that something he raised with his own blood is now threatening him. Even if he dies, Wen Qingling will not be at peace. Therefore, he needs crystal nuclei, a large number of them.

He wants to race against the Blood Corpse to see who is the real father.

Wen Qingling decides to visit West City. He has already had a falling out with the East City and doesn’t want to have the same trouble with the West City. Everyone is a good neighbor and partner. They shouldn’t always think about fighting and killing. Even if they become zombies, they should be zombies with aspirations. Is it not good to have a peaceful and stable family life?

Wen Qingling refuses to become the worst zombie in the entire Ling City, so he must improve his diplomatic relations.

For diplomacy relations, Jiang Lan said: “I’m familiar with this business.”

So, when Wen Qingling visits West City in person, he brought his mother with him. Where there is a mother, there must be a father¹his father also went with them.

The first step when visiting someone: bring a gift.

Wen Qingling brought two mutant animals as gifts and drives his newly acquired SUV to West City.

In just two days, West City has completely changed. There are many zombies here, much more lively than when Wen Qingling came to find the soldier zombies. Judging from the spirit of the West City zombies, there must be a “leader” among them.

Wen Qingling parked his SUV on the main road of West City and let out a zombie roar.

Soon, two zombie roars responded to him.

Sure enough, a “leader” appeared, but why were there two roars?

Wen Qingling roared again, inviting the “leader” to meet.

Two slender figures rushed out of the building complex and landed not far in front of Wen Qingling’s family.

They were two girls. Judging from their height and surviving appearance, they should be twins. They were only about 15 or 16 years old. They should have been wearing pretty dresses and neatly tied ponytails. But now their dresses were torn and covered in blood, and their hair was messy like dry grass, accompanied by severe hair loss. Many places on their head had already revealed shiny skull, without any sense of beauty.

As sixth-level evolved creatures, their bodies and skin were still intact, not rotten to the point of being unbearable.

Wen Qingling looked at them and found out that they were both “leaders.”

The two girls roared one after another, with black blood stains all over their mouths, indicating that they had eaten many people.

Wen Qingling asked some questions and got a general idea.

One “leader” was already troublesome enough, but he didn’t expect two to appear at once. Thanks to the corpse-producing ground in the city center.

Although the “leader” has partly regained consciousness, most of them are controlled by zombie instincts. Eating people is the first thing they want to do. It can make them stronger and evolve, not just about filling their stomachs.

Both of these sister “leaders” have a relatively high level of evolution and are not rookie “leaders.” They have been living in the central area of Ling City, survived the brutal killings, and have come out of the city center and arrived in West City.

If there was only one “leader,” it might be difficult to command a quarter of the zombies in Ling City, but now there are two, and they are twins with synchronized brainwaves and stacked strength, which has enabled them to control all the zombies in West City.

Wen Qingling threw the two gifts he brought, “I know you only eat humans, but mutated animals are also delicious. You might as well try them out. They’re really tasty, especially when cooked.”

The response Wen Qingling received was two zombie roars.

The twin “leaders” showed no attention and didn’t even look at the gifts, obviously not interested in such food.

Jiang Lan advised, “Miss, although humans are delicious, eating too much will make you gain weight. Don’t you need to maintain your figure? Look at your dirty flower dresses, and your face and hair. They’re really unsightly…”

“Roar!!!” The twins angrily roared in unison.

Jiang Lan was almost overwhelmed by the “leaders” pressure.

Despite having the strength of a third-level evolutionary body, she didn’t have the same kind of pressure.

Not only her, but all their civilized zombies were like this, as if they were half-finished products. Although they had the strength of evolutionary bodies, they didn’t have the pressure of zombies. They couldn’t even intimidate ordinary zombies. They were all fakes.

Fake zombies, fake humans.

Wen Qingling roared back, “Who are you yelling at? You are ugly to begin with. Only an ugly person would deny their own ugliness!”

The twin “leaders” was provoked and almost rushed over to bite Wen Qingling.

