After the shock, Ling Mo felt an intense excitement!

  Now that his eyes have returned to normal, it means that his guess might become a reality! As the virus evolves, Ye Lian might gradually recover his sanity...

  However, after Ye Lians eyes returned to normal, the evolution speed of the virus in his body slowed down significantly. Three whole days passed, and he hunted over a hundred zombies, but it only made Ye Lians strength slightly stronger. The spiritual change that Ling Mo expected did not appear at all.

  Whats worth being excited about is the change in Ling Mo himself. As his spiritual power grew stronger, Ling Mo tried to control other zombies under the premise of semi-controlling Ye Lian, and unexpectedly succeeded after several failures. Moreover, the more he practiced, the more proficient Ling Mo became in controlling puppets.

  Not only that, his own combat strength has become stronger and stronger. Although the action is not as fast as Ye Lians, in a rational situation, he can make more flexible responses than Ye Lian. Now he already has confidence to keep himself safe when Ye Lian loses control.

  But at this moment, Ling Mo discovered a very speechless thing. His reserve food was used up...

  Previously relying solely on the undead to fight and gather food, Ling Mos own consumption was not great. However, as he himself participated in battles, his physical consumption increased significantly, and so did his appetite.

  This was originally a suburb, and at the time of the doomsday explosion, many foods had already been looted by people, and the remaining amount was really limited. After the survivors repeated searches, there is very little food that can be found here now.

  After coming up empty-handed in two small supermarkets, Ling Mo finally decided to take Ye Lian to the city center.

  Compared to this urban-rural fringe area, the city center has an abundance of supplies in all aspects. However, due to the enormous population base, the number of zombies must be staggering...

  If Ye Lian didnt exist, Ling Mo would have had another option, which was to retreat to the countryside or mountains. But that way, Ye Lian would probably be starved to death.

  A city filled with zombies is the best place for Ye Lian and Ling Mo to constantly evolve themselves.

  However, in order to head to the city center, one must still make thorough preparations. A suitable mode of transportation, food that is easy to carry, and weapons...

  Food and transportation were available, Ling Mo had long prepared a bicycle. But the weapon made Ling Mo somewhat headache.

  Ordinary household knives cant be used for a long time and become dull or lack edges, which is very inconvenient. A suitable knife is obviously very necessary.

  "Right, isnt Wang Lins family a maker of handmade knives..."

  Wang Lin was a little girl who lived in the same building as Ling Mo, with a pretty face. Occasionally, when they ran into each other, Ling Mo couldnt help but take a few more glances. However, after the apocalypse broke out, he never saw her again. At this moment, thinking of it suddenly, his heart felt a bit uncomfortable. A girl like her, so soft and weak, even if she hadnt mutated and had managed to survive by luck, probably had a very difficult life...

  Early in the morning, Ling Mo packed up his luggage and took Ye Lian to Wang Lins handmade knife shop.

  Even though Ling Mo deliberately chose a relatively safe route, he still killed more than a dozen zombies along the way before finally arriving at this long-abandoned store.

  The bloodstains on the glass window, the shattered glass door, and the dark interior of the store all made people feel a little frightened. However, in the post-apocalyptic world, this was just an ordinary scene.

  In this case, Ye Lian naturally went in first to take a look. Although she would attack the zombies, the zombies wouldnt actively attack her.

  However, there were no zombies in the store, and Ye Lian and Ling Mo walked in without encountering any trouble.

  There are many knives in the store, but they are all for collection purposes and do not have a blade. However, Ling Mo had previously been entrusted by a friend to buy one before, so he knew that there were actually knives with blades in the store, they just werent displayed openly for sale.

  "I remember there should be a working space behind here..."

  Ling Mo walked around to the back of the counter and stood in front of a anti-theft door, grasping the doorknob and twisting it, only then did he realize that something was off.

  Logically speaking, this door should be able to open with just a pull, but when Ling Mo tried to turn the handle, he found that it was locked.

  Could it be that the people in the store escaped into the workroom at that time? If so, there might be living people inside! Maybe Wang Lin is still alive, right here!

  Thinking of this, Ling Mo suddenly became excited, he quickly knocked on the door lightly and called out in a low voice: "Is anyone inside?"

