Luo Xiaole looked at the three piles of unrecognizable rotten flesh on the ground.
There was no ripple in her eyes.
Countless people had died at their hands in this manner. For them, this ending was probably a quick release.
"‘Greed’ has a knife above its head!" Luo Xiaole pouted.
But she didn't linger. She immediately turned and leaped onto the spherical roof of the laboratory.
Heaven help her, with these three dead, Mo Chen's command to the zombies had expired. Countless zombies rushed towards Luo Xiaole again!
On her way here, she had already seen Cheng Miao abandon the old man with white eyebrows and flee, leaving behind a corpse bitten by zombies.
Now, this old man was dead, but the blood curse on her was still not lifted.
It seemed like an unsolvable curse!
Qin Mingyang had already issued the command through the ring on his hand, leaving no room for retreat. Countless zombies would only come one after another.
The blood curse had been fully activated. Even if she escaped today, for every day that followed, she would be relentlessly hunted by an infinite number of zombies, day and night...
Until death do us part.
She couldn't possibly expect Mo Chen to protect her with his powers 24 hours a day!
That would probably turn Mo Chen into an old man in a couple of days...
However, the good news was that there was another solution...
Luo Xiaole looked at the zombies piling up like a game of Jenga, about to surge towards her, with a headache.
She lightly touched the roof and found the grappling hook rope left by Mo Chen.
With a strong tug!
Receiving the signal, Mo Chen leaped up from the bell tower, bound the researcher to him with reinforced rope, and swung away with the grappling hook!
He directly leaped out of the bell tower and slid down the rope on the wind, incredibly smoothly!
While Mo Chen had an opening, Luo Xiaole peeked.
"Roar!" "Roar roar!" "Goo!" "Caw caw!"...
"God!" Luo Xiaole covered her ears in pain. These zombies were even more terrifying than the voices of the seven aunts and eight aunts at the village entrance.
It was like someone had a mini-speaker right by her ear, constantly yelling!
She would rather face the geese at the wet market...
In just these two short seconds, the zombies on the next level had already swarmed and blocked the laboratory entrance tightly.
"Here!" Luo Xiaole, familiar with the place, peeled back the metal skin of the laboratory roof she had damaged, as if removing a skull.
She brought Mo Chen and the researcher inside.
"Close the door! Close the door!" Luo Xiaole darted towards the laboratory door like a little rocket, then kicked a zombie that had already charged in, sending it flying out!
She then spun around and slammed the laboratory door shut from the inside.
Well... the world was finally a bit quieter.
"Are you alright? You tell us, and we'll operate the machine." They put the researcher down.
"Okay, listen carefully, this machine..."
Fifteen minutes later.
The laboratory suddenly lit up with green light. A green pillar of light shot up into the sky, forming a vortex like a giant tornado!
The rain, carrying the green light, rained down on every corner of the ground.
"Goo... Huh? Where am I?"
"Did I... have a dream?"
"Ah!! Why do I look like a zombie! Help me!"
Countless people's consciousness was gradually reawakened in the downpour. Beneath the zombie exteriors, the "humans" finally regained control of their bodies.
They looked up at the ink-green sky, like an aurora, as if they had gone through a lifetime.
"God... I... I killed... so many people..." Many people, upon regaining their senses, remembered their actions as zombies. Their hearts broke, and they slit their own throats, ending their lives with their zombie bodies...
Mo Chen and Luo Xiaole exchanged a heavy glance.
Regardless of the outcome, this war was an extremely tragic sacrifice...
Mo Chen silently held Luo Xiaole's hand, and they walked out of the Qin family with heavy steps.
Looking around, broken and fallen billboards, dismembered limbs, sand and soil, bodies impaled by steel bars, and bloodstains soaked into the ground all told of the unerasable pain and sin that had occurred here...
After this great battle, what was left for humanity?
...
Half a month later.
A towering iron tower suddenly appeared at Luocheng Base.
Zhou Shoushan, holding a cup of tea in his left hand, slowly pushed his wheelchair with his other hand into the office of the new town hall.
He saw a thin figure standing by the window.
He was a little surprised but smiled with great relief.
"Well, after such a big operation, you're finally willing to come back?" He comfortably put down his teacup, his wrinkled eyes filled with smiles.
After the strange black rain fell that day, the zombies that had been lurking outside the city strangely came to seek refuge at Luocheng Base, which greatly startled the base's defenders, making them almost think they were hallucinating!
Fortunately, Luo Xiaole had sent Luo Shu, along with A Ling and the others, back in advance to explain the situation.
After layers of testing, it was confirmed that these zombies had indeed regained human consciousness.
Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief.
A Ling and the others, as "veterans" of reverse zombie transformation, had already become "zombie mentors" at Luocheng Base and had been training other new zombies for over half a month!
But Luo Xiaole and Mo Chen had been delayed in their return.
Zhou Shoushan felt like he had worried his whole life for them, only to finally wait for these two little troublemakers to return to the base.
"Hehe, I'm back. I want to ask first, can our base still be expanded?" Luo Xiaole grinned foolishly.
Zhou Shoushan, however, realized something...
She had brought people back?
"How many? The base is not saturated with people yet." Zhou Shoushan looked at the still somewhat empty base map, puzzled.
But when he followed Luo Xiaole to the suddenly appearing tall tower and looked down...
Outside Luocheng Base, there were dense crowds of zombies!
Or rather, humans wearing zombie skins!
The queues stretched for thousands of miles, like a magnificent ocean, surrounding Luocheng Base like a pitiful little island.
Zhou Shoushan: "..."
"You brought back all the survivors!"
Luo Xiaole: "It's not impossible..."
"Just kidding, this is only a part. There are definitely many 'escaped individuals,' but I've already told them to spread the word. If they encounter any lone zombie-humans, bring them back too."
Most of the small and medium-sized bases had been wiped out by the zombie king group controlled by Qin Li. The Capital City Base was also gone. The only places where humans could live, besides the wilderness, were the still intact Luocheng Base.
"You..." Luocheng Base was now almost insufficient.
Zhou Shoushan smiled helplessly, then looked at Luo Xiaole with pride.
"I'll have people demarcate simple areas outside the city first, let them settle outside for a few days. City expansion will proceed simultaneously. After approval, they can enter the city in batches."
He had intended to recruit survivors earlier and had already started expanding the city.
He just didn't expect Luo Xiaole to take practical action for him so quickly and with such efficiency!
It must have been hard on her, carrying such a heavy burden with her small body.
With the major issue resolved, Zhou Shoushan reached out and patted the cold iron railing of the tower, which was taller than a skyscraper.
"This tower..."
"Didn't you ask me to compensate for one? I snatched the iron tower from the Capital City Base and brought it back!" Luo Xiaole swayed her head with a smile.
Zhou Shoushan was speechless for a moment...
Good heavens, a base's tower is gone, so you go and steal another base's tower, right?
And you didn't tell me to bring back such a huge one!