Even though they were zombies, they were also girls. They had regained some consciousness and their pursuit of beauty was deeply ingrained in their bones. They would not tolerate anyone saying they were ugly!

Jiang Lan knew that her yelling might not be effective, otherwise, she would also want to yell a few words. Could they not listen to reason anymore?!

Jiang Lan tried to restrain her own hot temper. “Miss, although you are ugly, Auntie doesn’t mind. Our family has a clinic in the southern city. If you come to our clinic, we guarantee that we can turn you back into beautiful girls. How about it?” If it weren’t for Wen Qingling holding her down, the twin sisters might have rushed over and attacked her.

Their obsession is all about appearance, and no one can say they are ugly!

Jiang Lan showed herself to them and said, “See? So dignified, clean, and beautiful. Look at my lustrous black hair, my radiant skin, and my shapely figure. Aren’t you envious? As long as you follow my son, you will become beautiful too.”

Wen Qingling and Wen Zheng remained silent, unable to speak. They could only clap their hands in support.

The “leader” sisters compared themselves with Jiang Lan and saw the difference between them.

Wen Qingling’s eyes lit up as he understood his mother’s plan. He had been treating ordinary zombies and had never treated evolved ones. If he could convince the two “leader” to come back with them and successfully treat them, it would be a great help.

Jiang Lan stepped forward and said, “Hey, don’t bother looking. My son can definitely make you beautiful. We have young girls in our base who were like you before, but now they are beautiful. Do you want to come back with me and take a look?”

The two “leader” sisters were trying to figure out the feasibility of this plan with their less agile brains.

Then the two “leader” gathered together to discuss a plan.

Wen Qingling silently gave his mother a thumbs up.

Jiang Lan raised her chin proudly and was very satisfied.

In the end, the “leader” sisters agreed to follow them back to see the pretty young girls. Wen Qingling and her family returned by car, with the “leader” sisters following them.

The civilized zombies patrolling the city wall thought they were seeing things. They knew that the city lord had gone to develop friendly relations with the “leader” of the West City. Who would have thought that they would successfully bring back the “leader” of the West City?

And there were two of them!

The pressure of the “leader” was equally effective against these civilized zombies.

Their genes were still those of zombies. They had an instinctual fear and subservience to higher-level zombies.

Wen Qingling brought them into the city and Jiang Lan introduced them along the way, “Look at our base, isn’t it clean? Our zombies, aren’t they dignified? Our lives, aren’t they prosperous?”

Wen Qingling released his spiritual power, summoning all the female civilized zombies to come out and show off their beauty, dressed in pretty clothes.

The “leader” sisters saw them wearing pretty dresses, their hair neatly combed, and their makeup carefully done. They were so jealous that their eyes turned red and they screamed at Wen Qingling.

Jiang Lan clapped her hands. The deal was done!

Wen Qingling took them to the clinic and took out two of the biggest blood anemone. “After you eat these, you’ll look beautiful.”

Wen Qingling was afraid that the blood anemone would not be enough to control the two “leader”, so he did not use blood anemone mixed with animal blood. Instead, he used two blood anemones that he had grown with pure blood. “These are very expensive and require crystal nuclei to purchase. One blood anemone costs 1,000 ordinary zombie crystal nuclei.”

The “leader” sisters reached out their hands directly. As long as they could become beautiful, what did 1,000 crystal nuclei count for?!

Wen Qingling watched as they ate the two blood anemones and the rotting flesh began to grow new flesh. The hair that had looked like dry grass became black and soft again and the areas where their brains were exposed grew new skin and hair. Soon, two beautiful girls appeared before his eyes.

Jiang Lan had already prepared pretty dresses for them. “Come on, let’s take a bath and put on clean and pretty dresses. You’ll be two little beauties again.”

Jiang Lan took them to take a bath and change clothes. When they came back, they were completely transformed.

The sisters were indeed beautiful and it was no wonder that they could not tolerate anyone saying they were ugly.

