The speaker has no intention, but the listener has the intention.

Xinyan also felt that Huang He's words were right. In fact, even if he doesn't open his mouth, he has exactly the same feeling in his heart.

Maybe it's because they have inherited most of the genes of humans! The living corpse still retains the most basic characteristics of human beings. They move with two strong hind limbs and use their upper arms to attack and feed. Judging from these aspects alone, they should be regarded as a new species of xenogenesis between humans and beasts.

If that's the case, then the zombies that shake their bodies and crawl slowly through the ruins are all the more remarkable.

On the surface, because of excessive hunger, human beings who have lost a lot of physical energy. In a weakened state, the table xiàn is no different from them.

"They seem to be hungry! Very hungry! ”

Xinyan didn't understand: these living corpses were clearly hunting, and they wanted to use their own flesh to satisfy their hunger. But why didn't they attack? But would they rather stalemate each other in this way? Even, unscrupulously run in front of yourself to eat and wantonly eat?

When a living corpse that was extremely thin crawled into the center of the crowd with difficulty. Xinyan's inner doubts finally found a matching answer.

Despite the fact that living corpses do not have eyes. However, from their body movements at the moment, it can still be clearly felt: for their companions who have just climbed into the circle. What a concern they are. Even, slightly inexplicably excited.

A corpse monster that seemed to be leading the group stepped forward. Lift your companion who is lying on the ground to the ground. With his long arms, he stuck on the other party's neck. I only heard a "click", and the head of the living corpse, like a ripe watermelon, suddenly fell from the position of the neck. Under the action of inertia, the bones rolled to the side.

Snatching, tearing, chewing...... A scene that had just happened was played out again. As pieces of fresh meat fall into the belly. The faces of the corpse monsters that were eating also radiated a strange vitality.

"I see. They, they actually use this method to replenish the body. Fast! Evacuate everyone in order! ”

Xinyan, who suddenly came to his senses, finally understood: cannibalism is not a living corpse. It is a necessary consumption, but also a necessary way of survival.

They have intelligence. He has also fought against humans. The terrible damage inflicted by the other side holding a weapon in his hand may still be remembered vividly.

Predation was originally a kind of cruel tearing. No creature is willing to be food in the other's mouth. Even the weakest sheep will burst into a miserable wail from their throats the moment they are slaughtered.

Living corpses are also living beings, and without food, their only fate is to starve to death.

Xinyan shuddered. The mutated creatures here are far more ferocious than those on Earth, and their intelligence is even higher.

It can be seen that in this dead and lonely city, there is not much to eat. They are pleasantly surprised to find a group of live prey once in a while. At the same time, it is also a test of group continuity.

Prolonged starvation causes the body to drop sharply. The only way to hunt the humans in front of you is to sacrifice the weakest companions in the group.

The same kind of meat can be eaten. This is not a cruel choice, but a choice of desperation. Haven't even the most noble human beings themselves ever had records of eating the bodies of their own kind?

The location of the warehouse, not far from the supermarket. Once inside, no matter how many corpses gather, they won't be able to enter it.

Xinyan's face was still tense. She remembers that the passage between the inside of the warehouse and the outside world was only a narrow skylight.

More than 100 people, carrying a large amount of supplies. I want to go all into the warehouse. It will inevitably take a considerable amount of time.

For some reason, Xin Yan, who was standing in front of the rusty gate of the warehouse, holding a war knife in one hand, suddenly had a very strange thought.

She wants to fight, she wants to kill.

"Whoa---"

At the moment when this thought just came to mind. Two bone blades that shone with a bright white luster also suddenly stabbed diagonally from between Xinyan's elbows. Pierced through the shackles of the cloth covering his arms, and appeared in everyone's eyes.

"If you can go, go first. If you can't go, kill with me. ”

These words were addressed to the armed refugees behind them, standing dumbfounded, waiting to enter the hold through the vents.

At the entrance of the street, the corpse monster that had just devoured his companion and slightly replenished his body. Reluctantly licking the remaining blood on his lips, with the greed of a hungry wolf, he slowly gathered into a group. Walk slowly towards these seemingly panicked prey in front of you.

There are only a few of them, only a few hundred. Probably, they don't want to share the news that there is still prey here with more of their kind!

After all, there are too many companions who come to hear the news, and there are naturally fewer people who can eat the meat in their mouths.

"Hey, hey, hey!" Looking at the group of corpses that were getting closer and closer, Xinyan only felt like laughing.

Even she herself couldn't tell why she did it.

She suddenly stopped worrying about her safety. Compared to the federal army with heavy firepower. Living corpses that use biting as their basic attack method are unable to produce thermal energy similar to a gunpowder explosion. In other words, even in the worst case, your body is nothing more than being torn apart. Instead of being hit by a shell, it exploded on the spot and became countless fragments of separated flesh and blood.

In contrast, the consumption of energy in the body is naturally reduced to a minimum.

