Chapter 1004: The world evaporated
Bill's eyes rolled, looking at Ariana, and the fully armed male zombie in the cave, "Who is he?" โ
Ariana said: "He is the leader of the camp on this island, he, he is not a human, he is a zombie, but unlike other zombies, he has a free and independent will...... Bill, I'll explain this to you later, and now I'm going to operate on you. โ
"Nope." Bill was clear and authentic.
Ariana was stunned: "What did you say?" โ
Bill muttered, "Ariana, I'm going to die." My whole body is rotting, and you can't save me. Let me be a zombie, don't have surgery, and try to keep my body as intact as possible. โ
Ariana couldn't hold back any longer, holding Bill and howling like a she-wolf: "Don't die! Don't die! Bill, you are my only relative in this world, don't leave me behind. If I can cure you, I can! The camp has the best medical facilities, there are all kinds of medicines, and you will be fine! โ
Bill raised his hand slightly, wanting to touch Ariana's face, but it hung down in vain, and he whispered, "Ariana, I'm not going to die, I'm just going to be a zombie." I'm still with you...... Our Dad, Mom, George, Jenny...... None of them died, they just became zombies. โ
Bill fumbled for the drip needle on his wrist and, with a little force, pulled the needle off - he was ready to mutate into a zombie after death, and no longer needed these useless treatments.
Ariana was still crying with Bill in her arms, when the male zombie suddenly stepped forward. Grabbed Bill's hand and took a bite. Bill glanced at the male zombie, moved his mouth, wanted to say something, and then his whole body convulsed, he was mutating.
Ariana screamed, pushed the male zombie away, and clenched her fists and punched, "You killed Bill!" You killed Bill! โ
With a roar, a figure rose from the ground, it was Bill. He has mutated into a zombie. He's together. He lunged at Ariana, but the rotting foot fell off his leg completely, and Bill fell hard, but he fell to the ground. Crawl with both hands. Scratch at Ariana's calf--in Bill's eyes. Ariana was no longer his sister, but a piece of fresh meat.
The male zombie yelled at Bill, and Bill froze. The male zombie roared a few more times, and Bill stood up and limped to the male zombie's side.
With tears in her eyes, Ariana looked at all this in front of her, and finally accepted the reality that her brother Bill had become a zombie, and the male zombie bit him, just to let Bill suffer as little as possible before death, Bill had already made up his mind to die, and if he didn't find him, he would also commit suicide.
Ariana knows that under the leadership of the male zombie, her brother Bill will become a different kind of zombie, he does not eat people, he will farm, graze and other labors, not so much a zombie, but a primitive person. Perhaps, such a simple life is also a kind of happiness.
Bill lived a terrified life on the sea in order to escape the infection of the biochemical virus, and now, he no longer has to be afraid, all these negative human emotions have left him.
The male zombie took Bill out of the cave and got back on the horse, Ariana helped Bill ride on another zombie's horse, and then she still rode with the male zombie and continued to search in the jungle - Stark has not been found yet, he is now the biggest danger in the zombie camp, and if he and the other two crew members are not found, all the zombies, including Bill and Ariana, are under threat.
The zombie cavalry shuttled flexibly in the jungle, without the command of the zombies, the horses naturally knew how to act, the male zombie suddenly stopped, he roared at a big tree, the zombie cavalry surrounded him, raised his spear, and Ariana also raised his gun.
A lioness jumped down from the tree and slipped into the bushes quickly, it was eating in the trees, and after being surrounded by zombies, it didn't even have the courage to fight to protect the food, so she threw down her half-eaten prey and fled.
Ariana saw a corner of clothes on the branch, it was the sailor's suit of the crew of the Cape, she jumped off her horse, climbed up the tree, and found the food that had been half eaten by the lion - it was a half-human corpse, there were bloody bones under the tree, and the head had been gnawed beyond recognition, but judging from the remaining clothes, it should have been eaten by the lion, who was hiding in the cave with Bill, the crew member who was also burned by magma and was slightly injured.
Apparently, the crew struggled to find food in the jungle outside, but was attacked by a lion and became the lion's belly.
