After returning, Ding Yun still submitted tasks as usual, sold world control rights, and then randomly selected a golden finger to enter the next world.
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This time, as soon as Ding Yun entered the original body, she felt something was very wrong.
Because the original body had not a trace of residual life force left. She could not activate the original body's physical functions while merging with it. Even after merging, they were merely the living dead.
However, logically, she possessed bodies that had only recently died. Humans, within one or two hours of death, should not be completely devoid of life force.
Therefore, Ding Yun's subconscious reaction was: this world had a problem.
So, she didn't rush to complete the fusion with the original body. Instead, she carefully examined the original body and tried to read the residual memories in its mind.
Only then did she learn the reason for everything.
It was the apocalypse, and predictably, a zombie apocalypse. The remaining survivors in the original body's dormitory building had banded together to escape the school. However, during the escape, some screamed, some were paralyzed by fear, and some were bitten and, in their dying moments, clung to their classmates, begging to be taken with them. In short, there was no discipline, no plan. During the escape, the original body was also scratched by a zombie on the arm and quickly mutated, losing consciousness.
At the moment of death, the original body did not hate anyone.
Because she knew no one had intended for it to happen. In the panic, everyone had only thought of themselves, which was only natural.
Being bitten was simply because she had reacted too slowly.
However, this did not mean she had no regrets. She regretted not knowing how her parents were doing, whether they were still alive, and worried about how sad they would be if they knew she had died.
Of course, this was just memory.
As for the original body's physical condition, Ding Yun, after carefully scanning it with her mental power, also understood.
The zombie virus had reversed the original body's life force in an extremely short period. All internal organs, including the brain, had died. However, in the center of the brain, a crystal had formed, a pure fusion of the zombie virus and death energy. Within the crystal, there was a trace of soul power.
It felt like consciousness was on the verge of being born, but had not yet manifested.
How to describe it?
In Ding Yun's opinion, this crystal formed by the virus had instantly absorbed all the essence of the human body's life force, including the soul, and was trying to gestate something. But the life force and soul of one person were not enough for gestation, hence the state of being neither here nor there.
It was somewhat like a mortal cultivating a forbidden technique, attempting to transform themselves, but completely lacking the energy to assist.
Not only did the transformation fail, but they also became demonic.
They became a living dead, controlled by death energy, madly craving life force to absorb.
Of course, this was the explanation from the cultivation world. Scientifically speaking, although the zombie's brain and internal organs had decayed, the nerve system was not significantly damaged. The crystal core in the brain could control the nerve system and had only one instinct.
That was the instinct to feed. The instinct to devour living beings with life force.
Understanding the situation, Ding Yun still did not rush to merge with this zombie body. Instead, she continued to examine the golden finger she had randomly acquired this time, to understand the situation.
【Everything Is Edible】
"All things in the world are formed by energy, and all life relies on energy to survive. Therefore, theoretically, as long as one has sufficient digestive capacity, what cannot be eaten and digested in this world?
The gluttonous beast is a prime example.
Thus, I have specifically created this skill.
Upon use, everything in the world can be consumed."
"Due to feedback from numerous trial users who prefer the taste of ordinary food, a patch has been added. This skill can also transform all things in the world into normally edible food."
Good heavens, Ding Yun suspected this skill was tailor-made for her. If all things in the world could be directly consumed and converted into energy, then she, as a zombie, wouldn't have to crave human flesh.
Furthermore, the ability to transform all things in the world into food was incredibly suited to the current doomsday.
In this doomsday, what could be more precious than food?
Given how suitable the golden finger was, Ding Yun naturally abandoned the idea of refining this zombie body into a puppet or zombie. Instead, she directly merged with it.
With the refinement of the crystal core in the brain as the foundation, she merged.
As the crystal core was successfully refined and controlled by Ding Yun, she was finally able to manipulate this body and activate the golden finger, allowing this skill-based golden finger to merge with herself.
Then, the changes began again.
The golden finger began to remodel Ding Yun's zombie body's teeth, esophagus, and the entire digestive system of the stomach and intestines. Concurrently, Ding Yun felt an ability added to her soul, which could be detached at any time.
That was the ability to transform all things into food.
Normally, such remodeling would be extremely painful, but Ding Yun was now a zombie, so the remodeling was completed almost without any sensation. Ding Yun estimated that her current teeth could swallow gold and chew iron without any problem, and even titanium alloys might not withstand her bite, and her stomach could digest them.
In short, it was absolutely formidable.
But she hadn't tested the specifics yet.
After completing this series of operations, Ding Yun finally opened her eyes. She first looked around and found no living people, nor could she smell the scent of living beings.
Then, she took a mirror from her soul space.
And began to admire her current appearance.
She had to admit, even though Ding Yun had been mentally prepared, she still gasped in shock when she saw her current appearance. It was too ugly, truly too ugly, horrifying, like something out of a twenty-eight-rated ghost movie.
She couldn't bear to look a second time.
Her face had no wounds, her nose and eyeballs were intact, and her teeth were normal, not fangs or anything. Yet, the purplish-blue skin combined with spreading corpse spots, the purplish-black lips paired with pupils that were rolled back and unfocused, made her look terrifying no matter how you looked at her!
Furthermore, Ding Yun discovered that she not only had injuries on her arm but also quite a few on other parts of her body. Her arms and legs had lost a significant amount of flesh, and her waist and stomach had been bitten twice. She figured these were from when the original body lost consciousness.
And was torn at by other zombies.
This continued until the original body completely turned into a zombie and lost its attraction to other zombies.
Ding Yun had to be grateful that the original body mutated so quickly. If it had mutated slower, by the time all the flesh was gnawed away, she probably wouldn't even be able to stand and would have become a skeleton lying on the ground, motionless.
At that point, even with a golden finger, it would have been useless.
Without a stomach, how could it be remodeled?