Chapter Seventy-Three: Duan Yue's Speculation

  The torrential rain outside seemed to have no intention of stopping, still pouring down from the sky without pause. The strong wind howled and blew, as if it wanted to blow away all the scenes in this apocalyptic world. Lightning occasionally tore through the darkness in the sky. The thunder's deafening roar was like the heavens' anger towards this apocalyptic world.

  But the people in the room didn't care about the storm raging outside with its strong winds and flashes of lightning, they continued their discussion.

  Wu Xiaotian asked after hearing Duan Yue's speculation: "So, can the survivors open up evolution after finding that key?"

  "Ah, that's what I figured!"

  After hearing Duan Yue's words, Wu Xiaotian looked forward to tomorrow with hope. If the survivors had all evolved, then what was there to fear about zombies?

  "That's great if it is!"

  Duan Yue didn't show any joyful expression, and instead said to Wu Xiao Tian: "Hehe, every survivor can start evolving? That's impossible! First of all, think about how many survivors are lucky enough to find the key to unlock evolution. Just the three of you have different ways of starting evolution, so how many ways are there in total? I don't know, but what I do know is that the way to unlock evolution must be incredibly varied!"

  With his tongue licking his dry and cracked lips, Duan Yu continued to speak.

  "Secondly, even if they knew how to unlock the evolution lock, how many people would dare to try? You may be brave enough to fight against zombies, but others may not. How many can believe that they will evolve? Finally, human nature is flawed, after all, this world is a post-apocalyptic one, and not everyone who survives can keep their original heart, without the constraints of law and morality. I dare not think about what they would do if they became evolved humans! There will always be some people in the world who are worse than beasts, and if they evolve, the threat to survivors will be greater than that of zombies and mutant beasts!"

  After hearing Duan Yue's words, Wu Xiaotian and Du Ziteng exchanged a glance and nodded in unison, because both of them had witnessed the ugliness that occurred in this doomsday.

  "There's another thing, the Chinese are talented and resourceful, in chaotic times heroes emerge, but also villains. What about this apocalyptic world? If a true hero appears, that would be great, but what if it's a villain instead? When these villainous characters gather a large number of evolved humans and start a war... when will this damned apocalypse finally end?"

  Looking at the speechless two, Yue added another sentence that dispelled Wu Xiaotian's idea of helping other survivors find the evolution key.

  "If we Chinese people didn't fight among ourselves, how would there still be so many countries in the world before the apocalypse? With 5,000 years of time, if we could unite and face outward, we would have unified this world long ago! As the saying goes, one Chinese person is a dragon, but three are just worms. Why is that? Because of the internal fighting among Chinese people!"

  Wu Xiaotian had a bitter smile on his face, but he couldn't help agreeing with Duan Yue's point of view.

  Duan Yue seemed to no longer want to discuss the topic, and instead turned to the two of them and said: "Right, tell me about the mutated zombies and beasts you've encountered!"

  "Okay, so far I've encountered Terminators, W1, T1... and other mutant zombies. Mutant beasts aren't that common for me to see, but the strangest thing is that I've even seen mutated plants."

  Then Wu Xiaotian described the characteristics of these variant zombies, and looked at Duan Yue with expectant eyes. And Duan Yue did not disappoint Wu Xiaotian's expectations, directly expressing his views.

  "I've summarized these variant zombies, although they have different forms and directions of variation such as strength and speed, their ultimate evolutionary direction is consistent - intelligence, the same intelligence as humans!"

  Duanyue said, after taking a deep breath, "Although for now only the Terminators and W1 variants have wisdom, while other variant zombies only have animal instincts. However, they were all humans infected with the D virus, so in the later stages, they will evolve to gain wisdom!"

  Wu Xiaotian and Du Ziteng both took a deep breath, if they both evolved into wisdom, then the survivor's situation would be worrying.

  "And I also found that these variant zombies have a hierarchical division, and the basis of the division is the degree to which they evolve their intelligence. So far, the Terminator's intelligence is the highest, followed by W1, T1 and H1 are at the same level of intelligence, TI and H1 are now relying on instinct, and they can be said to be beasts that eat humans. Judging from the current situation, we will encounter even more powerful variant zombies in the future, stronger than the Terminator!"

  "MD, can't let people live?", Du Ziteng cursed after hearing Duan Yue's speculation.

  "There are also evolved ones among the survivors, I don't believe that the evolved ones can't beat those zombies!"

  Wu Xiaotian interrupted Du Ziteng's complaints and suddenly saw a figure appear in front of him.

  "Alright, alright. You three men stop discussing and come eat quickly!" Liu Ting appeared in the room with a large pile of food in her arms.

  Yue seemed to want to say something, but as soon as he heard Liu Ting's crisp voice, he rushed in front of her, his eyes shining brightly as he stared at the various foods in Liu Ting's arms.

  "Sister-in-law, have pity on me, give me some food!"

  There was no longer the spirit and vigor of just now, Duan Yue now looked at Liu Ting with expectant eyes like a small dog. Wu Xiao Tian also unusually understood Duan Yue's behavior, after all he hadn't eaten anything for a long time!

  Liu Ting directly gave half of the food to Duan Yue, but Duan Yue, who had taken over the food, did not tear open the packaging of these foods and instead ran out of the room with them in her arms.

  Du Ziteng was shocked. He already knew that Duan Yue had starved to death once and was saved by Wu Xiaotian, but now Duan Yue saw the food yet didn't eat it. Instead, he followed Duan Yue out and found him slowly serving his seriously ill mother, feeding her the food Liu Ting had just given him!

  Sharp-eyed Du ZiTeng could see that Duan Yue's throat was moving up and down non-stop, Du ZiTeng knew that was the action of swallowing saliva.

  "Xiao Yue, have you eaten yet?" Duan Mu also saw Duan Yue's throat moving up and down and couldn't help but ask.

  "Yes, I've eaten, it's delicious, Mom, you have some more!"

  Du Ziteng slowly left the room, not wanting to disturb the mother and son.

  When he returned to Wu Xiaotian's room, he saw Liu Ting feeding Wu Xiaotian a mouthful of eight-treasure porridge, then taking a bite herself. The two were being affectionate with each other. Du Ziteng suddenly felt like an extra, and in order not to be a third wheel, he quietly picked up some snacks and ran into the living room to slowly enjoy the hard-won food by himself!