Chapter Seventy-Fifth: Duan Yue's Ambition

  "Ordinary survivors should be compared to rabbits, while we evolved ones are at most small animals with the ability to resist!" Wu Xiaotian smiled self-deprecatingly and continued: "Whether it's a rabbit or other small animals, they're all delicious on the zombies' menu."

  "Right, your metaphor is also very apt. We are just the most delicious food on the zombies' menu!"

  Liu Ting, on the other hand, did not quite agree with Wu Xiaotian and Duan Yue's words, and retorted: "How can we be small animals? Can't we evolve? Can't we kill them?"

  "Haha, this is just a metaphor. We can evolve, and the mutated zombies can also evolve, but we don't evolve as easily as they do because we are humans, not monsters, and we can't endlessly obtain evolution energy. But the mutated zombies can, and when they evolve to have intelligence no different from that of humans, it won't be so easy to kill them!"

  Duanyue suddenly asked Wu Xiaotian, "Chimney, have you evolved into the second stage now?"

  "Yes, if I hadn't evolved to the second stage, I wouldn't have had the ability to control lightning and couldn't have hunted down those variant zombies so easily!"

  "Maintaining this huge advantage, you have now evolved one more time than Ziteng and Saozi, and also one more time than those mutant zombies. In such a short period of time, you have already evolved twice! If we can keep up this speed, then we are not without hope!"

  After nodding heavily, Wu Xiaotian suddenly remembered something and asked Duan Yue: "Duan Yue, if an ordinary zombie swallows the corpse of a mutated zombie, will it also become a mutated zombie?"

  Then Wu Xiaotian told Duan Yue about the ordinary zombies fighting for T1 corpses when crossing the river. After a moment of contemplation, Duan Yue gave an answer that left Wu Xiaotian helpless.

  "The zombies, ordinary zombies don't have consciousness, they only act and hunt based on instinct. However, they were once human, so their ability to measure things hasn't disappeared, they also know how to give up! They gave up on you and instead turned to fight over the corpse of T1, so in their instincts, evolution is put first, while food is second!"

  He picked up the mineral water beside him and took a sip, then continued: "If it's really like that, it'll be a bit troublesome in the future. After killing the mutated zombies, we have to clean up their bodies. If they're eaten by ordinary zombies and new mutated zombies appear, the number of mutated zombies won't decrease. We also need to pay attention to those ordinary zombies and notice any changes. After all, I still don't know if those ordinary zombies will naturally evolve!"

  "Ah, okay!"

  Wu Xiaotian followed Yue's advice, while Liu Ting on the side lowered her head, seemingly thinking about something.

  "If I see H1 again in the future, get rid of it first and let them not threaten Brother Wu! I have the ability to teleport and turn invisible, and I should make good use of these abilities."

  I don't know what Liu Ting was thinking, how to protect Wu Xiao Tian. He turned his head and looked out the window, where the rain was still pouring down without any signs of letting up. He let out a bitter laugh, then weakly climbed onto the bed, ignoring Duan Yue who was standing beside him and Liu Ting who was lost in thought. He fell asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow, because his body hadn't fully recovered from the massive blood loss, and his brain had been working non-stop since listening to Duan Yue's theories. Wu Xiao Tian was extremely weak and tired, all he wanted to do was sleep soundly.

  After hearing Wu Xiaotian's soft snoring, Duan Yue tactfully walked out of the room. Liu Ting also stopped thinking and yawned cutely before crawling into bed to hug Wu Xiaotian, lying on his chest and slowly falling asleep as well. After all, she hadn't rested for a single moment since Wu Xiaotian fainted until now.

  Rumbling sound

  Dazzling lightning flashes appear and disappear instantly, although brilliant, but fleeting.

  Duan Yue walked out of the room, but he didn't go to rest. It wasn't that he didn't want to rest, it was just that he didn't dare to rest. The burden on his body was too heavy! In this post-apocalyptic survival problem, his mother's old illness problem, all these burdens were shouldered by him alone. Although Wu Xiaotian's arrival had solved part of the survival problem, the burden on his shoulders hadn't lightened, but instead became heavier and heavier!

  Duan Yue wanted to help Wu Xiaotian, although he could analyze various things for Wu Xiaotian, make accurate judgments, formulate perfect strategies, and then be a military advisor by Wu Xiaotian's side. As a military advisor, Duan Yue could pat his chest and say "I can", but he didn't want to just be a yes-man, he wanted to fight shoulder-to-shoulder with Wu Xiaotian, to fight together in this damned post-apocalyptic world.

  Not for fame, not for gain, but for his brother - Wu Xiaotian!

  Duan Yue envied Du Ziteng and Liu Ting, not because of their feelings for Wu Xiaotian, nor because they were Evolvers. He was envious that they could fight alongside Wu Xiaotian, fighting against the damned zombies together. But now he couldn't fight side by side with Wu Xiaotian due to his weak body, even if he wanted to, Wu Xiaotian wouldn't allow it. So he wanted to become an Evolver, only then could he fight alongside Wu Xiaotian, and Wu Xiaotian would permit him on the battlefield. If he didn't become an Evolver, he could only stand in the back, watching enviously!

  So now Duan Yue wants to try, try if he can evolve himself. The first method of trying is to kill the zombies and see if he can absorb that legendary evolution energy. Turning his head to look at Wu Xiaotian's room, he said in a low voice: "Brother, I will definitely fight side by side with you!"

  Duan Yue, who had just finished speaking, did not rush out to find the zombies. Instead, he first wanted to find a weapon to fight them off. Without a weapon, was he supposed to use his weak fists to engage in close combat with the zombies?

  Duan Yue started rummaging through the house for weapons, but after searching the entire place, all he could find were a kitchen knife and a fruit knife. Instead, he found stacks of thick books. He tossed the books aside and sat on the floor, feeling hopeless. Was he supposed to fight off zombies with books?

  "Right, the young man upstairs is an avid enthusiast of cold weapons, his home must have a large number of weapons!"

  As soon as he thought of this, Duan Yue happily ran towards the door, but immediately stopped in his tracks. Because he thought that if Xiao Ming was also infected with the D virus, wouldn't he be sending him to his death?