Wen Qingling had been observing them all along. They were both “leader”, not ordinary zombies, but sixth-level evolved beings. He was curious about what changes would occur after they ate the blood anemones. Would they be influenced by the blood or would they maintain their individuality? He needs to observe.

Two girls with facial paralysis regained their ability to speak.

Very well, with facial paralysis, it indicates that they have been affected by the blood.

“I’m the older sister, Tiantian, and she’s the younger sister, Xinxin. Thank you City Lord Wen for your help. The treatment fee will be sent later.”

The “leader” sisters wanted to leave, but Wen Qingling asked, “Won’t you stay here?”

They looked at him and said, “There cannot be two tigers on one mountain.”

Wen Qingling: “…”

Did they only fix their appearance and cure their brains without any influence from the blood?

No, there was an influence. At least they had facial paralysis and they didn’t have any hostility toward Wen Qingling.

Before leaving, the twin “leader” reminded Wen Qingling, “The ‘General’ will soon complete its evolution. It will settle accounts with traitors. Be careful and don’t associate with humans. Humans are only food, not our kind.”

Having survived the apocalypse for more than two years, Wen Qingling had heard that the highest level of evolved organisms was the seventh-level “Turret,” which was a true monster. He didn’t know what level the “General” was, but he knew that something terrible was about to appear in the center of Ling City.

So, it was the “General” after all?

The twin “Leader” said, “The ‘General’ can command all evolved organisms. Otherwise, why do you think all the evolved organisms in Ling City are gathered in the city center? The ‘General’ is more perfect and powerful than us. It will rule the entire Ling City.”

Wen Qingling: “…”

The real boss of Ling City was about to appear. Was the blood corpse still jumping around for nothing?

Undoubtedly, the ‘General’ that was about to complete its evolution was likely to be a level-eight evolved organism, higher than the “Leader” and the “Turret.”

Wen Qingling isn’t sure that if an eight-level evolutionary body really appeared, would he be suppressed? Up to now, he has not been suppressed by any zombie’s coercion and it has always been him suppressing others.

Wen Qingling is very clear that he is different from other zombies, so he is both looking forward to and wary of this “general”.

When the “leader” sisters left, they promised not to divert zombies from South City again. When they need zombies, they will go to other places to find them.

Wen Qingling was very enthusiastic in pointing them in the right direction. Don’t go to other places, just go to East City where there are many zombies and free weapons to take. Isn’t that great? Let’s all share the zombies in East City together.

The “leader” sisters wanted to do it, but it was impossible. West City and East City were separated by the city center. They had just barely made it out of the city center alive and they couldn’t go back. 

Therefore, they had to go back to develop West City obediently.

Xiao Hen took some time to settle the affairs of the Ling City base and came to report to South City.

He came alone and knew that Wen Qingling didn’t want anyone to enter the base.

Before the “beheading plan”, they had come to South City, but unfortunately, they couldn’t get in. Wen Qingling did what he said and really didn’t let them come to South City again. This time it was Wen Qingling who took the initiative to ask Xiao Hen to come over as an instructor, so he wouldn’t refuse.

Sure enough, when Xiao Hen’s car arrived in South City, the zombie horde automatically made way for him to enter the city.

But after a few days, the civilized base had changed dramatically. From a city to a double city, such a scale, changing as he said, this was enough to show that Wen Qingling’s wood-type ability was also terrifying.

The Wengcheng Gate of the outer city opened, and Xiao Hen drove in. The outer city was very empty, with only a few camouflaged soldiers carrying wooden barrels, wandering unconsciously.

Xiao Hen slowed down and saw many zombies like this, and his eyebrows gradually furrowed.

The car drove into the inner city and all the way to the clinic of Wen Qingling, passing through the inner city gate. The inner city had changed a lot. Suddenly, there were many more people, several times more than before. It was bustling with people coming and going.

Wen Qingling was still standing at the door of the clinic waiting for him. Xiao Hen got off the car and looked him up and down, “Are you okay?”