Xinyan even found that at the same time as this thought was generated, a strange surge suddenly arose in the depths of the spine in the center of the back of the body.

A viscous mass of slightly yellowish liquid similar to the color of the skin. Slowly seeps out of its body. In an instant, it was already covered all over the back. Through the faint touch coming from the skin on the surface of the body, Xinyan only felt that these sudden mucils were solidifying and hardening into a thick "scab" at that point.

No! To be exact, it should be "A".

She touched it with her hand. That kind of hardness is like a piece of armor that is born into itself. Even the pinching under the fierce force could not leave a faint mark.

However, this layer of armor is also extremely soft. No matter what angle the body shakes, bends. They all move in rhythm and direction. It's like, like the ancient legend, invulnerable close-fitting soft armor.

"Why, how can this be?"

Xinyan, who was in doubt, vaguely remembered: this location was the wounded place where he was hit by a federal tank shell while fleeing. At that time, a large number of shrapnel flew sideways, and the soft back muscles were completely sliced away.

It's a memory, a previous encounter, and it's hard to say if it's the black particles that came out of it. Or the black particles themselves are changing.

Could this be the most basic form of forced evolution of the cell?

While the body suffers powerful damage, the biological cells formed are adapting and repairing themselves at the same time. They will also change their organizational structure under external stimuli. This makes the permutations and combinations between each other resist the next new attack.

This is not a delusion without any basis. It's an instinctive response that the body's cells have always had. The "cocoon", which is the most frequent place where the palm is worn, is a particularly prominent representative.

Thinking of this, Xinyan didn't hesitate. Wielding the sharp bone blade between his arms, he rushed towards the group of corpses that were getting closer and closer.

Kill! Kill all the creatures that dare to stand in my way.

Between the blades, there are always pieces of shattered debris scattered around. It was as if it were a humanoid meat grinder, crushing all the objects that had been filled into it into a soft mash.

The living corpse certainly doesn't sit still. They were supposed to be hunters, but in the blink of an eye, they were reversed into each other's identities and positions. The indescribable ferocity and fury of that kind of ferocity made their fighting and bloodthirsty madness rise to the extreme in an instant.

"Huh! Come on! ”

Xinyan, who was in the center of the battle group, didn't feel any pressure at all. She just felt cheerful and dripping.

A strong, living corpse swooped in from the middle of its two companions. In its opinion, it is too busy dealing with targets attacking from front to back that it is simply unable to cope with itself coming from the side. You know, a normal human has only two arms.

That's true.

It's just that when it used the inertia of the bounce to pounce on Xinyan's sideways. A dazzling white light suddenly passed through its head. Straight through the hard skull.

"Plop---"

It was a sharp bone spur that was several meters long, and it suddenly grew from the upper end of Xinyan's left shoulder without any abnormality. After piercing the sneak attack from the opposite direction, the blood stains and sticky brain pulp retracted into the body in an instant with the same speed.

It was so sudden. The living corpse with a bloody hole in front of his forehead will never be able to understand how he died.

"Kill them all! Leave no mouth alive! ”

Xinyan's roar also infected the armed refugees behind him who were sniping at the corpses with weapons.

The number of corpses is getting smaller and smaller. A few minutes later, among the blood-soaked ruins, there was no longer any mutant standing in sight.

Standing among the soft and sticky flesh, he breathed heavily in the coldness of the howling wind. The only thing that could be heard in the ears of the thunderclap, which stood as stiff as a sculpture, was the impact of blood dripping from the low-hanging knife edge.

"Whoosh--"

After the sound of two foreign objects streaking through the air and the wind was raised. At the end of the elbow, there is no abnormality in sight. Nothing, it seems, has happened there.

The unbridled and frenzied wind brought the breath full of blood to all corners of the city. The living corpses, tormented by hunger and almost madness, began to gather in unison towards the location of the warehouse. They don't care who the flesh that remains on the ground belongs. Still with indescribable pleasure, he was busy munching on this rare fresh meat.

Unlike the terrible sound of eating coming from outside the warehouse. The faces of the people surrounded by thick walls were also full of excitement and happy smiles. They were talking loudly about the fierce battle just now, competing against each other's achievements. In his mouth, he kept chewing and swallowing fresh food.

In a few mouthfuls of the stainless steel cauldron from the supermarket, the snow-white porridge and rice are happily bulging out fleeting bubbles. A simple stove made of bricks was lit on a fire of dry wood, and new dough stacked in an iron frame was set up. In the absence of necessary utensils, people can only use the simplest way, knead the flour with water, and bake it into fragrant "steamed buns".

Xinyan did not participate in the joyous crowd. She was sitting quietly on the sidelines, propped up with a steel bar, stuck into the ground, scrutinizing the strange corpse she had found in the supermarket.

