"Grandma and Grandpa don't live at Uncle's house? How did they end up tied up at my place? Still, I can look at it from a good angle. If they were tied up, it means someone is definitely okay. And since they're tied up at my house, it proves my dad and mom are quite likely to be alright.
At least during the initial outbreak of zombies.
They weren't bitten.
Let's go check on other families. See what the situation is at Uncle's place. It's so strange!"
The original host wasn't particularly close to her grandparents. Coupled with the fact that Ding Yun wasn't the original host, she quickly calmed down and analyzed the situation.
Her parents had a high probability of survival.
However, to understand the exact circumstances, Ding Yun still went to her uncle's and aunt's houses. Then she returned to meticulously check if her parents had left any messages. Only then did she roughly piece together what had happened back then.
In their family, the only one who mutated first was her eldest cousin, her uncle's son. He was in very good health before.
When the original host's eldest cousin mutated, her uncle, aunt, and grandparents were all at home. So, naturally, as soon as he mutated, he lunged at them, biting and clawing them frantically.
At the time, they didn't know that zombies were infectious. So, of course, they tried to stop him, to restrain the crazed eldest cousin. In the end, the four of them combined couldn't control him.
They were either bitten or scratched.
The eldest cousin had turned into a zombie, lost his mind, felt no fear, and felt no pain. But his parents and grandparents hadn't lost their minds. They were afraid, or rather, they couldn't bear to kill their eldest cousin.
So it was natural for them to be injured when they couldn't fight him off.
At this point, her parents, who lived less than a hundred meters away, heard the cries for help and rushed to their eldest son's house with tools like carrying poles.
They didn't recognize their eldest cousin, who had become as terrifying as a monster. Seeing him tearing at his elder brother, sister-in-law, and parents like a wild beast, her parents naturally attacked him frantically.
With one carrying pole, her father accidentally struck his neck.
It directly broke the eldest cousin's neck.
This saved her original uncle and aunt, as well as her grandparents. Afterwards, there might have been an argument, or perhaps other events occurred. Regardless, her uncle and aunt stayed at home, while her parents took her grandparents home to treat their wounds.
At this time, her aunt called.
She explained about the zombies and that being scratched or bitten by a zombie would turn you into one. Then, out of caution, her parents carefully discussed with her grandparents. They decided to chain them up for restraint before disinfecting and sterilizing their wounds with iodine and other substances.
As it turned out, iodine and hydrogen peroxide were useless. As soon as they finished treating her grandparents' wounds, the elderly couple mutated. Fortunately, they had been on guard and weren't bitten.
Later, her uncle and aunt also mutated.
Only her aunt's family remained unharmed.
They stayed at home for a while longer. During the period when normal communication was still active, they frantically called the original host, but no one answered. In the end, they left a letter and left with a group of people.
The destination Ding Yun guessed correctly.
It was the Sunflower Base, not far away.
However, this letter was left a year ago. Their current situation was still uncertain.
Having understood the situation, Ding Yun didn't kill the two zombies in front of her. She even specifically used her golden finger to transform all the furniture in the house, like tables and chairs, into fresh pork. She fed it to the two zombies who hadn't eaten anything for over a year, were emaciated, and could barely move. If they didn't absorb life energy soon, they would likely turn into piles of dry corpses and skeletal remains.
After Ding Yun transformed all the wooden furniture in the house into pork and fed it to them, they finally recovered some strength. They could bare their teeth and growl at Ding Yun, wanting to eat her.
"These zombies are too economical with food. They haven't starved to death in over a year, and they can digest hundreds of pounds of pork directly. So the only difference between my golden finger and zombies is that my golden finger allows me to eat and digest anything, while zombies only eat fresh flesh and blood. It doesn't seem like a big difference.
Oh right, the reason humans turn into zombies is mainly because their bodies can't withstand the rapid evolution of gene cells and lack sufficient energy to sustain the evolution.
If they are continuously fed pork and other things...
Is it possible for them to recover?
Or, to continue the incomplete evolution and successfully evolve? Theoretically, it seems feasible.
It's just that I don't know how it will work in practice..."
Looking at her zombie grandparents, who had eaten hundreds of pounds of pork but whose bellies hadn't grown, and whose emaciated bodies had only slightly filled out, Ding Yun couldn't help but ponder, stroking her chin with her left hand.
Since she could transform from a zombie into a human.
There was no reason why other zombies couldn't.
They just hadn't found the trick.
"No, no, this line of thinking is wrong. I can recover because I have my own soul. The souls within these zombies have already been absorbed by their crystal cores.
So, even if they can successfully evolve and return to human form, it's likely to be a new soul nurtured by the zombie crystal core, not the original person.
But I'm not the original host either.
So it doesn't seem to matter...
Forget it, I'll try it when I have time later..."
At this moment, Ding Yun had a new idea. She planned to continue feeding the original host's grandparents regularly when she had time, to see what normal zombies could evolve into by eating flesh and blood, and whether they could regain their reason or gain new lives.
However, she was busy now. She could only continue to keep them chained in place, restore the door locks to their original state, and then leap hundreds of meters back to the Sunflower Survival Base. She planned to first check if there were any results from the bounty. If not, she would have to rent a place for herself.
Or, if there was a suitable place, she could buy one.
For this reason, this time Ding Yun didn't just carry a bag of glutinous rice bricks. She specifically found a truck not far from the Sunflower Survival Base, retrieved some diesel from her soul space, filled the truck's tank, and collected a large pile of stones, wood, and other materials.
She transformed them into glutinous rice bricks, cured meat, and other ingredients.
She packed the truck full.
Then she drove the truck back.
Back to the Sunflower Survival Base.