Wen Qingling replied, “It can’t hurt me.”

Xiao Hen praised him without hesitation, “You are really strong.”

Wen Qingling tilted his head, “Should I say thank you?”

Xiao Hen said, “I didn’t say it to make you say thank you.”

Wen Qingling asked, “Then what do you mean?”

Xiao Hen paused for a while and said in a deep voice, “I hope your strength is not used against humans.”

Wen Qingling looked at him and said, “You got it wrong. I hope humans don’t come to me and show off their strength, otherwise, I will retaliate.”

In other words, if humans are peaceful towards him, he will be peaceful. If humans start a war against him, he will fight back.

Wen Qingling turned around and led the way. Xiao Hen silently watched his back and followed him slowly.

Wen Qingling said, “My people can’t even tell the size of a bullet and they don’t know what’s happening when the warehouse creaks. Can they be saved? Please teach them well, Instructor Xiao.”

Xiao Hen had a serious expression, “Why did you suddenly want to learn about weapons?”

Wen Qingling said naturally, “Even the rotting zombies know how to use weapons. We don’t, isn’t it embarrassing?”

Xiao Hen: “…”

 What about people who don’t even know what a weapon is? Do they still have face?

The previously lively base was now quiet. When Xiao Hen followed Wen Qingling to the square, he found that everyone in the base was standing neatly on the square, waiting for the instructor to arrive.

Xiao Hen: “……”

Originally, there were only one or two hundred people in the base and there wouldn’t be many who really wanted to learn how to use weapons. Xiao Hen never expected that reality would deal him a heavy blow. Not many? Look at all these people crowded in the square. Is this what you call not many?!

Men, women, and children of all ages were present. As long as they were from the base, even the 6-year-old Feng Tongtong and the 70-year-old healthy old man came. Xiao Hen didn’t know what they were all there for. Can they really carry weapons? Does Feng Tongtong even know how to use them? Aren’t the old men afraid that the recoil will shatter their old bones?

Xiao Hen had a lot to say, but seeing the way Wen Qingling’s natural look, he found it hard to speak.

Xiao Hen asked with difficulty, “Everyone is learning?”

Wen Qingling nodded, “Everyone is learning.”

Xiao Hen asked again, “Are there…so many weapons?”

“Yes!” Everyone held up their weapons to show him, even Feng Tongtong had one in his hand, responding to the call of the organization.

Xiao Hen: “!!!”

Xiao Hen looked at Wen Qingling and asked, “Where did you get so many weapons from?”

Wen Qingling replied, “We looted them. The neighboring Blood Corpse had a lot of weapons and ammunition. If we hadn’t helped consume them, do you think you could have made it back alive?”

These are just the ones that were taken out. There are still many that haven’t been taken out, all stored in the warehouse.

Xiao Hen fell silent. This was definitely robbing the arsenal, no doubt about it.

Xiao Hen said, “I think I need to bring the other three here. I might not be able to handle it alone.”

Wen Qingling replied, “No, you don’t need to. You can do it alone.”

Xiao Hen said, “Then I’ll teach them in batches. We can’t hear anything if we’re all gathered together.”

Wen Qingling said strangely, “Do you think we’re as poor as the Ling City base?”

With a gesture from Wen Qingling, someone brought in two large speakers and a headset, which was put on Xiao Hen. In addition to these, there was even a mixer and a tuner!

Xiao Hen has nothing to say except for silence.

Wen Qingling said, “Don’t worry, our sound engineer is very professional, and besides, our people have good eyesight. Don’t worry about them not being able to see. You can start now.”

Xiao Hen could only follow the arrangement.

He walked up to the raised platform and demonstrated on-site the dismantling of an automatic weapon, then step by step assembling and explaining it, first popularizing the theoretical knowledge, and then proceeding with the teaching.

Wen Qingling stood on the side and watched, learning along with him.