Perhaps because death came too suddenly, the jaw of this skull has always maintained a fixed open movement. Through the molars that wear out the strictly. You can even clearly see the adhesions and a little scrap between the teeth.

This is the mark left by gnawing on a can. When it was killed, it was holding a canned sauce of meat and gnawing on it.

I don't know why, the more Xinyan looks, the more unbelievable it becomes.

Living corpses that specialize in eating people can actually gnaw canned food. If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, she wouldn't have believed this kind of thing.

The reason why human beings were able to transcend the creatures of the earth and become the supreme ruler. One of the most important reasons for this is that human beings are able to use their intelligence to create and use tools.

She remembered vividly: the moment the living corpse was killed, the surface of the can that fell from its hands. There is a striking "ten" opening.

This is typical military practice.

In general, for canned food such sealed foods. People tend to pry it open with special knives. Military personnel on the battlefield, of course, can use the same method. However, due to various constraints, the most common thing they use is to use a portable dagger to directly cut the "ten" on the surface of the can. The contents are then taken and eaten.

Living corpses possess simple intelligence. Xinyan has known this for a long time.

She can also understand the starvation of their various actions to find new sources of food.

She also believes that monsters with a special penchant for meat can easily break open cans and eat from them.

However, she couldn't understand that this living corpse would use sharp horned claws to cut a fairly standard "ten" on the surface of the iron can, just like a soldier.

Could it be that this living corpse was also a soldier before his death? Inherited a little bit of the memory of the past?

This statement is highly likely. But there is not enough evidence. After all, after encountering infection and mutation, I am afraid that they no longer have much that belongs to the ontology. Not to mention memory, which is information that must be stored by the brain.

That being the case, there is only one other possibility, and it has seen people use the same method to feed. Moreover...... Put what you've learned into practice.

As soon as this thought came to mind, even Xinyan himself nodded thoughtfully.

It was in the process of entering the supermarket for the first time to collect food. An armed refugee in charge of the squad's machine gun used this method to eat canned food.

Could it be that at that time, this living corpse happened to be hiding in the shadows? Observed, seen the whole process?

Thinking of this, Xinyan couldn't help but focus his gaze on the "eye" part at the top of the skull again.

It was indeed an eye. A spherical crystal firmly embedded in the frontal space, which has turned out a cloudy white membrane.

Among the mutant corpses encountered before, there were no eyesighted corpses. Even among the hundreds of corpses that had just been killed by himself, there was not a single one like it. Why is there such a strange change in its body?

Is this unique? Or is there a need for some kind of fortuitous trigger?

"Could it be that this is also because of the alienation caused by the intense radiation?" Xinyan, who was talking to himself, suddenly remembered the mutated creatures he had found and captured when he had just arrived at the base of the defense line

Insects can also mutate, let alone humans after being infected by the virus?

So, does this mean that the same changes may occur in your own body? It is important to know that under strong radiation stimulation, cells that cannot adapt to the environment must be converted into new combinations by changing the pattern of their inherent arrangement. Some of them will die and be abandoned by the rays. It may also stimulate latent instincts and leap into a stronger being. Thus, the human body itself is driven to evolve more powerful abilities. It's like, the thyroid material that suddenly appeared in his back.

……

Su Hao's meditation overlaps with Xinyan's current location in many ways.

Walking in the vast desert, the most fearful thing is the lack of water.

However, for Su Hao, the possibility of such a thing happening is almost equal to zero.

In the convoy, there are several washed water trucks. Inside a huge circular on-board tank, tons of clean drinking water are contained. On a few maps obtained from the city detailing the coordinates of the market towns in the surrounding areas, there are also special supply points.

Maybe it's because I think the disparity in strength between them is too great! All the way from their original station, there were no living corpse-like mutated creatures to stop them. Or, they have given up hunting these powerful humans. Concentrate on dealing with the skinny rats that don't have much to resist!

In a small town near the roadside, the convoy finally stopped.

It is a settlement with only a few dozen houses. In addition to the gas station near the road, the only remaining public facility in the town is a small supermarket of more than 100 square meters. and the health clinics connected to it.

Push open the door, walk down the sun-soaked pedals, and stand on the soft, dry sand. It's very cozy.

"Everybody got out of the car. The old rules: be vigilant, replenish, and take a break. ”

Su Hao didn't need to speak. Over the course of a few days, the armed refugees had become accustomed to this almost procedural way of working. Except for leaving enough men to guard back and forth around the convoy. The rest of the people, all holding on to their weapons, ran as fast as they could, towards the dead town.

Without fuel, the car is a useless mass of waste.

When possible, Su Hao did not plan to use the fuel loaded on the car casually. Those are just in case. If you can find some fuel in the local gas station, it means that your own fully loaded wandering team can naturally go further.

The floor of the supermarket was a mess. A thick layer of fine dust has accumulated on the toppled shelves and cluttered items. Under the light swipe of the fingers, there are always clear and recognizable coarse lines.