It seems that after Bill fled back to the jungle, he did not return to the cave at all, but dug up the buried supplies and abandoned both wounded people.
Ariana looked at the dense jungle - now Stark was left with only one crew member, where were the two of them hiding?
The answer soon appeared, in a jackal's den, a gnawed corpse was found, and on the head of the corpse was a paratrooper nine, the knife, which belonged to Stark.
Stark actually killed his only companion!
Ariana could understand why Stark did this, one more person, one less person against the zombie hordes in the camp, it was useless, on the contrary, it was better to consume limited supplies and always be on guard against the other party's rebellion against herself.
This dead crew member is the scum who attacked Ariana behind his back in order to get rid of the zombie cavalry on the grassland that day, and Stark will never let the other party stay by his side for this guy who is also selfish and hateful.
Stark even made this crew unable to even make zombies, because the other party became a zombie, which added a new force to the zombies in the camp, so Stark did not attack Bill, who was seriously injured and would die, which was already a mercy.
But where's Stark? Alone, like a lone wolf, he was more agile and nimble with plenty of ammunition to keep him a formidable threat.
Ariana and the zombie cavalry searched the jungles, grasslands, and hills for nearly a week, and even climbed over the volcano to reach the other half of the island, however, Stark seemed to have evaporated from the world, and there was no trace of him.
Could it be that this creature stumbled into lava or was eaten by a beast? Ariana was puzzled, but Stark had indeed disappeared from the island, no bones, no traces of hunting, no excrement, and no trace of human existence.
With deep doubts, Ariana took Bill to live in the zombie camp, and after a long time, she completely left Stark, who was at the end of her life, behind.
On this day, the wheat harvest season arrived, and Ariana, led by the blonde female zombies, harvested all the wheat together with the female zombies and child zombies in the camp.
The camp already had a whole set of machinery, grinding wheat into flour, Ariana overhauled the machinery and reconnected the electrical circuits - several of the solar panels that were originally connected were damaged, the camp did not have enough electricity, Ariana repaired the wind turbine to make the power supply in the camp fully normal - as soon as the power switch was pushed, the machine roared.
Ariana poured a bag of wheat into the feed inlet โ a moment later, white flour sprayed out from behind, and Ariana caught it with a clean bag.
Ariana grabbed a handful of flour, spread it in her hand, and said with a smile: "I know you Yanhuang people like to eat rice, but it's not bad to eat bread once in a while. โ
Since Ariana lived in the camp, she started a lot of modern equipment to make the life of the zombies in the camp more convenient, and the male zombies often followed Ariana, watching her do this and that, and sometimes learning to operate one or two times.
In general, he can quickly get started with simple labor, and then, and then continue to teach other zombies, and the performance of those zombie "students" is varied, except for the blonde female zombie and Bill, most of the zombies will only make a mess of the machine, causing Ariana to "put out fires" everywhere.
But Ariana knows that these zombies are always learning, improving, and while each of their progress is so insignificant, they are indeed progressingโno, exactly, evolving, awakening. The brains of the zombies are gradually awakening and recovering.
Ariana scooped up the water and began to knead the dough, while looking at the male zombie beside her who was watching her movements blankly, all the changes in this camp were brought about by this Yan Huang male zombie. Where is he from? Why did you end up on this isolated island far from home? And most importantly, why does he have such a peculiar independent free will?
Ariana's heart suddenly moved, if the zombies in the camp continue to develop like this, after a long time, maybe every zombie will have an independent will and learn a variety of labor, if it really comes to that time, will they still be zombies?
Ariana's breathing was a little heavy - she realized a very important question, how exactly is a zombie defined?
In the New World, in fact, more and more enlightened people have reached a certain consensus, that is, zombies are not corpses, they are just another form of human beings, taking intelligent corpses as an example, as long as they have independent will and thoughts, human beings can communicate and even cooperate with them.
Some people even called for human beings to stop killing and eradicating zombies, and coexist peacefully with zombies under the leadership of the smart corpse, of course, such a proposal is only regarded as the cry of a madman, because as long as the zombies do not stop eating people for a day, humans and zombies are mortal enemies, mortal enemies who never die. (To be continued......)