Xiao Hen was very experienced in teaching weapon knowledge. He explained each step in an orderly manner. His dismantling and assembling skills were very fast and proficient. It was not difficult to see that he had done the same thing before and did it frequently.

After the knowledge of weapon disassembly, the problem of how to match different caliber weapons with ammunition came up.

When Xiao Hen saw the boxes of ammunition being lifted out, he was already able to face it calmly.

Wen Qingling said something very appropriate, that the civilized base was indeed richer than the Ling City base. Just looking at the courage of everyone having a weapon and boxes of bullets, the Ling City base was not comparable.

Lunch was still at Wen Qingling’s home. Jiang Lan’s cooking was very good. She was no longer nervous when she saw Xiao Hen for the first time. She quite liked Xiao Hen, after all, he was handsome, had a face and a figure, which were all pluses, and he was also a base instructor who knew a lot and had strong personal abilities. No matter how you looked at it, he was excellent and likable.

Lunch was very sumptuous. The students sent a lot of good and rare food, which couldn’t be finished in one meal and had to be put in the refrigerator to be eaten slowly later.

Xiao Hen felt the enthusiasm of the students here. Although they all had facial paralysis, he felt their intentions, especially Jiang Lan, who looked at him with eyes full of liking and kept using the serving chopsticks to pick dishes for him, encouraging him to eat more, knowing that life outside was probably not as good as in the base, and it was rare to come here, so eat more and make up for it.

Why is the mother-in-law so enthusiastic about the daughter-in-law’s visit?

Xiao Hen was overwhelmed by the favor and kept looking at Wen Qingling.

Wen Qingling didn’t use serving chopsticks, but directly used the tongs to pick up a piece of grilled mutant lamb chop and put it on Xiao Hen’s plate.

“Eat more, otherwise, when you go out to practice with the weapons, you may not be able to keep up with the students’ speed.”

Xiao Hen: “…”

So, the ultimate goal of this enthusiastic reception for him was still for the students, right?

Okay, he only had this little value in the base.

Xiao Hen watched as Wen Qingling used the tongs to pick up a little bit of each dish and put it on the plate in front of him, then ate slowly.

Upon further observation, Wen Zheng and Jiang Lan have the same habit. Since the first time Xiao Hen came to eat at Wen Qingling’s house, he noticed that they didn’t use their own chopsticks to directly pick up food, but rather used serving chopsticks or a utensil to pick up the food and put it on their own plates or bowls, and then used their own chopsticks to eat.

Xiao Hen thought that Wen Qingling’s family was very particular, and as a guest, he followed the local custom and also used utensils to pick up the food.

Now, it seems that the truth may not be what he thought.

In the afternoon, when he took his students out to practice, Xiao Hen finally understood what Wen Qingling meant. Everyone was very fast and could easily jump more than ten meters away. Xiao Hen had to keep up with them.

When going out to practice, not everyone could go, so they had to come in batches. Wen Qingling chose a training ground for them in the East City, where the wooden targets were zombies. They didn’t need to be polite and had plenty of bullets to kill them.

Xiao Hen: “…”

He followed them all the way, weaving through the zombie-infested Ling City, and no zombies attacked them. When they saw them, the zombies would actively avoid them.

Xiao Hen had been observing them all along and the more he saw, the more he couldn’t calm down.

All the crystal nuclei from the zombies killed in the weapon training were given to Wen Qingling and he was very satisfied.

On the way back, they encountered a third-level evolved “Hunter” who was thin and small, but very fast and agile. It ignored everyone and chased after Xiao Hen to kill him.

Xiao Hen: “…”

How bad was his luck that it picked only him out of dozens of people to kill?

When the people in the base saw that the instructor was attacked, they immediately fought back, and all of them began to beat up the third-level evolved.

Third-level evolved: “…”

Did they all go blind? They killed their own kind instead of hunting their prey?

Unable to provoke them, it fled.

The third-level evolved was scared off and the group returned to the city safely without encountering any more zombies along the way.