  "Boom!"

  After a moment of silence, a muffled sound suddenly came from inside, like the sound of something being knocked over.

  "Its really someone!"

  After a moment of stunned silence, he knocked on the door again with force, but only a "clang" sound came from inside, and the door showed no intention of opening.

  Isnt it that Im too hungry to have the energy? But listening to the movements coming from inside, Ling Mo had a bad premonition. In any case, in order to get the knives inside, opening the door was necessary.

  With Ling Mos strength alone, it was still not enough to directly kick open the anti-theft door, but with Ye Lians help, it wasnt a difficult task.

  With a dull thud, the door was pushed open a crack. Before Ling Mo could fully open the door, a hand stretched out from inside.

  At the first glance of this hand, Ling Mos pupils couldnt help but shrink slightly. At a glance, it seemed like there was nothing unusual, but those faintly reddish fingernails and the "screech" sound made when pressing against the anti-theft door iron plate were exactly the same as Ye Lians!

  Could it be that there is also a mutant zombie in here?!

  Although there had been speculation beforehand, when Ling Mo actually saw a variant zombie other than Ye Lian, he was still quite surprised.

  And judging from the size of his hand, it should belong to a man. So, Wang Ding is already in a precarious situation...

  As soon as he thought that the owner of this hand might have torn Wang Xin into pieces and stuffed them into his stomach, Ling Mo felt a surge of anger rising up. He raised the sharp knife in his hand and with a "ding" sound, directly slashed down. Along with half of the palm falling to the ground, fresh blood suddenly splattered everywhere, and the anti-theft door was also completely smashed open under this slashing force.

  What appeared after the house door fell was a extremely bloody scene.

  Inside the small workshop, whether its the walls or the floor, almost all of them are bloodstains and clothing fragments, as well as scattered human skeletons everywhere. There were also two complete corpses, both facing down, just exposing the hollow back of their heads.

  The only one alive was a young man who had been knocked to the ground by the door. As soon as he landed, he sprang up like lightning and turned into a black shadow, pouncing directly on Ling Mo.

  This was Ling Mos first time directly facing the attack of a variant zombie, and the speed of the attack was so fast that it left no room for reaction. If it were the previous Ling Mo, he would have been knocked down and killed in an instant. But after his upgrade, Ling Mo remained exceptionally calm at this moment.

  Although the mutated zombie moved extremely fast, Ling Mos reaction speed was not slow either. Almost at the moment when the mutated zombie acted, Ling Mo had already moved.

  He took a slight step back, shifted his body to the side, and swung his arm holding the dagger in the direction of the mutated zombie with force.

  "Pffft!"

  A large splatter of fresh blood burst out in the instant when the two crossed, and Ling Mo completed a ninety-degree turn in this process. The sharp knife that cut through the variant zombies abdomen was used to force upwards, and then suddenly downwards with great force.

  If it were an ordinary zombie, under Ling Mos perfectly executed attack, it would have been cut down directly. However, the mutated zombie was indeed fast enough that as soon as Ling Mo turned around, it suddenly dodged and countered, not only avoiding Ling Mos slash but also charging towards him, its hand reaching out to grab his chest.

  Caught by that variant zombies powerful fingers, it was probably not just a superficial wound. Moreover, at this angle, Ye Lian couldnt even make a move to rescue him.

  "Looking for death!"

  At the critical moment of life and death, the fierce and ferocious energy in Ling Mos body was also triggered. He not only didnt dodge, but instead turned his wrist again and chopped down once more. At the same time, his knee suddenly lifted up and collided with the mutated zombies chin, causing its movement to momentarily freeze.

  In the midst of a fierce battle, even a 0.1-second gap can lead to fatal consequences. It was during this brief moment that Ling Mos dagger had already been thrust into the mutated zombies neck with great force.

  "Crack!"

  A faint sound came, and the movements of the mutated zombies stopped instantly. Ling Mo gritted his teeth and twisted the dagger with force.

  "Bang!"

  With this crisp sound, the blade of the sharp knife was directly broken, and the part left in the mutated zombies body completely ended his life.

  Clutching the broken knife, Ling Mo only then felt that all his strength seemed to have been sucked out of him, and he couldnt help but take big gulps of air.