"Hahahaha, my guess was indeed correct. Energies share similarities, and condensing healing abilities into a golden core was perfectly fine.
Even the healing ability itself.
It even transformed into a martial divine ability—All Things Born!"
Looking at the flesh and blood body she had painstakingly regained after more than a year, Ding Yun couldn't control her emotions and burst into excited laughter.
Then, she was surrounded by zombies.
When she was a zombie herself before, they treated her as one of their own and didn't attack her. Later, she transformed into an energy body, a healing energy body at that, devoid of any life force and brimming with the healing energy that zombies detested. The zombies merely kept their distance from her, so why would they attack her?
But now, it was different. She had regained her flesh and blood body, and it was that of a Martial Saint.
If the life force of ordinary people was a wisp of smoke.
Her life force was practically a river of qi and blood.
The attraction it held for zombies was absolutely hundreds or even thousands, tens of thousands of times stronger than for ordinary people.
And she was laughing and shouting loudly at this very moment.
It was no wonder she was surrounded by zombies.
However, considering her own transformation from a zombie, Ding Yun ultimately did not unleash a killing spree. Instead, she circulated the energy within her body, sealing all her qi and blood within, not allowing even a single trace to leak out. Then, with a leap, she rapidly left the city.
She headed straight for the survival base she had heard about on the radio some time ago.
The information gleaned from the unreliable temporary broadcasts was too scarce. Even if she wanted to find her original parents, she needed to understand more about the situation.
In less than half an hour, Ding Yun, with her ability to leap hundreds of meters, reached the vicinity of the Hope Survival Base mentioned on the radio. After handing over a zombie crystal core and registering as a temporary visitor,
She smoothly blended in.
As for checks for zombie bites,
There was no such procedure.
According to the current research results from the human side, mutation would occur within minutes to at most fifteen minutes after being bitten by a zombie. With the zombies within a radius of dozens of miles around the base having been largely cleared, it was impossible to return within fifteen minutes if injured by a zombie. Therefore, there was naturally no need for checks.
Upon entering the base, Ding Yun could clearly feel that the people in the base had good spirits. Although most of them were thin, they weren't emaciated. She also saw women, the elderly, and children on the streets, which indicated that the base was well-ordered.
It wasn't the case that only the strong and healthy were tolerated.
There was no mistreatment of vulnerable groups.
And with good order, Ding Yun naturally didn't need to be overly cautious. She soon wandered around the city, inquiring about information. Then, relying on the information she gathered, she found a marketplace and used glutinous rice bricks she had transformed from ordinary bricks to purchase information.
Her golden finger itself came with an ability to transform all things in the world into edible food.
Thus, transforming ordinary bricks into glutinous rice bricks
Was an effortless feat.
Glutinous rice bricks, with their long shelf life and ability to stave off hunger, were undoubtedly a harder currency than zombie crystal cores. Therefore, Ding Yun easily obtained all the information the sellers possessed, such as the global situation after the apocalypse, the conditions in various regions, and, her primary focus, the situation in the city where her parents resided.
The original body had died too early, and the information from the radio was too limited, so Ding Yun was not very familiar with many things.
To understand the situation quickly, she had no choice but to disregard the suspicion of others and directly exchange food for information.
Currently, the general consensus among countries was that the zombie virus originated from outer space, brought in by a meteorite two years and nine months ago. However, the zombie virus at the time was not very destructive. Even research institutions that acquired the virus announced after a month of research that it might bring about an opportunity for human evolution.
At that time, it was called the Miracle Factor.
Because the Miracle Factor had the effect of improving human cells and even gene chains, although the speed was very slow, it was indeed effective. Theoretically, as long as the Miracle Factor was given enough time, it could make humans more perfect.
Stronger bodies, longer lifespans, and so on.
However, many wealthy businessmen and politicians who were aging could not wait. They didn't have hundreds of years for the Miracle Factor to slowly take effect. Therefore, after understanding its effects, they spared no expense, investing trillions, even national resources, to research the Miracle Factor, hoping to enhance its power and effectiveness through scientific means.
To perfect human genes in a short period.
And even to promote human evolution.
Then, the accident happened. A research institute did indeed develop a more powerful Miracle Factor, but human bodies could not withstand such rapid evolution.
Nor did they have enough energy to facilitate successful evolution.
Thus, the first zombie appeared in the laboratory, and it was a powerful ape-like zombie.
If it were only that, it would be fine.
But the crucial point was that the more powerful Miracle Factor leaked out. Moreover, that research-modified Miracle Factor could infect normal Miracle Factors, causing them to become abnormal. The normal Miracle Factors had already been released into the environment by various research institutions after they understood they were harmless, hoping to subtly promote human evolution through them.
So the final result was obvious: all the normal Miracle Factors in the environment were infected, subsequently infecting humans, leading to a large number of zombies.
Although the zombies did not appear instantly, it only took three days for them to appear successively in various parts of the world. Countries simply did not have time to control the situation, and the human front collapsed.
The main reason for the situation spiraling out of control was that the enhanced Miracle Factor was originally intended for research into human evolution. And what kind of humans were suitable for evolution? Naturally, it would be physically strong individuals. Therefore, the first batch of infected people were all young and healthy adults. The healthier the body, the more susceptible it was to infection, while those in sub-optimal health were relatively unaffected.
Those in sub-optimal health would not be infected by the airborne zombie virus, only by being bitten by zombies.
However, healthy individuals became infected and attacked those in sub-optimal health. How much resistance could the latter offer? The end result was that a large number of healthy adults were infected and rapidly spread the virus.
Most of the remaining were the old, weak, sick, and disabled.
Or rather, at least their bodies were not as healthy and strong.
It was not abnormal for the human front to eventually collapse.