As an instructor in the base, Xiao Hen finally obtained the qualification to live in the inner city and lived next to Wen Qingling’s house in an empty villa reserved for him.

The night at the base is very quiet. The houses with lights on have people living in them. Some are alone, while others gather with their families to enjoy dinner, living in happiness and peace. The dangers and hardships outside cannot affect them here. It seems isolated from the world and they live their peaceful lives undisturbed.

On the third day of Xiao Hen’s arrival in South City, the Ling City base suddenly came up with a plan and came to South City to find someone and request to see Wen Qingling.

They couldn’t enter the South City, so they had to stand outside and shout loudly. This was the method taught to them by the people who entered the South City.

Afraid that Wen Qingling couldn’t hear them, they specially equipped themselves with a loudspeaker and the scene was quite familiar.

Wen Qingling was listening to a lecture and was annoyed by the people outside.

Wen Qingling said, “You continue, I’ll go take a look.”

Xiao Hen saw the direction he left and understood. He let the students practice on their own and went to see as well.

Wen Qingling appeared at the edge of South City, standing on top of a container, looking at the group of people outside the city.

To prevent outsiders from entering South City at will, Wen Qingling had the zombies push all the abandoned cars in South City to the outskirts, forming a junkyard. Only the main road that leads to South City is passable, but it’s dominated by zombies. Outside vehicles cannot enter without permission and unless they fly over the junkyard, they have to go through the zombie group on the main road.

The highly skilled people from the Ling City base were really excited to see Wen Qingling.

Fang Shenlong said, “Dr. Wen, we have a big business deal to discuss with you.”

Wen Qingling looked at him expressionlessly without saying a word.

Fang Shenlong: “You were the one who stopped the zombie tide that day, right? If you can stop the tide, then you can certainly kill the Blood Corpse. Our Ling City base is willing to offer crystals to hire you to help kill the Blood Corpse. What do you say?”

Wen Qingling: “Not interested. Stop arguing here and leave.”

“Wen Qingling!”

Wen Qingling was about to leave but was stopped by the broadcaster Miao Bo, “You’re a psychic ability user, you must be a psychic ability user! I didn’t sense it wrong that day, you were probing the Lingcheng base! Your psychic power is so strong! You can stop the zombie tide! You can control the zombie horde! You have such strength, yet you still want to watch our Ling City base be destroyed?!”

Wen Qingling turned around and looked at him coldly, “That’s your battle with the Blood Corpse, it has nothing to do with me.”

Fang Shenlong: “We’ll hire you with crystals.”

Wen Qingling: “I don’t accept employment.”

Miao Bo: “Then what do you want? As long as you say it, we’ll satisfy you!”

Wen Qingling scanned them, “I want you all to shut up and quietly leave South City.”

Meng Hua was angry, “You can stop the zombie tide because of Xiao Hen’s words, but when it comes to us, we can’t even offer crystals?! Don’t look down on people!”

Xiao Hen, who had just arrived, was silent.

Wen Qingling glanced at Xiao Hen, then at Meng Hua, and then at everyone else. “You’re all too ugly, it’s affecting my mood.”

Everyone: “…”

Everyone looked at Xiao Hen with eyes that said “pretty boy,” from top to bottom and left to right.

Xiao Hen: “…”

Meng Hua pulled Luo Feng from the crowd, “What about him? He should at least match your mood, right?”

If he didn’t match, then he couldn’t be their brother.

That’s what they thought.

Luo Feng, who was pushed out: “…”

Wen Qingling looked at him calmly, “Are you going to persuade me too?”

Luo Feng’s gaze swept back and forth between Wen Qingling and Xiao Hen, “No, I won’t force you. It’s up to your mood…”

“Luo Feng! Are you still part of our base?! You’re so irresponsible when it comes to the life and death of our base!” Someone reprimanded him on the spot.

Luo Feng seemed oblivious to what was going on around him, his gaze fixated on the two of them. “Qingling, are you a dual ability user?” he asked.

Wen Qingling nodded. “Yes.”

Luo Feng forced a bitter smile. “When did you awaken your dual abilities?”

“At the same time,” Wen Qingling replied.

Luo Feng couldn’t describe the feeling in his heart. Wen Qingling had hidden his true strength from them and because of a woman, Lu Tianjin had betrayed their brotherly bond and died, while he himself had barely managed to survive, living as an outcast in Ling City Base.

“Do you never believe in us?” Luo Feng asked.

“No,” Wen Qingling replied.

Although he had awakened his dual abilities back then, his psychic abilities were useless in the beginning, except for being more sensitive to perception than others. It was not until his death and resurrection as a zombie that his psychic abilities became useful.

He couldn’t tell anyone about these things, as admitting that he wasn’t human would only result in being hunted down and causing harm to everyone in the base.

Luo Feng asked, “Why did you keep the fact that you are a dual ability user hidden all this time?”

Wen Qingling replied, “It’s troublesome. I didn’t want to invite unnecessary trouble because of being a dual ability user.”

Uncertain if he believed her or not, Luo Feng looked at Wen Qingling and asked, “One last question, can I join your base?”

Wen Qingling replied, “My base is not suitable for you.”

Luo Feng nodded, understanding his response. “Then where do you want me to go?”

Wen Qingling answered, “It’s dangerous here. Leave this place and leave Ling City Base.”

Luo Feng said, “And what about you?”

Wen Qingling replied, “I’ll stay here. If you get bitten by a zombie or become one, you can come back and find me. If you survive, try your best to stay alive.”

“Okay, I’ll listen to you.”

Luo Feng took one last look at Wen Qingling and Xiao Hen before turning around and leaving.

Everyone at Ling City Base was speechless.

Is he a fool? Letting him leave is one thing, but where can he go in this day and age? Everywhere is infested with zombies. He will die no matter where he goes. He’s better off staying here where it’s safe.

Wen Qingling looked at them and said, “You can leave now.”

Meng Hua angrily asked, “You drove away Luo Feng. Do you want to see Ling City Base destroyed?”

Wen Qingling replied, “Here’s some advice, move your base as soon as possible, the farther the better. If you wait too long, you won’t be able to leave.”

“What kind of advice is that? Do you think you’re so great with your psychic ability? If Ling City Base will be destroyed, then your base won’t be spared either. I can’t wait to see your base reduced to rubble by zombies!” Meng Hua yelled and turned to leave.

Wen Qingling asked, “Did Xu Sheng die?”

Meng Hua’s face suddenly turned extremely ugly, gritting his teeth he said, “I forgot, you’re the cousin of that stinky female! Her account can be settled with you too!”

Meng Hua suddenly pulled out a wooden mallet and hit Wen Qingling with several bangs.

Wen Qingling’s figure disappeared and when he reappeared, he was already standing in front of Meng Hua, one hand holding the wooden mallet in Meng Hua’s hand, the other hand on Meng Hua’s head — probing the past!

Meng Hua yelled loudly and launched an earth-binding technique to try to fix Wen Qingling’s feet, but the technique was not strong enough and was easily kicked apart by Wen Qingling. Wen Qingling flew backward and landed back on top of the container.

Wen Qingling said, “You slept with your sister’s best friend and used it to threaten her, promising to provide shelter for her and her parents at the Ling City base. She killed your sister, and that’s tit for tat. You continued to offer a reward for her, but in the end, you couldn’t even handle an infected woman and let her escape. You are such a useless person.”

“I’ll kill you!!!!” Meng Hua was furious with shame and anger, and he started firing his gun.

Wen Qingling reached out and all the leaves on the ground floated up. With a flick of his hand, all the leaves turned into sharp blades. After a burst of “pu pu” sounds, Meng Hua had already been pinned to the ground by the soft leaves, like a hedgehog!

Wood element ability – Leaf Kill!

Everyone was frightened.

Wen Qingling was too strong, completely beyond their imagination.

The ground extended vines and dragged Meng Hua, who was not yet completely dead and threw him into the zombie horde.

The zombie horde swarmed and fought for the fresh flesh.

Wen Qingling looked at them and said, “Get lost.”

Everyone stumbled and climbed into their cars, quickly fleeing. Who would dare to shout and scream at Wen Qingling again?

Wen Qingling turned around and walked back to the base.

Xiao Hen silently followed behind.

When they were close to the base, Xiao Hen finally spoke, “You keep saying this place is dangerous. What is the source of the danger?”

“This is very unfortunate news for you. You won’t want to hear it. Before the strength of human ability users is strong enough to compete with evolved zombies, the Level 8 evolved zombies will appear. This is undoubtedly the biggest disaster for humanity.”

Xiao Hen: “There has been so much unfortunate news, one more won’t make a difference.”

Wen Qingling glanced at him, “Did your national treasure-level expert leave?”

Xiao Hen: “No.”

Wen Qingling: “Then why are you here?”

Xiao Hen: “It’s because Fang Zhen has antibodies and the South City zombies are regaining consciousness, which has piqued the interest of the expert. He wants to establish a research institute here.”

Wen Qingling’s expression was very strange.

Before he could say anything, Xiao Hen continued, “I know it’s dangerous here, but nobody can persuade him to go back. As long as he’s here, I’ll be responsible for his safety.”

Wen Qingling looked at him sympathetically, “You’ve been working hard. Keep up the good work.”

Xiao Hen asked, “What is the source of danger here?”

Wen Qingling looked up in the direction of the city center, and asked an unrelated question, “Why did you agree to kill the blood corpse for Luo Feng? You know that if he goes, he’s very likely to die in East City.”

Xiao Hen looked at Wen Qingling’s handsome profile and said softly, “I know, that’s why I can’t let him go.”

“Why?” Wen Qingling turned around to face him.

“Because…” Xiao Hen looked into his eyes, “I hope you have some ties that will prevent you from completely siding with the zombies.”

“Do you think Luo Feng is my tie?” Wen Qingling asked.

“Besides him, I can’t find anyone else,” Xiao Hen replied.

If Wen Qingling’s parents were still alive, they would be the strongest ties, but unfortunately, they were on the same side as him.

Wen Qingling took a step forward and stared at Xiao Hen’s face for a long time before leaning in close to Xiao Hen’s ear and saying, “How about I take a bite out of you and make you my tie?”

Xiao Hen’s pupils contracted and he pushed Wen Qingling away, gritting his teeth and asking, “Are you really not human?”

Wen Qingling’s face twitched, but his lips curved up and he asked, “What do you think?”

Xiao Hen didn’t want to find out or guess.

Xiao Hen asked, “What about the people in the base? Are they really humans? What are they?”

Wen Qingling replied, “Why don’t you guess?”

“I don’t want to guess!” Xiao Hen exclaimed.

“Then don’t guess. Use your own eyes to see,” Wen Qingling turned and continued walking.

Xiao Hen stood in place for a long time, trying to build up his psychological defenses before heading toward the base.

He listened to Wen Qingling’s words and stopped asking questions. He only observed every person in the base. Except for their lack of expressions, they were no different from humans. They were indeed human beings!

Every day, Xiao Hen ate at Wen Qingling’s house. He had found out the reason why they used serving chopsticks and utensils to pick up food. It was because they might infect him with anything, but couldn’t say it directly, so they could only use this method to avoid it.

Xiao Hen increased the speed of his teaching to the students. He wanted to return to the Ling City base as soon as possible. He didn’t feel at ease leaving the experts there. If possible, he wanted to persuade the experts to return, as Ling City was indeed very dangerous, and there was no need to establish a research institute there.

During shooting training outside, Xiao Hen was attacked several times. Every time this happened, he began to feel that everyone except him was not human. That was why the evolved creatures were chasing and trying to kill him.

• 1his father also went with them